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“Avengers: Endgame” Shattered All Box Office Records In Its Debut
By: Mary Lucas
Written By: Mary Lucas
What words could possibly describe the estimated $350 million Avengers: Endgame has grossed in its domestic theatrical debut, and the $1.2 billion it has earned worldwide?
Colossal? Gargantuan? Hulkmugous?
As it stands, the 22nd film produced by Marvel Studios has not only shattered practically every single box office record imaginable — the biggest worldwide debut, the biggest domestic debut, the biggest domestic opening day — it has fundamentally altered what Hollywood perceives is even possible for a film’s financial success. It’s as if, after years of trying to land on the moon, humanity suddenly reached Mars.Consider Endgame’s global box office record. After opening internationally on Wednesday in 21 markets — including China — Endgame earned an estimated $643.7 million worldwide through Friday, including $156.7 million on its first day in the US and Canada. That’s already the best worldwide opening ever, surpassing the $640 million record set last year by Avengers: Infinity War. And now Endgame is projected to make $565.3 million more through Sunday.
Roughly 27% of that titanic (elephantine? Thanostrinomical?) global haul came from China. As is the case in virtually every international market, Endgame broke the all-time box office record in China, earning roughly $217 million in US dollars in its first three days, and an estimated $330.5 million through Sunday.
Due to the country’s longstanding quota system allowing for only 34 non-Chinese films per year (give or take), it’s still not terribly common for a Hollywood movie to open over the same weekend in China as it does in the US and elsewhere — Infinity War didn’t, nor did Star Wars: The Force Awakens. But Endgame’s massive haul in China underscores not only how critical the country is now to Hollywood’s bottom line, but how deep an impact Marvel Studios has made within China’s carefully stage-managed cultural landscape.Read More at Buzzfeed News
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EffortlessLegal Launches Revolutionary New Legal Billing Automation Apps
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Australia, Canada, European Union, Global, USA September 18 2019
Law firms can now easily reduce write-downs and write-offs, automate billing codes, and comply with billing rules and guidelines
CHICAGO: EffortlessLegal, a Chicago-based tech company bringing advanced automation and machine learning products to the legal space, announced the launch of its latest products in the area of legal billing automation with BillerAssist, LedesAssist, and BillerAssist LEDES Edition.
All of EffortlessLegal’s products automate various aspects of legal work by integrating with established billing platforms, with no need to switch to a new billing system.
The company’s latest releases offer law firms secure and easy-to-use cloud-based services that: (1) reduce or eliminate write-downs and write-offs; (2) completely automate UTBMS/LEDES coding; and (3) ensure easy billing rules and guidelines compliance, all with built-in machine learning that adapts to your firm’s specific needs.
“When we tested our latest billing automation products in a live law firm, the partners saved hundreds of hours that were previously spent reviewing bills,” said Holly Urban, the CEO and co-founder of EffortlessLegal.
“Our latest products adapt to each law firm, and become more accurate the more you use them, which is revolutionary in this space. This means law firms save even more time each month they use the app,” continued Urban.
EffortlessLegal’s latest offerings are browser-based, but also include fully functional Android and iOS apps, to allow firms to more easily bill from anywhere.
Demonstration videos, as well as other detailed information, are available for each product on EffortlessLegal’s website. Features include:
Easy to Set-up: No installation or data migration needed
Compatible: Easily works with existing software platforms, such as Clio, TimeSlips, and others
Adaptive: Learns and grows smarter from use to fit a law firm’s unique billing needs
Versatile: Available on all browsers, with applications for iOS and Android
Automation: UTBMS/LEDES coding is done completely automatically, with no pulldown menus
Eliminate Write-Offs: Real-time color code notifications when entries have unusual amounts
Billing Rules: Real-time notifications when entries violate rules configurable by client or matter
Predictive Billing: Predicts what the time entry will be as a user enters it
“We are addressing these problems with the latest Artificial Intelligence (AI) and machine learning capabilities in a way that integrates seamlessly with software used in law firms,” said Urban.
EffortlessLegal tested and refined its latest offerings through live law firm usage over several years.
Firms interested in learning more can also receive a free trial before making a purchase decision.
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Little Book of Cornwall
Carti in engleza >> History >> British History >> Little Book of Cornwall
Autor: John Van der Kiste
Categoria: British History
Editura: The History Press
A compendium of fascinating information about Cornwall past and present, this book contains a plethora of entertaining facts about the county's famous and occasionally infamous men and women, its towns and countryside, history, natural history, literary, artistic and sporting achievements, agriculture, transport, industry and royal visits.
A reference book and a quirky guide, this can be dipped in to time and time again to reveal something new about the people, the heritage, the secrets and the enduring fascination of the county. A remarkably engaging little book, this is essential reading for visitors and locals alike.
In British law no officer or agent of the Crown, which includes both Westminster and the Anglican Church, can legally set foot upon Cornish soil without the express and joint permissions of the Duke of Cornwall and Cornwall's Stannary Parliament.
Dolly Pentreath (c. 1680-1777), is popularly regarded as the last true speaker of the Cornish language and her last words were reputedly `Me ne vidn cewsel Sawznek!' (`I don't want to speak English!').
Penzance boasts the county's only officially designated promenade, which extends for just over a mile from the town harbour to Newlyn.
Founded in 1860 Warrens Bakery, a family-owned chain based in St Just in Penwith, supplies pasties to Fortnum & Mason.
Cornwall's flag is that of St Piran and shows a white cross which represents molten tin oozing out of a black rock which Piran used when building his fireplace.
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Home >News >World >US daily Covid-19 cases hit new record, topping 99,000: Johns Hopkins University
More than 9.4 million people have been infected and 233,000 have died in the United States so far during the pandemic. (Bloomberg)
US daily Covid-19 cases hit new record, topping 99,000: Johns Hopkins University
1 min read . Updated: 05 Nov 2020, 07:50 AM IST AFP
US reported 99,660 new infections, and 1,112 deaths, shows Johns Hopkins University tally
Cases have been surging to record highs across the country since mid-October, especially in the north and the Midwest.
More than 99,000 novel coronavirus cases were recorded in the United States in the past 24 hours, a new daily record, according to a tally by Johns Hopkins University.
The country reported 99,660 new infections between 8:30 pm Tuesday and 8:30 pm Wednesday (0130 GMT), and 1,112 deaths, the tally by the Baltimore-based school showed one day after Americans voted to choose their next president.
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More than 9.4 million people have been infected and 233,000 have died in the United States so far during the pandemic, by far the worst tolls in absolute terms globally.
Health officials in some states have already sounded warnings about their ability to handle an influx in hospitalizations as the winter flu season looms.
The pandemic has also slammed the US economy, fueling a historic contraction in growth and tens of millions of job losses.
It also impacted the US election, with more than 100 million voters casting their ballot by mail or in person before Election Day on Tuesday -- the highest number of early voters ever.
The final election results are not yet known, with the count partly delayed by the high number of mail-in ballots as many Americans sought to avoid crowded polling booths.
US President Donald Trump -- who was briefly hospitalized for Covid-19 in October -- has consistently downplayed the seriousness of the outbreak, insisting that the virus will eventually just "disappear."
His Democratic election rival Joe Biden has sought to turn the vote into a referendum on Trump's handling of the crisis, and vowed to listen to scientific recommendations on handling the pandemic should he take the White House.
This story has been published from a wire agency feed without modifications to the text. Only the headline has been changed.
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New tools aim to address the adverse impact of COVID-19 on orthoptic clinical practice
New research papers, published in three different journals, highlight the adverse impact of COVID-19 on orthoptic clinical practice across the UK and also illustrate the benefits of new University of Liverpool developed tools in helping address the issues around orthoptics service delivery and patient care.
The COVID-19 pandemic has fundamentally changed the way everyone goes about their day-to-day lives; nowhere more so than in relation to our access to and the provision of vital medical services including eye care and assessment.
About two thirds of stroke survivors have visual impairment which typically relates to impaired central or peripheral vision, eye movement abnormalities, or visual perceptual defects.
Professor Fiona Rowe of the Vision, Orthoptic and Brain Injury Research Unit at the University says this suspension in delivery is leading to a ‘lack of availability of necessary services’ for patients requiring vision screening and inequitable care provision for stroke survivors with the potential for long-term unmet needs.
The first of a trio of novel research studies led by Professor Rowe, published in the British and Irish Orthoptics Journal, found that, as with the access and delivery of many other hospital services, COVID-19 has forced a complete change in orthoptic clinical practice across the UK and Ireland with face-to-face clinical consultations mainly preserved for urgent care. Clinical practice continued, but was scaled down, and conducted through remote consultations with use of video and telephone calls.
The impact of this remotely conducted and reduced delivery of service highlighted the urgent need for change and adaptation within the profession. The timely release of new resources may help this situation. Two new unique tools have been developed and tested for use in tandem by healthcare professionals, carers and non-clinicians. These will help in the fight against COVID-19 impacts on orthoptics service delivery and patient care (in particular in respect to stroke related visual impairment, which occurs in about three quarters of stroke survivors.)
Vision Screening Assessment tool
VISA, is a Vision Screening Assessment tool for detecting visual impairment among stroke survivors by clinicians involved in stroke care who are not specialists in vision problems and lack formal eye training. Where early visual impairment detection occurs, this facilitates prompt referral with fewer false positives and negatives. The VISA screening tool provides a standardised and validated method to screen for visual problems following stroke and may further be of potential use for visual screening in other care settings such as neurorehabilitation.
Professor Rowe, said: “Identification of visual impairment with access to early vision rehabilitation has an impact on quality of life and activities of daily living with potential cost savings to the NHS by enhancing rehabilitation and supporting early discharge.”
VISA has undergone full validation in a study published in the British Medical Journal. The study was funded by the University of Liverpool and included collaboration with Bradford Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Salford Royal NHS Foundation Trust, Manchester University Hospital, the Walton Centre, and Arrowe Park Hospital.
The Stroke-Vision Care Pathway
The impact of visual impairment as the result of a stroke can be considerable with impaired vision leading to increased rate of personal accidents and falls, social isolation, loss of confidence, impaired mobility, reduced quality of life, increased anxiety and depression – all exacerbated by the current COVID-19 climate.
Some types of visual impairment can be easily detected and many affected individuals will report their symptoms. However, most types of visual impairment cannot be easily detected without specific assessment and some individuals do not complain of visual symptoms.
The Stroke-Vision Care Pathway has been developed collaboratively with stroke survivors, clinicians and researchers (including stroke professionals and eye professionals). It clearly identifies the potential ways in which stroke survivors with visual impairment can access health care and what the appropriate referral(s) to vision services should be relevant to their specific problem(s) and works hand in hand with VISA, the Vision Screening Assessment tool.
Addressing long-term unmet needs
The stroke-vision care pathway is available (free to download) from the VISION research unit website and available as supplemental information with the validation paper published in the Disability and Rehabilitation Journal.
Professor Rowe, said: “These studies highlight the importance of being aware of vision problems as a common consequence of stroke, how to identify them and where to refer them to. Ideally, and meeting national clinical guidelines for stroke, orthoptists would assess all stroke survivors when admitted to stroke units. However, we lack availability of ideal services.
“The VISA tool helps with screening for vision problems and the care pathway facilitates onward referral. Both are even more important now given the impact to providing specialist orthoptic services for stroke survivors during the COVID-19 pandemic where services have been suspended leading to inequitable care for stroke survivors with potential for long-term unmet needs.
“The stroke-vision care pathway has been developed collaboratively with stroke survivors, clinicians and researchers. We encourage anyone working with stroke survivors to implement the use of this screening tool and care pathway to improve detection of visual impairment and access to eye care.”
Critical research
Jim Currie, Chair of ‘Vision In Stroke able (VISable)’, said: “As the Chair of VISable panel and a stroke survivor with visual problems I am well aware of the effects of COVID-19 has had on those who suffer with vision issues. Over the past few months I have heard of survivors with vision problems deciding to stay at home rather than go out for shopping or taking exercise.
“Concerns include bumping into people, not being able to judge the two-metre rule (and as result being abused by others), the inability to see where the sanitising equipment is and the lack of willingness of people to come forward to help. The research undertaken by Prof Rowe and her team has been critical in seeking to support those with vision issues and has made considerable impact on the quality of life for vision impaired individuals.”
Integral part of stroke care
Professor Anna Horwood, Director of Research for the British and Irish Orthoptic Society, said: “In the current healthcare climate, high-COVID-risk stroke survivors are the very people for whom hospital visits and stays, and interaction with different professionals, need to be as efficient and targeted as possible, while still maintaining gold standard care. Professor Rowe’s group has shown that vision and orthoptic assessment must be integral part of stroke care in both hospital and community settings. The tools her group have developed allow vision care to be delivered flexibly and comprehensively wherever the patients are.”
Dr Deborah Lowe, National Clinical Director for Stroke Medicine and Joint National Clinical Lead for Stroke Medicine, said: “Visual impairment often goes unrecognised, and the risk of this lack of identification is significantly amplified during this COVID period due to more rapid assessments, PPE, reduced patient contact and at times unstructured virtual assessments. We need to stop and think about how we deliver virtual stroke assessments and intervention to ensure we are not increasing the likelihood of stroke survivors being discharged home without appropriate management and support for their visual impairment. Also, the concept of making every patient contact count and ensuring we have diversification of skills and roles during this difficult restoration and recovery period is vital.
"The VISA tool and Stroke Vision Care Pathway as great examples of how we can do this using an evaluated tool that have been created by experts in their field, researchers and clinicians. It is exciting to think about how these tools can be used ‘post COVID’ to improve assessment and appropriate onward referral in services that do not currently have adequate Orthoptics services”.
The full paper in the British and Irish Orthoptic Journal, entitled ‘Orthoptic Services in the UK and Ireland During the COVID-19 Pandemic’, can be found here.
DOI: http://doi.org/10.22599/bioj.153
The full paper in the BMJ’s Cardiovascular medicine, entitled ‘Vision Screening Assessment (VISA) tool: diagnostic accuracy validation of a novel screening tool in detecting visual impairment among stroke survivors’, can be found here.
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2019-033639
The full paper in the Disability and Rehabilitation Journal, entitled ‘Developing a stroke-vision care pathway: a consensus study’, can be found here.
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Mum of Mark Hillman will 'never forgive' his killers - as John Johns gets 25 years
Johns, 22, was convicted of murder for the brutal gangland execution of 26-year-old Mr Hillman
Jonathan HumphriesSenior Reporter
The mum of murdered Mark Hillman said she can ‘never forgive’ his killers as gangland thug John Johns was jailed for at least 25 years.
Johns, 22, was convicted of murder yesterday after joining fellow drug-dealer Brandon Bilsborough in the ambush and execution of heroin-dealer Mr Hillman following a violent turf-war.
As he was handed a life sentence today, the Mr Hillman’s mum, Sharon Corrin, said he was “my baby and always will be”.
Ms Corrin said: “I would change places with my son, he should be here watching his gorgeous daughters growing up into young ladies. Your children should never go before their parents.
WATCH: The damning CCTV footage which helped convict the killers of Mark Hillman
“I have no doubt that the ones that had the guns intended to kill my son in an unforgivable act with complete disregard for human life.”
Dad-of-three Mr Hillman died almost instantly after being shot twice in the back with a revolver at 5.15pm on April 27, 2016, in Lloyd Close, Everton. His Audi car was been hit by six bullets fired from a semi-automatic handgun.
Johns always admitted he was at the murder scene but claimed his associates, Bilsborough and his friend Connor Hunt, shot rival dealer Mr Hillman, 26, in front of him without warning.
Mark Hillman, who was killed in Everton
The shooting was the result of an escalating feud which started that morning with Mr Hillman being slashed in the face by Hunt, before he retaliated by driving a car at Hunt and Bilsborough.
Bilsborough, 19, was convicted of the murder after a separate trial in February, while Hunt, also 19, was convicted of wounding for slashing Mr Hillman’s face with a knife earlier on the day of his death.
Bilsborough, described as the “boss” of a heroin and crack-cocaine ring, was jailed for life with a minimum of 25 years, but Hunt, who was cleared of murder, was jailed for eight years.
Drugs found in John Johns house. He was convicted of the murder of Mark Hillman
The jury heard Mr Hillman was lured to the home of addict Hayley Gaghan with a fake drugs order while Bilsborough and Johns lay in wait.
Ms Corrin’s statement continued: “Mark’s daughters don’t understand why their daddy doesn’t go to see them and give them kisses and cuddles...
Shocking pics show Mark Hillman's bullet riddled car targeted in lethal ambush
“It is breaking my heart to think of Mark lying on the cold ground all alone and scared wondering what has just happened. Why was my son taken in a violent and callous way? It will haunt me for the rest of my life. My son got a life sentence and so did I.”
Today the judge, Mr Justice Baker, described the murder as rising from a “territorial dispute over the supply of Class A drugs”.
Floral Tributes on Lloyd Close Everton scene where Mark Hillman was killed
He told Johns: “During the trial you denied any prior knowledge of these firearms.
“I find that not only did you have prior knowledge of these firearms but you had been specifically recruited by Brandon Bilsborough.”
Although it may never be known for sure who played what role in the shooting, Ian Unsworth QC, prosecuting, suggested Johns rushed from Kirkby to Anfield after a call from Bilsborough.
Drug dealer John Paul Johns, 22, was found guilty of murdering Mark Hillman in gangland execution
He said the call, at 3.50pm, was only minutes after the dispute between Bilsborough and Hunt and Mr Hillman boiled over with the older man trying to run over the two teenagers on Breck Road.
Mr Unsworth said: “On any view, members of the jury, guns, working guns, working illegal guns, and ammunition had been obtained. They were primed, they were ready for action. Were they something, you may wish to consider, that John Paul Johns had brought to the table?”
Killer John Johns left his baby at home and threw his life away to gangland violence
Detective Chief Inspector Neil Shaw, of Merseyside Police, said: “The convictions of these three men are a result of a determined investigation to bring Mark’s killer to justice. Ultimately we know that nothing can bring Mark back, but we hope the verdicts and today’s sentencing gives his family some sense of justice.
“We are continually asking communities for information about drug dealing and carry out warrants and arrests day in, day out, to tackle the issue. The death of Mark Hillman highlights why we do this, as well as the danger drugs bring to our communities.
“Drugs are not harmless and amongst criminal groups are a commodity, that they are willing to cause harm, injury and even death for. As a force we want to rid the streets of this blight and we continue to work with partners to tackle the issue, but we cannot do this without the help of public.
Brandon Bilsborough jailed for at least 25 years for murder of Mark Hillman and Connor Hunt locked up for eight years after slashing victim's face with knife hours before shooting
“Gun, gang and drug crime has very clear, serious and often tragic consequences. We continue to do everything in our power to continue to take guns off the streets and out of the hands of criminals.
“If you have any information about drug, gang or gun crime in your area, you can contact Crimestoppers anonymously on 0800 555 111 or the dedicated gun crime hotline on 0800 230 0600. We will act on any information we receive.”
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Sticking it out is starting to pay off for UCLA’s Kenneth Nwuba
Kenneth Nwuba’s breakthrough performance against Arizona could allow UCLA to use a big lineup to counteract Washington State’s size Thursday afternoon.
(UCLA Athletics)
By Ben BolchStaff Writer
Coach Mick Cronin wasn’t being sarcastic when he told an end-of-the-bench forward who went scoreless, missing his only shot, that he had been the game’s most valuable player.
UCLA probably doesn’t beat Arizona without Kenneth Nwuba.
The Bruins were safeguarding their top two big men on the bench because of foul trouble against the Wildcats on Saturday when Nwuba entered the game with about seven minutes left in the first half.
His opening sequence wasn’t the stuff of dreams. Nwuba committed a foul nine seconds after stepping onto the court, giving the Wildcats two free throws.
It was what came next that earned Nwuba the kind words from his coach and a sturdy chest bump from teammate Cody Riley. Arizona’s following five possessions ended in a turnover, a missed three-pointer, a missed layup that Nwuba rebounded and two more turnovers.
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UCLA has won four games in row and climbed into first place in the Pac-12 by making the plays down the stretch in each game.
When UCLA guard Jules Bernard converted that final turnover into a layup, the Bruins had completed a 16-2 run on the way to a victory over the Wildcats while realizing they had found another capable post player who might change the dynamic of their frontcourt.
Nwuba’s breakthrough could allow UCLA to use a big lineup featuring both Riley and Jalen Hill to counteract Washington State’s size when the Bruins (9-2 overall, 5-0 Pac-12 Conference) face the Cougars (9-2, 2-2) on Thursday afternoon at Pauley Pavilion.
Should Riley or Hill get into foul trouble, Cronin knows he has another option in Nwuba, a 6-foot-9, 255-pound redshirt sophomore whose nine minutes against Arizona matched his previous combined total from earlier in the season.
“I wanted to win the game,” Nwuba said, “so I had to be like an anchor for the team, just my presence on the court.”
It had been a long wait to meaningful minutes. Nwuba mostly played at the end of blowouts during his first college season in 2018-19, averaging 2.9 minutes in his 17 appearances. He sat out last season as a redshirt to enhance his defense and post moves while working primarily with assistant Darren Savino, who develops the team’s post players.
Nwuba showed he still has improvements to make when he rushed a layup he missed against the Wildcats.
“I can do a lot more,” he said. “When I have a little bit of time and get calm and have my confidence in playing, then I could do a lot more on the court.”
Kenneth Nwuba sat out last season as a redshirt to enhance his defense and post moves.
His journey has involved traveling more than 6,000 miles from his native Nigeria just to find out he had a long way to go. He attended three high schools before his arrival at UCLA and experienced heartbreak in May when Ohmar Carter, his guardian and club basketball coach, died of colon cancer at age 45.
“Since I’ve been in America, he’s been like a dad to me, teaching me everything I know about basketball and life,” Nwuba said. “He was a great man.”
Nwuba hasn’t seen his family since coming to the United States, communicating through social media platforms such as WhatsApp and Facebook. His story has been one of perseverance, playing sparingly with the Bruins rather than chasing a larger role elsewhere through the transfer portal.
“There’s so many kids opting out and quitting on their team when they don’t play,” Cronin said, “and here’s a guy that just keeps trying to get better without getting in the game and he comes in every day and asks how you’re doing and works his butt off in practice.”
And, as the Bruins are increasingly discovering, in games.
VS. WASHINGTON STATE
When: 2 p.m.
Where: Pauley Pavilion.
On the air: TV: FS1; Radio: 570.
Update: The Cougars present a unique challenge beyond savvy senior guard Isaac Bonton (17.7 points per game) because they have surrounded their top player with big men who can make three-pointers. Center Efe Abogidi is shooting 47.8% from beyond the arc and forward Andre Jakimovski is shooting 39.3%. The Bruins must hope Bonton wears down because of his heavy usage; his 35.6 minutes per game leads the Pac-12 and the Cougars have faded toward the end of recent losses to Arizona and Stanford.
Ben Bolch
Ben Bolch has been a Los Angeles Times staff writer since 1999. He is serving his second stint as the UCLA beat writer, which seems fitting since he has covered almost every sports beat except hockey and horse racing. Bolch is also the author of the recently released book “100 Things UCLA Fans Should Know & Do Before They Die.” He previously covered UCLA basketball from 2010-11 before going on to cover the NBA and the Clippers for five years. He happily traded in gobs of hotel points and airline miles to return to cover UCLA basketball and football in the summer of 2016. Bolch was once selected by NBA TV’s “The Starters” as the “Worst of the Week” after questioning their celebrity journalism-style questions at an NBA All-Star game and considers it one of his finer moments.
Corey Knebel enjoyed great success in the 2018 NLCS with Milwaukee, prompting the Dodgers to give him $5.25 million in 2021 despite two injury-marred seasons.
Clippers’ Serge Ibaka ‘definitely’ will play Wednesday; Lou Williams a question mark
Clippers coach Tyronn Lue said Serge Ibaka will be back Wednesday night versus Sacramento after missing a game. Lou Williams’ availability is unclear.
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Tonight: Brandon Flowers, A Perfect Circle, Lila Downs, All Time Low, Candy Claws, Nobunny
Kevin Bronson November 10, 2010
His late-summer round of warm-up shows having done nothing but stoke the fires of adulation in fans' hearts, Brandon Flowers is now taking on bigger rooms in a U.S. tour that begins this week.
The Killers frontman has received a warm embraced for his solo debut Flamingo, which came out in September — and with the songs sharing so much DNA with the material he makes during his day job, it's no surprise.
Flowers has said some of the material on Flamingo was written for the Killers before the band decided to go on hiatus — a break the singer recently characterized as “still indefinite.” But with its fleeting country and gospel flourishes and distinct theme (it's pretty much an homage to Las Vegas), the 29-year-old's solo outing has character enough to stand out on its own.
Flowers' tour brings him to the Wiltern tonight, along with another rock frontman going it solo, Fran Healy of Travis.
Elsewhere: A Perfect Circle closes out a three-night stand at the Avalon by performing its third album eMOTIVe in its entirety. … Pop-punk quartet All Time Low, getting ready for the January release of its first major-label album, plays to a sold-out Troubadour. … And Lila Downs and Buika team up for a night of Latin-flavored music at Disney Hall.
Also: Jeffree Star at the Roxy; Nobunny at Spaceland; Papercranes at Bordello; Kraddy at Low End Theory at the Airliner; Candy Claws at the Bootleg Theater; Stereofix and Telegram at the House of Blues; Swollen Members at the Key Club; the Glory Stompers and Gravity Guild at the Viper Room; Bardo at the Silverlake Lounge; the Blank Tapes at the Hotel Cafe; Circle Pit at the Smell; Emanuel Gibson at the Mint; and Eddie Nichols at the Redwood Bar.
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Budget preview: Tax avoidance curbs
By Michael Cross20 November 2017
Promises to clamp down on tax avoidance are expected to feature in Wednesday’s budget statement following the latest leak of data from an offshore finance centre.
The chancellor may also extend rules clamping down on avoidance by ‘off-payroll’ workers.
Paul Falvey, tax partner at accountancy and business advisory firm BDO, said that in the last budget the chancellor announced rules requiring the public sector to deduct income tax and national insurance from payments to contractors.
‘We now expect the rules to be extended to cover private sector organisations as an anti-avoidance measure,’ he said. This would correct an imbalance in employment tax legislation and avoid a brain-drain from the public sector, he added.
The political row over the so-called ‘Paradise papers’ disclosures heated up last week when Dame Margaret Hodge MP, former chair of the public accounts committee, claimed in parliament that the law firm at the centre of the storm had ignored repeated criticism from regulatory bodies and failed to change its procedures.
Hodge claimed the Paradise papers reveal that UK regulators had talked of ‘persistent failures and deficiencies’ at the firm, Appleby, and that it had been criticised 12 times in 10 years.
She said the reports also talked of a ‘highly significant weakness in the adequacy of the organisation’s controls’. Appleby denies any wrongdoing.
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Proposals include taxing profits made by multinationals with a ’significant user-base’ in the UK.
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IRduino
An open source, programmable, Arduino-compatible USB infrared receiver that gives new life to old remote controls.
IRduino is a peripheral device that allows almost any IR signal to be translated into commands. It works on many platforms, including PC, Mac, Raspberry Pi, and even some cell phones. The infrared device can be anything from an old TV remote, to an IR mouse or keyboard.
Decades of consumer electronics have relied on infrared remote controls. The result is piles of disused IR remotes collecting dust in closets and storage bins around the world. Our goal is to give you the power to put some of those idle remotes back to work in creative and productive ways. Enter the IRduino.
IRduino is made up of an ATmega32U4 Microcontroller (MCU) and an SMD (Surface Mounted Device) IR receiver component. The design is simplified even further by including the USB contacts directly on the board - and unlike many products on the market, the board is thick enough to sit snugly in your USB port. To keep the device humanized (and humorous), a little robot is screen-printed on the reverse side. Just like any good robot, it’s got two programmable LEDs for eyes.
IRduino can be both practical and entertaining. It can serve as an interface to your single-board XBMC media center. You can use your remote for complete control of simple games, or to extend your capabilities for complex gaming. The device will let you use any normal remote as a special presentation device. Use IRduino as an easily accessible way to launch your favorite applications. Remotely shut down or reboot a computer with a push of a button.
● Arduino-compatible: IRduino comes with the Arduino Leonardo bootloader pre-installed on the board, which makes IRduino fully compatible with the Arduino IDE for programming.
● Compact: IRduino is only 19mm x 35mm, which is smaller than most USB flash sticks.
● Works with most remotes: We have designed a library that is compatible with about 95% of infrared remotes on the market, from air conditioning remotes, to TV remotes, to DVD remotes, to washing machine remotes.
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Taliban does not want ‘a share of the power’
By Bill Roggio | January 28th, 2016 | [email protected] | @billroggio
As the US and China continue to push for Afghan peace negotiations, the Taliban maintains that it wants no part in sharing power with the existing Afghan government. In a statement released on its official website, Voice of Jihad, that mocked US Secretary of Defense Ashton Carter’s recent statement that “the Taliban’s existence in Afghanistan was only a temporary phenomenon,” the group concluded with the following [emphasis mine]:
The Islamic Emirate has not readily embraced this death and destruction for the sake of some silly ministerial posts or a share of the power. On the contrary they epitomize the nation’s hopes and aspirations for a just and peaceful government that will strive to build our beloved nation on the basis of Islamic law, social justice and national interests.
The people of Afghanistan readily sacrifice their sons to achieve this objective. And the Emirate – as the true representative of our people – will not end its peaceful and armed endeavors until we have achieved this hope of Afghanistan.
“This objective” mentioned in the above quote is the re-establishment of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan, the Taliban’s official name of its government. The Taliban has insisted from the very beginning that it will settle for nothing less than regaining full power. In its most recent statement, the Taliban discusses the Vietcong and its protracted fight and ultimate victory in outlasting the US in Vietnam:
Has Ashton Carter forgotten that the Americans made similar statements about the Vietcong during the Vietnam War and yet – some forty years later – the Vietcong (or its successors) are very much alive and in control of their country?
The Taliban continue to deftly manipulate Western leaders’ desire for a negotiated settlement in Afghanistan in order to extract concessions. But the Taliban will not denounce al Qaeda, and will not settle for anything less than a full return to power.
While the Taliban has a point about Vietnam… that was our sad choice to lose, considering we were down to 40,000 troops during the Easter offensive, and still beat the commies so bad that only then did they come to the Paris peace talks. It was a political decision not to keep supporting the South with air power and money. But besides that, the commie project was a massive economic failure and eventually they turned to the China type model with a stock market, and labor force for international companies. Now the irony is that ‘Nam turns to the US for help against China. Hopefully we learned from our mistake of abandoning Afghans after the cold war, and dont do that again. But it requires Pakistan to be all in to beat the Taliban, and the only way that is going to happen is by long term commitment to regional stability which includes Afghan, Pak, India, China, etc… with the US helping to bridge gaps. All the while holding firm against Taliban trying to take total control.
Mike Smith says:
There was no need to “support the South Vietnamese with air power.” The South Vietnamese Air Force was the 4th largest air force in the world. North Vietnam essentially had no air force, and never operated aircraft in South Vietnamese airspace. What South Vietnam lacked was (1) a government South Vietnamese men were willing to die for, and (2) the will to win. The exact same thing is true of Afghanistan today.
Jon Z says:
The north vietnamese did in fact have an air force. They also used it outside of their borders. Famously, in Laos, there was an actual dogfight between North Vietnamese AN-2 colts and American Huey helicopters. That example is historic trivia, though.
The lesson we failed to learn in Vietnam or Iraq is that the process of Vietnamization does not work. We can equip and support the regimes we prop up as much as we like, but if the locals don’t have the political will to fight no equipment or support will keep them in power. No equipment or support will indefinitely stave off a determined adversary who is willing to take casualties.
The Iraqi army abandoned their equipment in the field with a ten to one numeric superiority over IS rabble. The governor of Sangin Province took to Facebook to plead for renforcement AFTER the year long seige of Konduz.
There are models of Western success out there, but, maddeningly we keep returning to a cult of air power and proxies that hasn’t worked in fifty years. This is rooted in domestic US politics.
Arjuna says:
“But it requires Pakistan to be all in to beat the Taliban, and the only way that is going to happen is by long term commitment to regional stability…”
True dat. America should join hands with Russia and China (and India) to create a multi-national, unified anti-Pakistan alliance that denies Pakistan any military aid until the Taliban are defeated once and for all and Pakistan stops using its territory for terror training camps. To sit down across the table from child rapists and genocidal murderers is an affront to all we fight for. Kerry is a yellow surrender monkey who will soon be history. I was just in Vietnam. They’ve forgotten the war. So should we. We need to look at ourselves today, and the future in terms of how we defeat the enemy. 58,000 brave souls died. Honor them by winning the Long War, and that means confronting the backstabbing Paks and Saudis.
Tony Valachi says:
Expecting Pakistan to beat Taliban is expecting it to beat itself, Taliban is Pakistan and Pakistan is Taliban.
As per Vietnam, I was listening to a couple generals in about 1978 talk about their careers as they mutually shared their most bitter disappointment was the USA’s choice to pull out of Vietnam when the USA was winning. One more concentrated year of force and half the Chinese army would have been wiped out, too, they said.
Immediately there were cries of ‘Liar!’ from the audience in that several stated that the two generals had lost their minds. The generals quietly explained that the Red Army was sending replacements at a never-anticipated rate–to more catcalls–and intelligence recovered earlier that year indicated that some in China were calling to allow Vietnam ‘to fall’ if the war continued on for another year. The audience, then in 1978, howled.
I had two high school classmates that were infantry and they both mentioned that their individual squads noticed the increase in the percentage of Chinese soldiers vs. the Vietnamese soldiers that were killed just by their units during their 13 months. So yes, I, too, believe that we snatched defeat from the jaws of victory there.
It does matter, in any organization, what kind of leader it has as to its ultimate success or lack of it.
This wont’ stop the State Department and the Office of the Special Representative from holding “peace talks” by themselves in an empty room, however.
arslonga vitabrevis says:
One can never be defined by anothers lack, but by ones own character. Diplomacy, compromise, negotiations are what makes the world go round, not tyranny and absolute power. One does not stop negotiating because another is stuck in dysfunction. It is best to take note, make observations and move forward because there is no such thing as status quo, even in absolute tyranny. There is always a grain of sand about to move an avalanche. This is wisdom. Absolute tyranny is a fools game. Control is an illusion. Al Zawahari’s only hope is to cause brief and disjointed chaos, there is nothing civilized or noble in his processes. He is merely a terrorist and will never be able to build an enduring or honorable society.
Ha, ha, ha,…., what goes around.., comes around, de ja vue, all over again…, ya betcha Yogi!!
How ironic.., China is supporting our efforts this time, has this teeny weeny adjacent border with Afghanistan, has its own issue with Islamic militants. Pakistan is a secular, Westernized, nuclear power. Can chose to disarm and withdraw support the Taliban. They need the super-dupper gas and oil pipeline and mineral wealth everyone wants out of Kazakistan and Afghanistan. For that to happen, what is necessary? Stability!!! A government. Nobody really cares which belief system or philosophy prevails, as long as it is stable. The prime directive? To make 100’s of billions of $$$$ transporting gas and oil to the world. Rare earth minerals, and gems. This has been a plan for the past 50 years. yes! Everyone knew the safest and most economical way to get the valuable stuff out was pipelines and highways through Afghanistan, Pakistan to Karachi port and adios. $$$$$$
Everything is not about Oil and Gas. You know who got the mining rights in Afghanistan? Its not the US but China. Also, the KAPI Gas pipeline project hasn’t yet started and even though Taliban has promised no attacks on Gas pipeline passing through their area but its still a promise. Pakistan has gotten stuck between devil and the deep sea. It needs money but in order to get money it will have to deal with the monsters it created. Operation Zarb e Azb was a part of that and its going to fail and so will there attempts to convince Taliban from not targeting the gas pipeline. By the way, when you call Pakistan a secular, westernized country it only shows your lack of knowledge and understanding.
If you stand back and look at the big blue marble perspective of things.., it is a nuclear, westernized, educated state. If not, it wouldn’t know how to exist and play the great game and survive responsibly with all the big boy toys. It would have imploded, exploded irresponsibly in a war with India 60 years ago. It is a sophisticated, parliamentary governed society, no matter what your beliefs. The proof is in the pudding.
TRM says:
Pakistan is a secular Westernized power? On which planet?
It is not just about your $$$, it is about stability too. You can’t have one with out the other. Look at the economy at this moment. It is not stable and no one wants to take a risk for further loss. Civilization, commerce, human rights – the creature that man is requires him to get his ducks in a row, all of them.
Without the constant fighting in the middle east there could be the profit and progress China has seen, for its inhabitants.
A cease in the conflicts benefits all parties.
Unfortunately there are times when some parties want absolute control and nothing actually works that way.
Agree completely with the article.
RanaSahib says:
The Taliban are hamstrung with their continuing desire for “national interest.” This is not going to happen.
Afghanistan has never been an independent regional power: its government’s survival has always depended on regional alliances. If Pakistan is out, India is in and vice versa.
If neither country makes a commitment, then the Islamic State stands ready to assist. But only if the Taliban will acknowledge their Caliphate.
The Great Game goes on.
Gart says:
Ahhhhh, yes, the Great game, Afghanistan the orphan everyone wants to adopt.,,, oops no. Foster.
Take, manipulate, $$$$$$, strategize, advantegize. The Great game.
They are there own worst enemy.
afghanistan has been a regional power before pakistan has ever existed and over india for more than 700 years. The only reason any and everything is existing is because outside western powers are pitting the afghan people against each other exploiting their weaknesses for their interests. So we have western powers exploiting pakistan and pakstan is enjoying it because they from being exploited while they the ISI pashtun relatives of the militant factions exploit the western powers for their brotherly gain. India on the other hand has been ravaged since the beginning of their civilization and still is as we speak just in a quiet way. At the same time America is being ravaged by the taliban military.. the USA is almost collapsing due to the quagmire we are in…. They have outsmarted US military by losing little of their resources while we got sucked dry… total taliban military victory. Who wins… people who benefit from war, who loses the regular people.
“The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without even fighting”. sun tzu.
Gee, the TB wants it all. Wow, what a surprise!
fern says:
VietNam was the wrong war period 1) miscalculation by the French as they thought that after the Japs defeat they could go back in and lord it over the Viets. The French just escaped and left the Viets to their own devices and they learned to fight. The French sent their best troops “the foreign legion” with the best equipment from the US and they lasted till 1954 and Dien Bien Phu. The sad part is that Allen Dulles had talks with Ho Chi Minh and a deal could be had but since he studied in Moscow, Congress rejected him and the war started again JFK sent aides and it is a proven fact he did not want a heavier involvement in Nam till he conveniently died and LBJ came up with escalation calling VietNam a pissant country. Such arrogance made me an anti VietNam war activist while not being a peacenik.
The French later on tried it with Algeria with the same result.
While these were not “global” attitudes it has become so with the new leaders in the middle east of whom most are Phds in Islam and a Muslim who disagree is cold meat and their goal is convert and conquer the world.
Oh…where to start, after our involvement, of all ironies, China decided to “teach” Vietnam a lesson. Due somewhat to Chinese stupidity about wearing recognizable insignia, they got their asses kicked by Chuck. Anyone been there?
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Corporation tax self assessment
The company tax return and other corporation self assessment issues.
There are a number of procedures for filing your company's tax return and paying the tax due. We set out the basic elements here but at Lovetts, we can prepare the necessary returns and advise on the tax payments due for your company in the Hatfield area.
The key features are:
a company is required to pay the tax due in advance of filing a tax return
a 'process now, check later' enquiry regime when the tax return is submitted
the inclusion in the tax return, and in a single self assessment, of the liabilities of close companies on loans and advances to shareholders and others, and of liabilities under Controlled Foreign Companies legislation
the requirement for companies to self assess by reference to transfer pricing legislation.
Practical effect of CTSA for companies
Notice to file
Every year, HMRC issues a notice to file to companies. In most cases, the return must be submitted to HMRC within 12 months of the end of the accounting period.
Filing your company tax return online
Companies must file their corporate return online. Their accounts and computations must also be filed in the correct format - inline eXtensible Business Reporting Language (iXBRL).
Unincorporated organisations and charities that don't need to prepare accounts under the Companies Act can choose to send their accounts in iXBRL or PDF format. However any computations must be sent in iXBRL format.
Penalties apply for late submission of the return of £100 if it is up to three months late and £200 if the return is over three months late. Additional tax geared penalties apply when the return is either six or twelve months late. These penalties are 10% of the outstanding tax due on those dates.
Submission of the return
The return required by a Notice to file contains the company's self assessment, which is final subject to:
taxpayer amendment
HMRC correction, or
HMRC enquiry.
The company has a right to amend a return (for example changing a claim to capital allowances). The company has 12 months from the statutory filing date to amend the return.
HMRC have nine months from the date the return is filed to correct any 'obvious' errors in the return (for example an incorrect calculation). This process should be a fairly rare occurrence. In particular the correction of errors does not involve any judgement as to the accuracy of the figures in the return. This is dealt with under the enquiry regime.
Under CTSA, HMRC check returns and has an explicit right to enquire into the completeness and accuracy of any tax return. This right covers all enquiries, from straightforward requests for further information on individual items through to full reviews of a company's business including examination of the company's records.
The main features of the rules for enquiries under CTSA are:
HMRC generally have a fixed period, of 12 months from the date the return is filed, in which to commence an enquiry
where the company is a member of a group (other than a small group), HMRC can raise an enquiry up to 12 months from the due filing date
if no enquiry is started within this time limit, the company's return becomes final - subject to the possibility of a Revenue 'discovery'
HMRC will give the company formal notice when an enquiry commences
HMRC are also required to give formal notice of the completion of an enquiry, and to state their conclusions
a company may ask the Commissioners to direct HMRC to close an enquiry if there are no reasonable grounds for continuing it.
Discovery assessments
HMRC have the power to make an assessment (a 'discovery assessment') if information comes to light after the end of the enquiry period indicating that the self assessment was inadequate as a result of fraudulent or negligent conduct, or of incomplete disclosure.
Summary of self assessment process
A company prepares accounts for the 12 months ended 31 May 2020 and submits the return by 31 December 2020. Key dates under CTSA are:
Payment of corporation tax
Deadline for filing the return
End of period for HMRC to open enquiry (being 12 months from the date the return was actually filed)
On 31 December 2021 the company tax position is finalised subject to HMRC's right to make a discovery assessment in some circumstances.
There is a single, fixed due date for payment of corporation tax, nine months and one day after the end of the accounting period (subject to the Quarterly Instalment Payment regime for large companies).
If the payment is late or is not correct, there will be late payment interest on tax paid late and repayment interest on overpayments of tax. These interest payments are tax deductible/taxable.
Credit interest
If a company pays tax before the due date, it receives credit interest on amounts paid early. Any interest received is chargeable to corporation tax.
Loans to shareholders
If a close company makes a loan to a participator (for example most shareholders in unquoted companies), the company must make a payment to HMRC if the loan is not repaid within nine months of the end of the accounting period. The amount of the tax is 32.5% of the loan for loans made or benefits conferred.
Additional rules for loans to shareholders
Further rules prevent the avoidance of the charge by repaying the loan before the nine month date and then effectively withdrawing the same money shortly afterwards.
A ‘30 day rule’ applies if at least £5,000 is repaid to the company and within 30 days new loans or advances of at least £5,000 are made to the shareholder. The old loan is effectively treated as if it has not been repaid. A further rule stops the tax charge being avoided by waiting 31 days before the company advances further funds to the shareholder. This is a complex area so please do get in touch if this is an issue for you and your company.
This tax is included within the CTSA system and the company must report loans outstanding to participators in the tax return.
If your company in the Hatfield area do not hesitate to contact us at Lovetts if you require any further information about Corporation Tax Self Assessment.
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Effing Good: Lusso reviews the Jaguar F-Type V6S
by Robert Clayman
‘I don’t bloody care what the interior of the Mandarin Oriental in Barcelona is like or about the quality of the food served at the journalists’ dinner at Finca Prats Hotel in Lleida or whether Ian Callum is a visionary and also you can cut out your usual preamble of nonsequitur bollocks that leads to…
Effing Fantastic
by Caroline Phillips
Caroline Phillips takes a long drive behind the wheel of the new Jaguar. The iconic E -Type Jag was the most beautiful car ever made. Or so said Enzo Ferrari. Jaguar hasn’t made a sports car since. So it’s a tough act for the F -Type to follow. Will it succeed? We’re given the entry-level…
Damian Lewis Will Star in F-TYPE Launch
by Lusso
Ok so it’s a heavily marketed car promo, an automotive mini-cinema production to entertain you whilst checking out the world-class style and driving performance of the new F-TYPE Jaguar. But with Homeland star and Emmy award-winning actor Damian Lewis playing the lead in Jaguar’s film ‘Desire’ and Ridley Scott Associates behind the filming, you can expect to see…
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Preparing For Live Performances
Lesson time 7:17 min
If you stay ready, you don't have to get ready. From pre-show rituals, rehearsal techniques and mindful meditation, Usher shares how he preps himself for exhilarating live performances.
Students give MasterClass an average rating of
Topics include: Performance visualizations • Powering through mistakes • Taking advantage of every opportunity • Creating pre-show rituals
In his first ever online class, Usher teaches you his personal techniques to captivate audiences across 16 video lessons.
If you see it in your mind before it happens, it becomes a reality. If you tell yourself, there's an audience, and there may be no one there, you begin to go through the beats in preparing for what's going to happen. And then when you're performing, when you're in the moment of truth, that connection between you and that audience, it's real because you prepared for it. You saw it before it happened. Do your best to project, in your mind, a successful performance before it happens. Being able to visualize when you're in private, is the beginning of a successful performance. Visualize-- no different than athletes do. For instance, a golfer, he sets up for a shot. He knows what the practice is, but he has to see it first. He has to look at the green and the sky, feel the wind, feel all the elements around him, and see it, visualize it before he even takes his swing. And then he focuses all of his attention on what he has to do-- hitting that ball, hitting that ball to perfection. Once he hits it, he has already connected to where it's going to go. His body just has to follow through what he's already seen. It's no different in music. You're focusing on the note. You're focusing on what they're thinking. You're focusing on where we are. You're focusing on if someone else-- get out of there. Get out of there. Focus on who you're singing it to in your mind. Focus on the truth and the passion of what you're trying to say. That right there gives you an incredible connection, and a amazing performance, every time. [MUSIC PLAYING] There was a time when I would perform and I was so afraid that the first note that came out, I would always crack. And I had to get past that. But that's part of the reason why I suggest that you always remember to go through your entire performance when you're at home, so that you don't get into the habit of breaking down mentally and stopping and thinking you got to go back and fix something then. You've got to make it through the entire exercise when you're in private, so that you build up enough confidence, in the event that you do have a moment. No one's perfect. Turn your mistakes into things that you deliberately did. In the end, you want them to say, he meant to do that. Oh, that was just texture. That I was just raspiness that gave you some depth. That was commitment. Even if you crack, make your way through it. When you're at home in your mirror with your brush in your hand, with you guitar in your hand, with the keys, you have to make it through it. You have to go all the way through the performance. And then think back to what you did wrong. Try it again. Work on it. Keep doing it. Maybe run it four times. Five times, how ever many times it takes for you to do it. Man, I run it tens of thousands of times. I sing in the shower. I sing in the mirror, ...
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Usher, winner of 8 Grammy Awards, reveals the technical skills, career lessons and breakthrough advice that he has used to captivate audiences for over 25 years. For the first time ever, learn how Usher approaches performance and wins over audiences from the studio to the stage. There has never been a class like this before.
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Students give MasterClass an average rating of 4.7 out of 5 stars.
I'm not a music performer or artist. But I am a writer and with that can't help but wonder how an artist such a Usher creates such strong performances.
I got over the fear of performing publicly thanks to Usher!
Loved this - the main message was about working hard...as Usher continues to do.
Laurie .
Thank you Usher and Masterclass! I learned a great deal about performance and treasuring your mentors.
A fellow student
everytime a new lesson starts I have to get out of my couch, go to my computer on the other room and turn on the subtitles again... really wish that once you turn them on they would stay on...
Evgenia S.
Thank you Usher for this lesson! Visualization, practice, meditation and repetition! This is so important! :)
valerie denise J.
youre mastery has changed my life ... my perspective in this fertile universe. this is profoundly exciting! thank you! I pray everyone in this class gets their desired results.
Supriya J.
visualization is very good before every show.. its a great practice when you can see and feel, what is going to happen.. Thanks a lot for this Lesson. Regards
I love how he intentionally prepares for things to go poorly so he can practice getting through it.
Adam W.
when your in the moment of truth....he means flow state check out www.flowgenomeproject.com #stevenkotler
Yes, I love the part about visualizing! I teach yoga and I always take my students on an adventure and vizualize fun vacations, they always leave with a smile on their faces, feeling light and refreshed, I will have to create one for myself for when I perform. :) Thanks Usher
Natalie F.
I loved this lesson and especially the visualization part! A long time ago I used to have a running coach who would have us visualize our races and as soon as I started doing it I actually won one! I never thought of doing it for performing though but it totally makes since. "Project in your mind a successful performance before it happens." Awesome Thank You!
Kevin L.
yo fam. I posted this to the acting lesson too. I host an open mike every month in Long BEach. For my songs this month, I introduced myself as my a character - pretending to be my cousin. I think it went pretty well. https://www.dropbox.com/s/wq4t83mq4xbshu3/2017-11-29%2020.38.08.mov?dl=0
Mikhail B.
Never thought of the working out then meditating. But I'm going to incorporate that from now on!!
01. Introduction02. Getting Started03. Gathering Inspiration04. Applying Inspiration05. Singing06. Dancing07. Acting08. Preparing For Live Performances09. Captivating An Audience10. Showtime11. Performance Review12. Collaboration13. Creating A Personal Brand14. Mental Toughness15. Usher's Career Journey16. Final Thoughts
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Toyota launches its new used Car Programme: Toyota Plus Toyota Ireland is delighted to launch Toyota Plus, Toyota’s pan-European used car programme.
New car buyers continue to embrace Toyota Hybrid and petrol for 172 Toyota Ireland has announced that demand for both hybrid and petrol powertrains continues to grow in 172 as Toyota buyers once again demonstrate that they are ahead of the curve by continuing to embrace petrol electric hybrid and conventional petrol powertrains.
Toyota Ireland launches new mobile app designed to save lives on Irish roads Supported by the Road Safety Authority (RSA), drivers are encouraged to Face their phone Down and pick up rewards at Topaz Re Store outlets nationwide.
Malone’s of Drogheda open state of the art Toyota Dealership Relocating from their old premises in Drogheda the newest Toyota Dealership in Louth is located at the M1 Retail Park.
Study shows better resale value for Hybrids vs Electric Vehicles Hybrid vehicles retains up to 13% superior resale value by 3rd year.
Toyota announces Discover Hybrid event & great offers for 172 Discover Hybrid during the month of June at Toyota. Get up to €3,500 scrappage or 3 years free servicing on both hybrid and conventional models.
Toyota Motor Europe awards Lambe Brothers with Ichiban Award Toyota Motor Europe announced the winners of the 2017 “Ichiban” European Customer Recommendation Awards during an event held in Antwerp, Belgium.
RSA and Toyota aim to check 10,000 child car seats in 2017 Road Safety Authority and Toyota launch a new three year partnership on child car seat safety.
Toyota Ireland donates €35,000 to St. Ultans In line with its Built for a Better World brand proposition, Toyota is introducing a number of initiatives aimed at making a meaningful difference and creating a better future for the people of Ireland.
New 2017 Toyota Yaris Design changes focus on giving the Yaris a more active and dynamic look, more refinement and a modern interior.
Toyota Ireland donates Prius to the Irish Cancer Society Toyota Ireland has today donated a Toyota Prius Hybrid to the Irish Cancer Society. The vehicle will be used to help in developing the essential Volunteer Driver Service.
RSA Check It Fits We’re helping to support the RSA ‘Check it Fits’ service which aims to save lives by ensuring child car seats are properly fitted in cars.
Toyota Loyalty Club It's just our way of saying thanks.
Toyota launches the Dream Car Engine Toyota is delighted to announce the launch of the Toyota Dream Car engine. This showcases the entries to the 2016 Dream Car Art Contest from all over the world.
Prius Plug-in Hybrid is 2017 World Green Car On Wednesday 12 April, the Toyota Prius Plug-in Hybrid was declared the 2017 World Green Car at the New York International Auto Show.
Toyota is Ireland’s Best Selling Car Brand in 2017 Toyota has kicked off the first three months of 2017 as the market leader in new car sales. Ireland’s favourite family car brand sold 7,507 new passenger vehicles in the first quarter of 2017.
Toyota Ireland announces Dream Car Art Contest Finalists The Dream Car Art Contest is Toyota’s unique platform that encourages imagination and creativity amongst children aged 15 and under, encouraging them to look ahead and imagine how to build a better future.
Toyota Olympic and Paralympic Partnership We’re incredibly proud to announce our partnership with the International Olympic Committee and the International Paralympic Committee until 2024.
Toyota excites at Geneva Motor Show 2017 From a first glimpse of the radical urban i-TRIL Concept to revelling in the latest TOYOTA GAZOO Racing machinery – the Geneva International Motor Show is the place every Toyota fan should be.
Award Winning Proace Range Offers Unmissable Value and Unrivalled Selection Toyota is delighted to announce the arrival of the new 2017 Toyota Proace range at Toyota dealerships nationwide.
All-New Toyota Prius Plug-in Hybrid The all-new Prius Plug-in Hybrid is set to redefine the experience of plug-in hybrid vehicles all over again. Discover what makes our new Hybrid’s fully electric driving experience truly special.
Toyota Ireland announce 128% sales increase for Hybrid vehicles in 2017 Toyota Ireland have announced another significant increase in hybrid sales in Ireland in 2017, signifying that hybrid is now moving towards mainstream popularity.
New 2017 Toyota Yaris The New Toyota Yaris brings a shot of adrenaline to everyday driving. Energetic lines and stylish features don’t just ensure a stress-free and comfortable drive, they provide style to give you a boost after every journey.
Toyota Hybrid sales reach 10 million Twenty years on from the launch of our first Hybrid model, the Prius, sales continue to soar and we are proud to announce a further milestone in Toyota Hybrid growth as global sales pass ten million vehicles.
Toyota Ireland Announces Niall Breslin as new Ambassador The singer and activist will be involved in the 'Built for a Better World' campaign at a grassroots level.
SPINI Team’s stylish new Toyota C-HR fleet SPIN 1038 & SPIN South West has teamed up with Toyota Ireland to unveil their SPINI Team’s stylish new Toyota C-HR fleet.
Toyota – Ireland's best selling car brand for 2016 In a year that saw the Irish motoring market experience growth of 17.5% Toyota enjoyed 18.5 % year on year growth, becoming the best-selling car brand in Ireland with sales of 15,530 passenger vehicles and an overall market share of 10.6%.
Carroll & Kinsella Churchtown relocates to new Dealership at Sandyford Dealer Principal Locky Murphy will open his new, state of the art showroom, Toyota Sandyford this week.
Proace named Light Commercial Vehicle of the Year The Toyota PROACE has won both its category and the overall Light Commercial Vehicle of the Year title in this year’s What Van? Awards in London.
Toyota Ireland Dealer of the Year Awards 2016 Toyota Dealers from across Ireland gathered in Dublin last night for the annual Toyota Dealer of the Year Awards.
Toyota YUKÕ launches in Ireland YUKÕ is Toyota’s new full hybrid car sharing programme that is being piloted in two European cities: Dublin, Ireland and Forlì, Italy.
97% of Irish Hybrid drivers will continue to buy Hybrid With the exceptional sales of Hybrid vehicles announced by Toyota earlier this year, it comes as no surprise to see the huge levels of customer satisfaction confirmed in a recent survey undertaken by Toyota Ireland.
Toyota Ireland Announces New Brand Purpose Toyota Ireland today announced the launch of its new ‘Built for a Better World’ brand platform and advertising campaign with Multi-Million Euro Investment In “Built for A Better World” Initiatives.
Toyota launches annual Dream Car Art Contest Toyota Ireland is delighted to announce that budding Irish artists under the age of 16 can now enter their submissions for the annual Toyota Dream Car Art Contest.
State of the Art Toyota Dealership opening at Liffey Valley Dealer Principal Tom Staunton will open his new, state of the art showroom, Toyota Liffey this week. The latest Toyota Dealership in Dublin is located at the Liffey Valley exit from the N4 beside the shopping centre.
Toyota introduces the iconic New 2017 Corolla Toyota Ireland has announced the launch of the new Corolla, with prices starting from €21,995.
The New Toyota Proace The new Toyota PROACE presents a complete new range of Light Commercial Vehicles and People Carriers, including a very complete offering ranging from the Panel Van version to the VIP shuttle of the people carrier.
Paris Motor Show 2016 As the automotive world descends on the City of Light, with its great history of culture and innovation, there’s no better place than the Paris Motor Show for Toyota to showcase its vision for the future of driving.
Toyota introduces game changing Toyota C-HR Toyota has announced that its game changing new C segment crossover SUV the Toyota C-HR will be available in Ireland from November, starting from only €26,895.
Toyota Prius excels in zero emissions commuting study Research commissioned from the University of Rome reveals how Prius operates with zero emissions for most of the time and distance covered on a typical city commute.
Toyota Hybrid vehicle sales increase 140% in 2016 Toyota Ireland today announced significant growth in its hybrid car sales for 2016 compared to 2015.
Toyota Yaris Hybrid scores in the 2016 Which? Car Survey The Toyota Yaris Hybrid has achieved a top rating in the 2016 Which? Car Survey, posting an 84% positive result.
Toyota C-HR – First Reveal of New Sophisticated Interior Designed to stand out both within the Toyota line-up and in its segment, the all-new C-HR – or Coupé High-Rider - represents Akio Toyoda’s determination to allow greater stylistic freedom and promote engineering creativity.
Toyota Ireland Launches Car Sharing Initiative ‘YUKO Car Club’ YUKO provides city residents, workers and non-car owners with immediate access to top of the range environmentally friendly hybrid vehicles, without the cost or commitment associated with actual car ownership.
Introducing the All-New 2016 Toyota Hilux Launched in 1968, the legendary Hilux has been a dominant presence in the pick-up market for nearly 50 years, recording global sales of over 16 million units. The new Hilux, whose name represents the combination of the words “High” and “Luxury”, builds on its legendary reputation.
Grange Motors Mullingar win Ichiban Award Toyota Motor Europe (TME) announced the winners of the 2016 “Ichiban” European Customer Recommendation Award during an event held in Rome, Italy.
Dream Car Art Contest Winners 2016 Toyota are proud to announce the winners of the Dream Art Contest 2016. It's time to discover a wonderful world of imagination.
Lehane Motors relocate to new Showroom In May 2016, Lehane Motors, Toyota and Lexus dealership will make the move to a larger new state of the art showroom on the Airport Road, Cork.
New Toyota Prius Awarded Top Five-Star Rating in Euro NCAP Safety Testing New Prius sustains the full hybrid model’s reputation for excellent safety performance in Euro NCAP testing.
Toyota to drive Cricket Ireland Super 3s Series Cricket Ireland has today announced that Toyota Ireland will sponsor its flagship women’s domestic competition The Super 3s Series.
Toyota set to Bloom with a brand new partnership Toyota Ireland are delighted to announce that they have become Bloom’s official car partner until 2017.
Toyota is Ireland's Best Selling Car Brand in 2016 Toyota has kicked off the first three months of 2016 as the market leader in new car sales.
Toyota makes €12,000 donation to Teen-Line Ireland Toyota Ireland has made a donation of €12,000 to Teen-Line Ireland, the free phone and text service dedicated to helping young people through difficult times.
The Toyota Mirai elected World Green Car of the Year The Toyota Mirai has been declared the 2016 World Green Car of the year at a press conference hosted by the New York International Auto Show.
Wearable Mobility Device for the Blind Being Developed by Toyota Mobility is empowering. That’s why Toyota is working to develop a wearable device for the blind and visually impaired that will help them do more with greater freedom, independence and confidence.
Toyota at Geneva Motor Show This year at Geneva discover how Toyota is bringing a better future to the roads – and one car is capturing all of the attention: the new Toyota C-HR!
Toyota Avensis voted safest family car at Euro NCAP 2015 Toyota Ireland is delighted to announce that the Toyota Avensis has been voted the safest large family car 2015 and earned the top 5 star rating from Euro NCAP.
Toyota Launches ToyotaService.ie Toyota Ireland is pleased to announce the launch of toyotaService.ie, a site which allows Toyota drivers to get a fast, accurate quote for work required on their vehicles.
Bowlers Apprentice receives Ireland Skills Award Mr Paul Murray, After Sales Director, Toyota Ireland, presented Jason O’Sullivan of Bowlers Garage Killarney with the Transmission Award, a special award sponsored by Toyota Ireland.
Toyota Ireland support Temple Street Children’s Hospital Toyota Ireland is proud to announce it has donated a state-of-the-art microscope to Temple Street Children’s Hospital. The microscope, worth €18,000, will be used to provide diagnoses and investigate illnesses.
All you need to know about AdBlue™ Reducing nitrogen oxide emissions, and as a result, helping to protect the environment.
Toyota Announces Winners of Annual Dealer Awards 2015 Toyota dealers from across Ireland gathered in Dublin last night for the Toyota Dealer of the Year awards. A total of eight awards were presented on the night.
Toyota Ireland sponsor RTÉ's The Voice of Ireland Toyota Ireland have been announced as sponsor of Ireland’s biggest talent show, The Voice of Ireland which returns to our screens for its fifth series in January 2016.
Toyota Safety Sense announced as free on the AYGO Toyota Ireland has become the first motoring manufacturer in Ireland to offer even greater peace of mind to first-time and younger drivers by offering ‘Toyota Safety Sense’ technology pack as standard the AYGO.
Toyota once again is the most successful brand in the 2016 TÜV Report It is official – Toyota is the most reliable brand in Germany. With a total of 14 Top Ten positions, the Japanese brand has emerged as the big winner in the 2016 TÜV Report.
Toyota Reaches Greater Heights of Efficiency In All-New Prius Fourth generation Prius achieves its greatest improvements in efficiency yet, with CO2 emissions from 70g/km and combined fuel economy from 3.0 l/100km (93.8MPG)
Toyota supports biodiversity education in 10 European countries With a new initiative being rolled out in 10 European countries this month, Toyota is encouraging school children to follow in the footsteps of Charles Darwin and his legendary curiosity about the world around him.
Toyota Unveils Bold New Environmental Targets With the aim of contributing to global environmental sustainability, Toyota has developed an ambitious set of goals to be achieved over the next 35 years.
New Toyota Test Vehicle Paves the Way for Commercialization of Automated Highway Driving Technologies Toyota has been testing a new automated driving test vehicle called Highway Teammate, with the aim of launching related products by around 2020.
Toyota Motor Europe Hybrid sales keep rising, up 16% year-on-year Toyota Motor Europe (TME) today announced third quarter sales of 211,100 Toyota and Lexus vehicles, bringing the January-September total sales to 662,000 units and the group’s market share to 4.7% for the nine-month period.
Toyota retains crown for most valuable automotive brand for the 4th consecutive year Toyota’s brand value grew by 16% to continue leading the automotive sector in the Best Global Brands 2015 report published by Interbrand while continuing to maintain its Top 10 position from last year.
Hybrid Shines at Frankfurt Motor Show As one of the most prestigious motor shows in the world, if you've got something new and exciting to reveal, Frankfurt is the place to do it – and in 2015 Toyota have plenty to make you stand up and take notice.
Toyota Confirms Sponsorship Deal with Radio NOVA Ahead of Rugby World Cup Toyota Ireland is delighted to confirm its sponsorship of the new “Rugby Live” show on Radio NOVA 100FM, which will cover all the highs and lows of the Rugby World Cup tournament broadcast to the 143,000 weekly listeners of Radio NOVA.
Toyota Prius takes a bold step forward At the forthcoming IAA motor show in Frankfurt (Press days September 15-16th, Public days September 19-27th), the new Toyota Prius makes its public premiere. The introduction of the all-new fourth generation Prius marks a further advance in the history and achievements of Toyota’s hybrid power technology.
New Toyota Avensis Achieves 5-Star Euro NCAP Rating The new Toyota Avensis has been awarded the prestigious Euro NCAP five-star rating. The programme is composed of four areas - Adult Occupant, Child Occupant, Pedestrian Protection and, since 2009, Safety Assist.
Disabled Drivers Association goes Hybrid with Toyota Toyota Hybrids combine ultra clean petrol technology with powerful electric motors to deliver a new type of driver experience.
Toyota Long Mile unveils two ambassadors for the dealership Toyota Long Mile is delighted to announce Leinster’s Rhys Ruddock and Dublin Footballer Dean Rock have joined Toyota Long Mile as brand ambassadors. Toyota Long Mile recently opened a state of the art 11 vehicle showroom which showcases the full Toyota passenger and commercial vehicle range.
Hybrid Health Check: Toyota Launches New Hybrid Service Programme Toyota Ireland has today launched a new Hybrid Service Programme for Toyota hybrid customers across Ireland. The Toyota Hybrid Service programme is designed to maintain hybrid vehicles to the highest standards and help them retain residual values, ensuring that customers enjoy the full benefits of owning a hybrid.
Toyota is world’s leading automaker in patenting Toyota is world’s leading automaker in patenting with 26% of the world’s patents. The researched 18 biggest global carmakers registered more than 57,000 patents in 2014, up 7% versus last year. More than quarter of them (26%) are accounted for Toyota, making it the world’s leading automaker in patenting.
Study shows Toyota and Lexus Hybrids can save you cash Exceptionally low cost of ownership has long been a cornerstone of Toyota Hybrid’s benefits, which is especially interesting for business fleet customers. A new independent study conducted by Tec-RMI in Germany confirms this.
Toyota announces offers with up to €3,000 trade in allowance or 3 Years Free Servicing available Toyota Ireland is delighted to announce that its Trade In Trade Up promotion is running for the month of August. Customers can avail of the Trade Up allowance of up to €3,000 or 3 years servicing on new Toyota cars registered by August 31st.
Next Stop: Zero-Emission Buses Toyota and Hino to Test Fuel Cell Bus on Public Routes in Tokyo. Toyota and Hino expect zero-emission fuel cell buses to become a means of transport that will contribute to the realization of a future hydrogen-based society.
Toyota Long Mile appointed to the Toyota Dealer Network Toyota Ireland is delighted to announce the appointment of Toyota Long Mile to its Dublin Dealer network. Formally known as Carroll and Kinsella Walkinstown Toyota Long Mile is now located on the Long Mile road in a state of the art 11 vehicle showroom.
Toyota Motor Europe awards Tony Burke Motors Galway Customer First philosophy has always been a focus of Toyota and is part of the company’s DNA. With this principle in mind a total of 45 awards were presented to Dealers from 34 markets, in recognition of their exceptional performance in Customer Satisfaction both in Sales and After Sales areas.
Toyota launches 2015 Auris Toyota have launched the 2015 Auris range combining hatchback and touring sports body styles with a choice of diesel, petrol and hybrid powertrains, and increased levels of specification. The 2015 Auris has been designed to meet the needs of every C-segment customer model range, and is available from only €20,750.
Toyota launches 2015 Avensis Toyota have launched the 2015 Avensis featuring advanced safety systems, better specification than its rivals and a wide array of powerful yet efficient engines.
Toyota’s Latest Virtual Crash Dummy Software Toyota has successfully added a new muscle model capable of simulating human postural states in the latest version of its Total Human Model for Safety (THUMS) virtual human model software.
Toyota named the world’s most valuable automotive brand by BrandZ™ Toyota once again took the top spot as the most valuable automotive brand in the BrandZ™ Top 100 Most Valuable Global Brands 2015 published today.
Toyota announces superb offers for 152 with up to €3,000 trade in allowance or 3 Years Free Servicing available Customers can choose their offer with up to €3,000 trade in allowance or 3 years Free Servicing, with both available with new Yaris or Corolla
Toyota announce support for the Irish Coast Guard As part of their fleet renewal program, the Irish Coast Guard have just taken delivery of their first batch of Toyota Hilux 3.0 SR5 vehicles.
Dream Art Contest 2015 Toyota announce the winners of the Dream Art Contest 2015.
Toyota announce support for Disabled Drivers Association As part of their on-going commitment to the Irish mobility market, Toyota have presented the Disabled Drivers Association with a brand new Toyota Yaris Multi Drive courtesy vehicle.
Toyota Safety Sense Toyota believes it is important to promote an approach which involves people, vehicles, and the traffic environment, as well as the pursuit of “real-world safety” by learning from accidents and incorporating that knowledge into vehicle development.
Toyota Launches Upgrade.ie comparison site Site shows great savings to be made by consumers upgrading to a new Toyota from their existing vehicle
Toyota is No. 1 in New Car Sales for 2015 Toyota has kicked off 2015 as the market leader in new car sales. Ireland’s favourite family car brand sold 3,866 new cars in January, which represents a 38% increase over the same period in 2014.
Toyota Confirms Exclusive Title Sponsorship Deal with Anton Savage Show Toyota Ireland is delighted to confirm its exclusive title sponsorship of the Anton Savage Show; weekdays on Today FM.
Toyota Returns to Rallying Today Toyota officially announced its return to the FIA World Rally Championship (WRC). Over the next two years Toyota Motorsport GmbH (TMG) will continue its test programme with the Yaris WRC car to prepare for a full return to the series in 2017
New figures show Toyota to be the most reliable brand to pass the NCT Toyota Ireland today welcomes the figures disclosed by the Road Safety Authority* which reveal that Toyota vehicles had the highest pass rates overall for first time NCT tests in 2013, reinforcing its promise of providing drivers with The Best Built Cars in the World.
Fourth consecutive year of sales growth for Toyota Toyota Motor Europe (TME) today posted 2014 full year sales of 888,000 Toyota and Lexus vehicles, representing an increase of more than 39,000 units, up 4.6% from 2013 and surpassing the company’s target of 865,000 sales.
Toyota Opens Its Fuel Cell Vehicle Patents for Free Use Toyota Motor Corporation will allow royalty-free use of approximately 5,680 of the FCV-related patent licenses, including pending applications, it holds globally on an unconsolidated basis.
Better designed for you: ABS The Toyota ABS package will seamlessly integrate within your car to produce a smooth, powerful and reassuring braking performance.
Toyota Ranks as Most Reliable Car Brand in 2015 Germany’s TÜV reliability report has declared Toyota the most reliable car brand.
Toyota Announces Winners of Annual Dealer Awards 2014 10th December, 2014: Toyota dealers from across Ireland gathered in Dublin last night for the Toyota Dealer of the Year awards.
Toyota to Launch Enhanced Parking Support Systems Toyota Motor Corporation has enhanced its Intelligence Clearance Sonar (ICS) technology, which helps prevent or mitigate collisions when parking or setting off.
Launch of ‘Mirai’ Fuel Cell Sedan Toyota Motor Corporation will launch its all-new “Mirai”1 hydrogen fuel cell vehicle (FCV) in Japan on December 15.
All Things To All People Toyota’s All Things To All People campaign sets out to challenge the notion that a person can’t be ‘all things to all people’ or ‘please people all the time’.
Katie Taylor and Paul O’Connell appear in #WhatDrivesYou video series Toyota Ireland has today released the first in a series of videos featuring exclusive footage of Ireland’s leading sports personalities and Toyota ambassadors exploring what drives them.
The new-look Yaris The new-look Yaris, featuring a bold new exterior design, an upgraded interior and improved drivability.
Toyota is No1 in Which? Car survey 2014 Toyota is No1 in Which? Car survey 2014 with Auris winning the category of most reliable medium sized car under three years old, while Verso earned the title of most reliable MPV under three years old.
Toyota Honours Cummins Car Centre Ennis with European Customer Satisfaction Award An Irish retailer was awarded with the top honour at Toyota’s ‘Ichiban’ European Customer Satisfaction Award during a recent ceremony in Cannes, France.
Toyota is Ireland’s Most Popular Car Brand New Independent Study Reveals Toyota has highest number of vehicles in Irish Car Parc.
Toyota Reveals the exterior design of its fuel cell saloon Toyota Motor Corporation revealed the exterior design and Japan pricing of its hydrogen Fuel Cell Saloon.
Toyota launches new Auris Sol grade for just €22,100 Toyota Ireland today announced the exciting new Sol grade for Auris and Auris Touring Sports.
#GoFunYourself: Toyota launches all-new colourful, customisable and connected AYGO Toyota Ireland is excited to announce the launch of the much anticipated second generation AYGO.
Toyota Avensis tops J.D. Power 2014 Germany Vehicle Ownership Satisfaction Study Toyota Avensis achieves the highest score in the midsize segment and also achieves the highest overall score among all models.
Toyota Announces Three Year Partnership with Dublin GAA Toyota Ireland is delighted to announce it has joined forces with Dublin GAA and signed a three-year deal.
Toyota is No. 1 Car Brand for Irish Mums Toyota has emerged as being the number one car brand that most Irish mums would choose.
15 Toyota cars take top 10 positions in latest German TÜV reliability report Toyota is the most successful brand in the 2014 TÜV Report for the fourth consecutive year.
Taoiseach visits Toyota plant in Japan to learn from Toyota Production System and Lean Production processe The Taoiseach traveled with a delegation of business leaders to Toyota’s Motomachi plant in Japan to meet Senior Executives from Toyota Motor Corporation.
Toyota No 1 for Resale Value Toyota cars are number one in Ireland for retaining their value for longer than other car brands in 2013.
Toyota Avensis Luna & Sol Enjoy Specification Upgrades & Price reductions of up to €2,415 The hugely popular Avensis Luna grade has been upgraded and is available now for the new lower price of €28,995.
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Suzuki sign on with Storm
Tue 13 Dec 2016, 01:12 PM
Suzuki will remain a key part of the Melbourne Storm family through the 2018 season after extending their commitment to the Club as a premium sponsor.
This new agreement will see the affiliation between Storm and Suzuki extend to a decade-long partnership.
After first teaming up in 2008, Suzuki has remained the Club’s exclusive motor vehicle partner, all the while showing a level of commitment that perfectly aligns with Melbourne’s constant pursuit of excellence.
Over that time, the iconic Suzuki “S” has adorned the sleeves of all Melbourne Storm players. That logo positioning will continue with the contract extension.
Storm Chief Commercial Officer Ben Dunn said the Club was excited at the opportunity to continue to work alongside Suzuki.
“We are delighted to have Suzuki continue their support of Storm and appreciate the loyalty they have demonstrated,” Dunn said.
“Our joint focus is to continually improve the game day experience and enhance opportunities for Storm fans & members to benefit from the Suzuki partnership.
“We look forward to continuing to work closely with Suzuki to innovate throughout the new term of the partnership.”
General Manager of Suzuki Andrew Moore echoed the strong connection between the two organisations.
"Suzuki has enjoyed a fantastic partnership with Melbourne Storm that has seen unrivalled NRL success. We are pleased that our partnership will span a decade."
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Saturday Night Five: Lessons from Week Four in…
Saturday Night Five: Lessons from Week Four in the Pac-12, from Washington’s dominance to UCLA’s meltdown
By Jon Wilner | jwilner@bayareanewsgroup.com | Bay Area News Group
PUBLISHED: September 24, 2017 at 12:32 a.m. | UPDATED: September 25, 2017 at 4:54 a.m.
Look for an in-depth review in the Weekend Wrap, which will be published Monday morning.
For now, five quick lessons …
1. Washington is the team to beat.
Forget USC’s moments of brilliance and Washington State’s undefeated start; forget the hopes and dreams of Oregon and Utah and Cal and anyone else.
The Huskies are the team to beat. They were the team to beat when the season started and re-affirmed that status, in unmistakable fashion, Saturday in a 37-10 victory at Colorado.
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The running game, erratic against the early-season cupcakes, fueled the win as Myles Gaskin rushed for 202 yards.
The defense allowed a 75-yard scoring drive on CU’s first possession, then shut down the Buffs.
The Huskies should go unchallenged through October and will be undefeated when the stretch run arrives (Oregon, Stanford, Utah and Washington State).
2. UCLA’s defense is unimaginably bad.
Yes, the Bruins lost several high-level players to the NFL, but that attrition does not explain the turnstile the unit has become under Jim Mora and Tom Bradley:
They’re yielding 50 points per game to teams not named Hawaii.
The latest meltdown came Saturday night, when a Stanford offense that had been struggling — and was relying on a rookie quarterback — rolled for 58 points and 553 yards.
“It’s disappointing terribly to have the ball run on us like we have,” Jim Mora said after the 58-34 loss to the cardinal. “It’s painful. It’s very, very painful.”
All that talent within a 90-minute drive of campus, and UCLA is ranked 100-something in every defensive category that matters.
3. Arizona State has some fight left.
With so much negativity swirling — thanks, in part, to comments by the university president and the athletic director — the Sun Devils appeared to be inching toward freefall.
They were thoroughly outplayed at home by San Diego State, then lost at Texas Tech. But #ForksUp stood up against Oregon with a 37-35 victory.
Key stat: 142 rushing yards for the Devils.
It might not prove to be the launch point for sustained success. But the performance at least quiets the critics and nudges the distractions aside until the next loss … which will come next weekend at Stanford.
4. The conference has to target targeting in the offseason.
It’s a difficult, complicated issue, but the current situation is unsustainable.
The onus is entirely on the defense, and it should be. But there must be a means of accounting for nuance — both the movement of the offensive player and the intent of the defensive player.
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Even then, it wouldn’t be called right every time, but the punishment would fit the crime more frequently.
Also, the rule must be applied consistently. And that must come from the top — from the conference office, which has had its own issues.
“I’m struggling right now to understand the targeting,” Mora said after players from Stanford and UCLA were ejected. “I understand the emphasis on player safety, and I’m a huge proponent of it.
“These are young guys that are playing as amateurs, but it’s tough to understand right now how these young men are supposed to tackle because their guy got ejected and our guy got ejected and I was standing right there for both of them, and they were just football plays. They were just simply football plays.”
Maybe they implement a 25-yard penalty for what would be a Level-1 targeting; maybe they suspend a player for one quarter.
There needs to be a middle ground.
5. Cal just might be the second-best team in the North by November.
Given the product in Berkeley in recent years, that concept is difficult to process and obviously far from a given.
But the Bears are playing well at the line of scrimmage (both sides), and that gives them a chance. From what I’ve seen, Cal has the second-best defense in the division, a nice mix of speed and playmakers on each level.
At this point, the race for second is wide open — just as it is in the South — and each contender has enough flaws to create a window of opportunity for the Bears.
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Jon Wilner | College sports reporter
Jon Wilner has been covering college sports for decades and is an AP top-25 football and basketball voter as well as a Heisman Trophy voter. He was named Beat Writer of the Year in 2013 by the Football Writers Association of America for his coverage of the Pac-12, won first place for feature writing in 2016 in the Associated Press Sports Editors writing contest and is a five-time APSE honoree.
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2003.12.09 : The Dispatch That Does Not End
"Since brass, nor stone, nor earth, nor boundless sea,
But sad mortality o'ersways their power,
How with this rage shall beauty hold a plea
Whose action is no stronger than a flower?
O how shall honey's summer breath hold out
Against the wrackful siege of of batt'ring days,
When rocks impregnable are not so stout,
Nor gates of steel so strong, but Time decays?
O fearful meditation! where, alack,
Shalls Time's best jewel from Time's chest lie hid?
Or what strong hand can hold his swift foot back,
Or who his spoil of beauty can forbid?
O none, unless this miracle have might,
That in black ink my love may still shine bright."
- Wm. Shakespeare (as quoted on the wall of a carriage on the District line)
Heart is so full, and evening is mostly clear, and so I head out toward Chelsea, laptop on back – preparing to "kick it old school". That is to say, I'm going to find a congenial pub, treat myself to a pint (and possibly a half), and dispatch with great abandon. Somehow, suddenly, there's so much I want to say.
I decide to cleave to new principles and head out in a completely new direction – in this case, down Old Brompton Road, toward (and ultimately into) Chelsea – and am immediately rewarded by a lovely, funky swatch of neighborhood, right around the corner from me (only around the corner I never turn, is all). I decide to check out Bromptons – which I've already been alerted by Mr. Ian Fischer is a gay bar. Would I have been able to tell from the massive rainbow flags draping the building? Or the extravagantly moustachio'd barman? Either way, I will say it takes a bit of courage-gathering for a straight guy alone – even one as enthusiastically gay-friendly as this one – to confidently stride into a gay bar. But, what the hell – it looks nice and, anyway, I don't currently have really any gay men as friends. Things are, frankly, kind of a drag without them around. Ohh, did I just say that?! At any rate, lamentably, they don't have anything I care to drink, nor conspicuous power taps, so I exeunt and move on.
Ultimately – right now, in fact – I find myself in another joint further down the drag (crikey, I did it again). I've hardly written anything, due to having been engaged in conversation with Adrian, Charlie, and Eddie – three very animated and amusing brothers who've kindly invited me to their table (near a power tap). But . . . on with the dispatch.
A Very Notting Hill Weekend
Found myself there on both day Saturday and Sunday just past. For starters, I had a free afternoon, so decided to Christmas shop. (Both in the sense that I decided to go shopping, and I decided to bite the bullet and buy and ship gifts back to the States.) So, I took myself out to the (much-vaunted) Portobello Road Saturday market, in Notting Hill. It was a total glorious zoo. Everything the Grand Bazaar in Istanbul should be, but emphatically isn't: vast throngs of animated, talking, eating, haggling people; oceans of merchandise, much of it one-of-a-kind, with many bargains to be had; a generally energizing vibe. Stuffed my face with entirely decent trail mix as well as a black bean salad from the walk-in-closet-sized Mexican food stall. Finished my Christmas shopping in three hours (and anybody who knows what a crap shopper I am will be well impressed (with the market)).
Sunday, I had to run by a tailor's up on Kensington Church Street, to drop off a jacket. This, for Mizuho's (my employers) Christmas party, which is – get this – black tie. I had to read that a couple of times on the invitation. I mean, I know what "black tie" means; but, still, it didn't quite parse. I had to flash the invite in front of my Australian colleague Chris and ask her, "Does this mean what I think it means?" It turns out it does. However, as a contractor, and a rake, the most I was prepared to do was buy a very Keanu-Reaves-in-The-Matrix black linen jacket, with upturned collar, and a sleek black turtleneck. (For £3.99 and £1.99, respectively, at the Oxfam shop.) I'm having the sleeves on the jacket let out. (Which will probably cost £20.00.) At any rate, walking there took me halfway to Notting Hill Gate, so I carried on in the same direction, in the mistaken guess that the Central Line (which Notting Hill Gate tube station is on) would get me near my gallery for the afternoon.
Oh, the woman who took my jacket, was this beautiful, friendly, young, tall, blonde person with this fabulous accent/voice. When I asked her about her homeland, she told me it was "the most beautiful country in Europe. And now you should now the name of my homeland. No?" It turned out she's from Poland. She was impressed that I had spent one day there, but less impressed with my pronunciation of where I'd been ("Wroclaw"). When I heard her rendering of it, I realised A) why my rendering of it had prompted her to suggest that wherever I had been, it wasn't in Poland, and B) that I would never be able to recognizably pronounce "Wroclaw".
Last (Monday) night: a lovely evening of wrapping (not rapping) in my room, and humming Christmas tunes. Why! oh why! did I not rip my traditional Christmas tunes CD (when I uprooted my existence)? (*) But, moreover, and at any rate, I conducted my wrapping session in my BRAND . . . NEW . . . ROOM! That's right, I finally finagled a change (read: upgrade) of accomodations at Earl's Court's luxurious Boka Hotel. I've now got 10 more square feet (if it's an inch), a bigger bed (though, admittedly, they don't make them any smaller than my last one), thick burgundy drapes, a window on the street (rather than the trash heap) – and, mainly, no shared wall with the bloody dining room/TV lounge! No more bloody TV noise! Huzzah! Granted, there's street noise – but I quite like that. It reminds me that I'm somewhere. Actually, it reminds me of the hotel Laylah found for us in the 4th, in Paris, on my first trip to Europe. The one with the big, throw-open, so-European windows. Anyway, I'm in Room 7 (late of 8). I've even got a proper bookshelf. The 5-lb copy of "The Biography of London" lent me by my friend Jacqui looks just smashing on it. Amazingly, at the same time, I made so bold as to demand the weekly rate that all the other (non-sucker) long-term residents are getting, and am now saving 30 bob a week (on my resplendent suite). So, as with Sara before me, it appears all too likely that I am never leaving the hostel.
Before I moved, I also got to take a look at Room 5, which had also unexpectedly opened. But I soon comfortably concluded that, while every room in the Boka is seedy . . . 7's got character. (And that photo, while getting in the singular contrast between the bedspread, the wallpaper, and the pillow, sadly omits the thick burgundy drapes . . .)
You know what I love? I'll tell you what I love. I love having reserves of strength and speed. For instance, doing a 6-ish mile run in Hyde Park (as I did on Sunday), and running the last mile back in at twice the pace, and energy level, that I ran it going out. God knows this isn't going to last. Knowing that, even knowing that, especially knowing that, I wanted to do something with this run, with this moment. When I hit the park, and made a bee-line for the one little hill for me to run up, sunshine on the damp grass, waterfowl squawking and fluttering around the lake, remote-controlled sailboats, joggers in day-glo spandex dodging doddering toddlers, wild glints on the water, smiles and bon mots on lips, I wanted to save it, I wanted to share it, I wanted to bottle it, I wanted to hold it. But I knew it evaporates on contact (with my . . . whatever it is I have that counts as me), it evaporates on contact, and I spread my arms out straight, by my side, horizontal, cutting the sun-dripping wind, and I shouted out loud, THIS . . . MOMENT . . . IS . . . YOUR . . . LIFE . . . !
Fuches Index for December 2003
Number of Americans living in London: 35,000
Number of Britons living in New York: 35,000
Number of Indians living in London: not quite 500,000
Number of immigrants who enter the United Kingdom each year: over 900,000
Rank of New Malden, in south London (and where I recently got a stellar, traditional, family-style Korean meal with 8 friends) amongst largest Korean communities outside of Korea: 1
Amount of congestion charge, in pounds sterling, that Londoners now have to pay to drive in Central London on weekdays: 5
Exchange rate of the U.S. dollar to the pound sterling on December 9, 2003: 1.71 / 1
Geographical size of London: 30 miles across at wide point
Rank of London amongst Europe's biggest cities: 1 (by far)
Rough age of London in years (since the first Roman outpost of Londinium): 2000
Number of text messages Britons sent in October 2003: 1.54 billion
Number of "Crap Towns" reviewed in a recent surprise entry on the bestseller lists: 50 (from Idler Magazine's 50 Crap Towns – a guide to Britain's most depressing places to live)
Rank of Paul Hartley's "Marmite Cookbook" in the cookery bestseller category: 1
Rank of Sarah Ford's "50 Ways to Kill a Slug" in the gardening category: 1
Number of copies of Michael Moore's "Stupid White Men" that have sold in Britain: almost 750,000
Year in which homosexual acts between men were made legal in Britain: 1969
Year in which homosexual acts between women were made legal: trick question, they were never outlawed – purportedly because Queen Victoria didn't believe such a thing was possible
Number of Britons who turned out last spring in central London to protest the overthrow of the Saddam Hussein regime and the liberation of the Iraqi people: 1,000,000
Number who turned out yesterday to celebrate the vanquishing of the Australian rugby team (in the World Cup finals), and the accute annoyance of the Australian people: 750,000
Number of points by which England won the 2003 Rugby World Cup: 3
Year in which England last won a World Cup in any sport: 1966 (football)
Position amongst most revered, and lusted after, athletes in England that rugby half-fly Jonny Wilkinson (who kicked the World Cup-winning goal in overtime) is competing for against David "Becks, of Posh 'n' Becks" Beckham: 1
Longest commute amongst my numerous colleagues who own property in Reading, Kent, Brighton, Milton Keynes, etc: 1:40 one way
Number whose commute is more than an hour one way: tons
Positions of reading, sleeping, and working as most popular activities on long train commutes: 1, 2, and 3
Percentage of traffic fatalities in London last year accounted for by motorcyclists: 26
Percentage of motorists who are motorcyclists: 2
Number of people in just my department at work who commute by motorcycle (that I know of): 5
Number of British artillerymen (alone) who died in the Great War (1914 - 1918): 49,076
Which brings us to . . . Brightening Up London / Remembrance Day
Okay, bugger that, then – it's late, this bit is important, and I'll do it next time. Instead:
Shout Out to Snitch-Dog
Working out in my room tonight, chest-and-upper-back-night, going through a baroque stretching routine, the ChemBro's "Block-Rockin' Beats" came on the ole MP3 player. I smiled out loud remembering the Golden Age of medNET – back when we Geeks of the Valley were the annointed, fair-haired boys of the cosmos, doing as we would – and getting fat paid and thanked for it. I was of a mind of this, in part, because of Josh (nee Skeet)'s recent visit. We were in the Turbine Hall when he related, to Mandy, the deathless story of when I hired him, back in 97 or 98, pretty much on the basis of the fact that he played Marathon (our first-person, multi-player, high-carnage shooter of choice). I'd all but forgotten that I also hired Snitch pretty much because he had the infamous Dancing Baby on his vanity web site – shaking its nappy-covered bits to "Block-Rockin' Beats". As the only better hire I've ever made than Snitch was Skeet, let's all give it up for King Whimsey as soverign of hiring (and other) decisions. Word, Snitchyphus. Get in touch, dog.
If London Can Do This It Can Do Anything (A)
I actually rather like my job.
If London Can Do This It Can Do Anything (B)
I seem to have a date – tomorrow, with a beautiful, amiable, 24-year-old, vegan, painter called Heather. I was taking myself to the Tate Britain, and got off the Tube behind a very fine and erect figure capped with a waist-length ocean of radically curly auburn hair and draped in a conspicuously fake leather hip-length jacket (and shod in equally ostentatiously fake leather huge clunky boots). She was there alone. Later on, she admitted that when I asked her, "I hope you don't think I'm intrusive, but are you wearing fake leather gear?" and "May I ask why?" she thought I was going to give her grief about it. (Ie, "Why aren't you wearing leather, dammit?!") We toured the gallery together. Tomorrow, it's one of Plant, Eat & Two Veg, and Blah blah blah (the three veg restaurants I'm most keen to try; the the name of the latter alone certainly gives it a big edge.)
The Wobbly Bridge
After the Tate Britain, I actually walked across Lambeth Bridge, then up the south bank to meet Jacqui at the Tate Modern. We sat on a fourth-floor outside cafe patio, drinking tea, overlooking the Millennium (nee "Wobbly") Bridge and having the most brilliant conversation. The thing about the Millennium Bridge is that when it originally opened, suitably on the millennium, it turned out to have the characteristic of swaying from side to side just a little too much for the comfort of anyone trying to walk across it. The architects insisted that there was never any danger of anyone being dumped in the drink; but it was just completely giving people the howling fantods. So they closed the bridge for a year or two, shored the damn thing up, and re-opened it. Jacqui thought that this was just so very British: having a grand idea for a really lovely and aesthetically top bridge, then really bollocksing up the implementation of it – looks lovely, but it doesn't really hold people!; but then doing a gut check, going back to the books, and finally getting it right after all.
That is to say, one with power taps to feed my machine, beer taps that slake my (rather particular) thirst – and a vibe that feeds my soul. I'm a tough customer. (hide)
One answer, alack, that springs right to mind: the Barbara Streisand skat version of Jingle Bells. The CD clocks in at like 39 minutes, so I've tended to leave it on repeat. Every time that track rolls around, it's another wide-mouthed, wobbly-kneed lunge for the next-track button on the disc player. Picture a slow motion dive (every 39 minutes), stretched out nearly horizontal, pad of index finger leading, mouth forming a big anguished O, emitting a drawn-out and slo-mo-basso "Noooooooo . . . !!!" (hide)
Modern-day Britain has turned into the U.S. of the early-to-mid 20th century: a hugely welcoming haven for immigrants from Poland to South Korea. London, in particular, just pulls 'em in from all over. If you want to do anything in finance, fashion, the arts, and you live elsewhere in Britain, you come to London. As my friend Jonathan (Jacqui's partner) has noted, when he lived "out in the provinces" (Glasgow), he used to chafe that ALL the bloody news was about London. Now, having lived here for years, he realises there's a reason for it: Everything is happening in London. But, at any rate, for people outside Britain, it's much easier to get in here than other western European countries. Moreover, as has been amply noted, London is a place where you can hit the street and have a job (some sort of job) the next day. I can vouch for this. As with America, London's huge and varied and vibrant immigrant population makes it feel like a huge and varied and and very vibrant place.
I'm also pretty sure it means this is where the future is. I had lunch recently with two guys from work: Blanco Lam (that's him in the bottom left), a Hong Konger who's lived in South Africa and San Francisco (during the boom); and Massimiliano "Max" Brugnoli, an Italian from Milan, who lived in Paris before London. Max talked about how Italy wasn't a place to make your mark: success is still largely determined by who you know; and, as well, women are yet hardly allowed to do anything or get anywhere. But London is utterly different. And that's when I realised what London and the States have in common: built by immigrants. And I realised it's the secret of our success. Any place that gets billed as a fount of opportunity, and thus draws strivers from all over, is going to be the winning place. All the complacency, the get-by and settle-for, the old boys networks, the old ways of doing things, get left in the old country. The people who are after something and are willing to work their tails off (and use their noodles) to get it, and have the courage to risk everything by making the change, and who want to be judged on their merits and their worth and their accomplishments, come out to the frontier. That's why so much of the world's dynamism, and hard work, and good ideas, and creativity – and idealism – are in such places. (hide)
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Chad Johnson wins first round of his sexual harassment lawsuit
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By Mary Jane
Chad Johnson wins the first round of his sexual harassment case. Pic credit: ABC
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He claims that Cristina contacted him via DMs on Instagram and wanted to help him get roles in movies.
However, he argues she used him, claiming she only wanted to invite him to numerous in-person meetings and she contacted him repeatedly and excessively.
While he doesn’t provide the details, he claims she called him all the time and texted him over 1,000 times.
As for the sexual harassment angle, Chad argues that their interactions became more sexual and provocative. While he argues that he tried to turn her down and wanted to keep things professional, she took back all work offered when she didn’t get what she wanted.
Chad Johnson had big plans to pursue a career in pornography
Back in April, Chad revealed he wanted to buy a mansion in Las Vegas and call it his “porn palace.” Here, he would record adult movies and sell them online.
Less than a week later, his estranged girlfriend, Annalise Mishler, revealed he had no money to make this purchase. She also threw him under the bus, saying he forced her to please him after having uterus surgery.
In a shocking twist, Annalise stated that Chad had removed all the money from their shared account, money they had earned online through OnlyFans.
To make matters worse, she brought up his problems with alcohol and steroids.
It was earlier this year that Annalise filmed Chad trying to break into her apartment when he was drunk. She called the cops on him.
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Arrhythmias and Conduction Disorders /
Ablation for Cardiac Arrhythmia /
Arrhythmias and Conduction Disorders
Overview of Arrhythmias
Drugs for Arrhythmias
Direct-Current (DC) Cardioversion-Defibrillation
Cardiac Pacemakers
Cardiac Resynchronization Therapy (CRT)
Implantable Cardioverter-Defibrillators (ICD)
Ablation for Cardiac Arrhythmia
Atrial Fibrillation and Wolff-Parkinson-White Syndrome (WPW)
Atrioventricular Block
Brugada Syndrome
Bundle Branch Block and Fascicular Block
Ectopic Supraventricular Rhythms
Long QT Syndrome and Torsades de Pointes Ventricular Tachycardia
Reentrant Supraventricular Tachycardias (SVT) including Wolff-Parkinson-White Syndrome
Sinus Node Dysfunction
Ventricular Fibrillation (VF)
Ventricular Premature Beats (VPB)
Ventricular Tachycardia (VT)
L. Brent Mitchell
, MD, Libin Cardiovascular Institute of Alberta, University of Calgary
Last full review/revision Jul 2019| Content last modified Jul 2019
The need for treatment of arrhythmias depends on the symptoms and the seriousness of the arrhythmia. Treatment is directed at causes. If necessary, direct antiarrhythmic therapy, including antiarrhythmic drugs, cardioversion-defibrillation,implantable cardioverter-defibrillators (ICDs), pacemakers (and a special form of pacing, cardiac resynchronization therapy), catheter ablation, surgery, or a combination, is used.
If a tachyarrhythmia depends on a specific pathway or ectopic site of automaticity, the site can be purposefully destroyed (ablated) to effect cure. There are several methods of ablation:
Ablation is usually accomplished using transvenous catheter supplied low-voltage, high-frequency (300 to 750 MHz) electrical radiofrequency (RF) energy. This energy heats and necroses an area < 1 cm in diameter and up to 1 cm deep.
Cryoablation uses tissue freezing (to -70° C) to effect tissue destruction. Other delivery systems have been developed for intraoperative use.
Before energy can be applied, the target site or sites must be identified during an electrophysiologic study.
Success rate is > 90% for reentrant supraventricular tachycardias (via the atrioventricular [AV] node or an accessory pathway), focal atrial tachycardia and atrial flutter, and focal idiopathic ventricular tachycardia (VT—right ventricular outflow tract, left septal, or bundle branch reentrant VT). Because atrial fibrillation (AF) often originates in or is maintained by an arrhythmogenic site in the pulmonary veins, this source can be electrically isolated by ablations at the pulmonary vein–left atrial junction or in the left atrium. Alternatively, in patients with refractory AF and rapid ventricular rates, the AV node may be ablated after permanent pacemaker implantation. Ablation is sometimes successful in patients with VT refractory to drugs particularly when ischemic heart disease is present.
Transcatheter ablation is safe; mortality risk is higher in complex procedures. Mortality is < 1/2000 for noncomplex ablation procedures but may be as high as 1/500 for pulmonary vein isolation procedures for atrial fibrillation or ventricular tachycardia substrate ablation procedures.
Complications include valvular damage, pulmonary vein stenosis or occlusion (if used to treat atrial fibrillation), stroke or other embolism, cardiac perforation, tamponade (1%), and unintended AV node ablation.
Heart Failure (HF)
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CDC lifts no-sail order for cruise ships and issues new guidelines
Daily Mail 10/30/2020 Reuters and Mary Kekatos For Dailymail.com
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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has lifted the US ban on cruises and is issuing new guidance to help companies resume operations over the next several months.
The federal agency said it is letting its no-sail order, which has been in place since mid-March, expire on Saturday and be replaced with a new conditional sail order.
It does not mean the CDC will allow cruises in the US to resume next week as the country faces a third wave of infections.
However, it is framework that will allow the cruise industry to restart operations in phases along with an implementation of safety measures.
© Provided by Daily Mail The CDC sad it is letting it's no-sail order, which has been in place since mid-March, expire on Saturday. Pictured: The Diamond Princess cruise ship, which was quarantined in Japan from February 5 to February 19 and had a COVID-19 outbreak with nearly 700 cases and 7 deaths © Provided by Daily Mail In its place is a less restrictive conditional sail order with guidelines for how to safely start voyages again including testing passengers and crew onboard. Pictured: Passengers are seen on their balconies of the cruise ship Coral Princess after it docked at Port Miami, April 4
Since the coronavirus pandemic began, few industries have been hit hard harder than the cruise industry.
The ships are viewed as floating petri dishes and the source of major coronavirus outbreaks in the early days of the pandemic.
Perhaps the most famous case is that of the Diamond Princess cruise ship, which was quarantined in Japan from February 5 to February 19.
One sick passenger eventually led to nearly 700 infections and seven deaths from COVID-19, the disease caused by the virus.
In a September 30 order, the CDC wrote in an order 'cruise ships continue to be an unsafe environment with close quarters where the disease spreads easily and is not readily detected.'
But health officials say the new guidance will help mitigate outbreaks onboard and in port cities where ships dock.
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'The initial phases will consist of testing and additional safe guards for crew members,' the CDC wrote in its order.
'CDC will ensure cruise ship operators have adequate health and safety protections for crew members while these cruise ship operators build the laboratory capacity needed to test future passengers.'
'Subsequent phases will include simulated voyages to test cruise ship operators' ability to mitigate COVID-19 risk, certification for ships that meet specific requirements and a phased return to cruise ship passenger operations.'
To resume operations, operators must run through a simulated voyage where they practice safe check-ins and disembarking, on-board activities and what to do if a passengers tests positive.
Upon the news of the order lifting, shares of the largest cruise companies in the world rose.
Shares of Carnival rose by seven precent, shares of Norwegian Cruise Line increased by six percent and shared of Royal Caribbean rose by five percent.
Michelle Fee, CEO and founder of Cruise Planners, a travel-agency franchise said she was happy to hear the news.
'We applaud the travel industry for their efforts to minimize and prevent the introduction, transmission, and spread of COVID19 by devising and adapting to changing circumstances while prioritizing traveler's safety,' she said in a statement.
'This has been working well across all-inclusive resorts in the Caribbean and in Mexico and cruises sailing in Europe.'
'We are confident in the cruise line's abilities to implement the health and safety protocols. It will be a happy day when cruisers can return to the seas and travel advisors can help their clients plan their cruise vacations.'
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Data from the CDC shows that from March 1 through September 28, there have been 3,689 US confirmed cases of COVID-19 or COVID-like illness cases on cruise ships and 41 deaths.
Last month, the agency's director Dr Robert Redfield pushed to extend the no sail order until February 2021, reported Axios.
However, he was allegedly overruled by Vice President Mike Pence who deemed it unreasonable and said the order would expire on Halloween.
Representative Sean Patrick Maloney (NY), who chairs a House subcommittee on maritime transportation, in a letter to the CDC warned of the dangers of cruise ships amid the pandemic.
'The insidious nature of COVID-19 and the physical infrastructure constraints on cruise ships makes containing potential outbreaks on board these ships an incredibly difficult task even with the best practices and procedures in place,' Maloney wrote.
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Avesta Announces Acquisition of 354-Unit Multifamily Portfolio in Central Florida for $32 Million
ORLANDO, FL - Avesta announced that it has acquired a 354-unit portfolio in the Greater Orlando market for $32 million. The Altamonte Springs portfolio adds to Avesta's growing presence in Central Florida, which currently includes over 1,500 apartment homes.
Avesta has rebranded and operationally merged the communities in the portfolio, Altamonte Villas and Palms at Altamonte, as East Pointe at Altamonte.
East Pointe at Altamonte is located in the ideal, family-friendly submarket of East Altamonte Springs. The community is located near a wide variety of commerce and entertainment options, including Uptown Altamonte and Cranes Roost Park, Central Florida's premier outdoor event venue.
"We are proud to offer another Avesta community to the Orlando market," said Rachel Ridley, partner at Avesta. "The East Altamonte Springs submarket is a perfect fit for our investment thesis, underlined by declining vacancies and more than 20 percent rent growth over the last three years. We are confident that continued population growth in the Central Florida region will continue to drive demand for multifamily assets."
The East Pointe at Altamonte portfolio offers a mix of one and two bedroom apartment homes, including townhomes, and features the following amenities: two swimming pools, a fitness center, sports court, dog park, central laundry facilities and select covered parking.
As part of Avesta's strategy to reposition the East Pointe at Altamonte portfolio, it has commenced a $5 million renovation program to modernize the interior units and upgrade the exterior aesthetics of the property and its amenities.
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The Latest: Nevada’s lieutenant governor endorses Biden
Posted: Feb 16, 2020 / 10:05 AM CST / Updated: Feb 16, 2020 / 05:54 PM CST
Democratic presidential candidate former South Bend Mayor Pete Buttigieg speaks at the Clark County Democratic Party “Kick-Off to Caucus 2020” event, Saturday, Feb. 15, 2020, in Las Vegas. (AP Photo/John Locher)
LAS VEGAS (AP) — The Latest on the 2020 presidential campaign (all times PST):
Joe Biden has picked up another endorsement from a top Nevada politician, with Lt. Gov. Kate Marshall announcing that she will back the former vice president’s White House bid.
Marshall joins two of the state’s four U.S. House members, Reps. Dina Titus and Steven Horsford, in backing Biden.
Marshall plans to campaign with Biden on Monday in Reno. Biden has spent the weekend campaigning alongside Titus and Horsford in and around Las Vegas ahead of Saturday’s caucuses.
Nevada is key to Biden’s hopes for a comeback after finishing fourth in Iowa and fifth in New Hampshire. Nevada also is the first contest where organized labor and nonwhite voters hold significant sway, both counted by Biden as constituencies.
Marshall cited Biden’s experience and temperament in explaining her decision. She tells The Associated Press that he will “put people over party, build consensus, and get big things done.”
Massachusetts Sen Elizabeth Warren is battling a cold as she tries to rally her supporters before the Nevada caucuses.
Warren was barely audible before a crowd in Reno, saying the bad news was she had finally caught a cold after posing for more than 100,000 pictures with supporters. The good news, she said, is she would “persist.”
In a hoarse, cracking voice, Warren gave a truncated version of her standard stump speech. Her weary tone injected poignancy into her reminiscences about being a young working mother on the verge of quitting her job for lack of child care who was saved by an aunt relocating from Oklahoma to help.
“I think of how close I got to getting knocked off the track,” Warren said. Today, she lamented, women have an even harder time finding affordable child care.
Pete Buttigieg is wooing voters of color as he looks to show he can repeat his strong finishes in Iowa and New Hampshire in states that more closely mirror the country’s diversity.
Buttigieg told a largely African American audience at a luncheon for the Nevada Legislative Black Caucus on Sunday that he worked with black leaders of South Bend, Indiana, to deliver affordable housing and improve the black unemployment rate.
The former mayor has faced criticism for the racial disparity in marijuana arrests in South Bend and decisions that led him to have no African American leaders in his administration during a crucial stretch of his tenure. More than a quarter of South Bend residents are black.
Asked at a rally earlier Sunday to name a mistake he’d made in office, Buttigieg said he failed to recognize the pain that his decisions caused, particularly for communities of color. He campaigned much of Sunday with African American comedian Keegan-Michael Key.
The president of a civil rights organization once led by Martin Luther King Jr. says that Tom Steyer is the presidential candidate perhaps best suited to speak directly to some of the concerns weighing on black voters’ minds.
Charles Steele is president of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference. He doesn’t officially endorse presidential candidates, but Steele told The Associated Press during a trip to Columbia on Sunday that he’s impressed with Steyer’s commitment to discussing issues important in the black community, including reparations and funding for historically black colleges and universities.
Steele says he thinks Steyer is the candidate who can motivate and excite voters who might be feeling complacent about the 2020 election.
Steyer has been investing heavily in efforts to garner support from South Carolina’s black voters, who comprise the majority of the Democratic primary voting electorate.
Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders is being unusually direct in attacking some of his rivals for the Democratic presidential nomination.
In a speech in Carson City, Nevada, Sanders spent most of his time lacerating billionaire and former New York Mayor Mike Bloomberg, who is spending hundreds of millions of his own money on ads.
Sanders said Bloomberg is “trying to buy the presidency” and that Bloomberg was bored and decided he wanted to be president.
Sanders also singled out by name former vice president Joe Biden and former South Bend Mayor Pete Buttigieg as two other candidates who raise money from billionaires. He also slammed what he called the corporate, media, GOP and Democratic establishments for trying to stand in his way.
Joe Biden wants black voters to see the 2020 presidential election as an opportunity similar to the civil rights movement of the mid-20th century, and he implicitly compared President Donald Trump to white racist politicians of the Jim Crow era.
The former vice president spoke Sunday to worshipers at the First African Methodist Episcopal Church in North Las Vegas. He reminded older parishioners of television footage of black protesters in Birmingham, Alabama, being attacked by police dogs and sprayed with fire hoses on the orders of city official Bull Connor.
Biden said today’s racists are not “Bull Connors, not out in overalls. They’re wearing fine suits, and they’re living in the White House.”
Biden said voters can stand up and “take back this country in a way that just like we did back in the ‘50s and ’60s, and this time we can make more progress.” He cited the need for progress on health care and gun laws.
Biden will depend heavily on black, Latino and other nonwhite voters in Saturday’s Nevada caucuses and the Feb. 29 South Carolina primary after faring poorly in overwhelmingly white Iowa and New Hampshire.
Pete Buttigieg says he’d immediately reverse restrictions on family planning funds for Planned Parenthood and would seek to overturn a federal ban on funding for abortion.
The former South Bend, Indiana mayor told Planned Parenthood supporters outside Las Vegas on Sunday that his health care plan would “support, reimburse and fund” abortion and family planning.
He says a growing number of state laws that target abortion providers are making it harder for poor women, people of color and those in rural areas to get health care.
Buttigieg also says the federal government should pay for needle exchange programs that give intravenous drug users clean needles to prevent the spread of diseases like HIV. He says too often, aggressive law enforcement hampers progress by public health authorities who try to limit the spread of diseases among drug users.
South Carolina’s leading congressional Democrat says he’s carefully watching efforts by several campaigns aiming to cut into former Vice President Joe Biden’s support in the state.
House Majority Whip Jim Clyburn told CNN on Sunday that California climate activist and billionaire Tom Steyer, who has been campaigning heavily to black voters, is doing “an incredible job.” Clyburn says Steyer has money and it “makes a difference.”
Clyburn also said former South Bend, Indiana Mayor Pete Buttigieg “is doing very good.”
Clyburn, who had previously said Buttigieg may have trouble with older black voters because he is gay, said Sunday, “We mature. And I think their political calculations are changing quite a bit.”
Clyburn‘s grandson is working for Buttigieg‘s South Carolina campaign.
Biden has led polling in the state, the first to feature a heavily black electorate. But recent surveys show his support in that demographic falling nationally.
Asked directly if South Carolina is Biden’s “firewall,” where success or failure could make or break his campaign in the states that follow, Clyburn said, “Well, I don’t know. We will see.”
Democratic presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg says he’s proud of his marriage and his husband. He was addressing comments from conservative commentator Rush Limbaugh about whether voters would elect him because he’s been “kissing his husband” on stage after debates.
Buttigieg says America should have politics that welcomes everybody and that “I’m not going to be lectured on family values from the like of Rush Limbaugh, or anybody who supports Donald J. Trump as the moral as well as the political leader of the United States.”
Limbaugh said this past week that he envisioned Democrats concluding that “despite all the great ground that’s been covered, that America’s still not ready to elect a gay guy kissing his husband on the debate stage president.”
Buttigieg said he came out as gay during a general election as mayor of South Bend, Indiana, and received more support from voters than he did in his first race.
Buttigieg spoke on CNN’s “State of the Union’’ and ”Fox News Sunday.’’ He noted that while he loves his husband, that on stage, “we usually just go for a hug.”
Sen. Amy Klobuchar says her Democratic presidential campaign has raised $12 million over the past week, citing greater voter interest after her performance in New Hampshire.
The Minnesota senator tells ABC’s “This Week” that she is benefiting from a surge of people who have discovered her campaign after the New Hampshire debate on Feb. 7 and a better-than-expected third-place finish in the state’s primary.
She’s billing the fundraising support as momentum that will allow her to be competitive on the airwaves heading into the Nevada caucus and Super Tuesday contests in early March.
Klobuchar says when she announced her candidacy, many people counted her out, but as voters get to know her, they relate to what her campaign is focused on. She says that campaign message is about “bringing back decency to the White House, and most importantly, having a president that can actually put herself in the shoes of other people in this country.”
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SHRI MADHWACHARYA
Shri Madhwa Navami is associated with Shri Madhwacharya one of the greatest Hindu Saints and Philosophers who was the founder and exponent of Dvaita Philosophy. He was not only a great Saint and Philosopher; he was and is strongly believed and considered as the third incarnation of the Wind God (Lord Vayu) known as Mukhya Prana. Other two earlier in this lineage are Lord Hanuman and Shri Bheemasena. It is said that Shri Madhwacharya during his life time had openly identified himself as an incarnation of Lord Vayu which was evidenced by several miracles performed by him right from his childhood days.
Shri Madhwacharya known as Vasudeva during his childhood was born around 800 years back in a small village presently known as Pajaka Kshetra about 10 km from the temple town of Udupi near Mangalore in Karnataka State. He was born in a family of Shivalli Brahmins and was the son of Madhyageha Bhatta. Born in 1238 AD Shri Madhwacharya lived for 79 years and left this world on the 9th day of bright fortnight (Navami thithi) in the lunar month Magha Masa that falls two days after the Ratha Sapthami festival.
A child prodigy, with divine qualities, Shri Madhwacharya was well known for his authority, knowledge and extempore oratory skills, on the subject. During his period he had defeated many of his opponents with his authenticated arguments. Robust in physique and health Shri Madhwacharya was a multifaceted personality also known for his mystic powers. At the age of twelve Shri Madhwacharya left his home to become an ascetic and took up the Sanyasa Deeksha under the guidance of Shri Achyuta Preksha Theertha his Sanyasa Guru. He was named as Poornapragna after attaining Sanyasa Deeksha. Very soon he became the head of the Mutt and came to be known as Ananda Theertha and later as Madhwacharya by which name he became very popular.
During his life Shri Madhwacharya wrote explanatory notes (commentaries) on Upanishads, Bhagavat Geeta, Brahma Sutras, Mahabharata and Bhagavatha Purana besides scripting several other original works on his doctrines. SuMadhwa Vijaya a biography of Shri Ananda Theertha written by Shri Narayana Panditacharya son of Shri Trivikrama Panditacharya eulogized the glory of Shri Madhwacharya and his accomplishments which is said to have been composed during Shri Madhwacharya’s life time itself. Shri Vayu Sthuthi composed by Shri Trivikrama Panditacharya is a very popular script on Lord Hanuman whose lineage is Shri Madhwacharya.
Shri Madhwacharya was instrumental in establishing the famous temple of Lord Shri Krishna at Udupi and installed the idol of Shri Bala Krishna that was said to have been worshipped by Rukmini Devi the prime consort of Lord Shri Krishna during Dwapara Yuga. At the time of installation Shri Madhwacharya spontaneously composed a prayer in glory of Lord Shri Krishna that became popular as Dwaadasanama Sthothram. Procuring of the idol was a miracle and forethought of Shri Madhwacharya. Not only he installed the idol of Lord Shri Krishna but also appointed eight of his prime disciples to take forward his legacies and to have continuity to the worship of the Lord by rotation. Even today this practice of rotation of worshiping and administering the Shri Krishna Mutt at Udupi known as Paryaya is in vogue that takes place once in two years.
These eight prime disciples appointed by Shri Madhwacharya were, Shri Hrishikesha Theertha, Shri Narasimha Theertha, Shri Janardhana Theertha, Shri Upendra Theertha, Shri Vamana Theertha, Shri Vishnu Theertha, Shri Rama Theertha and Shri Adhokshaja Theertha.
These eight Pontiffs later established their own mutts called as Ashta Matas of Udupi. These eight mutts are named after the surrounding villages where they originally resided. These Mutts are Palimar Mutt, Adamaru Mutt, Krishnapura Mutt, Puttige Mutt, Shirur Mutt, Sode Mutt, Kaniyoor Mutt, and Pejavara Mutt. Apart from the above Shri Padmanabha Theertha and Shri Narahari Theertha were also his prime disciples.
In the post era of Shri Madhwacharya several great, noble and divine Saints have descended and established several mutts across the country propagating the Tattvavada, the doctrine of Shri Madhwacharya. To name a few are Shri Madhava Theertharu, Shri Akshobhya Theertharu, Shri Jaya Theertharu (Teeka Rayaru), Shri ShriPaada Rayaru, Shri Vyasa Rayaru, Shri Vadi Raja Theertharu, Shri Raghottama Theertharu, Shri Raghavendra Theertharu (Mantralaya Guru Sarvabhouma). Madhwa Mutts established by these saints are Shri Raghavendra Swamy Mutt at Mantralayam, Shri Uttaradhi Mutt and Shri Vyasaraya Mutt, to name a few.
Though Aacharya Shri Madhwa is to be revered and worshipped everyday, two specific days are earmarked in Hindu Lunar calendar for his specific worship. They are, Shri Madhwa Jayanthi falling on Vijayadasami day in the month of Aaswayuja Masam that is said to be the day on which he was born. The other is Shri Madhwa Navami falling on the 9th day of Lunar month of Magha Masam during the bright fortnight. It is said that it was on this day in the year 1317 AD, Shri Madhwacharya while teaching his disciples at Udupi Shri Anantheshwara Temple, suddenly a heap of flowers were showered on him and he disappeared from that heap of flowers not to be seen later. It is considered as the day he entered the Badarikasrama. It is strongly believed among his followers that Shri Madhwacharya is still present even today in Northern Himalayas (Greater Badari) continuing his spiritual pursuit with Sage Shri Vedavyasa but beyond ordinary vision.
Special celebrations are held across the country on the eve of Shri Madhwa Navami at temples and mutts participated by large gathering of followers.
To learn, to understand and to write about Shri Madhwacharya, perhaps one life time is not adequate.
Brahmaantha Guravah Saakkshaatt Ishtam Daivam Shriyah pathihi
Aachaaryaa ShriMadaachaaryaa Santhume Janma Janmani.
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Croydon Indian restaurant which 'didn't cover food' given awful food hygiene rating
Taste of Kerala was told it must improve its cleanliness 'immediately'
Taste of Kerala has a food hygiene rating of one out of five (Image: David Cook)
A Croydon Indian restaurant has been given a shocking food hygiene rating because it "didn't cover food when it was stored in the fridge".
Taste of Kerala, on London Road, Broad Green, received a food hygiene rating of one out of five following an inspection on March 12.
The restaurant, which sells a range of traditional Indian dishes, was told it must improve its cleanliness "immediately".
Management at Taste of Kerala said they have made the recommended changes and are now waiting for a re-inspection.
Details of the food hygiene report have been made available following a Freedom of Information request to Croydon Council by MyLondon.
In the report the inspector says: "Ensure all your food handlers are supervised/instructed and trained in food hygiene so they can do their particular work."
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The restaurant, which says it cooks and serves food with the "spirit of a mother who feeds her child", was ordered to clean the microwave oven, spice storage container and shelves because they were dirty.
It was also told it must date all food in its fridges and freezers to "prevent the use of out of date food".
The inspector says: "Food should be kept covered when stored in the fridge to prevent any possible risk of contamination."
"Replace the lid used for covering foods when reheating in the microwave," they added.
The inspector finished by saying the restaurant's management of food safety needed major improvement, while its cleanliness and condition needed some improvement.
What is a food hygiene rating?
Businesses which serve food and drink are given a rating of 0 to 5 according to the Food Standards Agency scale.
5 is top of the scale and means the hygiene standards are very good and fully comply with the law. And 0 is at the bottom of the scale, which means urgent improvement is necessary.
Food safety officers regularly carry out hygiene inspections to asses how well a business is complying with national food hygiene standards.
Its hygienic food handling was marked as good, however.
Narayank Kumar, manager of Taste of Kerala, told MyLondon the restaurant was penalised for having an 'old' fridge.
He said: "When they [the inspector] came they told me to change the big fridge. They said we have to get a new one because it was quite old.
"We got a new fridge and it's done. Everything is ok now but the inspector hasn't been back since."
Mr Kumar added the restaurant "was clean" and is hoping for a re-inspection in the coming weeks.
"I have told them we have made the changes and we are waiting for them to come back," he said.
Taste of Kerala, which is open six days a week between 12pm and 11pm, offers a range of curries, side dishes and noodle dishes.
According to TripAdvisor, the restaurant is the 48th best restaurant in Croydon (out of 378).
It has an average rating of 4.5, with more than 100 of its 136 reviews excellent. A further 14 are very good and nine are average.
Only two reviews are poor while seven are terrible.
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Cesc Fabregas says beating Arsenal was the 'best moment' of Chelsea's season so far
Spaniard was booed by the Emirates crowd but enjoyed the last laugh in the derby
Pointing the way: Cesc Fabregas of Chelsea signals (Image: Clive Mason/Getty Images)
Cesc Fabregas reckons he is getting back to his best after helping Chelsea beat his old club Arsenal at the Emirates.
The Spanish international was booed by the large majority of fans in the north London stadium but showed them he wasn’t affected with a fine midfield performance.
His fellow countryman Diego Costa got the only goal of the game to give Chelsea the bragging rights, with Per Mertesacker’s early dismissal helping send the points back to west London.
And Fabregas, booed by his own fans at times this term, sees this win as a real high point in an otherwise disappointing campaign so far.
"When it was 11 vs11 we were on top,” he explained. “They had a chance with Mathieu Flamini before half-time but for the first 20-25 minutes we were very good.
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"I am nearly there. I am feeling sharp and my brain is quicker than the last few months.
“I feel under pressure but I am in more control. My team-mates make it easier for me. In the last year this is the best moment for me."
Meanwhile, Blues skipper John Terry is staying hopeful of sneaking into the Champions League qualification spots come May.
The centre-half was pleased with a clean sheet and the three points at the Emirates and has urged his team-mates to keep the faith.
He said: “Anything is doable. Everybody is beating everybody else. It is a tough league and if we put a run together we have a good chance (of fourth). We will fight until there are no points to play for.”
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The mother-daughter duo that's tackling animal welfare in New Orleans one rescue dog at a time
BY SUZANNE PFEFFERLE TAFUR
Genie Goldring declares her "long-time love of dogs," and her daughter Lindsay Goldring has a background in dog training and animal rescue. Together, they make the perfect team to address the local animal welfare epidemic that stems from overpopulation, neglect and abuse.
Through their nonprofit organization, The Inner Pup, the mother-daughter duo is tackling animal welfare problems by working to prevent them.
“We didn't feel that the animal welfare situation in New Orleans was manageable,” Genie says. “Once the animals were in a shelter, dogs particularly, their fate was out of our control.” There were no services the women could provide to the animals already committed to a kennel.
According to the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (ASPCA), nearly 6.5 million companion animals enter U.S. animal shelters nationwide every year. Approximately 1.5 million shelter animals are euthanized.
The Goldrings try to keep animals out of shelters altogether by spreading awareness about responsible pet ownership. They began by visiting low-income sections of the city where rates of animal abuse and neglect are highest, and teaching residents how to treat animals with kindness.
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Since launching The Inner Pup in 2014, the Goldrings and their team of volunteers, veterinarians and teachers have rolled out programs that educate and engage the local community, and ultimately protect animals’ health and well-being.
The Inner Pup runs monthly pop-up heartworm prevention clinics and offers low-cost heartworm and flea-and-tick pet care. People who cannot afford regular veterinary care for dogs that already have contracted heartworms can enroll their pups in a heartworm treatment study.
Heartworm disease can be fatal. According to The Inner Pup, 80 percent (nearly 160,000) of shelter and stray dogs in New Orleans are heartworm-positive. But the organization is trying to reduce those numbers as much as possible.
This year alone, they have administered 1,515 months of heartworm prevention medicine to more than 380 dogs, and 444 months of flea prevention medicine. Twelve pups have completed the treatment study and no longer have heartworms.
“We started a heartworm treatment study because our hearts ached for the dogs that we found in the clinics that were heartworm positive, whose owners had no option for heartworm treatment because of the cost of it,” Genie says.
The nonprofit organization also operates a two-week education program in New Orleans charter schools that teaches children benevolence for animals and companionship with dogs through training and behavior. Through the program, the kids begin to realize “that dogs have feelings,” and they question how people treat their pets, Lindsay says.
“A lot of the kids don't quite understand that pets are our family,” she says. “They don't relate to them, or they're scared of them. By the end of the two-week program, you see a transformation of these children. They are just yearning for connection and we bring that to them.”
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The Inner Pup also created a free handbook for animal welfare agencies interested in creating similar wellness programs. They have partnered with the large-scale veterinary health foundation, Banfield Pet Hospital, along with local SPCAs, vet clinics and the Villalobos Rescue Center.
Partners outside of the state — and even the country — have expressed interest in The Inner Pup’s programs.
“Both of our programs are prevention-based programs” that help pet owners understand and manage the responsibilities of caring for their pets, Lindsay says. “Our community clinics bring equality to vet care and help pet owners in financial need keep their furry family members for life, as well as alleviate unnecessary suffering due to heartworm disease. Our education program … unlock[s] compassion, empathy, trust and respect for the next generation of New Orleans, both with their pets and with each other.”
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March 24 Coronavirus Update
Thank you for your continued support and flexibility as we work through these unprecedented times. As you know, to help prevent the community spread of COVID-19, the Nordonia Schools will be closed to students now through Tuesday, April 14. Students will return on April 15. normal'>
normal'>It is true that every indication from Governor DeWine is that he is going to close schools for the rest of the year. As soon as he does my message will change. I don't mean to be confusing, but as of right now, students are expected to return April 15.
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The Sethna Family has started a volunteer program called YOUKnighted2020. The purpose of this group is to help seniors and others without transportation collect food, supplies, and other necessities during this dreadful COVID-19 emergency. People who need assistance or want to volunteer can contact Kim and Farhad Sethna at [email protected] or 330-468-0317 for more information.
Starting this Thursday, March 26, families can pick-up meals at Nordonia High School between 10 a.m. and 2 p.m. every Thursday and Monday.
WE NEED YOU TO PLEASE RE-ENROLL IN THE MEAL PROGRAM SO WE CAN GET AN ACCURATE COUNT: https://tinyurl.com/NordoniaMealPickupOrders
Pickup will be in the rear of the building, near the canopy by the auditorium entrance.
The track and tennis court at Nordonia High School are open for community use. Please practice social distancing.
We have seen groups of kids congregating on the football field to work-out together. This is NOT PERMITTED. Please remind your children of the dangers of congregating together and do not allow them to meet. We have asked Macedonia PD to patrol more often and disband any who are congregating. Gathering together in groups is selfish and dangerous.
If you have any questions about anything related to the school closure or coronavirus, you can submit them here: https://tinyurl.com/NordoniaClosureQuestions Questions will be answered daily.
normal'>These are unprecedented times, and we will get through them together through flexibility and common sense. Please understand this closure is not only to keep students and staff safe, but also to prevent the spread of COVID-19 as seen in other countries around the world.
normal'>As always, thanks for your continued support of the Nordonia Schools, and Go Knights!
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Look inside the houses that are selling within 48 hours in Northamptonshire
Some of the houses were listed for less than a day
(Image: Towcester Homes/Rightmove)
Coronavirus has led to most of us spending plenty more time at home, and looking at the same four walls, it seems, has led to a very busy property market.
Whether it's people wanting to up-size for a more comfortable amount of space or just up sticks and try somewhere new, property has been sold quicker than the agents can get "For Sale" signs up around Northamptonshire.
Properties have been disappearing off Rightmove within hours of being listed.
Nikki Kooner, director of Winkworth estate agents in Northampton, said: "The past four months have been the busiest for a long time, with everything we have selling and with huge demand in both sales and lettings.
"We are focusing on ensuring that chains don't break and that all sales and lettings currently in the pipeline complete."
Here's a look inside some of the houses in the county that have sold within just 48 hours of being on the market - proof that if you see a place you like, you need to snap it up fast!
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3-bedroom barn conversion, Cranford
High Street, Cranford
(Image: Rightmove)
This delightful countryside barn conversion was snapped up for £550,000 after being on the market for less than a day.
Called "Mill Barn", this property has a kitchen/diner, lounge, hallway, three bedrooms (one en-suite) and a family bathroom. It even has its own driveway, old stables and extensive gardens.
The feature beams and period features will make it a characterful and cosy home for the eagle-eyed new owners.
The village of Cranford is just five miles from Kettering town centre, so although it appears secluded, it's not far from local amenities.
3-bedroom detached house, Towcester
Hardy Close, Towcester
This is a modern family home tucked away in a friendly cul-de-sac in Towcester, which sold for £325,000.
It comprises of a kitchen/diner perfect for modern family living, which has French doors opening to a fully landscaped garden.
There is a driveway and a garage, three bedrooms (with en-suite master) and a family bathroom.
The house was snapped up after being marketed on Saturday, November 28, and will hopefully make the new owners a cosy home for Christmas.
3-bedroom semi-detached house, Tiffield
Meadow Rise, Tiffield
(Image: Jackie Oliver & Co/Rightmove)
This lovely spacious house comprises of a kitchen/diner, sitting room, three bedrooms and a family bathroom, as well as a single garage.
Its quaint village setting makes it the perfect place to settle down, whilst not being too far from nearby Towcester.
The house was sold for £220,000 after being on Rightmove for less than a day.
With a pretty little garden and rooms ready to be filed with furniture, it's not surprising that this place was taken as fast as it was.
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Review Acer Aspire 4830TG Notebook
Blue-eyed? Acer launches a new, handy 14 inch notebook from the TimelineX range called Aspire 4830TG. The notebook, dressed in ice blue is suitable for routine work in the office, at home and on the move. It bids a lot of power thanks to the GT 540M graphics and Intel i5 CPU when it's needed. However, not always, as the following review will show.
Siegfried Moersch (translated by Liala Stieglitz), 05/16/2011 🇩🇪 🇷🇺
Aspire 4830TG from the TimelineX range
The Aspire 4830TG is another laptop from the TimelineX range in a rather unusual 14 inch size. The TimelineX series' notebooks are also available in 13.3 and 15.6 inches. The review about the 15.6 inch Aspire 5830TG can be found here. The Aspire 4830TG has a high-gloss display with a screen diagonal of 14 inches and features a WXGA resolution (1366x768 pixels). The model is very light with a weight of 2.1 kg and is perfect for taking along due to dimensions of 22.6-29.9x339x239 mm. The battery also has a fairly long runtime.
The test device, by courtesy of Acer, is equipped with an Intel Core i5 2410M, a 4 GB DDR RAM, a 750 GB hard disk and a dedicated graphics card from Nvidia. Acer offers this configuration for a recommended price of 799 euros. However, the laptop is available in various online shops for about 50 euros less.
The looks chosen for the Aspire 4830TG is very modern, yet very reserved. The color combination of ice blue and black makes a very elegant impression and looks tasteful. The matt case surfaces are made of high quality plastic and the lid is even of aluminum. Dust and fingerprints hardly stand a chance on these matt surfaces.
Acer has done a good job on the Aspire 4830TG in terms of case stability and workmanship. The display lid is held by two massive display hinges, but they don't deter opening. Opening can be easily accomplished with one hand. However, the 2.1 kg light notebook doesn't topple over backwards.
The lower case half is made of matt plastic and has many vents for cooling the hardware inside sufficiently. The stereo speaker openings are also located on the left and right. The built-in battery is noticed very adversely since it can't be removed. Among other things, the 2.5 inch hard disk and both SO-Dimm slots for the main memory are found underneath the black case half. The other hardware, such as processor and graphics, are only visible when all screws are removed.
The notebook's interfaces are distributed on the case's right and left. On the right, you'll find two USB 2.0 ports and the audio sockets. The installed optical drive, in this case a DVD burner, is also located here. The other side has more interfaces. A USB 3.0 port, a VGA and HDMI out and an RJ45 LAN socket are found here. There is also a Kensington lock available in the rear area. A cardreader for SD, SDXC, MMC, MS, MS Pro and XD flash memory cards is on the front left.
Acer hasn't installed any ports on the rear. The laptop doesn't have an externally accessible eSATA connection or PC card Express slot.
As can be seen on the pictures, almost all ports are concentrated on the lateral front edges. You will have to reckon with annoying cables beside the notebook when they are extensively occupied.
External devices, such as MP3 players or smartphones, can also be recharged in a deactivated state via the Power Off Charging function.
Left: 1 RJ45, 1 VGA, 1 HDMI, 1 USB 3.0
Right: 2 USB 2.0s, 2 audios
Front: Multi-in-1 cardreader
Rear: No interfaces
There are several options available for connecting to a network, no matter if private, public or at work, with the Acer notebook. Two controller chips from Atheros are installed for this. There are two possibilities for connecting to a network. First, with a cable via the Gigabit LAN socket and second via WLAN standard 802.11 b/g/n. The Acer Aspire 4820TG also has Bluetooth standard 3.0 +HS.
A plenty of, but really a plenty of superfluous software is pre-installed on the Acer Aspire 4830TG
The scope of delivery is, as so often, very scanty. As usual, an adapter with a capacity of 90 watts belongs to the laptop as well as a few manuals. The pre-installed operating system and various applications aren't supplied as data media for the Acer laptop. They are on a hidden recovery partition. The Taiwanese company bids quite a few accessories especially for TimelineX range in the Acer Store.
What Acer has saved in accessories is "compensated" by the amount of pre-installed software supplies. Among other programs, you'll find Microsoft Office 2010 Starter and a number of freeware and trial programs on the Aspire 4830TG's hard disk. That also has a dark side. The boot process needs an extremely long time and taxes the system. Our recommendation would be to remove all superfluous programs. However, the programs turn up again after a recovery, which sets the laptop back to its state of delivery.
Acer grants a warranty period of 24 months for all its products. It includes a pick up & return service and a 12 month international travelers warranty (ITW). Acer offers an optional warranty extension to 36 or 48 months. This service costs between 79 and 179 euros.
A high quality, single key layout is used in the Acer Aspire 4830TG. Almost all keys practically "stand alone" and are surprisingly comfortable to use. This layout isn't new for Acer, and has been previously used in the premium range, Aspire Ethos. The keyboard however has two minor beauty flaws, if you like. Two keys are arranged as a duo. One is the "enter" and "#", and the other is the left shift key and "</>". They don't have a gap. This can quickly lead to typos because the enter key and the shift key are among the keys used most. The arrow keys also turn out quite small in this layout.
The touchpad is installed a bit toward the left in front of the keyboard and the color has been adapted to the rest of the case. The touchpad responds quite fast and supports multi-touch as well as multi-finger gestures. Additionally, it has a horizontal and vertical scroll field. There are two separated mouse keys in front of the touchpad. You can disable the touchpad unceremoniously via the key combination FN + F7. That's particularly practical especially during gaming or writing emails. A repeated pressing of this combination enables the touchpad again.
A high-gloss screen with a 16:9 format is used in the Acer Aspire 4830TG. It can reproduce a maximum resolution of 1366x768 pixels (WXGA). Besides the installed display, additional monitors can also be connected. The laptop has both an analog video (VGA) and a HDMI port with 1.4a support for this. A higher resolution is possible with external displays.
The installed screen places itself in a good midfield of current multimedia notebooks with a maximum brightness of 246 cd/m2. The illumination is also more than satisfactory with a high 91%. The image contrast isn't quite as good. A high black value of 1.53 cd/m2 results in an only mediocre maximum image contrast of 156:1.
HD CineCrystal High-Brightness Display mit LED-Backlight
Gossen Mavo-Monitor
Maximum: 246 cd/m² Average: 235.8 cd/m²
Black test picture on the Aspire notebook
According to the specifications, the 14 inch sized glare display is almost 1.5 centimeters smaller than a 15 inch standard display. However, it doesn't have to hide. It looks a lot larger subjectively.
The display is backlit by two LED bars (one above, the other below), which is noticed very adversely especially on dark pictures and in dark video sequences. The light can be seen clearly at the edges on a dark background (bleeding).
You'll have a hard time with the Acer Aspire 4830TG's display in the beer garden or in your garden. The 16:9 display is very glossy and reflects a lot of the surroundings. Seeing yourself is inevitable. The display content is almost completely illegible when the sun shined directly onto the 14 inch display. A bright ceiling or floor light indoors already causes unwanted, visible reflections on the screen.
The given viewing angle stability is sufficient. The display content is still well visible even in narrow viewing angles horizontally. The normal display content quickly is presented as an inverted image vertically. The display content is still sufficiently stable for three viewers sitting in front of the screen. However, they should be seated at the same height.
Viewing angles: Acer Aspire 4830TG
Turbo Boost 2.0 automatically overclocks the CPU up to 2.0 GHz
An Intel CPU, model Core i5 2410M, does its work inside the Acer Aspire 4830TG. It is standardly clocked with 2.3 GHz. The processor can temporarily be overclocked up to 2.9 GHz thanks to the Turbo Boost 2.0 technology.
However, the user doesn't have an influence on the overclocking because the CPU does it automatically. Depending on the requirements, single CPU cores are clocked up to 2.9 GHz. The Intel Core i5 2410M has a 3 MB cache and is manufactured in a 32 nm technology.
Another feature of the CPU is the Hyper Threading technology. It supplies both physical computing cores with two additional, virtual cores. This means that the CPU can process four threads at the same time.
Intel has also implanted its HD-Graphics 3000 into the Core i5 2410M. This graphics has been designed for routine applications and is, in comparison to older onboard graphics, quite fast and can even be used for gaming or multimedia applications. The incorporated HD graphics is especially conceived for mobile use. It increases the battery life considerably in contrast to use with the high performance graphics from Nvidia.
System information: Acer Aspire 4830TG
In addition to the built-in Intel graphics card, the Aspire 4830TG also has a dedicated graphics card from nVidia. The graphics card GPU, nVidia GeForce GT 540M, is based on the GF108 core. The nVidia card can access 2 GB of DDR3 memory, which works with 900 MHz.
Before the actual application or game is started, the nVidia Optimus software automatically determines which of the graphics is to be enabled. Alternatively, the assignment can also be determined manually via the right mouse key and selecting the graphics processor. From then on, the system selects the according GPU depending on the task.
The graphics GPU couldn't be assigned in a few programs. Neither with the nVidia Optimus software nor via the right mouse key. There is no hardware-specific switch or an according key combination on the device. Nor is there a function for setting up the GPU selection in the laptop's BIOS. Deactivating Intel's HD graphics so that only the nVidia graphics is available wasn't accepted by the operating system, Windows 7 Home Premium. Windows reported that no graphics card was installed.
System information: Nvidia Geforce GT 540M
Windows 7 Experience Index
Calculations per second
Memory operations per second
Desktop performance for Windows Aero
Gaming graphics
3D business and gaming graphics
Primary hard disk
Disk data transfer rate
PCMark 05 Standard
PCMark Vantage Result
The strong Intel CPU and the dedicated nVidia graphics card are noticed in the benchmarks. The CPU, clocked with 2.3 GHz, is convincing in all areas in the benchmarks where CPU power is required and is in the upper midfield. The 4830TG doesn't have to shun a direct comparison with other notebooks that have the same configuration, for example the 15.6-inch model of the same Aspire range. This is also true for competition models, such as the ASUS A53SV or Medion Akoya P6631.
The laptop achieves 7976 points in Cinebench R10 which runs a multi-thread calculation (64 bit). PCMark Vantage's score isn't significant because this benchmark program absolutely didn't want to start with the nVidia graphics. Nevertheless, the good 5980 points prove that the Intel graphics work quite fast.
Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium 64 bit's performance index is in a very acceptable range with 5.9. The Intel Core i5 2410M even reaches an index of 6.9 here. As so often, the system is slowed down by the slow hard disk and the slow memory installed.
The Acer 4839TG was really heated up with various tools
The following benchmarks show how well the nVidia graphics work in the Aspire 4830M. However, the rates weren't determined in immediate sequence. The graphics card and the CPU had enough time to cool down in between the tests. But how does the hardware react when it is put under permanent load? Will the CPU reduce its speed (throttling) or do the benchmarks achieve approximately the same results?
The laptop, or actually the CPU and nVidia GPU were really heated up for several hours. Consequently, the system noise was very audible and the temperatures on the side vents increased considerably.
We however didn't even have to wait for an hour to get a result. We observed a throttling of the CPU down to ~1.2 GHz after only 36 minutes in our stress test of CPU and GPU. It's striking that the Intel tool for displaying Turbo Boost no longer showed any spikes. It didn't show anything at all. However, the user is made to believe that the CPU is still running with 2.3 GHz.
The Intel CPU's core temperatures don't rise into critical ranges, though. We aborted after 2 hours and ran 3DMark06 again. It now recorded 8262 points. That is even slightly more than is reached in a cold operating state. Consequently, the observed throttling induced by extreme load won't likely have an impact on routine use. However, it can't be completely excluded in especially computing intensive games, such as Battlefield BC2. The (gaming) benchmarks that we executed were all within the expected range considering the installed hardware. Throttling wasn't indicated.
3DMark 2001SE Standard
HD Tune
WDC Scorpio Blue WD7500BPVT-22HXZT1
Transfer Rate Minimum: 43.3 MB/s
Transfer Rate Maximum: 86.6 MB/s
Transfer Rate Average: 72.6 MB/s
Access Time: 20.5 ms
Burst Rate: 73.8 MB/s
CPU Usage: -1 %
Sequential Read: 93.64 MB/s
Sequential Write: 89.28 MB/s
512K Read: 33.85 MB/s
512K Write: 46.91 MB/s
4K Read: 0.475 MB/s
4K Write: 0.818 MB/s
4K QD32 Read: 0.833 MB/s
4K QD32 Write: 0.767 MB/s
A hard disk from Western Digital with a memory capacity of 750 GB serves the Acer Aspire 4830TG as mass memory. The 2.5 inch hard disk, model WD7500BPVT-22HXZT1 from the Scorpio Blue range, rotates with 5400 revolutions per minute. Thus, only an average performance is presented in the test programs. The maximum transfer rate is between 86 and 94 MB/s, depending on the test program, so nothing extraordinary. Long load times have to be expected with this kind of hard disk.
However, the hard disk is easily removed and replaced by a hybrid disk or a solid state drive (SSD). Such a disk would be beneficial for the Aspire 4830TG as well as its write/read performance.
Crystal DiskBenchmark
HDTune
DPC Latency Checker
Gaming Verdict
The Acer notebook can also be used for games. Graphic intensive games, such as StarCraft2, Mafia 2 or Call of Duty: Black Ops still run smoothly in a medium resolution. The dedicated graphics comes to its limits in higher resolutions. The frame rate sinks to under 50 fps, which is clearly noticed in fast gaming sequences. Games are simply no fun with that.
The determined graphics performance is within an acceptable range and meets all expectations. A look at our GT 540M database shows that the differences are marginal. As noticed correctly in the previously reviewed 15.6 inch model, the GT 540M is also generally suitable for more current games.
It is recommendable to use the processor's HD graphics when you're on the move. Not quite as graphic-heavy games also still run smoothly on the incorporated graphics (Fifa). The battery runtime is reduced when the nVidia graphics is used and the Aspire 4830TG has to go back to the mains after fairly short gaming fun.
StarCraft 2 (2010) 178 53 37 18 fps
Mafia 2 (2010) 57 42 34 21 fps
Fifa 11 (2010) 416 182 122 70 fps
Call of Duty: Black Ops (2010) 69 56 44 28 fps
Crysis 2 (2011) 56 36 27 9 fps
The Acer Aspire 4830TG is agreeably quiet during routine work. Merely a quiet noise was perceptible in applications that only ran with the built-in Intel graphics. The level increased audibly with the dedicated graphics. It also got louder while playing DVD media. This time, the troublemaker was the installed optical drive and not the CPU or GPU. The DVD drive emits an extremely, partly unpleasant high noise when it's used. However, the noise quickly fades in the room when you move away from the laptop. Persons with a very sensitive ear won't be happy with it, though.
The cooling system's fans are also only slightly louder during full load. We could determine a noise of 40.6 dB(A) at the peak.
35.2 / dB(A)
min: , med: , max: Voltcraft sl-320 (15 cm distance)
The CPU's and GPU's waste heat is discharged quickly and efficiently out of the case with the new fan design that is used in the Acer Aspire 4830TG. There is a large vent on the left for this. The fan blows out the warm air here. As described above, with up to 40.6 dB(A). The exhausted air gets noticeably warmer during load than during only surfing or writing texts. The temperatures on the case's bottom increase under load and can get unpleasant for the lap when the notebook is placed there.
But not only the laptop got warmer, the 90 watt power adapter also increased to almost 42 degrees Celsius.
(+) The average temperature for the upper side under maximal load is 29.5 °C / 85 F, compared to the average of 31 °C / 88 F for the devices in the class Multimedia.
(+) The maximum temperature on the upper side is 33.5 °C / 92 F, compared to the average of 36.6 °C / 98 F, ranging from 21.1 to 71 °C for the class Multimedia.
(+) The bottom heats up to a maximum of 37.2 °C / 99 F, compared to the average of 38.9 °C / 102 F
(+) In idle usage, the average temperature for the upper side is 24.6 °C / 76 F, compared to the device average of 31 °C / 88 F.
(-) The average temperature of the palmrest area of similar devices was 28.9 °C / 84 F (-3.4 °C / -6.1 F).
The sound system consists of two speakers that Acer has placed on the notebook's bottom. The rim, found between the keyboard and display, would let you await even more speakers. However, this rim on which Dolby Home Theater is also printed is only an optical enhancement. The sound system doesn't include a subwoofer. The software can't compensate this fact, either.
Battery life (in LOAD and maximum display brightness)
Battery life, surfing with enabled WLAN
A charging cycle takes ~163 minutes
One of the most important test criteria for a mobile device is the battery life. Notebooks have taken over the conventional desktop's rank for quite some time already. Why confine yourself to the office if you can be on the move with a laptop or even work outdoors. The Aspire 4830TG has a lithium ion battery (6 cells) with a charge capacity of 4000 mAh for mobile use. At least, this is what Everest (87BSANYO) reads out. Acer speaks of a 6000 mAh battery on its product website. This, in combination with the measured power consumption, also sooner fits to our observations.
The fact that the battery is built-in and can't be removed is a drawback. Even if it can't fall down or be forgotten somewhere, the user can't exchange it, either.
The lithium ion battery had to show how long it can last in various tests. The battery lasted 7 hours and 29 minutes in idle mode when WLAN / Bluetooth are disabled. The display brightness was set to its lowest level. That may sound good, but who wants to use their notebook this way? So, another test with normal surf behavior was simulated. The battery runtime could still convince with 6 hours and 32 minutes. This isn't quite a whole work day, but a good start. The battery ran for 4 hours and 16 minutes in DVD rendering with disabled WLAN and Bluetooth modules. That should be enough for two cinema movies. The battery life was a bit shorter in load and maximum display brightness. The laptop was shut down automatically after 2 hours and 18 minutes (BatteryEater Classic Test) and had to go back to the mains. Recharging took 163 minutes on average.
WiFi Surfing
The power consumption is as expected on a low level in standby mode and in a deactivated state. The consumption is slightly higher than what current Sandy Bridge laptops achieve in idle mode. The installed hardware's potential is very evident in load.
Off / Standby 0.2 / 0.3 Watt
Idle 10.1 / 12.1 / 14.2 Watt
Key: min: , med: , max: Voltcraft VC 940
Acer Aspire Timeline X 4830TG
The long battery life of up to 6.5 hours makes the Acer Aspire 4830TG to a perfect travel companion. Moreover, it is fairly handy with a weight of only 2.1 kg and the small size. The 14 inch display has a resolution of 1366x768 pixels, which is more than sufficient for this screen. However, the LED backlit HD CineCrystal High Brightness display reflects a lot of the surroundings. The person working on the device is also frequently mirrored in the display. You should always look for a shady place for outdoor use. The display doesn't forgive direct sunlight.
Acer has proved to have a good eye as it selected the hardware. The Core i5 CPU, which is standardly clocked with 2.3 GHz, is automatically overclocked up to 2.9 GHz when needed via the Turbo Boost 2.0 technology. The 4 GB RAM is fully sufficient for the system. The 750 GB hard disk has an equally good size. As to the graphics, Acer doesn't only rely on the processor's HD graphics. There is also a GeForce GT 540M from nVidia in the notebook as a dedicated graphics, which is automatically enabled in games or applications.
In the opinion of the author, the recommended retail price of 799 euros is more than justified for this configuration and performance.
In Review: Acer Aspire 4830TG
good (82%) Acer Aspire 4830TG Intel Core i5-2410MNVIDIA GeForce GT 540M Multimedia - 05/25/2011 - v2
Acer Aspire 4830TG (Aspire 4830TG Series)
Intel Core i5-2410M 2 x 2.3 - 2.9 GHz, Sandy Bridge
NVIDIA GeForce GT 540M - 2048 MB, Core: 672 MHz, Memory: 900 MHz, GF108, nVIDIA ForceWare 67.21
, 2 x 2048 MB, max. 8 GB, DDR-3 SDRAM ( 1333 MHz), Kingston, 2 S0-DIMM slot (both occupied)
14.00 inch 16:9, 1366 x 768 pixel, HD CineCrystal High-Brightness Display mit LED-Backlight , CMO1457 , glossy: yes
Intel HM65
WDC Scorpio Blue WD7500BPVT-22HXZT1, 750 GB
, 5400 rpm
Intel Cougar Point PCH - High Definition Audio Controller
3 USB 2.0, 1 USB 3.0 / 3.1 Gen1, 1 VGA, 1 HDMI, 1 Kensington Lock, Audio Connections: 1 line in/microphone, 1 line out (w/ S/PDIF support), Card Reader: Multi-in-1 (SD, SDXC, MMC, MS, MS PRO, xD)
Atheros AR8151 PCI-E Gigabit Ethernet Controller (10/100/1000/2500/5000MBit/s), Atheros AR5B97 Wireless Network Adapter (b/g/n = Wi-Fi 4)
HL-DT-ST DVD+-RW GU40N
height x width x depth (in mm): 29.9 x 339 x 239 ( = 1.18 x 13.35 x 9.41 in)
0 Wh Lithium-Ion, 6 cells, 6000 mAh
Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium 64 Bit
Webcam: Acer Crystal Eye 1.3 MP HD WebCam
Notebook, 90 Watt Netzteil mit Netzkabel, Handbücher, Acer Clear.fi, Acer Backup Manager , Acer ePower Management , Acer eRecovery Management , Acer Crystal Eye, Acer Video Conference Manager, Acer Accessory Store, Adobe Flash Player 10.1, Adobe Reader 9.1, eSobi , Microsoft Office Starter 2010, 24 Months Warranty
2.15 kg ( = 75.84 oz / 4.74 pounds) ( = 0 oz / 0 pounds)
The notebook is very slim.
The Acer laptop even has a DVD burner.
The 14 inch notebook's bottom.
Speakers on the bottom.
Left speaker (uncovered).
Right speaker (uncovered).
The installed hard disk is decoupled from the case by rings.
Password switch for the hard disk?
The Acer Aspire 4830TG has two SO-DIMM slots.
2x2 GB RAM.
Lateral "exhaust pipe".
Integrated WLAN module.
VGA and HDMI socket.
Lateral ports (right)
The hinge makes a very solid impression.
Installed 1.2 MP webcam.
The laptop saves even more battery performance with the "P" key.
Three colored LEDs indicate a few of the notebook's activities.
Dolby Home Theater is supposed to deliver a good sound.
The single keys protrude good 3 mm out of the case.
Awkward key fusion.
"Two in One" – typos happen quickly.
The Acer Aspire 4830TG's touchpad.
Lateral ports (left)
Acer Aspire 4830TG's power adapter.
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Our test criteria
Manufacturer's information
+ Solid case
+ Handy size
+ Large performance reserves
- Reflective 14 inch display
- High temperature development during load
- Built-in battery
- CPU throttling
The Acer Aspire 4830TG has a very handy size and is light. The 14 inch display looks bigger than expected.
What we'd like to see
A matt display would have made the 4830TG's mobility perfect.
What surprises us
The fairly long battery life in connection with the given performance reserves.
14 incher's are mostly found in the business field. This device category has almost been completely replaced by more compact 13 inchers in the consumer market. Potential alternatives: Samsung QX412, Sony CA1S1, HP Envy 14.
Acer Aspire 4830TG - 2011-05-2505/25/2011 v2(old)
Siegfried Moersch
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World Sickle Cell Day: Latest medical devices to help treat the genetic condition
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By Anjuman Rahman 18 Jun 2019
World Sickle Cell day is dedicated to raising awareness about this health problem, here we've compiled some new treatment methods
(Credit: Flickr)
To mark World Sickle Cell Day, here we take a closer look at the new technology taking control over the genetic condition, created by researchers around the world attempting to combat the hemoglobin dysfunction that risks death for millions.
The World Health Organization estimates more than 70% of sickle cell disease (SCD) related deaths are preventable with simple, cost-effective interventions, such as early screening followed by affordable and widely-available treatment regimens.
SCD results from an inherited disorder which leads to red blood cells developing abnormally, distorting their natural disc shape into an abnormal, “sickle” shape affecting the cell’s ability to carry oxygen and move around the body.
Common symptoms may include intense pain and severe anaemia, and can cause damage to major organs and infections, leading to life-threatening complications.
These pain episodes are unpredictable and patients never know when or where these episodes will take place.
The World Health Organization also reports that it’s particularly common among people whose ancestors come from Sub-Saharan Africa, South America, Cuba, Central America, Saudi Arabia and India, and affects around 72,000 people in the US.
We profile a range of treatments which are capable of transforming lives by detecting and monitoring patient’s red blood cells for better insights and SCD treatments.
HemeChip
The hemechip device can diagnose the disease much faster and more affordably than traditional lab tests, making them more accessible to vulnerable populations (Credit: Hemex Health)
Developed by Hemex Health, the HemeChip is based on technology licensed from Case Western Reserve University, the device is claimed to be the “first single-use microchip hemoglobin screening platform.”
It is a battery-powered technique known as cellulose acetate electrophoresis, used to identify a person’s varying types of hemoglobin – a protein that helps red blood cells transport oxygen throughout the body.
The device requires just a pinprick of blood, which is inserted into the machines using a disposable cartridge that separates hemoglobin variants on a piece of cellulose acetate paper.
The HemeChip works with a portable reader to produce easily understandable, objective, and quantitative descriptions of the hemoglobin types and percentages present in a blood sample in less than ten minutes.
It can also wirelessly transmit the test results to a phone or computer for later storage in the cloud.
The system allows efficient introduction of DNA while reducing the potential error-prone steps in the process (Credit: Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
The CRISPR-associated transposase (CAST) is a new gene editing technology created by researchers from Broad Institute and the McGovern Institute for Brain Research, both based at MIT, as well as Harvard University.
It can insert large DNA sequences into a genome – the complete set of genetic information in an organism.
They believe this precise insertion of DNA has the potential to treat a large swath of genetic diseases by integrating new DNA into the genome while disabling the disease-related sequence.
The system could hold potential for much more efficient gene insertion compared to previous technologies, according to the team.
To expand the gene-editing toolbox, the team turned to transposons, also known as jumping genes, which are DNA sequences with associated proteins that allow the DNA to be cut-and-pasted into other places.
The team aims to use this platform to introduce new genes to replace DNA that has mutated in a harmful way, as is the case with SCD.
Systems developed with CAST could potentially be used to integrate a healthy version of a gene into a cell’s genome, disabling or overriding the DNA causing problems.
AI to detect Sickle Cell Disease
To automate the identifying the shape of a red blood cell, a machine-learning tool – known as a deep convolutional neural network (CNN) – was developed by researchers at the Northeastern University in China.
Red blood cells in SCD patients have diverse shapes that reveal important biomechanical and characteristics such as their density, fragility and adhesive properties indicating how bad it’s progressing.
The problem in identifying these shapes under a microscope and grouping them into different types is too slow a process for manual work.
Therefore, the new framework consists of three stages to classify the shapes of red blood cells in microscopic images of blood.
First, it distinguishes red blood cells from the background of each image and from another.
Then, for each cell detected, it zooms in or out until all cell images are a uniform size. Finally, it uses deep CNNs to categorise the cells by shape.
After this, it verifies what it’s found against 7,000 images of blood samples from eight SCD patients.
The researchers confirmed that the software is able to identify both oxygenated and deoxygenated red blood cells quickly and correctly.
The Spectra Optia system
The tool also uses less red blood cell units than regular transfusion techniques (Credit: TerumoBCT)
Used in the treatment of SCD, the Spectra Optia blood-separation system removes abnormal red blood cells from patients to replace them with healthy red blood cells from donors.
In a study titled Automatic depletion with Spectra Optia, it says it allows a safe 16% reduction of red blood cell pack consumption in exchanged sickle cell anaemia patients.
Researchers also tested the performance and clinical tolerance of the Spectra Optia.
It was tested on 300 red blood cell exchange sessions across 50 SCD patients, 92% adults, 32 men and 18 women, who were involved in a chronic red blood cell exchange programme.
Results showed the Spectra Optia protocol to be safe and efficient in exchanging red blood cells, achieving the desired final red blood cell count, as only 5% and 17% of the sessions were characterised by a significant decrease in blood pressure and increase in heart rate.
A microfluidics-based electrical impedance sensor
This new technology has been developed to continuously monitor SCD in patients without the use of microscopic imaging or biochemical markers.
By using a microfluidics-based electrical impedance sensor, researchers from Florida Atlantic University’s College of Engineering and Computer Science were able to characterise the rate of process of cell sickling and the percentage of sickled cells.
These are important contributing factors of abnormal blood flow and sickle cell vaso-occlusion – acute episodes of severe pain common in in adolescents and adults diagnosed with SCD.
Dr Sarah Du, assistant professor in FAU’s department of ocean and mechanical engineering, said: “The combination of electrical impedance measurement and on-chip hypoxia control provides a promising method for rapid assessment of the dynamic processes of cell sickling and unsickling in patients with sickle cell disease.
“As we move our technology forward, it is our hope to provide patients with sickle cell disease with a portable, standalone sensor that will enable them to conveniently self-monitor the hematological parameters of their disease and evaluate their risk of vaso-occlusion.”
The developed electrical impedance sensor may be potentially used for assessing vaso-occlusion risk, disease severity and therapeutic treatment in SCD.
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Medicinal Plant Research Experts Publish Review on History of Adaptogens
The publication covers a 60-year history of modern understanding of adaptogenic compounds.
The review provides a great deal of context regarding our understanding of adaptogens today.
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This week, the scientific journal Medicinal Research Reviews published a review which provides a synopsis of herbs and other botanical ingredients considered to be adaptogens, and their use in modernity. Entitled “Evolution of the adaptogenic concept from traditional sue to medical systems: Pharmacology of stress- and aging-related diseases,” this paper was written by a multinational group of 11 medicinal plant experts based in various regions of Asia and Europe, and comes at a time when herbal adaptogens are becoming more widely used, with physical and mental stress serving as the primary drivers motivating consumption.
While many adaptogens have been utilized in traditional forms of medicine across the globe for millenia, the concept of adaptogenic herbs in the modern sense was established in World War II in Russia, the authors report. Since then, the concept that herbs can provide resilience to environmental and mental stressors has gained increased acceptance, as evidenced by the market success of herbs such as ashwagandha (Withania somnifera), Asian Ginseng (Panax ginseng), eleuthero (eleutherococcus senticosus), and rhodilia (Rhodilia rosea).
The publication is 74 pages long, citing 628 references. An important aspect of the paper is an analysis of the definition of the word adaptogen, which has varied among authors over the 60-year history of the word’s use. Given the current trendiness of the word, and the propensity of some marketers to use the word incorrectly, consumers likely have varied impressions of what adaptogens accomplish on a generalized level. The authors discuss traditional medicine systems which first utilized adaptogenic herbs in both Asia and Europe, and provide a list of 109 plant species that are listed in the literature as adaptogenic or anti-stress herbs.
Much of the review focuses on the physiological mechanisms that underly adaptogenic effects, and which signaling pathways in the human body are impacted by the adaptogenic response. This large body of evidence is contrasted by a comparatively short paragraph summarizing the results of clinical studies involving the adaptogens Andrographis (Andrographis paniculata), ashwagandha, Asian ginseng, eleuthero, rhodilia, and Schisandra (Schisandra chinensis).
“The key to understanding adaptogens is their role in establishing and maintaining adaptive homeostasis by building the body’s natural resistance to stressors, which may be physical, chemical, biological, and psychological in nature. Adaptogens function like stress vaccines to activate the body’s defense system and metabolic rate, reversing the negative physical effects of stress and restoring the body’s balance and health,” the authors concluded.
They believe that the body of literature spanning adaptogens’ history provides evidence that certain adaptogenic compounds modulate the human immune response beneficially, that it appears they may be able to mitigate the risk of developing a wide host of age-related chronic diseases.
“In conclusion, the evolution of the adaptogenic concept has led back to basics of traditional medicinal systems and a new level of understanding of holistic approach. It provides a rationale for their use in stress-induced and aging-related diseases.
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WikiLeaks emails show Clinton campaign collected data to discredit Bill Clinton accuser
Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton waves as she takes the stage to speak at a fundraiser at the Paramount Theatre in Seattle. Photo / AP
By: Rosalind S. Helderman
After Juanita Broaddrick, who has long accused former president Bill Clinton of raping her in 1978, repeated those allegations in a January tweet, aides to Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton quickly moved to gather information that could be used to undermine her account, hacked internal campaign emails released Saturday by the group WikiLeaks show.
There is no evidence that the campaign publicly responded to Broaddrick's tweet. But the email exchange between Clinton campaign chairman John Podesta and David Kendall, a personal attorney for Bill and Hillary Clinton, offers unusual insight into how Clinton's aides prepared to deal with one of the most sensitive topics it would face during the campaign.
"I was 35 years old when Bill Clinton, Ark. Attorney General raped me and Hillary tried to silence me. I am now 73....it never goes away," Broaddrick had tweeted on Jan. 6, during the Democratic primary season.
The emails show that Kendall and Podesta discussed the matter by phone that evening. The next day, Kendall forwarded Podesta a series of documents showing that Broaddrick had previously denied the rape allegation under oath.
Among the documents Kendall sent was an affidavit that Broaddrick had submitted in a sexual harassment lawsuit filed by Paula Jones against Clinton, in which she indicated that she did not have "any information to offer regarding a non-consensual or unwelcome sexual advance by Mr. Clinton."
Kendall also attached a portion of the report from the Office of Independent Counsel Ken Starr, which investigated allegations against Clinton. Those allegations included one that Clinton had lied under oath in the Jones case by denying having sexual relations with intern Monica Lewinsky. After being given immunity for possible perjury charges by Starr, Broaddrick said her affidavit in the Jones case had been false and that she gave public interviews alleging the rape.
Former President Bill Clinton. Photo / AP
Kendall explained to Podesta: "Starr was seeking more evidence against the President, any way he could, and he immunized Broaddrick to protect her from any prosecution for perjury if she now changed her story. Voila! She did, disavowing her sworn affidavit and sworn deposition testimony."
U.S. intelligence officials have accused the Russian government of orchestrating the illegal hacking of emails from Democratic Party institutions and campaign officials in an effort to meddle with the election. WikiLeaks has indicated that it has more than 50,000 emails from Podesta's account and has been releasing them in daily batches.
The Clinton campaign has refused to authenticate or respond to individual emails, and the Russians have been known to fake or doctor documents. In a statement, campaign spokesman Glen Caplin said: "There is no getting around it: Donald Trump is cheering on a Russian attempt to influence our election through a crime reminiscent of Watergate but on a more massive scale. We're witnessing another effort to steal private campaign documents in order to influence an election. Only this time, instead of filing cabinets, it's people's emails they're breaking into and a foreign government is behind it."
In 1999, Broaddrick publicly said that Clinton had forced her to have sex in a hotel room in Arkansas in the 1970s. She also that year told "Dateline NBC" that Hillary Clinton approached her at a political event a few weeks after the incident and thanked her for everything she did for Bill Clinton, a statement Broaddrick has said she took to be an implicit threat. Broaddrick has continued to speak out against the Clintons, including at a news conference held by Donald Trump just before the Oct. 9 presidential debate.
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Trump met with Broaddrick and other women who have accused Bill Clinton of misconduct prior to the debate and then arranged for them to sit in a prominent location among the ticketed guests. Since then, a series of women have come forward to accuse Trump of touching them inappropriately.
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The Americanisation of Turkey
Turkey's international profile and domestic politics have long been oriented towards the European Union. Now, both the Arab awakening and the internal momentum of AKP rule are pushing Ankara closer to the United States, says Dimitar Bechev.
Dimitar Bechev
There was a time when people in Turkey wishfully called their country küçük Amerika ("the little America"). The phrase reflected a strong, even intimate relationship between the two countries. During the cold-war years, Turkey's centre-right leaders - from Adnan Menderes in the 1950s to Turgut Özal in the 1980s - extolled the virtues of the American dream to a receptive public; the Nato alliance was the alpha and omega of Ankara’s security doctrine; Turkey's elite sent its offspring to colleges across the United States; and Turkish audiences lapped up the latest pop-culture imports such as the TV soap Dallas.
Then, for much of the two subsequent decades, it looked as if Turkey was following a predominantly European path. It has turned out, however, that this was but a detour. In post-Kemalist Turkey, the earlier American vision is coming to full fruition. Europe’s evident failure to accomplish its transformative mission means that Turkish politics is coming under the sway, not of Europeanisation but of Americanisation.
There are many manifestations of the trend. Perhaps the clearest is Turkey's foreign relations. Before the Arab spring of 2011, Turkey had confidently pursued what it called a "zero-problems" regional approach (its own version of Brussels's "European neighbourhood policy" that promotes functional integration with states on the European Union's periphery).
But the violent upheavals in Libya and Syria effectively derailed the "zero-problems" principle. Instead, the region's new turmoil reinforced Ankara's bonds with Washington as they forged a common front on the Syrian crisis (while agreeing to disagree on Israel). Turkey shifted towards projecting the notion of a "Turkish model" as something the awakened Arabs could emulate - whose traces of a "freedom agenda" had resemblances to the outlook of neocons in the George W Bush administration.
Hillary Clinton, the US secretary of state, has even spoken of a "golden era" in US-Turkish relations (which suggests she may be unaware of how close the states were in the 1950s). The contrast with Europe is stark, as Turkey’s relations with EU heavyweights such as France and Germany over its stalled membership negotiations have become poisoned. From Ankara's perspective, the shift towards Washington is natural: after all, what security assets does crisis-stricken Europe have to help Turkey fend off threats emanating from an imploding Syria, an expansionist Iran or an unstable Iraq?
A domestic dynamic
But the connection runs much deeper than the convergence of strategic interests at a critical juncture - for Turkey is also Americanising domestically.
The ruling Justice & Development Party (AKP) may have responded to the weakening of the EU's reformist pressure by succumbing further to an authoritarian temptation in the wake of its third successive electoral victory in June 2011. But even before then, the accommodation of religious conservatism that underpins the AKP's democratic imaginaire closely mirrors a US-style framework while being at increasing variance with Europe’s post-Christian polities.
Turkey's prime minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and his followers, in seeking to bolster the case for Turkey’s accession to the EU, used to cite European-style Christian democracy as a source of inspiration for their moderate form of Islamic politics. In 2012, however, the AKP's social-conservative line on "family values" or the teaching of Darwinian evolution in schools if far more in harmony with attitudes in America’s "red" (Republican) states than in European metropoles.
Turkey has its own "culture wars" which are surely intelligible to the median US citizen. A controversy over proposed reforms that would introduce a middle-school level for 10-14 year-olds who can be enrolled in an imam hatip (religious institution) or be taught at home is a case in point. The AKP maintains that this would broaden girls' access to schooling; critics see it as perpetuating social conservatism.
The influential religious thinker Fethullah Gülen may have a conflictual relationship with Erdoğan, but he remains an influential fellow-traveller of the AKP - and significantly, he resides in Pennsylvania. None other than the New York Times portrayed the "Gülenists" as "the Islamic equivalent of Christian movements appealing to business and the professions."
Both Gülen's movement and the pious entrepreneurs supporting the AKP have embraced the fusion of market-friendly (or neo-liberal) economics and God once popularised by Turgut Özal, perhaps Turkey’s most distinguished Americaniser. Some critics would argue that the religious worldview shared by the AKP and the Gülenists dismisses social rights and redistribution and sees welfare (again similarly to US conservatives) in paternalistic terms as a matter of charity, though in fairness social reforms in key areas such as healthcare have greatly expanded opportunities for Turkey's lower-income groups.
In institutional terms, the AKP’s decade-long ascendancy has resulted in a transition from coalition rule to majoritarian politics. The party governs alone, unimpeded either by the need to share power with other political forces (as its predecessors in the 1990s faced) or by Turkey's so-called "deep state".
The measures sanctioned by the constitutional referendum of 2010 is a prime example of how the AKP's majoritarianism works: it embodied the growing power of a definition of democracy as governing by the will of the (conservative) majority rather than involving coalition-building, sharing power, reassuring and co-opting sceptical minorities. Erdoğan’s intermittent calls to replace the parliamentary regime with presidential rule (with the three-term prime minister presumably at the helm) charts the next step. The inevitable result is to polarise public opinion and raise concerns that a Turkish form of "Putinisation" may be in prospect.
Whether such concerns are warranted or overblown, it is certain that a strong presidency at the heart of Turkey's decision-making system would inaugurate a winner-takes-all political model far removed from the consensual modes of government characteristic of continental Europe. Here is a departure from United States norms, since US presidentialism is part of a functioning checks-and-balances system that includes a powerful legislature and assertive judiciary. This, however, is one area where the US, often blamed for its arrogance, has no particular mechanism to export its constitutional acquis, in contrast with the EU's reliance on membership conditionality.
An international lodestar
But if Turkey is embracing Americanisation rather than Europeanisation, could this process provide a (better) answer to Turkey's burning questions of citizenship and national identity? Again, the European Union long thought that it had the competence and leverage to make a difference in Turkey. But it now appears that Brussels’s standards tended to reinforce Turkey's post-1920s Kemalist order, which was already informed by the French republican ideal of a single and indivisible political community (and often cast, as also in Germany and much of central and eastern Europe, in exclusively ethno-cultural terms).
The retreat of EU influence in Turkey increasingly makes the alternative to Kemalism not one of EU-inspired minority rights, let alone ethnic power-sharing as demanded by Kurdish nationalists, but rather the AKP brand of identity politics which (unlike Kemalism) recognises the multiplicity of ethnic identities while embracing nationalism and the cult of the state. Here, (Sunni) Islam is the overarching, supra-ethnic glue that reconciles the commitment to a strong, sovereign and fiercely patriotic Turkey with cultural-linguistic particularisms. Again, this is a pattern recognisable in the US.
Moreover, the AKP’s nationalism - in contrast to the insular and xenophobic nationalisms of today's Europe - resembles the US's in being defined by a sort of mission civilisatrice in the Arab world, which draws inspiration from the glorious Ottoman era. Hence, Turkey's aforementioned shift from "zero problems" to a "freedom agenda" in the middle east.
True, this effort to recast nationhood along the mildly Islamist worldview to which Turkey’s current rulers subscribe is but a "project in the making", and it is contested from multiple quarters, not least by nationalist Kurds. Its chances of completion hinge on the possibility that civic norms can be enshrined as the core of citizenship. And as long as the new civilian constitution promised by the authorities is nowhere in sight, the project remains out of sync with crude political realities.
So there are also obstacles to Turkey's Americanisation. Turkey’s new establishment has very few knee-jerk Americanophiles (similar to the old secular one, whose attitude to the US was highly instrumental). Turkey's public opinion has traditionally been, as elsewhere in southern Europe, a hotbed of anti-Americanism. The German Marshall Fund’s "transatlantic trends" poll in 2011 finds out that 62% of Turks hold negative views of the US, the highest percentage of all countries surveyed. There is no causal relationship between Turkey’s internal Americanisation and the country’s behaviour vis-à-vis the US, which is essentially a balancing act between the pursuit of security in a turbulent environment and the quest for autonomy.
The EU remains by far the most important trade and investment partner for Turkey, even if membership talks have ground to a halt. If the extensive human links between the two are factored in, it becomes clear that the union will remain the biggest external stakeholder in Turkey’s internal transformation for the foreseeable future - whatever the weather.
It is also true, however, that the US offers a more intelligible and eye-catching model for a country and society that views itself as rising and believes tomorrow will be better than today. Neither the Europe of supranational institutions and liberal values nor the populist Europe of Geert Wilders and Marine Le Pen is a credible or attractive competitor. Europhilia seems to survive in Turkey only in a handful of enclaves in downtown Istanbul and along the Aegean and Mediterranean coasts - as well as in Anatolia’s farthest corners inhabited by Kurds. The majority of Turks, having cast in their lot with the AKP, watch Europe’s eurozone crisis with Schadenfreude.
Europe's loss of symbolic capital in Turkey is a significant development in a longer chain of events. The Tanzimat reforms of the 19th century sought to transplant European modernity onto Ottoman soil. The Kemalists’ quest to bring "contemporary civilisation" to Turkey was equally informed by Eurocentric ideas. To a great degree, Turkey's semi-integration into the EU (even without full membership) has made the country increasingly prosperous and, despite more recent backsliding, more democratic. But it is by looking to America rather than Europe that the new Turkey might obtain a clearer sense of direction.
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Ask Bryan: Making a splash
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Do you see "G-man" making a big splash in free agency or possible trades in the draft? I think our needs are strong safety, cornerback, defensive end and offensive tackle. – Doc in High Point, N.C.
"Substance is more important than splash," general manager Dave Gettleman told me around this time a year ago. "I've seen plenty of teams win the Super Bowl in March; the idea is to win the Super Bowl in February. That's the goal."
The Panthers nearly won the Super Bowl in February without making what many would consider a "splash" last offseason – defined as a big-money signing of a big-name player. Fans looking for a shiny new toy probably don't like hearing this, but Gettleman pointed out at last week's NFL Scouting Combine that the Panthers did make a splash of sorts last offseason.
"We shopped at Tiffany's last year. TD, Greg, Luke and Cam - that cost more than a bag of doughnuts," Gettleman said, referencing offseason contract extensions for Thomas Davis, Greg Olsen, Luke Kuechly and Cam Newton.
This offseason could potentially bring similar deals for the likes of Josh Norman – who was franchise-tagged Tuesday – and perhaps someone like Kawann Short, who is entering the final year of his rookie contract. Gettleman doesn't have a history of spending big on other teams' free agents but he does have a history of hitting on them big, like with Michael Oher and Ted Ginn, Jr. last year.
More likely than a free agent "splash" is a draft day trade. Gettleman made two of those last year.
"We entered the draft last year with nine picks, and we felt very strongly that we had a good club. So you get into the conversation of, 'Why draft nine guys to cut 'em?' Not all nine were going to make the club," Gettleman said. "So because of concerns on my part and because of who was available, we traded up twice with two lower picks."
To summarize, Gettleman's history is to avoid splashes in free agency while splashing away in the draft. Past results, however, don't guarantee future acts.
"Now, you can't put that trade concept in a box," Gettleman said.
After the offensive line collapse in the Super Bowl, what are the odds of drafting a tackle in the draft while keeping the "best player available" mentality? – Tory in Sioux Falls, S.D.
The odds, technically, aren't that good because the Panthers plan to take the best player available at No. 30 but there are probably less than a half-dozen tackles worthy of first-round selection. Add to it that Gettleman has previously passed late in the first round on offensive tackles that many draft analysts viewed worthy of selection, and the odds go further down. Franchise history tells a similar tale, with the Panthers having selected an offensive tackle in the first round just twice in their 21 previous drafts.
In addition, did the offensive line really "collapse" in the Super Bowl? The Broncos' defense played its best football and the Panthers' offensive line – but also the Panthers on the whole – didn't put its best foot forward. After the season, Gettleman adamantly defended the job Mike Remmers has done at right tackle, and Gettleman is no longer questioned about his decision to entrust left tackle to Oher.
But, even with all that said, the Panthers will pick an offensive tackle in the first round if he's deemed to best player available. Few general managers – and certainly not Gettleman – shy away from drafting quality linemen, and the Panthers are in good enough shape up and down their roster to easily avoid any temptation to reach by making a pick based on position need.
Bryan, I was wondering how J.J. Jansen and others around the league are able to re-sign with their current clubs before the period between March 7-9? I thought unrestricted free agents couldn't enter negotiations with their current clubs until this exclusive period. – Jason in Roanoke Rapids, N.C.
The Panthers signed their longtime long snapper, a potential unrestricted free agent, to a five-year contract on Feb. 17. The significance of March 7-9 is that teams can negotiate with the agents of potential unrestricted free agents who played for other teams in 2015 – players they can sign beginning March 9 when the new league year begins and brings free agency with it.
On the other hand, teams are allowed to negotiate with and sign their own potential free agents at any point, so it's entirely possible that the Panthers will re-sign one or more such players before March 9 and could do the same after March 9 as well.
How to watch, listen and follow: Carolina at San Francisco in Week 8
FOX will carry the game in select regions and it will be streamed by Yahoo! Sports at 4 p.m. ET and 1 p.m. PT.
How to watch, listen and follow: Carolina vs. Tampa Bay in Week 6 from London
NFL Network will carry the game nationwide and it will be streamed by Yahoo! Sports at 9:30 a.m. ET.
How to watch, listen and follow: Carolina vs. Tampa Bay in Week 2
NFL Network will carry the game nationwide and it will be streamed by Yahoo! Sports.
How to watch, listen and follow: Carolina vs. Los Angeles in Week 1
Fox will carry the game on air while local fans can stream the game for free.
How to watch, listen and follow: Carolina vs. Pittsburgh in Preseason Week 4
Fans can watch the game on regional TV and NFL Network nationwide.
How to watch, listen and follow: Carolina at New England in Preseason Week 3
Fans can watch the game on TV and streaming online in the Panthers regional area.
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How and where to watch Carolina's Week 12 game against Seattle.
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Hurricane hurtles toward Florida
Hurricane Dorian approaches the coast of Florida in this NASA handout satellite image. Photo via Reuters
Hurricane Dorian spun across the Atlantic ocean toward Florida on Friday, becoming an even stronger Category 4 storm as residents and tourists alike hunkered down in one of America's biggest vacation destinations.
Dorian has the potential to put millions of people at risk, along with holiday attractions such as Walt Disney World, the NASA launchpads along the Space Coast, and even President Trump's Mar-a-Lago resort in Palm Beach.
The Miami-based National Hurricane Center said Dorian was packing maximum sustained winds of 140 mph (225 kph) as it churned an unpredictable path toward Florida.
"Although fluctuations in intensity are possible early next week, Dorian is expected to remain a powerful hurricane during the next few days," the NHC said in a statement on Friday.
On Florida's east coast, where Dorian's winds are expected to quickly gather speed on Monday morning, residents snapped up bottled water, plywood and other supplies as fast as they could be restocked. Some gas stations had run out of fuel.
"They're buying everything and anything that applies to a hurricane, flashlights, batteries, generators," said Amber Hunter, 30, assistant manager at Cape Canaveral's ACE Handiman hardware store.
In the Bahamas, evacuations were already underway, two days before Dorian is expected to bring a life-threatening storm surge forecast at up to 10 to 15 feet (3 to 4.5 meters) to the northwest of the islands.
NHC Director Ken Graham saw a worrying, unpredictable situation for Florida, with the hurricane set to hit land somewhere up its east coast and potentially linger over the state, spinning slowly.
"Slow is not our friend, the longer you keep this around the more rain we get," Graham said in a Facebook Live video.
'CATASTROPHIC EVENTS'
It was unclear where the hurricane would hit land, but the results were expected to be devastating: "Big-time impacts, catastrophic events, for some areas 140 mph winds, not a good situation," said Graham.
Mindful of that warning, Cocoa Beach Mayor Ben Malik was putting up storm shutters on his Florida home on Friday afternoon and worrying about the flooding Dorian could unleash on his barrier island town.
"It's slowed down, we're looking at a multiple-day event, we were hoping it would just barrel through and leave," Malik said of forecasts that Dorian could sit over Florida for up to two days, dumping up to 18 inches (46 cm) of water.
"I'm really worried about the amount of rain we'll be getting."
Florida Governor Ron DeSantis urged residents to have in reserve at least a week's worth of food, water and medicine.
President Donald Trump told reporters before leaving for Camp David for the weekend: "We're thinking about Florida evacuations, but it's a little bit too soon. We'll probably make that determination on Sunday."
But Fort Pierce Mayor Linda Hudson urged its 46,000 residents who planned to evacuate not to delay.
"It's decision time now. Don't wait until I-95 north and I-75 north and the turnpike are parking lots," said Hudson, who experienced two devastating hurricanes in 2004.
Dorian's course remains unpredictable. One of Florida's last major hurricanes, 2017's Irma, swept up the peninsula, instead of hitting the east coast.
Florida residents like Jamison Weeks, general manager at Conchy Joe's Seafood in Port St. Lucie, planned on staying put.
"I'm planning on boarding up my house this evening," said Weeks. "The mood is a little tense, everybody's a little nervous and just trying to prepare as best as possible."
In the Bahamas, Freeport's international airport was set to close on Friday night and not reopen until Sept. 3, amid worries that Dorian will slam tourist hotspots on the archipelago.
Dorian began on Friday over the Atlantic as a Category 2 hurricane on the five-step Saffir-Simpson Wind Scale. By Friday night it was moving at nearly 10 mph (16 kph), giving it time to intensify before making landfall.
Two thousand National Guard troops will have been mobilized for the hurricane by the end of Friday, with 2,000 more joining them on Saturday. Florida officials also were making sure all nursing homes and assisted living facilities had generators.
Only one in five Florida nursing homes plans to rely on deliveries of temporary generators to keep their air conditioners running if Dorian knocks out power, a state agency said on Friday, short of the standard set by a law passed after a dozen people died in a sweltering nursing home after 2017's Hurricane Irma.
North of Cape Canaveral, the Kennedy Space Center's 400-foot (122-m) launch tower was dragged inside a towering vehicle assembly building to shelter it from Dorian, a video posted by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)-owned space launch center showed.
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Smart Partnership ARRIVA and PARKEON focus on future ticketing technologies
Monday, April 2, 2012 2:53 PM
With a fleet of more than 4,000 buses equipped with the UK's leading on-vehicle ticketing technology and its own HOPS back office system, Arriva UK Bus is certainly at the forefront of Britain's smart media revolution. Its partnership with leading fare collection technology company Parkeon means that from north to south and east to west, Arriva is driving the vision of an integrated transport network, fully exploiting the benefits of ITSO architecture and smarter payment methods.
Parkeon is the preferred provider of on-vehicle ticketing technology for Arriva UK Bus and the future-proof nature of its architecture makes it the ideal partner for automatic fare collection innovation.
The most recent Arriva operator to invest in Parkeon technology is Arriva North West and Wales, which will be one of the 'smartest' in the country when it leverages the power of the Wayfarer200 ticketing platform to work across five regions - Merseyside, Cheshire, North Wales, Lancashire and Greater Manchester.
The scheme follows on from numerous other Parkeon ticketing schemes in progress with Arriva UK Bus, including roll-outs for Arriva Midlands, Arriva Yorkshire, Arriva Southern Counties, Arriva North East and Arriva The Shires.
"ITSO is a core element in our ticketing strategy," says Mike Woodhouse, Marketing Manager at Arriva UK Bus. "It is key to many of our future plans since it has the potential to realise the vision of an integrated public transport network.
"We value the expertise of partners, such as Parkeon, who have invested hugely in the underlying architecture that delivers the benefits of ITSO to operators and their customers"
In addition to supporting ITSO enabled smart cards, Arriva is leading the way in mobile ticketing, with more than 2 Million journeys already made using m-tickets, and is evaluating next generation developments in areas such as NFC communication and EMV payments, both of which are already enabled through the Wayfarer200 on-board ticket console.
NFC standards enable smartphones and similar devices to communicate with each other through near-field communication...and bus travel is an obvious application for the technology. EMV enables small cash payments to be made instantly through bank cards without using chip and pin.
"Despite our achievements so far, Arriva is not sitting still when it comes to improving our service," says Mike Woodhouse.
"The next 12 months will see Arriva continue to lead the industry in innovation and customer service, as we reveal a number of new developments. Our view is that m-commerce will explode in the coming years and Arriva will be well positioned to offer the associated benefits to our customers, who will then have a range of payment options, ranging from mobile phones, contactless cards and cash, so our customers can choose which is best suited for them."
Owen Griffith, Managing Director of Parkeon Transit, comments: "With ITSO-enabled smartcards in wide circulation and the potential for significant innovation in mobile ticketing, our focus is very much on helping bus operators deliver on their promises to their customers, who expect travel to be easy and, literally, at their fingertips."
Parkeon's Wayfarer200 is the fourth generation Wayfarer technology adopted by Arriva since the early 1980s
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PFF College Top 25 – heading into Week 4
Sep 15, 2018; Oxford, MS, USA; Alabama Crimson Tide wide receiver Jerry Jeudy (4) reacts with teammates after scoring a touchdown against the Mississippi Rebels during the second quarter at Vaught-Hemingway Stadium. Mandatory Credit: Matt Bush-USA TODAY Sports
Below is the third installment of our weekly PFF ELO rankings for college football. Like all ELO systems (including our version for the NFL), PFF ELO is an iterative system that updates each team’s rating after each game based on two things: how well they played against their opponent and how well they were expected to play against their opponent. The PFF ELO rating system measures the former using our unique offensive, defensive and special teams grades, while the latter is determined by the PF FELO ratings leading up to the game and where the game is played.
For example, a heavy favorite playing at home is expected to outplay the visitor, so a victory would result in only a small rise in their PFF ELO rating and a similarly-small decrease in the defeated team’s, but if an upset were to happen, the visiting team would see their PFF ELO rating rise substantially, and the home team’s see a similarly-sized drop.
Week 3 gave us an exciting game between TCU and Ohio State, while Alabama continues to make us think there should be something better than a No. 1 rating we can give them. Wisconsin (our then-No. 2-ranked team) fell outright to BYU at home, even though the grades would suggest a score a bit more in their favor. Our high rating of LSU at the beginning of the season continues to bear fruit, as they beat Auburn for their second win against a top-25 team, contributing to our winning week against the spread on this site.
Sometimes in football, the best team does not win, and PFF ELO accounts for these oddities by using our grades. Hence there will be teams rated higher or lower in this system than their win-loss record would suggest. Since PFF began charting college football in 2014, the difference in PFF ELO values alone has been able to explain over three-fourths of the variance in the closing Vegas line. Check back on our site for weekly college spread picks using this model (as well as other information) and check out PFF Greenline for our NFL version of the product.
The PFF ELO College Power Rankings are brought to you by Eckrich, the Official Smoked Sausage of the College Football Playoff.
The rankings:
Rank: 1 / Week 2 Ranking: 1st (no change)
It’s hard to believe we could be any higher on a team, but Alabama is clear of the rest of college football by about 40 PFF ELO points. Tua Tagovailoa is generating a big-time throw on roughly 12 percent of his dropbacks so far, which is second in the SEC through three weeks. His supporting cast is helping him as well, as every air yard is being converted into 1.46 passing yards so far (kudos to Josh Hermsmeyer for this stat), making the Alabama passing game efficient on over 55 percent of early-down plays.
Led by Quinnen Williams (nine pressures and 12 stops), the Crimson Tide defense has generated 74 total pressures so far, and limited opposing offenses to -0.47 EPA on early-down passes and -0.37 EPA on early-down runs.
Rank: 2 / Week 2 Ranking: 3rd (+1)
Georgia put up 40 points or more for the third consecutive game Saturday, with Justin Fields generating the highest per-dropback grade of all quarterbacks in the SEC in relief of Jake Fromm, who has been positively-graded as well. Their 0.61 EPA per early-down passing play is easily the highest in the conference, while they have also been positive in the running game, generating success on roughly 47 percent of early-down plays in the ground game.
There are zero players on the Georgia defense that has a significantly negative grade, a testament to the fact that they’ve missed only 11 tackles through their first three games, versus 70 stops. Their lack of a pass-rush (only 16 total pressures) is a bit concerning and teams have been successful on roughly 48 percent of early-down passes, so look for how this evolves as they get into the heart of SEC play before fully buying into them moving forward.
Rank: 3 / Week 2 Ranking: 4th (+1)
Kyler Murray has generated over half an expected point per dropback so far this season while producing only one turnover-worthy play in the process. Oklahoma has been successful on over 55 percent of early-down passing plays, while also averaging a positive EPA on early-down running plays.
They’ve struggled a bit defensively, allowing the second-most EPA per passing play in the Big 12 so far. Their coverage grade is currently 77th in the nation, despite an impressive 52 total pressured generated through three games. Their 34 missed tackles are a concern and will have to be corrected if they want to contend here moving forward.
Ohio State won a thrilling “neutral” site game against No. 20 ranked TCU as their passing offense continues to impress, generating an EPA per dropback of 0.42 on early downs, by far the best in the Big Ten. Dwayne Haskins has been exceptional from a clean pocket with 11 touchdowns and zero interceptions, posting a passer rating of 148.1 (first among all FBS quarterbacks).
Very little has been said about the injury to Nick Bosa, our No. 1 overall player heading into the season. If he misses significant time, the success that Ohio State has had in pass defense will be adversely affected. Through three weeks, they have allowed a successful pass on only 38 percent of early down dropbacks. Pair this with a successful rush allowed on 27 percent of attempts and you have a tantalizing defense now dealing with a frustrating injury problem.
Trace McSorley is playing exceptionally to start 2018 with a big-time throw on eight percent of his dropbacks. He has also discovered the cheat code to rushing EPA, delivering an EPA per rushing attempt of 1.15 on 23 attempts in 2018, essentially becoming the best dual-threat quarterback outside of Oklahoma in 2018. Miles Sanders continues to impress, forcing seven missed tackles in Week 3. As a rushing unit, Penn State has a successful rush on 53 percent of early downs.
The Nittany Lions defense has stifled early downs, allowing a successful pass on 38 percent of attempts and a successful rush on 37 percent of attempts. Tariq Castro-Fields has stood out in coverage allowing a passer rating of 71.4 and a minuscule seven yards after the catch.
Rank: 6 / Week 2 Ranking: 6th (no change)
Clemson played in the midst of Hurricane Florence which resulted in quick work of an overmatched Georgia State team at home. Trevor Lawrence out-snapped Kelly Bryant for the first time this season as the coaches continue to try to prepare him to play meaningful snaps later this year. As a passing offense, they continue to search for the right identity posting a neutral passing EPA on early downs to start 2018. Travis Etienne impressed on Saturday forcing six missed tackles and 57 yards after contact, joining our Team of the Week in the process. With a rushing success rate of 64 percent on early downs, Clemson has no problems dismantling inferior teams.
The question remains how they will fare against a quality opponent relying on their rushing attack to make up for their middling passing success.
Auburn largely controlled their game against LSU Saturday but did not come away with the victory in large part due to the ineffective play of their quarterback Jarrett Stidham (a fate we largely predicted here). He’s had more turnover-worthy plays (4.6 percent of his dropbacks) than big-time throws (3.4 percent), which will significantly limit them moving forward if they can’t get that corrected.
They’ve allowed early-down success at a rate of roughly 30 percent so far this year, and even under mild regression, this will make them one of the best defenses in the league for the foreseeable future. Deshaun Davis has been a monster, with 19 stops and just one missed tackle, while chipping in five pressures as well.
Rank: 8 / Week 2 Ranking: 11th (+4)
LSU was able to beat Auburn on the road as Joe Burrow did not throw a single turnover-worthy pass against the vaunted Auburn defense. To start 2018, Burrow has one such throw in three games and LSU won by being aggressive; throwing on 56 percent of first downs and generating an EPA per first down dropback of 0.38. Burrow has been up to the challenge when tasked with throwing downfield, logging a passer rating of 125.0 on throws 20-plus yards downfield.
LSU’s secondary played exceptionally well in coverage with a passer rating allowed of 62.8. Logging pressure on only 25 percent of dropbacks, the defensive backfield was largely responsible for the successful coverage plays. Greedy Williams made the big plays with one interception and one pass breakup on six targets and Kristian Fulton blanketed his matchup seeing only one target on 28 coverage snaps.
Rank: 9 / Week 2 Ranking: 2nd (-7)
After picking Wisconsin to cover 21.5 points and having them highly ranked in our model, the Badgers severely disappointed on Saturday. Wisconsin played an uninspiring game and lost at home to BYU. The Badgers have relied heavily on the run to generate offensive success on early downs in 2018 with 58 percent rushing success. Saturday’s game provided yet another example of rushing being futile in a losing effort from an EPA standpoint in a football game. Alex Hornibrook did not record a big-time throw and had exactly one pass attempt travel 20 or more yards downfield. It was a recipe for disaster as the Wisconsin passing attack continued to struggle on early downs with a successful pass on only 42 percent of dropbacks.
Wisconsin will need to right the ship quickly as they head into conference play. Any shot at a big-time bowl game will require running the table in the Big Ten.
Rank: 10 / Week 2 Ranking: 10th (no change)
Notre Dame survived against an above-average Vanderbilt team Saturday and remains in our top 10. They are going to have to get better play from Brandon Wimbush if they want to stay there, though. He has thrown a negatively-graded pass on almost 30 percent of his dropbacks so far this year, and the Irish have struggled to a -0.10 EPA per early-down pass play.
Luckily, their defense has been stout so far, allowing early-down success on just 42.4 percent of passes and 36.47 percent of runs. Their defense has generated 66 total pressures and 82 stops through three games, with Te’von Coney (eight pressures and 18 stops) especially impressive.
11. Oklahoma State (+2)
12. Stanford (-3)
13. Mississippi State (+5)
14. Washington (+1)
15. UCF (-3)
16. Iowa (-1)
17. USF (-)
18. Michigan (+4)
19. Miami (+5)
20. TCU (-2)
21. Virginia Tech (-)
22. Washington State (+5)
23. Boise State (-7)
24. NC State (-1)
25. Texas (+21)
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Preparing for Government Mandated Stockpiling of PPE
By PeakLogixNovember 18, 2020December 9th, 2020No Comments
The first case of the novel coronavirus in the US was reported to the CDC on January 22, 2020. By April, the Strategic National Stockpile was nearly depleted of medical Personal Protective Equipment (PPE), despite having delivered only a fraction needed by essential workers.
Storing and managing the quantity of supplies needed to guard against global or national pandemics is both costly and logistically challenging. Nevertheless, federal, state, and local lawmakers are introducing legislation or executive orders to mandate the stockpiling of PPE for healthcare and other essential workers.
Many of these bills and orders require hospitals, medical centers, and even nursing homes to maintain their own 90-day supply of PPE. Healthcare providers and distributors of medical products will need a way to store and manage this increased supply of PPE.
PALLET RUNNER®, a semi-automated storage solution from Automha, is a proven solution that can help facilities accommodate these requirements. PeakLogix has used PALLET RUNNER® to help existing warehouses increase their capacity by 60% and utilization rates by 80%.
While existing warehouses may have to be redesigned, and new facilities built to meet these new PPE demands and inventory requirements, integrating even just one PALLET RUNNER® storage system will maximize throughput and storage density.
Managing PPE inventory effectively
Tracking and maintaining inventory are further challenges to dealing with the quantity of goods needed to maintain a 90-day stockpile of medical PPE. As early as March 2020, stockpiles in California, Indiana, and across the country were shown to have expired while sitting, unused, in warehouses.
Researchers at Berkeley’s School of Public Health estimate that, for California alone, 14 million N95 masks are needed to maintain a 90-day stockpile. But on top of that, they suggest that for each N95 mask, stockpiles should also include 2 surgical masks, 1 face shield, 2 isolation gowns, 2 shoe covers, and 9 pairs of gloves.
PALLET RUNNER® can store, maintain, and quickly retrieve the increased inventory for a single hospital or healthcare network and adjusted to either LIFO or FIFO depending on each facility’s requirements. When properly integrated, this removes the need for rotating stock and, when combined with a robust tracking system, eliminates the risk of product expiring before being used.
Cost of storing stockpiles of PPE
The cost of PPE stockpiles is being discussed as an insurance policy against threats of a COVID resurgence or future pandemics.
The Berkeley report estimates that – due to the drastic markups seen during the pandemic – purchasing a 90-day stockpile of PPE would cost only 17% of the cost of buying the supplies on an as-needed basis during an active pandemic. However, this assumes using or selling – and replacing – portions of the stockpile before they expire.
This means that in order to make stockpiles viable, they will have to look much more like modern distribution centers and less like the static warehouses of the past.
A Proven Solution: PALLET RUNNER®
The semi-automated PALLET RUNNER® storage system from Automha, the world leader in cart-based automation, has a proven track record in medical supply distribution facilities.
Facilities that integrate PALLET RUNNER® see near-immediate benefits of the deep-lane storage and semi-automated system. They’re able to employ a high-density solution that maximizes the cubic space of a facility, as well as the number of slots available for inventory. Throughput is also maximized – in essence, each SKU is given its own channel within the warehouse, which makes both re-supply and retrieval efficient.
PALLET RUNNER®’s semi-automated system further increases productivity by transporting pallets in and out of deep-lane storage automatically. This leaves lift-truck operators only interacting with product between the receiving dock and lane-storage entry and exit.
Thoughtful integration of modern material handling systems like PALLET RUNNER® can better prepare us should COVID-19 have a next wave. And they will help prepare us for any future pandemics.
Learn more about how PALLET RUNNER® can enhance your capacity and operations.
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Playing with liberty
Alicia Bridges, in STMNews Corp Australia
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AUSTRALIA might be best known overseas for kangaroos and the "crikey" catchphrase, but one of the more truthful Aussie stereotypes is our love of a good laugh.
And that’s something Perth-based theatre stalwart Neill Gladwin is very familiar with.
A dash of the sunburnt country seems to emerge in almost everything he touches, dating back to his first role out of university.
Gladwin started his career as one half of the comedy duo Los Trios Ringbarkus, an international success which he and Steve Kearney toured for 10 years.
At home the act supported iconic Australian bands including Midnight Oil and Men At Work during the ’80s.
Gladwin was also behind some of Lano and Woodley’s stage shows, and wrote the “lawnmower man” skit for the Sydney 2000 Olympics Closing Ceremony.
With such an extensive background in all things Australian, it seems only natural Gladwin should take responsibility for a new production about Australia’s win over the US in the 1983 America’s Cup.
The late Perth Theatre Company artistic director Alan Becher had spent two years creating and nurturing Taking Liberty, a play written by Ingle Knight to mark the 25th anniversary of the iconic Australia II victory.
Before his death last month, he had asked Gladwin to direct the play.
“From what Alan told me he was interested in exploring stories that were of this community but would also have wider, universal appeal,” Gladwin says.
The Americans were undefeated in the Cup until Australia II. The win was made possible largely by Alan Bond, who threw bucketloads of money towards the race in the late ’70s.
Gladwin says Bond’s role in the story is particularly fascinating. “He just literally never gave up,” Gladwin says. “He was like a dog that’s gets beaten over the head and he just gets up, comes back and bites them back again,” he says.
“He poured money into it initially thinking this is going to be a great business opportunity and trying to flog real estate with it, but ultimately it became something very different for him.”
Gladwin says the race put an end to the Australian perception that American sportsmen were unbeatable.
“I think there was this fringe mentality of ‘Maybe we’re not good enough to beat the Americans’,” he says. “It really was like climbing Everest.”
Taking Liberty. Mon, 6.30pm; Tues-Fri, 7.30pm; Sat, 2.15pm and 7.30pm. Season continues Sept 29-Oct 4. The Playhouse Theatre, Perth. Tickets $46.50, conc. $37.50 from BOCS.
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Police given powers to restrict human traffickers in Scotland
Police and the courts can now use new powers to restrict the activities of those believed to pose a risk to the public from human trafficking and exploitation.
Police and the courts can now use new powers to restrict the activities of those believed to pose a risk to the public from human trafficking and exploitation. Trafficking and Exploitation Prevention Orders (TEPOs) came into force on Friday (June 30), and allow courts to impose restrictions on those who have been convicted of trafficking and exploitation offences or if it can be shown that there is a risk of psychological or physical harm. Restrictions that can be imposed include stopping someone employing staff, working with children and vulnerable people, or travelling to certain countries for a minimum of five years. TEPOs, introduced by the Human Trafficking and Exploitation (Scotland) Act 2015 (Relevant Trafficking or Exploitation Offences and Relevant UK Orders) Regulations 2017, can be imposed at the point of sentencing or on application by Police Scotland. In the most serious cases, a breach of a TEPO could result in a five-year prison sentence, a fine or both. For less serious cases, a breach would result in a maximum 12 months in prison, a fine or both. In October, Trafficking and Exploitation Risk Orders (TEROs) which can be imposed when a person poses a risk of committing a relevant offence will also come into force. Justice Secretary Michael Matheson said: We will continue to make Scotland an increasingly hostile place for those who treat other human beings as commodities. These new powers for the police and courts will help to further protect the public from harm. We have already strengthened the law, creating a specific offence of human trafficking for the first time. Now we are making sure that action can be taken when a person poses a continuing risk. We are working hard to eradicate trafficking and exploitation in Scotland and providing high quality support for victims who have suffered physical and psychological harm. Detective Superintendent Stuart Houston, Police Scotland Human Trafficking Unit, added: “We welcome all additional opportunities and tactics to disrupt human trafficking activities. “Human trafficking is a priority for Police Scotland and we continue to target those who control, abuse and exploit others. By working collaboratively with partners, such as the Scottish government, to ensure Scotland is a hostile environment for this sickening trade.” The following criteria must apply for TEPOs to be granted:
The person has been convicted of a relevant trafficking and exploitation offence or an acquittal on the basis of mental disorder or unfitness to stand trial. (A relevant offence also applies to those committed elsewhere in the UK).
There is a risk the person may commit an offence of trafficking or exploitation and the order will protect others from psychological and physical harm.
Prohibitions under a TEPO (or TERO) could also include:
Advertising for/recruiting/employing staff;
Being a gangmaster;
Working with children or vulnerable people;
Living with (specified) children/vulnerable people;
Organising transport/accommodation for other people;
Travelling to specified countries;
Contacting/ recruiting specific individuals, directly or indirectly, either personally or by any electronic means;
Holding a licence to act as a sponsor for visa applications; or
Going to a specific place (eg where a victim resides).
TEROs can only be made by the court after an application by police. A conviction is not required, but a risk that the person may commit a trafficking or exploitation offence and the order is needed to protect others from psychological and physical harm. TEROs last for a fixed period of at least two years and come into force on October 31.
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Online Marketing Mix Enhances Site Strategy
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An online marketing mix is a strategy that determines what kind of choices to make for building a Web presence.
Marketing mix is a concept with a long history in business. It usually includes four Ps:
Product (or service)
The 4 P’s of online marketing work just as well. But the online mix has some unique twists to the traditional model. Does a website have a place? How do you price it if most websites are free?
The first part of this one is easy. The most common online product is a website.
From a marketing perspective, which really means a customer perspective, what benefits should it provide that make it worthwhile for the customer to visit and come back again?
A list of other questions comes to mind:
What is the name of the site? Is that domain name available for purchase?
Does the domain name have a relevant keyword that will boost its presence in search engines?
If not, are the promotional budget and organic campaign tactics strong enough to build it as a unique brand, i.e., Amazon.com?
What is the design concept?
What features and functions will it offer?
How much competition will it face?
What resources are required to build, maintain and grow it?
A website doesn’t have a fixed and unchangeable nature like a can of Coke. The Coca Cola company can’t alter a can of Coke after it has been produced. An online publisher can change a website after its initial launch. Online products are remarkably dynamic, interactive and trackable.
Therein lies one of the great advantages of online publishing. The ability to use analytics to track site visitors will allow the publisher to make continuous improvements that benefit the business in the long run. Site usability is fluid.
Place is a little more tricky in an online marketing mix. In traditional marketing, place includes the physical location of the business. It’s not quite the same with a website, which is an intangible.
But both have geographical appeal. Think of online place as a location with the potential to reach certain geographic audiences. The online product may target a U.S. audience — or an English speaking audience that includes U.S., Canadian and British visitors.
The place is therefore the country it targets, not the origin of the product. If the website targets a community, the place is much more narrowly defined.
Where and how the publisher promotes the site will have an impact on its geographic footprint. But again, analytics will show whether the actual audience matches the promotional effort or whether that effort needs adjusting.
Price shows up several ways in an online marketing mix, starting with whether or not the website itself is free to access.
Sites with high-value content that other sites can’t easily duplicate have a chance to charge for access. Sites with advertising or that sell products are almost always free.
Somes sites are hybrid versions of the above two options. They may offer free access to a limited number of articles on a daily or monthly basis and payment for more frequent access.
What if the company sells the same product or service online as it does in an offline environment? The price question goes to whether the product should get a discount online and IF the online cost of the transaction is lower than offline.
Newspapers are a great example of that concept. Newspaper publishers must pay for newsprint, printing presses and circulation costs. They do not have those expenses with the online version of their products.
Price also comes into play for another set of clients — advertisers.
Sites that publish original content usually get the bulk of their revenue from advertisers. So pricing ads on the site becomes an important consideration.
For pure Web brands, promotion begins with online tactics such as search engine optimization, paid advertising, content marketing, social media, email marketing and other means of reaching an audience.
Sites with large budgets also consider using offline promotional channels such as print, broadcast and outdoor.
The ads in those environments may have website promotion as the primary goal of the campaign. Or they may mention the site as a secondary goal, such as an auto dealer touting a new car sale with a simple reference to the website address somewhere in the ad.
Competition again is a factor. Some tactics are so crowded that it is difficult if not impossible to get the message heard.
As an example, try to get ranked No. 1 in Google for the keyword “vacation deals” or “cheap flights” or any number of other hotly competitive phrases.
The online marketing mix concept is one of many useful ways of developing an online marketing strategy.
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San Francisco Creates iPhone App for Recycling
The city known to be on the cutting edge of technology also enjoys its place as leader of the green movement.
San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom announced an application for the iPhone that will make recycling easier for city residents.
San Franciscans can use the EcoFinder iPhone app to locate where to recycle or properly dispose of materials by using the location-based phone software program.
“Instead of dumping old electronics or furniture on the sidewalk, the EcoFinder iPhone app tells you where these materials should go, based on your location,” according to an announcement by the city.
The city’s first iPhone app is based on a City data feed.
Newsom believes this is another step towards continual improvement in recycling numbers for San Francisco. His city is already the leaders in the nation with a diversion rate of 72 percent of all material going to the landfill, according to the city announcement. The goal is to be at 75 percent by 2010 and zero waste by 2020.
An application for the iPhone is a software program that can be downloaded to your phone. Other iPhone applications include resources like the EcoFinder, games, social networking and more.
The city’s environmental department worked with a private company, Haku Wale, to design and produce the application.
For more information, visit www.ecofinderapp.com.
James Spencer can be reached at jspencer@publicceo.com
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Former Bell Second-In-Command Gets 11 Years in Prison for Corruption
Angela Spaccia, former Bell assistant city manager under Robert Rizzo, was sentenced to 11 years in prison on Thursday for her significant role in bilking the working-class city she served.
According to the Los Angeles Times, a Los Angeles Superior Court judge branded Spaccia a “hog” for padding her own salary while the City of Bell faced the threat of insolvency.
Judge Kathleen Kennedy has ordered the former official to pay more than $8 million in restitution to the city.
“It was all about the money,” remarked Kennedy. “Ms. Spaccia likes to portray herself as somehow a victim of Mr. Rizzo. She is no victim… She got unbelievable amounts of money.”
One of the trial’s most colorful moments occurred when prosecutors brought forward an email between Spaccia and one Randy Adams, Bell’s then police chief.
“You can take your share of the pie just like us!!!” she wrote. “We all will get fat together … Bob has an expression he likes to use on occasion … Pigs get Fat … Hogs get slaughtered!!! So long as we’re not Hogs … all is well!!”
Kennedy has been reviewing the cases since 2011. Her quip that Spaccia should be considered “a hog, not a pig,” is the first time to date she has offered up her opinion on the cases.
Rizzo and the five former councilmembers in question face sentencing later this year.
Read the full story at the Los Angeles Times.
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San Diego County Finds Early Struggles as it Tackles the Hardest Problem in Homelessness
Project One for All, the county’s commitment to house 1,250 of the most vulnerable homeless San Diegans, has helped get dozens off the streets and drawn praise from even some of the most skeptical local advocates. But the much-celebrated initiative has hit some snags in its early months. Confusion has sometimes plagued its implementation.
By Lisa Halverstadt.
It’s one of San Diego’s most overwhelming challenges: What to do about homeless folks who abruptly scream at strangers or openly suffer with debilitating depression – yet seem unwilling to seek help.
San Diego County officials responded to that particular part of the homelessness dilemma with a major program that aims to treat and house hundreds of these vulnerable San Diegans
A year ago, county supervisors pledged to try to move 1,250 homeless San Diegans with serious mental illnesses into new apartments over the next few years.
County supervisors promised to treat and provide supportive services to hundreds of people and work with cities across the region to subsidize their rent.
It was a significant commitment. Advocates have long criticized the county for not doing enough to address the region’s growing crisis.
It’s called Project One for All. It has helped get dozens off the streets since county contracts were first expanded early last year and drawn praise from even some of the most skeptical local advocates.
But the much-celebrated initiative has hit some snags in its early months. Confusion has sometimes plagued its implementation.
The manager of a downtown-focused homeless outreach team whose contract was beefed up last year with the influx of Project One for All resources in mind told me he wasn’t sure where to take clients to get Project One for All housing vouchers. He later learned his team had actually been following the correct process unknowingly.
If Project One for All succeeds, county leaders predict San Diego County, which has the nation’s fourth-largest homeless population, could dramatically reduce homelessness.
To do it, they’ll have to overcome a tight housing market and connect homeless clients considered among the most difficult to get off the streets with the resources they need to avoid returning there.
And they’ll have to cut through bureaucratic roadblocks and coordination challenges popping up as they build a complex program that demands collaboration between a chorus of players across the region, from nonprofit agencies to landlords.
“We’ve got a lot more work to do but at least we’ve got a good start on focusing on trying to deal with the most difficult homeless population we’re going to deal with,” said County Supervisor Greg Cox, who proposed the program with Supervisor Ron Roberts.
For years, mayors and City Council members have received the bulk of the complaints about San Diego’s homeless population.
That’s changed as San Diegans across the region confront more homelessness in their neighborhoods.
The county has long served homeless San Diegans who access its myriad social service programs but hasn’t placed a significant emphasis on homelessness despite the significant funds it has to help.
Roberts and Cox, who represent San Diego and South Bay communities, decided early last year they needed to do more.
“A lot of what we were anecdotally hearing and seeing told us, ‘We’ve gotta step up the game plan here,’” Roberts said.
So last February, they proposed investing millions of dollars the county receives from the so-called millionaires’ tax into a program to aid homeless people countywide who have a serious mental illness. They envisioned a program similar to Project 25, a partially county-funded initiative that’s won accolades for getting about three dozen homeless folks off the street. It saved millions that would have otherwise been spent on things like emergency room treatment for the chronically homeless.
County supervisors kicked off Project One for All with votes to bolster various county contracts to serve 1,250 people with a serious mental illness such as bipolar disorder or schizophrenia.
The county’s since gotten commitments, mostly from the San Diego Housing Commission and the county’s own housing authority, to supply 1,100 housing vouchers for the program. It’s hoping Oceanside, National City, Carlsbad and Encinitas each step up to contribute more.
And it’s worked with several county contractors to add more slots for homeless folks to receive treatment and intensive case management before and after they move into permanent homes.
Advocates have cheered the county’s pledge, including the head of a federal agency that coordinates homelessness efforts. They laud the increased commitment to homeless folks and the innovative use of state mental health money.
“Project One for All feels like a great example of a county using mainstream mental health resources to be a key engine for trying to reduce homelessness among people with mental illnesses,” said Matthew Doherty, who leads the U.S. Interagency Council on Homelessness.
The county’s efforts have brought some early success. The county and housing authorities placed 95 clients in permanent housing through the end of last month. Another 145 were searching for homes, and many had moved into temporary housing while they looked.
Rose, who asked that I not use her real name, is one of those who’s navigated the program. The 64-year-old told me she had for years spent stints on the street, in short-term homes and hospitals before she moved into a downtown apartment last month.
Rose is open about her struggles. She said she has dissociative identity disorder and has often fallen into anxiety and depression. She’s also been saddled with chronic pain, a colon condition and other physical ailments.
A recuperative care nurse referred Rose to a Project One for All provider following a hospital stay last year.
Rose now lives in an apartment decorated with her crochet projects and filled with furniture and other amenities provided by the Community Research Foundation’s Senior Impact program. She said her health is improving and she’s more upbeat. A team that includes a psychiatrist, a nurse and a case manager is assigned to keep regular tabs on her needs.
“I still feel like I’m dreaming,” Rose told me in December.
Life still isn’t easy, though. Rose told me she’s still working through the trauma of years on and off the street.
Social workers who’ve aided formerly homeless clients say a transition process is common. It takes time to adjust to life in a new home.
The county and its contractors will have to help Rose and hundreds of others as they transition – and for the long haul.
“Most of the work happens after they get housed,” said social worker Bridget Kiefaber of nonprofit Community Research Foundation, who’s leading the team working with Rose.
In San Diego, a housing voucher is far from a guaranteed ticket off the street, a reality the county is facing with Project One for All.
It can take months before a homeless person jaded by life on the street will agree to enroll in services. Project One for All requires homeless clients to enroll in treatment services, which can give some pause.
It’s not that they want to remain homeless, it’s that many have learned to survive on the street and aren’t quick to trust those offering help.
County officials have acknowledged the need to increase outreach and to plan on weeks and months of interactions with particularly vulnerable clients.
So on a Wednesday in January, county mental health clinician Sally Dunn visited with more than a dozen homeless folks in Presidio Park and the Midway area. She wasn’t immediately assessing whether they’d be eligible for Project One for All but said referrals to other programs might lead some down that path.
Dunn handed several folks forms to get free ID cards they’ll need to access services and gave another a referral for a clubhouse in North Park where she might get additional help.
But Bernie Miles, the manager for the North Park clubhouse program run by Episcopal Community Services, confessed some confusion about Project One for All.
Episcopal Community Services’ goals under its county contracts are two-fold. The nonprofit serves adults with serious mental illnesses at its Friend to Friend clubhouse in North Park and it conducts outreach downtown in hopes of connecting more homeless people with services, including those tied to Project One for All.
Yet Miles, who oversees both efforts, told VOSD that he hadn’t received a detailed briefing on how to connect his clients despite the fact that his group holds a contract to do just that.
“We didn’t talk about the specifics,” Miles said.
After I shared Miles’ story with county officials, a county Health and Human Services Agency official contacted him to explain the path to a Project One for All voucher. Miles learned his team had been appropriately referring clients through the process – even if they hadn’t known they were following it.
The county has scheduled a meeting next week to discuss the Project One for All process with outreach workers.
Susan Bower, director of integrated services for county’s Health and Human Services Agency, said she wasn’t sure why Miles hadn’t understood the process.
“It really highlights for us the need for ongoing training,” Bower said.
The fact that agencies can’t directly link clients to Project One for All through the regional database that’s been set up to connect homeless folks with services may have added to the confusion.
To get a Project One for All voucher, clients must enroll with one of three agencies who hold county contracts to provide the program’s wrap-around services or visit a county-affiliated clinic.
Then there’s the fact that many of the vouchers, while approved by housing authorities, haven’t been doled out yet.
Bower is confident the county and its contractors can work through these issues in time.
They’re hiring new staffers and still need to ink multiple contracts to help homeless clients navigate San Diego’s housing market and work on treatment programs.
“Any time you do anything this big it takes a little time to get it (going) full on,” Bower said.
In about a year, the county and various cities could apply for significant cash to build housing for chronically homeless people who have serious mental illnesses through a $2 billion bond approved by the state Legislature last year.
Rick Gentry, chair of the regional group coordinating San Diego’s approach to homelessness, said San Diego wouldn’t have been well-positioned for that application just a couple years ago.
He believes regional efforts since, particularly Project One for All, are likely to help San Diego pull in more money.
“We’re moving more and more into what we need to be,” Gentry said.
Cox and Roberts say more success with Project One for All could also set the stage for the county to throw more resources at the region’s mushrooming homelessness problem.
“What I’m hoping is we can enjoy some success and I think that success would bring expanded efforts,” Roberts said. “I think that’s what we have to do. We have to show people that if we spend some money we’re making something positive happen.”
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England Women’s Kabaddi Team Prepare for World Cup
November 28th, 2014 The England Women’s Kabaddi Team are preparing to participate in the 5th Kabaddi World Cup due to take place in India in December. This will be the fourth time the team have competed and will be up against the USA, Denmark, Pakistan, New Zealand and Mexico. The world cup tournament runs from 5 to 20... By November 28th, 2014 0 comments
England Cricket Players Teach Pupils at New Leicester School
October 16th, 2014 Pupils at Crown Hill's Community College got a chance to learn cricket skills from members of the England and England women cricket squads, as part of the Schools official opening. The new £21million facility, which is now a local centre for excellence in Cricket, was opened by Leicester City Mayor Sir Peter Soulsby and... By October 16th, 2014 0 comments
Rugby World Cup 2015 Countdown
May 7th, 2014 Schools from Leicester celebrated 500 days to go until the 2015 Rugby World Cup on Tuesday at a coaching session in the city. Pupils from two primary schools were given training tips by coaches from the Rugby Football Union and Belgrave Rugby Club as well as England women's international Maggie... By May 7th, 2014 0 comments
Leicester City Fans Line Streets for Victory Parade
May 6th, 2014 Yesterday fans lined the streets of Leicester to celebrate Leicester City’s promotion into the Barclays Premier League and their clinching of the SkyBet Championship Trophy. The celebrations revolved around an open-top bus parade in which the players, club staff and coaching team, including manager Nigel Pearson, were cheered as they... By May 6th, 2014 0 comments
Leicester Riders Secure Place at BBL Play off Semi-Final
April 28th, 2014 The Leicester Riders are through to the BBL Championship semi-finals after securing a victory in their quarter final match against Cheshire Phoenix. The game was cut short 7 minutes and 32 seconds from the end due to Cheshire forward Victor Moses falling victim to a broken ankle that was so serious the players and crowd... By April 28th, 2014 0 comments
Leicester Riders 75 Sheffield Sharks 69 in Double Overtime Game
January 7th, 2014 Leicester Riders played to a packed house on Saturday night at the John Sandford Centre as they took on the Sheffield Sharks. The double overtime game saw the Riders come out on top winning 75-69. The teams were neck and neck at the end of regulation at 60-60 and 66-66 after the first extra period before... By January 7th, 2014 0 comments
Leicester Riders Pip Manchester Giants to the Win
December 2nd, 2013 This weekend saw the Leicester Riders achieve another victory, by beating the Manchester Giants 89 - 87 at home at the John Sandford Sports Centre. Both teams were neck and neck with just 1.7 seconds to go until Drew Sulivan scored a running shot to win the game. Riders head coach Rob... By December 2nd, 2013 0 comments
HMS Sherwood Royal Navy Reserves to Hold Recruitment Evening
October 9th, 2013 Nottinghams Royal Navy reservists at HMS Sherwood are set to hold a recruitment evening on Tuesday 15 October to increase there numbers from 64 to 100. The event is aimed at introducing the public to the role of the reservists and what they can offer. The Royal Nay Reserve supplements the full-time ranks with... By October 9th, 2013 0 comments
Midlands Bhangra Team Make Dream Bollywood Debut
June 10th, 2013 An all female bhangra group from Birmingham made their debut on the big screen this weekend (June 7) with the Deol’s Bollywood blockbuster Yamla Pagla Deewana 2. Founder, manager and lead drummer of the dancing and dhol-playing group, Parv Kaur said: “We were up at early hours in the morning on the coach... By June 10th, 2013 0 comments
Leicester Riders Beat US Select Team in First Pre-season Friendly
September 15th, 2012 Leicester Riders managed to beat the US Select Team 87 - 63. The game on Friday 14 September, took place in Leicester at the John Sandford Sports Centre, and was their first pre-season friendly.... By September 15th, 2012 0 comments
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Returning Neymar helps PSG to Champions Trophy triumph over Marseille
Last Thursday at 9:02 AM
Neymar scored on his return to action for Paris Saint-Germain as they beat arch rivals Marseille 2-1 to win this season's Champions Trophy.
Neymar scored the decisive second goal Paris Saint-Germain's 2-1 win over Marseille which earned them the Champions Trophy
The Brazilian rolled home an 85th minute penalty to put PSG two goals ahead following Mauro Icardi's first-half opener to give new coach Mauricio Pochettino the first trophy of his reign in the French capital, and managerial career.
The Champions Trophy is the French equivalent of a Super Cup, usually contested at the start of the season by the league champions and French Cup winners.
With PSG winning both last season, Marseille had been selected as their opponents as the Ligue 1 runners-up. This season's edition was delayed because of the coronavirus pandemic.
Hopes were high for a feisty tussle in Lens after Marseille's league win at PSG in September ended with five red cards and Neymar accusing Marseille centre back Alvaro Gonzalez of racism in the aftermath.
However it was a largely tame encounter in northern France, with the most noteworthy incident being substitute Neymar's goalscoring return after a month away.
The 28-year-old hadn't featured for the French champions since being stretchered off with an ankle injury during a 1-0 defeat to current league leaders Lyon on December 13.
Icardi thought he had given PSG the lead with a 22nd minute tap-in, only to have the goal ruled out for offside after Kylian Mbappe strayed past Marseille’s back line to collect Leandro Paredes' defence-splitting pass.
Seven minutes later it was Mbappe's turn to have a goal chalked off when he started his run too early to connect with a long pass from his captain Marquinhos.
Icardi finally put dominant PSG ahead six minutes before the break with a goal typical of his poacher's style, first meeting Angel Di Maria's raking long ball with a close-range header that Steven Mandanda pushed onto the post.
The Argentine was quickest to follow up as the ball dribbled back out from the goal, and he tapped in his second goal is as many games since returning from injury.
He almost doubled his side's lead in first half stoppage time when he hit a left-footed strike back off the crossbar.
Neymar returned to action in the 65th minute and was immediately targeted by Gonzalez, the Argentine fouling the superstar attacker several times in what looked like a continuation of the pair's spat.
However it was Neymar who had the last laugh when he stepped up to score the decisive second goal for PSG from the penalty spot after Icardi was brought down by Marseille's substitute keeper Yohann Pele.
Dimitri Payet pulled one back for Marseille with a minute remaining but it was too little too late for Andre Villas-Boas' side.
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Didier Drogba and his wife divorce after 20 years of marriage
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Aubameyang at the double as Arsenal pile more misery on Newcastle
Victor Osimhen reveals he bought a house for his father and set up businesses for his siblings with his first bonus
Unstoppable Simy Nwankwo bags 2 goals to help Crotone beat Inzaghi's Benevento in Serie A
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Torino sack coach Giampaolo
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Ibrahimovic double as Milan pull clear of Inter on top of Serie A
Celtic confirm second coronavirus case as Lennon blasts 'hypocrisy'
19 goals in 20 games in Belgium, we should all pay attention to Paul Onuachu again
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Russian Journalist Reported Dead Shows Up Alive At News Conference, Ukrainian Officials Say They Faked His Death
May 31, 2018 News Daypop
Starbucks Closes 8,000 Locations For Employee Anti-Bias Training Classes
Starbucks shops across the U.S. closed early on Tuesday to hold training for employees on recognizing hidden prejudices. It was part of the coffee chain’s effort to deal with the outcry over the arrest of two black
Supreme Court Rejects Planned Parenthood’s Challenge To Arkansas Abortion Law
The Supreme Court on Tuesday rejected Planned Parenthood’s request to challenge a new Arkansas law that strengthens health protections for women undergoing medication abortions. The 2015 Arkansas law requires any abortion provider who performs medication-induced abortions (the
Subtropical Storm Alberto Makes Landfall On Florida Panhandle, Two Killed
Two people were killed as subtropical storm Alberto’s powerful wind gusts and heavy rains tore across the Gulf of Mexico coast and swamped the Southeast, officials and forecasters said Monday. Alberto, the first named storm of the
Boy Scout Leaders Welcome Policy Change To Allow Girls Into The Program
After more than a century, the Boy Scouts of America announced in October that this year it would begin letting girls join the 7- to 10-year-old Cub Scouts. More than 3,000 girls joined an Early Adopter program
Democratic And Republican Leaders Receive Classified Briefings On Russia Probe From Justice Department
Top congressional leaders met with senior intelligence and law enforcement officials Thursday in a series of meetings to review highly-classified information about the Russia investigation, including possible details about a reported FBI informant who had contact with
President Trump Cancels June Summit With North Korea’s Kim Jong Un
President Donald Trump on Thursday canceled the planned summitwith North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, which was set to take place June 12 in Singapore. In a letter addressed to Kim and released by the White House,
President Trump’s Son-In-Law, Jared Kushner, Gets Permanent Security Clearance
Jared Kushner, President Donald Trump’s son-in-law and a White House senior adviser, has received a permanent security clearance. Kushner operated with an interim security clearance for more than a year inside the administration, giving him access to
Federal Judge Rules President Trump Cannot Block People On Twitter
A federal judge ruled Wednesday that President Donald Trump may not block people on Twitter over the political views they share on social media. Siding with the Knight First Amendment Institute in a lawsuit against Trump and
Stacey Abrams Makes History By Winning Georgia Democratic Primary In Bid To Become First Black Female Governor
Georgia gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams won the Democratic primary Tuesday, bringing her closer to becoming the nation’s first African-American woman governor. The former state House minority leader beat former state Rep. Stacey Evans. In the GOP gubernatorial
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Used for pipeline inspection, a Hercules class ROV is rated for up to 3,000 m of water
Subsea high-speed data imaging cuts costs and the carbon footprint
13 Mar 2020by John Snyder
An advanced remotely operated vehicle deployed for pipeline inspection work is reducing vessel fuel consumption and onshore costs while accelerating data acquisition
Remotely operated vehicles (ROV) combined with artificial intelligence (AI) tools for data analysis are beginning to disrupt the offshore oil and gas market. In doing so, they are playing a central role in lowering CO2 emissions, improving efficiencies and reining in costs. In a low oil price market, oil and gas companies that are transitioning towards the decarbonisation of their operations are looking at innovative ways to deploy ROVs and autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs), in combination with emerging digitalisation strategies.
Essentially, tethered underwater robots, ROVs are ‘flown’ by pilots stationed onboard OSVs for a variety of missions related to offshore oil and gas extraction. Weighing upwards of five tonnes depending on the class and configuration, ROVs are fitted with sensors, cameras, lights, manipulators and tools to perform maintenance and inspection, repairs, and capture critical data at depths of more than 3,000 m. There are about 500 work class and 1,000 observation class ROVs in operation, according to the International Marine Contractors Association (IMCA).
One example of a work class unit is Subsea 7’s Hercules class ROV. Rated at water of up to 3,000 m, the ROV has four axial and four vertical thrusters, making it highly manoeuvrable at extreme depths and in strong current conditions. A triple wire-armoured lift umbilical is used to transmit data from its array of sensors, while also providing high-voltage electrical power to the ROV.
Normand Subsea can deploy ROVs via a moonpool or over the port side
Deploying a Hercules class ROV from the 113-m inspection, repair and maintenance (IMR) vessel Normand Subsea, Subsea 7’s life of field business unit i-Tech 7 completed a high-speed, high-definition pipeline general visual inspection (GVI) for oil and gas major BP in the West of Shetland in the North Sea in water from 10 m to 220 m.
The objective of the inspection was to record and quantify the overall condition of over 290 km of pipeline at high speed.
Using i-Tech 7’s fast digital imaging (FDI) solution, all pipeline events and anomalies, such as field joints, anodes, free spans, damage and debris, were captured to allow assessment by integrity engineers. i-Tech 7’s FDI solution reduced the time required for the inspection by 10 days when compared to traditional video inspection, according to the company. This saved an estimated 158.5 m3 of vessel fuel and reduced the CO2 footprint of the operation by 490 tonnes.
The technology behind the project grew out of a five-year agreement signed in 2018 with Fortune 500 IT, engineering and data science company Leidos. As a result of the partnership, i-Tech 7 was able to apply machine learning and AI to the traditionally manual processes involved in inspecting subsea oil and gas infrastructure.
“We have a vast amount of specialist knowledge running subsea inspection, repair and maintenance campaigns over the last few decades,” says i-Tech 7’s strategy and technology director Hugh Ferguson. “Data, now more than ever, forms a critical role in helping us to run our business safely, efficiently and quickly.”
Leidos’ approach is to use something it calls ‘augmented intelligence’ – essentially a combination of human expertise and AI.
Leidos says: “Automated systems have unparalleled power to spot patterns and repetitively process vast quantities of data quickly and cheaply. Combine this capacity with human subject matter expertise, and you enable informed decision-making that minimises errors, raises standards, and is guided by human specialists.”
Leidos and i-Tech 7 are using technologies such as machine vision, AI, and neural networks in order to reduce the repetitive aspects of experts’ jobs. Applying these techniques and capabilities to the subsea pipeline survey and inspection process is freeing up substantial amounts of time – automating up to 75% of certain aspects of the process – which can be better used for high-value tasks that involve creativity, decision-making, and intuition, says Leidos.
Advanced AI capabilities are able to automatically detect features and anomalies in a subsea pipe, measure, and categorise them. This optimises labour, improves accuracy and shortens the timeline between data collection, analysis, and response.
For the BP FDI project, i-Tech 7 applied a streamlined workflow process and lessons learned from the previous campaign, reducing the processing and reporting delivered by 35% compared to 2018. The reduced data volume accelerated processing times and also reduced the number of personnel required offshore by four in 2019, lowering costs and enhancing safety.
This project is the first phase of machine vision and automated survey processing, enhancing the efficiency of future campaigns in Azerbaijan, Georgia and Turkey (AGT), where BP is active at the Azeri Chirag Gunashli giant oil field and Shah Deniz giant field and in North Sea regions.
BP is not the only oil major looking to ROVs and increased automation. Shell has also inked a five-year deal with i-Tech 7 to collaborate on subsea digitalisation. With cost control, safety and decarbonisation in mind, Shell wants to fast-track innovation and streamline the adoption of applied technologies in areas such as marine robotics, advanced sensing, AI and autonomous systems.
A self-contained system could revolutionise the industrial use of AUVs
A ‘Carbon-free’ AUV
Sustainability, productivity and cost control are core elements in the development of a ‘carbon-free’ subsea AUV residency system for long-term, persistent deployment without support from manned vessels.
Being jointly developed by US-based Ocean Power Technologies, Inc (OPT), Modus Seabed Intervention and Saab Seaeye, the subsea AUV will use electrical power supplied by a buoy that generates its power from ocean waves.
“We believe a self-contained system, powered by an OPT PB3 PowerBuoy and exempt from existing ocean infrastructure, has the potential to revolutionise the industrial use of AUVs and make long-term residency a cost-effective reality,” says OPT president and chief executive George Kirby.
“Modus Seabed Intervention’s experience with advanced technology development efforts in subsea docking with Saab Seaeye’s hybrid AUV enables autonomous offshore operations and we believe it is a natural fit for our environmentally sound PowerBuoy ocean power and communications technology,” adds Mr Kirby.
Remote operation, without the need for surface vessel support or complex power and data umbilical cable systems to offshore platforms or land, has the potential to offer significant cost savings over operations that would otherwise require manned support vessels – including long-term environmental monitoring, frequent subsea equipment integrity inspections, and interaction with seafloor assets.
Using electricity generated from wave power, a PowerBuoy can provide carbon-free power to a seabed docking station to recharge an AUV while enabling secure data transmission to and from shore-based operations located anywhere in the world.
The autonomous resident AUV concept has been jointly submitted for US government development and demonstration project funding consideration.
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Posts tagged “Twitter”
You can now play Pokémon Red inside a Twitter avatar
Ed Thorn • 1 week ago
Pokémon's all about becoming "the very best, like no one ever was", and game programmer Constantin Lietard has given hundreds, if not thousands of budding trainers the opportunity. He's built a script which lets people play Pokémon Red inside his Twitter avatar.
Tagged with Twitter, Pokemon.
Familiars packs a full-featured Pokemon clone into a single Tweet
Natalie Clayton • 1 month ago • 2
When you spend half your day glued to Twitter, you get used to the occasional double- or triple-take. But I don't think anything's ever made me stop and shout as much as stumbling upon Familiars - a browser-based monster-catching MMO that developer Loam has somehow managed to cram into a video embed, letting you embark on an honest-to-god online RPG without ever leaving Twitter.
Tagged with free games, loam, Twitter, Familiars.
I adore every last one of Low Poly Animals’ tragically blocky critters
Natalie Clayton • 3 months ago • 20
Say what you want about modern games, but they've gotten pretty good at rendering fauna. If Red Dead Redemption 2 wants to show you a goose, it'll damn well show you a goose. Last month, a new Twitter account popped up to remind us that this is a fairly recent development, cataloguing the smart, strange, and downright cursed wildlife created in the name of saving…
Tagged with Twitter, Age of Empires III, Halo 3, Runescape.
Twitter’s Microtrailers, the funnest way to follow Steam releases, is back
Alice O'Connor • 2 years ago • 2
The best way to experience Steam's torrent of new releases is @microtrailers, a Twitter bot which indiscriminately tweets about (most) launches with cut-down six-second versions of their trailers. With no curation and no adaptive algorithm, it gives a raw look at the range of modern games, the big-budget alongside the no-budget, the flashy alongside the plain, the serious war game alongside the horny anime puzzle…
Tagged with Ichiro Lambe, Steam, Steam Labs, Twitter, Twitter bots.
This great Twitter account collects safe rooms in games
Alice O'Connor • 3 years ago • 15
A new-ish Twitter account is collecting the save rooms, bases, shops, quiet zones, and other "safe rooms" from games (well, safe-ish) - places which I'm always happy to visit while playing, and glad to see pop up in my Twitter feed. The Safe Room is almost a safe room itself, a pleasant moment on that punishment of a website. Who doesn't hear the calming Resident…
Tagged with Twitter, Dark Souls: Remastered, resident evil 4, System Shock 2.
This perfectly horrifying Twitter bot combines erotica and video games
The problem with Twitter, people always say, is that it's too good. Everything on Twitter is just too wonderful. If only someone could somehow make Twitter horrifying enough that you instinctually threw your phone across the room upon loading the app, we could get our lives back. Friends, consider this problem solved. Game designer Liz England has created @vg_erotica, a Twitter bot which combines romance…
Tagged with Liz England, Twitter, Twitter bots.
Game Box Art Recreated With Cute Japanese Stock Art
I don't know what a 'meme' is anymore. First they used them for science, then memes escaped a lab as a virus in a monkey, then Internet turned the viruses into jokes, and then the virus infected every other form of joke. (I think, at this point, we're either safe or have ourselves become memes?)All I know for certain is that delightful recreations of video…
Tagged with am I a meme, memes or something, Twitter, what is a meme anyway, Fallout 4, Just Cause 3, Tom Clancy's The Division.
Tiny Twitch – The Game Whose Code Fits In A Tweet
Philippa Warr • 6 years ago • 18
As the rest of the country complains about a heatwave I am indoors wearing a long-sleeved shirt and complaining about trying to beat Graham's high score at Tiny Twitch [Github page] - a game whose code fits in a single tweet.
Tagged with Alex Yoder, Ben Porter, Tiny Twitch, Twitter.
A Twitter CYOA? Choose Your Own Escape!
Shaun Green • 6 years ago • 6
Oh, Twitter. Apparently you are not content being a medium that encourages us to waste our time tweeting jokes at podcasts in the hopes they'll mention us on the show, or to contribute our voices to the thunderstorms that are hashtag wars in full swing. Now you want to be a gaming platform too.Or such is how I choose to interpret the appearance, earlier this week,…
Tagged with CYOA, Twitter.
PSA: Where To Find Rock, Paper, Shotgun Around The Web
RPS • 7 years ago • 50
Rock, Paper, Shotgun is more than just a website. It's the last line of defense against the humdrum of everyday existence. It's an ever-expanding collection of wonderful, videogame-y things to help you remember why you love this medium in the first place. It's sort of a blog, which is a subcategory of website.It's also a Facebook page, Twitter account and YouTube channel, which maybe you'd…
Tagged with PSA, Public Service Announcement, RPS self-promotion but in a sort of embarrassed British sort of way sorry, Twitter, YouTube, Facebook.
GSC: “Stalker 2 is currently in development”
Craig Pearson • 9 years ago • 63
A tweet from the usually rather quiet GSC Stalker Twitter account has assured us that the game is still being worked on. It's the first word we've had on the development of game since January, when we heard that they were seeking funding for the project following the studio's collapse. That they've lasted until now, and that they're speaking positively, is encouraging, but I don't…
Tagged with GSC Game World, Still-Alive, Twitter, S.T.A.L.K.E.R., S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2.
RPS On The Twitters / King’s Bounty $2.50
Alec Meer • 10 years ago • 39
We interrupt our regularly scheduled "staring aghast at irresponsible news media" to draw your attention to the RPS Twitter account. When we set it up a couple of years ago, we didn't do a whole lot with it and thus didn't promote it much. We reckon we've got the hang of it now though, so please follow @rockpapershot to get as-it-happens tip-offs to our bestest/silliest…
Tagged with Twitter, king's bounty.
Iconographic Violence: Dot War
Kieron Gillen • 11 years ago • 39
It's the social web game du jour! It's hilariously goofy. Basically, Dot War allows you to take 2 twitter account icons and wage a war against one another, by a process that transforms the icons into incy soldiers. It's a little like Gratuitous Space Battles in that it's the layout of colours in your icon that determines which mix of the various soldier types you…
Tagged with Dot War, free games, indie, Twitter, webgame.
Peeping Toms: Twitter As An ARG?
Oh God, I'm writing a second post about Twitter in as many days. One of you rabid anti-social networking types is totally going to come and kill me for this. (As a side-note, the craziest angry-reader threat I ever received was, in response to an admittedly hurried review of the Star Wars: Empire At War expansion pack, a claim that he was going to find…
Tagged with but what is a game?, peep show, Twitter.
RPS Inevitably Jumps On Latest Bandwagon
As John revealed yesterday, as part of a transparent attempt to raise his own follower count (coughhere'smecough), RPS has a Twitter thing. We're so impressionable. In fact, we've had the account for a while, more to bag the URL than anything else, but being stupids we haven't thought of how to best leverage this exciting new web 2.5 sociopathic networking micro-blogging brainfart technology as yet.
Tagged with probably quite tedious, Twitter.
Wholesale Fail Whale: Developer’s Twitters
Kieron Gillen • 12 years ago • 112
Barnett pointed me at this, via twitter, appropriately enough. Sam Houston is maintaining a list of twitter feeds of people in the industry who don't mind it being public. And what a list for cheery stalking. For example, we can swiftly find out that Ragnar Tornquist's favourite comfort movie is Lost in Translation, George Broussard's wondering where the Pizza has got to and Valve Software…
Tagged with stalking developers, Twitter.
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Dual #Review of Anything But a Duke by Christy Carlyle
Title: Anything But a Duke
Series: Duke's Den #2
Author: Christy Carlyle
Format: Paperback/eBook, 368 pages
Expected publication: April 30th 2019 by Avon
ASIN: B07D2CS65P
Links: Goodreads | Amazon | B&N
Source: Edelweiss
Reviewers: Crystal & Kimberly
Self-made man Aidan Iverson has seen more closed doors in his thirty years than he’s ever cared to count. As a member of the elite Duke’s Den, he has all the money he could possibly need, but the one thing he can’t purchase is true power. If roguish Aidan can’t buy his way into society’s hallowed halls, he’ll resort to a more extreme measure: marriage.
Brought up to be a proper lady, the only thing Diana Ashby desires is to be left alone to the creation of her own devices. But when her dreams are crushed, she must find another way to secure the future of her invention. Knowing his desire to enter her world, Diana strikes a deal to arrange Aidan’s marriage to the perfect lady—as long as that lady isn’t her. She doesn’t need any distractions from her work, particularly of the sinfully handsome variety.
As Diana and Aidan set out to find him an aristocratic match, neither are prepared for the passion that ignites between them or the love they can’t ignore.
In the Duke’s Den, can happiness ever be a winning prospect?
Crystal's Thoughts:
Christy Carlyle brings to life a riveting cast of characters in the Duke's Den, and with Anything But a Duke, lowborn Aidan Iverson believes marriage to an aristocratic lady will open all of the doors he's been denied. But Aidan soon learns that the key to love's door cares little for one's station in life...
Diana Ashby lives on the fringes of upper society, and she is perfectly okay with that. Despite her mother's hopes for a titled marriage, Diana would much prefer to spend her time in her work shop then in a stuffy ballroom. However, when her family's financial welfare falls on her shoulders, Diana is faced with convincing the members of the Duke's Den to invest in her latest invention or finally entering the marriage mart.
Aidan Iverson knows what it's like to climb his way to the top, and now as part owner of the exclusive Duke’s Den, he hopes to help others make their way in the world as well by investing in them and their ideas...as long as it will turn a profit of course. The first time Adan met Diana Ashby, she saved his life, now maybe he can return the favor by striking a deal with her to invest in her vacuum cleaner while also using her blue-blood connections to find a titled wife in need of a wealthy husband.
Christy Caryle thrives on writing unconventional heroines and Diana in Anything But a Duke is no exception. Diana is an inventor, and deep down strives to make up for her late father's failures. She doesn't care one whit for societies rules or expectations, and was a fun character to get to know. There was depth to her, though it took some digging to find. The chemistry that she shares with Aidan was apparent from their first meeting, and their relationship was a slow burn which I always relish. Despite their obvious connection though, Diana fights her feelings for Aidan for a majority of the story, thinking that she isn't what he ultimately needs in life. I never quite grasped the reasoning's behind Diana's reluctance to commit to Aidan, especially after Aidan finally saw the light, as he was very open with his feelings and supportive of her ambitions. That aspect dampened my view of her character towards the end.
Aidan on the other-hand was a wonderful hero to read about. He began as a bit of a single-minded arse, but as the story progressed his many layers were peeled away and we found a man who chased answers about his past but was terrified of ending up back there again. Unfortunately though, sometimes the answers we seek turn out to be not at all what he had hoped for. Aidan had an interesting story that I wish was expanded on more. I felt that the sub-plot surrounding his mother and sister fell short. In the end though, Aidan's tenacity in winning Diana over is what ultimately endeared him to me. His drive and determination to prove to Diana that she was the one that he wanted in life was beyond swoon-worthy. Together is where this pair shined, and where I really adored them.
Several characters could have done with some fleshing out, Diana's family for example. I did fancy Diana's relationship with her brother, their dialogue brought levity to the plot. All-in-all, this was a light read that turned out to be a nice addition to the series. Though I didn't find Anything But a Duke as appealing as the first installment, A Duke Changes Everything, I quite enjoy the overall series arc and find the three heroes of the Duke's Den titillating. I look forward to the final story in the series. It will have to be a strong and patient heroine to change the marquess' roguish ways. These tales can easily be read as a stand-alone, the only connecting characters are those owners of the Duke's Den gambling club who only lightly interact.
Rating: 3.5 out of 5 Wine Glasses
Kimberly's Thoughts:
Second in the Duke's Den series that follows three friends who invest together, Anything But a Duke follows the one without a title, Aidan Iverson. He's been able to rise from a childhood where the mother he can't remember left him and his sister and amassed great wealth. What he can't seem to overcome is the snobbery of the ton and certain doors remain closed to him. He decides that marrying an aristocrats daughter is his gateway to all these doors.
Diana doesn't want to get married and is trying to keep her family afloat by creating an invention that members of the Duke's Den will want to invest in. Her and her mother come to an agreement that if by the end of the month, if her invention doesn't become profitable, she will have to marry. When a chance encounter has her rescuing and kissing a mystery man, who turns out to be one of the investors she's supposed to impress, her world gets shaken.
Diana Ashby drew him. She always had. Her confidence. Her fearlessness. From the moment they’d met.
Aidan's plan to marry an aristocratic, while mercenary, did work as a ploy to achieve what he wanted. For having two friends of that world, a duke and and a marquess, I thought the story thread oddly underutilized them. It is set-up so that Diana, who is not nobility but has friends of that world, gets into a deal with him to try and set him up, while his side of the bargain is to get more investors for her. It worked but was also all a little coerced. There's a second thread underlying the romance one with Aidan searching for information about his birth mother and the sister he hopes escaped an orphanage fire. I thought this was rife for some great emotion but it was pushed to the side too much for me. Even when Aidan gets the answers he was searching for, the reveal fell a bit flat as character relationships in this thread weren't explored and Diana wasn't a huge part of this thread for Aidan to share with her. I did believe in why he fell in love with Diana but again, the emotional moments where he is choosing her over his ambition, fell a bit flat.
Every moment that they shared, every detail they revealed, made her want more.
I also would have liked a bit more of Diana's family relationships explored, especially with her mother or maybe a flashback or two with her father. Her father seemed to be like an absent minded professor, except with inventing. Part of her wanting to succeed was to show her father's pursuits weren't all a waste of time. We get a pretty good feel for her relationship with her twin brother, a seemingly wastrel but sticks up for Diana but her relationship with her mother was fairly blank. We know, because of their money issues, her mother is pressuring her to get married but the mother doesn't really appear on the pages and I missed feeling that aspect of Diana's life. While I believed in why Aidan feel in love with Diana, I didn't believe in it as strongly from Diana's side. He treats her well, the biggest being he embraces her inventor side, and she finds him attractive but I just didn't get see or get a handle on Diana developing feelings for him.
“I remember our deal, Diana.” He slid his hand from hers slowly and there was such disappointment in his gaze that her breath tangled in her throat. Moving past her, he strode toward the room across the hall, but midway he stopped and glanced at her over his shoulder. “Perhaps I’m just not content with the terms anymore.”
As I mentioned, Diana and Aidan's deal, he introduces her to investors to push her vacuum prototype and she introduces him to ladies of the nobility to find a wife and if she doesn't succeed in finding him a wife she must marry him at the end of the month, was a pretty coerced story plot. At the end, there is some angst where I didn't understand at all Diana's reluctance or refusals, that made it feel even more forced. Everyone is likeable and the story is nice but not a lot new here and all pretty sedate. If looking for a quieter, tried and true formula romance, this would be a nice pick. I'll be looking forward to the third in the series coming up where Aidan's roguish marquess friend will be finding love.
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IIHF DISCIPLINARY CODE 2019 - September 2018
Page created by Benjamin Ward
IIHF DISCIPLINARY CODE
1. Subject and Objectives
1.1 The present Code serves to ensure that the objectives of the IIHF are attained as per
Statute 2 of the IIHF Statutes and Bylaws
1.2 This Code contains the substantive and formal provisions according to Statute 25 for the
sanctioning of disciplinary offences as well as for the review of decisions of the IIHF
Office, Council and Directorates.
2. Scope of material application
2.1 This Code applies to:
(a) any violation of the IIHF’s Statutes, Bylaws, Regulations/Codes, Official
Playing Rules, Directives or Decisions of the IIHF Council, Directorates or IIHF
Officials who are entrusted with the implementation of the Statutes, Bylaws,
Regulations/Codes and/or Official Playing Rules, and any action which
violates the good order of ice hockey or inline hockey and/or brings ice hockey
or inline hockey into disrepute;
(b) the decisions regarding the application of Statutes, Bylaws and
Regulations/Codes by the IIHF Office, Council and Directorates in specific
2.2 When a case seems to come under the authority of more than one Disciplinary Body, the
IIHF Council shall decide which Disciplinary Body hears the case after receiving a
recommendation from the IIHF Legal Committee.
2.3 Any disciplinary measure does not restrict the right of the IIHF to compensation arising
from the violation where such violation results in financial or other loss to the IIHF or its
Member National Associations.
3. Scope of personnel application
3.1 The following institutions, organizations and persons are considered IIHF Members and
subject to the jurisdiction of the IIHF:
(a) IIHF Member National Association staff representatives:
(b) IIHF governing bodies;
(c) Persons elected or appointed as an IIHF representative in any IIHF
Competition or IIHF Event or to a position in any IIHF governing institution or
IIHF Committee/Board;
(d) Organizing Committees of IIHF Competitions;
(e) IIHF Officials and Referees
(f) IIHF National leagues, clubs, teams and their leaders, managers, players,
coaches and referees whatsoever and howsoever associated, in all matters
within the jurisdiction of the IIHF including, without limitation, IIHF
Competitions, international games, and international transfers.
3.2 The above mentioned persons and entities are subject to IIHF’s disciplinary power. They
are bound by and recognise the Statutes, Bylaws, Regulations/Codes, Official Rule
Book, and IIHF Directives and Decisions.
3.3 Member National Associations are responsible for the conduct of its clubs, players, and
officials at IIHF events. Member National Associations are responsible for the conduct of
its fans at IIHF events held within its country.
DISCIPLINARY MEASURES AND DIRECTIVES
4. General
4.1 The Disciplinary Bodies impose disciplinary measures and issue directives.
4.2 Disciplinary measures are sanctions on the conduct to be disciplined.
4.3 Directives demand certain behaviour on the part of those concerned and may be issued
as an order ancillary to other disciplinary measures. Directives set out how the
disciplinary measure shall be carried out and/or may induce the part(ies) concerned to
act in a certain matter.
4.4 Certain IIHF Regulations/Codes prescribe specific disciplinary measures for the conduct
violations contained within the respective Regulations/Codes. The IIHF Disciplinary Body
shall follow the prescribed disciplinary measure set out in the respective
Regulations/Codes when sanctioning activity according to the Regulations/Codes
subject to section 8 of this Code.
5. Disciplinary Measures against entities subject to IIHF Jurisdiction
5.1 The following disciplinary measures may be imposed on IIHF Bodies, Member National
Associations, leagues and/or clubs in accordance with IIHF Statute 57:
a) warning;
b) reprimand;
c) fine;
d) suspension from a specified number of games or for a specified period of time;
e) annulment of game results;
f) declaration of a game forfeit;
g) deduction of the number of points awarded;
h) disqualification from a competition in progress and/or exclusion from future
competitions;
i) prohibition of registering new players in IIHF Competitions; and
j) withdrawal of title or award.
5.2 A fine shall be no less than CHF 100 and no more than CHF 500,000.
5.3 All disciplinary measures may be imposed individually or in combination with any other
disciplinary measure.
6. Disciplinary measures against individuals subject to IIHF Jurisdiction
6.1 The following disciplinary measures may be imposed on individuals in accordance with
IIHF Statute 57:
d) suspension from all ice hockey and/or inline activity for a specified number of games
or for a specified or unspecified period of time;
e) suspension from carrying out a specific function for a specified number of
games or for a specified period of time
f) withdrawal of accreditation; and
g) ban on involvement with any ice hockey and/or inline related activities for a specified
or unspecified period of time.
6.2 A fine shall be no less than 100 CHF and no more than 100,000 CHF.
6.3 All disciplinary measures may be imposed individually or in combination with any other
disciplinary measures.
7. Sanctions for Doping
A. Sanctions on Players and other Individuals
7.1 Disqualification of Event Results
An anti-doping rule violation occurring during or in connection with an IIHF Event may,
upon the discretion of the relevant IIHF Disciplinary Body, lead to disqualification of the
player’s individual results obtained in the IIHF Event with all consequences, including
forfeiture of all medals, points and prizes, except if the player establishes that he bears
No Fault or Negligence for the violation in accordance with WADA Code Article 10.1.
7.2 Ineligibility for Presence, Use or Attempted Use, or Possession of a Prohibited
Substance or Prohibited Method
The Period of Ineligibility for a violation of IIHF Doping Regulation 2.1, 2.2 or 2.6 (WADA
Code Articles 2.1, 2.2 or 2.6), unless the conditions provided in Disciplinary Code Article
7.4, 7.5 or 7.6 (WADA Code Article 10.4, 10.5 or 10.6) are met:
7.2.1 shall be four years where:
a) the anti-doping rule violation does not involve a Specified Substance, unless the
player or other person can establish that the anti-doping rule violation was not
intentional; or
b) the anti-doping rule violation involves a Specified Substance and the IIHF can
establish that the anti-doping rule violation was intentional.
7.2.2 If Article 7.2.1 does not apply, the period of ineligibility shall be two years.
7.2.3 As used in Disciplinary Code Article 7.2 and 7.3 (WADA Code Article 10.2 and 10.3),
the term “intentional” is meant to identify those players who cheat and, therefore,
requires a player or other person engaged in conduct which he knew constituted an
anti-doping rule violation or knew that there was a significant risk that the conduct
might constitute or result in an anti-doping rule violation and manifestly disregarded
An anti-doping rule violation resulting from an Adverse Analytical Finding for a
substance which is only prohibited In-Competition shall be rebuttably presumed to be
not intentional if the substance is a Specified Substance and the player can establish
that the Prohibited Substance was used Out-of-Competition.
substance which is only prohibited In-Competition shall not be considered intentional
if the substance is not a Specified Substance and the player can establish that the
Prohibited Substance was used Out-of-Competition in a context unrelated to sport
7.3 Ineligibility for Other Anti-Doping Rule Violations
The period of ineligibility for anti-doping rule violations other than as provided in IIHF
Disciplinary Code Article 7.2 (WADA Code Article 10.2), unless IIHF Disciplinary Code
Article 6.5 and 6.6 (WADA Code Article 10.5 or 10.6) are applicable, shall be
7.3.1 For violations of IIHF Doping Control Regulation 2.3 or 2.5 (WADA Code Article 2.3 or
Code Article 2.5), the period of ineligibility shall be four years unless, in the case of
failing to submit to Sample collection, the player can establish that the commission of
the anti-doping rule violation was not intentional (as defined in 7.2.3 above), in which
case the period of ineligibility shall be two years.
7.3.2 For violations of IIHF Doping Control Regulation 2.4 (WADA Code Article 2.4), the
period of ineligibility shall be two years, subject to a reduction down to a minimum of
one year depending on the player’s degree of fault, with the flexibility between one
and two years not being available when the player has shown a pattern of last-minute
whereabouts changes or other suspicious conduct, such as the Player trying to avoid
being available for Testing.
2.8), the period of ineligibility shall be a minimum of four years up to lifetime
ineligibility, depending on the seriousness of the violation. IIHF Doping Control
Regulation 2.7 or 2.8 violations involving a minor shall be considered a particularly
serious violation and, if committed by Player Support Personnel for violations other
than for Specified Substances, shall result in lifetime ineligibility for the Player Support
Personnel. In addition, significant violations of IIHF Doping Control Regulation 2.7
and 2.8 which may also violate non-sporting laws and regulations shall be reported to
the competent administrative, professional or judicial authorities.
period of ineligibility imposed shall be a minimum of two years, up to four years,
depending on the seriousness of the violations.
7.3.5 For violations of IIHF Doping Control Regulation 2.10 (WADA Code Article 2.10), the
period of ineligibility shall be two years, subject to reduction down to a minimum of
one year, depending on the player’s or other person’s degree of fault and other
circumstances of the case.
7.4 Elimination of the Period of Ineligibility where there is No Fault or Negligence
If a player or other person establishes in an individual case that he bears no fault or
negligence, then the otherwise applicable period of ineligibility shall be eliminated.
7.5 Reduction of the Period of Ineligibility based on No Significant Fault or Negligence
7.5.1 Reduction for Specified Substances or Contaminated Products for Violations of IIHF
Doping Control Regulation 2.1, 2.2 or 2.6 (WADA Code Article 2.1, 2.2 or 2.6)
a) Specified Substances: where an anti-doping rule violation involves a Specified
Substance and the player or other person can establish No Significant Fault or
Negligence, the period of ineligibility shall be, at a minimum, a reprimand and no
period of ineligibility, and at a maximum, two years of ineligibility, depending on
the player’s or other person’s degree of fault; and
b) Contaminated Products: where a player or other person can establish No
Significant Fault or Negligence and that the detected Prohibited Substances came
from a Contaminated Product, the period of ineligibility shall be, at a minimum, a
reprimand and no period of ineligibility, and at a maximum, two years ineligibility,
depending on the player’s or other person’s degree of fault.
7.5.2 Beyond the application of 7.5.1 above, if a player or other person establishes that he
bears No Significant Fault or Negligence, then subject to further reduction or
elimination provided in IIHF Disciplinary Code Article 7.6 (WADA Code Article 10.6),
the otherwise applicable period of ineligibility may be reduced based on the player’s
or other person’s degree of Fault, but the reduced period of ineligibility may not be
less than one-half the period of ineligibility otherwise applicable. If the otherwise
applicable period of Ineligibility is a lifetime, the reduced period under this Article may
be no less than eight years.
7.6 Elimination, Reduction, or Suspension of Period of Ineligibility shall be handled in
accordance with WADA Code Article 10.6 for:
a) Substantial assistance in discovering or establishing an anti-doping rule violation
(WADA Code Article 10.6.1);
b) Admission of an anti-doping rule violation in the absence of other evidence (WADA
Code Article 10.6.2);
c) Prompt Admission of an anti-doping rule violation after being confronted with a
violation sanction-able under WADA Code Article 10.2.1 or 10.3.1 (WADA Code Article
10.6.3); and
c) Application of multiple grounds for reduction of sanction (WADA Code Article 10.6.4).
7.7 Multiple Violations
The period of ineligibility for a second or third anti-doping rule violation shall be imposed
according to the provisions of WADA Code Article 10.7.1 – 10.7.5.
B. Sanctions on Teams and Team Officials
7.8 If more than two members of a team are found to have committed an anti-doping rule
violation during an IIHF Competition, in addition to the sanctions imposed on the
individual players, the team will be disqualified and relegated to the lower division.
The IIHF shall conduct target testing when more than one member of a team has been
notified of an anti-doping rule violation in an IIHF Competition.
7.9 A team official or member national association official who has been involved in or
committed an anti-doping rule violation shall be sanctioned according to Article 6.3.3
above. The member national association will be subject to a fine.
7.10 Member national associations who fail to submit to the IIHF valid up-to-date
whereabouts information for their team upon request prior to any IIHF Competition will
be subject to a warning or a fine.
C. General Provisions
7.11 Therapeutic Use Exemptions
Anti-doping rule violations consistent with the provisions of an applicable therapeutic use
exemption issued pursuant to the International Standard for Therapeutic Use
Exemptions shall not be considered an anti-doping rule violation (WADA Code Article
7.12 Commencement of Ineligibility Period
Except as provided in WADA Code Article 10.11.1 – 10.11.5, the period of ineligibility
shall start on the date of the hearing decision providing for ineligibility or, if the hearing is
waived or there is no hearing, on the date ineligibility is accepted or otherwise imposed.
7.13 Status during Ineligibility
Status during ineligibility shall comply with the provisions of WADA Code Article 10.12.1
– 10.13, in particular the following shall apply (WADA Code Article 10.12.1-4, 10.13).
7.13.1 Prohibition against Participation during Ineligibility
No player or other person who has been declared ineligible may, during the period of
ineligibility, participate in any capacity in a competition or activity (other than
authorized anti-doping education or rehabilitation programs) authorized or organized
by the IIHF or any IIHF member national association, league, club or other member
organization, or participate in any capacity in competitions authorized or organized
by any professional leagues or any event, activity or competition under the jurisdiction
of a Code signatory, Signatory's member organization, or a club or other member
organization of a Signatory’s member organization. A player or other person subject
to a period of ineligibility shall remain subject to testing. A player or other person
subject to a period of ineligibility longer than four years may, after completing four
years of ineligibility, participate in local sports events in accordance with WADA Code
Article 10.12.1.
7.13.2 Return to Training
As an exception to 7.13.1 above, a player may return to train with a team or to use
the facilities of a club or other member organization of the IIHF’s member
organizations during the shorter of: (a) the last two months of the player’s period of
ineligibility, or (b) the last one-quarter of the period of ineligibility imposed.
7.13.3 Violation of the Prohibition of Participation during Ineligibility
Where a player or other person who has been declared ineligible violates the
prohibition against participation during ineligibility described in 7.13.1, the results of
such participation shall be disqualified and a new period of Ineligibility equal in length
to the original period of Ineligibility shall be added to the end of the original period of
Ineligibility. Such decisions shall be made in accordance with WADA Code Article
10.12.3.
7.13.4 Withholding of Financial Support during Ineligibility
In addition, for any anti-doping rule violation not involving a reduced sanction as
described in WADA Code Article 10.4 or 10.5, some or all sport-related financial
support or other sport-related benefits received by such person will be withheld by the
IIHF and its member national association.
7.14 A mandatory part of each sanction shall include automatic publication as provided in
Article 14.3 of the WADA Code.
7.15 All other competitive results of the player obtained from the date a positive Sample was
collected (whether In-Competition or Out-of-Competition), or other anti-doping rule
violation occurred, through the commencement of any Provisional Suspension or
Ineligibility period, shall, unless fairness requires otherwise, be disqualified with all of the
resulting consequences including forfeiture of any medals, points and prizes.
8. Aggravating and Mitigating Factors (not applicable to doping violations)
8.1 Aggravating factors which may be considered by the Disciplinary Board shall include
(without limitation and where applicable):
(a) A failure to cooperate with any investigation or requests for information;
(b) Any previous violations;
(c) The IIHF Member receiving or being due to receive a significant benefit in connection
with the Violation;
(d) The Violation having affected, or having the potential to affect, the course or result of
an IIHF Event and/or Competition;
(e) The IIHF Member to be sanctioned displaying a lack of remorse; and
(f) Any other aggravating factor the Disciplinary Body deems relevant.
8.2 Mitigating factors which may be considered by the Disciplinary Body shall include
(a) cooperation by the IIHF Member with any investigation or request for information;
(b) a timely admission of guilt by the IIHF Member;
(c) the IIHF Member to be sanctioned having a lack of a disciplinary history;
(d) youth and/or inexperience of the IIHF Member to be sanctioned;
(e) the IIHF Member to be sanctioned displaying remorse; and
(f) any other mitigating factor the Disciplinary Board deems relevant.
9. Suspended sanction
9.1 All disciplinary measures may be suspended by the respective Disciplinary Body issuing
the sanction except for:
b) reprimand; and
c) bans on ice hockey related activity in accordance with the WADA code.
9.2 A probationary period as a result of a suspended sanction shall be a minimum of one
year and a maximum of five years. This period may be extended in exceptional
circumstances or suspended if the person penalised temporarily leaves the IIHF’s
jurisdiction.
9.3 If a further offence is committed during the probationary period, the competent
Disciplinary Body, as a rule, will order the original sanction to be executed. This may be
added to the disciplinary sanction imposed for the second offense.
10. Determination of Sanctions
10.1 The competent Disciplinary Body shall determine the type and extent of the disciplinary
measure to be imposed according to the objective and subjective elements of the
offense, taking into consideration whether the offense was minor, serious or gross and
taking into consideration whether any aggravating or mitigating circumstances exist.
10.2 When establishing whether an offense is minor, serious or gross, the following facts shall
be taken into consideration: the importance of the provisions violated; the stature of the
competition; personal guilt or negligence; the consequences of the offense for persons
affected directly and/or indirectly; negative effects on ice and inline hockey as governed
by the IIHF (Statute 2); whether the offending party is a repeat offender, as well as other
unfavourable influences on the reputation of sports.
10.3 If the competent Disciplinary Body is of the opinion that information provided by the party
charged has been decisive in uncovering or establishing a breach of IIHF’s Statutes,
Bylaws or Regulations/Codes by a third party, it may consider such disclosure a
mitigating factor in establishing a sanction or even dispense with the sanction.
10.4 The financial circumstances of the parties concerned shall be taken into account when
imposing fines.
10.5 Suspensions
10.5.1 Any player or team official punished with a match penalty shall automatically be
suspended for the next game of the tournament in which he is taking part, or the first
game of the next tournament of equivalent standard.
10.5.2 Suspension should be served on the occasion of tournaments (or games) which are
equivalent to those tournaments (or games) that gave reason for the suspension of
the player concerned, regardless of whether the team is promoted, relegated or
taking part in a qualification tournament. No suspension incurred in an ice hockey
game may be served in an inline game or event, and no suspension incurred in an
inline game may be served in an ice hockey game or event.
Subject to section 10.5.5, players who are eligible to play in the next U18 or U20 ice
hockey championship, should serve the suspension during the next U18 or U20 ice
hockey championship, in the youngest category for which they are eligible even if the
suspension results from a violation on the occasion of a senior ice hockey
championship. Correspondingly, the same applies for U18 players who were
sanctioned when participating in a U20 Championship.
IIHF National Team Championships
Subject to Section 10.5.5 below, suspensions shall be served as follows:
Champs. Actual Next Season Sanctioned Note
Played Age Age For
Category Category
W18 W18 W18 W18 following year
W20 W18 W18 W18 same year or Depending on time for
W18 following year decision
W20 W18 W20 W20 following year
W20 W20 Senior Senior following year
Senior W18 W18 W18 following year
Senior W20 Senior Senior following year
Senior Senior Senior Senior following year
Olympic Tournaments
Olympic Actual Next Sanctioned Note
Tournaments Age Season For
Played Category Age
Olympic W18 W18 Next Olympic Depending if the team is
tournaments round/or Senior qualified or not for the
tournament next Olympic round
Olympic W18 W20 Next Olympic Depending if the team is
Olympic W20 Senior Next Olympic Depending if the team is
Olympic Senior Senior Next Olympic Depending if the team is
10.5.3 For all other IIHF competitions including, but not limited to, Continental Cup, European
Women Challenge Cup, Challenge Cup of Asia and Inline Hockey World
Championship, a player should serve the respective suspension in the next game(s) of
the round concerned, or for the corresponding number of games during the following
round or during the first round of the following season of the respective competition.
10.5.4 For all suspensions rendered in accordance with 13.1.2 for exhibition games, the
suspension shall be served during the remaining exhibition period and/or during the
championship immediately following the exhibition period.
10.5.5 The suspension will be considered fulfilled if the player does not play in the game(s) for
which he had been disqualified regardless of whether the player was not entered at all
in the IIHF Competition concerned. However, except for suspensions incurred in
Olympic competition, a player may serve a suspension in any IIHF Competition for
which he is eligible so long as he is named on the team roaster of the respective IIHF
Competition, but did not play in the number of games for which he had been suspended.
10.5.6 Subject to section 10.5.5, suspensions (for games beyond the IIHF Competition in
which the player is suspended) should be imposed for an IIHF Competition of the
following season. The suspension will be considered served if the conditions under
10.5.5 have been fulfilled and will expire at the end of that following season unless the
respective team does not take part in any IIHF Competition that season, in which case
the suspension is carried forward for one more year.
ORGANISATION AND COMPETENCE
11. Disciplinary Bodies
The Disciplinary Bodies are:
a) Disciplinary Board;
b) Appeal Board;
c) Directorate; and
d) Championship Disciplinary Panel.
All disciplinary bodies must observe and follow essential elements of due process in all
disciplinary procedures/proceedings including providing the accused party the right to be heard
through written comments and/or a Formal Hearing.
The language of all proceedings and communication is English (Statute 9).
12 Disciplinary Board
12.1 Disciplinary Board Competency
12.1.1 The Disciplinary Board can sanction all persons/entities as indicated in Code 3.1 if
they (i) infringe the Statutes, Bylaws, Regulations/Codes or the IIHF Official Playing
Rules; (ii) violate the good order of ice hockey or inline hockey; (iii) bring the sport of
ice hockey or inline hockey into disrepute; or (iv) violate the decisions of Council,
Directorates or officials of the IIHF who are entrusted with the implementation of the
Statutes, Bylaws, Regulations/Codes and Official Playing Rules.
12.1.2 The Disciplinary Board is responsible for: (i) cases of first instance referred to the
Disciplinary Board in accordance with Disciplinary Code 12.1.1; (ii) cases referred to
the Disciplinary Board in accordance with the IIHF Official Rule Book (Rules 1 ii, 5, 43
vi); the Disciplinary Board must review all incidents arising during an IIHF competition
and sanctioned with a match penalty or game misconduct which are assessed on the
last playing day of the team involved (With respect to match penalties and game
misconducts, the IIHF Disciplinary Board Chairman, or another Disciplinary Board
Member designated by the Disciplinary Board Chairman, may make an initial
assessment as to whether further discipline is necessary, before turning the full case
over to a Disciplinary Board Panel); and (iii) appeal cases for Official IIHF, IIHF
Championship Directorate and/or IIHF Council decisions with respect to the IIHF
Statutes, Bylaws, and/or Regulations/Codes. With respect to “Supplementary
Discipline” the Disciplinary Board must review all incidents sanctioned with a match
penalty or game misconduct which are assessed on the last playing day of the team
involved.
12.2 Disciplinary Board Composition
12.2.1 The Disciplinary Board shall be composed in accordance with Statute 50. It shall be
the duty of the Board to act as the sole decider of the matter brought before it, as if
the members presiding over a case were judges in a civil proceeding.
12.2.2 The Disciplinary Board decides by a panel of three members selected from the
Disciplinary Board (the “Deciding Panel”). The Disciplinary Board Chairman shall
determine the composition of each Deciding Panel including appointing the respective
Panel Chairman if not so acting himself (in the IIHF Doping Control Regulations
referred to as the “IIHF Doping Disciplinary Panel”). Championship Disciplinary
Judges, from the time of their appointment (Code 14), can be elected members of a
Deciding Panel at the discretion of the Disciplinary Board Chairman.
12.2.3 The Deciding Panel decision can be adopted in a Formal Hearing, by
correspondence, by telephone or by video conference. The Panel Chairman shall
decide on the modality to be used. The Deciding Panel must convene for a Formal
Hearing if the Deciding Panel so decides or if the accused party requests a Formal
Hearing. Members participating in a decision reached by telephone must receive a
written confirmation of its content.
12.2.4 The Deciding Panel shall make its decisions by a simple majority of the votes. No
member may abstain from voting.
12.3 Disciplinary Board Procedures for Cases of First Instance
12.3.1 Disciplinary Board proceedings are opened on the basis of a formal request from an
IIHF body, the respective IIHF Medical Committee or IIHF Medical Supervisor, the
respective Directorate Chairman, the IIHF General Secretary or his deputy, WADA or
a Member National Association, or when initiated at the discretion of the Disciplinary
Board Chairman. The Disciplinary Board must receive the formal request within 30
days of the day the alleged incident took place.
12.3.2 The request for Disciplinary Proceedings must be submitted in writing to the
Disciplinary Board Secretary. The Secretary shall notify the accused party and
corresponding Member National Association, in writing and in a timely manner that
such a request has been received or, if applicable, proceedings have been initiated
by the Disciplinary Board. The notice or subsequent communication shall allege the
violation or offense; include all relevant documents and/or correspondence; explain
the party’s due process rights including the right to submit written evidence, have an
oral hearing, call and question witnesses at such hearing (at Disciplinary Panel’s sole
discretion it may accept written witness testimony); and explain the fact that if the
party does not submit written comments within the indicated deadline, the Disciplinary
Panel will make a decision on the basis of the currently available evidence.
All communication with parties, including notice, is addressed to the Member National
Association, who has the responsibility to inform the accused party. Communication is
sent via email or fax and shall be deemed received the same day.
The accused party as well as the respective Member National Association shall
submit their written comments to the Disciplinary Body Secretary no later than 14
days (21 days for doping violations) after having received the notice of Disciplinary
Proceedings.
After receipt of the written comments or after the end of the 14-day period, the
Chairman of the Disciplinary Board appoints the members of the Deciding Panel.
12.3.3 On the request of the accused party or if the Deciding Panel so decides, a Formal
Hearing shall be held in accordance with Disciplinary Code 12.3.4. The Chairman
shall set the date of the Formal Hearing and in aggravating circumstances may
postpone the Formal Hearing date. The Chairman has ultimate authority over Formal
Hearing Procedures, including without limitation, any limits on time, evidence,
witnesses, and documentation so long as the parties are informed of the established
procedures, each party has a reasonable opportunity to present its case and
argument in accordance with the Deciding Panel’s rules and each party is treated in
a substantially equal manner The accused party must attend the Formal Hearing at
his own costs, unless the Deciding Panel decides otherwise in its sole discretion.
12.3.4 Formal Hearings are not public.
All parties concerned have the right to be represented by a person/counsel of their
choice at their own expense. On the request of the accused party, the Disciplinary
Panel will arrange for an interpreter.
For Formal Hearings, all parties concerned are required to fully disclose to the Panel
no later than 14 days prior to the scheduled date of the Formal Hearing, all written
evidence and shall specify any witnesses and experts which they intend to or may
call, and disclose any other evidence which they intend to present during the course
of the hearing. The parties shall not be permitted to produce further written evidence,
except if the Deciding Panel so permits on the basis of exceptional circumstances.
All written submissions shall be disclosed to all parties prior to the Formal Hearing.
12.3.5 When making a decision, the Deciding Panel shall use its best efforts to refer to any
existing evidence (documents such as reports of the Directorate, or of the game
officials, witnesses, television and other video recordings, etc.) The Deciding Panel
shall reach its decision within a reasonable period of time. The disciplined party as
well as the appellant initiating the proceeding and the IIHF Council must be notified, in
writing, as soon as a decision has been reached. The notice shall include a written
statement of the reasons for the decision. For doping cases, notice of the decision
shall be provided in accordance with WADA Code Article 8.4.
12.3.6 The disciplined party can submit a written appeal against the decision of the
Disciplinary Board to the IIHF Appeal Board if the disciplinary measure imposed by
the Disciplinary Board exceeds four games or 20,000 CHF in accordance with Article
13.1.1. In these cases an appeal to the Appeal Board is mandatory prior to an appeal
to the Court of Arbitration for Sport (Statute 61). The appeal must be submitted in
accordance with Section 13.3.3. Failure to appeal within seven days of the receipt of
the Disciplinary Board’s decision extinguishes all rights to appeal.
The disciplined party can appeal all other Disciplinary Board decisions to the Court of
Arbitration for Sport in accordance with the Code of Sports Related Arbitration.
The disciplined party must be informed about these appeal rights. The decision of the
Disciplinary Board remains in effect while under appeal unless the respective appeal
body orders otherwise.
12.3.7 Violations giving rise to disciplinary action shall be subject to a two year limitation
period. Except in cases of criminal sanctions, the period of limitation shall start on the
date of discovery of the alleged offense, but shall not exceed 10 years from the date
of the violation, irrespective of the date of discovery. The disciplinary proceedings
may be conducted if the party concerned has been informed in accordance with
Disciplinary Code 12.3.2 within the two year limitation period.
12.4 Disciplinary Board Procedures for Doping Cases
All procedures as outlined in 12.3 (Disciplinary Board Procedures for Cases of First Instance)
shall be followed with respect to a doping case unless indicated otherwise in this Section 12.4.
The Disciplinary Board must act in compliance with the IIHF Doping Control Regulations, the
World Anti-Doping Code particularly Article 1 (Definition of Doping); Article 2 (Anti-Doping Rule
Violations); Article 3 (Proof of Doping); Article 4.2.2 (Specified Substances); Article 4.3.3
(WADA’s Determination of the Prohibited List); Article 7.11 (Retirement from Sport); Article 8
(Right to a Fair Hearing and Notice of Hearing Decision); Article 10 (Sanctions on Individuals);
Article 11 (Consequences to Teams); Article 15.1 (Recognition of Decisions); Article 17 (Statute
of Limitations); Article 24 (Interpretation of the Code); and Code Definitions. All mandatory
WADA Code provisions as indicated above and detailed in WADA Code Article 23.2.2 are
incorporated by reference into this Disciplinary Code and shall be treated as if set out in full
herein.
12.4.1 Right to a Fair Hearing
The Disciplinary Board shall conduct a timely hearing process to determine whether
an anti-doping violation was committed. The right to a hearing may be waived either
expressly or by the failure of the incriminated party to challenge the assertion that an
anti-doping rule violation has occurred within 21 days after having been notified by
the Disciplinary Board Secretary of the Disciplinary Board’s jurisdiction.
12.4.2 Limitation Period
No anti-doping rule violation proceeding may be commenced unless the player or
other person accused of an anti-doping rule violation has been notified of the anti-
doping rule violation or notification has been reasonably attempted, within ten years
from the date the violation is asserted to have occurred.
12.4.3 Proof of Doping
a) Burdens and standards of proof
The IIHF shall have the burden of establishing that an anti-doping rule violation
has occurred. The standard of proof shall be whether the IIHF has established to
the comfortable satisfaction of the Disciplinary Board bearing in mind the
seriousness of the allegation which is made. This standard of proof in all cases is
greater than a mere balance of probability but less than proof beyond a reasonable
doubt. Where the anti-doping rules place the burden of proof upon the player or
other person alleged to have committed an anti-doping rule violation to rebut a
presumption or establish specified facts or circumstances, the standard of proof
shall be a balance of probability.
When needing to establish intent according to Disciplinary Code Article 7.2.1(b),
the IIHF shall appoint one member of the Legal Committee to establish such intent.
b) Methods of establishing facts and presumptions
Facts related to anti-doping rule violations may be established by any reliable
means, including admissions. The rules of proof as established in WADA Code
3.2.1 – 3.2.5 (Methods of Establishing Facts and Presumptions) shall be applicable
in doping cases.
12.4.4 Doping Appeals
All disciplinary decisions made as indicated in WADA Code 13.2 (Appeals from
Decision Regarding Anti-Doping Rule Violations, Consequences, Provisional
Suspensions, Recognition of Decision and Jurisdiction) may be appealed exclusively
to the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS). CAS’s scope of review on appeal includes
all issues relevant to the matter and is expressly not limited to the issues or scope of
review before the IIHF Disciplinary Board. §IIHF doping decisions shall remain in
effect while under appeal unless the CAS orders otherwise. The time limit for appeals
is 21 days after receipt of the decision.
The following parties have the right to appeal to CAS:
a) The athlete or other person who is the subject of the decision being appealed;
b) The other party to the case in which the decision was rendered;
c) The IIHF;
d) The National Anti-Doping Organisation of the person’s country of residence or
countries where the person is a national or license holders;
e) The International Olympic Committee, where the decision may have an effect in
relation to the Olympic Games including decisions affecting eligibility for the Olympic
Games; and
f) WADA (the time limit for WADA appeals shall be the later of: (i) 21 days after the
last day on which any other party in the case could have appealed, or (ii) 21 days
after WADA’s receipt of the complete case file).
The priority for repayment of CAS cost awards and forfeited prize money shall be:
first, payment of costs awarded by CAS; second, reallocation of forfeited prize money
to other Players; and third, reimbursement of the expenses of the Anti-Doping
Organization that conducted results management in the case.
Cross appeals and other subsequent appeals by any respondent named in cases
brought to CAS under the WADA Code are specifically permitted. Any party with a
right to appeal under Article 13 of the WADA Code must file a cross appeal or
subsequent appeal at the latest with the party’s answer
Notwithstanding any other provision herein, the only person who may appeal from a
Provisional Suspension is the player or other person upon whom the Provisional
Suspension is imposed.
Any Anti-Doping Organization that is a party to an appeal shall promptly provide the
appeal decision to the player or other person and to the other Anti-Doping
Organizations that would have been entitled to appeal under Article 13.2.3 of the
WADA Code as provided under WADA Code Article 14.2.
12.4.5 Failure to Render a Timely Decision
Where, in a particular case, the IIHF fails to render a decision with respect to whether
an anti-doping rule violation was committed within a reasonable deadline set by
WADA, WADA may elect to appeal directly to CAS in accordance with WADA Code
12.4.6 Jurisdiction in cases of Retirement from Sport
If a player or other person retires before, after, or during a disciplinary proceeding, the
Disciplinary Board retains jurisdiction to conduct and complete the disciplinary
12.5 Disciplinary Board Procedures for Appeal Cases
12.5.1 The parties directly affected by a decision passed by the IIHF Office, the Council or
the Directorates concerning the application of the IIHF Statutes, Bylaws or
Regulations/Codes on a specific case, can submit a Notice of Appeal against such to
the Disciplinary Board (“Complainant”). The Appeal must be submitted in writing to
the Disciplinary Board Secretary, within seven days after the notification of the
decision, failing which the right of appeal will have lapsed (Appeal Case). The
Complainant shall have 14 days after the initial Notice of Appeal, to submit the
Objection Pleadings which shall contain: (a) the legal request; (b) an account of the
facts; (c) the evidence; (d) the Complainant’s conclusions; and (e) Complainant’s
request for a Formal Hearing. The Complainant may object to inaccurate
representation of the facts and/or wrong application of the law.
12.5.2 For Expedited Appeals in accordance with Bylaw 1103, the Complainant must submit
the Notice of Appeal to the Disciplinary Board Secretary within seven days of the
notification of the initial decision giving rise to the suspension, but not later than (i)
seven days before an IIHF Championship or Olympic Winter Games Tournament or
(ii) three days before an IIHF Championship Qualification Tournament or an Olympic
Winter Games Qualification Tournament. Due to the time cons traints, the Notice of
Appeal shall contain all Appeal Pleading information contained in Code 12.5.1 and
will be decided by a single member Deciding Panel appointed by the Disciplinary
Board Chairman.
12.5.3 Generally, any proceeding shall be conducted in accordance with the Disciplinary
Board Procedures in Articles 12.3.1 – 12.3.5. However, if more than one party is
involved in the Appeal Proceedings, after receiving the Appeal Pleadings, the
Deciding Panel shall provide the opposing party 14 days to provide a response to the
Appeal Pleadings. The Deciding Panel may grant a longer deadline when special
circumstances demand such. If the opposing party does not provide a response brief
within the 14-day period, the Deciding Panel will make a decision on the appeal
without the opposing party’s arguments.
12.5.4 The decisions are final within the IIHF; they can be appealed to the Court of
Arbitration for Sport in accordance with the Code of Sports Related Arbitration after
receipt of the written decision. The person concerned must be informed about his
appeal rights. The decision of the Disciplinary Board remain in effect while under
appeal unless the Court of Arbitration for Sport orders otherwise.
13. Appeal Board
13.1 Appeal Board Competency
The Appeal Board can hear appeals submitted against decisions made by the
Disciplinary Board acting in the first instance which exceed four (4) games or 20,000
CHF. For purposes of the Appeal Board’s competency, Disciplinary Board suspensions
as well as an automatic game suspension according to the Official Rule Book and
Championship Disciplinary Panel sanctions shall be taken (added) together for purposes
of exceeding four games. If the Disciplinary Board combines disciplinary measures, an
appeal is admissible if one of the measures indicated above is met. In that case, the
Appeal Board shall examine the overall measures imposed.
13.2 Appeal Board Composition
13.2.1 The Appeal Board shall be composed in accordance with Statute 50. It shall be the
duty of the Board to act as the sole decider of the matter brought before it, as if the
members presiding over a case were judges in a civil proceeding.
13.2.2 The Appeal Board decides by an Appeal Panel of three members composed from the
Appeal Board. The Appeal Board Chairman shall determine, on a case by case basis,
the composition of each Appeal Panel including appointing the respective Panel
Chairman if not so acting himself.
13.2.3 A member of the Appeal Board may not sit on an Appeal Panel if the case dealt with
concerns himself or players, clubs, officials or any other member of the Member
National Association of the country to which he belongs.
13.2.4 The Appeal Panel decision can be adopted in a formal session, by correspondence ,
by telephone or by video conference. The Chairman shall decide on the modality to
be used. The Appeal Panel must convene for a Formal Hearing if the Appeal Panel
so decides or the disciplined party requests a Formal Hearing. Members participating
in a decision reached by telephone and/or video conference must receive a written
confirmation of its content.
13.2.5 The Appeal Panel shall take its decision by a simple majority of the votes. No
13.3 Appeal Board Procedures
13.3.1 The parties to the disciplinary proceedings and the IIHF have the power to appeal. All
appeals must be submitted through the respective Member National Association.
13.3.2 Appeal notice must be submitted in accordance with 13.3.3 to the Appeal Board
Secretary in writing, for the attention of the Appeal Board, within seven days of the
notification of the Disciplinary Board decision. The right to appeal is forfeited if this
deadline is not met. As soon as an appeal is submitted, the Appeal Board Chairman
shall appoint the Appeal Panel Chairman and other members.
13.3.3 The appellant may object to inaccurate representation of the facts and/or wrong
application of the law and/or wrong interpretation of facts with respect to the law
and/or improper procedures. The Appeal Pleadings must be submitted to the Appeal
Board Secretary within 14 days of the initial notification and contain: (a) the legal
request; (b) an account of the facts; (c) the evidence; (d) the appellant’s conclusions;
and (e) appellant’s request for a Formal Hearing. New facts and/or evidence not
originally submitted to the Disciplinary Board is only admissible if a Party acting with
the diligence necessary under the circumstances did not have the ability to submit the
facts and/or evidence to the Disciplinary Board.
13.3.4 After receiving the Appeal Pleadings, the Appeal Panel shall provide the opposing
party 14 days to provide a response to the Appeal Pleadings. The Appeal Panel may
grant a longer deadline when special circumstances demand such. If the opposing
party does not provide a response brief within the 14-day period, the Appeal Panel
will make a decision without the opposing party’s arguments.
13.3.5 On the request of the appellant or if the Appeal Panel so decides, a Formal Appeal
shall set the date of the Formal Appeal Hearing and in aggravating circumstances
may postpone the Formal Appeal Hearing date. The Chairman has ultimate authority
over Formal Hearing Procedures. The appellant must attend the Formal Appeal
Hearing at his own costs, unless the Appeal Panel decides otherwise in its sole
discretion.
13.3.6 Formal Appeal Hearings are not public. All parties concerned have the right to be
represented by a person/counsel of their choice at their own expense at the Formal
Appeal Hearing. On request of the Appellant, the Appeal Panel Chairman will arrange
for an interpreter.
For Formal Appeal Hearings, all parties concerned are required to fully disclose to the
Panel no later than seven days prior to the scheduled date of the Formal Appeal
Hearing, all written evidence and shall specify any witnesses and experts which they
intend to or may call, and disclose any other evidence which they intend to present
during the course of the Formal Appeal Hearing. The parties shall not be permitted to
produce further written evidence, except if the Appeal Panel so permits on the basis
of exceptional circumstances.
All written submissions shall be disclosed to all parties prior to the Formal Appeal
Hearing.
13.3.7 The Appeal Panel shall reach its decision within a reasonable period of time. The
appellant initiating the appeal, as well as directly involved parties and the IIHF Council
must be notified, in writing, as soon as a decision has been reached. The notice shall
include a written statement of the reasons for the decision.
13.3.8 Decisions of the Appeal Panel are final within the IIHF; they can be appealed to the
Court of Arbitration for Sport in accordance with the Code of Sports Related
Arbitration after receipt of the reasons. The person concerned must be informed
about his rights. The decision of the Appeal Board remains in effect while under
14. Directorate
14.1 Directorate Competency
14.1.1 The Directorate shall deal with all disciplinary matters arising during an IIHF
Competition, including (a) violation of the Official Playing Rules when a Championship
Disciplinary Panel is not established; (b) IIHF Code of Conduct violations; (c)
disciplinary matters concerning the participation in and operation of the IIHF
Competition and (d) provisional suspensions for doping and Integrity violations
(provisional suspension for doping must be dealt with in accordance with WADA
Code Article 7.2, 7.3 and 7.9).
For disciplinary matters, the Directorate shall have the same status, jurisdiction,
power and authority as the Disciplinary Board, with the exception that the
Directorate’s disciplinary measures may not extend past (are limited to) the respective
IIHF Competition.
14.1.2 Disciplinary matters occurring during international games not operated under IIHF
jurisdiction shall be dealt with by the respective Member National Association, except
for exhibition games which occur within seven days of an IIHF Championship. All
disciplinary matters occurring during exhibition games within seven days of an IIHF
Championship shall be dealt with by the Directorate Chairman of the respective
championship on an expedited basis. The Directorate Chairman shall have the right
to refer the matter to the respective Championship Disciplinary Panel for review and
sanctioning.
14.1.3 When having jurisdiction over violations of the Official Playing Rules in accordance
with Disciplinary Code 14.1.1, the Directorate shall automatically review all incidents
sanctioned with a game misconduct or match penalty and has the authority and
discretion under Rule 5 to review all other matters related to violations of the Official
Playing Rules even if not penalized in a game.
14.1.4 Match penalties, game misconduct, and penalties/incidents the Directorate considers
may require additional sanctioning that are assessed on the last playing day of the
team concerned and/or any other cases or incidents which the Directorate Chairman
considers as requiring additional sanctioning which exceed the duration of the
Championship must be submitted to the IIHF Disciplinary Board for investigation and
disciplinary action. Specifically, any incidents concerning physical abuse of game
officials or other persons in and around the event venue, any incidents involving
violations of the IIHF Code of Conduct and forfeited games during an IIHF
Competition which were not dealt with by the Directorate or the Championship
Disciplinary Panel must be referred to the IIHF Disciplinary Board.
14.2 Directorate Composition
The Directorate shall be composed for disciplinary matters in accordance with Statute
50. Specifically, the Ad Hoc Disciplinary Panel composed in accordance with Statute 50
shall be comprised of Directorate Members whose team (player, coach, team official,
etc.) is not directly and/or indirectly involved with the incident under review.
14.3 Directorate Procedures
14.3.1 Directorate decisions concerning violations of the IIHF Official Playing Rules are final
within the IIHF, but can be appealed to the Court of Arbitration for Sport in
accordance with Statute 57. Directorate decisions with respect to all other disciplinary
matters may be appealed to the Disciplinary Board in accordance with Disciplinary
Code 12.5. The Directorate’s decision shall remain in effect while under appeal
unless the Disciplinary Board and/or CAS orders otherwise.
14.3.2 Directorate decisions concerning violations of the IIHF Official Playing Rules , cases
where a Directorate decision could influence the course of the tournament or cases
involving a player, coach or team representative’s rights shall observe the essential
elements of due process including but not limited to ensuring the accused party is
notified of the disciplinary matter at a minimum of four hours before the hearing and
has the opportunity to be heard regarding such at least six hours before his next
15. Championship Disciplinary Panel (Statute 52)
15.1 Championship Disciplinary Panel Competency
15.1.1 When established in accordance with Statute 52, the Championship Disciplinary
Panel shall have jurisdiction over violations of the Official Playing Rules occurring
during the course of the respective championship. The Championship Disciplinary
Panel shall have the same status, jurisdiction, power and authority as the Disciplinary
Board with respect to violations of the Official Playing Rules, with the reservation that
the Championship Disciplinary Panel’s disciplinary measures are limited to the
respective championship.
15.1.2 A Member of a Championship Disciplinary Panel cannot sit as a member of a
Disciplinary Board Panel that is deciding on cases/incidents submitted to the
Disciplinary Board by the Championship Directorate Chairman in accordance with
Disciplinary Code 14.1.4 when the Member was also a member of the Championship
Disciplinary Panel for the respective Championship giving rise to the case/incident.
15.1.3 The Championship Disciplinary Panel shall automatically review all incidents
Play Rules even if not penalized in a game.
15.2 Championship Disciplinary Panel Composition
15.2.1 Championship Disciplinary Panel shall consist of at least eight members appointed by
the IIHF Council, who must be familiar with ice hockey and the IIHF Official Playing
Rules and procedures. Of the Panel members, IIHF Council will appoint one head
Disciplinary Judges. If the head Disciplinary Judge does not have a legal background,
the Championship Disciplinary Secretary may advise on legal matters. For
convenience purposes, due to the geographical distance between two playing
locations in a Championship, IIHF Council may appoint a second head Disciplinary
Judge for the second venue.
15.2.2 A Championship Disciplinary Panel member may abstain from a decision only for
illness or significant personal reasons which includes a personal or business
relationship with the parties concerned, but which does not include being a citizen of
the country of a Member National Association involved in the disciplinary case.
15.3 Championship Disciplinary Panel Procedure
15.3.1 The Championship Disciplinary Panel’s decision is final within the IIHF, but can be
appealed to the Court of Arbitration for Sport in accordance with Statute 62. The
decision shall remain in effect while under appeal unless the CAS orders otherwise.
15.3.2 The Championship Disciplinary Panel and participating Member National
Associations must observe the disciplinary procedures in the Championship
Disciplinary Guidelines for the respective championship season established by the
IIHF Council. These Guidelines must observe the essential elements of due process,
especially the right to a fair hearing; the hearing is not public. The Panel can decide
without a hearing on the available evidence, if the accused person waives the right to
a hearing or does not attend the hearing.
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Why Supermarkets Are on a Shopping Spree
Pankaj Renjhen, Managing Director – Retail Services, JLL India
The recent acquisition of the Hypercity brand by Kishore Biyani’s Future Group is one of the many instances highlighting a key ongoing trend in the retail
industry – cross-category consolidation. Retailers are increasingly exiting businesses that drag down their profits and focusing on strengthening their core businesses to increase their market share and create value for their shareholders.
Earlier this year, online retail giant Alibaba picked up stakes in Chinese supermarket chains Hema and Bailan
Amazon bought out grocery chain Whole Foods for a whopping $13.7 billion
Last year, the world’s largest brick-and-mortar supermarket chain Walmart bought out US-based e-commerce company Jet.com for $3.3 billion
In India, Future Group acquired Hypercity for $107 million and effectively added around 1.4 million square feet of retail space to their existing 13.8 million square feet.
There is a visible change in the appetite of retailers, especially in the food and grocery business. So, why are supermarkets out shopping?
To Gain Scale
Future Group already has presence in 221 cities after a series of acquisitions over the past couple of years. Last year, it acquired 124 retail stores of Heritage Fresh in Hyderabad, Bengaluru and Chennai. It also acquired retail group chain Sangam Direct, Easy Day and Nilgiris, significantly ramping up its presence in South India. The merger with Bharti Retail and acquisition of Big Apple effectively added 250 stores to its portfolio in the North.
This approach has not only boosted Future Group’s organic growth in terms of geography but also in terms of formats. The group now operates across all formats – from 1000 sq. ft. feet micro-stores to 50,000sq.ft. hypermarkets.
To Transition from Retail to Consumer Goods
Future Group’s strategy has slowly evolved from a pure play retail model to a fast-moving consumer goods model. Consolidation in the grocery space will further help them push their own products over private label consumer products. The recent acquisition of Hypercity is Biyani’s attempt at consolidation in the fashion and food category.
While most peers tried to go the FMCG way by outsourcing food processing and manufacturing to smaller firms, Future Group in fact outsmarted them all with the creation of Food Parks. These INR 1000 crore-worth large food processing factories, wholly owned by Future Group, have ensured that their margins are a few percentage points higher than their competitors’.
To get Online and Offline
The ongoing consolidations in the food and grocery business gives out strong signals of convergence in online and offline retail, as retail margins shrink for companies following both business models. India’s offline retailers such as Tata Group’s Trent Ltd and Godrej Group’s Nature’s Basket have acquired small online app-based retailers to set up their online sales operations. Though Future Group has steered clear of the online market for a while now, most of its competitors have gone ahead to bite the bullet of omni-channel retailing.
India is the Rising Food and Grocery Retail Star
India is the world’s second-largest producer of fruits and vegetables and sixth-largest food and grocery market globally, with the retail sector contributing 70% of the sales. Food has also been one of the largest segments in India’s retail sector and is, according to the Union Minister for Food Processing Industries, expected to reach $895 billion by 2020.
In 2016, the market size of the food and grocery sector was 30,25,218 crores (or $472.7 billion), with the organized share accounting for 2.4%. (Source: India Retail Report 2017-18; Images Group). The Indian food and grocery segment is attracting investments from leading global players keen on opportunities in global-standard food services and retail technology.
While India’s retail story has unfolded slowly over the decades, the pace of change has now accelerated to such an extent that retail houses need to constantly innovate to remain relevant to consumers. By 2020, the market is expected to reach the size 52,91,125 crores (or $826.7 billion) and is growing at 15% per annum (Source: India Retail Report 2017-18, Images Group)
Future Readiness
There have been talks of Amazon launching a private grocery label in India, and its intention of making its nationwide debut in online food retailing soon. Future Group is readying itself for battle by building an extensive network of offline retail, covering the entire spectrum from small formats to hypermarkets.
As a result of the retail sector’s globalization, Indian retailers are facing escalating challenges from foreign retailers in providing a complete retail experience. To cater to evolving customer expectation, retailers are adopting multi-channel retailing and are re-strategizing their store networks to stay competitive. Reconfiguration of real estate is an important part of the retail evolution that brands are adopting.
The key mantra for success in modern retailing is no longer just ‘the store in the right location’, but necessarily also involves the right strategy to attract and retain customers as a key to constantly improving margins.
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Ali N., & Rouhi G. (2010). “Barriers to Predicting the Mechanisms and Risk Factors of Non-Contact Anterior Cruciate Ligament Injury” The Open Biomedical Engineering Journal, Volume 4, Pages 178-189
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Live streaming platform iFollow unveiled for global EFL and Walsall fans
The EFL has today unveiled iFollow, an innovative digital live streaming and content platform that will revolutionise the way football fans overseas can follow their EFL teams.
iFollow will, for the first time in English football, enable EFL fans based outside the UK and Ireland to watch their team during the regular EFL season. With an estimated 270,000 EFL fans based outside the UK, iFollow will allow clubs to enable their supporters to follow the action wherever they are in the world.
Kicking off at the start of the 2017/18 EFL season, overseas subscribers will pay the equivalent of £110 per season for the service which will provide coverage of up to 46 live games per club. More than 1,500 matches will be available in HD quality, with iFollow showing every EFL league match live unless that match has been selected by the EFL’s overseas broadcast partners.
Fans based in the UK and Ireland will still also have access to live audio commentary, highlights packages and exclusive content as part of the new offering, rebranded to replace the EFL’s existing PlayerHD platform.
At launch, the vast majority of EFL clubs have opted in to utilise the iFollow platform and those who have not will have access to the same live streaming opportunity and will provide their fans with access through their own club digital services.
Research commissioned by the EFL suggests that there is significant demand for a service like iFollow amongst fans based overseas. A survey of over 1,600 such fans showed that 73% would be very likely or quite likely to subscribe to a live match streaming service and almost half would be happy to pay an annual subscription fee to do so. The findings suggest over 55% of the EFL’s fans are located in the United States, Canada, Australia and New Zealand where the potential audience for the iFollow platform could reach into the hundreds of thousands.
EFL Chief Executive Shaun Harvey commented: “The launch of iFollow is a notable development and will revolutionise the access thousands of overseas fans enjoy when following their EFL team.
“The new iFollow platform represents a potentially significant new revenue stream for Clubs, while enabling enhanced engagement with existing fans now living abroad.
“iFollow will also present the EFL with an important opportunity to stimulate the interest of new groups of supporters who follow our clubs overseas, which in turn will help support the growth of our competitions on the international stage.”
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NH jurors hear graphic details in murder trial
Dressed in a suit, defendant Steven Spader enters the courtroom on the first day of his trial in Hillsborough Superior Court Tuesday, October 26, 2010, in Nashua, N.H. Spader is charged with allegedly killing Kimberly Cates of Mont Vernon in her bed with a machette, and severely injuring her daughter in the nighttime attack. (AP Photo/Bob Hammerstrom, Pool)
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By LYNNE TUOHY, Associated Press
NASHUA, N.H. —
A woman who was hacked to death during a home invasion used her own body to shield her 11-year-old daughter as they were being attacked and died not knowing if her only child was alive or dead, prosecutors said Tuesday.
Steven Spader, 18, sat expressionless during the second day of his trial amid testimony about the gruesome injuries inflicted upon Kimberly Cates and her daughter, Jaimie. At one point, a prosecutor stood inches from Spader’s face and pronounced him a ruthless, merciless killer.
Defense attorney Andrew Winters told jurors the state had no forensic evidence linking Spader to the crime and that the key witnesses against him - three co-defendants - cut deals to lessen their own sentences.
“Each has told multiple, contradictory stories about what happened that night,” Winter said of the three, William Marks, Quinn Glover and Autumn Savoy.
Spader faces life in prison without possibility of parole if convicted of murder.
Prosecutors say Marks and Glover witnessed the attacks but did not take part. Savoy has pleaded guilty to helping hide evidence and concocting a false alibi. A fourth co-defendant, Christopher Gribble, is scheduled to stand trial for murder in February.
Assistant Attorney General Peter Hinckley held up a long machete as he described the attacks he said were committed by Spader and Gribble in the master bedroom of the Cates’ Mont Vernon home.
“They hacked them, they stabbed them, they cut them apart, and this is what this defendant used to hack that mother and daughter in their bed,” Hinckley said. “He brought this weapon down on them again and again and again.”
Prosecutors say Spader wielded the machete during the pre-dawn attacks on the mother and daughter, who were nestled in bed together. Jaimie’s father, David Cates, was in Baltimore on a business trip.
Jaimie told a trooper that her mother’s screams woke her up.
A surgeon testified that a blow that lacerated the girl’s face was delivered with such force that it broke her jaw. Another blow cleaved into the back of her head hard enough to crease her skull. A machete-like object, the doctor said, cut through bone and severed two pieces off her left foot.
He held up photographs of Jaimie’s injuries as he detailed them for the jury. There were stab wounds on two sides of her heart, a long gash on her face above her throat and a deep gash above her hip that nearly penetrated her abdominal cavity.
The girl told police she survived by feigning death, even as her assailants kicked and hacked at her.
“Jaimie Cates didn’t die,” Hinckley told a rapt jury. “When her Mom’s killers left, that little girl got up. She stopped playing dead. With one arm broken, her jaw shattered and parts of her foot completely cut off, she got up.”
Jaimie made her way to the kitchen and phoned police.
Prosecutors played for jurors the 911 call that Jaimie Cates made after stumbling to the kitchen. The girl’s wimper filled the courtroom, but the words were indiscernible. The dispatcher said Jaimie reported that her house had been robbed.
Milford police Sgt. Kevin Furlong arrived at the scene first. He looked through a front window and saw Jaimie lying on the floor, covered in blood. Furlong used his shoulder to smash through the door.
“Part of her foot was missing,” Furlong testified. “Other parts were barely still attached. She was attempting to scream and yell, however nothing was coming out.”
David Cates sat in the front row of the courtroom on Tuesday, his jaw clenched and a friend’s hand gripping his shoulder, as he listened to graphic descriptions about the attacks on his wife and daughter. He occasionally gave Spader a long, hard stare.
Kimberly Cates suffered more than 30 wounds, include a slit throat.
“Kimberly Cates was alive when she suffered each one of those unimagineable wounds. She was alive when she tried to be a shield for her daughter,” Hinckley said. “She made a mother’s sacrifice for her daughter.”
Dr. Amir Taghinia of Children’s Hospital Boston testified he was able to graft skin onto Jaimie’s foot and that she can walk again, but her ability to push off on the ball of her left foot is compromised.
Prosecutors say Spader and Gribble laughed and boasted about what they had done in the days after the attacks. Winters countered that, “Anyone who knew Steven Spader said he constantly bragged and exaggerated or said things that were doubtful or not true.”
Testimony resumes Wednesday.
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Retired Lancashire police sergeant, 56, was found hanged after argument, inquest told
Simon Noble, of Cherry Tree Way, Helmshore, was a sergeant for 32 years and died on February 4 this year
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A retired police officer was found hanged at his home after an argument, an inquest heard.
Simon Noble, of Cherry Tree Way, Helmshore, who was described as a ‘popular and well-loved person’ served as a sergeant in the Lancashire Constabulary for 32 years and retired five years ago.
Burnley Coroners Court heard how his wife of 30 years Yvonne found the 56-year-old dead in the bathroom at their home on February 4 this year. A post mortem examination confirmed he died from hanging.
The inquest heard how in September last year Mrs Noble became ‘angry’ after finding out the father-of-three had been texting a ‘local’ woman he had met through swimming for about two months.
In a statement read out at the inquest, she said she ‘expressed her disapproval and made it clear it wasn’t appropriate’ and Mr Noble ‘assured her all contact would cease’.
The statement said: “He repeatedly told me he was sorry and I could see he was ashamed of his actions. I was angry at him. I accepted his apologies and we returned to being the strong unit that we were.
“I know he never fully forgave himself for what he put me through as he was that type of person. He would never deliberately hurt any of us and I know he would have been berating himself for his indiscretion.”
The inquest heard that on February 2 – two days before his death – Mr Noble had been contacted again by the woman and agreed to meet her to ‘sever all contact’.
In her statement Mrs Noble said she was ‘upset’ and the next day became ‘angry’ and argued with him about the meeting.
The inquest heard how she then didn’t want to speak about it until the next morning and was ‘shocked’ to find him dead.
Mrs Noble said he was a ‘popular and well-loved person’ and couldn’t explain why he ‘chose to make this decision’.She said: “He was a very loving and caring man who would do anything for anyone and always put others first. I would describe him as the most selfless person I know.
“Our marriage remained a loving one throughout the years. Simon had a general fun nature and was very passionate and enthusiastic about things that related to his family, friends and his faith.”
Coroner Richard Taylor ruled that Mr Noble took his own life and he was ‘the last person on Earth you would expect this to happen to’.
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New York Court Officials Complete Rare Review of Cases Handled by Judge Forced Into Retirement by Dementia
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A review of dozens of Judge ShawnDya Simpson’s cases found the decisions to be rational, a disappointment for a man whose claims of innocence had been one of the judge’s last cases.
In August, New York court officials made a sad and surprising announcement: ShawnDya Simpson, a 54-year-old judge, was retiring because of early onset Alzheimer’s disease. It was both a tragedy and a dilemma: How would anyone know whether the judge’s illness had affected her handling of cases in the months, maybe years before she was forced from the bench?
In October, court officials announced they would do something rare: conduct a review of scores of the judge’s orders and decisions to see if there were obvious examples of mistakes or misguided judgments.
This week, court officials announced the results of the review. Officials said a State Supreme Court justice had reviewed 40 of the judge’s decisions and orders, as well as 1,000 status conference orders on routine issues.
“None of the status conference orders or decisions on motions were found to be irrational,” said Lucian Chalfen, a spokesman for the Office of Court Administration.
“It was clear that the decisions and orders were written addressing the particular actions, in other words not block copied one from another, as they addressed particular facts and arguments in each individual motion and the decisions were appropriate to the arguments,” Chalfen added.
Chalfen said the review consisted of Simpson’s year sitting as a judge in the Bronx. Simpson had been moved to the Bronx from Brooklyn after complaints about her productivity, demeanor and failure to show up in court on time. Chalfen did not say why the review had been limited to Simpson’s final year.
Nelson Cruz had an intense interest in the outcome of the review. Cruz, convicted of murder when he was a teenager in Brooklyn in 1999, had been granted a long-sought hearing on his innocence by Simpson. He was optimistic, for Simpson had already overturned two convictions of men who had been sent away on murder charges, cases that involved questionable conduct by detectives who had also worked on Cruz’s case.
But over two years, Cruz and his lawyers came to worry something was wrong with Simpson. There were long delays and a series of what they regarded as inexplicable decisions in the case. In August 2019, just days before her illness led to a formal medical leave, she denied Cruz’s bid for freedom. When Cruz’s lawyers learned of the judge’s illness nearly a year later, they filed papers to have her decision vacated, arguing it was clear she had been impaired.
While Cruz’s case was handed off to another judge, the review announced by court officials held promise for Cruz and his lawyers: Any instance in which her decisions were determined to be flawed would bolster their own claim.
Informed of the review’s results, Justin Bonus, a lawyer for Cruz, said he remained confident he could establish Simpson was impaired when she denied his client’s motion to vacate his conviction.
“Her irrationality,” Bonus said, “was evident.”
Early onset Alzheimer’s is notoriously difficult to diagnose. When Simpson’s illness was confirmed by doctors in early 2020, she was said to be in the middle stages of the disease.
When Simson’s retirement was announced, some court officials, lawyers and others involved with the court system wondered about Simpson’s law secretary, what in the federal system is known as a judge’s clerk. Law secretaries have a daily and intimate window into a judge’s work, and indeed often do the lion’s share of case research and the drafting of written opinions.
Simpson’s law secretary has not responded to calls, emails and texts from ProPublica seeking her insight.
This week, asked if the review of Simpson’s cases involved discussions with her former law secretary, Chalfen said, “We do not get involved with a judge’s judicial decisions, which would include who would write a particular decision and order.”
Francis Shen, a lawyer and professor who has studied America’s aging judiciary, for whom questions of impairment have become more acute, said he was not surprised by the outcome of the review.
“It would be difficult to determine after the fact the ways in which gradual but real cognitive decline might affect courtroom decision-making and rulings,” Shen said. “Just because rulings are not ‘irrational’ does not mean they are not potentially problematic.”
Cruz’s case is currently assigned to Justice Raymond Rodriguez. It is not clear what next steps he is contemplating or when they might happen.
Joe Sexton is a senior editor at ProPublica.
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The images you are about to see in Safe Distance are weirdly frustrating. That’s not your subjective opinion, it’s what they are meant to be. You need not ask yourself: ‘Should I find them beautiful? Am I, once again, not getting the point of a contemporary artwork? Do I really need to read the accompanying text before I can truly appreciate its relevance and acuity?’ – Ah, if only it were that simple! But please, by all means, keep reading.
Consider this. You are in an art gallery, alone or with a few other visitors. You hardly expected a crowd. The arrangement is that of a classic picture show: austere, museum grade grey walls on which photographs are mounted in an orderly fashion. The stage is set, but your expectations are disappointed: you do not feel moved, dazzled or awed in the face of great beauty or sharp wit. Maybe you are even a little bored. All is as it should be. Vague unease settles in, but you push it away to the back of your mind, routinely. Perhaps you try again to engage with the images, but your mind trails off, distracted. You check your phone for messages, and you wonder if you should post a Facebook update. You feel safe. You are the viewer this work has been waiting for.
“Why and for whom is contemporary art so attractive”, asks German filmmaker, visual artist and writer Hito Steyerl, and we may add: spectacular, shiny, grandiose, entertaining? She answers: “One guess: the production of art presents a mirror image of post-democratic forms of hypercapitalism that look set to become the dominant political post-Cold War paradigm. It seems unpredictable, unaccountable, brilliant, mercurial, moody, guided by inspiration and genius. Just as any oligarch aspiring to dictatorship might want to see himself.” I’m quoting Steyerl from an article in which she explores the relationship between art and politics. In Politics of Art: Contemporary Art and the Transition to Post-Democracy¹ she flips the question by not asking how the political is represented in the arts – and Peitersen’s series Safe Distance is undeniably linked to contemporary political events with its appropriation of images shared on social media of war, drone strikes, revolution and destruction of lives and property – but by inviting us to observe how politics are at work in the field of the arts. Steyerl, who likes to be direct, posits: “Amongst all other forms of art, fine art has been most closely linked to post-Fordist speculation, with bling, boom, and bust. Contemporary art is no unworldly discipline nestled away in some remote ivory tower. On the contrary, it is squarely placed in the neoliberal thick of things.” Whether we like it or not, this also relates to Peitersen’s exhibition and to us as its viewers. Superficially – and that superficiality is a quality, not a defect – Safe Distance engages with events that Peitersen finds himself observing eagerly. Events that take place elsewhere, in Turkey, Palestine, the Horn of Africa, Afghanistan. He observes them with “mixed feelings of admiration, powerlessness, shame and curiosity”, and asks what role he has in all this – and I take this to mean both as a compassionate human being, a citizen and an artist. Engrossed in the violence unfolding on his computer screen, he feels compelled to ask where he stands, how he is implicated, if at all, and how he can he act. These are common sentiments, shared by many in the Western world, often accompanied by feelings of being overwhelmed and deprived of any real agency. Peitersen decides to insert reconfigured screen captures of the online footage into the spaces occupied by the art world. But he avoids the seduction of glorifying the horrors to make them palatable, fit for consumption, nor does he solicit our outrage or compassion for the subjects under attack.
Instead, he creates images that vex. He suspends the eagerly observed course of events as paused moments floating in featureless panoramic landscapes that reference the history of painting as much as they call to mind cinematic dystopia’s about the future of our planet or the bland artificial environments in cheap virtual reality games. In a willful act of sabotage, Peitersen substitutes the traditional art work as a stable resting point for our gaze with images that never seem to fully arrive from the dimension where they originated. Instead, they pull us back into the shared online reality of endless distractions offered by competing news channels, conspiracy theories, casual dating sites and cute animal videos, where we suffer from the fragmentation of our time and attention, and where we are triggered to form opinions about everything and nothing. In the back of our minds, we register how exhausted we are from all this.
Asked about what informed his thinking while developing Safe Distance, Peitersen pointed to James Bridle, a British writer, artist, publisher and technologist, whose work covers the intersection of literature, culture and the network. In New Aesthetics², Bridle speaks about his approach and points out: “just as my drone works are not about the objects themselves, but about the systems – technological, spatial, legal and political – which permit, shape and produce them, and about the wider implications of seeing and not seeing such technological, systematic, operations; so the New Aesthetic is concerned with everything that is not visible in these images and quotes, but that is inseparable from them, and without which they would not exist.”
For me, this is an essential characteristic of art in the age of networked technology: instead of offering a place to rest our eyes, artworks, and in particular photographic images, function like entry points to the systems in which they are situated. This is why Bridle asks us to “think about not what they look like, but how they came to be and what they become: the processes of capture, storage, and distribution; the actions of filters, codecs, algorithms, processes, databases, and transfer protocols; the weight of data centers, servers, satellites, cables, routers, switches, modems, infrastructures physical and virtual; and the biases and articulations of disposition and intent encoded in all of these things, and our comprehension of them.”
With regard to Peitersen’s work, this means to think about the position of the observer as he finds himself absorbed by socially mediated violence. Yes, there is also an angle of interest in the moral and political implications of drone warfare, or in the maddening inability to come to any verifiable conclusion about political content disseminated through networked media with its own labyrinth of hyperlinks, Photoshop manipulations, questionable
authorship and hidden agendas. The work also reflects on questions regarding the value of the photographic image in the age of social media, of which Bridle remarks that they “make the shift from representation to participation very clear: people participate in the launch and life span of images, and indeed their life span, spread and potential is defined by participation.”
Peitersen’s recurring question about his role in the events is a question about participation – what can we do from this safe distance? Ultimately, his prime concern has always been with the observer, with us as viewers and with what we are seeing and not seeing when looking at the world – concerns that also guided his previous body of work Saccadic Sightings, which was based on research about eye-tracking and the creation of a unified field of view from the imperfect, binocular vision of our eyes.
Strangely enough, Safe Distance is neither here nor there: it is partly about representing the political situation elsewhere in the space of the arts, but this is driven by a deeper urge to understand his own position within the arts as a political one. One way Peitersen has been acting on this urge, is to co-found and chair the Platform BK, an artistic workforce organization advocating for the improvement of the conditions of production, display, distribution and reception of the arts as they operate within the ‘neoliberal thick of things.’ Another way he found is by inserting the images collected under the title Safe Distance into the realm of the visual arts, because by doing so he can draw attention to the fact that the element of the political has been evacuated from the arts, at least in the Netherlands. Even outright activistic artist such as Jonas Staal or Renzo Martens have taken their refuge elsewhere, to Congo, Kurdish Syria, Chechnya, where their political interventions and reflections on the conditions of artistic labor are deemed newsworthy enough to be covered and often ostensibly applauded by the Dutch national press.
In the end, Safe Distance asks what it means for us as observers to feel so safe while eagerly following violence erupting elsewhere. Should we feel safe? Does this feeling of safety result from the evacuation of the political from our lives? Bridle posits that “technology is political. Everything is political. If you cannot perceive the politics, the politics are being done to you.” The fact that it even needs asking what our role could be, is an indication how little we understand to what extent we are already implicated in the political processes that govern our world. This is what we are not seeing, what we are kept from seeing. It is on each of us to explore wherein the limits of our blindness lie. From that onus no artwork can give any reprieve, which is indeed most vexing.
1. http://www.e-flux.com/journal/politics-of-art-contemporary-art-and-the-transitionto-post-democracy/
2. http://booktwo.org/notebook/new-aesthetic-politics/
Hester Keijser / Stead Bureau
Safe Distance Exhibitions
2017 | Alternative Truths, Expoplu, Nijmegen.
2016 | Manmade, Raverzyde Oosteende
2016 | Safe Distance @LhGWR
2015 | Safe Distance & Safe Distance: High Ground @Alkovi Gallery
2014 | On the Move, Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam
Safe Distance Texts/Reviews/Interviews
2017 | ALTERNATIVE TRUTHS : KARL MARX IN EEN BAD VOL BLAUWE GLITTERS | Fenne Saedt
2017 | De alternatieve waarheid is het ideale speelterrein voor de kunst | Lucette ter Borg
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The Baron Alexander von Reisden went mad after his young wife died, and in five years he had not got himself sane...
His friends were concerned about him. He had tried suicide once, early on, and had not succeeded; this was encouraging in a man who was usually both well-prepared and lucky. He still had the gun, in a box in his top drawer behind his collar studs, and he still suffered from what had led him to the act, his singular and inexplicable and apparently incurable madness.
[Alexander von Reisden believes he meant to murder his wife. He has no reason for it; they had been married less than a year and he loved her; but he instinctively, inescapably knows it.
{Casually, in a train station, he meets a man who tells him the story of another inexplicable crime, the double murder, long ago, of a rich man and his grandson.
{Curious about the Knights, Reisden talks with Victor Wills, an English friend who writes true crime, and finds that he is connected to the Knights by more than his own curiosity.]
"A boy," Victor said absently. "Yes, I know about Jay and Richard, and Charles Adair whom you met, and the Knight murder case, and I suppose, dear boy, that you had better know too."
Victor Wills and Alexander Reisden were sitting in one of the little cafes by the Piazza San Marco. The glass shutters were up; outside, the New Year's rain stormed across the plaza, and the pigeons and the tourists had taken shelter. Inside, heat and heavy gilt held back the winter weather. White-haired Victor held his cup of caffe latte in two hands and stared happily about him.
Victor was a friend from almost as far back as Reisden could remember, a British Museum gossip-monger now retired to Italy. When Reisden had been at English prep school, the London literary man Victor, newly converted to Catholicism, had seen him act in a school play and had invited him to his flat to discuss the Trinity. Victor had spoken rather oddly about Catholicism and, with some authority, about Havelock Ellis, Frank Harris, and Wilde. Reisden had been innocent enough then not to see immediately what Victor intended; but when he had caught on, a little before Victor's intentions would have become unmistakable, he had somehow distracted Victor from his initial purpose and got him talking about Wilde, Victor's own life as a professional writer, and finally about the poems of Mallarmé and the future of the British Liberal Party, about which they could agree. Victor had remained a friend, amusing Reisden inwardly with a succession of episodes involving Italian waiters, lost manuscripts, and the local government board on which Victor titularly had worked. He had retired to Italy in the aftermath of the Wilde affair. The love of Victor's writing life was poetry--privately published, tinted ink on tinted paper, Beardsleyesque illustrations--but since his retirement, he had become a hack writer "to keep the wolf, dear boy, if not from the door, at least not wholly upstairs with one and sharing the covers." His bread and butter was True Crime.
"The infamous Knight case. I kept the Knights out of American Crimes, you know. My editor wanted to include the material, and I had photographs. But I wouldn't do it."
"Oh?"
"I told him it would inconvenience a dear friend. I shall give you quite the worst first. It's curious," Victor said delicately, "that Adair thought you were Richard. " Victor pushed a photograph over the table. "John Jay French," he said. "He and Richard were cousins."
The image was small, about the size of a visiting card. Reisden recognized individual features: brow, nose, a jaw like the one he shaved every morning. Suddenly the features were a face and the face was his. Reisden shuddered violently and handed it back.
"Are you sure you like this, my dear boy?"
"Curiosity merely startles the cat. Go on."
"Well, then, here is what happened to the Knights."
First, said Victor, you must realize that the crimes of the rich have essentially to do with money. William Knight was made by money. Eventually the man who couldn't be his heir killed him.
William Knight was the son of a poor Irish immigrant, born on the ship that brought him to America. He ran away to sea at ten and owned his first sailing ship at twenty. Much of his trade was in cotton goods. He was rich by the beginning of the American Civil War.
Then he dealt with the Confederacy.
He was already over sixty, but William Knight traveled to England and to the Confederacy itself, keeping up the cotton trade. He was completely ostracized. Trading with the South was simply not done, and three of his sons were fighting for the North.
But he became very rich indeed.
He's quite mad-looking in his photos: an evil ancient Lincoln, with the nastiest twisted mouth and great dark eyes like a cave full of spiders. He let his hair grow long because the Bible told him to. He held public prayer meetings in his offices, and sued his neighbors over trifles. He owned parts of thirty-six companies, but he always ate the same thing, meat loaf and toast and gravy at the nearest cheap restaurant. He married three women--they all expired, you can imagine--and sired enormous numbers of children, seven of whom grew to adulthood.
And, quite young, they began to die off.
Of the seven, William Knight Jr., John, and Alphonsus died in the Civil War and left no known children. Isabella died of some female disease, unmarried, no children. Clement Knight committed suicide, unmarried, no children. William's fifth son, Gilbert Howard Knight, refused either to marry or to go into the business. He was disinherited and forgotten, and when William Knight died, Gilbert was an itinerant used-book seller, of all things.
Late in life William sired a sixth son, Thomas Robert Knight. And Thomas Robert died with his wife Sophie, in a boating accident in 1883, leaving one son, Richard Knight.
The Richard, dear boy, that Charles Adair took you for.
I do like Richard Knight and by all accounts he didn't have a pleasant life with William. From the day Richard was his, William started training him to be a millionaire. Tutors in mathematics and finance and deportment. William wanted Richard to succeed, you see, to wipe the stain from the Knight money.
Then came Jay French.
Jay French came from the South. No date of birth, no birthplace, no next of kin. He must have been born right after the war, or during it, to have been in his twenties in 1887. So he might have been a chiild of one of the Knight sons who died in the war, or for the matter, of William himself. He looked like a Knight, dark-haired, good bones. Like you.
He appears first in the Knight Company ledgers in 1884 as a clerk-secretary, but by the beginning of 1885 he was William Knight's private assistant. He was short and thin, as though he had grown up starved, and was something of a dandy in a quiet way. A little, thin young man, cool and competent and always there. From all one hears, he was a very good man of business and almost the only man who got on well with William Knight.
Alexander, can you imagine them together? William needed an adult, responsible heir. Richard was only a boy. But Jay was illegitimate, and bastards cannot inherit under American law.
After Jay arrived, Richard seems to have spent more time away from Boston, at the family's house in New Hampshire. It was a house by a lake. Often Jay went with him. Richard seems to have quite suddenly become a sickly little boy, because in 1886 William hired for him a personal doctor. You met him, Alexander. His name was Charles Adair.
Now, my dear, things get interesting.
Here is Jay the illegitimate and Richard the legitimate. And here is a lake convenient for drowning. Oh, wouldn't you have, if you were the villain of the piece? It would have been so easy. A little push, the tiniest accident with a boat, the poor child would have been among the angels. And there, inevitably, at William's dark and bony side, would have been the mourning, the so-deserving Jay.
But of course Jay murdered William first.
On the night of August sixth, 1887, William Knight and Jay French were staying at the house by the lake. They ate dinner with Dr. Charles Adair in attendance. He says there was no disagreement between them. Richard had been sent to bed as being unwell. After the meal Jay French went upstairs to his office, at the head of the stairs opposite Richard's bedroom, to examine accounts. William Knight spoke with Adair and then began to clean a collection of some pistols and revolvers that he kept mounted on a board in the parlor. He was sitting in a large rocking chair, the guns on a table beside him and the windows open.
Dr. Adair had left the house and was on the road toward the village. The road led by the lake. By looking back over his shoulder, he could see the lights of the Knight house over the water. He heard a sharp bang, like the sound of a dictionary being dropped. A man called out. Adair began running back toward the house. Whenever the trees were thin, he looked through them toward the house. Jay French banged open the front door and ran away from the house. "I'll get you for this!" Jay shouted; really, you would think people would have some imagination. He fired back at the house, a window broke. Jay ran off toward the woods beyond the barn. Silence, silence, silence. The doctor ran down the path and reached the house. Servants were coming downstairs, screaming and crying. William Knight was dead, shot dead, in the front room. A bloodbath, a shambles. Richard Knight was downstairs, by his grandfather's body, deep in shock. (Prepare to be astounded, my dear.) The doctor asks the child, "Richard, did you see anything?" And what does Richard say?
"I won't tell," says Richard. "I'll never tell."
The sleety rain rattled the glass. Victor leaned back, watching Reisden.
"And he never did. Three days later, under almost impossible conditions, Richard Knight was kidnapped. He was with the doctor and his uncle Gilbert in seclusion at the town's hotel. Guards in the corridor, guards downstairs. At one in the afternoon, Dr. Adair and Gilbert Knight left the room together. The boy was alone. Not five minutes later the guard checked the room.
"Richard was gone.
"And they never have found him."
...And the rest of the story can be found in The Vanished Child. Enjoy!
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Mumbai, May 21 (IANS) Bollywood superstar Alia Bhatt says that she cannot wait for the lockdown to get over because she is excited about sitting in her new office for meetings and script reading sessions.
The actress has collaborated with art director Rupin Suchak to create the interior design of her office.
"Rupin got the pulse of what I wanted to do with my office. He got the brief spot-on and effortlessly. The space is now an extension of my personality and that is exactly how I had envisaged. He has made the place look more spacious, included a surprise element or two breaking monotony, yet giving it an overlay of serenity and coziness," Alia said.
The actress became friends with Rupin on the set of the 2016 film "Dear Zindagi".
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Following the record-breaking success of his 2017 tour Round The World, Russell Howard returns with his biggest globe-spanning stand-up tour to date.
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I am a writer and educator living in Michigan. My writing experience includes play-writing, screenwriting, poetry, prose poetry, and fiction. My plays have been produced in San Francisco and Chicago, and I have published pieces of fiction and non-fiction. My first novel, Little Shadow, was published in 2014 by EditPros LLC out of Davis, California. The novel is Book One of the Little Shadow Trilogy. A second, less graphic edition was released in January, 2017. EditPros LLC published Cradle Crow, Book Two, on January 29th, 2017. Yippee! Yahoo! You can purchase both books online as a trade paperback through Amazon and Barnes & Noble, and as an eBook for Kindle, Nook, ITunes
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June 1991. American Heartland. A fallen painting prophesies an impending death. Fleeting appearances of angels lend credence to the omen. Who will it be? The wounded veteran back from Operation Desert Storm? The wife or best friend that deceived him? The child threatened by the shifting liaisons? The young gay brother pulled towards the dark world of pornography? The controlling and tormented father whose wife was murdered? The uncle ill from his military experience in Vietnam? Or perhaps the matron, fighting to alter the destiny that the fallen painting has foretold?
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NSW government bushfire aid reaches $6m amid calls to speed up the distribution of funds
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By Peter Hannam
January 30, 2020 — 6.39pm
The Berejiklian government's aid tally to bushfire communities is at $6 million but NSW Labor says the financial relief is taking too long to reach fire affected areas.
Funding figures provided by the office of Deputy Premier John Barilaro - who is also coordinator of disaster relief - showed that as of Wednesday the state had distributed more than $1.5 million in disaster welfare, $2 million in primary producer grants and $2.3 million for volunteer firefighters. Small business grants totalled $132,000.
Communities are yet to see much of the promised bushfire support from the NSW government. Credit:Alex Ellinghausen
"The NSW government is working hard to get payments into people’s bank accounts, and cut the red tape," a spokeswoman for Mr Barilaro told the Herald.
The spokeswoman defended the pace of spending, adding amounts were rising daily. As of Thursday, for instance, the sum for volunteer firefighter payments had reached $3.2 million.
The Primary Producer Grants program had also been set up only nine days ago, so the $2 million spent so far was "pretty fast", the spokeswoman said.
However NSW Labor leader Jodi McKay said spending remained "a trickle" given the bushfire emergency had been running for months, and fire-affected regions were in "dire need" of support.
"Homes, infrastructure and businesses are in ruins all over NSW. Lives have been lost. Communities have seen their economies smashed," Ms McKay said.
"It beggars belief that so far we have only seen around $6 million of Government money flow into fire-affected communities while [Premier] Gladys Berejiklian spends big bucks on indulgences like moving the Powerhouse Museum,” she said.
"People are hurting out there and they need assistance now," Ms McKay said. “The government has attacked charities for money not flowing, but after announcing three weeks ago money would be released immediately in a $1 billion recovery effort, they haven’t followed through on that promise.”
Bega MP Andrew Constance - whose own property at Malua Bay near Batemans Bay was almost burnt out as several big fires flared on New Year's Eve - has spent the weeks since visiting and drumming up support for hard-hit towns on the NSW South Coast.
"The big problem is the middle-tier bureaucracy doesn't get [the urgency]," Mr Constance told ABC's RN Breakfast on Thursday. "The charities haven't got this."
He added that it was his "screaming plea" that the bureaucracy changed its approach, and took into account the scale of the issues needed to be tackled across the "length and breadth" of NSW.
Mr Barilaro's spokeswoman said other efforts by the government were "very difficult to put a price on".
These included organising temporary accommodation for 7500 people, and the delivery of more than 932,000 litres of water and 44,000 meals to those in need.
The government had also disposed some 13,000 deceased livestock, cleared 1500 km of roads and removed 1400 dangerous trees.
It had also launched Service NSW bushfire customer care service to connect people with a specialist who can check their eligibility for assistance and help them access support.
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Smith Mountain Lake Christian Academy will add a football program to their athletics program starting in 2021. The head coach will be Kenis Maciel, who has a rich history when it comes to playing and coaching football.
He started playing when he was 5 at the rec league. At the high school level, Maciel played for William Byrd and was a four-year starter on the offensive and defensive line. He earned all-district honors his sophomore year and then earned all-state honors his junior and senior year.
From there he went to play college football at UVA-Wise, where he started all but one game on the offensive line. According to Maciel, he was named offensive most valuable player his junior and senior year.
He also was a four-year starter on the wrestling team in high school and was a two-year state finalist, winning the state championship his senior year.
After college, he then moved to coaching and did that until he became a father and taking care of multiple kids.
“That started to take up a lot of my time,” Maciel said.
His coaching resume involves coaching at William Byrd High School with the junior varsity and varsity football team, as well as the wrestling team. Maciel also coached the varsity softball team at William Fleming High School for a couple years.
Once he stepped away from coaching to raise his kids, Maciel actually tried to steer his kids, who attend SMLCA, away from football because he didn’t know if the school would ever have a program for their students to play. That never came to fruition. In fact, his kids embrace the game.
“The older they got, I guess it was just in their blood,” Maciel said with a little laugh. “It’s all they ever talked about.”
It wasn’t just his son, but lots of his classmates at SMLCA. They would always go out and play football during recess every day and talk about the game. He then decided to see if having a program could come to fruition by reaching out to a couple of coaches he knew to see if they would be interested in helping him get the football program rolling.
Soon after, a meeting was held with Maciel, Athletic Director Mike Greathouse, Principal Lincoln Bryan, and Pastor Troy Keaton. They all said that they wanted to have a football team and they felt now was the time to do it. They asked Maciel if he would be interested in starting it, and the rest is history.
Besides rec league, this will be Maciel’s first head coaching opportunity and knowing that he will be the very first head football coach at SMLCA also puts a big grin on his face.
“To be able to say that you were part of something new or you were the first at getting a program started, the opportunity to do that is just extremely exciting,” Maciel said, who noted he was excited to not only be a head coach but to get back into coaching as well.
Greathouse said they will step into the program slow by just starting at the middle school level, sixth through ninth grade, and play teams on the road for the next one or two years. From there, they will add a grade year every season until they reach the 12th grade. Greathouse also said that for the kids in elementary grade, they will work closely with Bedford Parks and Rec and Moneta Elementary to try and get the younger kids in their type of leagues.
“We’re going to try and make this work,” Greathouse said.
Maciel made sure to note that the program is more than just teaching kids football.
“We’re there to teach these kids to grow into better men and give them a Christ-like male example to follow,” he said. “We’re going to have a faith centered coaching staff … all of our coaches will have a relationship with Christ and have faith in the center of their lives.”
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Pope Francis processes alongside Orthodox Metropolitan Gennadios of Italy, at right in black, as he arrives to preside over an ecumenical prayer service Jan. 18 at Rome's Basilica of St. Paul Outside the Walls. The service marked the beginning of the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity. (CNS photo/Paul Haring)
Christ’s Prayer for Unity
Michael R. Heinlein
January 2, 2021 11:29 pm January 2, 2021
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It’s natural to think of the institution of the Eucharist when the Last Supper comes to mind. The sacramental memorial of Christ’s paschal mystery is, after all, “the source and summit of the entire Christian life” (Lumen Gentium, No. 11).
A close reading of John’s Gospel, however, sheds a different light on the Last Supper. In fact, he doesn’t write about the institution of the Eucharist directly at all. Instead, John primarily focuses on Jesus washing the feet of His apostles — an act of charity par excellence, connecting his impending sacrifice to service.
But there’s yet another aspect of John’s narrative of the Last Supper which has always stuck out to me. It comes from Jesus’ lengthy prayer to His Father — Christ’s prayer for unity.
Fully aware of humanity’s fallen nature, Jesus anticipated the struggles and strife that would plague His followers in the future. And so here, in the context of the first Eucharist, Jesus offers a prayer pleading for unity among His followers. He indicates that the very credibility of His message hinges upon that unity.
“I pray not only for them, but also for those who will believe in me through their word, so that they may all be one, as you, Father, are in me and I in you, that they also may be in us, that the world may believe that you sent me” (Jn 17:20-21). Jesus prays that Christians be united “that the world may believe.” And yet we aren’t.
The regrettable separations and divisions in Christendom over the last millennium have been met in the last century by a realization of one of Christ’s last wishes. The ecumenical movement seeks to bring about the unity Christ wills for His Church — not to water down the deposit of the Faith handed on by Christ to the Church to a least common denominator.
Since the Second Vatican Council the Catholic Church has been entirely committed to ecumenism. While much of the work to accomplish unity is handled at higher levels, we each need to do our part.
The most important thing we can do is to pray for Christian unity. To this end, the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity was established by the Servant of God Father Paul Wattson in 1909. Occurring Jan. 18-25, Christians throughout the world are invited to meditate on ways we can foster ecumenism.
Michael R. Heinlein is editor of Simply Catholic. Follow him on Twitter @HeinleinMichael.
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About Professor Andrew Harris
Andrew is interested in developing cutting edge technologies to assist with the transition to sustainability. He joined the University of Sydney in 2004 from the University of Cambridge, where he worked for almost six years in the Department of Chemical Engineering.
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A lovely, modern two bedroom cottage, perfectly suited for couples or young families, surrounded by well tended grounds, with private parking plus complimentary use of the superb leisure facilities. The cottage is central heated and double glazed and comprises an open plan living / dining area, separate kitchen, hallway and cloakroom/WC to the ground floor.
The living area provides DVD TV and DVD’s. The kitchen is fully equipped with dishwasher, washing machine, integrated fridge/freezer, cooker and microwave. The first floor comprises a double bedroom with walk in wardrobe/dressing room and a Juliet balcony, twin bedroom and family bathroom with a shower over the bath, WC and wash basin. French doors give access to a terrace with table and seating. Facilities offered to guests at The Bay, include complementary access to an indoor heated swimming pool with separate children’s pool; sauna and steam room.
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Located on one of the most naturally beautiful stretches of the Yorkshire Coast, the Bay Filey is fronted by six miles of golden, sandy beach and is an exclusive development of traditional styled holiday cottages, off the A165 Filey to Bridlington road. Filey is a popular choice and is reminiscent of childhood holidays – an elegant and tranquil seaside town boasting a beautiful, award-winning beach, charming shops and plenty of activities for all the family. Filey Beach, with miles of golden, sandy beach nearby – recently voted the UK’s Best Beach in 2018 – there’s always plenty of room for the little ones to let off some steam and for the adults to walk for miles uninterrupted. Or try your hand at water sports such as sailing or surfing or just settle down in a deck chair with a good book and enjoy the sunshine. The Coble Landing is lined with boats and kiosks selling coffee, tea, seaside snacks and even those ever-popular bacon sandwiches, The Coble Landing is a must to enjoy the views before a walk along the spacious promenade, dotted with coastal themed sculptures. Discover the Fily Brigg, where you can walk to the tip of this narrow rock peninsular during low tide and maybe see a seal, sunbathing on the rocks. The cliff top above The Brigg forms part of the Country Park, which is popular with picnickers, birdwatchers and hang-gliders and is the start of The Wolds Way. Filey Museum is a past winner of Discover Yorkshire Coast’s Small Attraction of the Year award, is housed in a building dating from 1696, and is crammed with fascinating memorabilia, including an extensive photographic archive. Dalby Forest is an excellent choice for cyclists, where they can enjoy a challenge at Dalby Forest, or perhaps follow some of the Tour De Yorkshire route and tackle the famous Cote De Harwood Dale or just pedal village to village along the idyllic country roads of the nearby Wolds and admire the views made famous by leading artist David Hockney. Bird lovers will love the nature reserve at Bempton Cliffs to see the 250,000 guillemots, gannets and puffins who flock there to raise their young between April and August. It is a haven for birds and animals, including an important colony of great-crested newts and has an interesting Visitor Centre. Scarborough is 20 minutes north of Filey where theatre goers can enjoy the world premieres of Alan Ayckbourn plays plus Scarborough Open Air Theatre attracts many world-class artists – recent concerts have included Britney Spears, The Beach Boys, Little Mix and Tom Jones!
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The mRNA expression of Il6 and Pdcd1 are predictive and protective factors for doxorubicin‑induced cardiotoxicity
Syu-Ichi Kanno
Akiyoshi Hara
Affiliations: Department of Clinical Pharmacotherapeutics, Tohoku Medical and Pharmaceutical University, Sendai, Miyagi 981‑8558, Japan
Published online on: December 3, 2020 https://doi.org/10.3892/mmr.2020.11752
Copyright: © Kanno et al. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of Creative Commons Attribution License.
Anthracyclines, such as doxorubicin (DOX), have been widely used in the treatment of a number of different solid and hematological malignancies. However, these drugs can inflict cumulative dose‑dependent and irreversible damage to the heart, and can occasionally lead to heart failure. The cardiotoxic susceptibility varies among patients treated with anthracycline, and delays in the recognition of cardiotoxicity can result in poor prognoses. Accordingly, if the risk of cardiotoxicity could be predicted prior to drug administration, it would aid in safer and more effective chemotherapy treatment. The present study was carried out to identify genes that can predict DOX‑induced cardiotoxicity (DICT). In an in vivo study, mice cumulatively treated with DOX demonstrated increases in serum levels of cardiac enzymes (aspartate aminotransferase, lactate dehydrogenase, creatine kinase MB isoenzyme and troponin T), in addition to decreases in body and heart weights. These changes were indicative of DICT, but the severity of these effects varied among individual mice. In the current study, the correlation in these mice between the extent of DICT and circulating blood concentrations of relevant transcripts before DOX administration was analyzed. Among various candidate genes, the plasma mRNA levels of the genes encoding interleukin 6 (Il6) and programmed cell death 1 (Pdcd1) in blood exhibited significant and positive correlations with the severity of DICT. In an in vitro study using cardiomyocyte H9c2 cells, knockdown of Il6 or Pdcd1 by small interfering RNA was revealed to enhance DOX‑induced apoptosis, as determined by luminescent assays. These results suggested that the levels of transcription of Il6 and Pdcd1 in cardiomyocytes serve a protective role against DICT, and that the accumulation of these gene transcripts in blood is a predictive marker for DICT. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first report to demonstrate a role for Il6 and Pdcd1 mRNA expression in DICT.
Anthracyclines are chemotherapy drugs that inhibit the activity of topoisomerase IIα, thereby negatively impacting DNA synthesis in cancer cells; anthracyclines have been widely used in the treatment of various solid and hematological malignancies (1,2). It is well known, however, that anthracyclines can inflict severe damage to the heart, and cardiotoxicity represents one of the most important adverse effects of this class of compounds (1–4). Anthracycline-induced cardiotoxicity is cumulative, dose dependent, and irreversible; therefore, these drugs increase the risk of heart failure, in turn leading to increased mortality and decreased quality of life in patients (1–4). Although the precise mechanism of cardiotoxicity is not fully understood, cardiac apoptosis (programmed cell death) mediated by either of the following two mechanisms has been proposed: One is the excessive production of reactive oxygen species, the other is DNA damage by inhibition of topoisomerase IIβ in cardiomyocytes (1,2,5).
Retrospective pooled analysis by Swain et al (3) documented that rates of heart failure caused by doxorubicin (DOX), a typical anthracycline drug, were 5, 26 and 48% at cumulative doses of 400, 500 and 700 mg/m2, respectively, providing a rationale for limiting the cumulative lifetime dose of DOX. Nevertheless, there are individual differences in the maximal cumulative dose tolerated, and anthracyclines can lead to the occurrence and development of heart failure even at lower doses (5–7). In addition, the risk of heart failure may be augmented by pre-existing loading conditions such as hypertension and valvular disease (8), and by combination with other chemotherapy drugs such as molecularly targeted drugs and immune checkpoint inhibitors (9). These facts indicate that anthracyclines have no safe treatment dose.
Several strategies for reducing the risk of heart failure in anthracycline-treated patients have been proposed, including pharmacological therapy to prevent cardiotoxicity (10). Although some antioxidants, such as vitamin E and probucol, have been observed to provide cardioprotective action in DOX-treated animal models (2,11), there is (to date) no direct evidence supporting clinically efficacy (12). Alternatively, it has been demonstrated (in both animals and humans) that standard drugs for heart failure, such as β-blockers and angiotensin-converting enzyme (ACE) inhibitors/angiotensin II receptor blockers (ARBs), are effective in attenuating DOX-induced cardiac damage (2,10,13). In fact, pharmacological therapy with these drugs is generally accepted as a preventive strategy against cardiac dysfunction in anthracycline-treated patients (10). It should be noted, however, that the response rate to the pharmacological therapy progressively decreases with increasing time delay between the end of chemotherapy to the onset of cardiac dysfunction (i.e., with delayed start of the pharmacological therapy) (13,14). The delayed recognition of cardiotoxicity results in a poor prognosis, presumably because of the accumulation of irreversible cardiac dysfunction and a lack of clinical response to the pharmacological therapy. Therefore, early detection of cardiac abnormalities and early adequate therapy would be extremely important in preventing the occurrence and development of heart failure after anthracycline therapy (15).
If we could predict the risk of cardiotoxicity prior to the administration of anthracycline, it would help to render chemotherapy in cancer patients safer and more effective. Genetic factors have been shown to determine individual susceptibility to DOX-induced cardiotoxicity (DICT) (16,17). Therefore, in the present study, we identified genes closely associated with DICT (i.e., predictive biomarkers) in mice in vivo, and then examined the roles of these genes in DOX-induced apoptosis of H9c2 cells (rat cardiac myoblasts) in vitro.
Animals and chemicals
Four-week-old adult male C57BL/6J mice (22–24 g each), were obtained from Japan SLC (Hamamatsu, Japan). The animals were maintained on a 12-h/12-h light/dark cycle in a temperature- and humidity-controlled room. Experiments were conducted in accordance with the standards established by the Japanese Pharmacological Society and were approved by the Tohoku Medical and Pharmaceutical University of Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee (Experimental Protocol no. 18013). Animals were allowed free access to laboratory pellet chow (CE-2; CLEA Japan, Inc.) and water throughout the experiments. DOX was purchased from Sandoz K. K. All other reagents, unless stated, were of the highest grade available and were supplied by either Sigma Chemical Co. or Wako Pure Chemical Industries, Ltd.
DOX administration and collection of samples
One week before the start of dosing, 50 µl of blood was collected from a cut on the tail vein of each mouse, and total RNA was extracted for reverse transcription-quantitative PCR (RT-qPCR). Mice were injected intraperitoneally with 3.33 mg/kg DOX every other day for 18 days, resulting in a cumulative DOX dose of 30 mg/kg. This cumulative dose of DOX in mice is estimated to be comparable to approximately 100 mg/m2 in humans (18), which is considerably lower when compared to clinical cardiotoxic doses (3). However, the cumulative dose of DOX we used is sufficient to cause damage to the murine heart, as supported by many other studies (19–21); thus, the susceptibility to DICT may be greater in mice than in humans. The control mice were injected intraperitoneally with an equivalent volume of saline. Animals were euthanized by exsanguination via jugular puncture on the seventh day after the last DOX administration under inhalation anesthesia with 2% isoflurane; whole blood and heart samples were collected. A small portion of whole blood was transferred into ethylenediaminetetraacetic acid (EDTA)-coated tubes and used for measurement of hematological parameters. The remaining blood was immediately centrifuged at 1,000 × g for 10 min at 4°C to separate serum for measurement of cardiac injury parameters. Heart samples were immediately frozen and stored at −80°C until used for RNA isolation. As an index of cardiac hypertrophy, the body weight-normalized heart weight was calculated.
Measurements of hematological parameters and serum cardiac injury parameters
As hematological parameters, white blood cells (WBCs), red blood cells (RBCs) and platelets were counted, and hemoglobin (Hb) levels and hematocrit (Hct) were assessed using a hematology analyzer (EYM-230; Erma, Inc.). As indices of cardiac injury, serum levels of lactate dehydrogenase (LDH), aspartate aminotransferase (AST), creatine kinase MB isoenzyme (CK-MB), and troponin T were determined; the first two were measured using a colorimetric kit (Wako) as described in our previous reports (22,23), and the last two were measured using a diagnostic kit (Cloud-Clone Corp.) according to the supplier's instructions.
Rat heart-derived embryonic myoblast H9c2 (2–1) cells were obtained from DS Pharma Biomedical. Cells were maintained in Dulbecco's modified Eagle's medium (DMEM) supplemented with 10% fetal bovine serum, 100 U/ml penicillin G and 100 µg/ml streptomycin at 37°C in a humidified 5% CO2−95% air incubator under standard conditions. Staining with 0.2% Trypan blue was performed to determine viable cell counts. To maintain exponential growth, cells were seeded at a density of 5×104 cells/ml and were passaged every 3–4 days. For the remaining assays cells were cultured in 2-ml aliquots in 35-mm dishes.
RNA extraction and RT-qPCR
Total RNA was isolated from blood using a NucleoSpin® RNA blood kit (MACHEREY-NAGEL GmbH & Co. KG) according to the manufacturer's instructions. Total RNA was purified from mouse heart and H9c2 cells by extraction using ISOGEN reagent (Nippon Gene) according to the manufacturer's protocol. The quantity and the purity of extracted RNA were determined on a NanoDrop ND-1000 spectrophotometer. RNA samples with 260/280 ratios higher than 1.8 were used for experiments. Total RNA (100 ng) was converted into cDNA using the ReverTra Ace® qPCR RT Kit (TOYOBO, Osaka, Japan). Aliquots of the resulting cDNA preparations then were subjected to qPCR analysis using the KOD SYBR® qPCR Mix (Toyobo). A CFX Connect™ Real-Time PCR system (Bio-Rad Laboratories, Inc.) was used to determine mRNA expression levels of the genes encoding connective tissue growth factor (Ctgf), interleukin 6 (Il6), programmed cell death 1 gene (Pdcd1, also called PD-1), superoxide dismutase-3 (Sod3), glutathione peroxidase-3 (Gpx3), and metallothionein-1 (Mt1). The primer pairs used were obtained from the Takara Perfect Real Time Primers collection (Takara Bio). cDNA/Taq-polymerase was denatured at 98°C for 2 min, and then 40 amplification cycles (each cycle: At 98°C for 10 sec, at 60°C for 10 sec, and at 68°C for 30 sec) were performed. The primer sequences and GenBank accession numbers are listed in Table I. Transcript levels were normalized to those of the housekeeping gene Gapdh (encoding glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate dehydrogenase) using the following formulae: ΔCq=Cq target-Cq reference; and ΔΔCq=mean value of ΔCq sample-ΔCq control. Finally, the 2−ΔΔCq method (24) was used to calculate the differences in mRNA transcription levels. The results of all assays were checked against melting curves to confirm the presence of single PCR products. At least two independent experiments were conducted and samples were assessed in (at least) triplicate in each experiment.
Primers used for reverse transcription-quantitative PCR (RT-qPCR) analysis.
A, Mouse
GenBank accession number
F primer sequence (5′-3′)
R primer sequence (5′-3′)
Gpx3 NM_008161.3 TCAACGTAGCCAGCTACTGAGGTC CTGTTTGCCAAATTGGTTGGAA-
Il6 NM_031168.1 CCACTTCACAAGTCGGAGGCTTA GCAAGTGCATCATCGTTGTTCATAC
Mt1 NM_013602.3 TCTAAGCGTCACCACGACTTCA GTGCACTTGCAGTTCTTGCAG
Pdcd1 NM_008798.2 TGGCAATCAGGGTGGCTTC GACTCAGGCGGTTCCAGTTCA
Sod3 NM_011435.3 GTGTCCCAAGACAATCCCACAA GGGAGTACTCTCAAAGGTGCTCA
Ctgf NM_010217.2 ACCCGAGTTACCAATGACAATACC CCGCAGAACTTAGCCCTGTATG
Gapdh NM_008084.3 TGTGTCCGTCGTGGATCTGA TTGCTGTTGAAGTCGCAGGAG
B, Rat
Gene GenBank accession number F primer sequence (5′-3′) R primer sequence (5′-3′)
Il6 NM_012589.2 ATTGTATGAACAGCGATGATGCAC CCAGGTAGAAACGGAACTCCAGA
Pdcd1 NM_001106927.1 GCGCTTGCACTGTTGAGTGAG TGCCCAACAATAGGATTCAGGAG
Gapdh NM_017008.4 GGCACAGTCAAGGCTGAGAATG ATGGTGGTGAAGACGCCAGTA
[i] F, forward; R, reverse; Gpx3, glutathione peroxidase-3; Mt1, metallothionein-1; Pdcd1, programmed cell death 1; Sod3, superoxide dismutase-3; Ctgf, connective tissue growth factor.
Il6 and Pdcd1 knockdown
Small interfering RNA (siRNA)-Il6 (siIl6) and siRNA-Pdcd1 (siPdcd1) were transfected into H9c2 cells using the HyperFect transfection reagent (Qiagen) according to the manufacturer's protocol. A non-targeting siRNA (Mock) was used as a vehicle control to assess the non-sequence-specific effects of transfected siRNAs. The siRNAs used were siIl6, a FlexiTube siRNA (ID no. SI01525356, Qiagen) and siPdcd1, a Silencer® Select Pre-designed siRNA Product (ID no. s154115, Thermo Fisher Scientific, Inc.); the negative control siRNA was obtained as AllStars Neg. Control siRNA (ID no. AM4611, Qiagen). Transfections consisted of 4×104 cells combined with a given siRNA (final concentration, 10 nM) in the presence of HyperFect reagent; the mixtures then were incubated for 24 h before assessment of Il6 or Pdcd1 expression.
IL-6 and PDCD1 immunofluorescence
Cells transfected with siRNAs were seeded into the Lab-Tek® 8-well chambered cover glass system plates (Thermo Fisher Scientific, Inc.) at 4×104 cells/ml and incubated overnight under standard culture conditions. The chambered slides were washed twice with phosphate-buffered saline (PBS) adjusted to pH 7.4 and fixed in ice-cold 1:1 methanol:acetone for 30 min. The slides were immersed for 10 min in 1% goat serum and 0.25% Triton X-100 in PBS and then transferred to Blocking One Histo (Nacalai Tesque) for 10 min. The slides then were washed with PBS containing 0.1% Tween-20, incubated with primary antibody anti-IL-6 rabbit polyclonal antibody (cat. no. NB600-1131, Novus Biologicals) or anti-PDCD1 mouse monoclonal antibody (cat. no. 66220-1-Ig, Proteintech®) at 1:1,000 in PBS for 1 h at room temperature, washed with PBS, and incubated with Alexa Fluor-conjugated secondary antibodies (Thermo Fisher Scientific, Inc.) for 1 h. After rinsing with PBS, a drop of UltraCruz™ Mounting Medium with DAPI (Santa Cruz Biotechnology, Inc.) was added to each well. Cells were observed under a confocal fluorescence microscope C-1 (Nikon) and cell components were visualized by fluorescent intensity in blue (405 nm) for nuclear DNA, green (488 nm) for PDCD1-positive cells, and red (594 nm) for IL-6-positive cells.
Apoptosis assay
Annexin V-mediated detection of phosphatidylserine (PS) was used to identify cells at early stages of apoptosis, because the redistribution of PS from the internal membranes to the external membrane surface occurs in early apoptosis (25). Several previous reports have employed an annexin V assay to determine apoptosis in DOX-treated cardiomyocytes (26,27). On the other hand, caspase-3/7 is known to be a key downstream effector in the apoptosis pathway (28). To test both aspects of cell death, we assessed the DOX-induced apoptosis using the RealTime-Glo™ Annexin V Apoptosis assay (Promega Corp.) and the Caspase-Glo® 3/7 Assay (Promega Corp.). Briefly, the H9c2 cells were transfected with siRNAs, distributed in a 96-well plate at a density of 4×103 cells per well, and allowed to adhere overnight. For the RealTime-Glo™ Annexin V Apoptosis assay, the adhered cells were incubated with 1 µM DOX in the presences of annexin V-luciferase reagents and time-dependent increases in luminescence were monitored, reflecting the apoptotic process. Similarly, apoptosis was evaluated after incubation for 24 h with the concentration of DOX at 0.01, 0.03, 0.1, 0.3 or 1 µM. These concentrations were set based on the results of a previous study (29), in which DOX at 0.1 µM or higher was shown to induce apoptosis of cardiomyocyte cells. For the Caspase-Glo® 3/7 Assay, the adhered cells were incubated with DOX at 0.1, 0.3 or 1 µM for 4 or 8 h; Caspase-Glo® 3/7 reagents then were added to each well and the contents were gently mixed. The resulting luminescent intensity was measured using a Varioskan™ LUX multimode microplate reader (Thermo Fisher Scientific, Inc.).
Data are expressed as mean ± standard error of the mean (SEM). Differences between two groups were compared using one-way analysis of variance (ANOVA). Multiple comparisons were performed by one-way ANOVA followed by Tukey post hoc test. P-value of less than 0.05 was considered significant. Correlation analyses were performed using the Spearman's rank correlation coefficient method. Statistical analyses were performed using Ekuseru-Toukei 2012 software (Social Survey Research Information Co., Ltd.).
DICT and DOX-induced hematotoxicity
Toxic effects of DOX on the heart and in blood cells were evaluated in mice treated with a cumulative dose of 30 mg/kg. The body weight and heart weight of DOX-treated mice were almost 30% lower than those of the control mice (Fig. 1A and B), whereas the body weight-normalized heart weight did not differ significantly between these two groups (P>0.05; Fig. 1C), suggesting that cardiac hypertrophy is absent in the DOX-treated mice. Gene expression analyses of pooled heart samples revealed that the mRNA level of Ctgf (which encodes a pro-fibrotic cytokine) was significantly increased in DOX-treated mice compared to control animals (P<0.01; Fig. 1D). These findings suggested that cardiac tissue is the primary target of DOX cardiotoxicity. To further clarify the effects of DOX on the heart, we measured the serum levels of specific biomarkers for myocardial injury (including CK-MB and troponin T) as well as the serum levels of more general markers for inflammation (AST and LDH) (Fig. 2A-D). Mice that received DOX showed higher levels of not only AST and LDH, but also CK-MB and troponin T, as compared to control mice, supporting the use of the specific biomarkers as indicators of DICT. We also measured the mRNA levels of atrial natriuretic peptide (ANP) and brain natriuretic peptide (BNP) in blood and heart, other biomarkers, at the first screening. Unfortunately, there was poor reproducibility in the measurements, so we did not adopt the data regarding natriuretic peptides.
Changes in body weight, heart weight and cardiac expression of Ctgf mRNA in mice after cumulative administration of DOX. At 7 days after administration of the last dose (25 days after the initiation of DOX administration), (A) body weight, (B) heart weight and (C) body weight-normalized heart weight were determined, and (D) the mRNA level of Ctgf in heart tissue was measured by reverse-transcription quantitative PCR analysis. Each value is expressed as the mean ± SEM (n=18 for control mice, n=44 for DOX-treated mice). **P<0.01 vs. control mice. DOX, doxorubicin; Ctgf, connective tissue growth factor.
Changes in tissue injury parameters induced by cumulative administration of DOX. Mice were injected intraperitoneally with either 3.33 mg/kg DOX (a cumulative dose of 30 mg/kg) or an equivalent volume of saline every other day for 18 days. At 7 days after administration of the last dose, the serum levels of (A) AST, (B) LDH, (C) CK-MB and (D) troponin T were measured. Each value is expressed as the mean ± SEM. *P<0.05, **P<0.01 vs. control mice. AST, aspartate aminotransferase; LDH, lactate dehydrogenase; CK-MB, creatine kinase MB isoenzyme; DOX, doxorubicin.
Because DOX also can lead to hematotoxicity (30), some hematological parameters were measured in the small portion of whole blood collected from mice of both groups. In the DOX-treated mice, WBC values decreased to 45.8% of those in control mice, while platelet counts increased to 115.7% of those in control mice. Nevertheless, post-dose values of other parameters, such as RBC, Hb, and Hct, in DOX-treated mice did not differ significantly from those values in control mice (P>0.05) (data not shown), suggesting that DOX did not cause anemia or hypoglobulinemia.
Correlation of DICT and mRNA expression in blood
We next examined the correlation between the severity of DICT and blood mRNA expression of genes prior to DOX administration. Among 54 DOX-treated mice, twelve animals (22.2%) had no significant change in serum levels of cardiac injury parameters (P>0.05), while apparent cardiotoxicity (as evidenced by increases in the levels of the parameters associated with cardiotoxicity) was observed in 42 mice (77.8%), including ten mice (18.5%) that were found dead. The death was considered due to severe heart failure, because survival rate has conventionally been used as an index of DICT (31–33). Most of surviving mice that escaped from lethal DICT would develop heart failure or cardiotoxicity. To facilitate correlation analysis, susceptibility to DOX-induced heart damage was scored as 0 to 8 based on separate changes in parameters (AST, LDH, CK-MB, and troponin T) in surviving mice as follows: 0, no change in either parameter (no damage detected); 1, increase in either AST or LDH=1 (such that increases in both yielded a value of 2); 3, increase in either CK-MB or troponin T=3 (such that increases in both yielded a value of 6); and 8, increases in all of four parameters. For example, if three parameters except for troponin T increased in a blood sample, its DICT score was determined as 5 (AST=1, LDH=1 and CK-MB=3). In addition, death was given a score of 10 as a maximum cardiac injury.
As a first screen for mRNA expression, we used RT-qPCR to assess the blood levels of transcripts from 32 candidate genes, including those encoding apoptosis-, autophagy- and oxidative stress-related proteins, each of which might contribute to the pathological mechanism(s) of DICT. The results revealed that the susceptibility to DOX-induced heart damage (as described above) was significantly and positively correlated with blood mRNA levels of Il6 (P<0.01) and Pdcd1 (P<0.05) (Fig. 3), as well as with the blood mRNA levels of the genes encoding Sod3 (P<0.01), Gpx3 (P<0.05) and Mt1 (P<0.05) (Fig. 4) prior to drug administration, suggesting that the products of these five genes may have some role in DICT. We chose to focus on the roles of Il6 and Pdcd1, given that previous work has suggested that cell signaling mediated by IL-6 and PDCD1 contributes to cytoprotection in the heart and other tissues (34–39). Therefore, in vitro experiments were performed to clarify the roles of Il6 and Pdcd1 in DICT.
Correlation between the severity of cardiotoxicity after DOX administration and blood mRNA expression of Il6 (A) or Pdcd1 (B) before DOX administration. The severity of DOX-induced cardiotoxicity was scored by the changes in tissue injury parameters. The correlation in individual mice was determined by the Spearman correlation function and regression analysis. The correlation coefficient and statistical significance are presented in each figure. DOX, doxorubicin; Pdcd1, programmed cell death 1.
Correlation between the severity of cardiotoxicity after DOX administration and blood mRNA expression of Sod3 (A), Gpx3 (B) or Mt1 (C) before DOX administration. The severity of DOX-induced cardiotoxicity was scored by the changes in tissue injury parameters. The correlation in individual mice was determined by the Spearman correlation function and regression analysis. The correlation coefficient and statistical significance are presented in each figure. DOX, doxorubicin; Sod3, superoxide dismutase-3; Gpx3, glutathione peroxidase-3; Mt1, metallothionein-1.
Effects of Il6 or Pdcd1 knockdown on DOX-induced apoptosis in vitro
We next assessed the potential roles of Il6 and Pdcd1 on DOX-induced toxicity of H9c2 cells (embryonic rat cardiac myoblasts), a line that is commonly used as a model for studies of DICT. Because cell death by apoptosis is involved in the primary mechanism of DICT (1,2,5), we studied effects of knockdown of Il6 or Pdcd1 on apoptotic response to DOX. The knockdown of endogenous Il6 and Pdcd1 was achieved by transfection with gene-specific siRNAs (Fig. S1). Knockdown efficacy was estimated by RT-qPCR; mRNA expression of Il6 and Pdcd1 were 0.32±0.03 and 0.23±0.05, respectively, when expression following transfection with the control siRNA was defined as 1.00 (Fig. S1A and B). Mock cells (vehicle control cells) exhibited no significant change in the accumulation of either mRNA (P>0.05). The knockdown of Il6 and Pdcd1 was confirmed by assessing levels of the two proteins by immunofluorescence analysis (Fig. S1C and D).
In mock cells exposed to DOX (1 µM), apoptosis (as determined by a luminescence assay) increased with incubation time. The DOX-induced apoptosis, however, was significantly increased in Il6 knockdown cells (P<0.01) and in Pdcd1 knockdown cells (P<0.05) than in mock cells within the first 10 h of incubation (Fig. 5A and B). Thus, DOX-induced apoptosis during the first 10 h of exposure was significantly enhanced by either Il6 or Pdcd1 knockdown, although the effects were weakened or undetectable for later time points (Fig. 5A-C). The activity of caspase-3/7, a protease enzyme that plays an essential role in apoptotic processes, also was increased in a DOX concentration- and exposure time-dependent manner in mock cells exposed to DOX (0.1–1 µM), confirming the ability of the corresponding assay to detect DOX-induced apoptosis. The increase in activity, however, was potentiated in each of the knockdown cells compared to the mock cells (Fig. 6A and B); for example, after incubation for 4 h with 0.1 µM DOX, activities in Il6 and Pdcd1 knockdown cells were elevated by ~30 and ~60%, respectively, compared to mock cells (Fig. 6A). Thus, by two separate assays, DOX-induced apoptosis was enhanced by knockdown of Il6 or Pdcd1, indicating that these genes have a preventive role against DICT.
Effects of (A) Il6 and (B) Pdcd1 knockdown on DOX-induced apoptosis in H9c2 cells. Apoptosis was determined by a luciferase assay using annexin V, an apoptosis-specific marker; the degree of apoptosis in DOX-treated cells is expressed as a percentage of that in control (no DOX exposure) cells. Apoptosis in (A) Il6 and (B) Pdcd1 knockdown cells was evaluated after incubation with DOX (1 µM) for various time periods (1–12 h). The mock group presented in (A) and (B) is not the same as independent group. (C) Similar evaluation of apoptosis was performed after incubation for 24 h with various concentrations of DOX (0.01–1 µM). Each value is expressed as the mean ± SEM of three samples. *P<0.05, **P<0.01 vs. mock cells. DOX, doxorubicin; Pdcd1, programmed cell death 1; si, small interfering.
Effects of (A) Il6 and (B) Pdcd1 knockdown on DOX-induced changes in caspase-3/7 activity, a marker of apoptosis, in H9c2 cells. After cells were incubated for (A) 4 h or (B) 8 h with DOX (at 0.1, 0.3 and 1 µM), caspase-3/7 activity was assessed by luciferase assay. The degree of caspase-3/7 activity is expressed as a percentage of DOX-untreated control cells. Each value is expressed as the mean ± SEM of three samples. *P<0.05, **P<0.01 vs. mock cells. DOX, doxorubicin; Pdcd1, programmed cell death 1.
DICT can result in acute or chronic adverse effects. Both acute and chronic toxicity may lead to cardiac dysfunction or cardiomyopathy, eventually leading to severe heart failure and death (40,41). While acute cardiotoxicity following treatment with a high dose of DOX is now rare (40), late-onset chronic cardiotoxicity induced by the cumulative DOX dose remains common, occurring in up to 65% of patients (42). In the present study, we used a chronic cardiotoxicity model, in which DICT was established in mouse by repeated administration of DOX.
DOX-treated mice showed elevations (compared to control mice) in serum levels of CK-MB and troponin T, specific markers of myocardial cell injury, as well as in serum levels of non-specific cytosolic enzymes, such as AST and LDH. Although we did not assess the early cardiotoxicity markers after DOX administration, the data on early markers may help to find new information and knowledge about DICT. We need consider these points in our next study. The mice also had elevated (compared to control mice) cardiac tissue levels of the Ctgf transcript, which is associated with fibrosis after heart tissue damage. These biochemical changes indicate that DOX induces lethal injury in myocardial cells. It should be noted, however, that no myocardial injury was found in a subset (22.2%) of DOX-treated mice, although the majority of mice displayed apparent DICT, including death. Thus, individual differences are likely to exist in sensitivity of the heart to DOX. Clinical findings also have indicated that individuals vary greatly in their sensitivity to DOX (5–7); for instance, some patients are highly tolerant to DOX at cumulative doses exceeding 1,000 mg/m2, while others exhibit cardiotoxicity at cumulative doses below 400 mg/m2 (5).
It is possible that differences among individuals are attributable to genetic factors, which can be associated with the pathogenesis of DICT. To assess this possibility, we analyzed the correlation between mRNA expression of candidate genes in blood before DOX administration and the severity of DICT (using a score based on the changes in parameters known to be indicative of cardiac injury). Among 32 candidate genes, we have identified the five genes (Il6, Pdcd1, Sod3, Gpx3 and Mt1) that were correlated with susceptibility to DICT. According to previous reports (34–39), cell signaling mediated by IL-6 and PDCD1 may be involved in protection from myocardial damage, such as ischemic damage, and therefore we investigated the roles of Il6 and Pdcd1 in DICT. As shown in Fig. 3, higher mRNA expression of Il6 or Pdcd1 was positively correlated with the DICT score, indicating that the expression levels of these genes might serve as predictive markers for DICT. In addition, these results led to the expectation that the expression of Il6 or Pdcd1 (at the mRNA or protein level) may be factors influencing the development of DICT. In the next experiment, therefore, DOX toxicity was assessed in cells of the rat cardiomyocyte line H9c2 in which Il6 or Pdcd1 expression had been subjected to knockdown via transfection with gene-specific siRNAs (Fig. S1). The cell toxicity of DOX was evaluated by monitoring apoptosis, a process known to be one of the primary mechanisms of DICT (1,2,5). Apoptosis was assessed by an annexin V assay, previously demonstrated to show high sensitivity and specificity for cell death (26), and by a caspase-3/7 assay known to be indicative of apoptotic processes (28). Contrary to our expectation, cells subjected to Il6 and Pdcd1 knockdown exhibited increased (rather than decreased) levels of DOX-induced apoptosis, suggesting that both of these genes play a protective role against the DOX-induced cardiomyocyte apoptosis, at least in this rat cardiomyocyte line.
IL-6 has been shown to be a pro-inflammatory cytokine with cardioprotective potential (35). Indeed, many reports have stated that the expression of this cytokine in cardiomyocytes attenuates myocardial ischemia-reperfusion damage (34,35,39). However, consistent with our results for blood concentrations of Il6 transcripts in mice, the circulating levels of IL-6 have been shown to be elevated in patients with congestive heart failure (43), and IL-6 is known to be released from the border zone of myocardial infarcts (44). The increased circulating levels of Il6 transcript and protein may reflect the release of these gene products into blood as the result of a compensatory mechanism(s) intended to reduce the vulnerability of heart tissue to various stresses such as ischemia and chemical stimuli, leading to cardioprotective action. In contrast, IL-6 has also been found to act as a deleterious cytokine associated with oxidative stress on the heart. The cytokine is indicated to induce apoptosis in cardiomyocytes (45), in agreement with our findings in terms of role of IL-6 on apoptosis. Furthermore, involvement of IL-6 (and oxidative stress) in the pathogenesis of cardiac heart failure (46) and atrial fibrillation (47) has been reported. The cardiac role of IL-6 is complex and remains poorly understood (48).
PDCD1, an immune inhibitory receptor, has been shown to inhibit lymphocyte activation and cytokine production (49). A previous study in mouse demonstrated that neutralization of PDCD1 with an anti-PDCD1 monoclonal antibody enhances DOX-induced nephropathy, suggesting that the PDCD1 pathway protects renal tissue from DOX-associated toxicity (38). That finding would be in agreement with our results suggesting the beneficial action of PDCD1 in preventing DOX-induced cardiotoxicity, although the underlying mechanism(s) of this effect remain unclear. Further studies will be needed to determine the details of the pathways and mechanisms whereby IL-6 and PDCD1 counteract DOX toxicity.
Extensive efforts have been made in various model systems to understand the role of gene expression in the mechanism(s) of DICT pathogenesis (21,50–55). These studies assessed early and time-dependent molecular changes that occur following DOX administration, but did not include assessment of the levels of the tested molecules prior to DOX administration. For instance, troponins, which are sensitive tissue-specific markers of heart damage, are known to accumulate to elevated levels in blood only after cardiac tissue damage has occurred (56), but (to our knowledge) the pre-exposure levels of troponins have not previously been investigated in the context of DOX exposure. Invasive and noninvasive clinical approaches are currently being tested for use in predicting cardiotoxicity in DOX-treated cancer patients, but there have been technical complications (57,58). In that context, the results obtained in the present study may contribute to the early prediction of DICT and to new therapeutic strategies of cardioprotection. To our knowledge, the present report is the first to demonstrate a role for Il6 and Pdcd1 as predictive and protective factors in DICT. If animals with diverse genetic backgrounds are used, further genes associated with DICT may be found. Nevertheless, we used C57BL/6J inbred mice to minimize the individual differences including age, body weight, physical condition and genetic background, all of which could significantly influence the DICT. Although it is difficult to apply our findings to a human population in terms of genetic diversity, we believe that Il6 and Pdcd1 may also provide a beneficial role in cardioprotection in clinical chemotherapy with DOX.
Pharmacological strategies for preventing DICT have also been proposed in many studies; β-blockers, ACE inhibitors, ARBs and statins can reduce DICT in animals and in humans (1,10,13). It is noteworthy that dexrazoxane, which reduces oxidative stress (by iron chelation) and inhibits topoisomerase IIβ, protects the heart from anthracycline-induced toxicity (21,59,60). In fact, dexrazoxane is licensed in many parts of the world for two different indications; prevention of cardiotoxicity from anthracycline-based chemotherapy, and prevention of tissue injuries after extravasation of anthracycline (60). Based on information on predictive gene expression in individual patients, a pharmacological approach may be useful for further effective protection against DICT.
In conclusion, the pre-existing level of expression of both Il6 and Pdcd1 in cardiomyocytes may play an important role in protection against DOX-induced damage, such that the expression of these genes in blood serves as a predictive marker for DICT. These findings may provide useful information for prevention of cardiotoxicity in cancer patients receiving DOX therapy.
The current study was supported in part by a Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C) (grant no. KAKENHI 17K08458) from the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, and by a Matching Fund Subsidy for Private Universities from the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology of Japan.
The datasets used and/or analyzed during the current study are available from the corresponding author on reasonable request.
SK performed the experimental work, data collection and writing of the paper. AH participated in the study design, interpreted the data and revised the paper. All authors read and approved the final manuscript.
Experiments were conducted in accordance with the standards established by the Japanese Pharmacological Society and were approved by the Tohoku Medical and Pharmaceutical University of Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee (Experimental Protocol no. 18013).
angiotensin-converting enzyme
angiotensin II receptor blockers
PDCD1
programmed cell death 1
superoxide dismutase-3
Gpx3
glutathione peroxidase-3
metallothionein-1
DOX-induced cardiotoxicity
lactate dehydrogenase
CK-MB
creatine kinase MB isoenzyme
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Whedon's Commentary
Whedon's Commentary on the Bible
3. The final glorious award—the new heaven and earth, Revelation 21:1 to Revelation 22:5.
a. Visible descent of the New Jerusalem to the new earth, Revelation 21:1-4.
1.And—The old world—this our present earth—disappeared before the approach of the judgment throne, (Revelation 20:11.) The new celestial earth now forms the visional scene. Over its broad surface sin and pain are no more, and a sorrowless immortality reigns. But the greatest glory of the new earth is its central metropolis. It is not the old antichristic Babylon— quite the reverse; nor is it even the old Jerusalem, real or mystical, for that has gone with the old earth. But it is one which comes, in complete structure, down from God himself, from above the firmament. It is made up of materials the most glorious that thought can conceive. It is lighted, not by lamp or by sun, but by the glory of the present divine Essence; and as that neither faints nor fails, there is no night, but one ever-glorious day. Into this, their divine metropolis, the nations of the saved over the universal surface bring, not trade and manufactures, but their glory and honour.
The immortal health and youth of the heavenly populations is secured by the following divine provision. In, as we may say, the city park, is the divine throne. From its front goes forth a very broad street. And through the length of the street there flows a crystalline river, with rows of trees on each side. The fruit of this tree and the waters of this river are immortalizing. And as these flow from the throne so the stream of man’s heavenly perpetuity flows from the immortal God. The description, and indeed the whole apocalypse proper, closes at Revelation 22:5.
I saw—The narrative is continuous with the last preceding chapter. That is, it is a description, not, as some maintain, of the gospel state, commencing with the first advent and closing with the second; nor, especially, is it a picture of the thousand millennial years of Satan’s imprisonment, as others maintain: but it is a shadowing of the post-judgment eternal state of the blessed, the final glorification—HEAVEN. For, 1. Such is the proper assumption. The writer’s order of narration must not be changed but for good assignable reason. We hold it for a fixed law, that the entire train of events of the seventh trumpet is invariably consecutive, admitting of no transposition. 2. Death exists during the millennial period; for it is not destroyed until the resurrection and judgment, Revelation 20:14. But in these chapters death does not exist, Revelation 21:4. These chapters, therefore, describe not the millennium, but the post-resurrection and post-judgment state. 3. If these two chapters are supposed to describe the millennium of Revelation 20:3-6, then the apocalyptic narrative closes very tamely with the eternal penalty of the wicked at Revelation 20:15, with no correspondent description of the eternal reward of the righteous. It possesses no well-rounded close, and a required antithesis is lost. On the contrary, the consecutive interpretation closes the apocalypse and the New Testament with a glorious termination. The Bible, which opens with the fall of man, closes with the final restoration. It finishes by leading us to, and leaving us in, glory. Where should the word of salvation leave us but in heaven?
A new heaven and a new earth—A new land beneath, a new sky above. The land is seen and supposed, stretching to an indefinite extent, and capable of being, in thought, a boundless, varied plain, or even a globe.
No more sea—Dusterdieck collects a curious variety of opinions as to there being no more sea in the new world. Besides those commentators who hold the sea to be a figurative term for peoples, Andreas held that the cessation of the difficulty of distant locomotion and of the necessity of navigation renders the sea needless; Beda held that the sea would be destroyed by the final conflagration; De Wette and Luthardt, that, as the old world sprang from water, the new springs from fire; Ewald, that the idea of the abolition of the sea arises from horror of the sea in the minds of the inland peoples, as the ancient Israelites, Egyptians, and Indians; Zullig, that paradise was without a sea; Volkmar, that the sea and the abyss, or “bottomless pit,” being connected, neither belong to the new state. Finally, Dusterdieck holds that St. John means simply that the sea disappeared with the rest of the old world. Heaven, earth, and sea, he thinks, departed together, and whether a new sea appeared in the new world or not is not said. Most of these opinions are consistent with each other, and we think correct. We agree with Dusterdieck, that the triad, heaven, earth, and sea, disappear together; but the special phrase, and the sea was no more, seems to indicate that it had no existence in the new state. This accords with the other views; of Ewald, as to the ancient aversion to the sea; of Andreas, that its navigation uses were no more; and of Volkmar, that sea and abyss alike belonged not to the new system.
2.And I—To our seer who has been narrating the victory over Babylon, the harlot, the first thought to occur is the new Jerusalem, the bride. But after this first outburst he postpones the city to Revelation 21:9; while he stops to tell us (Revelation 21:3-8) something about the country.
From God—Of this city the builder and maker is God.
Out of heaven—Coming down from above the firmament by an opening in its vast visible concave.
3.And—The description of the region is dramatically given by a voice out of heaven, (Revelation 21:3-4,) and by repeated utterances of the divine occupant of the throne, 5-9. Of this heavenly land the utterances declare that God himself is a present inhabitant; that no deaths or sorrows burden its divinely salubrious air. Its inhabitants shall be gifted with the water of immortality, while all transgressors shall be excluded from its pure society.
Great voice—An utterance from an unknown utterer, but from a heavenly source.
Tabernacle—Or, tent. The allusion is to the Mosaic tabernacle in the wilderness, where Jehovah dwelt by symbol. On this new earth he will dwell in person.
Shall be his people—His new, glorified, eternal Israel.
For this is the heavenly Canaan, where all are Israel and all are Gentile. The “hundred and forty-four thousand,” and the “multitude which no man could number” of chap. 7, are now united. The tribes and the nations are one; and all may, according to a divine order, enter into the twelve gates, yet each tribal nation, perhaps, into its own gate.
4.The present God makes all the happiness of heaven. It is he who will wipe away all tears.
No more death—For the resurrection took place previously to the great white throne, Revelation 20:11, and death died at Revelation 20:14. The inhabitants quaff immortality from the river of life.
Crying—Rather, outcry, from the oppression and violence of assailants.
Pain—The healing leaves of the tree of life give perfect health.
Former things—The pains, sorrows, deaths, and violences of the old world.
b. Divine announcement of its blessedness and conditions, Revelation 21:5-8.
5.The throne—What throne? Probably the throne of Revelation 4:2. That throne of revelation did not disappear with the old earth, (note on Revelation 4:11;) and the throne of judgment, (Revelation 20:11,) appeared simply as one of the visional phenomena, just like any other symbol in the vision. The throne in the New Jerusalem (Revelation 22:1) has not yet appeared. The throne of revelation, like the angel of the last plagues, (Revelation 22:8,) continues to the close.
New—This is the grand, final renovation.
Write these words—Of this apocalyptic revelation. This is a divine authentication of what the seer is bidden to write. Note Revelation 22:6.
6.And he—The sitter upon the throne.
It is done—The great plan and work of redemption are completed.
Alpha and Omega—Without a beginning or ending, he is the origin and completion of all things, as of this great plan.
I will give—The divine speaker in these two verses describes the past and settled, in terms of the future: that is, he places himself at the origin, when the conditions of salvation were laid, utters them in the future tense, and thereby describes the fulfillment that has now and forever taken place. So in Revelation 18:4-21, (where see notes,) the accomplished fall of Babylon is described in the future tense.
7.Overcometh—Against antichrist and the world.
All things—Better reading, these things.
8.The fearful—The moral coward who overcometh not, because he shrinks from fight. Thousands are lost for want of exercising moral courage against the persecutions and contempt of the world.
Unbelieving—Who deny the reality of the battle and reward, and so never overcome.
Abominable—Guilty of unnameable vices.
Sorcerers— Seducers, who win to crime by guilty fascinations.
c. Description of the capital of the heavenly earth—the New Jerusalem, Revelation 21:9-27.
9.One of the seven angels—As the millennium occurs between this and the last mention of this angel, it was at least a thousand years ago in the event. But in the narrative of the panorama it was, perhaps, an hour.
The bride, the Lamb’s wife—The holy Church, which has now passed through the resurrection to her glorified state. Note Revelation 19:7.
10.In the spirit—In the visional trance.
Great and high mountain—Not as the place on which the city was built, but as the standpoint of his survey of the city. So one gets a view of the old Jerusalem from the Mount of Olives.
It would doubtless require a very high mountain to afford a clear view of this metropolis of heaven. Apparently on a vast plain of the heavenly land, it rose up before the seer a stupendous luminous cube. It stood upon the surface 375 miles square, and towered up into the pure space 375 miles high! Of this cube the sides were jasper; a softly green transparency. And, as the divine Essence was centralized in the city, so this city cube was a vehicle of his glory which radiated a soft, vernal day over this heavenly earth. It was a great Kohi-noor, throwing light and life over the celestial world. Of this cubic city twelve layers of precious stones formed the basement; each layer of different hued radiance. So that this basement presented to the eye so many horizontal streaks of various brilliant colours.
Into each of the four walls there opened three lofty gates; each gate made of one massive pearl. The material of the solid city structure was a transparent gold, divided by streets and squares and places. No grander conception of the kind ever proceeded from the genius of poet or painter. And if the extraordinary height seems enormous, we must remember that it is a capitol as well as a capital. The angel-like citizens of the land of the resurrection, to whose will gravitation is subordinate, have no difficulty with its lofty chambers; and here may be laid up the books (Revelation 20:12) of the universal library, and the archives of the divine Sovereign over the nations of this wide and glorious monarchy.
We have narrated in such order as might give a united impression of this cube-city. The seer, however, narrates in the order that the perceptions of the distant object dawned upon his eye. Note, Revelation 1:12-15. First the general contour of jasper-hued walls, with the gates and foundations, 11-14. Then a regular measurement of its magnitudes, 15-17. Then a detailed picture of the many-coloured foundations, 18-21. Then its illumination, irradiating the nations, who frequent it from afar, 22-27. Last, are the throne, and the tree and river of life, Revelation 22:1-5. And that closes this apocalypse in triumphal glory. Old Babylon has been sent to hell, and New Jerusalem brought from heaven.
Descending—This resplendent block, itself of mountain size, John sees (so he declares in Revelation 21:2) descending from the opened firmament, and taking its position on the plane of the celestial earth.
11.Having the glory of God—Of which it was the vehicle. This, the great fact, is more fully detailed, 23-27 and Revelation 22:1-5.
12.Twelve gates—Three, four, and twelve are the predominant numbers; of the last, the twelve tribes are expressly said to be the basis. And the twelve tribes are symbolically the eternal Israel of this eternal city and land. They form the nations of its blessed territory.
Twelve angels—The porters of the twelve gates, which are, however, ever open. The angel warders, doubtless, see that the citizens of each tribe from the rural regions enter the gate over which its own tribal name is inscribed. There is a divine order, a well organized polity, in this new land and capital. Anarchy belongs to the other place.
13.Three gates on each side, always open, with an angel welcomer at each gate for all the rural excursionists to the capital.
14.Had twelve strata of foundations—As the gates bore the twelve tribal names, these basal strata bear the twelve apostolic names.
15.The measurement.
He that talked with me—The one of the seven angels of Revelation 21:9.
A golden reed—Compare Revelation 11:1.
16.Twelve thousand furlongs measured the four sides, eight furlongs to the mile, so that its base was 375 miles square. And as breadth and height were equal, it was a cube. It was, therefore, about as truly a house as a city. That this double significance is intended is indicated, not only by its being a tabernacle, but by the fact, suggested by Wordsworth, that the Greek word for gate, , as properly signifies the door of a house.
Nor can we doubt that the structure is an intentional exemplification of the words given by this same St. John, “In my Father’s house are many mansions.” Alford makes an unnecessary attempt to relieve the city of its cubical shape by assuming that its height is increased by its position being on a height, (like old Jerusalem,) and the measurement being made to the ground. But the exactitude of the statement of the equality of the three dimensions, shows that the cubical form is intended. This house-city is a temple, although it has no temple in it. And so it is (beginning with the idea of a tabernacle) at once a city, a capital, a capitol, a temple, and a royal residence, a palace.
17.The foursquare city was lined by a low foursquare wall; low, that is, in comparison with the vast height of the city itself. One hundred and forty-four cubits are two hundred and sixteen feet.
Measure of a man— That is, a human, not some great celestial measure, although made by the angel.
18.The building—That is, the superstructure standing above and upon the foundations.
19.“Jasper, as we have seen above, is usually a stone of green transparent colour, with red veins; but there are many varieties. Sapphire is of a beautiful azure or sky-blue colour, almost as transparent and glittering as a diamond. Chalcedony seems to be a species of the agate, or more probably, the onyx. The onyx of the ancients was probably of a bluish white, and semi-pellucid. The emerald was of a vivid green, and next to the ruby in hardness.”—Stuart.
20.“Sardonyx is a mixture of chalcedony and cornelian, which last is of a flesh colour. Sardius is probably the cornelian. Sometimes, however, the red is quite vivid. Chrysolite, as its name imports, is of a yellow or gold colour, and is pellucid. From this was probably taken the conception of the pellucid gold which constitutes the material of the city. Beryl is of a sea-green colour. The topaz of the present day seems to be reckoned as yellow; but that of the ancients appears to have been pale green. Chrysoprasus, of a pale yellow and greenish colour, like a scallion. Sometimes it is classed at the present day under topaz. Jacinth, (hyacinth,) of a deep red or violet colour.
Amethyst—A gem of great hardness and brilliancy, of a violet colour, and usually found in India.
“In looking over these various classes we find the first four to be of a green or bluish cast; the fifth and sixth, of a red or scarlet; the seventh, yellow; the eighth, ninth, and tenth, of different shades of the lighter green; the eleventh and twelfth, of a scarlet or splendid red. There is classification, therefore, in this arrangement—a mixture not dissimilar to the arrangement in the rainbow, with the exception that it is more complex. The splendour of such a foundation, or basis of the wall, admits of no question. As to the order of arrangement of colours, it is difficult to say what rule is followed, and mere mental conception about propriety of order is hardly adequate to guide us. Whether this arrangement is in conformity with some ornamental arrangements of the day which were regarded as beautiful, we cannot positively affirm; yet, in itself, this is highly probable. At all events, the precious stones here named were the same, beyond any reasonable doubt, which are mentioned as set into the breastplate of the Jewish high priest.
Exodus 28:17-20; Exodus 39:10-13. On these stones in the breastplate, moreover, were engraved the names of the twelve tribes of Israel, (Exodus 28:21; Exodus 39:14,) just as the names of the twelve apostles are here said to be engraved on the precious stones in the foundation. Revelation 21:14.”—Stuart.
21.Twelve pearls—The material of each gate was a solid pearl. This gave variety to the aspect.
The street— , would include any regular spacing, as street, public square, or city park. You trod on transparent gold in walking its pavement; and you beheld structures of the same transparent gold as you looked around you.
22.No temple therein—No place of sacrifice and ritual, for the very God himself was present. Yet the whole was a temple, and for that very reason needed no temple therein.
Are the temple of it—The divine Presence makes its temple.
23.The lighting of a city it is very important to know. And no city was ever lighted like this city. It is lighted by the very Light of all lights. No candle (Revelation 22:5) needed to relieve its darkness; no gas, no calcium, no electricity, no luminiferous ether dispersed its night; no sun, no moon, created its day. The very glory of God did lighten it, being in itself one perpetual day.
24.Of’ saved—Though doubtless giving a true meaning, these words appear to be a spurious reading, inserted by some copyist as an explanatory note.
Shall walk in the light of it—So powerful is the light of the present divine Essence, so transparent the vehicle in which it is contained, that the radiant day is flung over the vast surface of the heavenly earth. The nations of all the redeemed, in their resurrection glory, however numerous and however distant, walk in the noonday light thereof. This city is the ample luminary of all the heavenly world. Alford and Wordsworth both speak as if those kings were monarchs in our present old earth. This ignores the fact that this earth is the heavenly land, beyond the millennium, the resurrection, and the judgment. These all are kings, even though they have no subjects; and all are priests, even though there be no sacrifice. Yet kings may be there bearing rule. It is not clear that there are no degrees of the blessedness and glory of the subjects of the heavenly monarchy. Even in the new earth there may be “principalities and powers,” rulers over ten cities, and rulers over five cities. These kings may be the representatives through whom the spontaneous movements of the heavenly polity are transacted and superintended, so that the sweet harmony and blessed rhythm are ever preserved. Or we may suppose that each king, that is, every celestial dweller, has within his own being a realm. greater or lesser, of powers, glories, and felicities, infinitely superior to all earthly royalty. Or there may be in the nature and structure of the new earth, a common, undivided domain, of which each single heavenly being is a most rich and powerful proprietor, user, and king. Then what a royalty, is it not, to walk the golden streets, through the very dense divine glory, and as a prince to behold the face of the Monarch of the Universe!
Bring their glory and honour into it—Neither the nations nor the kings of this heavenly earth dwell in the capital. They come from far, many of them, and then they bring not trade, or manufactures, or garden truck, into town. But they bring their glory, (a somewhat doubtful reading,) their own affluence of magnificent being, history, and character; and their honour, that is, their adoration, for the resident King of kings in his capital. Even in this appears, perhaps, a difference of ranks and honours. Some kings are farther distant in the earth than others. On the very distant realms perhaps a dimmer glory shines. More seldom visits, less amount of glory brought, less full vision of the royal countenance, may be allowed to some kings than others. When Whitefield was asked by a bigoted follower if he expected to see Wesley in heaven, “Yes,” answered the great-hearted evangelist, “unless he should stand so much nearer the throne that I cannot descry him.”
25.The twelve pearl gates or doors, each three approachable from the four points of compass, shall never be shut. The twice twelve tribal nations shall ever find it day, and ever find open gates. The gates of gospel grace are ever open here on earth, the gates of the New Jerusalem shall ever be open to the dwellers of the heavenly earth.
For—Reason for mentioning day only, there shall be no night. The divine glory never remits, never dims. No revolving of the orb renders the opposite hemisphere dark. No north pole caps the arctic with ice. No glaciers chill the air, no night-shade broods with malaria, or spreads her cover over crime. Here we may read into this description the beautiful passage, Revelation 7:14-17. See our notes there.
26.The glory and honour—Not only of the kings but also of the nations, the collective peoples, shall pour into God’s royal capital.
27.But open as are these gates, there is a terrible yet salutary exclusion. As this city is glorious in structure, and most gloriously lighted, so its society is pure.
Any thing that defileth—No filthy object shall disgust the sense, or spread miasms through the pure atmosphere.
Whatsoever—Rather, no person, as the change to the masculine implies, that worked abomination or flagitious vice. The elegant debauchee is not admitted into good society. No author of any baseness—of any offense against chastity, decency, honour, or uprightness—shall enter. They have no citizenship in the heavenly earth, but are assigned their abode in a darker region.
Maketh a lie—Manufacturers of a damnable dogma, deceiving men’s souls; utterers of slanders, destroying men’s characters; writers of fictions, depraving men’s imaginations. The authors of the theory of wickedness, great “philosophers” though esteemed, take share with the practisers of the license they have preached.
Written—It is not necessary to record your name as at a modern hotel. It was written at the day of judgment analysis.
Book of life—Ephesus had its “town-clerk,” and this city has its registry of citizens; nay, a record, a census-book, of all the names of the individuals of all the nations of the heavenly earth. Augustus sent forth the decree that all the world should be enrolled for taxation. The august monarch of heaven has an enrollment of all the inhabitants of heaven.
It may be asked, Are these chapters a true description of heaven? We may ask in reply, What higher heaven can corporeal and spiritual man conceive than is here described? On a transfigured earth, immortal man walks in the atmosphere of the divine Essence, in the midst of a society of holy beings, in sight of the glorious palace of the present God. What can the sublimest human conception imagine more celestial?
Whedon, Daniel. "Commentary on Revelation 21". "Whedon's Commentary on the Bible". https://www.studylight.org/commentaries/eng/whe/revelation-21.html. 1874-1909.
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Intel to put 64 bits in desktops in 2005
by Guest Contributor in Data Centers on December 8, 2004, 6:31 AM PST
Not content to let AMD lead, Intel will come out with 64-bit chips for gamers next year.
By Michael Kanellos
Intel once said desktop buyers wouldn't really need 64-bit capabilities until toward the end of the decade, but the company will make such capabilities a feature across its desktop lines next year.
The Santa Clara, Calif.-based chipmaker disclosed at its analyst meeting in New York that it will include 64-bit functionality on its desktop chips starting in 2005, a schedule that roughly coincides with the release of a 64-bit version of Windows for desktops coming next year. The functionality will appear even in the budget Celeron line.
The plan marks a definite acceleration for Intel. In February, company executives indicated that 64-bit chips for client computers--which will be able to access more data through a larger pool of memory than today's chips--wouldn't likely come until Microsoft releases Longhorn, a future version of Windows now due at the end of 2006.
At the time, CEO Craig Barrett identified when 64-bit chips (based around the familiar Intel x86 architecture) would hit for servers and workstations but said the company didn't have plans to come out with similar chips for standard desktops in the near future.
A year before that, company executives said consumers might not need such chips until 2008.
The change of direction was likely inspired by the gains rival Advanced Micro Devices has made in the market. In the past year, AMD has gained nearly a point of market share and seen the average price of its microprocessors rise, an indication that AMD is landing its chips in more expensive computers than in the past.
A standard 32-bit microprocessor like the Pentium 4 on the market now can only access data out of 4GB of memory. A 64-bit chip can manage far more memory, which means access to more data at the same time; the additional data in turn leads to realistic graphics and better video.
In reality, it'll be years before many consumers buy computers with more than 4GB of memory. Right now, most PCs come with 512MB of memory. PC makers generally double the amount of memory in their systems every 18 months, meaning that 4GB machines won't be mainstream for about another four years.
Still, gamers and hobbyists will buy computers with this amount of memory as soon as OSes and games become available. Rather than cede this lucrative and influential niche to AMD temporarily, Intel is accelerating its release schedule.
Offering 64-bit capabilities also gives budget-minded customers peace of mind that their systems won't become obsolete as more software gets written for the more elaborate chips.
Microsoft offered up its own endorsement of 64-bit computing on Tuesday, saying it has reached the near-final, or release candidate stage for both its 64-bit server and desktop operating systems. Microsoft said it hopes the new versions of Windows, which have been in the works for years will help make 64-bit computing a mainstream activity by next year.
"There's a need for a mainstream 64-bit solution that is fast to deploy and easy to grow into," senior product manager John Borozan said in a statement. "Volume deployment of x64 will spur new opportunities for innovation that were previously limited by 32-bit barriers."
Game makers will release products to coincide with the new OS.
Technologically, the feat should be relatively easy to accomplish. The circuitry required to turn a standard 32-bit Pentium 4 into a 64-bit chip is actually already in the Pentium 4. Intel and computer makers, however, need to enable it at the factory.
CNET News.com's Ina Fried contributed to this report.
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In Florida, 2019 was the Year of the Exploding Toilet
Also the gator in the yoga pants, of course
When historians study 2019, they will surely take note that this was the Year of the Florida Man.
First, in March, came the “Florida Man Challenge,” a social media fad involving Googling your birthday and the term “Florida Man” to see what bizarre news item popped up. A month later came the Florida Man backlash, in which commentators debated whether it was ethical to laugh about Florida Man headlines because so many involve people who are homeless or mentally ill.
I prefer to remember 2019 as the Year of the Exploding Toilet.
Each year Florida produces a ton of wacky headlines, but there’s always one that seems to grab the national imagination. In 2016 the winner was the story of the Loxahatchee guy who tossed an alligator through a Wendy’s drive-through window.
The story that fills that role this year involved a couple in Port Charlotte who were awakened by what one of them, Marylou Ward, later called “the loudest sound I ever heard.” Lightning had struck their septic tank, igniting the methane gas inside. The explosion not only cracked open their pipes but also blew apart their toilet.
A toilet exploded inside a Port Charlotte home when lightning struck the front lawn near a septic tank. [Twitter/WSVN 7 NEWS]
Somehow Ward found the bright side, commenting, “I’m just glad none of us were on the toilet.."
Many other Florida stories this year exploded into the national consciousness like septic tanks struck by lightning. Take what happened in Port Richey, where the Pasco County Sheriff’s SWAT team raided Mayor Dale Massad’s house as he fired several shots at them. He was wanted for, of all things, practicing medicine without a license.
Port Richey city government has been left challenged by the arrest this year of two mayors: Dale Massad, top left and Terrence Rowe, bottom left. [Times files]
Twenty days later, Massad’s replacement, acting mayor Terrence Rowe, was busted on charges of obstruction of justice, conspiracy to commit obstruction of justice and use of a two-way communication device to facilitate the commission of a crime. Thank heavens he didn’t try practicing medicine!
Drugs, guns and politics collide in Port Richey.
This year proved Florida is a place where you will never suffer an irony deficiency. A University of Miami professor who wrote a book on money laundering was charged with money laundering. A Pensacola woman was charged with embezzling $60,000 from her employer while on probation for embezzling from her previous employer. A South Daytona man on probation for burglary violated his probation by burglarizing the probation office. A man who had just spent $8 million to buy his own private island in the Keys was charged with scamming Kmart out of $300.
Stuart police announced that they had arrested five guys for getting into a fistfight at Five Guys.
As always, Florida animal stories were more exciting than any episode of TV’s Wild Kingdom. A dog in Port St. Lucie somehow got behind the wheel of a car and knocked it into gear, so it circled a cul-de-sac for an hour — backward. In August, a surfer in New Smyrna Beach leaped off his surfboard and landed on a shark. Two months later the same thing happened at the same beach with a different surfer.
A Florida dog put a car into reverse and drove it in circles for nearly an hour -- backwards. [Associated Press]
Iguanas became such a menace that the state wildlife commission encouraged everyone to shoot them on sight, then had to backpedal when a trapper trying to shoot one with a pellet gun accidentally hit a Boca Raton pool boy in the leg.
Florida’s best wild animal story happened in August when a Charlotte County deputy stopped a couple in a truck for running a stop sign. The deputy discovered the woman’s Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles backpack contained 41 three-stripe turtles — a big no-no. The deputy asked if she had anything else she shouldn’t have. She pulled a foot-long alligator out of her yoga pants. (This later led to the arrest of two Fort Myers men for illegal wildlife smuggling.)
Charlotte County Sheriff's Office officials say a woman pulled a small alligator from her yoga pants during a traffic stop on May 6, 2019. [Charlotte County Sheriff's Office]
Woman pulls gator out of yoga pants during traffic stop.
Alligators featured in a lot of Florida stories. An alligator lounging on a golf course in Bonita Springs during a tournament leaped up and snagged a ball in mid-air. A pair of Hobe Sound men were accused of pouring beer into a gator’s mouth to get it drunk.. Speaking of drunk gators, a 77-year-old Clearwater woman heard a crash and discovered an 11-foot alligator had burst through her ground-level kitchen window and knocked over some bottles. She later said, “I don’t know why he wanted my red wine, but he got my red wine.”
11-foot alligator bursts through window of Cleawater home
Naked and nearly nude people made headlines, as usual. A Cape Coral family woke up on Halloween to discover a stranger wearing nothing but underwear sitting on their roof with no memory of how he got there. A naked man snuck on board two yachts in Delray Beach, stole an American flag and made his getaway by jumping into the Intracoastal Waterway. Three naked women spotted outside a Pasco County interstate rest stop led police on a 21-mile chase. They said they’d just washed up and needed to “air dry.”
Naked women at rest stop lead police on wild chase.
Sometimes Florida’s men and women displayed a rare ingenuity. When Hurricane Dorian threatened the state, a Jacksonville man parked his Smart Car in his kitchen because he feared the storm would blow the tiny vehicle away. A West Palm Beach church in need of a home bought a strip club with plans to replace the poles with pews. Thieves used a flirty woman in a tight red dress to distract the clerk at a St. Johns County convenience store while they stole 200 gallons of gas from the pumps.
Florida men found some unusual ways to get into hot water this year. In April a man in Wildwood was arrested for the crime of singing a dirty song to a neighbor. Meanwhile a man dressed as the Easter Bunny got into a brawl in downtown Orlando.
Antoine McDonald has gained national notoriety for fighting in an Easter Bunny costume in Orlando. He also faces criminal charges, in New Jersey and in Hillsborough County. [Screenshot from Instagram; Pasco County Sheriff's Office]
Unusual weaponry remained a mainstay of Florida crime, with people being arrested for assault with a burrito (New Port Richey); a pot of hot turkey soup (Hudson) and a pressure washer (used on a neighbor with a leaf blower in Spring Hill). Sometimes our weapons backfired. Just ask the Daytona Beach man who threatened his noisy neighbors with nunchucks, then hit himself in the head with them.
Virginia says it’s for lovers, but really that should be Florida’s motto. A Holiday couple going through a rough patch were both arrested in March after they each tossed a concrete block through the other’s car window. See how much they have in common? A Nassau County couple arrested for drunken driving on a bicycle were put into a police cruiser in handcuffs, yet somehow stripped naked and had sex. Love will find a way!
Some Florida crimes were the kind that made you go, “Hmmmm.” In Miami Gardens, thieves broke into a warehouse and stole $80,000 worth of wigs. A man from the Panhandle community of Pace threatened to kill his neighbors “with kindness,” which sounds good until you find out he had a machete with the word “kindness” written on it. A man who goes by the name the Rooster rode a horse to break into a New Port Richey home, then had to ask deputies investigating the break-in for help because the horse wandered away. By the way, the horse, named Angel, did not belong to him.
Man on horse burglarizes home.
As you can see, Florida is a gift that keeps on giving, all year long — not unlike the St. Petersburg man arrested this month for giving away free marijuana. He told police he was doing that “because it was Christmas.” So stay tuned, because there’s no telling what surprises we will pull out of our yoga pants in 2020!
Up next:Fog and ice contribute to 69-vehicle pileup in Virginia, dozens injured
Craig Pittman
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Police and prosecutors are embracing a powerful new tool for taking the he-said, she-said out of hard-to-prove domestic violence cases.
Body cameras worn by police officers record the fear, the blood and the bruises immediately following an assault, and let jurors witness the chaos officers encounter when they arrive at a domestic violence scene. In cities like Columbia Heights and Burnsville, where police routinely wear them, the footage is increasingly being used in court to back up domestic assault charges, even when a victim grows hesitant.
“When the cops are called and come through the door, the victim is very happy and relieved to see them,” said Elliot Knetsch, prosecutor for the city of Burnsville. “They feel safe. They tell the officer what happened. That statement given right at that moment is more likely to be the truth than what comes out even half an hour later, when the implications of what has happened start to set in.”
But the use of body cameras for law enforcement comes with complications. Minnesota legislators looking at regulating their use must balance three crucial concerns — fighting crime, keeping police accountable and protecting privacy.
Even as prosecutors hail the potent videos’ role in prosecuting abusers, advocates for domestic violence victims caution that they also hold the potential to hurt the women the criminal justice system is trying to protect if they find their way into circulation beyond law enforcement uses. And the idea of police recording in homes sets off alarms for privacy advocates.
“It is very difficult to chart a wise course through those waters,” Knetsch said.
ELIZABETH FLORES • Star Tribune
Body cameras, in some form, are being used by dozens of police departments in the state.
In the six months since Burnsville police launched a full deployment of body cameras, Knetsch had video for almost every domestic assault case. Burnsville prosecutes about 150 misdemeanor and gross-misdemeanor domestic assaults each year.
Phil Prokopowicz, chief deputy in the Dakota County attorney’s office, agrees that such footage has prosecution value. “It can be influential in resolving the case in terms of negotiations,” he said. “The defendant gets to see the act and know what will be displayed in front of the jury. The documenting of those first moments is very critical to those types of cases, as well as any admissions that may occur as officers are entering.”
‘In the infant stage’
Cameras have been part of police work for decades. They’re mounted on squad car dashboards, in police interrogation rooms, on street corners. Now, bystanders pull out smartphones to record police encounters.
But body cameras add a new wrinkle: They record in homes, and they record officers’ close encounters with victims and perpetrators.
According to a 2015 Minnesota Chiefs of Police Association survey, 41 departments in the state have at least some body cameras, and 70 percent of the chiefs who responded said they generally favor them.
“We have had insights into crime scenes before. As things evolve, this is the next opportunity, but we are in the infant stage,” said prosecutor Paul Young, a criminal division chief in the Anoka County attorney’s office. “I hope the Legislature is speaking with a broad spectrum of people.”
In Columbia Heights, police officers and community service officers wear body cameras and are required to turn them on for enforcement actions and calls for service, which accounts for nearly all of the department’s contact with the public, said Chief Scott Nadeau.
A desire for transparency and accountability drove the rollout, Nadeau said, but body cameras also quickly became valuable investigative tools.
Evidence that endures
On April 3, Columbia Heights police body cameras recorded a woman moments after she was choked so hard she was spitting blood. The defendant tried to prevent the victim from speaking to officers, but body cameras recorded the woman whispering the details of the assault.
It also captured the combative suspect, who threatened to beat the woman until she was unrecognizable, according to the complaint.
“Afterward, she didn’t want to give us a taped statement. She didn’t want to let us photograph the injuries,” Nadeau said. “This gives us an opportunity to capture that evidence in a way we never could before.”
The defendant has been charged with felony domestic assault by strangulation.
Such video takes pressure off witnesses and victims, who often are emotionally and financially tied to assailants and may feel pressure to minimize or recant.
“The emotions of the moment, the family and financial structures makes these cases unique,” Prokopowicz said. “It’s not uncommon for victims to recant or revise their statements.”
What if data go public?
Rebekah Moses, public policy manager for Minnesota Coalition for Battered Women, said she too believes that body cameras can be useful. Video of a violent attack is hard for jurors and others to dismiss, she said.
But Moses said prosecutors also need to work with victims and carefully consider their concerns. For many, there is fear about what will become of that raw video taken after an assault.
“What happens with that data?” she asked. “Will it find its way into a tweet? … Will it unintentionally become a tool perpetrators use to abuse? Everyone is struggling with the same issues.”
Under Minnesota law, such videos are presumed public, but so far no one has requested one from his city, Burnsville’s Knetsch said.
The American Civil Liberties Union of Minnesota supports body cameras to record officers’ interactions with the public except when an officer enters a home in a nonemergency situation. Then, the ACLU argues, homeowners should be able to request that a camera be turned off.
“We recognize this footage will be used in prosecutions,” said ACLU-MN legal director Teresa Nelson. “I would hate to see this invasive tool be used simply to collect evidence. I bristle at that. The only way to justify the intrusion into private homes is the potential to enhance police accountability.”
Shannon Prather covers Ramsey County for the Star Tribune. Previously, she covered philanthropy and nonprofits. Prather has two decades of experience reporting for newspapers in Minnesota, California, Idaho, Wisconsin and North Dakota. She has covered a variety of topics including the legal system, law enforcement, education, municipal government and slice-of-life community news.
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6 facts about Plover's diverging diamond
Sari Lesk
PLOVER - Commuters who use the Interstate 39/County Road B interchange in Plover can expect ramps to close for parts of the two-year construction project that will convert the roadway into a traffic pattern known as a diverging diamond.
The Wisconsin Department of Transportation plans to reconstruct the interchange starting in 2021, and will complete legwork for the project over the next five years. The DOT, which presented the plan at a community meeting in Plover late last month, is accepting feedback on the project until June 10.
The project aims to improve safety, specifically where the on-ramp merges, and alleviate back-ups and delays.
Here are six things to know about the road work:
1. Named aptly, the interchange will be shaped like a diamond.
Diverging diamond interchanges are also known as double crossover diamonds, according to the state's DOT. Rather than turning against oncoming traffic to get and off the interstate, turns flow freely. Traffic follows a pattern in which the drivers switch sides temporarily while passing through the interchange, then return to their original side at the end.
RELATED: DOT hosts meeting on Plover road work
2. This will be the first diverging diamond interchange in Portage County, but not the first in the state.
Jeff Knudson of SRF Consulting Group said at the community meeting that the DOT is building a diverging diamond interchange in Janesville and has a second in design for that area. The interchange in Plover will be built near Worzella Pines Park and Lake Pacawa. The diverging diamond in Janesville will not be identical to the one in Plover, but DOT staff said it will be similar. This style of an interchange is common in Missouri and in the Chicago area, according to the presentation.
3. The diverging diamond in Plover will add accommodations along County Road B for bicyclists and pedestrians that do not exist now.
Bicyclists on the road can use the shoulder space to the right of the travel lanes to move through the intersection like they would on any other roadway, according to the DOT. They can also use the pedestrian walkways and crosswalks if they're not comfortable riding with traffic. The path that pedestrians will walk has not been finalized, DOT staff said.
4. Driving the diamond: Follow the directions.
Drivers using the interchange will follow signs, signals and pavement markings, according to the DOT's presentation. Drivers will cross to the left side of the first set of lights, and anyone who is going straight will follow the road to the second set, then cross back to the right side. All left turns flow freely in the diverging diamond, according to the presentation.
5. This design was selected from four options; yes, one included roundabouts.
The DOT also considered three other designs before landing on the diverging diamond. They looked at an interchange with a northbound entrance loop, a diamond interchange with traffic signals and a diamond interchange with roundabouts. According to the presentation, the diverging diamond was favored most by people who provided feedback in the fall.
6. Construction is not planned to start for five years; when it does, it will be staged.
The state's DOT does not plan to break ground on the project for about five years. Before then, the agency is preparing for the work with steps including public outreach, buying land and completing the design. The construction will be completed in stages, said DOT Project Manager Jeff Stewart. The highway will not be shut down completely but some ramps will be closed temporarily.
Sari Lesk: 715-345-2257 or sari.lesk@gannettwisconsin.com; on Twitter @Sari_Lesk.
How to submit feedback
The DOT requested anyone with comments submit them in writing before June 10. Comments can be emailed to jeffrey.stewart@dot.wi.gov or jknudson@srfconsulting.com.
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LuAnn Motel Scholarship Fund to Support Female Students at St. Tikhon's Seminary
St. Tikhon’s Seminary is very pleased to announce the LuAnn Motel Scholarship Fund established 2014 by the Motel family, husband Donald, sons, Dr. Peter Motel, Andrew Motel, Esq. and Stephen Motel, and daughter, Dr. Marta Motel Grewell in loving memory of their Wife and Mother LuAnn. The scholarship is to aid one or more female students studying at St. Tikhon’s Seminary enrolled in the Master of Divinity Program.
LuAnn’s life was a living tribute to the service of others in both her church life as one of the founding members and later church Warden of St. Herman’s Church, Gradyville, Pa and her professional life as an oncology nurse at Hahnemann Hospital in Philadelphia. What set her apart much like the Myrrh bearing women was her incredible strength and lack of fear no matter what cross was laid before her. She was an inspiration to all who knew her and the establishment of this scholarship Fund in her Memory is true testimony of the incredible love and respect of her family who will continue to honor her through helping others complete their studies at the Seminary and go on to serve the church.
Initial funding of this scholarship of $25,000.00 has been given by the Motel Family. Anyone can contribute to this fund as even the smallest gift will allow us to continue to help our female students and encourage more to consider attending the Seminary.
If you would like to establish your own scholarship to honor a special person please contact Fr. Dennis Swencki, CFO /Development Director at St. Tikhon’s Seminary 570-561-1818 ext 7. The Seminarians truly welcome your gifts and your expression of love and care for them as they begin their life long service in our Holy Orthodox Church.
V. Rev. Dennis Swencki
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Aviva assesses Kent earthquake
Open-access content 22nd May 2015
Insurance firm Aviva has people out on the ground to assess the impact of the earthquake that took place in Kent this morning.
The firm said it was assessing the impact of the quake and ensuring customers' safety.
John Franklin, media relations manager at Aviva, said: "We've actually got people in the area, they are on the ground there, they are having a look at what the impact is likely to be. They are taking customers' details down, to make sure people are all right. We are being proactive with it."
But the firm felt the earthquake would be unlikely to cause a large number of claims.
Franklin said: "We haven't actually had any claims coming yet. We're not expecting huge volumes. As the BBC says, there is no evidence of structural or property damage. At this stage we are not expecting too much in really."
Steve Bowen, associate director at Impact Forecasting, said the United States Geological Survey rated the quake at M3.7, which is considered "light".
"There doesn't appear to be any damage at all, which is to be expected for such a small tremor," he said.
"The UK sees an earthquake of this size about once every two or three years, and about 200 annually, though you don't actually feel most of them. For context, the recent Nepal earthquake was 5,000 times bigger and released 354,813 times more energy."
According to the British Geological Survey (BGS), the earthquake occurred this morning at 2:52am, with the epicentre in Ramsgate, Kent. BGS received more than 1,000 "felt reports" from across the country in an online survey of members of the public.
It said almost all the reports indicated people were awoken from their sleep. More than half described the shaking strength and the sound strength of the earthquake to be "moderate".
More than two-thirds of the reports said that "windows rattled" and one third reported "furniture shaking".
This article appeared in our May 2015 issue of The Actuary.
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St. Jude Children's Research Hospital Quick Facts
St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital is leading the way the world understands, treats and defeats childhood cancer and other life-threatening diseases.
Families never receive a bill from St. Jude for treatment, travel, housing or food – because all a family should worry about is helping their child live.
Treatments invented at St. Jude have helped push the overall childhood cancer survival rate from 20 percent to more than 80 percent since its opening. We won’t stop until no child dies from cancer.
Because the majority of St. Jude funding comes from individual contributors and partners like Tau Kappa Epsilon, St. Jude has the freedom to focus on what matters most – saving kids regardless of their financial situation.
St. Jude freely shares the discoveries it makes, and every child saved at St. Jude means doctors and scientists worldwide can use that knowledge to save thousands more children.
This Shirt Saves Lives
To earn your TKE “This Shirt Saves Lives” tee, simply follow these steps:
Go to StJude.org/TKE
Search for your school.
Once at your chapter’s page, click Register.
Once your page is created, start fundraising by sharing your link via text, email, social media, etc.
Once you raise $250 or more, you’ll receive your shirt as a Thank You for supporting the kids at St. Jude.
For any St. Jude questions, email StJude@TKE.org
St. Jude No More Cancer Rally
This event is inspired by No More Chemo Parties at St. Jude. When kids complete their treatment, everyone gathers to celebrate. Introduced officially at Conclave 2019, chapters and colonies are provided the tools for an out-of-the-box fundraising event that makes a big impact on attendees. A No More Cancer Rally will be one of the most energetic and positive events a group can hold.
The event features a series of challenges to compete in and share the mission of St. Jude and inspire donations to fund the life-saving work and research. Participants earn points by marking completed challenges in the Rally app.
A No More Cancer Rally will typically last 60-90 minutes. During the one-hour No More Cancer Rally at Conclave 2019 (above), Tekes raised more than $25,000.
Interested in hosting a No More Cancer Rally at your campus? Contact stjude@tke.org at least three weeks before your event and we will help you set it up!
About No More Cancer Rally
St. Jude No More Cancer Rally is a fundraising activation event that highlights the St. Jude mission, while training participants on how to use the TeamRaiser Peer-to-Peer online fundraising platform through fun, competitive challenges.
The purpose of a St. Jude No More Cancer Rally (or “Rally”) is to provide a successful framework enhancing fundraising, with an experience themed around No More Chemo Parties.
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St. Jude Guide to Fundraising
When Frater Danny Thomas (Gamma-Nu, Toledo), founder of St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, spoke of the “unifying bond that grows from young men working together” in the fall 1978 issue of THE TEKE magazine, he was speaking of the positive actions of Tekes across the nation in support of St. Jude.
“Every time we’d think we had enough for the next year, researchers would come up with a bigger need,” said Danny. “Fortunately, with people like my Fraters in TKE, we have been able to accomplish what we initially thought was a hopeless task.”
As St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital continues to pave the way in groundbreaking medical advancements in the name of pediatric care, Tau Kappa Epsilon has been present for every milestone. We are excited to continue on the journey for years to come.
To help chapters and colonies in their fundraising efforts to support St. Jude, the Offices of the Grand Chapter has designed a straightforward, comprehensive guide available for download today!
Download the St. Jude Guide to Fundraising.
Official Guide to Successful Philanthropy Events
Every year, chapters across TKE Nation plan, host and execute large events as fundraisers and charity tournaments; everything from golf tournaments to teeter-totters, fun-runs to pushing a bathtub, thousands of pushups to BBQs.
This guide will help you to see the challenges that a fundraising event may encounter and will teach you to turn them into opportunity. It will provide ideas for improving your existing event(s) and help ensure your chapter experiences success after all of the hours spent putting together your tournament or fundraiser. By combining experience, lessons learned, industry knowledge and past successes from other groups in TKE Nation, we’ve come up with ten steps to help you make your next fundraiser/philanthropy event a resounding success!
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St. Jude has recently released a portal for Tekes called Brand Central. It has templated flyers, videos, PowerPoints, certificates and more. Follow the directions below to register for your account!
Go to https://brand.stjude.org.
On "Partner" tab, click "Request Access" below "Log In" button.
Fill out details and enter Kelley McKimens as the "ALSAC Contact" and choose "TKE" from the drop down menu. Submit!
You'll receive approval via an email within 24-48 hours.
Click here to view on YouTube.
Download includes 8.5"x11" flyer.
Download includes 24"x36" poster and two 11"x17" posters.
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Mori Otani Pottery Studio Rich with history and hands-on experiences.
January 22, 2015 • words written by Rich • Art by Rich
Situated in the mountains of Shikoku and detached from mainland Japan, the Mori Otani Pottery Studio remains one of the island's best kept secrets. Although just outside of Naruto City, like most of Shikoku's best attractions, Mori Otani ducks the radar of most tourist plans and guide books. If anything, this exclusivity makes a visit to Mori Otani all the more intimate and worthwhile.
My first look at Mori Otani's featureless storefront and parking lot did nothing to spark my imagination. The dark, plain building looked more like a nondescript factory than a historical site of valuable cultural heritage. But to step through the doors was to enter a different world.
The fragrant odors of Otani Pottery struck as soon as I stepped foot into the doorway. An earthy fragrance hung in the air and the dark wood of the building's construction gave it a natural, antique impression. My imagination sparked and I suddenly felt I had arrived at the right place.
A quick glance around the interior left me wondering whether it was a workshop, store, or museum. Mugs, plates and bowls lined plain, open air shelves. Though the items seemed museum worthy, they weren't displayed that way. Price-tags proved the items were for sale, but did nothing to take away from their beauty. Glossy finishes mingled with matte, smooth surfaces sat alongside the rough. Dark, earthy browns and grays helped bring out the contrasting deep blues. Despite the variety of textures and colors everything felt subdued, natural, and beautiful.
At Mori Otani, work and living seemed to go hand in hand. A homey looking tatami floor complete with a refrigerator sat behind the counter and cash register. A television blared the news, a reminder of the reality that melted away upon entrance into the shop. Like many of Shikoku's artisans, Mori Otani continues the cultural arts of past generations for current generations to enjoy.
The long building I had entered continued on, connecting to what looked to be a back room. I had assumed the area was off-limits to customers, but I was mistaken. What I had taken for a small workshop was the true storefront. I had entered through the back.
This room housed smaller plates, mugs, and bowls – housewares fit for casual, everyday customers. Beautiful items lined the well kept shelves. Another register sat on top of another counter-top – this time without tatami, tv, or refrigerator. This part of the shop gave a more professional, sales-oriented impression. It was the actual storefront, after all. After taking in the array of styles and colors I headed outside, to Mori Otani's true entranceway.
Welcome to pottery wonderland. Pots of all sizes sat, scattered about in such a way that a casual observer, like me, might question their value. Why were these left about outside? They were fit for a museum! Giant garden bowls made for water lilies sat terraced upon small hills. Giant pots overshadowed me when I stood next to them. Dripping water echoed in the background, the result of special pots made to catch the drops.
My friend pointed towards a small hill lined by even more pots, "Come with me." We scaled a staircase and stood before a cave, large enough to fit four standing adults. The sand floor crunched as we entered. This "cave" served as a giant kiln fit for baking the large pots that littered the storefront.
As impressive as they appeared, the giant pots seemed impractical, even as garden decorations. The low lying pots held lilies and the water catching pots made cool sounds, but the giant pots didn't seem to have any aesthetic purpose. Who would buy such big pots? What were they for?
According to its brochure, Otani pottery's tradition spans over two hundred years. The traditional practice endures in the face of new manufacturing techniques and cheaper imported wares. Otani Pottery has garnered a reputation as a respected traditional handicraft with a rich cultural heritage.
Their brochure states, "In 1780 Bunemon, a potter from Kyushu visited Otani village… where he demonstrated the use of a potter's wheel to villagers." To make Otani's trademark giant pots, two people man the giant "nerokuro" potter's wheel. The Otani style represents true cooperation. One artisan shapes the clay from a stool or ladder, while the other lays on the ground, using his feet to spin the giant wheel. Amazed at what he saw, the village chief had Bunemon construct a kiln and make some pottery.
Eventually news reached Awa's (current day Tokushima) clan leader Haruaki Hachisuka, who had a kiln of his own constructed in present day Naruto. According to the legend, the region's characteristic blue and white pottery began at the Naruto kiln. Although Otani Pottery continues today, according to Mori Otani's brochure, its history was nearly short lived as pottery fell out of favor in the late 1700's.
Source: Potters of Japan Part One
But Tokushima's indigo dying industry saved the art. As tenugui artisan Takimoto Somesho explained in our interview, Tokushima's indigo dying techniques allowed for the creation of beautiful blue cloth, a rare color that was difficult to dye at the time.
Sensing an opportunity, a merchant named Bungoro Kaya teamed up with the potter and built a new kiln in Otani where they perfected the Otani pottery style that continues today. "By the end of the 19th and during the beginning of the 20th century, large jars for indigo dye were being produced."
Why Naruto? Although bridges connecting Tokushima prefecture to Kobe have made travel to Shikoku easier than ever before, the lack of train and Shinkansen access makes traveling there inconvenient today. Now imagine the situation in the 1700's, before the bridges, automobiles, and modern ferries. Naruto's isolated location makes it a precarious place for the production of goods for commerce.
But the city, nestled between Tokushima and Kagawa prefectures, had a unique natural resource at its disposal – its clay. "The clay for this work is extracted from an area along the Sanuki Range, which extends from Tokushima Prefecture into Kagawa Prefecture. It is this clay which produces the distinctive rustic quality of the ware combined with the faintest of metallic sheen." The Mori Otani brochure touts the special earthen clay of the area that can be made thin but strong. With such a specialized natural resource, it was only natural that Otani pottery develop in Naruto.
At the time, Tokushima specialized in indigo dying, but no plastics or metal barrels were available to store the dyes. Otani's giant pots allowed artisans to store mass amounts of indigo dye, and therefore helped spur the mass production of indigo-dyed products. The combination of specialized clay and indigo dying, Tokushima's two local specialties, fueled the development of and the need for Otani's giant pots.
Wet Clay – My Attempt at Japanese Pottery
When I first approached the pottery wheel, I couldn't help but imagine the famous scene from Ghost. In the movie Patrick Swayze and Demi Moore use a different two-man style to get down and dirty and touchy and feely while "cooperating" to make a clay pot.
My host explained that the day's technique would vary from both the movie and Otani's two-person style. I'd make my mug and plate using a pottery style that originated at the dawn of human civilization. Instead of constantly spinning a lump of clay on a wheel à la Ghost, humanity's ancestors rolled coils of clay between their palms. These coils were then layered to form the outside walls of the pot or cup. In the time-consuming, detailed process, the maker adds coils one-at-a-time, pushing and combining the layers by hand. The wheel allows the artisan to turn the work-in-progress, providing easy access at any angle.
To start, I had to flatten out the clay and cut out a small circle fit to become the bottom of my soon-to-be mug. Since the clay shrinks when baked in the kiln, it's important to make the bottom bigger than the desired size.
Next my instructor showed me how to affix and meld the long coil of clay to the base. We pushed the coil, adhering it to the clay base while using our fingers to thin it out and smooth the seams until they disappeared.
At first it looked like a hunk of mud!
But a few coils later it began to resemble a rough mug, perhaps similar to those used by our great, great… ancestors.
Here I'm trying to smooth out the seams and imperfections.
We cut the top off with a metal wire, evening it out and giving it a pleasing, uniform look.
After smoothing the lip of the mug with a damp cloth, we prepared to affix the handle.
Now it's looking like a mug! We made a plate with the leftover clay. The process involved rolling the clay out into a circle and then pulling and shaping the plate's edges.
I decided on a color, initialed my mug and plate and set them aside to be colored and baked. I didn't color it myself, but my instructor told me it involved a special paint that would be baked in. The mini mug was a joke – it would not make the final cut. A few weeks later I received a call that my mug and plate were ready. The finished product is pictured above. I love the deep blue color!
Importance/Legacy
Although specialized large pots helped Otani pottery to survive to the present, the demand for them has nearly disappeared. Mori Otani's studio is adapting to the times, focusing on smaller handicrafts and house-wears. The studio's owner and head-craftsman Yukio Mori explains, "We don't have an Otani flavor. It's our weakness but it also means that we can be flexible. That's our battlefield right now. It's a question of whether we should develop a solid style or open up in a flexible way" (Geisinger).
Born in Tokushima Prefecture in 1959, Yukio Mori started the handicraft in 1984 and became head of the kiln in 1996. Since then, his products have been featured in prestigious exhibitions, even winning an award at the 2002 Japan Folkcraft Exhibition. A year later, Mori Otani received acknowledgment as a national traditional handicraft.
Despite diminishing demand, the production of Otani's specialty pots has yet to cease thanks to its historical importance. Yukio Omori states, "That is why we go on making them (the large pots) because the idea of ever being without them is just unthinkable."
To think, I had been living in Tokushima for eight years before learning of Mori Otani! The entire enterprise, from the smallest cup to the giant pots and kiln, amazed me.
If you're in Tokushima and want to pay the Mori Otani Pottery Studio a visit check out the information below. Make sure to contact the studio early to find out about making a mug of your own! But if that's not part of your plans, the store offers a variety of wares for any price range, so it's easy to bring a piece of the Otani tradition home.
For more information on Japanese pottery, please check out Matthew Macewan's The Road to Understanding Japanese Pottery. Mori Otani is just one specific example of the rich and varied craft!
You can get information through TOPIA (Tokushima Prefectural International Exchange Association) by email topia@topia.ne.jp or phone 81-88-656-3303.
Mori Otani Pottery Studio
Beautiful pottery
In-depth history lesson on the shop
Make your own pottery
Part shop, part museum
You can't paint your pottery
You have to wait a few weeks to get your pottery baked and painted
Hard to get to. Need a car.
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BJP Chief Nadda tests positive for coronavirus
Jagat Prakash Nadda, the national president of Bharatiya Janata Party, on Sunday said that he has tested positive for novel coronavirus.
“On getting the initial symptoms of corona, I got the test done and the report came back positive,” Nadda wrote on social media platform Twitter. “My health is fine, following all the guidelines in home isolation on the advice of doctors,” he further added.
BJP chief also urged all who had come in contact with him recently, to get checked. “My request is, whoever has come in contact in the last few days, please isolate yourself and get yourself checked,” he mentioned.
Nadda’s convoy was pelted with stones last week by alleged Trinamool Congress workers at Sirakol in Diamond Harbour area of South 24 Parganas district, where he had gone to address a rally. Nadda called the attack “unprecedented” and alleged the state has slipped into “complete lawlessness and goonda raj”.
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Odd way to save species
A shift in U.S. policy on endangered species may evoke for many that infamous quote from the Vietnam War about the need to destroy the village in order to save it.
In this case, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is proposing changes that would allow trophy hunters, for example, to kill animals on the verge of extinction in other countries as a way of raising money to save animals on the verge of extinction.
If that sounds counterintuitive and illogical, that’s because it is. It’s also bad public policy.
Proponents of the change point out that poor countries have little money to protect endangered species within their borders, and they’re right about that.
But proponents then go on to argue _ presumably with a straight face _ that the way for those countries to raise money for conservation programs is to have hunters, circuses and pet companies pay a fee to kill, capture and export endangered species.
In other words, federal officials are saying that the best way to save a species is to sanction the killing or capture of individual animals, thus ensuring that numbers would keep dwindling.
They would keep dwindling because U.S. officials have no way of guaranteeing that the money raised would go to conservation programs.
Reopening the African ivory trade, for example, could bring in a hefty chunk of change that a country’s leaders might decide would be better spent on AIDS prevention programs, improved housing, better weapons for its military or a Swiss bank account than on saving other elephants. And while the money is spent on other worthy or unworthy programs, elephants would keep dying.
In Vietnam, destroying the village did not save it.
It just destroyed the village.
In the same way, killing some endangered animals won’t save the rest. It will just ensure that the species becomes even more endangered.
If the administration wants to help protect endangered animals in poor countries, it should help those countries _ through grants or other aid _ to make sure that no one, legally or illegally, kills animals on the verge of extinction.
Knight Ridder/Tribune Information Services.
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Home Other News Business & Finance Gibraltar denies one of its biggest employers is ‘moving to Malta’ thanks...
Gibraltar denies one of its biggest employers is ‘moving to Malta’ thanks to Brexit
Bet365 has an annual revenue of GBP1.5 billion and around 23 million customers worldwide
25 May, 2018 @ 11:03
THE Gibraltar government has denied the Rock could be set to lose one of its biggest employers thanks to Brexit.
It comes after the Times of Malta claimed Bet365 had announced it will relocate to Malta once the UK leaves the EU.
In the alarming report, the newspaper claimed 1,000 workers could lose their jobs as the online gambling giant planned to take its business elsewhere.
Both Bet365 and the government were this week forced to rebuke the story, claiming the company ‘remains committed’ to the Rock ‘and its workforce’.
“We have decided to increase our existing presence in Malta, which provides a mature and robust regulatory environment for the industry,” a spokesman for Bet365 said.
“We can confirm that we will be retaining our strong presence in, and commitment to, Gibraltar where our main operational hub is based and will continue to maintain our existing dual regulatory and licensing strategy and presence.”
Bet365 has an annual revenue of GBP1.5 billion and around 23 million customers worldwide.
It is the leader of the online gaming industry, employing over 3,000 people on the Rock – the equivalent of 10% of the territory’s population.
There have been fears since the UK’s leave vote that some of the 30 gaming companies based in Gibraltar could move their headquarters.
Financial expert Chris Cousins told the Gibraltar Olive Press the Bet365 move – if true – could be catastrophic.
“It would be a big loss for Gibraltar,” said the boss of fintech company Ignite. “It would be pretty devastating for the local economy.”
He added: “It’s understandable that they have to prepare for such a move.
“Most of their workers live across the border in Spain, if there are problems post-Brexit and there are daily three-hour border queues for example, that’s going to impact their business, so they have to hedge their bets a little.”
Minister for Gambling Albert Isola meanwhile agreed that Bet365 was managing risk by scaling up in Malta, but said the company was not leaving the Rock.
He said: “We understand that business needs certainty and has to manage risk.
“There is no single risk management solution here as the issues are complex.
“That is why we are working with operators and with other jurisdictions to establish the best overall regulatory framework in which to do business.”
He added: “They are not leaving Gibraltar by any stretch of the imagination. Neither are they having to choose between us and Malta.
“What remains true is that Gibraltar remains the jurisdiction of choice for the most reputable gaming companies in the world. Brexit isn’t going to change that.”
A cyber security expert who works for several gaming companies told the Olive Press other big names in the industry were considering an emergency relocation from the Rock in case of unfavourable Brexit outcomes.
“It’s the clever thing to do, every big gaming company I work for has what’s called a Disaster Recovery (DR) site in another location, and Bet365’s DR in Malta was set up two to three years ago.”
Asked whether Bet365 or the government would withhold information about the alleged move, the expert, who asked to remain anonymous, added: “It’s an extremely delicate situation, news like that could have big consequences on the industry and Gibraltar itself.
“It’s not something you would want to become publicly known.”
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Griselinia lucida (J. R. & G. Forst.) Forst. f.
Synonyms: Scopolia lucida J. R. & G. Forst.; G. lucida var. macrophylla Hook. f.
An evergreen species of variable habit in the wild, sometimes a small tree rarely more than 30 ft high and 3 ft in girth, sometimes a small shrub found growing on rocks or the branches of trees. Leaves leathery, thick, glossy as if varnished, rich green, oblong or broadly ovate, 4 to 7 in. long, 2 to 5 in. wide, glabrous on both sides, markedly unequal at the base; stalk 1 to 11⁄2 in. long. Flowers small, green, in axillary panicles almost as long as the leaves (3 to 6 in. long); female ones without petals. Fruits 1⁄3 in. long, purple.
Native of New Zealand at low altitudes, and only hardy in Cornwall and similar localities. At Kew it will not survive permanently even against a wall. The true species is grown at Tresco Abbey in the Isles of Scilly and no doubt in other gardens in the milder parts. But some plants under its name may be large-leaved forms of G. littoralis.
Being tender, G. lucida is not so useful a shrub as G. littoralis, although from the larger size of its leaves it is more striking. Propagated by grafting on G. littoralis.
'Griselinia lucida' from the website Trees and Shrubs Online (treesandshrubsonline.org/articles/griselinia/griselinia-lucida/). Accessed 2021-01-20.
Griselinia
Scopolia lucida J. R. & G. Forst.
G. lucida var. macrophylla Hook. f.
Griselinia littoralis
axillary
Situated in an axil.
glabrous
Lacking hairs smooth. glabrescent Becoming hairless.
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Fighting Back with Purpose
Jay Wilkinson, Firespring
It took getting removed as the CEO of my own company for me to truly comprehend what my team and I needed to thrive. With more than a little grit and humility, I was able to Persevere through that difficult period and eventually return to grow my marketing communications firm, Firespring, into the Evergreen company it is today.
Before I founded Firespring, I launched an AlphaGraphics franchise in 1992 in Lincoln, Nebraska. I encouraged the franchisor to embrace the early promise of website design, making ours the first franchise to open a dedicated commercial website division. When one of my team members had a lucky encounter with the Backstreet Boys at the running of the bulls in Spain in the mid-1990s, we landed the boy band’s website design. Suddenly our website business was flourishing.
Building upon our success, in 2001 I bought out our franchise agreement with AlphaGraphics and launched Firespring (then named Digital IMS) as a website design and software-as-a-service company. I raised about $5 million in venture capital and expanded into 10 cities. We experienced explosive growth, closing one out of every three demos — and then everything fell apart.
After 9/11, everyone began cutting back, and suddenly we couldn’t get face time with prospects. Our close rate changed to one in 10. I made a lot of mistakes before and after that period. One was taking in capital without protecting myself and my employees. I had given too many of our board seats to institutional investors who now wanted immediate change. They wanted us to do more one-off custom work that would bring in fast money — business I’d always rejected because it’s not sustainable. They wanted us to stop serving nonprofits — a slice of our business that wasn’t incredibly profitable but gave us a strong sense of Purpose.
And in 2002, they ousted me as CEO of my own company. I remained on the board as one of seven directors and was assigned to a leadership committee of three people tasked with making decisions on behalf of the company. While I was still the majority owner, investors were essentially controlling every decision.
I had a brief moment where I thought about giving up. But after hitting that low, I gained clarity on what I believed the company should become.
I wanted a company that prioritized meaningful impact and sustainable profitability over chasing revenues for growth’s sake. And I believed we could become that company. I met with my team and apologized for letting them down. I told them I was going to fight for this new vision. We would have a greater focus on nonprofits. The switch would mean less revenue but a leaner, healthier company with a clear Purpose. Given our struggles, employees could have easily left the company and doubled their income. But they were moved by our new vision and stuck by me, even when I wasn’t sure yet how a plan would unfold.
Over the next five months, I swallowed my pride and pleaded to my family and a few friends for loans to buy out our investors. What made it feel worse was my asking them to help fix my mistakes. But it was worth the humility. Taking six months, I was able to regain control of my board and step back in as CEO of our nearly financially devastated company.
Of the 35 employees who were at Digital IMS when I was removed as CEO, 31 remained and stuck by me. Each of these employees took a 50 percent pay cut, and some deferred even more. I launched an open-book system, and together we worked to focus on securing consistent, steady clients and more nonprofits. These nonprofits paid less than companies looking for big creative projects but they gave us consistent monthly revenues supporting our move to Paced Growth. In 2004, we had not only turned the tide — we actually generated a net profit of more than $1 million. And in 2007, we changed our name to Firespring to better promote a national brand.
Today we are a company of nearly 250 people and have more than 9,000 clients in 12 countries and in all 50 states. Inc. magazine named Firespring one of the top 50 places to work in 2016. And we’ve donated millions of dollars to nonprofit organizations. In 2014, we became a B corporation to strengthen our mission to “leverage our people, products and profit as a force for good.”
My path has been one of Perseverance, but it’s also been about the importance of Purpose to our people, and just how loyal and amazing they are if you do the right thing. Nearly every employee who stayed with me during that troubled time in 2002 is still with Firespring today. Together we’re building a strong Evergreen company that makes us all proud.
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Gone, and Probably Forgotten: 7 'Nashville' Characters Who Vanished Into Thin Air
Tzipora Baitch July 26, 2017, 8:00 pm
These Nashville characters may have been unforgettable, but plenty more faces have come and gone in a blink on the series.
If you’re looking for a soap opera with authentic country music, dazzling romance, and a whole lot of drama, then Nashville is the show for you.
Unfortunately, if you’re also searching for a show with a revolving door of random characters that you can’t bring yourself to care about, then Nashville has got you covered there, as well. To be fair, the show has a great core cast, but keeps making the fatal error of introducing filler characters who come on the scene, stir up some trouble, and then vanish after a few episodes, never to be seen again. Each time, the character gets some backstory and dialogue, only to be replaced by the next rando.
Even the most avid fans have trouble keeping all the Nashville names straight. Below are some of the many characters that have disappeared from the show. (For some reason they’re mostly female singers—make of that what you will.)
Ashley Willerman (Bridgit Mendler)
“Who the hell is Ashley Willerman?” Rayna asks in the third episode of Season 5. We don’t know either, but after watching the episode, the better question is, “Why should we care?” Ashley is a supremely annoying YouTube sensation who monopolizes the entire episode with her weird diva antics. We meet her when Maddie begins her internship at Tracks Studio and is assigned to fetch coffee. It quickly becomes apparent that Ashley is a walking cliche, surrounded by an entourage, demanding food, and singing with an incredibly nasally voice. (Deacon: “She sounds like she’s choking.” Preach.) Long story short: Avery quits as producer, Maddie reacts by having a meltdown of her own (what else is new?) and Deacon watches it all in bemusement. And then we never see her again. Adios, Ashley. Thanks for hogging all the screen time.
Vita Martin (Jeananne Goossen)
Remember her? Yeah, me neither. But after looking back at Season 4, we discover Vita is a musician and quite the literal embodiment of “starving artist.” Vita’s living out of her car with only a guitar to her name and approaches Deacon for some work. After being introduced to Rayna, she quickly becomes her pet project and we get a sense she’s talented enough to make it to the top. But, ha-ha—nope. Turns out Vita stole some cash, and when Rayna tries to investigate, she’s just gone. Bye Vita; see you never.
Colt Wheeler (Keean Johnson)
Colt starts off as a pretty central character to the show as the son of country legend Luke Wheeler and the boyfriend of Maddie. He is portrayed as the typical lovesick teen and also a striving hip-hop artist, but then the audience faces some serious character whiplash when Colt abruptly decides to enlist in the army, against his dad’s wishes. While his decision was incredibly noble, it also seemed out of character. Either he grew up real fast, or the writers just didn’t know what to do with him. Farewell, Colt.
Sadie Stone (Laura Benanti)
Sadie’s vanishing act was a whole new level of drama, even for Nashville. We meet Sadie in Season 3 as a series newcomer and yet another musician under Rayna’s wing. Portrayed by Laura Benanti, (who is also a Melania Trump impersonator, by the way), Sadie seems like a charming and fun addition to the cast…until her abusive ex husband storms into town and socks her in the eye. After she purchases a gun and gets a restraining order, he confronts her again. So she basically shoots him dead. And then skips town forever. Safe to say, her stint on Nashville was short yet memorable. Sayonara, Sadie.
Zoey Dalton (Charley Rose)
Not long after we first encounter the feisty singer, Zoey becomes pretty well integrated into the Nashville bunch as Scarlett’s BFF, Gunnar's GF, and and a short-term member of the defunct band ZAG. She has great hair, an even better voice, and rising star potential. And then, boom—she gets written off the show. Some have claimed she was too boring. Oh well, we’ll always remember when she upstaged Juliette at her own concert. Godspeed, Zoey.
Layla Grant (Aubrey Peeples)
Oh, Layla, our favorite reality star trainwreck. Layla makes an appearance in a recurring role in Season 2 and causes quite a stir in subsequent seasons. We watch the gifted singer struggle to be taken seriously after winning the competition Nashville Star. Her brilliant solution is to appear in yet another reality show, which pretty much crashes and burns. We soon find her entangled with Jeff Fordham, Nashville’s resident villain, and then break down when he falls off a roof (another story for another time). By the time we get to Season 5, the new showrunners axed the poor girl all together. So long, Layla. Hope you're finally content.
Teddy Conrad (Eric Close)
We watched Teddy take a huge career nose dive from becoming the mayor of Nashville to getting tossed in the slammer. Rayna’s former husband had a bunch of weird storylines filled with corruption, embezzlement and an elicit affair. Fans enjoyed a couple blissful Teddy-free seasons until he recently returned for *massive spoiler ahead* Rayna’s funeral to try to get custody of the children, but he thankfully lost the battle. Since then, Teddy’s dropped off our radar once again. Truthfully, we’re fine if it stays that way. Bye, Teddy; go ruin other people's lives.
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And that's a wrap for just some of the numerous random characters that keep popping up and leaving our Nashville screens. They have since been replaced by newcomers Hallie, Alyssa, Zach, and Jessie, but we'll be waiting for the inevitable next crop of stars. For some reason the show keeps pulling out this trope, so we may as well highlight the absurdity and get in a few laughs. While these characters are long gone for now, who knows? They may yet make another appearance.
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Cumming Boards GatesAir as Director of Key Accounts
CINCINNATI—GatesAir has announced that it is bringing on Neville Cumming as its director of key accounts. He will join the GatesAir team to support broadcast groups in the U.S. through the spectrum repack and ATSC 3.0 transition, according to the company’s press release.
Neville Cumming
Cumming was with the Harris Corporation for more than 10 years in strategic sales management roles until Harris’ broadcast division split, upon which he remained with the newly formed Imagine Communications.
As part of his work with the repack, Cumming is expected to focus on helping customers make plans, define goals and execute schedules as the current UHF bidding process continues.
Based in San Jose, Calif., Cumming will begin his work immediately and report to Joseph Mack, vice president of sales, Americas.
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Dr. John Young �������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������� 5-18-08 �
Unitarian Universalist Church of Jacksonville
����������� It seldom happens that a person central to starting a revolution ends up becoming its most effective critic. This is true of Kevin Phillips, still a stalwart Republican who as a leading Party strategist wrote The Emerging Republican Majority. In 1982, The Wall Street Journal called Phillips �the leading conservative electoral analyst, the man who invented the Sun Belt, named the New Right and prophesied the Emerging Republic Majority in 1969.� By the 21st century, Phillips had become the pre-eminent critic of what he calls �the erring Republican majority.�
����������� New UUCJ member, Bob Montalnaro, who is going to coordinate our summer speaker series on Green Sanctuary issues, was impressed by Kevin Phillips 2006 book, American Theocracy, and put it in my hands as a desirable sermon topic. Phillips describes his premise: �that over the last several decades three principal U.S. global vulnerabilities have emerged: radical religion, costly and precarious dependence on oil, and a cult of borrowing money [ballooning public and private debt]. As a scholar, what Phillips then does impressively is to draw historical parallels with the internal self-destruction of former world economic powers, including the Roman Empire [of the 4-5th centuries A.D.], Hapsburg Spain [1490s-17th century], the Dutch [17-18th centuries], and Victorian England [19-20th centuries]. In each, he makes clear that they shared: a popular sense of national economic, moral and patriotic decay, an intensification of religion, conflicts between faith and science, burdens of increasing debt, the decline of industry and rise of finance.
����������� He asserts that all these past leading world economic powers showed how tendencies toward blind faith and religious excesses contributed to national decline. Using Charles Kimball�s five criteria for the cancerous mutation of religion, plus their shared explosion of public and private debt, Phillips shows how all these past powers shared characteristics now central to the present Republican Party�s dominance. Kimball�s cancerous characteristics of religious excess are: concern over cultural decay, a crusading religious fervor, a commitment to faith as opposed to reason downplaying science, popular anticipation of end-of-the world scenarios, a hubris driven national strategy and military overreach which pursues abstract national missions that it can no longer afford economically or politically, plus exploding private and public debt.
����������� In 2004, Bill Moyers said that �for the first time in American history ideology and theology hold a monopoly of power in Washington�the delusional is no longer marginal, it has come into the Oval Office and the Congress.� In 2006, Ex-Senator Republican John Danforth said that �the Republican Party has become the political arm of conservative Christians. Elements of this transformation included a constitutional amendment to ban gay marriage, opposition to stem cell research, the extraordinary effort to keep Terri Schiavo hooked up to a feeding tube, and opposition to birth control, sex education, and abortion.� �Pat Robertson and Jerry Falwell explained 9/11 as �God�s displeasure with secular immorality.� 60 million Americans read Tim LeHayes Left Behind series, yet clear majorities of Catholics and most mainline Protestant denominations, as well as the liberal and non-religious disagreed with the books� end-of-the-world premise and its fundamentalist jeremiads.
Many Republican Party state committees endorsed the platforms of the Christian Reconstruction movement: US as a Christian nation, regrets the myth of the separation of church and state, demands the abolition of a large group of federal agencies [like the Energy Department and the Environmental Protection Agency], calls for making the Bible the basis for domestic law, emphasizes religious schools, and women�s subordination to men. Science including global warming, resource depletion, environmental regulation, evolution, and even petroleum geology were attacked by radically religious Republicans. The three regional denominational pillars of this radical religious hold over the Republican Party are Southern Baptists, Mormons, and Missouri Synod Lutherans, but also include the Assembly of God, Pentecostal and other fundamentalist groups. For instance, the discredited Florida Department of Children and Families Director, Jerry Regier, drafted a Reconstructionist manifesto which was used to flesh out the Republicans� �compassionate conservatism� focused on the Christianization and privatization of social policies like welfare, education, and poverty relief.
The Left Behind series presents a world in turmoil now in the last of seven periods that will end with the rapture of true believers [who are suddenly pulled into the sky to be with Christ]. Next follows a seven year tribulation. The satanic antichrist will arise in Europe and seize world power. At its end Christ and his armies will triumph in a great battle in Har-Megiddo, near Haifa in what is now Israel. From Jerusalem Christ will proclaim the start of a one-thousand-year reign of peace.
In fact, the Bible includes no specific sequence of end-times events, and the few apocalyptic sections in the Bible are probably the most questionable and unlikely as scripture or as appropriate to foundational Jewish or Christian teachings. You have to be highly selective in your biblical literalism, insert non-existent 2000 year gaps, and extravagantly redefine most key theological terms in order to make any sense of these end-of-the world scenarios. As Bill Moyers said the delusional has taken over the Republican Party. Evangelical and fundamentalist Christian support for a militant and imperialistic Israel is an investment in these end-of-the world scenarios. Islamic terrorists almost instantly replaced Soviet Communists as the antichrist and oil rich Islamic countries as the necessary settings for the climatic battles so that the world could end. Liberty and freedom for the world has been re-translated into pre-emptive strikes and oppressive control of oil rich regimes by the United States and unregulated world capitalism.�
The second element of Kevin Phillips� critique of present Republican policies after radical religion is costly and precarious dependence on oil. He argues that America�s present military mission is increasingly becoming the defense of oil producing regions. He points out that half of the top 16 US companies in 1948 were oil firms and that by 1982 half of the 30 richest American family fortunes were built on oil. It is transparent to all of us now that the present Republican Administration was built out of oil men. Recent Republican thinker and biographer of GW Bush, David Frum, wrote: �the war on terror was designed to bring new stability to the most vicious and violent quadrant of the Earth and new prosperity to us all, by securing the world�s largest pool of oil.� [83]
It makes me wonder whether beer will go up as much in price if there is another Republican administration as oil has gone up under this Administration. Brewer Joseph Coors was central to funding four of the GOP�s business-religious axis: the Heritage Foundation, Mountain States Legal Foundation, Council for National Policy, co-founded by Left Behind�s Tim LeHaye, and the Coalition on Revival [a bridge between the rapture believers and the Christian Reconstructionists]. No leading economic power has ever maintained itself on the cutting edge of innovation and development with a political coalition that panders to biblical inerrancy.
Phillips argues that oil end-games: with oil past its peak, their future mostly in foreign hands not particularly friendly to the US, OPEC and other oil producers moving away from using dollars, and global climate change significantly because of oil and gas. Then, he adds the end-time Christians� domination of the Republican Party to the other two pillars of the present Republican Coalition, energy producers and the most conspicuous energy consumers. He feels that 80% of these three groups at present rule a Republican Party that has become a Southern and Southwest dependent minority coalition.
The other element of his original thesis is the explosion of debt. Reagan�s morning in America was built upon cutting taxes on the rich and giving everything to the military-industrial-energy establishment that they wanted. The result was an explosion of both government and private debt. Under the successive Bush Administrations both government debt and private debt again exploded. The conservatism of a John Adams or a Theodore Roosevelt, cognizant of the effects of greed and the need to constrain it with government regulation, has been replaced by the Republicans of the last generation who seek unlimited freedom for the rich with ever lower taxes and less and less regulation and control for the wealthy as the Republican goal. The latest round is the explosion of arcane ways of selling mortgages. As Phillips sums it up, �risk eloped with avarice.� [296]
Phillips goes on to point out that America�s technology sector is withering because of decreased research and development, inadequate workforce education, and our nation�s increasing inability to implement, test, and support an innovative manufacturing milieu. [315] While Asians are saving 30-50% of their GNP, and closely controlling the invisible hand of unbridled capitalism, Americans now have negative savings, they are spending their savings. As recently as 1998, the American savings rate was 6.5%. For the first time in world history, a leading economic power is the pre-eminent debtor and the biggest borrower. Our leaders are obsessed with protecting our largest financial institutions which have taken frantic risks in order to get profane short term rewards.
Warren Buffet puts it this way: �Hyperactive equity markets subvert rational capital allocation and act as pie shrinkers. Adam Smith felt that all non-collusive acts in a free market were guided by an invisible hand that led an economy to maximum progress; my view is that casino-type markets and hair-trigger investment management act as an invisible foot that trips up and slows down a forward-moving economy. The proliferation of derivatives and other insane financial instruments are financial weapons of mass destruction.� [329] The present American economic political alliance leaves the primary decisions for our economy not to an unseen hand but to the highly visible hands of lobbyists and foreign policymakers. [363]
In summary, Phillips, an architect of the Republican majority, believes that the last generation�s erring Republican majority has drifted toward apple pie authoritarianism and a Taliban-like philosophy promoting unworkable social planning abstractions like ever lower taxes for the rich, an abstinence only sexuality system, and unwillingness to participate internationally unless we can tell everybody else what to do. Theological correctness is the Republicans� Achilles� heel. History clearly shows that an obsession with religious radicalism, exploding debt and unrealistic armed overreach destroys major economic powers.
This congregation contains a good number of dedicated Republicans, economic and political moderates, and other independents who, along with the rest of us, will make their own political decisions, but it is fascinating after a generation of worship at the shrines of American theocracy to be facing its probable disintegration. The panaceas of this ideological minority have not made most of us better off, more secure, or less threatened by either nature or the human world. It is time for a significantly different paradigm to guide America�s future if America is either going to live up to our promise or to remain a leader among this amazing global village.
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