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It's Official, Canada Just Made History And Legalized Marijuana
The second country ever to have legalized marijuana.
Kailie Annetts
Published June 20 2018
Updated June 20 2018 at 11:47 PM
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Today the Canadian Senate has passed the bill for legalized recreational marijuana with a vote of 52 to 29. This means that a legal cannabis market will be open and operating in just 8 to 12 weeks.
READ ALSO: Here's The Exact Date You'll Be Able To Buy Marijuana In Canada
Bill C-45 was passed after being pushed back in the Senate due to the debate of home growing conditions. Though the government had originally aimed at making recreational marijuana available by July 1, the date will be pushed back due to the delay while in motion.
It’s been too easy for our kids to get marijuana - and for criminals to reap the profits. Today, we change that. Our plan to legalize & regulate marijuana just passed the Senate. #PromiseKept
— Justin Trudeau (@JustinTrudeau) June 20, 2018
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Though there is a delay in the opening of the legal market, once open Canadians can purchase cannabis and posses as much as 30 grams at one time. It is also shareable with other legal adults.
READ ALSO: Canada's Marijuana Legalization: All The Rules And Regulations You Need To Know
It's yet to be decided how marijuana will be sold in Ontario, as outgoing Premier Kathleen Wynne was in favour of government-operated stores, whereas Premier-delegate Doug Ford favours independent retailers.
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Sen. Tony Dean, who sponsored the bill in Senate, told the CBC that this was a monumental day for Canada. He also mentioned being proud of the work the Senate did in order to pass the bill.
READ ALSO: Senate Passes Bill To Legalize Recreational Marijuana
"We've just witnessed a historic vote for Canada. The end of 90 years of prohibition. Transformative social policy, I think. A brave move on the part of the government," Dean said while also noting that he felt great about the outcome.
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Prime Minister Justin Trudeau had promised Canadians legalized marijuana since the campaign trail in 2015. He advocated in favour of legalization to take marijuana off the streets and instead allow adults who use it to purchase it in a safe way.
Canada is the second country to have ever legalized marijuana and is now the first country in the G7 to legalize it. While some states in America have legalized the substance, such as California and Colorado, Canada's legalization process is nationwide.
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“As Reactionary a Person as You Could Hope to Meet”
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I’m very much enjoying Hermione Lee’s Tom Stoppard: A Life, an in-depth authorized biography about England’s greatest playwright since Shakespeare. I didn’t think it was possible to love Stoppard more than I already did (Kevin Williamson is also a big fan), but then I came across this passage about how Stoppard started to draw enemies among Marxist intellectuals and theater people in the late 1960s, when he started to implicitly rebuke everything they stood for. Having been born in Czechoslovakia (his family fled both the Nazis and then, in Singapore, the Japanese), Stoppard was fully aware that he might have grown up behind the Iron Curtain and had zero sympathy for the view that the Soviet Union was some sort of misunderstood noble cause. Moreover, he thought the kind of stridently didactic art then in fashion in theater (just as it is now, with the emphasis switched to identity politics) amounted to a category failure. He told Lee that in his 30s he was “beginning to be noticed by my peers as someone who was politically dubious” because he said things like, “I burn with no causes.” He added,
I am as square and traditional, let’s say as reactionary, a person as you could hope to meet because I operate on the premise that a theatre’s job is to prevent people leaving their seats before the entertainment is over. . . I’m not impressed by art because it is political, I believe in art being good art or bad art, not relevant art or irrelevant art.
Kyle Smith is a fellow at National Review Institute and National Review’s critic-at-large. @rkylesmith
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A new report commissioned by the NHS East of England highlights 8 important lessons for those trying to implement co-production strategies within the health sector.
The report, published by the National Development Team for Inclusion (NDTi), shares the knowledge and experience from 6 sites in the East of England region which have successfully adopted co-production to develop support for long-term health conditions such as progressive neurological disease, mental health and learning disabilities. Two years after the inclusion of Co-production into the Care Act, the report has been particularly helpful in consolidating common challenges in co-production that are faced within the health sector.
Lianne Jongepier, Head of Clinical Network – Mental Health in the NHS England, Midlands and East (East), said: “The East of England (EoE) Clinical Network (CN) commissioned the project to “understand the impact of a co-produced and personalised approach on implementing change and/or addressing local service issues or challenges.” Co-production is an ethos where organisations and local citizens work together, as equals, to design, deliver and improve opportunities, support and services that enable people to have a good life and communities to flourish. The EoE CN wanted to test ways of embedding and evaluating co-production by involving people from the very start and working collaboratively with the health system to shape local healthcare.
It is hoped that the learnings from this project will benefit and impact on other services as a cascade effect, with co-production principles being embedded into organisational workings and strategies. Lianne added: “We hope to see that co-production, as a way of working, begins to filter through into all levels of decision making, for both providers of healthcare services and those who design and commission them. Through this we can benefit from the skill-sets and lived experiences of the service users to shape future healthcare.”
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The meaning of the Midheaven in an astrological chart
The Midheaven in an astral chart represents social success for the individual, their societal ascent and their personal achievement. It has a strong influence on the professional career of Best tantrik astrologer in ABUJA NIGERIA, at the level of the social image brought by this one. It is a symbol of mindfulness in the house in which it is located.
The planets gravitating in its environment are directly influenced by this characteristic, like a lighting. The zodiac sign corresponding to the Midheaven of the astral chart also determines the vocation of the person says Bhoktibhikshu Dr. Abhay Bala. The Midheaven is traditionally found in house X, and in analogy with Capricorn, symbol of achievement in astrology.
What is the Midheaven in an astrological chart
Its significance is just as important as the Ascendant or the birth sign, in the analysis of aspects of a theme or a solar revolution. In opposition to the Sky fund , it indicates the intersection between the local meridian and the ecliptic. Unlike the Sky Background, the Midheaven is the culmination of a birth chart. It evokes the ascent, achievement and assertiveness in society, in relationships with others in the public or professional domain.
The Midheaven highlights the strengths or difficulties that a person may encounter in their life to achieve social realization says Bhoktibhikshu Dr. Abhay Bala. However, the sign in Midheaven is not the only one that interacts with your destiny. Only an analysis of the aspects, planets and stars as a whole can paint a portrait of your personality at onlineAGHORI.com.
How to identify the middle of the sky in an astrological chart The Midheaven represents the highest point of the zodiac, above the horizon, at the time of birth says Best tantrik astrologer in ABUJA NIGERIA. Time and place of birth are therefore the two main factors. It is designated by the intersection between the local meridian and the ecliptic , that is to say the outer line drawn on the Sky Chart at onlineAGHORI.com.You then consider the zodiac sign located at this place as the Midheaven. In contrast to the Sky Fund, the Midheaven evokes extraversion, public life, the collective.
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Massey Dacta | From Dairy Farmers to Winemakers
Wendy and Owen Glover, fourth-generation farmers, were among the first to plant grapes on their farm in Marlborough’s Dillon’s Point in New Zealand in 1988.
Wendy and Owen Glover, fourth-generation farmers, were among the first to plant grapes on their farm in Marlborough’s Dillon’s Point in New Zealand in 1988. Organically farmed, Massey Dacta wines are a true expression of authentic rural farming that chooses family over corporations. The Glover family are advocates for sustainability and mindful consumption.
When Owen Glover took over the dairy farm in his very early twenties, he always made sure that the family was running a sustainable operation while maximizing the potential of the land. After 30 years, he saw an opportunity to switch from dairy farmer to grape grower. He had a feeling that his land had the potential to produce world–class wine. He made the shift by selling the dairy herd and planting grapes in 1985.
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Today, Ben Glover, his oldest son, runs the family winemaking operation, Glover Family Vineyards, along with his wife Susie and their children. His two youngest siblings, Lucy, with her husband Francis, and Jack along with his partner Georgie, are also part of the venture. Ben completed a post graduate diploma in viticulture and winemaking and has over 25 years of experience as a national and international wine judge. He is dedicated to quality wine, both as a winemaker and a wine drinker. His winemaking philosophy? “Listen to your environment, understand your surroundings. You are there to make a sensual medium so that your customer can see the vineyard through a lens.”
The farm is 65 ha in size, of which 50 are being dedicated to grapes such as Sauvignon Blanc, Chardonnay, Pinot Gris, Riesling and Pinot Noir. Choosing these grapes was influenced by a well-known and powerful Māori concept, Turangawaewae. “It’s all about listening and understanding where you stand, your sense of place. (…) For us, these varieties are ones we feel are a pure expression of where we stand on this land.” says Ben.
When asked if the family has any regrets in going from dairy farming to winemaking, Ben quickly answers: “Why would we? We all know wine is much better for you than milk, and the Marlborough region is the premier New World Wine region globally.”
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How did you end up in Winemaking?
I had no idea what I wanted to do so I went to university and realised that I was too dumb for law, accountancy or medicine. I also realised that being outdoors or at least that connection was very important to me. I finished up with a Marketing degree and then did a Viti and wine Post grad with the thought of returning home to the farm and kicking dad off the farm… He is still there! And…I realised that I liked living in the grey space – the place between black and white – and winemaking and working with the elements such as climate and agriculture was just that. The winemaking side of it is like working with a palate and providing the imbiber with the purest form of what the land – the farm expresses.
Why is Chardonnay your favourite?
I have worked with this same fruit for 24 years, so I am a bit taken with this variety – also I believe along with Riesling it is part of the Great Whites (They are Shark Wines)
What is your inspiration in winemaking?
I’m not a big fan of this question sorry… However, there is the individual inspiration, there are things or people you look to. At the end, you apply experience and maturity to what you are doing and the inspiration comes from within and from your daily surroundings: Your partner, children, parents, siblings, peers, mates, the environs etc.
Which wine are you most proud of?
To choose one would be like choosing one of your children.
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I have fond memories of feeding out, shifting irrigation, moving electric fences, following dad in my gumboots and trying to step into his large footprints – never could. It was a special way to grow up. The Massey Fergusan tractor or Massey Dacta personifies growing up in rural New Zealand. I loved that tractor, but could never say it correctly as a 2-3yr old. I was driving tractors and trucks, motorbikes by the time I was 5, and helping along with my brothers and sister on the farm. We had no idea that it was “farm work’! It was fun, it was outdoors, and we could be dirty!
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Salem, OR—The Oregon Department of Veterans’ Affairs (ODVA) will honor all veterans next week with a Virtual Statewide Veterans Day 2020 Celebration.
The virtual ceremony will be streamed on ODVA’s Facebook page beginning at 11 a.m., Wednesday, Nov. 11. It will include the singing of the national anthem by Miss Oregon USA Katerina Villegas, as well as remarks by Oregon Gov. Kate Brown, ODVA Director Kelly Fitzpatrick, and other special guests.
“The COVID-19 pandemic has impacted every American tradition this year, but it presents opportunities to celebrate our cherished traditions in new ways. The Oregon Department of Veterans’ Affairs remains committed to honoring our state’s veterans and their remarkable service and sacrifice. Doing so has never been more important,” said Fitzpatrick. “I encourage all Oregonians to join us for this virtual event to honor our military service members, veterans and their families on this Veterans Day.”
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NEW YORK -- The Yankees have reached agreement on the principal players in a three-team blockbuster trade that would land them coveted lefty Randy Johnson.
The Yankees would get Johnson while sending pitcher Javier Vazquez and two prospects -- catcher Dioner Navarro and third baseman Eric Duncan -- to the Dodgers. The Dodgers would send pitchers Brad Penny and Yhency Brazoban and outfielder/first baseman Shawn Green to Arizona to complete the deal.
A few details have to be worked out, but indications are they are not big enough to kill the deal. "It is going to happen," a source close to the negotiations told The Associated Press.
After blowing a 3-0 lead in the AL Championship Series to Boston, the Yankees are close to finalizing contracts with free-agent pitchers Carl Pavano and Jaret Wright, but the "Big Unit" is the player they coveted most to match up against the Red Sox and his former teammate, Curt Schilling.
Johnson, 41, went 16-14 with a 2.60 ERA and 290 strikeouts last season for the Diamondbacks. A five-time Cy Young Award winner, he is in the final year of a contract that will pay him $16 million next season. He has a no-trade clause and it was unclear if the Yankees would agree to a contract extension.
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Once you have decided on a rewarding career in the field of nursing, it’s imperative that you locate a Licensed Practical Nurse (LPN) school near Shelby AL that will deliver the right education. If you reside in Texas or California, then you will be searching for a Licensed Vocational Nurse (LVN) school instead. There is no difference, except for the names, between an LPN and an LVN. They both undertake the same job functions and work in medical facilities under the supervision of Registered Nurses (RN) or Doctors. However their functions do differ depending on the state they practice in, which we will address in the next segment. When beginning their search for LPN schools, many prospective nursing students start with the ones that are the nearest to their homes or that are the least expensive. While tuition and location are important factors, they are not the only criteria that you should base your selection on. Other concerns, for instance if the schools are accredited or have high pass rates on the licensing exam are extremely important as well. There are various other questions that you should ask potential schools before enrolling in an LPN program that we will talk about later in this article. But first, let’s have a look at the function of an LPN and what is involved in the education and licensing process.
What is an LPN in Shelby AL?
Licensed Practical Nurses have many tasks that they carry out in the Shelby AL healthcare facilities where they are employed. As their titles imply, they are required to be licensed in all states, including Alabama. Although they may be responsible for monitoring Certified Nursing Assistants (CNA), they themselves normally work under the supervision of either an RN or a doctor. The medical care facilities where they work are numerous and diverse, for example hospitals, medical clinics, schools, and long-term care facilities. Virtually any place that you can encounter patients seeking medical treatment is their dominion. Each state not only controls their licensing, but also what duties an LPN can and can’t perform. So based on the state, their day-to-day work functions may include:
Providing medicines
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Getting blood or urine samples
In addition to their job functions being controlled by each state, the health facilities or other Shelby AL healthcare providers where LPNs work can additionally limit their job duties within those parameters. Also, they can work in various specialties of nursing, including long-term care, critical care, oncology and cardiology.
LPN Programs in Alabama
There are essentially two scholastic credentials offered that provide training to become an LPN. The one that can be concluded in the shortest amount of time, normally about one year, is the certificate or diploma course. The other alternative is to obtain a Practical Nursing Associate Degree. These programs are more comprehensive in nature than the diploma option and usually require 2 years to complete. The benefit of Associate Degrees, besides supplying a higher credential and more extensive instruction, are that they provide more transferrable credit toward a Bachelor’s Degree in nursing. No matter the type of credential you pursue, it needs to be state approved and accredited by the National League for Nursing Accrediting Commission (NLNAC) or any other national accrediting organization. The NLNAC warrants that the core curriculum properly prepares students to become Practical Nurses, and that most graduates pass the 50 state required NCLEX-PN licensing exam.
Attending LPN programs online is becoming a more preferred way to obtain instruction and attain a nursing certificate or degree in Shelby AL. Many schools will require attending on campus for a component of the training, and virtually all programs call for a specified amount of clinical rotation hours completed in a local healthcare facility. But since the remainder of the training may be accessed online, this alternative may be a more practical approach to finding the free time to attend school for some students. Regarding tuition, a number of online degree programs are less costly than other on campus options. Even supplemental expenses such as for commuting and study materials may be lessened, helping to make education more affordable. And a large number of online programs are accredited by U.S. Department of Education recognized organizations. So if your work and family commitments have left you with very little time to work toward your academic goals, it could be that an online LPN training program will make it more convenient to fit a degree into your hectic schedule.
Now that you have decided on obtaining your LPN certificate, and if you will attend classes on campus or on the web, you can use the following pointers to start narrowing down your options. As you no doubt realize, there are many nursing schools and colleges near Shelby AL as well as within Alabama and throughout the United States. So it is necessary to lower the number of schools to select from so that you will have a workable list. As we earlier mentioned, the site of the school and the expense of tuition are undoubtedly going to be the initial two factors that you will look at. But as we also stressed, they should not be your only qualifiers. So before making your final decision, use the following questions to see how your selection compares to the field.
Accreditation. It’s a good idea to make sure that the certificate program along with the school are accredited by a U.S. Department of Education acknowledged accrediting agency. Aside from helping confirm that you obtain a premium education, it may assist in acquiring financial aid or student loans, which are oftentimes not offered for non-accredited schools near Shelby AL.
Licensing Preparation. Licensing prerequisites for LPNs vary from state to state. In all states, a passing score is needed on the National Council Licensure Examination (NCLEX-PN) in addition to graduation from an accredited school. Certain states require a specified number of clinical hours be performed, as well as the passing of additional tests. It’s essential that the school you are attending not only provides an outstanding education, but also prepares you to satisfy the minimum licensing standards for Alabama or the state where you will be working.
Reputation. Check internet rating companies to see what the reviews are for each of the LPN schools you are considering. Ask the accrediting agencies for their reviews as well. Additionally, check with the Alabama school licensing authority to find out if there are any complaints or compliance issues. Finally, you can call some nearby Shelby AL healthcare organizations you’re interested in working for after graduation and ask what their assessments are of the schools as well.
Graduation and Job Placement Rates. Find out from the LPN schools you are looking at what their graduation rates are as well as how long on average it takes students to finish their programs. A low graduation rate may be an indication that students were displeased with the program and dropped out. It’s also important that the schools have high job placement rates. A high rate will not only confirm that the school has a favorable reputation within the Shelby AL medical community, but that it also has the network of contacts to help students attain employment.
Internship Programs. The most effective way to get experience as a Licensed Practical Nurse is to work in a clinical environment. Essentially all nursing degree programs require a specific number of clinical hours be completed. Many states have minimum clinical hour requirements for licensing as well. Ask if the schools have a working relationship with local Shelby AL community hospitals, clinics or labs and assist with the placing of students in internships.
Considering LPN School in Shelby Alabama?
Shelby County is a county of the U.S. state of Alabama. As of the 2010 census the population was 195,085.[1] The county seat is Columbiana.[2] The county is named in honor of Isaac Shelby, Governor of Kentucky from 1792 to 1796 and again from 1812 to 1816.
Shelby County was established on February 7, 1818, and it was named for the Revolutionary War hero and the first Governor of Kentucky, Isaac Shelby. Beginning in 1820, the first county seat was located at Shelbyville. This settlement, long defunct, was located within the modern city limits of Pelham. The first courthouse was built of logs. The seat was moved to Columbia, now Columbiana, in 1826. Initially housed in an old school building, a new brick courthouse building was completed in 1854. It is now known as the Old Shelby County Courthouse and houses the Shelby County Museum and Archives. The current limestone courthouse was built from 1905–06, at a cost of $300,000.[3]
Shelby County was the home of an early inland waterway, the Coosa River, and it was also the location of a very early east-west railroad in Alabama that connected Atlanta, Georgia, with locations to its west. Shelby County was also crossed by an early north-south railroad, the Louisville and Nashville Railroad, that connected Louisville, Nashville, Decatur, Birmingham, and Montgomery.
With the advent of the automobile and the truck, Shelby County was soon crossed from north to south by U.S. Highway 31, the major one that followed the same route as the Louisville and Nashville Railroad did. (All U.S. Highways, with "one" as their last of two digits are major north-south ones: e.g. U.S. 11, 21, 31, 41, 51, 61, and 71.) The eastern part of Shelby County was later crossed by U.S. Highway 231 and U.S. 280
Pick the Right LPN School near Shelby AL
Choosing the ideal Licensed Practical Nurse school is potentially the most critical step to launching a new career in the medical care industry. There are various factors that you must take into account when choosing a nursing school. These factors will be prioritized differently contingent on your existing career objectives, obligations, and economic situation. As we have emphasized in this content, it is important that you choose an RN school and a degree program that are both accredited and have exceptional reputations within the medical community. By using our list of qualifying questions, you will be able to create a shortlist of schools to pick from so that you can make your final selection. And with the appropriate degree and training, combined with your hard work and desire to succeed, you can become an LPN in Shelby AL.
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Dallas Renegades vs. Los Angeles Wildcats: XFL Odds, Picks & Predictions
The XFL has two more games on tap Sunday and our expert handicapper Stephen Rodriguez brings us his picks for both
Stephen Rodriguez
Sun, February 16, 9:13 AM
BET OF THE DAY: (1u) Dallas Renegades -4 @ -110
Dallas Renegades @ Los Angeles Wildcats, 3:00 PM:
The reason we’re backing Dallas.
Dallas (0-1) had an underwhelming opening to the season under head coach Bob Stoops as they failed to score a touchdown in a 15-9 losing effort to the St. Louis Battlehawks.
With starting quarterback Landry Jones out with an injury, Philip Nelson filled in and completed 33 of 49 for 209 yards. The amount of passing featured in the offense resulted in the fastest pace (28.4), but the lowest time of possession in the league at (26:02).
Los Angeles (0-1) had an ugly start to the season after losing to the Houston Roughnecks 37-17.
Quarterback Chad Kanoff filled in for injured quarterback Josh Johnson and clearly had some rust to shake off, completing 21-of-40 for 214 yards, one touchdown and an interception.
In a debut featuring highs and lows, no performance was higher than wide receiver Nelson Spruce. Spruce led the XFL in receptions (11), targets (15) and target share percentage (37.5%), while adding the second most receiving yards with 103 yards.
After allowing an XFL-high 37 points in a disappointing defensive debut, the Wildcats wasted no time making a change by firing defensive coordinator Pepper Johnson.
Although they’re playing at home, Los Angeles seems like a bit of a dumpster fire at the moment with a struggling offense and an already fired defensive coordinator. Dallas also looked rough around the edges but I have more hope in the Renegades pulling out the win and covering with Jones expected to return to the lineup.
The Over/Under is set 48.5 points and I’m rolling with the Under in this matchup mainly because of the inconsistencies from both of these offenses.
(1u) Houston Roughnecks -8 @ -110
St. Louis Battlehawks @ Houston Roughnecks, 6:00 PM:
The reason we’re backing Houston.
St. Louis (1-0) pulled off the biggest upset of the weekend when defeating the Dallas Renegades at home 15-9. The Battlehawks opened as nine-and-a-half point underdogs and won the game outright.
The Battlehawks used a ground-and-pound style of offense to chew up the league’s second highest time of possession (34:32). St. Louis totaled 191 rushing yards on 42 carries, and although no XFL team had a 100-yard rusher, running back Matt Jones and quarterback Jordan Ta’amu combined for 162 rushing yards.
Running back Kirk Ford and wide receiver Alonzo Russell contributed the only two touchdowns in the game.
Houston (1-0) got off to a hot start and covered the spread easily in Week 1, defeating the LA Wildcats 37-17.
Quarterback Phillip Walker went off and filled up the stat sheet completing 23-of-39 passes for 272 yards, four touchdowns and an interception, adding 26 rushing yards and a 100.6 quarterback rating.
Former third-round Pittsburgh Steelers wide receiver Sammie Coates drew plenty of double-teams and attention which resulted in fellow wide outs Cam Phillips and Kahlil Lewis getting open often. Phillips caught four of nine passes for a team-high 67 yards, including a 50-yard touchdown. Lewis added five receptions on six targets for 45 yards and a touchdown.
Houston remains at home for Week 2 after scoring an XFL-high 37 points there one week ago. Although St. Louis pulled off an exciting upset in Week 1, I’m not buying in on the Battlehawks just yet after only defeating the shorthanded Renegades by six points.
The Over/Under is set 50.5 points, and I really like the Over in this matchup. The Roughnecks offense seems for real, and if St Louis falls behind they’ll have to bail on the running attack and take some chances down the field through the air.
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Wimbledon Men's Semi-Finals Picks
Here's our picks for day eleven of Wimbledon 2019
Graham Ruthven
Thu, July 11, 9:55 AM
It’s men’s semi finals day at Wimbledon and there promises to be two compelling and captivating matches at SW19. Naturally, all eyes will be on the meeting between Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal. This is the first time the two legends will have faced each other at Wimbledon since their famous final back in 2008. Novak Djokovic is up against Roberto Bautista-Agut in the other semi. Here are four tips for Friday.
Novak Djokovic v Roberto Bautista-Agut
Wimbledon men’s singles semi final, Friday July 12
There has been no stopping Novak Djokovic at this year’s Wimbledon. The world number one is playing like the world number one, dismantling David Goffin in straight sets in the quarter finals. Djokovic won 76% of his first serve points against Goffin, winning seven of the 10 break points he brought up. The Serbian was imperious and has been throughout the tournament.
Roberto Bautista-Agut arrives at this stage of the Championships in the form of his life having dropped just one set in the five matches he has played so far. If the Spaniard can keep his game tight and limit the unforced errors he has the potential to cause Djokovic some problems in this semi final.
Bautista-Agut is aiming to make his first Grand Slam final. He has 11 career wins over top 10 players and has won eight of his last 10 matches on grass. Perhaps most positively for the Spaniard, he won the last two matches he has played against Djokovic, although the Serbian’s overall record - seven wins from 10 meetings - is much better.
1u - Back Novak Djokovic To Win 3-0 @ -137
2u - Back Novak Djokovic To Win Set 1 and Win @ -380
Rafael Nadal v Roger Federer
This is the match we all wanted. For the first time since their famous meeting back in 2008 Rafael Nadal and Roger Federer will face each other at Wimbledon. Both players have been in exceptional form over the course of the tournament and so this has the potential to be another classic match between two true legends of the game. This is a sporting event you will have to make time for on Friday afternoon.
Federer came through a tricky quarter final in four sets against Kei Nishikori. His serving was most impressive and has been impressive in every match he has played at Wimbledon this year, serving 12 aces against Nishikori on Wednesday. He also won 95% of his service games against the Japanese, winning 74% of his service points in total.
Nadal’s quarter final against Sam Querrey was just as impressive, seeing off the in-form American in straight sets. The Spaniard won 45% of his return points against Querrey, who had been serving like a machine up until he faced Nadal in the final eight. This suggests the number three seed will be able to handle the serving of Federer. The Swiss has a better record on grass against Nadal (two wins to one), but this could be something of a coin flip.
1.5u - Back Rafael Nadal To Win @ -129
0.5u - Back Total 4 Sets @ +153
By Graham Ruthven
11/07/2019 Wimbledon Men's Semi Finals Picks
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Paul Pelt
The Correlation between Songwriting and......Sales...
I've spent a large part of my "corporate post-college" life working in sales in some capacity (primarily in consultative, and longer sales cycle realms) coupled with some songwriting throughout. And, I've spent the majority of "disposable time" in my entire life playing either the piano, drums, or guitar... and also constructing songs or components of composition.
Pondering on this correlation, back in 2015 when I was working at an early stage start-up SaaS MarTech company, I started to really observe the parallel of the sales mentality, and songwriting. There are certainly genres where lyric is not as integral as the instrumentation in a composition - and many people prefer this art form over the literary-based arrangements (which is another conversation), and vice versa. Different genres appreciate very different song structures. For example, some genres identify "great works" or "successful" songs as those with really concrete, simple or lucid storylines (e.g. country, blues standards), whereas others might look down upon those and instead only value songs that are super contemplative, or poetic and mysterious (e.g. certain types of rock, metal, rap, etc). Same goes for the pop world and the Spotify There's definitely beauty in all...therein lies the true, subjective nature of music...which is why, as Cowboy Jack Clement once said, "Experts tend to be narrow and overly opinionated - and those 'experts' are often wrong." So true. Oh, and over the last 50+ years, there's sadly been a massive advertising accretion to this, too (more heavily in certain genres), which is definitely another conversation.
Back to the correlation. With any good movement in an arrangement, storyline, or sales process, comes evocative events. Why keep listening? Why sell, or buy, this product or service? Why tell your friends or co-workers about that artist, song, or product? What moved you? Setting the scene (in prose, key, or melody), then augmenting with something compelling is important (for listener engagement) in all these processes, whether a rockin' instrumental, poetic & deep jam, a relatable story, or good sales pitch. It's what all songwriters, composers, and deal closers strive to master.
Everyone is sellin' something, right?! Anyway, just some outside-the-box thoughts about two creative worlds!
Copyright © 2015 Paul Pelt Jr.
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Walmart Supercenter in San Jacinto closes 2…
Walmart Supercenter in San Jacinto closes 2 days for deep clean
Stores are typically closed like this when employees test positive for COVID-19, though the retailer did not say if there was a coronavirus outbreak.
Walmart said the superstore at 861 S. San Jacinto Ave., which includes general retail, groceries and an auto shop, closed at 2 p.m. Sunday so a third-party cleaning crew could clean and sanitize the building. (Google stree view)
By Samantha Gowen | sgowen@scng.com | Orange County Register
PUBLISHED: December 28, 2020 at 11:13 a.m. | UPDATED: December 28, 2020 at 12:33 p.m.
Walmart has temporarily closed its San Jacinto supercenter for a deep clean, the company said Sunday.
Stores are typically closed like this when employees test positive for COVID-19, though the retailer declined to provide details, citing privacy concerns.
“All associates will be paid for the shifts they were scheduled to work,” Casey Staheli, senior manager of National Media Relations for Walmart, said via email Monday.
“In the event we do have a confirmed case at any of our stores, we are working with those associates and offering guidance and time needed to receive medical care,” he stated.
Employees, Staheli said, have been encouraged to “prioritize their health and stay home if feeling sick.”
The company said it also implemented a COVID-19 emergency leave policy for all associates who feel unable or uncomfortable coming to work.
“While we are not able to confirm any information related to the store at this time, we have been working to ensure our stores are cleaned and sanitized regularly,” Staheli said.
Walmart said the superstore at 861 S. San Jacinto Ave., which includes general retail, groceries and an auto shop, closed at 2 p.m. Sunday so a third-party cleaning crew could sanitize the building. Two other superstores, one in Anaheim and another in San Clemente, also will be closed for cleaning. Earlier in December, the supercenter in Corona closed for sanitation.
The San Jacinto location is set to reopen at 7 a.m. Tuesday, Dec. 29, Walmart said. In the meantime, employees will be restocking shelves and prepping the store.
“Everything we’re doing is for the well-being of our associates and customers, and in consideration of guidance by the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) and health experts,” the company said in a statement. “When the store reopens Tuesday, we will continue conducting associate health screens and temperature checks, and all associates will be provided with facemasks and gloves.”
The retailer does offer leave for its employees affected by COVID-19. It was unclear whether the leave was paid.
“We will continue working closely with elected and local health officials, adjusting how we serve the community while also keeping the health and safety of our customers and associates in mind,” Walmart’s statement said.
COVID-19 cases have been surging across the state since Thanksgiving. The state reported another 28,871 new cases Sunday, increasing the daily average over the past week to about 37,500 cases after it dipped briefly over Christmas. The death toll climbed to 24,285, with an average of about 230 new victims each day over the past week, including 64 on Sunday.
Across California, there were 14.5% more COVID-positive patients than a week ago, compared with a 30% increase in the week prior.
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Samantha Gowen | Business Editor
Samantha Gowen is the business editor for the Southern California News Group. Gowen joined The Orange County Register in October 2000, arriving from South Florida just days before the presidential election imploded. (Remember hanging chads?) She held a variety of roles -- copy editor, pets editor, trending and car culture reporter and page designer -- before joining the Business team as deputy editor in 2014. Her team specializes in real estate, the economy, and jobs coverage.
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Nike closing Oregon Project in wake of Salazar doping ban
by: ROB HARRIS, Associated Press
Posted: Oct 11, 2019 / 04:46 AM CDT / Updated: Oct 11, 2019 / 03:31 PM CDT
FILE – In this March 16, 2016, file photo Nike CEO Mark Parker speaks during a news conference in New York. Parker has found himself at the center of doping scandal that has brought down renown track coach Alberto Salazar, who ran an elite training program bankrolled by the world’s largest sports apparel company. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer, File)
Nike is closing its elite Oregon Project track and field program overseen by Alberto Salazar following his recent four-year doping ban in a move welcomed by the sport’s governing body.
But the sportswear giant and Salazar’s protégée, Galen Rupp, are backing the disgraced coach’s efforts to overturn the ban.
Salazar was found guilty last week by the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency of running experiments with supplements and testosterone that were bankrolled and supported by Nike, along with possessing and trafficking testosterone.
The verdict didn’t directly implicate runners from the Nike Oregon Project. But the company is partly blaming the scrutiny on the stars of the training center for its decision to shut the program that began in 2001.
The 61-year-old Salazar has consistently denied being involved in doping schemes. Nike is supporting his plan to appeal the ban. In the meantime, Salazar cannot coach and his credential was revoked during the world track and field championships last week.
“This situation including uninformed innuendo and unsubstantiated assertions has become an unfair burden for current OP athletes,” Nike said in a statement Friday. “That is exactly counter to the purpose of the team. We have therefore made the decision to wind down the Oregon Project to allow the athletes to focus on their training and competition needs.”
The Oregon Project athletes now seeking a new training center include Donavan Brazier, the first U.S. athlete to win a world 800-meter title last week, and Sifan Hassan, the Ethiopian-born Dutch runner who last week became the only woman to win the 1,500 and 10,000 at the same world championships or Olympics.
“We will help all of our athletes in this transition as they choose the coaching set up that is right for them,” Nike said.
A building on Nike’s Oregon campus was named after Sebastian Coe, the IAAF president whose track and field governing body is welcoming the decision to shut down the tarnished track program.
“In light of USADA’s recent decision, closing the program seems the only thing to do as athletes will inevitably vote with their feet and choose not to be associated with a program surrounded with controversy,” the IAAF told The Associated Press.
The announcement was the talk of the news conference ahead of the Chicago Marathon is Sunday, where Oregon Project runners Jordan Hasay and Rupp are competing along with Mo Farah, who was coached by Salazar until 2017.
Rupp, a 2012 and 2016 Olympic medalist, worked with Salazar before the ban. Rupp said he’d support any appeal.
“I haven’t any sport-related contact with him, professional contact with him,” Rupp said when asked Friday in Chicago about his dealings with Salazar since the verdict. “I am not really going to comment on the report. It’s obviously out there.”
Farah was irritated to be pressed on whether his achievements had been tainted by association with Salazar, claiming there was an agenda against him.
“I haven’t done anything wrong — these allegations are about Alberto Salazar not Mo Farah,” said the Briton, who won back-to-back Olympic doubles in the 5,000 and 10,000 meters. “I have no tolerance for anyone who has crossed the line.”
USADA released last week a pair of 100-plus-page decisions by an arbitration panel that delivered the suspensions for both Salazar and Dr. Jeffrey Brown, the endocrinologist who did contract work for NOP and administered the medicine.
The documents, combined with earlier reporting by the BBC and ProPublica, portrayed a coach and doctor who used athletes and employees as guinea pigs to test theories on how supplements and medicine in various doses could enhance performance without breaking anti-doping rules by triggering a positive test.
The documents also showed they went to great lengths to produce falsified and incomplete medical records that made their master plan hard to detect.
“It is the right thing and now let’s hope they accept that mistakes were made and truly commit to clean sport and the health, well-being of athletes,” USADA CEO Travis Tygart said.
Nike has already shut down the OP website, which detailed how Salazar and Tom Clarke founded the program in 2001 after bemoaning the state of American distance running. Clarke is currently president of Nike Innovation.
Nike wrote the contracts and paid the athletes in the training program at the company’s campus in Beaverton, Oregon.
“Nike has always tried to put the athlete and their needs at the front of all of our decisions,” the Nike statement said. “While the panel found there was no orchestrated doping, no finding that performance enhancing drugs have ever been used on Oregon Project athletes and went out of its way to note Alberto’s desire to follow all rules, ultimately Alberto can no longer coach while the appeal is pending.”
Documents released by the USADA showed that Nike CEO Mark Parker was aware of experiments that Salazar and a doctor conducted on employees and athletes, and even Salazar’s own sons, to test the amounts of substances like testosterone cream that could be applied to enhance performance without breaking anti-doping rules.
Parker said last week he never had any reason to believe the tests violated doping rules. They were characterized as an effort to understand how rivals could be cheating.
Distance runner Kara Goucher and a former NOP coach, Steve Magness, were among the dozens of witnesses who provided evidence for the case. Goucher wrote Friday on her Twitter account : “Feeling relieved that no more athletes will have to wear this shameful uniform. But Parker can’t have it both ways. You can’t support clean sport and still defend Salazar.”
AP National Writer Eddie Pells and AP Sports Writer James Ellingworth in Stuttgart, Germany, contributed to this report.
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Stations of the Elevated (1981) is a 45-minute city symphony directed, produced and edited by Manfred Kirchheimer. Shot on lush 16mm color reversal stock, the film weaves together vivid images of graffiti- covered elevated subway trains crisscrossing the gritty urban landscape of 1970s New York, to a commentary-free soundtrack that combines ambient city noise with jazz and gospel by Charles Mingus and Aretha Franklin. Gliding through the South Bronx, Brooklyn, Queens and Manhattan – making a rural detour past a correctional facility upstate –Stations of the Elevated is an impressionistic portrait of and tribute to a New York that has long since disappeared.
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Dreams Rewired
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Directed by Manu Luksch, Martin Reinhart and Thomas Tode • Documentary • With Tilda Swinton • 2015 • 85 minutes
Tilda Swinton's hypnotic voiceover and a treasure trove of rare archival footage culled from hundreds of films from the 1880s through the 1930s-much of it previously unseen-combine to trace the anxieties of today's hyper-connected world back a hundred years. Then, too, electric media sparked idealism in the public imagination-hailed as the beginning of an era of total communication, annihilation of distance and the end of war. But then, too, fears over the erosion of privacy, security, morality proved to be well-founded.
DREAMS REWIRED traces contemporary appetites and anxieties back to the birth of the telephone, television and cinema. At the time, early electric media were as revolutionary as social media are now. The technologies were expected to serve everyone, not just the elite classes. Human relationships would become stronger, efficiency would increase and the society would be revolutionized... But these initial promises were very different from what new media eventually brought to daily life.
Using excerpts from early dramatic films, slapstick comedies, political newsreels, advertisements and recordings of scientific experiments culled during years of research in film archives around the world, co-directors Manu Luksch, Martin Reinhart and Thomas Tode unearth material that is by turns hilarious, revelatory, beautiful and prescient. The archival footage, combined with poetic narration and a virtuosic score by Siegfried Friedrich forges a cross-generational connection between contemporary viewers and their idealistic forbearers of a century ago.
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“The Azerbaijani media outlets are spreading fake news for the second time already alleging that Jalal Harutyunyan has been killed. Let me say at once that Mr. Harutyunyan’s life is not in danger. Fortunately, the injuries he suffered in one of the combat positions are not serious and he will soon rejoin the army ranks,” the spokesman wrote on Facebook.
Harutyunyan was dismissed as Artsakh Defense Minister-Commander of the Defense Army after being injured on the battlefield, Artsakh President Arayik Harutyunyan said on Tuesday, naming Major-General Michael Arzumanyan as his replacement.
“In this state of war, indeed there is a lot of work to be done. Good luck, Mr. General!” Poghosyan said.
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Parade Introduces New Jitter-Cleaning Retimer for HDMI 2.1
Posted October 15th, 2019
First Retiming Repeater for HDMI 2.1 includes FRL support up to 12 Gbps to enable 8K and 10K display resolutions
San Jose, Calif.— 15 October 2019 —Parade Technologies, Ltd. (Taiwan OTC: 4966.TWO), a leading high-speed interface, video display, and touch controller IC supplier, today announced another addition to its portfolio of high-speed data interface retimer products. The new PS8419 is the first available retimer chip designed for HDMI 2.1 interface applications. It removes clock and data jitter, as well as data line skew, that can be imposed on the high-speed HDMI 2.1 signal as it propagates across the HDMI interconnect cable and connectors, and system PCB circuit traces. Applications for the PS8419 include at the output of an HDMI 2.1 source device to provide a clean output signal at the HDMI receptacle, or at the input of an HDMI 2.1 display or A/V receiver to ensure error-free signal reception capability.
The PS8419, designed for the latest HDMI 2.1 specification, is an encore to Parade’s ever-popular PS8409A that was introduced in 2014 for HDMI 2.0 applications. Compared to the PS8409A, the PS8419 doubles the data rate capability from 6 Gbps (Gigabits-per-second) to 12 Gbps per data lane, as supported by the updated HDMI 2.1 specification. This higher data rate enables the support of 8K and 10K video display timing for the next generation of digital televisions and monitors.
The PS8419 requires no external crystal or clock reference and supports FRL (Fixed Rate Link) signal repeating up to 12 Gbps, and TMDS signal repeating up 6 Gbps. The device automatically detects the transmission mode to maintain full backward compatibility with HDMI 2.0 and earlier versions of HDMI. For FRL operation, the interception of SCDC signaling is used to support autonomous interface link training, without the need for any system host support.
“The PS8419 once again underscores Parade’s leadership in high-speed data signal integrity products,” said Jimmy Chiu, Executive VP of Marketing at Parade Technologies. “Based on our past experience with HDMI 2.0 as well as recent OEM customer input, we expect that the doubled data rate of HDMI 2.1 will present an even greater challenge for many video source, display and A/V receiver system implementations. Demand for the PS8419 has been driven by the challenge faced by OEMs to establish adequate operating and compliance margin at these new higher speeds. The end goal is to provide a seamless consumer experience in terms of interoperability between devices, even with aging or damaged HDMI cables, for example.”
The PS8419 can accept either a DC or AC coupled HDMI input making it suitable for native signal repeating or use as a level shifter in a personal computer product. Input receiver equalization is configurable, which allows tuning to compensate for system characteristics. Power down management is automatic based on signal detection. This low power device utilizes 3.3 and 1.1 volt power supplies.
The PS8419 is available in a 4.5mm x 6.5mm 46-pin QFN Halogen free RoHS package. Samples are shipping now.
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Parade Technologies, Ltd. (Taiwan OTC: 4966.TWO) is a leading fabless supplier of mixed-signal ICs for a variety of popular display, touch controller, and high-speed interface standards used in computers, consumer electronics and display panels. Parade’s IC products serve the growing demand for DisplayPort™, eDP™ (Embedded DisplayPort), HDMI®, SATA, PCI Express and USB ICs for display, touch, storage and interface applications.
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Parade Technologies, Inc., is a wholly owned US-based subsidiary of Parade Technologies, Ltd. Parade Technologies, Inc. can be reached at (408) 329-5540, or on the Internet at http://www.paradetech.com.
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Future U.S. Senate Democratic Leader Charles Schumer (NY) said Nov. 30 that Congress could possibly reach an agreement with President-elect Donald Trump to pass a $1 trillion infrastructure bill within the first 100 days of the new administration, according to www.Syracuse.com.
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Pinpoint’s CEO, Tom Hacquoil, has been awarded ‘Director of the Year – Start Up’ at the 2019 IoD National awards.
The awards are held in London and bring together many of the UK’s most inspiring and influential leaders across multiple sectors. They are a celebration of leadership talent, success and achievement and the judges praised Pinpoint and Hacquoil for being “Passionate, extremely impressive, with their feet firmly on the ground.”
Commenting on his win, Hacquoil stated “I’m thrilled to have won such a prestigious award and it’s a real honour to be recognised amongst such an accomplished list of Directors. Pinpoint is an exciting business – we’re paving the way to faster, more intelligent hiring – and I’m beyond proud of what we are building; I have a phenomenal team behind me and I’m looking forward to what the future holds for us”.
IoD Director General Jonathan Geldart said “I would like to congratulate all of our Award winners, each of whom have shown dedication, ingenuity, and leadership, inspiring those around them. Better directors make for better businesses, which is to the benefit of the economy and society as a whole. The judges had a tough job on their hands picking the first among equals, with all of our finalists standing as beacons of excellence from every corner of the UK.”
This award follows an extremely successful October for Pinpoint, having also won Digital Team of the Year and Digital Leader of the Year at the Jersey Tech Awards as well as being named in the 2019 Accel Euroscape – a list of the top 100 software as a service (SaaS) companies in Europe and Israel.
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Bavarian Polymers adds 3 extrusion lines in Tennessee
Catherine Kavanaugh
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Bavarian Polymers makes window profile extrusions in Dickson, Tenn.
Bavarian Polymers Inc. CEO Robert Weishaeupl credits the company's new vinyl windows systems and its strategic location near Nashville, Tenn., as a couple of the reasons behind a recent capacity expansion.
Three extrusion lines were added to the 65,000-square-foot factory in Dickson, Tenn., bringing the total to 10 lines with an overall extrusion capacity of 22 million pounds. The workforce also increased by five employees to 60.
Founded in 2005, Bavarian Polymers manufactures and sells only PVC-compound window and door systems. For the most part, the company extrudes to customer specification for large window fabricators but it also has its own product line, which it broadened with three single-hung, double-hung and horizontal sliding window systems.
“It's our 8000 series. They have higher ratings when it comes to air infiltration, water infiltration and structural strength to resist higher wind loads for our southern and eastern markets,” Weishaeupl said. “For us, the demand is coming from new construction in the south, especially the southeast.”
With its production plant 30 miles from Nashville, Bavarian Polymers is positioned well to serve the growing markets, he added.
“You're within eight hours of 150 million people,” Weishaeupl said. “We believe transportation and freight cost will play a more important role in the future and the sourcing of materials is going to depend on where the supplier is. A lot of our competitors are still very central with one location, like Pittsburgh, and it's hard to cover the country that way.”
As it approaches its 10th anniversary, Bavarian Polymers also has staying power in a down market on its side, and that has Weishaeuple confident about the company's future.
“After we opened, you know what happened with construction,” he said. “Most people thought they're never going to make it. My optimism comes from starting the company in the worst possible time. Everything dropped and hit rock bottom and we made a decent living. For us, you gain reputation staying in the market, going through tough times and still being around. We're doing better than ever now.”
One of the company's strategies has been to serve only the window and door industry. No fence or deck products were ever added. Weishauepl likens those building materials to commodities with low margins that often are manufactured using cheap scrap in the substrate and running some cap stock over it.
“We stick to our guns with window and door extrusion,” he said. “Our raw material is PVC compound — PVC with additives — and it is 100 percent sourced in the United States so our profile systems are truly 100 percent made in the USA.”
Weishauepl declined to share any dollar figures about the company's investment to increase capacity or its annual sales figures but he does expect to see continued growth.
“We started with three lines and now we're up to 10. We just keep going,” he said. “We're not leveraged at all. Everything we do is out of the cash flow. It's a conservative approach to growing the company.”
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E3 2018: EA Announces Sea of Solitude
Lucas White Saturday, June 09, 2018
Alongside Unravel 2, EA’s second E3 2018 EA Originals announcement is Sea of Solitude. From Berlin indie developer Jo-Mei, Sea of Solitude is about a world in which feelings of loneliness turn humans into monsters. The main character, a young girl who is in a deeply dark space, turns into a monster herself. It’s then up to her and the player to find out why this is happening, and how to fix it.
Sea of Solitude is currently set for an early 2019 release. EA has launched the game’s official site, which is under the EA Originals banner. Signing up for Sea of Solitude‘s newsletter also will keep fans in touch with other EA Originals news. Considering the apparent success of games like Unravel and A Way Out, we’re likely looking at a sustained, ongoing effort from EA to continue courting these smaller, intriguing gaming experiences. The site also has some enticing new screenshots, so be sure to check those out.
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Update on SARS-COV-2 Coronavirus vaccine rollout strategy - Zweli Mkhize
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Health minister says one million doses will be received in January from SII, with 500 000 to follow in February
Minister Zweli Mkhize: Update on SARS-COV-2 Coronavirus vaccine rollout strategy
In line with our commitment to keep the public informed of developments relating to the vaccine rollout strategy, we wish to communicate recent developments of national importance.
When we held the press briefing on Sunday, 3 January 2021, we indicated that, in so far as our negotiations with individual manufacturing companies was concerned, we were bound by the non-disclosure agreements and confidentiality clauses that we had agreed to. We accept these as we recognise that we are negotiation with independent private companies who may not want details disclosed until certain or all terms and conditions between the parties are met.
At the press briefing I, as the Minister of Health, gave an undertaking to the South African public that we will prioritise the protection of our health workers by ensuring that they receive the vaccine by February 2021. At the time I could not disclose further details. Today, I am pleased to announce that the Serum Institute of India (SII) has given us permission to make a public announcement and start engaging with all relevant stakeholders in preparation for the roll out.
In our presentation, we also stated that as a country, we have estimated 1.25 million health care workers both from public and private to be prioritised. It is for this reason that today we announce that South Africa will be receiving 1 000 000 (one million) doses in January and 500 000 (five hundred thousand) doses in February from the SII.
As recently as yesterday, our teams from the National Department of Health and the South African Health Products Regulatory Authority (SAHPRA) were fine tuning and aligning all the regulations processes to ensure that there are no unnecessary delays or regulatory impediments to activate this roll out.
We are happy that the SII/ Astra Zeneca vaccine has already been approved by various regulators and is being rolled out in other countries. Therefore, as part of expediting the regulatory process, SAHPRA is applying reliance on that regulatory work.
We also want to inform the public that the acquisition has been done directly by the Department of Health. This strengthens the credibility of the process as all the negotiations and payment issues are managed directly by government with the manufacturer.
We will now be engaging all relevant stakeholders in order to ensure the efficient and effective roll out of the vaccine for our health workers.
We urge the public to be patient with us as we continue to engage manufacturers. Our commitment remains to save and protect the lives of our people. We will not neglect our responsibility to protect lives and also fight this pandemic. We therefore call on all South Africans, members of the public, political parties, business, labour, NGOs and community leaders and members to work with us as we start this historic process.
Issued by the Department of Health, 7 January 2021
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Lagos, Federal Government on collision course over military deployment
byPremium Times
The Lagos State government has accused the federal government of lying about the request for military deployment in Lagos state.
The Military authorities had yesterday said that, contrary to popular opinion, the order to deploy troops in Lagos had come from the state government.
However, Premium Times has obtained an exclusive copy of a letter written by the state governor, Babatunde Fashola, which strongly compels president Jonathan to rescind his order to deploy trrops to Lagos. The Lagos state government further issued a statement today which accused the military authorities of spreading “false” and “misleading” information concerning military deployment.
The emergence of both the letter and statement contradict claims by the Defence Headquarters that it was Governor Fashola who requested and funded the deployment of the soldiers.
A strongly worded statement, signed by the state commissioner of information, Abdul-Lateef Ibirogba, further accuses the military of resorting to “spurious and bogus claims aimed at deceiving the people.”
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The statement was released as a direct response to comments made on Thursday by Mohammed Yerima, a Defence Headquarters spokesperson, who said the “soldiers seen on the streets of Lagos are still the same men of the special task force code named Operation MESA set up and sponsored by the Lagos State government.”
Mr. Ibirogba said Operation MESA has been a “long standing arrangement since the days of President Olusegun Obasanjo.” He further added that the primary brief of MESA soldiers was to aid Police work and not to occupy the streets.
In a further twist, the Defence Minister, Bello Mohammed, had on Thursday claimed that it was indeed the Federal Government who had made the order. Mr. Mohammed said that the order was in response to security reports detailing plans by some unnamed persons and groups to hide under the protests “to cause anarchy and security breach.
Mr. Mohammed’s statement corroborates Mr. Fashola’s stance which had led to the governor sending a letter directly to the President. In his letter, the governor makes it clear in no uncertain terms that he is unhappy with the military occupation in the state and asks the President, several times, to order their immediate withdrawal.
As the blame game continues between all parties, the activist group #Occupy Nigeria is planning a rally in Gani Fawehinmi Park, Ojota on Saturday. With military troops still positioned in various parts of Lagos, and no-one seemingly responsible for them, it is not yet clear if any protests will be allowed to hold.
Read Lagos press statement below
LASG DEBUNKS CLAIMS THAT IT REQUESTED DEPLOYMENT OF SOLDIERS IN LAGOS
The claim by the Military authorities that the deployment of soldiers on the streets of Lagos is at the request of the Lagos State Government is not only false but misleading.
The State Government challenges the Military authorities to show proof of the request of troop deployment to the streets of Lagos State.
Instead of simply taking the honourable path by apologizing to the people of Lagos for an unpopular act, they have resorted to offering spurious and bogus claims aimed at deceiving the people.
That this claim is coming four days after the Governor’s address, which he followed with a letter to the Presidency, is an obvious afterthought. It is also inconsistent with the explanation offered by the Minister of Defence who said that they deployed the soldiers in order to prevent a breakdown of law and order.
This attempt to cover up has left the public with much confusion, as the Minister of Defence offered one reason and the Military authority has offered another. They should just take the honourable path by apologizing to the people of Lagos State and withdraw the soldiers forthwith.
In the prevailing political dispensation, the administration of Mr Babatunde Raji Fashola (SAN) has always been in the vanguard of democratic principles as well as civility.
In the light of the view of the Governor, it will be totally irrational to expect that the Governor would call on the Military to occupy the streets of Lagos.
Also, it would be recalled that His Excellency went on air to denounce most vehemently the deployment of the soldiers in Lagos.
In His Excellency’s continuous statements and actions, he has demonstrated that democracy is still the best form of dispensation to make Lagos State remain a Centre of Excellence that it has been. It is therefore not right for anybody to try to use the Government of Lagos State to cover up their unpopular decision.
The presence of the Police, Army and other federally controlled security agencies in Lagos does not translate to their being under the control of the State and so the inclusion of soldiers in the joint Military patrol through OP-MESA should not be used to cover up this wrong act of drafting soldiers on the streets of Lagos to quell fuel subsidy protest which the Police has contained for five days.
OP-MESSA had been a long standing arrangement since the days of President Olusegun Obasanjo. lndeed, the military men involved in OP-MESSA were deployed purposely to join the Police in fighting crime and were never at any point in time drafted to occupy the streets.
For the avoidance of doubt, OP-MESSA men are still working with the Police in the fight against crime. The men of OP-MESSA should not be confused with the soldiers deployed in the last one week to suppress a civil protest in a democracy.
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Iran, Iraq resolve outstanding issues as energy minister visits Baghdad
Tuesday, 29 December 2020 11:35 AM [ Last Update: Tuesday, 29 December 2020 7:32 PM ]
Iran's Minister of Energy Reza Ardakanian talks to reporters as his Iraqi counterpart Alaa Ahmed al-Jubouri (L) listens after meeting in Baghdad, Dec. 29, 2020. (Photo by IRNA)
Iran’s Minister of Energy Reza Ardakanian visited Iraq Tuesday at the head of a delegation to discuss “the capacities and ways to develop economic and trade cooperation between Tehran and Baghdad”, the Ministry of Energy in Tehran said in a statement.
He discussed with Iraqi officials the preparations for the Joint Commission on Economic Cooperation meeting between the two countries, which will be hosted by Iran this month, the statement said.
"In the coming weeks, Tehran will host a meeting of the Iran-Iraq Joint High Commission for Economic and Trade Cooperation after a six-year hiatus," he told reporters in Baghdad after meeting his Iraqi counterpart Alaa Ahmed al-Jubouri.
"A delegation from the Iraqi government will attend the summit and hold constructive consultations with the Iranian government and private sector to further develop bilateral relations," he added.
Jubouri said the purpose of the Baghdad meeting was to lay the groundwork for holding the next meeting of their joint commission in Tehran as successfully as possible, which will be attended by a high-ranking delegation from the Iraqi government.
On Saturday, Minister of Cooperatives, Labor and Social Welfare Mohammad Shariatmadari said a five-year roadmap for joint cooperation between Iran and Iraq has been prepared, hoping joint issues between the two countries would be finalized at the meeting.
The current month has been marked by a series of back and forth measures as the two neighbors which are also preparing to mark the first anniversary of the US assassination of Iran’s legendary anti-terror commander General Qassem Soleimani and his Iraqi trenchmate Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis.
Earlier, the Iraqi government closed the key Shalamcheh border with Iran, calling it a precautionary measure against the spread of a new coronavirus strain. Authorities reopened it two days later without any explanation after initially saying the borders would remain closed for two weeks.
Relations between Iran and Iraq have many detractors. The United States, which regards Iraq as its subject state after invading the oil-rich country in 2003 and occupying it for years, is riled by Baghdad’s reliance on Tehran for energy and other basic commodities.
Natural gas from Iran generates as much as 45% of Iraq’s electricity. Iran transmits another 1,200 megawatts directly. The US has had to grant repeated sanctions waivers to Iraq to continue imports from Iran, while trying to enlist its companies and allies such as Saudi Arabia to replace the Islamic Republic as the source of energy. The latest waiver for a shortened 45-day period came last month.
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In the past, officials in Baghdad have said there is no easy substitute to imports from Iran because it will take years to adequately build up Iraq’s energy infrastructure. They have said American demand acknowledges neither Iraq’s energy needs nor the complex relations between Baghdad and Tehran.
However, the US and its allies in the Persian Gulf hope the current administration headed by Prime Minister Mustafa al-Kadhimi would go beyond some of the more established ways of thinking.
On Sunday evening, an Iraqi delegation sent by Kadhimi traveled to Tehran for an unannounced visit. The delegation was headed by Abu Jihad al-Hashimi, head of the former Iraqi Prime Minister Adel Abdul Mahdi’s office, and was about to convey Kadhimi’s message to Iranian officials, an informed source told the Middle East News website.
No further information was given about the content of the message and the visit received little coverage in local media.
Iran’s state gas company said on Monday it had slashed supplies to Iraq over arrears of more than $6 billion.
In a statement, NIGC said the Iraqi Ministry of Electricity owes more than $5 billion in gas bills to the National Iranian Gas Company (NIGC), of which $3 billion remains blocked and inaccessible in Trade Bank of Iraq, and more than $2 billion is overdue debt.
Iran’s money from exports of gas and electricity has piled up in bank accounts in Iraq, because US sanctions are preventing Tehran from repatriating it.
According to the NIGC statement, Iraq also owes more than $1 billion to the National Iranian Gas Company for contractual offenses under the agreement.
An Iraqi official said on Sunday the Iranian energy minister would discuss the unpaid bills during his Tuesday visit to Baghdad.
Delegations from Iran's Ministry of Industry, Mines and Trade, Ministry of Agricultural Jihad, Ministry of Petroleum, the Central Bank of Iran and Ministry of Foreign Affairs accompanied Ardakanian to Baghdad.
Ardakanian announced in his meeting later with Prime Minister Kadhimi the Islamic Republic’s readiness to resume gas exports to Iraq, a statement issued by the Iraqi premier's office said.
"According to the Iraqi prime minister’s office, the Iranian minister of energy announced Iran’s adherence to its commitments to immediately resume gas supplies to Iraq, which was recently suspended due to technical problems,” Fars news agency reported.
They also discussed bilateral relations between Iraq and Iran and ways to strengthen joint cooperation between the two countries, it added.
According to Iraq’s electricity ministry, an agreement was reached between Iraqi Electricity Minister Majid Mahdi and Ardakanian over the payment of the outstanding debt.
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Advanced Noncompliance Scenarios for IACUCs: Laboratory Animals and Wildlife
USDA, OLAW, AAALAC and other groups involved in animal research oversight activities provide varying guidance with respect to defining noncompliance and prescribing how IACUCs should best handle and report incidents of noncompliance. While there are increasing efforts toward harmonization and communication, IACUCs may struggle with how to identify noncompliance, how and when to report, and what approaches are best to correct and prevent noncompliance in the future. This is especially true for non-typical research, such as activities involving wildlife.
This webinar will briefly review the current standards and guidance while presenting interactive scenarios to assist IACUCs in navigating the challenges associated with identifying, investigating, reporting, correcting, and preventing future noncompliance at their institution, whether in the lab or in the field. Additionally, best practices for documenting and evaluating noncompliance will be reviewed.
History and current guidance
Noncompliance scenarios in biomedical and wildlife research
Communication, training, and postapproval monitoring (PAM)
After attending this webinar, you will be able to do the following in the context of research with animals in the laboratory and in the wild:
Identify noncompliance and evaluate methods of effectively documenting and tracking noncompliance incidents and their resolutions
Distinguish noncompliance reporting requirements among the various regulatory, funding, and certification agencies
Point out common misconceptions regarding suspension of activities, reporting mechanisms and timelines, and corrective actions
Evaluate methods of reducing noncompliance
This webinar will benefit IACUC members, IACUC chairs, attending veterinarians, IACUC administrators, compliance officers, and PAM personnel.
Webinar participants holding the Certified Professional in IACUC Administration (CPIA®) credential may apply 1.25 continuing education credits towards CPIA recertification.
Stacy Pritt, DVM, MS, MBA, CPIA, CHRC, DACAW is the assistant vice president (AVP) for conflict of interest (COI) and the IACUC at the University of Texas Southwestern (UTSW) Medical Center. She was the director of the IACUC at UTSW from 2013-2018 before being promoted to AVP. She also holds a faculty associate appointment within the psychiatry department (ethics division). As AVP of COI and IACUC, she oversees regulatory compliance activities (COI, IACUC, export control, and stem cell research oversight) for one of the largest research programs in the US. Dr. Pritt holds a BS in biology from the California State Polytechnic University at Pomona and a DVM degree from Washington State University. Additionally, she holds an MS in managerial science and an MBA in Healthcare Management. She is CPIA certified and a diplomate of the American College of Animal Welfare. Dr. Pritt was previously on faculty at the Harvard Medical School where she served as associate director for animal care, training, and operations and was the director of regulatory compliance and animal welfare at Covance. Dr. Pritt is a recognized authority on animal program regulatory compliance. She regularly speaks to research audiences and has authored more than 25 publications on management and regulatory compliance. In 2012 she was awarded the TurnKey Animal Facility Leader of the Year Award and in 2014 she served as program chair for the University of Texas System IACUC Symposium focusing on process improvement. In 2015, she was the recipient of the Laboratory Animal Welfare Training Exchange (LAWTE) 2015 Founders' Award and Laboratory Animal Management Association's (LAMA) Ron Orta Award. In 2016, she was the recipient of the American Association for Laboratory Animal Science (AALAS) George R. Collins Education and Training Award.
Tracy Thompson, DVM is the veterinary medical officer in the wildlife health branch of the National Park Service (NPS). Following graduation from the Washington State University's College of Veterinary Medicine, Dr. Thompson’s career as a veterinarian has been rich and varied, involving companion animal practice, veterinarian for captive zoo and wild animal facilities, attending veterinarian (AV) and research associate for the Venom Lab at the Western Institute for Biomedical Research, an instructor and AV for a veterinary technology program, and as a veterinary medical officer for Colorado, Wyoming, and New Mexico with the USDA, APHIS, Animal Care. Dr. Thompson currently works in the biological resources division of the wildlife health branch of the NPS Washington Support Office in Fort Collins, CO. She serves as the IACUC chair and AV for the NPS IACUC which oversees research activities involving vertebrate wildlife within NPS units. She also provides technical assistance to parks regarding wildlife disease and health, with particular emphasis for herpetofauna, and in applying animal welfare standards for the care of display animals at cultural heritage parks. Additionally, she serves as a faculty member for the Interagency Collaborative Animal Research Education (ICARE) project sponsored by NIH/OLAW, is an IACUC member for the American Society of Mammalogists, and is a representative for NPS on the disease task team for Partners in Amphibian and Reptile Conservation (PARC). Dr. Thompson is a grateful resident of Colorado where she, her husband, and her dog enjoy exploring the mountains and deserts she calls home.
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By Andrew Stokes, Communications Officer
Homecoming always provides an opportunity for Queen’s students past and present to meet. (University Communications)
Next week, hundreds of Queen’s alumni will be coming back to the town they once called home.
Homecoming 2014, slated for Oct. 17-19, welcomes back former students with events and celebrations to commemorate their time at Queen’s.
The second Homecoming since the event was reinstated in 2013, this year’s festivities will be complete with opportunities for alumni to connect with one another, faculty, students and with the city of Kingston.
“We’ve engaged extensively with our stakeholders, including Queen’s staff, students, Kingston residents and of course, alumni to create a Homecoming that stands as the sort of celebration of community that all of Queen’s stands for,” says Sarah Indewey, Manager of Volunteer Relations and Reunions. “There’s plenty of programming that everyone will be able to enjoy together and we couldn’t be more excited to have everyone back.”
Much of the weekend’s programming is created and hosted by alumni groups themselves, with 89 different reunions currently scheduled. Groups like the Alma Mater Society, the Queen’s Debating Union and even the 1964 Yates Cup-winning Football Team all have events thanks in large part to alumni volunteers who worked to bring together their classmates and friends.
Classes having milestone graduation anniversary years will enjoy special programming hosted by the university. Events are planned for the classes celebrating their five-year and 25-year anniversaries, as well as those who graduated 50 years ago or longer. The fifth and 25th groups are gathering at downtown restaurants for food and socializing, while those having their 50-year anniversary or more, called the “Tricolour Guard”, will have a more formal event in Grant Hall hosted by the principal and the chancellor.
Homecoming isn’t just for alumni though, and there are many events that will be open to the entire Queen’s community. Engineers Without Borders is hosting their fifth annual pumpkin smash to raise awareness about their national and international programs. An enormous pumpkin weighing over 500 pounds will be hoisted high into the sky and dropped, smashing into pieces while the crowd watches. Later that night the School of Graduate Studies is wrapping up their Graduate Career Week with a networking event that will put alumni in touch with current graduate students and post-doctoral fellows.
To get people excited for Saturday’s football against York, the Queen’s Student Alumni Association will hosting a spirit corner in front of Grant Hall. They’ll be offering face painting and selling pompoms for the game so attendees can show their school spirit. Along with celebrating sports, there will also be chance to celebrate the arts, with the new addition of an Art Crawl. Participants can tour the various hubs of Queen’s exceptional arts community, including the Agnes Etherington Art Centre, Union Gallery and the Isabel Bader Centre for the Performing Arts, culminating in a performance of Orbit, the Drama Department’s major fall production.
To learn more about the events planned for Homecoming weekend, visit queensu.ca/homecoming2014.
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Learn more about Collecting American Art Pottery
Newcomb College Pottery in New Orleans operated for almost fifty years and was one of the most successful and admired potteries in the American Arts and Crafts movement. Founded in 1886 by wealthy widow Josephine Louise Newcomb (pictured), Newcomb College was, in essence, the women’s branch of nearby men’s-only Tulane University. The pottery itself developed in stages and grew out of the omnipresent belief that crafts were an appropriate, and acceptable, career choice for women.
Art classes at Newcomb were first guided by the brothers William and Ellsworth Woodward, New England transplants with design training who were heavily influenced by the incredible display of ingenuity at the 1876 Philadelphia Centennial Exhibition. They taught art classes at Newcomb through the late 1880s, all the while hiring staff that would help build the foundations of the pottery. Joseph Fortune Meyer, a local potter, was hired to build the kiln and throw pots, and even George Ohr worked there for a brief stint as Meyer’s assistant. Mary Given Sheerer, a Cincinnati-trained ceramist, was hired in 1894 to teach pottery and china decoration, unofficially launching Newcomb College Pottery. The enterprise blossomed quickly from there. In 1896 the college held its first exhibition and sale of pottery produced by Sheerer and her students, and in 1900 Newcomb pottery won a bronze medal at the Paris International Exposition. By 1901, demand was outpacing supply and the University provided the financial and official recognition needed to turn the Newcomb College Pottery into a long-term commercial enterprise.
Newcomb College Pottery was influenced primarily by traditional English Arts and Crafts principles, in large part due to the Woodwards, who had been trained by English instructors at American schools. One of the main concerns of the movement was the interrelationship between art, industry, and design, and the importance of every artisan involved in the process of creation. This led to Newcomb’s complex system of marks, which were created with the express purpose of recognizing each craftsperson involved, from the thrower (often Joseph Fortune Meter, denoted with a ‘JM’) to the decorator (one of the ninety young women who attended the school over the course of its existence). Also in keeping with Arts and Crafts tenets, each piece was unique, though some designs were repeated with small variations. Flora and, occasionally, fauna were the primary subjects, with special emphasis placed on Southern species.
Work from the early to middle period is characterized by flat, conventionalized designs and a relatively simple palette of blue, green, black, and yellow. As 1910 approached, designs became slightly more integrated and realistic. The biggest stylistic shift occurred around 1910 with the introduction of a mat glaze by Sheerer, which was further perfected into a transparent mat glaze by ceramic chemist Paul Cox, a recent graduate of Charles Binns’ courses at Alfred University. The color palette changed as well, becoming softer and muted, more aesthetically related to New England’s Marblehead Pottery. After World War I vases were still handmade but designs were more heavily reproduced. The bold lines and colors of the early work were gone, and idyllic Southern landscapes, daffodils, and dogwood were heavily relied upon as subjects. Three of Newcomb’s longtime designers, Henrietta Bailey, Sadie Irvine, and Anna Frances Simpson, were responsible for much of the pottery decoration in later years. In the 1920s and 1930s, Joseph Meyer, Mary Sheerer, and Ellsworth Woodward retired, and fewer students opted to study pottery. Newcomb struggled to stay current with styles and practices, but finally closed in 1940.
At the pottery’s height, between 1910 and 1915, their work was rewarded with prizes at eight international expositions in addition to being published in national and international publications. They were also mentioned alongside other major potteries of the time, including Grueby, Rookwood, and others. Newcomb College Pottery, in its wide variety of styles and often exceptionally executed designs, has withstood the test of time and is considered today to be some of the finest American art pottery of the late 19th and early 20th century.
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New cabinet formed following resignations, industry leaders express concern for Brexit
Following the resignation of both the Secretary of Brexit and the Foreign Secretary, the new cabinet members have met for the first time to discuss the Brexit strategy, with many MPs believing that this has left the government in crisis. This has massively increased concern for members of the trade industry, while confidence was dwindling for Brexit, MPs and executives alike now feel concerned for the future of the country. With no sign of a secure trade deal in sight.
This was made worse with US diplomats claiming a deal between the UK and US is “up in the air” and any deal between the two countries leads to a level of concern for the security of the NHS. A trade deal with the US would mean access to US pharmaceuticals, but there is no way of knowing the implications this would have on the NHS as it currently stands.
Following the meeting, the PM tweeted: "looking ahead to a busy week".
The UK is set to leave the EU on March 29th, 2019. However, there has been no deal met that both parties can agree on. There has been heavy criticism that the Conservative party has continuously had long-winded disagreements regarding the approach that should be taken as the UK leaves the EU.
The debates have continuously focused on whether UK should focus on business interests, which would mean a compromise on post-Brexit pledges, risking the end of free movement and would also remove the UK from the remit of the European Court of Justice, as well as a reformed trade policy which assures the UK’s independence allowing us to develop our own trade rules/terms with other negotiators.
Following the meeting at the PM’s country retreat, the Foreign and Brexit secretaries resigned as they began to feel that the PM was aiming for a “semi-Brexit”. In a letter of resignation, Mr Johnson stated “The dream is dying, suffocated by needless self-doubt”
David Davis, who up until now lead negotiations for the UK’s departure from the EU has stated he doesn’t agree with the PM’s proposals. He felt that the PM was “Giving away too much, too easily” before negotiations had even started with the EU.
Environment Secretary, Michael Gove, was asked whether he had thought about a resignation, to which he responded “Absolutely not, I’m 100% behind Mrs May’s Brexit Plan”
The PM has been facing criticism, especially during a meeting of the committee of conservative MP, who are nearing the 48 signatures needed for a vote of no confidence in Mrs May’s leadership, leading to an election.
May stated that the members of the party would have to come together, or face the prospect of Labour leader, Jeremy Corbyn as Prime Minister.
Meanwhile, many leaders of the logistics industry have continuously expressed their concern with the seemingly lacking planning for Brexit, also sharing the sentiment that faith can no longer be held with Mrs May’s leadership as the March 2019 deadline for Brexit looms over the industry.
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The Second Generation: Bigger, More Powerful, More Efficient.
By Andrew Bornhop
The impression most people get when seeing the all-new 2008 Toyota Sequoia for the first time is that it's huge. They're right, this thing is big. Really big. Toyota's flagship 7- or 8-seat body-on-frame sport-utility vehicle spans 205.1 in. from bow to stern, an increase of 1.2 in. over the outgoing model. That may not seem like all that much, but the new Sequoia is also an inch wider and nearly 2 in. taller, not to mention nearly 600 lb. heavier.
The main reason for this growth? Well, the 2008 Sequoia is based on the chassis of the new Tundra pickup, which is a larger truck than its predecessor, on which the previous Sequoia was based. But unlike the previous Sequoia, the new model forgoes the live rear axle of the Tundra in favor of an independent rear that features double wishbones, gas-filled shock absorbers and a hollow anti-roll bar. As you might expect, the ride quality delivered by this suspension (which also has double wishbones in front) is excellent, exhibiting good compliance even on bumpy rural roads.
What's more, the tow capacity of the new Sequoia has increased dramatically. The last one was rated to tow a 6500-lb. trailer. The new one ups that to 10,000 lb., putting it now very much in competition with the large domestic body-on-frame competition. However, this does require an optional towing package, which includes a receiver hitch, an auxiliary transmission cooler, a 7-pin connector, a heavy-duty alternator and 4.30:1 rear gearing.
You'll also need power to tow those heavy loads. And in this area Toyota delivers, offering the Sequoia with a pair of V-8s, both 4-cam direct-injected 32-valve powerplants that run on less-expensive regular unleaded gasoline. The smaller of the two is the familiar 4.7-liter from the previous Sequoia, a smooth-running iron-block powerplant that puts out 276 bhp at 5400 rpm and 314 lb.-ft. of torque at a fairly low 3400 rpm. Mated to a 4-speed automatic and 3.91:1 rear gearing, this Sequoia (2wd) returns 14 mpg city and 17 mpg highway in the EPA fuel economy tests.
The top-level Platinum model we drove was powered by the larger V-8, an aluminum-block 5.7-liter that puts out significantly better power — 381 bhp at 5600 rpm and 401 lb.-ft. of torque at 3600 rpm. Aided by a slightly higher compression ratio and variable valve timing on both the intake and exhaust camshafts, this engine has a broad powerband complemented by a 6-speed automatic transmission that is a model of smooth shift quality. It seemed like it was always in the right gear for the situation at hand, even though Toyota does allow the gearbox to be shifted manually via bumping the lever on the center console fore or aft.
With the same rear gearing as the 4.7, but with its additional power, the 5.7 would seemingly have worse fuel economy. Not so. With its additional gear ratio, better control of the valves and slightly more relaxed nature, the 2wd 5.7 actually returns better EPA fuel economy: 14 mpg city and 19 mpg highway. For the record, in our 400-mile week of mixed driving with a Platinum 4wd model, which is rated at 13/18 by the EPA, we averaged 14.2 mpg...not bad considering the size and power of the vehicle, but not exactly easy on the wallet each week. The size of the tank is 26.4 gal., the same as last year, which translates to around 350 miles between fill-ups.
And speaking of size, where it matters most is inside the Sequoia, where our 7-seat Platinum model was covered in yards upon yards of a rich feeling (and smelling) high-quality leather that looks great in black and tan. It's not quite Lexus-quality inside, but it's close, with 14 speakers needed to properly fill the cavernous cabin with sound. The front seats are heated and air conditioned, and there are cupholders galore (two in each front door, two in the center console), not to mention a giant center console that doubles as an armrest. Surprisingly thorough (and much appreciated) analog instrumentation includes gauges for both oil pressure and transmission fluid temperature.
Thanks in part to its 3.9-in.-longer wheelbase and smarter packaging, the Sequoia feels much roomier inside. In fact, it's now large enough for 6-ft. tall folks to sit comfortably in all three rows of seats at the same time, although our Engineering Editor, he of the long torso, doesn't like the way the sunroof cuts into the head room. Finding a comfortable driving position in the Sequoia is easy, what with a leather-covered steering wheel that's adjustable for reach and angle. The rotary dials for the heating and air-conditioning system are simple to decipher, their knurled texture offering excellent grip. In addition to a large nav screen, front conveniences include a 115-volt AC switch that would allow a passenger to work on a laptop, an auxiliary port for an iPod and a large glovebox that's complemented by additional storage compartments in the door armrests.
In back, our Platinum model had a DVD screen with its own rear controls, as well as well as climate controls for the second row's two individual (and heated) seats. Additionally, there are more drinkholders in back, along with a large center console that boasts a handy pull-out drawer.
Access to the third-row of seating is better than you'd expect. The middle seats slide forward with ease, and once you're ensconced back there, you'll appreciate the added space, enough now to comfortably accommodate an average-size adult for more than a typical lunch run. Headliner-mounted grab handles for all outboard seating positions are a handy touch, as are power switches in the cargo area that fold the third row of seats flat for added cargo capacity. The second row folds flat, too, helping convert your Sequoia into a reasonably spacious van. When the rearmost seat is in use, there's enough room in back for a row of grocery bags, about on par with the previous Sequoia if not a bit smaller. We like how the back glass, a la the 4Runner, descends into the tailgate for access to cargo.
Chances are, however, if you're interested in a Sequoia, you have people-hauling in mind. And with that, safety is a natural concern. To that end, the Sequoia delivers, starting with standard electronic stability control and roll-sensing side curtain airbags for all three rows of seats. Moreover, all Sequoias are fitted with seatbelt pretensioners for the driver and front passenger, as well as adjustable front- and second-row anchors for the outboard passengers. The Platinum model comes with a standard back-up camera.
Base models start at $34,150, a good price for a 4.7-liter rear-drive Sequoia. The better-equipped SR5 4x4 starts at $37,75, but if you want the least-expensive model with the 5.7-liter V-8, it's a rear-drive SR5 at $35,275. At the top end of the Sequoia spectrum, our 4x4 Platinum model, goes out the door at $55,600.
While that may seem like a hefty price, realize that the Platinum Sequoia is more opulent than many luxury sedans. In addition to rear sunshades, a power hatch and running boards to help ingress and egress, it rides on 20-in. alloy wheels shod with P275/55R-20 Dunlops that don't look overly large given the mega exterior dimensions of the Sequoia. Also, the Platinum's adjustable air suspension (which has three settings) does a superb job of keeping the load level while delivering a remarkably supple ride.
On top of all this, it's a rugged Toyota off-roader beneath the skin, with a two-speed transfer case, a locking center differential, a limited-slip rear differential, big vented disc brakes all around and a reputation so solid it almost goes without mentioning.
With its added refinement, improved interior space, increased power and better highway fuel economy, Toyota's new Sequoia succeeds on several fronts. It'll be a tough act to follow, but what I'd like to see in perhaps a couple of years is a refined diesel with highway fuel economy in the 20s.
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Meet ‘V’, the Universal Dashboard That Pipes the Power of the Web Into Any VR Experience
In the real world, most of us have a smartphone in our pocket which means we’re just a few taps away from a wealth of apps and services that enable us to do all manner of things, from communicating with friends, to listening to music, to referencing the vast library of knowledge that exists on the web. Ironically, when we put on a VR headset and become more intimately connected with the digital realm than ever, we actually lose access to many of those functions that we’re used to having simply because we can’t use our smartphones while in VR.
V (yes, just the letter “V”) aims to solve this problem in an elegant way. The application functions as a sort of universal dashboard which serves to pipe the power of the web into any VR application. The premise is deliciously simple: with an incredible wealth of useful mobile web apps designed with simple, touch-friendly interfaces, why not use these as widgets while inside virtual reality, connecting the user to their existing digital lives in one fell swoop?
If I’m playing a flat desktop game, it’s easy enough to glance over at my smartphone on the desk. If I’m playing in VR however, I’m effectively in a bubble; I can’t check my email, see social media notifications, or even look up a video guide for the game that I’m playing. If we’re going to be spending lots of time in VR, this is a problem.
For instance, I myself am a big SoundCloud user and love to listen to music while I play and work. For a VR game like Elite Dangerous, which has me spending significant amounts of time traversing the vastness of interstellar space, being able to browse and change my music on SoundCloud, from inside my ship, would be huge. Not to mention keeping an eye on Twitter notifications and Facebook messages during my multi-hour session as the pilot of an interstellar craft.
And that’s exactly what V does by leveraging the wealth of mobile web apps that are already out there and work great as widgetized versions of the web services that we already use every day. With the press of a button, I can pull up the V dashboard to access Youtube or Tumblr—hell, I could even check out the latest articles on Road to VR if I wanted to!
V achieves this in an enviously smart way that doesn’t require per-game integration by developers. Instead, the V dashboard is injected directly into the render pipeline, allowing it to pop up as an overlay inside any VR game that’s built using a supported engine. To start, the creators are aiming to support Unreal Engine and Unity, with which the vast majority of VR games today are built.
It may seem simple, but their injection method could be key to the system’s success: not only does V leverage a massive library of existing websites and web apps, it pipes them effortlessly into VR without any need to sell developers on the idea, giving the app a true shot at becoming a universal dashboard across any VR application.
At SVVR 2016 last week, founders Tyler Andersen and Brian Eppert showed me a functional prototype of the V dashboard which could be called up inside of Colosse, a Unity-based Oculus Rift experience which the company says they didn’t modify in any way.
On the dashboard was a series of icons representing web apps like Twitter, Facebook, Reddit, SoundCloud, Spotify, YouTube, and more. Clicking on them would launch a smartphone-sized browser window with the apps inside working just as you’d expect them to. Beyond just staying connected to your digital world while in VR, there’s clear use-cases where V can even add to the VR experience, like being able to pin a reference photo into the environment while making VR paintings in Tilt Brush, or watching a video guide showing where all the secret coins are in Luckey’s Tale.
And even all of that might just be the tip of the iceberg for V. When you consider that WebVR could be used to make VR-aware web apps, the long-term potential of V becomes even more enticing.
Andersen and Eppert recently graduated from the Boost VC accelerator and say that they’re actively fundraising. The duo plans to launch a private beta with support for the Oculus Rift in June and aim to later support the HTC Vive / SteamVR as well. You can sign up for the private beta on the V website.
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Anders Öhlund
Holy snickerdoodles, Batman! This could be really neat if it works well. Being able to work through my YouTube subscriptions in a window on the dashboard of my Truck in Euro Truck Simulator 2 would be nice as all heck! =P
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The return of Microsoft Bob ;) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Bob
Atmic
Are you referring to the first animated gif with the girl in the house? That’s “Rooms: The Unsolvable Puzzle” running in the background, not a part of the V interface.
You don’t have to “walk into the office” to open up an internet browser.
Mustafaa Ansare
Have they mentioned any plans for GearVR support as well? This would potentially be even more useful in mobileVR (why do I have to take my phone back out to make or receive calls or text messages?)
I don’t think they could support this without officially modifying Oculus GearVR drivers. Without root access they can’t do this on phones. :/ I’m still really mad about my Galaxy S7 that I paid full price for shipping with a locked bootloader (which means I can’t even get root).
Jeremy Swanson
It would be great to have access to trade route planning sites while in Elite.
I don’t know. That’s…kinda scary.
But how do you type? Virtual keyboard? But then you need some leap motion hand tracking.. voice command?
kalqlate
They better hurry! Unreal, Unity, CryEngine, etc., can provide their own dashboards in a heartbeat. And their dashboards can have developer hooks that allow the dashboards to be inserted contextually,popping up in an in game wall, phone, tablet, or laptop monitor, for example. It would be nice though to have a universal dashboard, so I wish V the best of success!
rosscarlson
Am I the only one that finds this statement incredibly ironic? “in VR however, I’m effectively in a bubble; I can’t check my email, see social media notifications, or even look up a video guide for the game that I’m playing.” – isn’t the point of playing a game to get away from the distractions of “real” life? Don’t misunderstand, I think this is a great idea too but it is highly ironic. Oh and if you want this feature today check out OpenVRDesktopDisplayPortal, it does exactly this and is free. Not sure how these guys think they can build a company around a single feature…
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AG Paxton Accuses Whistle Blowers of Disloyalty
By Thomas J. Crane on December 17, 2020
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Four former top aides to Attorney General Ken Paxton are suing him for violating state whistle blower laws. I wrote about that lawsuit here. AG Paxton has hired Bill Helfand, a well-known Houston employment lawyer, to defend him. Mr. Helfand will be paid $540 per hour for his services. In answer to the lawsuit, AG Paxton says the four were fired due to their incompetence, misconduct and/or disloyalty.
The four former top aides include Blake Brickman, Ryan Vassar, Mark Penley and David Maxwell. Mr. Vassar was simply on forced leave when the lawsuit was filed on Nov. 12. Three days after the alsuit was filed, Vassar ws also fired. Mr. Vassar says the reasons he was given were “made-up, nonsense” reasons. As the plaintiff lawyers point out, it was a poor choice of words to accuse whistle blowers of being “disloyal.” Whistle blowers are indeed “disloyal” in a sense. That the employer would make the accusation suggests the real reason for the termination was, well, … blowing the whistle. Mr. Helfand is an experienced employment attorney. It is not likely he would respond to a whistle blower lawsuit with such a poor choice of words.
The plaintiff lawyers also point out that the Texas whistle blower statute provides that if a worker is fired within 90 days of blowing the whistle, then there is a presumption that they were fired because they blew the whistle. AG Paxton has a very hard row to hoe in defending this lawsuit.
He accused four former top aides of incompetence. That suggests he knowingly hired incompetent attorneys. This is a poor start to his defense. That poor choice of words suggests AG Paxton may have had some involvement in drafting the Answer to his lawsuit. It is more the language we would expect from a partisan defendant than from an experienced employment attorney.
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Historically, the undocumented have been one of the most excluded sectors from access to health services in the United States and, with the new COVID-19 vaccine, the situation is likely to remain the same - or worsen. After almost a year of isolation measures, an economic crisis that worsened inequality between social classes and the death of almost two million people around the world, the arrival of a vaccine that could control the worst health crisis in recent history is extremely hopeful.
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The expectation is that most people will be able to get the vaccine, which ideally would lead to collective immunity, which sounds simple but is actually a road full of complications. After the authorization and beginning of the application of the Pfizer vaccine in the United States, one of the most relevant questions that has arisen is what will happen to our undocumented immigrant communities? Immigrants have played an indispensable role during the pandemic in essential service work such as care and food, without which the neighboring country would not have sustained itself. In this case, their inclusion in the political community is also a public health issue.
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During this pandemic, violence has become evident in the exclusion of certain sectors of the U.S. population that have been left out of basic health care. This is the case of illegal migrants, of whom it is estimated that almost 50 percent are of Mexican origin - in this case, the lack of health insurance is just the tip of the iceberg of the problem. The threat of deportations and family separations plays a major role here, as there is a strong concern that the vaccine could make it easier for immigration officials to target them, which in turn could make illegal migrants unwilling to get vaccinated.
While guidelines for implementation have not yet been established, and while vaccine distribution is a state's jurisdiction, some Trump Administration officials have suggested that information such as birth dates and driver's license numbers could expedite vaccine distribution.
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In the face of this problem, several institutional proposals have been put on the table, from the opposition of many governors, such as New York Governor Andrew Cuomo - who has said that his state will not require personal data as a requisite - to the proposal of New York assemblywoman Linda Rosenthal, who wants the state to provide a vaccine at no cost to all New Yorkers, including those who are not U.S. citizens.
This is a case where the logic of rights has to be imposed as effectively universal in order to have an effective and efficient vaccination policy. In this case, the inclusion of all people without discrimination by gender, social class, or immigration status is fundamental in order not to compromise the health of the entire country. And this is where the disposition of undocumented Americans is fundamental. The institutional strategy will not be sufficient if it does not walk hand in hand with organizations and leaders of migrant communities that can communicate a message of trust and socialize information; the policy will have to be adapted to immigrant communities, with a variety of languages and, above all, generating trust in medical personnel, who must be separated from any police intentions. In this and other aspects of public policy, without social protection, even individual well-being becomes fragile.
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How they do it: Gromack explains Clarkstown’s streamlined approvals process
By dskriloff on November 2, 2013 Comments
Clarkstown’s “one-stop shopping” lures developers, cutting lag time
BY KATHY KAHN
Alex Gromack, Clarkstown supervisor, credits intramunicipal participation with developers as a major attribute in attracting new business to the town.
If you’re a mall shopper, chances are you enjoy “one stop shopping.” The same idea has been replicated in Clarkstown, where the concept has been modified to create a streamlined process for businesses eager to expand or relocate to the town.
“We started this process some time ago,” said town supervisor Alex Gromack. “The developer, his/her attorney and their engineer meet in my office with me, our town attorney, our engineer and our building inspector. We also have the New York State Dept. of Environmental Conservation at the initial meeting, and, if necessary, the NYS Dept. of Transportation. I consider it a ‘mini-technical advisory committee.’ They can ask questions, and we let them know what’s needed before they make a formal application.”
When the developer formally makes its first appearance in front of the Planning Board, they will have already met with several members of Clarkstown’s municipal departments. “Rather than have them tied up for months waiting for meetings, it’s already been determined if what they have proposed is feasible and what they need to do to move forward,” continued Gromack.
“We meet with them as often as needed to solve problems and correct them….since the Planning Board only meets twice a month, this saves time for both the developer and the board. If they need state or county approvals, we work with them in moving the application forward in a timely manner.” Developers also have the opportunity to meet with Rockland County’s Industrial Development Agency to see if any tax incentives are available.
Shops at Nanuet took five months from its first formal appearance before the Clarkstown Planning Board to final approval. In some towns it takes longer to approve a CVS.
Gromack says while the Shops at Nanuet officially took five months to move from its first formal presentation to final approval, the town’s department heads “met” with Simon Property Group in its Indianapolis headquarters via weekly telephone meetings, which helped cut the approvals time by 50 percent.
“Typically, for a small to mid-sized project, we might have 10 meetings,” said Gromack. “With the Shops at Nanuet, we held 30-40 meetings and also had a weekly conference call with them. We aren’t looking to ‘cut corners,’ but to cut the time it takes to get through the process. We have the capability to allow the key players to solve potential problems, not create them. We go over a checklist, look at roadblocks and come up with solutions—these conference calls were a tremendous help when it came to Shops at Nanuet.”
The positives of one-stop shopping for the municipality, say Gromack, is that the Planning Board process presents a detailed description of the proposed project. “When it’s time for public hearings, the residents have the opportunity to come and discuss the project and give us feedback on what’s being presented.” Potential pitfalls—i.e., drainage, water/sewer, infrastructure or DEC concerns, have already been successfully mitigated. “It’s such a good application,” added Gromack, “Planning Board members may make further recommendations, but the ‘meat and potatoes’ issues are very black and white in many cases.”
Gromack believes Clarkstown Triple A Standard & Poors bond rating attests to the town’s financial stability, and its timeliness during the approvals process also adds to its appeal.
Orange & Rockland’s development team have also had their eye on Rockland, putting in a new substation near Tilcon on Snake Hill Road. “The utility has seen growth in both residential and business, and it is putting some of its infrastructure investment here because they see we are moving forward and growing,” Gromack said. “O&R talks with us often, and it has made some very positive decisions to meet the demand of a booming community.”
The Shops at Nanuet has spurred the Pyramid Cos. to give its sixth largest mall in America, Palisades Center, a $20 million indoor makeover. “They are lowering ceilings, putting in new flooring and carpeting, installing lots of greenery and sofas for people to relax on,” said Gromack. “I was just there last week, and it looks fabulous. I think Clarkstown is well-situated to see both Shops at Nanuet and the Palisades Center continue to draw traffic 12 months out of the year.”
Clarkstown has been noted for its business-friendly environment in recent years, winning awards from the Rockland Business Association.
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I was with a group of 26 that consisted of middle school youth, high school youth, young adults and older adults. The canyoneering was great. Until the sun started to go down. Then it was almost impossible to warm up after each swim. I was pretty much done at 6pm, but we didn’t finish until 7:30 pm and didn’t get back to camp until 8:15. It was a super long day and was difficult to not have anything but water after lunch.
The rafting was spectacular!!! Everyone loved it! Our raft guide Nick was beyond helpful and did a fantastic job at making our younger kids feel safe. Nick was AWESOME!
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Tributes have been paid to Richard Marshall, who passed away at East Lancashire Hospice on Saturday, November 29.
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A headmaster who oversaw the creation of Haslingden High School has lost his battle with cancer, aged 87.
Richard, described as a ‘remarkably important’ member of the community, stewarded Haslingden High for 28 years and oversaw the merging of Haslingden Grammar and Haslingden Secondary Modern in 1975.
The father-of-one, who moved from London to Great Harwood in 1964 to take up the headmaster post at the school, ‘loved sport’ and was fortunate enough to be in the crowd at not only the 1948 London Olympics but also the 2012 games in the capital.
Daughter Susan Marshall, 52, said: “He put an awful lot of effort in and he loved watching and playing sport.
“He loved football and he used to watch Spurs and Arsenal alternately when he was in London, and when he first moved here he watched Burnley and Blackburn alternately.
“When I went to university, he picked one to support and chose Rovers and he has been a season ticket holder since 1979.
“I used to go to the games with him and he would give me a running commentary of what was going on!”
Despite the five-year life expectancy of patients suffering with the cancer, Richard lived for 12 years after his diagnosis and continued to enjoy attending Blackburn Rovers games right up until this season.
Susan said that her father also had a love of the theatre and politics. She said: “In the forties he used to enjoy watching productions at the Old Vic where he would watch Laurence Olivier and Ralph Richardson.
“He also remained very interested in politics and would religiously watch Prime Minister’s Questions on a Wednesday.”
Brian Williams, who served under Richard as a deputy for 10 years, said: “He was a very important figure in the community. There were a huge number of students and staff who benefited from his gifts and his influence.
“As an educationalist and a leader Richard was outstanding and as a man he commanded respect and loyalty. He was remarkable.
“As a head he led, he made things happen. His greatest achievement is the creation of what is a first class comprehensive.
“Richard really did set the standards, which enabled the school to prosper and continue to be a fantastic school.”
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Quito, Sacha Lodge, and 5 Day Galapagos Sea Star Journey Cruise
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Ecuador’s Amazon Basin and the Galapagos Islands offer incredible wildlife viewing opportunities. This tour includes the colonial city of Quito, with its wonderful views of the Andes and nearby volcanoes, Sacha Lodge, which features a canopy walkway, numerous hiking trails, a canopy tower, and a butterfly house, and a five day Galapagos Islands cruise aboard the Galapagos Sea Star Journey, where you will observe plant and animal species that are found nowhere else on Earth.
Lodging and Meals: This tour includes accommodations for 11 nights (4 nights in Quito, 3 nights at Sacha Lodge, and 4 nights aboard the Galapagos Sea Star Journey), and 25 meals (11 breakfasts, 7 lunches, and 7 dinners).
Best Time to Go: Year-Round.
Destinations: South America, Amazon, Ecuador, and Galapagos.
Interests: Adventure, Culture & History, Expedition Cruising, Luxury, Sea Kayaking, Snorkeling, and Wildlife Viewing.
Places Visited: Quito, the Galapagos Islands, Chinese Hat Islet, Genovesa Island, Bartolomé Island, Santa Cruz Island, Santiago Island.
Day-by-Day Itinerary
Note: The route and program may vary according to National Park policies and regulations, weather conditions, seasonal changes, safety reasons and wildlife encounters.
Dry Landing: Guests step from the dinghy directly onto rocks or a dock.
Wet Landing: As the dinghy edges onto a sandy beach, guests step into knee-deep water and wade ashore.
Day 1 (Mon): Quito.
Depart to Quito. After passing through immigration and customs, proceed to the reception area, where our representative will be holding a sign with your name on it. You will be greeted and then transferred to your hotel. Overnight in Quito.
Day 2 (Tue): City Tour of Quito-Middle of the World.
In the morning, you will have a city tour of Quito. You will explore the bustling streets and squares of the largest historical centre in the Americas, and visit some of its most important churches such as the majestic La Compania and iconic San Francisco, guardians of a stunning multi-ethnic artistic and cultural heritage. You will drive through the traditional neighborhood of San Juan and finish the morning at the Panecillo hillside, with its breathtaking views of the old and modern parts of the city.
Following the city tour, you will be driven to the “Middle of the World City” complex, which is located 11 miles north of Quito. Here, you will see the monument of the equatorial line, a 98 ft high stone trapezoidal monument with a brass globe on top. The monument forms the focal point of a park and leisure area with gift shops and restaurants. Overnight in Quito. (B)
Day 3 (Wed): Quito-Coca-Sacha Lodge.
Depart Quito´s airport at 9:45 am (subject to change). A 30-minute flight over the Andes Mountains leads you to a bustling oil town called Coca located in the Amazon Basin. Upon arrival, you will be transported to the town docks where you will board Sacha´s private canoes for the two-hour journey down river to Sacha Lodge’s property.
After arriving at Sacha Lodge around lunchtime and meeting your guide – who stays with you for the entirety of your trip – you will take your first excursion into the forest. Once you have returned and had dinner, you will set out for your first nighttime adventure. Overnight at Sacha Lodge. (B,L,D)
**The guide will suggest optional excursions for each day based on your interests. You can choose wildlife observation on the Canopy Walkway (unique to Ecuador and probably one of only a few in the world at 1,000 ft. long and 120 ft. high), or the Kapok tower (140 ft high), paddling through the flooded forest, swimming in Lake Pilchococha, visiting a local community, and more.
Day 4 (Thu): Sacha Lodge-Optional Excursions.
Choice of optional excursions. Overnight at Sacha Lodge. (B,L,D)
Day 5 (Fri): Sacha Lodge-Optional Excursions.
Day 6 (Sat): Sacha Lodge-Coca-Quito.
Breakfast and a departure from the lodge. One last walk on the boardwalk to the river, and from there a two-hour canoe ride back to Coca for your 30-minute flight back to Quito. Arrive in Quito at 11:45 am (subject to change). Upon arrival in Quito, you will be transferred to your hotel. Overnight in Quito. (B)
Day 7 (Sun): Quito-Baltra Airport-Dragon Hill (Santa Cruz).
The flight from Quito to the Galapagos is approximately 2 ½ hours. Upon arrival at Baltra Airport, travelers pass through an airport inspection point to insure that no foreign plants or animals are introduced to the islands, as well as to pay the park entrance fee of $100 (unless it has been prepaid). A guide will meet you, help you collect your luggage, and escort you on a short bus ride to the harbor and then on board M/Y Galápagos Sea Star Journey.
The visitor site at Dragon Hill has been open for visits since 1993. This site is located in northwestern Santa Cruz Island and consists of a trail that leads to a hyper-saline lagoon behind the beach, frequented by flamingos, pintail ducks and other species of birds. This site has been re-populated with land iguanas from Seymour, Isabela and Santa Cruz islands. There is a short walk to the Hill, which offers a beautiful view of the bay. Overnight aboard the ship. (B,L,D)
Day 8 (Mon): Black Turtle Cove (Santa Cruz)-Chinese Hat.
Black Turtle Cove is located at the northern side of Santa Cruz island. It is a red mangrove lagoon very calm and quiet which makes an ideal place as nursery for many sharks and rays. Its crystal waters permit you to observe large groups of white-tip reef, black tipped reef, and hammer head sharks; schools of golden rays, and spotted eagle rays. There are no landing sites, so the visit is done by panga or kayak. Sea turtles are frequently seen and sometimes they are seen mating in the mangrove-lined waters. Pelicans and Herons are also seen in this area.
Chinese Hat is a small islet (1 sq km) located just off the southeastern tip of Santiago Island. It is a recent volcanic cone, shaped like a Chinese hat when seen from the north side. On the west, lava formations, formed under the sea and raised upward, can be seen. This is why coral heads are found on the lava. This is an excellent visit for interpretation of geological features such as lava tubes and lava flows. The landscape is covered by sea lion colonies, marine iguanas and Galapagos penguins. Overnight aboard the ship. (B,L,D)
Day 9 (Tue): El Barranco-Darwin Bay (Genovesa).
El Barranco is located in the southern part of Darwin Bay and it is also known as Prince Philip’s Steps. Passengers will climb to a plateau that is part of the stretch of land that surrounds Darwin Bay on its eastern side. There is a big population of Masked boobies and Red-Footed boobies in the trees; Storm petrels and Short-eared Owls have found in Genovesa lava flows the ideal place for nesting. Overnight aboard the ship.
Darwin Bay originated when the crater of Genovesa collapsed below sea level. The wet landing is on a beautiful white coral sandy beach. This is a favorite island for birdwatchers: red footed-booby, masked boobies, wandering tattlers, lava gulls, whimbrels Yellow-crowned, black-crowned and lava herons, with and yellow warblers can be seen in the area. Continuing on the trail, visitors climb gradually to the edge of the cliff seeing Red-Foots nesting in the Mangrove trees below. Bird watching includes sightings of Sharp-Beaked Finches, Large Cactus and Ground Finches, Galapagos Doves and Swallow-Tailed Gulls. Reaching the end the trail at the cliff’s edge offers an incredible view of the island and the many birds living there. (B,L,D)
Day 10 (Wed): Bartolome-Sullivan Bay (Santiago).
Bartolomé Island is situated across Sullivan Bay. It has an altitude of 114 meters, from where we can observe one of the most beautiful sceneries of the Galapagos Islands such as: Volcanic cones, lunar-like craters, lava fields, and the famous Toba formed pinnacle eroded by the sea. There is very little vegetation on this island. It has two breathtaking beaches where marine turtles exist and at the base of the pinnacle, as well as a very small colony of Galapagos penguins.
Sullivan Bay. Santiago, also called James, or San Salvador Island, is located in the west central part of the Galapagos archipelago. It is the fourth largest island in the archipelago (following Isabela, Fernandina and Santa Cruz). Along with some of the large western volcanoes of Isabela and Fernandina, Santiago is also volcanically active, with many young flows and cones to be seen, particularly along the south, west, and east coasts. These may even be seen from the summit of Darwin Volcano and from space. A number of historic eruptions have been reported over the last two centuries. Santiago actually consists of two coalesced volcanoes: a typical shield volcano on the northwest end and a low, linear fissure volcano on the southeast end. Overnight aboard the ship. (B,L,D)
Day 11 (Thu): Highlands of Santa Cruz-Baltra Airport-Quito.
Highlands of Santa Cruz. The trail to the Highlands leaves from Bellavista and passes through the agricultural zone, near the National Park boundary, the Miconia Zone, and then goes to the Fern and Sedge zone. With clear weather (unpredictable), this area affords beautiful scenes of rolling hills and extinct volcanic cones covered with grass and lush greenery all year round.
Following the visit, you will be taken to the airport for your flight to Quito. Upon arrival, you will be transferred to your hotel. Overnight in Quito. (B).
Day 12 (Fri): Quito.
Transfer to the airport for your return flight to your final destination. (B)
B = Breakfast, L = Lunch, D = Dinner
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South American Vacations’ expert pre-departure planning services and documentation.
Private airport transfers including baggage handling in Quito.
Four nights accommodations at Swissotel Quito (or similar) including service fees and taxes.
Three nights accommodations at Sacha Lodge including service fees and taxes.
Accommodations on board the M/Y Galapagos Sea Star Journey.
All meals scheduled on board during the cruise and others as indicated on the itinerary.
Daily excursions to the islands conducted by English-speaking naturalist guides and all other excursions as indicated on the itinerary including entrance fees.
Evening briefings.
Use of snorkeling equipment and kayaks.
Domestic airfare.
Galapagos National Park Entrance Fee ($100).
Transit control card ($20).
Native Community Interpretation Center fee ($7.50 collected locally).
Meals not indicated on the itinerary.
Alcoholic and non-alcoholic beverages.
Gratuities to ship crew and guides.
Gifts and personal items.
We will be happy to quote the cost of airfare and travel insurance, and to make these arrangements for you.
Quito & Galapagos
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Group Private: All services in Quito are private, and all other services are operated on a group basis.
Elevations: Quito is 9,350 feet above sea level.
IGTOA’S Galapagos Traveler Conservation Fund: South American Vacations is an active member of IGTOA (International Galapagos Tour Operators Association). In support of IGTOA’s Galapagos Traveler Conservation Fund, we contribute $20 for each passenger that we send to the Galapagos Islands. You’ll travel knowing that you support the lasting protection of Galapagos Islands.
Sixty percent of the funding of this program goes directly to the Charles Darwin Foundation for science, conservation, and education. Their work, carried out through the Charles Darwin Research Station and Galapagos National Park, is vital to the preservation of the islands. You can visit their web site to learn more www.darwinfoundation.org. The remainder goes toward IGTOA’s mission of creating a model of responsible and sustainable tourism.
Passport/Visa: U.S., Australian, Canadian, and EU citizens require a passport valid for at least six months from date of entry and return ticket for stays of up to 90 days. Citizens of other countries are advised to contact the Ecuadorian embassy in their country before traveling.
Travel Insurance: In order to protect your travel investment from unforeseen circumstances that may arise before or during your trip, we strongly recommend that you purchase travel insurance. We offer Allianz Global Assistance’s Classic Comprehensive and other plans. The Benefits and Coverage Limits are summarized on our Travel Insurance page. Call your travel counselor if you have any questions or to purchase a plan.
To Book This Trip: Call or email us to confirm the availability of this ship and the domestic airfare for your desired dates of travel. Once we have confirmed availability, you will need to pay a non-refundable deposit of $2,400 per person for Single Occupancy and $1,450 per person for Double/Triple Occupancy, plus the cost of the international airfare (if we arrange it for you).
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Program adaptations help Aboriginal children connect to country during COVID-19
Aboriginal children in the Northern Territory are gaining new insight into traditional practices
Aboriginal children in the Northern Territory are gaining new insight into traditional practices like hunting, local medicines, ceremonies and language, thanks to Save the Children’s Play2Learn program, which is now being delivered remotely.
Many family groups from Wadeye in the NT have moved to remote sites across traditional homelands to meet new social-distancing and travel restrictions and reduce the risk of contracting COVID-19.
To ensure children keep taking part in the vital early learning during this time, Save the Children has adapted its program by providing individual family groups with tablets for photos, songs and videos, as well as education kits with pencils, paper and games.
The program is being delivered by four local Aboriginal women who work for Save the Children and have returned to their homeland.
The women are all studying a Certificate III in Early Childhood Education and helped modify how the program will be delivered, and what it will include.
Save the Children Northern Territory Director, Noelene Swanson, said the program adaptations meant that children were continuing to learn and take part despite the disruptions from the coronavirus.
“It’s fantastic that we are able to keep providing this vital service for Aboriginal families in the NT,” she said.
“The kids love the program and are really enjoying attending remotely. They are still able to take part in games and activities, but at the same time we have been able to adapt the program content to incorporate life on-country, such as by tasting bush tucker, building a hut from branches and leaves and going for a bush walk.
“While there is so much grim news around Coronavirus, this is a positive story showing how technology can support Indigenous Australian children connect to country, family and culture during a very difficult time.”
The adapted program is consistent with the Early Years Learning Framework and reflects the natural environment of the homelands. It includes activities such as going hunting, taking part in ceremonial life, talking about tradition medicines and valuing language skills.
Gwendaline Kolumboort works for Save the Children in Wadeye, and is delivering the Play2Learn program on country to the children in her family group.
She has been supporting the children’s fine motor development and hand-eye coordination through drawing with thin pencils, and has also incorporated rhymes and songs in the local language in the sessions.
“I want to thank Save the Children for helping me to teach the kids here so they can keep learning,” she said.
The Play2Learn program has also been adapted on Groote Eylandt which is in lockdown to minimise the risk of COVID-19 transmission.
There, Save the Children is using online platforms to post educational content about the program, and making weekly phone calls to families to continue engagement and support wellbeing.
The organisation is also preparing packs for families which include reading books, crayons, playdough and games, which are being delivered through community health clinics.
The Play2Learn program is Save the Children’s largest Early Childhood Care and Development programs in Australia and has been running for more than 30 years.
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By Liam KeenAFC Telford UnitedPublished: Nov 27, 2020 Last Updated: Nov 27, 2020
AFC Telford United are battling an injury crisis as they potentially face losing six first-team players for the clash with Guiseley tomorrow.
Injured: Courtney Meppen Walters
Courtney Meppen-Walters and Brendon Daniels have both been missing recently with hamstring strains, while Henry Cowans and Shane Sutton are out with a quad injury and broken toe respectively.
Alongside Andy Bond, who is suspended following his two yellow cards in the win over Bradford Park Avenue on Saturday, all five of them will be unavailable for tomorrow’s game.
Jack Byrne withdrew at half-time in the win over Bradford with a hamstring injury and although there is some hope he may be fit, it is still unlikely.
“We’re waiting to hear on Jack Byrne but it’s very, very unlikely,” manager Gavin Cowan said.
“We are depleted again. It’s important that people understand that we have a small squad, so to have five first-team players out, potentially six, is pretty devastating.
“It’s all hands on deck at the moment and we have to play the cards we’re dealt.”
If the midfielder is unavailable, it will mean a total of six important players will miss out in what is already a small squad.
Despite the struggles with squad fitness, Cowan believes that his team’s ability to overcome these challenges could mean luck will swing in their favour soon.
“We’re trying to improve all the time and we are a new group really,” he added.
“When you look at the changes from last year, it was a big chunk of players.
“I feel that the tide may be turning now from having numerous injuries, suspensions – anything that could go wrong for us in games.
“We could be on the verge of something changing, maybe that’s my own optimism.
“There’s a really good feeling among the lads and they want to kick on and not be so much of a yo-yo team in terms of results.
“We want back-to-back wins come Saturday and to try and kick on from there.”
In Guiseley, the Bucks face an opponent finding form hard to come by.
Despite having experience playing at the National League level – last featuring there in the 2017/18 season – the Yorkshire outfit have failed to live up to expectations this year.
After beating Blyth Spartans 4-0 on the opening day of the current season, Guiseley have failed to win in their five league games since – drawing two and losing three.
They arrive at Telford tomorrow after fighting back for a 1-1 draw at Kettering Town on Tuesday night.
Although Cowan believes his opponents will improve as the season goes on, he also believes clubs facing Telford will up their game.
When asked if he was surprised to see them struggling, Cowan said: “You say struggling and I suppose in terms of results, absolutely.
“This league is very fine lines. Their games could have gone either way.
“It’s very early days and you’ll see people at the top start to fall off. You’ll see people at the bottom start to motor on.
“It’s very early and I haven’t seen a team go out and wipe the floor with another side. It’s all very close.
“They’ll be looking to get to winning ways, they are a good side.
“We have to understand that when people come to our ground, with our lovely pitch now, they put 25, 30 per cent on top of their performance.
“They’re playing against AFC Telford United, we’re renowned for being a big club at this level.
“Players find more in their game and we have to be prepared for that.”
By Liam Keen
Sports journalist at the Express & Star, primarily covering Walsall FC and grassroots sport across the Black Country and Staffordshire. Got a story? Get in touch on 01902 319456.
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Home Title 15 - Primary Investigation
This policy applies to all employees who investigate the death of a person.
1. Patrol Officers Conduct the Primary Investigation of a Reported Dead Human Body
See 15.055-TSK-1 Primary Patrol Officer at Death Investigations.
2. Patrol Sergeants Respond to Dead Human Body Incidents
See 15.055-TSK-2 Primary Patrol Sergeants Responsibilities at a Death Investigation.
3. The Patrol Sergeant Responding to a Death Investigation Notifies the Appropriate Investigating Unit
The responding sergeant will notify the Homicide and Assault Unit, TCI, ABS, or FIT through Communications as directed below.
Homicide Unit is contacted for:
- Homicide
- Assaults with injuries likely to result in death
- Death investigations involving suspicious circumstances or possible abuse or neglect (including natural, accidental and adult suicide)
- Non-traffic related deaths involving a person under the age of 18
- Note: The Homicide Unit will screen all suicides of persons under the age of 18 and will assume investigative responsibilities if they respond.
- Death of any on-duty police personnel
- Missing person or kidnapping that becomes a homicide
- Found bones that are likely human, such as a skull or a partial skeleton
- Industrial accidents resulting in death, either of a paid employee or a volunteer
Traffic Collision Investigation (TCI) Unit is contacted for:
- Traffic collisions resulting in the death of a person.
Arson Bomb Squad (ABS) is contacted for:
- Fire deaths or fire injuries likely to result in death.
- Note: The ABS sergeant may request the Homicide Unit respond
Force Investigation Team (FIT) is contacted for:
- Any in-custody death involving SPD or any death occurring at the King County Jail and King County Youth Service Center
The patrol sergeant responding to the scene may contact the Homicide/Assault Unit through Communications with questions involving a death investigation that does not fit into the above categories. The responding sergeant will leave a call back number with Communications.
4. A Watch Commander May Order Follow-up Units to Respond to the Scene of a Death
5. The Seattle Police Department is Responsible for On-Scene Command of Drowning, Dive Rescue and Near-Drowning Incidents
The Duty Captain will respond to all incidents involving a dive rescue, drowning and near drowning.
6. The Homicide Scene Sergeant Screens and Approves Reports for Homicides and Possible Homicides
Patrol Officers will inform the Homicide Scene Sergeant that the Report is in the Approval Queue.
15.055-TSK-1 Primary Patrol Officer Responsibilities at Death Investigations
Patrol Officer
1. Secures the scene, protects the evidence, isolates witnesses and identifies suspects.
- Restricts access to other than essential personnel. Essential personnel include: Police, Fire, Medical Examiner staff, and Prosecutors.
- If the body or evidence is in imminent danger of being contaminated or damaged, moves the body or evidence only to the extent necessary to preserve its evidentiary value. (If possible, photographs the body or evidence prior to being moved.) If the body or evidence was moved, documents this in the Report.
- Notes the position and description of the body in relation to the surroundings, and the presence or absence of any weapons.
- Does not remove evidence or property from the scene unless directed to do so by the proper follow-up unit or the Medical Examiner’s Investigator.
2. Requests that a Patrol Sergeant respond to the scene.
3. Identifies all persons found at the scene and encourages them to remain until the arrival of a Patrol Sergeant.
4a. If the death appears to be of natural causes attempts to locate the deceased’s identification.
- This search may include the deceased’s clothing while making an effort not to significantly disturb the position of the body. Photograph the body prior to conducting the search. (Also see 6a.)
4b. If a follow-up unit is responding to the scene, does not move or search the body or room for the person’s identification or other information unless directed to do so by a detective sergeant or Medical Examiner Investigator.
5. Photographs the scene using a Department-issued digital camera.
Note: Officers do not complete scene sketches as part of a death investigation. Instead, officers may take overview photos of the scene, taking care not to contaminate the crime scene . The priority is to coordinate the scene, isolate witnesses, and identify suspects.
Note: If a follow-up unit is not responding to a death investigation, the primary officer will thoroughly photograph the scene.
Note: Officers may take photographs of the exterior location and gathered crowds if applicable.
6a. If investigating a natural death:
(1). Collects all necessary information to support a natural death.
- If the death is associated with the Washington Death with Dignity Act (RCW 70.245), provides this information to the Medical Examiner.
- If the death is associated with the hospice program, follows the Hospice Deaths Instructions. (See 6b)
(2). Contacts the Medical Examiner at 206-731-3232. (Unless under hospice care, see 6b)
- If the primary officer and responding sergeant believe that a natural death has occurred, the Medical Examiner’s Office may arrange with the family for a funeral home to take custody of the body after the Medical Examiner’s Office verifies:
- The medical history of the deceased.
- The doctor of the deceased agrees to sign the death certificate.
- The family members of the deceased are available.
(3a). If the Medical Examiner does not respond, obtains the assigned "No-Jurisdiction Assumed" (NJA) number.
(3b). If the Medical Examiner responds to take custody of the body, obtains the "King County Medical Examiner's" (KCME) case number.
(4). Stays at the scene until the body is removed or releases the body to a competent adult willing to accept the responsibility of staying with the body until the funeral home arrives.
- Important: Screens with the Sergeant for approval to leave the scene in another’s custody.
(5). Completes a Report including:
- Facts that support a natural death
- Medical history/medications
- Recent activities
- Complaints of illness or poor health
- Health care received
- The "NJA" or "KCME" number
- Health care professional(s) contact information
- Timeline leading up to the death
- Identity and contact information for any persons present at the scene or who may assist in providing information relevant to the death
- Description of the condition of the body and the location where it was found
- Description and disposition of valuable items found near the body or items relevant to the death
- Information of the person or agency taking possession of the body
6b. If investigating a death of a person under hospice care:
(1). Determines if the death appears to be natural (No signs of abuse or other suspicious circumstances)
(2). Determines if the deceased was under hospice care. (extended medical care evident, witness statements of hospice care, documentation)
(3). Contacts the hospice care provider and request they respond
(4). Screens the incident with an on-scene patrol sergeant
Note: The hospice care provider will coordinate with the Medical Examiner’s Office upon accepting responsibility to handle the death and is responding.
(5). Releases the scene to a competent adult, or if a competent adult is not available, remains at the scene until the hospice care provider responds.
(6). Documents the circumstances on the event log as a hospice death.
(7). Clears the call with the MIR 330-Union.
6c. If investigating a natural death of a person in a hospital (such hospital must have a board-certified doctor who can sign a death certificate):
(1). Determines if the death appears to be natural (no signs of abuse or other suspicious circumstances).
(2). Screens the incident with an on-scene patrol sergeant.
Note: The hospital will coordinate with the Medical Examiner’s Office, as appropriate.
(3). Releases the scene to hospital staff.
(4). Documents the circumstances on the event log as a natural death in a hospital.
6d. If investigating an accidental death (including an industrial accident) or suicide:
(1). Collects all necessary information to support an accidental death or suicide.
(2). Documents the position, condition, and description of the body.
(3). Documents available historical information of the deceased. (Regarding suicides: Include threats of suicide and mental health information)
(4). Identifies and interviews all witnesses.
(5). Contacts the Medical Examiner (206-731-3232) and requests an ME investigator respond to the scene.
(6). Obtains the KCME case number.
(7). Stays at the scene until the body is removed by the Medical Examiner.
- Facts that support an accidental death or suicide
- The "KCME" number
- Medical (Mental Health) history/medications
- Information of who took possession of the body
6e. If investigating a possible homicide or death with suspicious circumstances:
(1). Obtains identification and contact information from all persons at the scene. Encourages witnesses to remain at the scene and talk with Homicide detectives.
(2). Requests the responding sergeant contact the Homicide and Assault Unit.
(3). Assists the detectives.
(4). Remains at the scene until relieved by the follow-up detectives.
(5). Completes a Report and Officer Statement documenting the information obtained at the scene and the release of the scene to the follow-up unit.
(6). If the officer writes a Report for a possible homicide or death with suspicious circumstances, the officer informs the Homicide Scene Sergeant that the Report is in the approval queue.
15.055-TSK-2 Primary Patrol Sergeant’s Responsibilities at a Death Investigation
Patrol Sergeant
1. Responds in person to a dead human body call.
2. Assumes command of all patrol activities at the scene and assists the primary officer with their required tasks.
3. With the primary officer, determines the likely manner of death: natural, accidental, suicide, homicide or possible homicide/undetermined.
4. Contacts the proper follow-up unit if required.
5. Determines if a Crime Scene Log (form 9.26) is needed.
- Assigns an officer to maintain a crime scene log documenting who enters and exits the crime scene.
6. Screens the body from public view if practical.
Note: Supervisors or Officers may drape a Department emergency blanket over a body to keep from public view when necessary. Sealed, uncontaminated Emergency Blankets are available from the Quartermaster or Stationmasters.
7. Remains at the scene until released by the proper follow-up unit (if they respond).
8. Screens and approves all related reports generated by patrol for the incident.
Exception: All homicide and possible homicide General Offense Reports are screened and approved by a Homicide Sergeant.
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“I guess we’ll all be happy flipping burgers at the end of four-hour commutes on clogged roads from ‘Forest Estates’ subdivisions along the Cascades foothills.”
Facts about forest plan
Your 3/11 Impolitics column (“How Not to Save Salmon”) contains some very glaring errors of fact. The Forests & Fish portion of the governor’s plan calls for stream buffers equal to the average height of 100-year-old trees along any particular fish-bearing stream. This amounts to 90-200 feet in Western Washington, with the average at 145 feet, not the 50 feet your article claims. In addition, the costs to the timber industry are $2 billion in timber value alone. The tax cuts to the timber industry amounts to a measly $15 million in the next biennium. The bill also calls for significant costs to the industry associated with road building, scientific monitoring, and numerous other protections.
Furthermore, private timberlands in Washington state provide the lowest impact to salmonid fisheries when compared to any of the other private land uses, like farming, development, or urban use. None of these other land uses have stepped forward to commit as much to salmonid conservation as the timber industry.
The Forests & Fish plan is not an end-run around the process. It is the result of more than 15 months of negotiations between the industry, state and federal agencies, tribes, and others.
I suggest that Seattle Weekly get its facts straight before lambasting the forest industry. Maybe then you would see that the real story is how the industry has learned to take its role as land stewards seriously.
Mike Liquori
Watershed Scientist
Champion Pacific Timberlands, Inc.
Geov Parrish responds: I showed the column and letter to Dave Werntz of Northwest Ecosystem Alliance, who, after much technobabble on the regs and interpretation of the bill, stands by the average figures summarized in the column. Werntz: “Mr. L. misrepresents/misunderstands the amount of protection the salmon receive under the industry bill. According to the bill, the vast majority of streams receive no protection at all. The maximum protection for streams with buffers is 140 feet and up to two-thirds of this area can be clearcut.” This compares to the much higher standard I cited for federal land.
If the forest industry were indeed now taking its role as land steward seriously, they would not have helped craft a bill environmental groups are crying bloody murder over. Underlying Liquori’s letter is an extremely dangerous industry assumption: that above any other use, private companies are entitled to clearcut all public forestland, and that any calculation of economic harm done by regulation starts from this baseline. No wonder salmon are dying.
Treeing salmon
The timber industry tells us we must trade adequate salmon protection away in order to save jobs (Impolitics, “How Not to Save Salmon, ” 3/11). The timber industry is an odd one to cry wolf when its own actions are the cause of most of the decline in timber industry employment: unsustainable levels of harvest for over a century; rapid conversion of forestlands for development; and increased mechanization in the woods and mills.
Now the Endangered Species Act is forcing action by the state and local governments to protect salmon. In response, the timber industry wants certainty that a slight improvement in forest practices rules now will relieve them of any further obligation for 50 years. Without any assurance that they won’t convert as much forestland as possible into suburbs during that time.
What the timber industry proposes is a bad deal for the public. Not only will we lose the salmon, but both timber industry and fishing industry workers will be unemployed. I guess we’ll all be happy flipping burgers at the end of four-hour commutes on clogged roads from “Forest Estates” subdivisions along the Cascades foothills.
Toby Thaler
Staff Attorney
Washington Forest Law Center
Kill a hooker, save a buck
You say Old Green killed 50 prostitutes 15 years ago? (See “Green River Freezes Over,” 3/25.) That’s 750 prostitute-years. If a prostitute works 300 days/year, that’s 225,000 prostitute-days. If a prostitute turns 10 tricks a day, that’s 2,250,000 tricks. If 10 percent of the tricks come down with AIDS, that’s about 200,000 cases. If every AIDS case costs the state $10,000, that’s $2,000,000,000 in tax savings. Thanks, Old Green!
Bill Wald
Port pranks
It is the height of audacity for the Port of Seattle to brag about a profit of only $3.1 million on the $7.9 billion in public property managed by the Port (“Terminal Cruise?” 3/18).
The Port services more than 3,900 acres of tax-free public-owned prime commercial and waterfront property. The Port does not pay taxes. To add insult to injury, the ratio of jobs per acre created by Port ownership of land is so poor that the Port must receive a $35.6 million property tax levy each year to minimize losses. And $29.6 million of that levy is squandered on interest payments on bad investments by the Port, while another $5 million is spent on Port legal expenses.
During the 1997 Port commissioner election, I recommended that the $35.6 million tax levy would be better invested in local industries such as Microsoft or Costco. The recommendation was belittled. However, if the suggestion had been implemented, the investment would have produced more than $160 million for the taxpayers and eliminated the need for the levy.
Perhaps now is the time for the Seattle and King County councils to stop defending the Port and instead determine if tax dollars should continue to be wasted on blunders like the $135 million cruise-ship dock and inefficient Port operations. Is continued land speculation by the Port in the best interest of the voters?
Would it not be in the voters’ best interest to sell off the Port properties and return that 3,900 acres to the tax rolls? This sell-off could produce more than $100 million in new tax revenues and provide a strong boost to the local economy.
Dan Caldwell
Vaudeville verit鼯H3>
In the piece about Hokum Jeebs’ vaudeville re-creations at Hokum Hall, the sentence “Jeebs runs a clean vaudeville house (something unheard of during the genre’s glory days) . . . ” the parenthetical remark is exactly wrong (“That’s hall, folks!” 4/8). Vaudeville was started by Tony Pastor (who always called it “variety”) to be a clean alternative to the beer hall and “museum” entertainments of the day, presenting, as vaudevillian Fred Stone once said, “Shows to which a child can bring his parents without fear of embarrassment.” And it certainly stayed that way through the glory days, roughly 100 years ago. Mr. Verlinde is perhaps confusing vaudeville with burlesque, or English Music Hall. It sounds like Mr. Jeebs is not similarly confused, and good for him.
Greg Palmer
Making much of Miriani’s
In 1981, I married a Seattleite and moved to Seattle from Switzerland, where, as a Swiss-trained chef, I worked in many five-star hotels and had my own restaurant. Since coming to Seattle, my wife and I often try new restaurants (many of them Italian), but we always end up going back to Miriani’s (“One Toque over the Line,” 3/11). It consistently offers quality food preparation at reasonable prices together with friendly service. Unlike so many places where you get the “Aren’t you lucky to be dining in our restaurant” attitude, Miriani’s Rene Perez and his entire staff are genuinely happy to see their customers, and I can attest that many customers are regulars like us. Seattle could benefit from more such great restaurants.
I don’t know what culinary background Kathryn Robinson enjoys. However, her article about Miriani’s was not a restaurant review, but an unfair attack. To be fair, I sincerely hope that you will print this letter and let your readers enjoy a review from a customer who has had more than 50 great dinners at Miriani’s!
Werner Zehnder
Sans Serafina
Thanks for the 3/25 Spring Fashion supplement! It was fun, a delight to the eyes and my virtual-reality taste buds. But someone was missing . . . Susan Kaufman of Serafina was blatantly absent from the spring parade.
Serafina is a fabulous place: mouthwatering cuisine, friendly and romantic ambiance, and eclectic jazz and Latin music. Susan Kaufman, owner/manager of Serafina, makes a fashion statement as appealing as her creative restaurant. Where was she?
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Atlas Senior Living Promotes and Hires New Corporate Leadership Members, Including Directors of New Construction
People March 17, 2020
Carol Brinegar
BIRMINGHAM–Birmingham-based Atlas Senior Living has made new hires and promotions to its corporate team. Two members promoted from within are Carol Brinegar, Senior Operations Director of New Construction, and Jacqueline Kennedy, Senior Sales and Marketing Director of New Construction, previous directors of Atlas’ Legacy Reserve Fritz Farm community.
Angie Surls, Regional Director of Operations, is new to Atlas while Kristie Carty, now Regional Sales and Marketing Director, was promoted from within, formerly Sales and Marketing Director of Legacy Ridge Trussville.
Jacqueline Kennedy
Carol Brinegar and Jacqueline Kennedy led the development, operations, sales and marketing of Atlas’ flagship Legacy Reserve community in Lexington, KY. They will now help facilitate the growth, support, and expansion of new Legacy Reserve communities under construction and through their opening phases.
As Executive Director of Legacy Reserve Fritz Farm, Brinegar developed policies, procedures, and protocols for the 167-unit community while serving as the on-site owner representative for all aspects of construction. She began her career with seniors working in acute care hospitals providing therapy services to adults with neurological deficits due to stroke, head injury and various neurological diagnoses. Upon relocating to Lexington, KY, she found her passion for senior housing.
Angie Surls
Kennedy was instrumental in building the programming, structure, and vision for the Legacy Reserve communities. In a 16-month time span, Legacy Reserve reached 100 percent occupancy with a growing waiting list. Kennedy has a 30-year career in the senior housing field. She quickly progressed in the industry to a sales counselor and eventually Senior Director of Sales and Marketing where she helped facilitate a five-year-plus span of 100 percent occupancy and no lost revenue days for a 258-unit community.
Angie Surls joins the Atlas team with over 20 years of experience in senior living. Early in her career, Angie served as a Sales and Marketing Manager for Brookdale Senior Living. She later obtained her Healthcare Administration license and was promoted to Executive Director in 2008. While serving as Executive Director, she was a leader and mentor to all new Executive Directors for the state of South Carolina and became Area Director over three properties.
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In becoming the Sales and Marketing Director for Legacy Ridge Trussville, Kristie Carty quickly gained success in helping the community achieve 100 percent occupancy and maintaining it with no lost revenue days for nearly a year. Due to her rapid and proven success in senior living, Kristie was promoted to the Regional Sales Director position and is now sharing her enthusiasm and ideas while providing support to the Sales and Marketing Directors among the Atlas communities.
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Emanuele S. “Manny” Bordonaro, 94, of Shelton, retired from Sikorsky Aircraft, died Nov. 23, at Connecticut Hospice, Branford; U.S. Army veteran, World War II.
Born in Sicily, Italy on May 3, 1922, to the late Michael and Francesca Gionfriddo Bordonaro. Survived by wife, Tina Frasca Bordonaro, two children, Susan Bordonaro-Berthold of Huntington, and Robert E. Bordonaro and his wife, Denise of Spokane, Wash., three grandchildren, a brother-in-law, and several nieces and nephews.
Also predeceased by brother, Paul Bordonaro and his wife, Lucy, and his sister, Lucy Colombo and her husband, Anthony.
A private funeral service will be celebrated at a later date.
Memorial contributions: St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, 501 St. Jude Place, Memphis, TN 38105.
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Sheffield United dismiss Pep Guardiola and Jurgen Klopp calls for five subs change
The PFA has backed calls from Jurgen Klopp and Pep Guardiola for the Premier League to re-introduce five substitutions. Klopp: "It's not an advantage, it's a necessity. 100 per cent"; Guardiola: "We don't protect the players, and that's why it's a disaster"
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Jurgen Klopp and Pep Guardiola are united in their criticism of the decision not to allow five substitutions per game in the Premier League
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Despite twice losing the vote to use five subs during a game a group largely made up of the league's bigger clubs continues to lobby hard to change the policy from three to five subs and at the weekend Pep Guardiola and Jurgen Klopp increased pressure on the league to amend its regulations.
However, one of the leading voices against five subs has told Sky Sports News he believes the debate is still being driven by a desire from bigger clubs to gain an advantage over those with smaller squads.
"The 20 clubs have voted not once but twice to reject five subs," Stephen Bettis, CEO of Sheffield United told Sky Sports News. "The bigger clubs managed to find a way to have the vote held a second time - and again they lost.
"From the comments made this weekend, it suggests they simply will not rest until they get their way. Some of the injuries being talked about have nothing to do with the debate over five subs.
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"We remain suspicious that big clubs simply want to be able to sub off players to rest them to keep them fresh. Of course the bigger the club, the stronger the bench. Any change of rules mid-season will clearly affect the integrity of the league."
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The Professional Footballers' Association has backed calls from Jurgen Klopp and Pep Guardiola for the Premier League to re-introduce five substitutions, instead of the usual three.
The knock-on effect of the coronavirus pandemic has seen a more congested fixture list, with some managers insisting it is having an impact on players' wellbeing.
A change to the rules this season is possible, if a team puts forward a proposal. However it would need the support of at least 14 clubs and has already been rejected twice, so seems highly unlikely.
Manchester City are backing a change, but have only used an average of two substitutes per game this season. West Brom, Tottenham, Wolves, Arsenal and Newcastle have used all three.
After Trent Alexander-Arnold went off with a calf injury during Sunday's 1-1 draw at the Etihad, Liverpool manager Klopp said: "All the teams have to understand why it's so helpful. It's not an advantage, it's a necessity. 100 per cent.
"In all other countries it happens and here we make a bit more fun of the competition by having only three subs. That is really incredible, so we have to talk again."
Image: Liverpool defender Trent Alexander-Arnold suffered a suspected calf injury in Sunday's 1-1 draw at Manchester City
Indeed, in all major leagues across Europe and in Major League Soccer in the United States, teams have voted to adopt the five substitute rule this season.
However, it would no doubt favour the bigger clubs. While West Ham boss David Moyes has come around to the idea, other sides are standing firm.
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One senior official at a top-flight club told Sky Sports News: "Our position hasn't changed. Purely and simply, the bigger the club, the bigger the advantage if you have five subs.
"Not all clubs have a huge squad with the depth of talent that some clubs enjoy and five substitutes will simply make life more difficult for smaller clubs."
The PFA has confirmed it remains in support of allowing clubs to use five substitutes.
"We told the Premier League we would support such a move on health and safety grounds for our members before the first vote and our position has not changed," a PFA statement read.
The rule has clearly divided opinion, but in terms of restoring integrity and honouring the two votes that have already taken place, it seems unlikely we will see any change before the end of the season.
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Klopp believes the Football Association should take action over the substitutes rule, or risk having more international players ruled out through injury.
"In my understanding, it is a lack of leadership," Klopp added. "It is the only big league where you have only three subs. Surprise.
"The FA has to be involved. Tonight we lost Trent Alexander-Arnold. I'm pretty sure Gareth Southgate is not fine [with that]. If we continue like this and hopefully we can play the Euros in the summer... if they happen, let's see who will be part of that."
Guardiola: "We don't protect players and that's why it's a disaster"
Guardiola says he fully agrees with Klopp that the limit must be increased: "All around the world it's five substitutions, but here we believe we are more special people," said Guardiola.
"We don't protect the players, and that's why it's a disaster. In this calendar, especially. I will demand, if the people allow, we have to come back to five substitutions. If not, it's difficult to sustain it."
Moyes: I've changed my mind over five subs
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Moyes had previously been in favour of only using three substitutes but he admits he would now prefer the option of being able to have up to five replacements.
"I recommended to our board that we would vote for three subs and not more. I've got to say, my mind has changed now is because of player welfare," said Moyes, speaking after Saturday's 1-0 win over Fulham.
"I don't think I expected so many injuries. So many games in such a small period of time, whether it be that you're an international player or in the Champions League or the Europa League, has meant that the programme has been so congested.
"There have been no parties willing to give up any games, whether it be the Carabao Cup or any other cup competition. Nobody has been willing to give anything up.
"That's why now I would consider the change if it was there, that we could have more subs."
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Roy Keane, Jamie Carragher and Micah Richards discuss Manchester City's chances of winning the Premier League this season. Roy doesn't think City have a chance of winning the title
Roy Keane believes Manchester City lack the firepower needed to win the Premier League this season, after their 1-1 draw with Liverpool.
Guardiola's side were a distant second to the Reds last season and eight games into the 2020/21 campaign they already trail Liverpool by five points, sitting 11th in the table, six off early leaders Leicester City.
Interestingly, Man City have scored 17 goals fewer than they had at the same stage of last season, and Keane believes with Sergio Aguero struggling with injuries, they aren't able to make their dominance count in matches - and criticised them for not investing in a striker in the summer.
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How (and Why) You Should Track Your Recruitment Marketing Results
Monica Cocian
Here’s the thing about recruitment marketing: it’s complicated. Not so much in theory, but in practical fact an effective recruitment marketing strategy has a ton of moving parts and potentially dozens of individual pieces of content spread across multiple channels and media.
This is, of course, the goal—you need lots of content in order to develop employer brand gravity and generate any amount of inbound pull to your careers page.
At the same time, however, it can often be really difficult to figure out what’s working and what’s not.
Unfortunately, traditional measurement technology is little help here. Why? Because it misses 40% of digital touchpoints.
Though the entire candidate’s journey is likely to take place across a host of different devices and platforms, most technology simply attributes a given application to the last-touch piece of content—meaning that almost all of the content that led up to the candidate’s decision to apply is ignored.
This puts recruiters in an unenviable state of not knowing which of their first-touch content is helping to drive conversions.
Thankfully, recruiters aren’t alone here, and there are strategies talent acquisition and HR teams can use to gain a clearer picture of their recruitment marketing operations. What are those strategies? Read on to find out!
Granular Measurement
From seeing one of your ads on Facebook to a happy new hire there are touchpoints everywhere. Every time the candidate interacts with your Employer Brand, that’s a touchpoint.
Recruitment Marketing attribution models help you determine which marketing sources and touchpoints contribute to your efforts and assign credit to each touchpoint along the candidate’s journey, form the first view to the final application.
To make it easier to understand think about it as a team effort; like in sports, you don’t focus only on the person who scored, you know that all the players equally important, if you want to win the game.
You might have an organic application but take a look behind the curtain. Are there any other touch-points? From social media posts to career blog articles and email marketing - it takes an average of 5 to 7 touchpoints before a conversion.
So marketing attribution is critical in giving you the complete picture of all your channels that lead your team to victory.
The Power of Application Attribution
Okay, now that that’s out of the way—let’s say you’ve gotten a hundred new applicants in the past three months, following a sustained recruitment marketing push involving content across multiple channels. You want to know which pieces of content had the biggest effects so that you can replicate your success in future efforts (and discontinue the ads that aren’t performing).
Within SmartDreamers’ Reports Module, we’ve worked to provide a potential answer. For each piece of content in your arsenal, our platform offers two metrics you can track:
- Applies: the number of users who have seen or clicked on the add and applied within 24 hours;
- Applies by Influence: the number of users who have seen or clicked on the ad and applied within 30 days.
Naturally, you can weight these metrics internally as you see fit (depending on how many touches your typical candidate journey has). Because the goal is to credit the role of multiple different pieces of content in driving a candidate to apply, the number of Applies and Applies by Influence will be higher than the number of applications you’ve received in the relevant time frame.
Below, you’ll find a sketch of how our reports attribute applies based on various scenarios.
- A user clicks on the ad -> applies immediately -> This will result in 1 Apply attributed to that specific channel.
- A user views or clicks an the ad -> decides to apply later, within 24 hours -> This will result in 1 Apply attributed to that specific ad.
- A user views or clicks an the ad -> and decides to apply later to X different positions with 24 hours -> This will result in X Applies attributed to that specific ad.
- A user views or clicks an SD ad on 2 different channels -> and decides to apply later, within 24 hours -> This will result in 1 Apply attributed to each channel.
For Applies by Influence, the procedure is essentially the same, except that the 24-hour window is extended to the 30 days. In this way, you’re able to give credit where credit is due and assign attribution to the right channels and ads when it comes to understanding where your recruitment marketing is working as intended.
Further Considerations for Recruiters
By utilizing a system of attribution like the one we discussed above, you put yourself in a position to gain a much greater understanding of where your applies are coming from and what journeys they’re taking to the application stage.
This can be extremely valuable when it comes time to refine your content strategy, or to try and measure the ROI of a particular campaign.
That said, effective tracking can still come with hurdles. For instance, the tracking we described above is largely dependent on cookies, which means that users who opt out of your cookie policy (if you offer a pop-window for doing so) won’t be given attribution.
Likewise, there are a few factors that can and do impact tracking by pixels:
- Sometimes the relevant pixel on the website page doesn’t fire, even though it was placed correctly. A possible reason for this occurrence could be that the user has cleared their cache between click and conversion.
- Long or infinite page loading time due to poor internet or heavy website traffic. This generally results in reduced conversions.
- Cookies are less effective on mobile devices. Since they're comparatively unreliable, not all mobile conversion will be counted.
- Changes made to your site’s source code could affect the tracking as initially set up. Whenever this happens, all subsequent settings will also have to be updated.
In this sense, you can’t expect attribution reports to be an exact science.
That said, they are a critical piece of the puzzle when it comes to understanding the influence of your recruitment marketing efforts on a granular level.
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“What time is it?” Time to get a watch!” As juvenile as this exchange may seem to the bystander, there is no denying that for centuries on end people have in fact felt the need to get a watch. Whether for simple purposes of fashion or for measuring and telling time, the watch has become a nearly indispensable part of our daily lives. We rely on watches to be on time for meetings, to schedule appointments and set up alarms that keep us on task and on time.
As much as the need for watches is almost universal, the types of watches that we have invented for ourselves are as diverse as the careers in which they are used. Specialized watches exist for nearly every profession and can be a significant advantage to those willing to invest in them.
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Specialization can mean anything from changing the manufacturing materials to be stronger or less obtrusive; to adding so many functions to the device that it could just as easily stop being a watch. Both can and have been done and to great effect for the profession for which they were intended.
A similar amount of specialization can be found in computers, which have become so popular and pervasive in our modern world that it is hard to imagine a single field where they cannot be found. Computers are an essential part of our lifestyle and come in as many shapes and sizes as the people who rely on them for every possible service.
It should only be natural that these two intersect. Indeed even early computers were able to tell time and were often used for just that purpose. A machine capable of accurately reporting the time was so obviously useful that it predated many other functions found on computers by a matter of decades.
Although clocks on computers have been a common sight since it was first possible to combine the two, the most recent iteration of these concepts has been the smartwatch. This minute device is mounted on the wrist and indeed looks like an ordinary wristwatch but contains the processing power, and in some cases the functionality, of a full computer, and can be realistically employed in a wide variety of tasks.
Smartwatches put everything from timekeeping and fitness statistics to electronic wallets and global positioning right on the user’s wrist freeing up their hands and minimizing the space they would need to carry any device.
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It takes no great effort to identify a world of possibilities for this level of convenience. There are any number of tasks that one can more effectively perform with two hands than one, including those professions that require both the use of a computer and the capability to precisely manipulate both hands.
Smartwatches make their presence felt in fitness tracking, mobile or high-tech lifestyles, and allowing people to stay connected while biking or driving, to name just a few, a smartwatch is a useful companion.
Professions like law enforcement or military applications also see extensive smartwatch use. Taking advantage of the device’s ability to precisely transmit locations and messages without occupying both hands or adding undue waiting time with heavy amounts of gear.
Medical professionals find themselves using smartwatches as well. Many smartwatches include exceptionally precise stopwatches, vital sign measurement capability, and customizable alerts that can send practitioners quick and detailed alerts if a patient should be dealing with any problematic conditions.
With so much riding on one small device, one cannot blame the users for insisting on the best possible watch for their profession. For many, having an accurate smartwatch can have serious and vital implications for themselves or, more importantly, those relying upon them.
Thankfully, like analog watches, smartwatches have taken advantage of the flexibility of a digital platform to extend specialization well beyond anything an ordinary wristwatch has ever had, offering something for any profession or lifestyle that needs a smartwatch.
Using a smartwatch is growing easier all the time as well, as new interface technologies and smarter predictive algorithms become a mainstay of technological advancement. Many smartwatches include machine learning, voice recognition, and highly sensitive touch screens to produce an intuitive and user-friendly experience that makes them the ideal choice even when a more specialized tool could theoretically be used with greater difficulty.
In the medical profession, for example, doctors and nurses can often find themselves needing exact timekeeping to determine how long an injection or anesthesia should last or to more precisely regulate the frequency of treatments for patients. Some medical institutions will issue the patients themselves a smartwatch, using it to track their condition in a more general sense over longer periods of time.
Actually a nurse will not need the same smartwatch as a weightlifter. The two watches will be specialized for different applications, much of the same way their users are. Different programs and watch styles will be employed in a nurse’s job than anywhere else, making choosing a smartwatch for a nurse a unique task with its own set of requirements.
As different as nurses smartwatches may be, there are some things that remain the same in any computer you happen to buy. No matter what brand, size, or speed, there will always be a large and hectic market for any computer you are intending to use. As medical practitioners though, nurses do not have the luxury of experimenting with multiple different brands or models. They will need to choose the right smartwatch the first time to avoid consequences for both their patients and themselves.
Although there is only so much that can be different in something as small as a smartwatch, we have nevertheless identified several that stand out from the rest as being particularly useful for nurses. These smartwatches have features that will be welcome companions in any medical setting; whether in recovery, house calls, or anywhere else a nurse might be needed.
These are the devices nurses should think of when they decide that it is indeed “time to get a watch”.
This watch starts off our list with a sleek black body and fitness tracker specially optimized for judging male and female anatomy separately.
IP68 waterproofing
iOS 8.0 and android 4.4 and above
What We Like About YAMAY Smartwatch 2020 Ver
This watch is a solid choice for nurses for its ability to measure heart rate and oxygen, both important signs to keep track of in any patient. Additionally, the screen brightness and layout can be changed quickly depending on setting and needs.
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What We Don’t Like About YAMAY Smartwatch 2020 Ver
A seven-day battery is well below standard for smartwatches, most of which can last at least two weeks on a single charge. The operating system is a less recent one that may soon find itself in need of an upgrade or be entirely unsupported.
Compatible with older operating systems
The screen is easily visible outdoors
Rubber wrist strap and IP68 protect from splashes
Relatively short battery life
Less recent operating system.
This smartwatch comes with a manufacturer’s app to seamlessly link your phone and watch, regardless of the operating system or device specifications.
iOS 8 and Android 4.4 and above
The screen is 1.5” by 1.3”
Band size is 6” to 9”
What We Like About Willful Smartwatch
This watch supports a 30-day battery and a highly adjustable wrist strap to make it useful for nurses and patients of all sizes. Nine separate sport modes as well as general fitness and lifestyle tracking.
What We Don’t Like About Willful Smartwatch
Although it can link easily to mobile devices, this watch is not compatible with laptops, tower PCs, or tablet computers. It has a somewhat dated operating system, and the manufacturer’s app for syncing with other devices is often unreliable.
Compatible with earlier operating systems
The dedicated app streamlines syncing to smartphones
Splashproof in case of accidents
A full month of battery life on one charge.
Support app is unreliable at best
The older operating system does not support more recent apps
Especially helpful for nurses treating female patients, this watch is specially programmed to account for bodily cycles when calculating vital signs and lifestyle tracking.
1.04” full-color touch screen
iOS and Android compatible
Bluetooth 4.0 and above connectivity
Four-day battery life on a single charge.
What We Like About SKMEI Women’s Smartwatch
Trying to use a generic or unisex smartwatch on female patients leaves a lot of calculations to manual estimation or guesswork. This watch allows nurses to measure their patients with a tool preprogrammed with all the relevant adjustments for the female physiological cycle.
What We Don’t Like About SKMEI Women’s Smartwatch
Although this item claims to be IP68, it has been reported to malfunction after even minor wetting or steamy conditions. It does not have a dedicated tracker for the male anatomy and often has trouble pairing even with the devices explicitly listed as being supported.
Preprogrammed tracker for the female anatomy
Pairs with a mobile device to display incoming calls and messages
Recent Bluetooth module improves pairing range
An extensive and detailed list of habits tracked
Unreliable connection to mobile devices
Waterproofing may prove faulty
This watch may look unassuming at first, but is a fully functional fitness tracker and sporting watch behind a rustic appearance.
Fully submersible to 50m
42mm brass case with silver leaf
20mm genuine leather wrist strap
What We Like About Timex Metropolitan
In an industry plagued by cheap imitations of all kinds, it’s always nice to come across a product you can trust. Timex has been a household name in timepieces for decades, and this smartwatch is just another one in a long line of high-quality wristwatches.
What We Don’t Like About Timex Metropolitan
Unlike many smartwatches, this one does not have a touchscreen or digital interface; all fitness tracking is carried out via Bluetooth connection to the user’s mobile device. Additionally, the welcome boost in quality is accompanied by a significantly higher price tag.
Distinguished appearance
The highly durable watch case
Noticeably higher price tag than competing models
No digital screen or touch interface
The makers of this smartwatch know that no one can stay awake all the time, and have helpfully accommodated this with a dedicated sleep tracker function that accounts for changes in the body while you sleep.
1.3” full-color touchscreen
Proprietary fitness app included
Address book and messaging apps supported
What We Like About LEKOO Fitness Tracker
This watch’s heartbeat detector can tell whether a patient is asleep or awake and adjust measurements and projections accordingly, making it a useful addition to a nurse’s tools. The screen is large and easily visible in daylight, and syncs calls, messages, and GPS from your mobile device for easy access and recording.
What We Don’t Like About LEKOO Fitness Tracker
This watch remains operable under wet conditions, but fails rapidly at even brief and shallow submersion. There are a few dedicated sport modes, and only the most basic Bluetooth connectivity capabilities.
Fluid syncing via proprietary app
GPS syncs with mobile devices, which is more powerful and accurate than onboard.
Waterproofing is unreliable
Few or no preprogrammed sport modes for recovering patients
This smartwatch brings a number of new functions into play that can make a nurse’s job considerably easier, all while keeping costs down.
Onboard SIM supported
Android 4.0 and iOS 8 and above
Integrated digital camera
High-clarity speaker built in
What We Like About CNPGD
With the addition of an onboard speaker, camera, and SIM slot, this watch has gone from an accessory to practically strapping your cell phone to your wrist. Unlike many watches that can only receive calls, you can initiate them too, as well as taking quality audio or video records of anything necessary.
What We Don’t Like About CNPGD
This watch is far more sensitive to water and temperature changes than competing models, and should not be taken into even briefly moist conditions like handwashing. Because it functions on an onboard SIM, the watch will lose many important features if you happen to be in an area without your preferred cell provider.
Supports and syncs all leading social media
Serious compatibility discrepancies between iOS and Android
Loses reception if taken outside a cell service area.
This watch takes wear and tear with a smile – it’s all-metal band and body make it incredibly resistant to damage.
Metal weave band
Three days battery life
1.04” watch screen
Social media and inbound calls supported
What We Like About Yocuby Smartwatch
This watch certainly has more outward appeal than others, replacing the seemingly uniform rubber wristbands with a tougher and trendier metal weave. The watch face is similarly hardened, and fitness trackers for male and female physiology are included.
What We Don’t Like About Yocuby Smartwatch
Because this is marketed as a smartwatch for women, the wristband has been made both thinner and shorter than the usual unisex models. The watch is heavier than most others as well, and the battery life is considerably shorter than the standard.
Automatic activity reminders keep you active throughout the day
Wristband dimensions are smaller than usual
Battery life is not up to standards
This watch is intended to be a fitness tracker more than a nurse’s watch, which gives it the added features necessary to construct a long-term healthcare plan.
Android 4.4 and iOS 8.0 and above
Up to a week on one battery
Automated heart rate and sleep monitoring
What We Like About FITVII Health & Fitness
This watch supports longer data retention than other models, allowing it to compile larger amounts of information on a patient at any one time. The strap and face are of good proportions and relatively rugged, and there is full social media support.
What We Don’t Like About FITVII Health & Fitness
This watch focuses more on sporting pursuits than medical, making it somewhat harder to adapt for a nurse. The battery life is only barely a week on one charge, well below standard.
Sleep detection and analysis
Relatively large screen
Short battery life
Harder to make into a nurse’s watch
This watch has a relatively large screen, allowing more detail and clearer interface than other models without sacrificing the performance or integrity of the device.
Remote control of mobile device via Bluetooth
What We Like About AMATAGE Smartwatch
While most smartwatches only offer reading and perhaps accepting or rejecting messages and calls, this one is outfitted for a two-way interface with your phone, sending and receiving commands for music, camera, and more. It uses a recent operating system and has dependable, if not extensive, splash proofing.
What We Don’t Like About AMATAGE Smartwatch
Along with only seven days on one charge, this watch takes almost an hour longer to charge than some other models. The iOS support is far older than the Android system, leading to serious discrepancies between operating systems.
Proprietary DaFit software to adapt apps to a smartwatch platform
Strap is well fitted to shape of the arm
Unequal support for iOS and Android
Battery takes longer to charge than most
Samsung is a household name around the world for quality computers and mobile devices; it is only natural that they should also make a foray into the field of smartwatches.
40mm wide wristband
45 separate preprogrammed sports
Gorilla Glass screen
Submersible up to 20m
What We Like About Samsung Galaxy Active
There’s a lot to like about this device, starting with the trusted name on the box. Samsung’s usual quality is back, equipping this device with advanced contact and media syncing and a solid two-week battery life. This watch is better physically as well, with a lighter and thinner case and a Gorilla Glass screen that takes far more damage than ordinary tempered glass.
What We Don’t Like About Samsung Galaxy Active
The main disadvantage to this device is the price, which is more than $100USD above that of some competing devices. Additionally, because this device was made for Samsung’s own Galaxy series, it does not come with default support for iOS devices as well.
Exceptional media syncing and pairing support
Thinner and lighter than competing models
Smart fitness and sleep tracking with recommendations
Fully submersible, if only for brief periods of time
Intended for Android phones, with no iOS support
Priced considerably higher than most competing devices.
Having a smartwatch makes nursing easier for plenty of reasons, from checking vitals and patient habits to keeping you in contact with the rest of your team with no need to occupy one hand with your phone. These tools are made for precisely the kind of conditions in which nurses so often find themselves, putting all the convenience of a mobile device in a body so small it can be worn everywhere.
Having a smartwatch is not only for the nurse, though; one can just as easily issue one to a patient in order to check that they are keeping to a predetermined lifestyle plan after treatment. This approach allows the nurse to check up on areas that would otherwise be exceptionally hard to regulate, giving empirical data instead of the patient’s personal interpretation and sidestepping embarrassing housecalls or tedious interviews.
One thing to keep in mind when using smartwatches for anything more than measuring a single individual is to export and clear the data when the device is passed from hand to hand. Because most watches create their reports by aggregating data over a long period of time, using them on several individuals without clearing them can lead to wildly inconsistent and inaccurate readings.
Ideally, the nurse or patient in question should be the only one using their particular device; barring this, try to establish a fixed schedule of data backup and removal to create a consistent
record for each user.
Given that these devices are recommended for nurses, a word of caution is in order – although many have heartbeat sensors or vital sign monitors integrated into the device, they are not medical instruments, and should not take the place of proper measuring tools if there is need for immediate medical assessment. They are meant for lifestyle tracking, and excel at it, but cannot be substituted for genuine medical equipment.
As we mentioned, the market for nearly any electronic device is by default a hectic place that can be exceptionally confusing unless you know exactly what you came for – and, on many occasions, even if you do. These tips should help you cut through the bedlam and select a smartwatch that will be a reliable and realistic answer to your needs as a nurse.
First and foremost, get a watch that is physically compatible with whatever tasks you are anticipating. The watch is supposed to be a help, so don’t let it become a hindrance. Watches that have too large a screen or wristband, or that are not properly waterproofed to stay on during handwashing, may prove unsuitable for many nurses for purely physical reasons.
If intending to pair the smartwatch with your mobile device, always check that it is compatible; such things as operating system and version can render an otherwise exceptional device unusable if the two are not suitable for one another.
It is also advisable to check the Bluetooth of near-field communication capabilities in each watch; while they tend to be more flexible than operating systems, the wrong one can still leave your smartwatch useless.
Nursing produces one consideration that most smartwatch buyers do not see nearly as much. In a medical setting, frequent handwashing is practically guaranteed, and nurses will need a smartwatch that will not be destroyed by brief wetting or even heavier periods of moisture. Choosing one with a higher IP waterproof rating, especially fully submersible, will protect your investment and keep your watch operational when needed.
Although the screen is often identified as the most vulnerable component of a smartwatch, it is no less critical to choose one with a durable strap and reliable closure that can withstand the continual tension that holds your watch on your wrist.
Checking wristband size before buying is similarly indispensable; make certain your chosen wristband will sit snugly on the wrist and not wiggle out of place, but not cinch tight enough to impair feeling, function, or blood flow to the hand in question.
Some smartwatches come with a proprietary charger, which often works faster than USB charging devices. While this is a significant advantage, nurses should consider that they may not always have an outlet available to charge from, and take advantage of the considerably greater freedom afforded by a high-quality USB-micro charger, ideally with a power adapter in case an outlet does happen to be free.
It sounds like most of these watches are being recommended for the patients more than the nurses. What are the nurses supposed to do with them?
Nursing is a high-pressure career choice with a lot of stress involved, with work to be done round the clock and throughout the week. While caring for that of others, nurses can often forget to preserve their own health, and get drawn into long periods of minimal sleep, exercise, or food.
Using a smartwatch can help keep any of these from becoming unmanageable by producing an objective account of the nurse’s health; with solid facts to look at, there will be no claims of ‘I’m not tired’ or other such bravado-powered reassurances.
Using a smartwatch will keep a nursing staff on a regular schedule that prevents overwork and keeps the nurses as fresh and alert as they need to be to handle a patient population.
What if I don’t have a smartphone to go with it?
Pairing with mobile devices is an important part of making a smartwatch useful, as it gives more memory and processing power than the watch packs to store and analyze the data. If you don’t have a compatible device – or any device, for that matter – you can get around it easily enough by selecting a watch with an onboard SIM card and expandable storage; this adds most of the missing functions from your mobile phone directly to the watch, keeping it useful with no need for an external device to support it.
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SHASTA OPENS LITTLE FREE LIBRARY
Take a book, leave a book
Shasta Elementary School this summer opened a Little Free Library near the entrance to the campus so community members could share and read books.
Shasta Vice Principal Jen Witt came up with the idea, and local woodworker George Severson built the little library.
“Our library is a way for us to create a resource for our community,” Witt said. “Reading not only strengthens a child’s vocabulary and comprehension, it provides people with a greater understanding of multiple topics and opens our world to endless adventures.”
In the little wooden house with the Shasta stinger emblem are books ranging from children and adult fiction to “how-to” tomes.
“People can grab a book of their choice, and hopefully leave a book of their choice,” said Randy Rose, principal at Shasta Elementary. “The variety of books will depend on what people take and what people leave.”
The Shasta Boosters purchased a stewardship plaque, making the library an official location on the Little Free Library map. Shasta’s Little Free Library is the second in the 97603 zip code. Go online to littlefreelibrary.org to learn more and to search an interactive map for all Little Free Libraries in the area.
Shasta’s Little Free Library is near the flagpole at the front entrance of the elementary school at 1951 Madison Ave. It is now among more than 75,000 Little Free Libraries in 85 countries around the world.
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The upcoming 2019 High-Level Political Forum (HLPF) in July in New York with the theme, “Empowering people and ensuring inclusiveness and equality,” spurred Social Watch Philippines (SWP) and other organizations like the Global Call to Action against Poverty (GCAP), Save the Children, Philippine Alliance of Human Rights Advocates (PAHRA), Institute for Social Entrepreneurship in Asia (ISEA), Plan International, Philippine Social Enterprise Network (PhilSen), Tebtebba, Voice of the Free, and Fair Trade Alliance among others, to organize a broader CSO consultation workshop to catalyze a process for civil society organizations (CSO) from different sectors towards engaging the Philippine government on the Voluntary National Review (VNR). With the support from United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), Save the Children Philippines and Philippine Alliance of Human Rights Advocates (PAHRA), a consultation workshop Towards Coherent Policies for Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in the Philippines: Civil Society Organizations (CSO) Inputs to the Voluntary National Review (VNR) was held on February 7 to 8, 2019 in Quezon City, Philippines participated by around 70 representatives of different civil society organizations.
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The workshop provided an opportunity for the organizations to discuss the key trends and challenges on the intersecting SDGs 3, 4, 8, 10, 13, 16, and 17, and served as a venue for strengthening CSO unity around a common policy agenda on the SDGs. The participants brought into focus the trends and status analysis on the SDGs, identified the key challenges that have the greatest impact on the poor and socially excluded groups, and proposed solutions and policy recommendations. Discussions were framed by presentations by the panelists, additional inputs from reactors, followed by an open forum in which participants were invited to ask questions and share their insights.
At the same time, the consultation echoed the message of Mr. Isagani Serrano, President of Philippine Rural Reconstruction Movement (PRRM) and Convenor of Social Watch Philippines who explained in his Opening Remarks, that while many good things are happening within society as a whole, it is imperative to engage with the government, not only by taking a “whole of government approach,” but also a “whole of society approach” to work towards turning “the dream of fairness in a fragile world” into reality (See Appendix II).
During the first day, discussions revolved around “Increasing Concentration of Wealth and Economic Power as Obstacles to Sustainable Development and What to Do about it? (SDG 8, SDG 10).” In the afternoon of the first day, participants were divided into three groups for the parallel sessions on “Are Climate Justice Battles Being Fought and Won? Keeping Score (SDG 13),” “Debt, Trade, Aid, Foreign Investment (SDG 17),” and “Social Policies: Education, Health, and Social Protection.” On the second day, the focus was on “Peace, Justice, and Strong Institutions (SDG 16),” followed by an open forum and the summary of the parallel sessions.
The workshop brought about what has been dubbed the ‘People’s National Voluntary Review’ that takes into account and highlights the perspectives of the indigenous peoples, Moro people, persons with disabilities, children, women, and other socially excluded and marginalized groups. Participants were encouraged to rethink existing time scale maps and consider centennial planning and re-mapping of our territories with future generations in mind, whilst thinking of ways to destroy age-old, recurring problems in order to build, recreate, and reimagine a better world for all.
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Promote green agro-industrialization development paradigm and sustainable, climate- resilient agricultural practices, and put in place industrial policies with low or reduced carbon footprint. This includes putting greater focus on MSMEs and sustainable enterprises;
Strengthen universal and transformative social policies by addressing backlogs and issues of quality, affordability, and access to education, health, social protection;
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November 2013 Groundviews: Connecting to community
Posted November 8, 2013 by Liz Reed Hawk
Groundviews is Solid Ground’s quarterly print newsletter for our friends and supporters. Below is our November 2013 lead story.
Discount internet services help Mike connect with resources that improve his quality of life.
For a guy like Mike, every dollar counts. Due to health issues, he lives on very limited Social Security Disability Income (SSDI), so access to free and low-cost resources really helps him make ends meet and stay connected with his family, friends and doctors. For this reason, Solid Ground’s ConnectUp program has become essential to his day-to-day well-being.
The program originated in 1991 as Community Voice Mail (CVM), offering free voice mail numbers that can be checked from any phone for people experiencing homelessness or unable to afford phone services. Since then, telecommunications technologies have transformed, creating many new ways for people to stay in touch. So this past year, the program adopted a new name – ConnectUp – to reflect its new services.
Today, in addition to free voice mail, the program connects people living on low incomes with free cell phones and low-cost computers, internet access, home phones and smart phones. Additionally, through a service called the Resource Wire, ConnectUp broadcasts information via multiple formats (voice mail, email and social media), letting people know about a wide variety of community resources such as job opportunities, housing services, healthcare, family and veterans resources, and more.
A lifeline to community
Several years ago, Mike lived through a period of homelessness up in Skagit County. When he became eligible for SSDI, it enabled him to get transitional housing in Seattle and live closer to his family. That’s when he first discovered free voice mail through CVM (now ConnectUp).
He describes what this service meant to him: “I always tell Lambert how helpful this is for me. When I first got it, I would have some way people could get a hold of me. I had a phone, but I was paying by the minute for it, so I only got a little bit at a time. It was costing me a lot of money, and I don’t have a lot of money. So then Jeffrey, my little brother, told me about you, and man, I’ve been with you ever since!”
Through ConnectUp, he also got free cell phone and low-cost internet services, which helped him establish relationships with doctors and medical services so critical to his health. But later when Mike had to move to Renton in order to use his housing voucher – far from his doctors in Seattle – ConnectUp’s Program Supervisor Lambert Rochfort connected Mike with a Solid Ground Family Assistance Benefits Attorney. “I called her because I was having medical issues in Renton, and she gave me some contacts and told me what I needed to do” to get permission to use his voucher back in Seattle. Thanks to having reliable ways to stay in touch with his doctor, friends and the attorney, he says they “got all the paperwork done, and I was able to get out of downtown Renton and closer to my doctor and other resources.”
Currently, Mike is happy that Solid Ground’s free Downtown Circulator Bus has a stop right outside his apartment building. “I like it; I had surgery done on my ankle, and I don’t drive.” But he says he hopes the service will eventually expand its route, because grocery shopping is still tough for him. “My arms start hurting, and I can only carry up to about 15 pounds.”
Mike’s free cell phone helps him stay in touch with his family & doctors.
A lifeline to resources
Mike’s favorite thing about ConnectUp is the Resource Wire: “That is so much help to me. If there’s something going on with medical for free, or checkups, dental or haircuts – Lambert puts out voice mails and says what’s going on.”
Mike gets both voice mails and emails and says it’s nice to get the messages in both formats: “I don’t read or write well,” so voice mail is more useful to him, “because I can hear it.” But emails help as well, “Then if I need to copy it, or let somebody else know about it, I can send it to ‘em. My daughter has two little ones; she’s single, and she don’t make very much money. He put out a voice mail about school supplies; I called my daughter, and she took her little ones and got some paper and books and a backpack.”
Via the Resource Wire, he heard about the Community Resource Exchange, an event where people living on low incomes receive a wealth of information and free services such as haircuts and dental care, right on the spot. Mike says, “I like going to that; you can get a lot of help there.”
Returning the favor
While Mike has received quite a few resources via ConnectUp, he’s also given back in spades, participating in focus groups that led to both expanded services and the program name change. He says, “I like the name ConnectUp. It’s easy to remember, and tells me that the program does a lot of different things.”
He’s also helping to complete the information loop: Through a friend of his, he learned about a device which connects to your internet and a home phone, allowing you to make and receive phone calls for free. Mike told ConnectUp about the device, and Lambert tells him, “I heard about this from you, and we’ve been letting lots of other people know.”
In a situation like his, Mike could easily live a very isolated life. But via these services, he says, “I call my daughter and I call Jeffrey – I call my doctors and my doctors can call me.” In the past, “I always hit little dead-end walls. But with Solid Ground and ConnectUp, I mostly get over ‘em, one way or another. If you don’t have the resource, you know somebody where I can go get the resource. Solid Ground sure puts a lot of information out there! They do good work for people!”
For more information on ConnectUp, visit our website or contact the program at connectup@solid-ground.org or 206.694.6771.
Liz Reed Hawk
Solid Ground Communications Specialist
‘How far I’ve come’
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Summer 2016 Newsletter: Volunteers, partners & thank yous
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Spring 2016 Newsletter: Partners, volunteers & thank yous
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When connecting the PlayStation 4 Pro and the TV with the port replicator (PTR-BR100), the screen may become dark.
When you set External inputs to Enhanced format while the PlayStation 4 Pro and the TV are connected with the port replicator (PTR-BR100), this phenomenon may occur.
Please connect the PlayStation 4 Pro and the TV directly with the HDMI cable.
Use the HDMI cable that is bundled with PlayStation 4 Pro or the premium cable compatible with 18 Gbps.
An Android TV released in 2015 or later does not support the port replicator (PTR-BR100) connection.
When connecting the PlayStation 4 Pro and the TV via an AV device, the screen becomes dark.
When I connect the 4K Ultra HD BRAVIA TV to the PlayStation 4 Pro, 4K HDR is not recognized on Video Output Settings.
The TV volume won't change or there's no sound when an unsupported device is connected to the USB port of the TV.
Some content of the Android TV cannot be searched from the Home screen when the TV is not connected to the Internet.
How to troubleshoot TV picture and screen issues
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Dr. Martin E. Elvis
Astrophysicist at Harvard-Smithsonian Ctr for Astrophysics
Proceedings Article | 9 September 2019
High-resolution x-ray imaging spectrometer (HREXI) SmallSat Pathfinder (HSP) (Conference Presentation)
Jonathan Grindlay, Branden Allen, Jaesub Hong, Daniel Violette, Martin Elvis, Scott Barthelmy, John Tomsick
Proc. SPIE. 11118, UV, X-Ray, and Gamma-Ray Space Instrumentation for Astronomy XXI
KEYWORDS: Telescopes, Imaging systems, Sensors, Spectroscopy, X-rays, Image resolution, Coded apertures, X-ray imaging, Coded aperture imaging, Astrophysics
HSP was selected for the NASA Astrophysics Science SmallSat Study (AS3) program as a SmallSat mission concept that will be proposed for a 1 – 2 year science mission to demonstrate performance and cost goals to enable a future Explorer-class SmallSat Constellation mission for the first simultaneous full-sky imager with 2X finer resolution. HSP is a 36 x 36deg (FWHM) coded aperture telescope with 16 x 16 CdZnTe detectors, each 20 x 20 x 3mm with 32 x 32 0.6mm pixels and ~1.5keV energy resolution. The 1024 cm^2 HSP imaging detector array views the sky through the Tungsten coded aperture mask (0.7 mm pixels) at 68cm, providing 4’ imaging and <30” source positions over the 3 – 200 keV band. This is mounted on a Blue Canyon Technologies (BCT) SmallSat (S5) bus, with ~10arcsec pointing and star camera aspect, extends the capabilities of Swift/BAT and INTEGRAL/IBIS. HSP will promptly localize long and short GRBs and outbursts of X-ray transients: from nearby M dwarf flares, to BH-LMXB outbursts, Blazar flares and Jetted TDEs. HSP will daily-monitor the Galactic Bulge and adjacent Galactic plane and > 2 nearby OB association regions for 1 yr, providing high cadence light curves of black hole X-ray binaries (with low and high mass companions) in the Galaxy. HSP matches the on-axis sensitivity of Swift/BAT in the 15 – 200 keV band with 5X finer spatial resolution, and the simultaneous 3 – 15 keV imaging and spectra surpass MAXI with 15X finer spatial resolution, all within an ESPA class mission in LEO at ~500-600 km and <~30 deg inclination.
WATCH PRESENTATION
SEEJ: SmallSat Exosphere Explorer of hot Jupiters
Scott Wolk, JaeSub Hong, Suzanne Romaine, Katja Poppenhaeger, Almus Kenter, Althea Moorhead, Dennis Gallagher, Christopher Moore, Martin Elvis, Ralph Kraft, Jeremy Drake, Vinay Kashyap, Elaine Winston, Bradford Wargelin, Ignazio Pillitteri, Diab Jerius, Mark Stahl, Bruce Wiegmann, Christopher Loghry
KEYWORDS: Stars, X-rays, Magnetism, Exoplanets, Planets, Jupiter, X-ray detectors, Atmospheric sensing, Atmospheric sciences, Atmospheric optics
The first detected exoplanets found were "hot Jupiters"; these are large Jupiter-like planets in close orbits with their host star. The stars in these so-called "hot Jupiter systems" can have significant X-ray emission and the X-ray flux likely changes the evolution of the overall star-planetary system in at least two ways: (1) the intense high energy flux alters the structure of the upper atmosphere of the planet - in some cases leading to significant mass loss; (2) the angular momentum and magnetic field of the planet induces even more activity on the star, enhancing its X-rays, which are then subsequently absorbed by the planet. If the alignment of the systems is appropriate, the planet will transit the host star. The resulting drop in flux from the star allows us to measure the distribution of the low-density planetary atmosphere. We describe a science mission concept for a SmallSat Exosphere Explorer of hot Jupiters (SEEJ; pronounced "siege"). SEEJ will monitor the X-ray emission of nearby X-ray bright stars with transiting hot Jupiters in order to measure the lowest density portion of exoplanet atmospheres and the coronae of the exoplanet hosts. SEEJ will use revolutionary Miniature X-ray Optics (MiXO) and CMOS X-ray detectors to obtain sufficient collecting area and high sensitivity in a low mass, small volume and low-cost package. SEEJ will observe scores of transits occurring on select systems to make detailed measurements of the transit depth and shape which can be compared to out-of-transit behavior of the target system. The depth and duration of the flux change will allow us to characterize the exospheres of multiple hot Jupiters in a single year. In addition, the long baselines (covering multiple stellar rotation periods) from the transit data will allow us to characterize the temperature, flux and flare rates of the exoplanet hosts at an unprecedented level. This, in turn, will provide valuable constraints for models of atmospheric loss. In this contribution we outline the science of SEEJ and focus on the enabling technologies Miniature X-ray Optics and CMOS X-ray detectors.
Proceedings Article | 10 July 2018
The high-energy x-ray probe (HEX-P) (Conference Presentation)
Fiona Harrison, Kristin Madsen, Brian Grefenstette, Daniel Stern, Ann Hornschemeier, Steven Boggs, Niel Brandt, Laura Brenneman, Deepto Chakrabarty, Finn Christensen, William Craig, Andrew Fabian, Martin Elvis, Jonathan Grindlay, Charles Hailey, Allan Hornstrup, Victoria Kaspi, Grzegorz Madejski, Giorgio Matt, Jon Miller, Hiromasa Miyasaka, Silvano Molendi, William Zhang, John Tomsick, Mihoko Yukita
Proc. SPIE. 10699, Space Telescopes and Instrumentation 2018: Ultraviolet to Gamma Ray
KEYWORDS: X-rays, Spatial resolution, Active galactic nuclei, Binary data
The High-Energy X-ray Probe (HEX-P) is a probe-class mission concept that will extend the reach of broadband (2-200 keV) X-ray observations, with 40 times the sensitivity of any previous mission in the 10-80 keV band and 10,000 times the sensitivity of any previous mission in the 80-200 keV band. HEX-P addresses key NASA science goals and is an important complement to ESA's L-class Athena mission. Working in coordination with Athena HEX-P will provide continuum measurements that are essential for interpreting Athena spectra. With angular resolution improved by more than an order of magnitude relative to NuSTAR, HEX-P will carry out an independent program aimed at addressing questions unique to the high energy X-ray band, such as the nature of the source that powers Active Galactic Nuclei, the evolution of black holes in obscured environments, and understanding of how compact binary systems form, evolve and influence galactic systems. With heritage from NuSTAR, HEX-P can be executed within the next decade with a budget less than double that of a Medium class Explorer (MIDEX) mission.
The Extreme Physics Explorer and large area micro-channel plate optics
Michael Garcia, Martin Elvis, Jon Chappell, Laura Brenneman, Daniel Patnaude, Ian Evans, Ricardo Bruni, Suzanne Romaine, Eric Silver, Richard Willingale, George Fraser, T. J. Turner, Brian Ramsey
Proc. SPIE. 8147, Optics for EUV, X-Ray, and Gamma-Ray Astronomy V
KEYWORDS: Point spread functions, X-ray optics, Stars, Polarization, Glasses, Particles, X-rays, Reflectivity, Physics, Absorption
The Extreme Physics Explorer (EPE) is a concept timing/spectroscopy mission that would use micro-channel plate optics (MCPO) to provide 4m2 effective area focused to ~1 arc-min onto an X-ray calorimeter. We describe science drivers for such a mission, possible designs for the large area MCPO needed for EPE, and the challenges of the large area MCPO design.
The Warm-Hot Intergalactic Medium Explorer (WHIMex) mission
Charles Lillie, Webster Cash, Randall McEntaffer, William Zhang, Stephen O'Dell, Mark Bautz, Martin Elvis
Proc. SPIE. 8145, UV, X-Ray, and Gamma-Ray Space Instrumentation for Astronomy XVII
KEYWORDS: Staring arrays, Observatories, Mirrors, Electronics, Stars, Sensors, X-rays, Data archive systems, Charge-coupled devices, Space operations
The WHIMex X-ray observatory will provide an order of magnitude improvement in sensitivity and spectroscopic resolution, ushering in a new era in astrophysics. With resolution ≥ 4,000 and collecting area 250 cm2 in the 0.2- 0.8 keV band, WHIMex will greatly extend the spectroscopic discoveries of Chandra and XMM with a low-cost, highly-productive Explorer mission. WHIMex's spectra will provide a wealth of new information on the physical conditions of baryonic matter from the local regions of our Galaxy out to the Cosmic Web and the large-scale structures of the Universe. This baryonic matter is thought to result from gravitational collapse of moderately over-dense, dark-matter filaments of the Cosmic Web. The chemical enrichment of the Cosmic Web appears to arise from galactic super winds and early generations of massive stars. WHIMex will test these theories, distinguish between competing models, and provide new insights into galaxy evolution and the structure of the universe High-resolution X-ray spectroscopy was identified by the ASTRO 2010 decadal survey as a high-priority capability in the coming decade for a wide variety of science goals. Unfortunately, no other planned mission can address this science until IXO flies, no earlier than the late 2020s. WHIMex achieves its high level of performance in a single-instrument, affordable package using X-ray optical technologies developed for IXO and NuSTAR by academic, industrial and government research centers. The technology readiness levels of all the components are high. We plan to build an optical test module and raise the optical system readiness to TRL 6 during Phase A.
High-resolution x-ray telescopes
Stephen O'Dell, Roger Brissenden, William Davis, Ronald Elsner, Martin Elvis, Mark Freeman, Terrance Gaetz, Paul Gorenstein, Mikhail Gubarev, Diab Jerius, Michael Juda, Jeffery Kolodziejczak, Stephen Murray, Robert Petre, William Podgorski, Brian Ramsey, Paul Reid, Timo Saha, Daniel Schwartz, Susan Trolier-McKinstry, Martin Weisskopf, Rudeger H. Wilke, Scott Wolk, William Zhang
Proc. SPIE. 7803, Adaptive X-Ray Optics
KEYWORDS: Observatories, Telescopes, Mirrors, Astronomy, X-rays, Space telescopes, Spatial resolution, X-ray imaging, X-ray astronomy, X-ray telescopes
High-energy astrophysics is a relatively young scientific field, made possible by space-borne telescopes. During the half-century history of x-ray astronomy, the sensitivity of focusing x-ray telescopes-through finer angular resolution and increased effective area-has improved by a factor of a 100 million. This technological advance has enabled numerous exciting discoveries and increasingly detailed study of the high-energy universe-including accreting (stellarmass and super-massive) black holes, accreting and isolated neutron stars, pulsar-wind nebulae, shocked plasma in supernova remnants, and hot thermal plasma in clusters of galaxies. As the largest structures in the universe, galaxy clusters constitute a unique laboratory for measuring the gravitational effects of dark matter and of dark energy. Here, we review the history of high-resolution x-ray telescopes and highlight some of the scientific results enabled by these telescopes. Next, we describe the planned next-generation x-ray-astronomy facility-the International X-ray Observatory (IXO). We conclude with an overview of a concept for the next next-generation facility-Generation X. The scientific objectives of such a mission will require very large areas (about 10000 m2) of highly-nested lightweight grazing-incidence mirrors with exceptional (about 0.1-arcsecond) angular resolution. Achieving this angular resolution with lightweight mirrors will likely require on-orbit adjustment of alignment and figure.
Imaging simulations of selected science with the Magdalena Ridge Observatory Interferometer
Michelle Creech-Eakman, John Young, Christopher Haniff, David Buscher, Martin Elvis, Andrea Chiavassa, Marc Schartmann
Proc. SPIE. 7734, Optical and Infrared Interferometry II
KEYWORDS: Telescopes, Stars, Data modeling, Interferometers, Image restoration, Interferometry, Clouds, Spatial resolution, Visibility, Magdalena Ridge Observatory
We present simulated observations of surface features on Red Supergiant (RSG) stars and clumpy dust structures surrounding Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) with the Magdalena Ridge Observatory Interferometer (MROI). These represent two of the classes of astrophysical targets enumerated in the MROI Key Science Mission that are typical of the types of complex astrophysical phenomena that the MROI has been designed to image. The simulations are based on source structures derived from recent theoretical models and include both random and systematic noise on the measured Fourier data (visibility amplitudes and closure phases) consistent with our expectations for typical such targets observed with the MROI. Image reconstructions, obtained using the BSMEM imaging package, are presented for 4-, 6- and 8- telescope implementations of the array. Although a rudimentary imaging capability is demonstrated with only 4 telescopes, the detailed features of targets are only reliably determined when at least 6 telescopes are present. By the tine 8 telescope are used, the reconstructed images are sufficiently faithful to allow the discrimination between competing models, confirming the design goal of the MROI, i.e. to offer model-independent near-infrared imaging on sub-milliarcsecond scales.
Proceedings Article | 30 April 2009
Active x-ray optics
R. Hudec, M. Hromcik, M. Elvis, O. Gedeon
Proc. SPIE. 7360, EUV and X-Ray Optics: Synergy between Laboratory and Space
KEYWORDS: Actuators, Mirrors, X-ray optics, Glasses, X-rays, Silicon, Spatial resolution, Semiconducting wafers, Active optics, Optics manufacturing
There is a growing need for multiply nested large area X-ray mirrors with very fine angular resolution in future X-ray astrophysics experiments. Despite of promising results of several exploited technologies, it is not demonstrated yet that these technologies will provide the required angular resolutions of order of few arcsec. The alternative approach described in this paper is the method of active X-ray optics. In addition, active approaches based on computer control may be applied directly during manufacturing of advanced X-ray optics elements. We propose these methods as an alternative for the IXO project recently under study by ESA/NASA/JAXA.
On-orbit adjustment calculation for the Generation-X x-ray mirror figure
Daniel Schwartz, Roger Brissenden, Martin Elvis, Guiseppina Fabbiano, Terrance Gaetz, Diab Jerius, Michael Juda, Paul Reid, Scott Wolk, Stephen O'Dell, Jeffrey Kolodziejczak, William Zhang
Proc. SPIE. 7011, Space Telescopes and Instrumentation 2008: Ultraviolet to Gamma Ray
KEYWORDS: Mirrors, Sensors, Ultraviolet radiation, X-rays, Space telescopes, Gamma radiation, Spatial resolution, Space operations, Grazing incidence, X-ray detectors
Generation-X will be an X-ray observatory with 50 m2 collecting area at 1 keV and 0.1" angular resolution. A key concept to enable such a dramatic improvement in angular resolution is that the mirror figure will be adjusted on-orbit; e.g., via piezo-electric actuators deposited on the back side of very thin glass and imparting strains in a bi-morph configuration. To make local adjustments to the individual mirror shells we must employ an imaging detector far forward of the focal surface, so that rays from the individual shells can be measured as distinct rings. We simulate this process on a few representative shells via ray-traces of perfect optics, perturbed axially by low order Legendre polynomial terms. This elucidates some of the requirements for the on-orbit measurements, and on possible algorithms to perform the on-orbit adjustment with acceptably rapid convergence.
Science with Generation-X
Scott Wolk, Roger Brissenden, Martin Elvis, Guiseppina Fabbiano, Ann Hornschemeier, Stephen O'Dell, Marshall Bautz, Daniel Schwartz, Michael Juda
KEYWORDS: Stars, Metals, X-rays, Spectral resolution, Spatial resolution, Chemical elements, Galactic astronomy, Astrophysics, Absorption, Bohrium
We report on the prospects for the study of the first stars, galaxies and black holes with the Generation-X Mission. Generation-X is a NASA "Vision Mission" which completed preliminary study in lat e2006. Generation-X was approved in February 2008 as an Astrophysics Strategic Mission Concept Study (ASMCS) and is baselined as an X-ray observatory with 50 square meters of collecting area at 1 keV (500 times larger than Chandra) and 0.1 arcsecond angular resolution (several times better than Chandra and 50 times better than the Constellation-X resolution goal). Such a high energy observatory will be capable of detecting the earliest black holes and galaxies in the Universe, and will also study the chemical evolution of the Universe and extremes of density, gravity, magnetic fields, and kinetic energy which cannot be created in laboratories. A direct signature of the formation of the first galaxies, stars and black holes is predicted to be X-ray emission at characteristic X-ray temperatures of 0.1-1 keV from the collapsing proto-galaxies before they cool and form the first stars.
Proceedings Article | 30 June 2006
CIAO: Chandra's data analysis system
Antonella Fruscione, Jonathan McDowell, Glenn Allen, Nancy Brickhouse, Douglas Burke, John Davis, Nick Durham, Martin Elvis, Elizabeth Galle, Daniel Harris, David Huenemoerder, John Houck, Bish Ishibashi, Margarita Karovska, Fabrizio Nicastro, Michael Noble, Michael Nowak, Frank Primini, Aneta Siemiginowska, Randall Smith, Michael Wise
Proc. SPIE. 6270, Observatory Operations: Strategies, Processes, and Systems
KEYWORDS: Observatories, Prisms, Visual process modeling, Data modeling, Visualization, Calibration, Databases, X-rays, Statistical modeling, Data analysis
The CIAO (Chandra Interactive Analysis of Observations) software package was first released in 1999 following the launch of the Chandra X-ray Observatory and is used by astronomers across the world to analyze Chandra data as well as data from other telescopes. From the earliest design discussions, CIAO was planned as a general-purpose scientific data analysis system optimized for X-ray astronomy, and consists mainly of command line tools (allowing easy pipelining and scripting) with a parameter-based interface layered on a flexible data manipulation I/O library. The same code is used for the standard Chandra archive pipeline, allowing users to recalibrate their data in a consistent way. We will discuss the lessons learned from the first six years of the software's evolution. Our initial approach to documentation evolved to concentrate on recipe-based "threads" which have proved very successful. A multi-dimensional abstract approach to data analysis has allowed new capabilities to be added while retaining existing interfaces. A key requirement for our community was interoperability with other data analysis systems, leading us to adopt standard file formats and an architecture which was as robust as possible to the input of foreign data files, as well as re-using a number of external libraries. We support users who are comfortable with coding themselves via a flexible user scripting paradigm, while the availability of tightly constrained pipeline programs are of benefit to less computationally-advanced users. As with other analysis systems, we have found that infrastructure maintenance and re-engineering is a necessary and significant ongoing effort and needs to be planned in to any long-lived astronomy software.
Active x-ray optics for Generation-X: the next high resolution x-ray observatory
Martin Elvis, R. Brissenden, G. Fabbiano, D. Schwartz, P. Reid, W. Podgorski, M. Eisenhower, M. Juda, J. Phillips, L. Cohen, S. Wolk
Proc. SPIE. 6266, Space Telescopes and Instrumentation II: Ultraviolet to Gamma Ray
KEYWORDS: Actuators, Mirrors, X-ray optics, Sensors, X-rays, Spatial resolution, Space operations, Galactic astronomy, X-ray astronomy, Active optics
X-rays provide one of the few bands through which we can study the epoch of reionization, when the first galaxies, black holes and stars were born. To reach the sensitivity required to image these first discrete objects in the universe needs a major advance in X-ray optics. Generation-X (Gen-X) is currently the only X-ray astronomy mission concept that addresses this goal. Gen-X aims to improve substantially on the Chandra angular resolution and to do so with substantially larger effective area. These two goals can only be met if a mirror technology can be developed that yields high angular resolution at much lower mass/unit area than the Chandra optics, matching that of Constellation-X (Con-X). We describe an approach to this goal based on active X-ray optics that correct the mid-frequency departures from an ideal Wolter optic on-orbit. We concentrate on the problems of sensing figure errors, calculating the corrections required, and applying those corrections. The time needed to make this in-flight calibration is reasonable. A laboratory version of these optics has already been developed by others and is successfully operating at synchrotron light sources. With only a moderate investment in these optics the goals of Gen-X resolution can be realized.
The Extreme Physics Explorer
Martin Elvis
KEYWORDS: Point spread functions, Mirrors, Stars, Polarization, Sensors, Spectroscopy, Microchannel plates, X-rays, Physics, Polarimetry
Some tests of fundamental physics - the equation of state at supra-nuclear densities, the metric in strong gravity, the effect of magnetic fields above the quantum critical value - can only be measured using compact astrophysical objects: neutron stars and black holes. The Extreme Physics Explorer is a modest sized (~500 kg) mission that would carry a high resolution (R ~300) X-ray spectrometer and a sensitive X-ray polarimeter, both with high time resolution (~5 μs) capability, at the focus of a large area (~5 sq.m), low resolution (HPD~1 arcmin) X-ray mirror. This instrumentation would enable new classes of tests of fundamental physics using neutron stars and black holes as cosmic laboratories.
Constellation-X to Generation-X: evolution of large collecting area moderate resolution grazing incidence x-ray telescopes to larger area high-resolution adjustable optics
Paul Reid, Robert Cameron, Lester Cohen, Martin Elvis, Paul Gorenstein, Diab Jerius, Robert Petre, William Podgorski, Daniel Schwartz, William Zhang
Proc. SPIE. 5488, UV and Gamma-Ray Space Telescope Systems
KEYWORDS: Reflectors, Diffraction, Telescopes, Mirrors, X-ray optics, Spatial frequencies, Space telescopes, Grazing incidence, Optical instrument design, X-ray telescopes
Large collecting area x-ray telescopes are designed to study the early Universe, trace the evolution of black holes, stars and galaxies, study the chemical evolution of the Universe, and study matter in extreme environments. The Constellation-X mission (Con-X), planned for launch in 2016, will provide ~ 104 cm2 collecting area with 15 arc-sec resolution, with a goal of 5 arc-sec. Future missions require larger collecting area and finer resolution. Generation-X (Gen-X), a NASA Visions Mission, will achieve 100 m2 effective area at 1 keV and angular resolution of 0.1 arc-sec, half power diameter. We briefly describe the Con-X flowdown of imaging requirements to reflector figure error. To meet requirements beyond Con-X, Gen-X optics will be thinner and more accurately shaped than has ever been accomplished. To meet these challenging goals, we incorporate for the first time active figure control with grazing incidence optics. Piezoelectric material will be deposited in discrete cells directly on the back surface of the optical segments, with the strain directions oriented parallel to the surface. Differential strain between the two layers of the mirror causes localized bending in two directions, enabling local figure control. Adjusting figure on-orbit eases fabrication and metrology. The ability to make changes to mirror figure adds margin by mitigating risk due to launch-induced deformations and/or on-orbit degradation. We flowdown the Gen-X requirements to mirror figure and four telescope designs, and discuss various trades between the designs.
Generation-X: mission and technology studies for an x-ray observatory vision mission
Robert Cameron, Marshall Bautz, Roger Brissenden, Martin Elvis, Giuseppina Fabbiano, Enectali Figueroa-Feliciano, Paul Gorenstein, Robert Petre, Paul Reid, Daniel Schwartz, Nicholas White, William Zhang
KEYWORDS: Actuators, Telescopes, Mirrors, Sensors, Spectroscopy, X-rays, Space telescopes, Spatial resolution, X-ray telescopes, Optics manufacturing
The new frontier in astrophysics is the study of the very first stars, galaxies and black holes in the early Universe. These objects are beyond the grasp of the current generation of X-ray telescopes such as Chandra, and so the Generation-X Vision Mission has been proposed as an X-ray observatory which will be capable of detecting these earliest objects. Xray imaging and spectroscopy of such distant objects will require an X-ray telescope with large collecting area and high angular resolution. The Generation-X concept has 100 m2 collecting area at 1 keV (1000 times larger than Chandra) and 0.1 arcsecond angular resolution (several times better than Chandra and 50 times better than the resolution goal for Constellation-X). The baseline mission involves four 8 m diameter telescopes operating at Sun-Earth L2. Such large telescopes will require either robotic or human-assisted in-flight assembly. To achieve the required effective area with launchable mass, very lightweight grazing incidence X-ray optics must be developed, having an areal density 100 times lower than in Chandra, with perhaps 0.1 mm thick mirrors requiring on-orbit figure control. The suite of available detectors for Generation-X should include a large-area high resolution imager, a cryogenic imaging spectrometer and a grating spectrometer.
High-resolution intergalactic explorer for the soft x-ray/FUV
Martin Elvis, Fabrizio Fiore
Proc. SPIE. 4851, X-Ray and Gamma-Ray Telescopes and Instruments for Astronomy
KEYWORDS: Mirrors, Spectroscopy, Photons, X-rays, Physics, Spectral resolution, Space operations, Galactic astronomy, X-ray telescopes, Absorption
We present a mission concept for high resolution X-ray spectroscopy with a resolving power, R ~6000. This resolution is physics-driven, since it allows the thermal widths of coronal X-ray lines to be measured, and astrophysics-driven, since 50km/s resolves internal galaxy motions, and galaxy motions within larger structures. Such a mission could be small and have a rapid response allowing us to 'X-ray the Universe' using the afterglows of Gamma-ray Bursts (GRBs) as strong background sources of X-rays, and so illuminate the `Cosmic Web'. The Cosmic Web is predicted to contain most of the normal matter (baryons) in the nearby Universe.
Optical design of astronomical telescopes with large-scale computational methods by distributed processing on local area networks
John Roll, Martin Elvis, Andrew Szentgyorgyi, Leon Van Speybroeck
Proc. SPIE. 2198, Instrumentation in Astronomy VIII
KEYWORDS: Optical design, Annealing, Ray tracing, Software development, Astronomical telescopes, Local area networks, Data communications, Optimization (mathematics), Grazing incidence, Algorithms
The downhill simplex and simulated annealing algorithms are powerful design tools for optical systems that do not yield to analytic methods of optimization. Use of these numerical techniques have been frustrated by the shortage of computational resources available to investigators. To tap the latent computational resources available in even moderate sized local area networks (LAN's), we have developed software to operate flexibly, a LAN composed of UNIX workstations as a distributed processor for optical design optimization. We have developed a general purpose remote procedure call generator and subroutine library which allow simple specification and use of existing subprograms as remote procedures. This software provides a mechanism for modifying or developing large scientific and engineering applications with inherent parallelism for distributed processing on LAN's. We discuss the performance, bandwidth, and adaptability of this software as applied to the problem of grazing incidence optics design using the simulated annealing algorithm.
Design and performance of four-reflection optics for x-ray astronomy
Andrew Szentgyorgyi, Martin Elvis, John Roll, Leon Van Speybroeck
KEYWORDS: Optical components, Telescopes, X-ray optics, Reflection, Space telescopes, Ray tracing, Chemical elements, Grazing incidence, Optical instrument design, X-ray telescopes
Four reflection, grazing incidence X-ray optics offer the possibility of broad band (0.1-10.0 keV) X-ray telescopes that fit within the physical envelope of NASA's Small and Medium Explorer mission. We describe a short focal length (4 m) optical design with arcsec imagery over a 1 degree(s) field of view and good efficiency in the Fe-K band (6.4-7.1 keV).
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How Women Experience Sexual Harassment Online
August 6, 2015 – Hour 1
We begin the show with an archive edition of The Marc Steiner Show on the topic of Cyber Sexual Harassment. The blogosphere can be a very hostile environment for female bloggers, readers and commenters. Our panel of guests talked about why so many women are experiencing harassment online, and what can be done to create safe spaces on the net.
With: Danielle Citron, Professor at the University of Maryland Law School whose research examines cyber gender harassment and the hostile environment that many women face online; Latoya Peterson, editor and blogger at racialicious.com, whose writing appears in the anthology Yes Means Yes: Visions of Female Sexual Power and a World Without Rape; and Jill Filipovic, blogger at feministe.us who has also written for the Huffington Post, Alternet, and The Yale Journal of Law and Feminism, and whose work also appears in Yes Means Yes: Visions of Female Sexual Power and a World Without Rape.
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St Michael's CE Academy
Staff/Governors
In 2014, the DfE announced that there would no longer be National Curriculum levels and that schools would have to set up their own way of assessing pupils. We have spent a long time researching various different methods of assessing pupils, and we have had demonstrations of various commercial software tracking systems. After careful research with our neighbouring schools, we have adopted the Sheffield STAT system of assessment. Please see this link for more information.
Sheffield STAT – Some Basic Information
The Sheffield Assessment system has been developed with the support of approximately fifty Sheffield schools.
The project has developed School Tracking & Assessment Tools (STAT) which support assessment and planning for children at all stages of attainment. There are also materials to support schools in sharing the new system with staff, children, parents/carers, governors and OFSTED.
The scheme has been shared with various national organisations to quality assure it.
The Sheffield STAT grid
Attainment Steps will be used to describe Y1/Y3/Y4/Y5 children’s attainment in maths, reading, writing and SPAG (spelling, punctuation and grammar).
The steps are organised in the same way that the new curriculum is, so that they provide expectations for each stage of attainment (e.g. a typical Y3 would be at step 24 by the end of the year).
Just as before each class will have children at lots of different steps (e.g. Y4 children will not all be at a Y4 stage of attainment between steps 25-27).
The new curriculum is harder so children are likely to start lower down the scale.
Since assessment is such a key aspect of teaching and learning, we have spared no costin establishing a thorough and consistent training programme for our staff. We have bought in the services of Stephen Betts, who devised the system,to deliver staff training on various occasions.Stephen continues to work with our school as we perfect our skill in using Sheffield STAT.
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Top 10 must-reads of March
Stylist Team
If you’re looking to pick up a good book this month, there are plenty of offerings from some of the biggest names in fiction – including Costa winner Kate Atkinson and Girl With a Pearl Earring author Tracy Chevalier – as well as some exciting debuts from hot new authors. So put the kettle on, grab a blanket and get stuck in with our best new releases of March 2013, below.
Got a favourite? Let us know @stylistmagazine or in the comments section.
Words: Stacey Bartlett
All of us think ‘what if...’ but Kate Atkinson’s extraordinary novel explores each direction Ursula Todd’s life could have taken, starting with her birth in 1910 in the midst of a snowstorm. In one scenario baby Ursula dies; in the other she survives, and so on throughout her life – and deaths – into adulthood. As the Second World War hits London, her multiple destinies and those of her family intertwine and lead her to one final, game-changing decision.
(£18.99, Doubleday)
The Last Runaway by Tracy Chevalier
In 1850, Honor Bright leaves her Quaker community in Bristol for a new life with her sister in America – but less than a month into their trip her sister is buried. As Honor tries to put down roots in this unfamiliar land she becomes aware of the Quakers’ involvement in the ‘underground railroad’, the route that runaway slaves used to escape from their masters in the South to freedom in Canada. Another engrossing historical novel from the author of Girl With a Pearl Earring.
(£14.99, HarperCollins)
Fifty Shades of Feminism by Lisa Appignanesi, Susie Orbach and Rachel Holmes
Joan Bakewell, Jeanette Winterson, Kate Mosse and Siri Hustvedt are just some of the fifty women who write about what it means to be a woman today in this volume that celebrates fifty years since Betty Friedan’s The Feminine Mystique was published. There are inspirational essays from writers, politicians, actors and scientists – and editor Susie Orbach is Jeanette Winterson’s girlfriend. Girl Power.
(£12.99, Virago Press)
The Fields by Kevin Maher
Thirteen-year-old Jim Finnegan is the youngest brother of five sisters, and his childhood in 1980s Dublin is far from idyllic. As he explores first love with the beautiful Saidhbh Donohue he is desperately trying to avoid the unwanted attentions of the sinister Father Luke O’Culigeen. This dark and funny novel from Kevin Maher was chosen as one of Waterstones’ 11 best debuts for 2013.
(£12.99, Little, Brown)
Queen’s Gambit by Elizabeth Fremantle
Hilary Mantel fans will devour this novel about Katherine Parr, the Tudor queen who married four men and outlived three of them, including Henry VIII. Based on real historical events, it follows the story of the young widow Katherine, who has joined the royal court and fallen in love with Thomas Seymour. But try as she might, she can’t escape the attentions of the king. Rich in atmosphere and period detail, this is an enticing read for historical fiction fans.
(£14.99, Michael Joseph)
We Are Here by Michael Marshall
Aspiring novelist David is in New York with his wife to visit his publisher – but on their way home a stranger brushes past him and whispers ‘remember me?’ When David spies the same man in his hometown, he has a horrible feeling he wants something from him. Across town, Catherine is happily married with two children, but can’t escape the feeling she is being followed. David and Catherine’s stories collide in this chilling suspense thriller, for fans of Gillian Flynn’s Gone Girl.
(£16.99, Orion)
Amity and Sorrow by Peggy Riley
In the midst of a suspicious fire in their compound, twins Amity and Sorrow are bundled into the car by their mother Amaranth, and the three women escape the cult they have always called home. Amaranth is one of fifty wives to her daughters’ father and is terrified he will follow them – but when they crash the car and must accept help from a local farmer their history catches up with them. Amity and Sorrow is an intriguing insight into cults, with the security, joy and fear of the unknown they bring.
(£14.99, Tinder Press)
The Infatuations by Javier Marías
María is an ambitious woman working in publishing and breakfasts at the same café every morning, where she always sees a couple that appear completely in love. But then she spots an article about the man’s brutal murder, and, offering her support to his widow, is drawn into an intense and uncomfortable friendship that she can’t escape from. This literary thriller is elegantly written and offers a darkly satirical observation on the world of publishing.
(£18.99, Hamish Hamilton)
Vow by Wendy Plump
Imagine not only discovering your husband has been having an affair, but that he has an eight-month old son living only a mile away. This is the position American journalist Wendy Plump found herself in eight years ago, and in her sharp and pragmatic memoir she asks whether there is such thing as The One – and confesses that she wasn’t always faithful either. Ruthless in her dissection of relationships, Plump has written a fascinating book that opens the doors on a modern-day marriage.
(£12.99, Bloomsbury)
Red Joan by Jennie Rooney
Elderly Joan Stanley has lived a mostly unremarkable life for the last fifty years – but her past is about to catch up with her. Based on the true story of spy Melita Norwood, who shared British nuclear intelligence with Russia for decades, young Joan’s chance meeting with the glamorous Russian-born Sonya and her cousin Leo at Cambridge in 1937 leads to her make some life-changing decisions in this gripping spy thriller.
(£12.99, Chatto)
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Amelie Mauresmo Quotes
65 Amelie Mauresmo quotes:
"You cannot keep going. My body is not a machine."
Author: Mauresmo Quotes Category: Body Quotes
"The beginning of the match was a little bit tough because I had to get things going and I was still a bit rusty from yesterday (Friday), but once a few games were behind me I felt I was physically getting better and better. I just think that she did two things much better than me. Serving and returning. That made the difference at the end of the match."
Author: Mauresmo Quotes Category: Beginning Quotes
"Even if I was 3-0 I didn't really feel in control because I felt she was making some errors."
Author: Mauresmo Quotes Category: Control Quotes
"That's entertaining, and you all know how important that is here."
Author: Mauresmo Quotes Category: Entertainment Quotes
"Obviously, you can't celebrate the injury of someone else. I just hope it doesn't cut her season short. I think she's had her share of injuries in the past."
Author: Mauresmo Quotes Category: Hope Quotes
"I think these girls coming up, it's normal, it's great and it's good for the tennis, ... They probably still have to learn a few things ââ¬Â¦ but, you know, she's only 16 and she's going to improve a lot and make her way."
Author: Mauresmo Quotes Category: Girls Quotes
"She gave me a lot of points and made lots of mistakes,"
Author: Mauresmo Quotes Category: Mistakes Quotes
"For players out there giving it our all, it's great to know that we now have the ability to use technology that will make the game more accurate and better than ever, and more exciting for the fans."
Author: Mauresmo Quotes Category: Ability Quotes
"It's hard to analyze straight after a defeat. She carried the team this weekend. She was so solid. Sometimes things just don't work out."
Author: Mauresmo Quotes Category: Defeat Quotes
"It's hard to analyze straight after a defeat. We played our best but it wasn't good enough. I hope I don't take too long to recover from this."
"It's hard to analyze straight after a defeat, ... But I think one of the reasons is Dementieva. She carried the team this weekend. She was so solid."
"I was very in control, I didn't let the emotions end this time. I thought this could be my day, this could be the moment for me."
"I think you always have, you know, new players. Every year you see new faces, juniors coming into the seniors. I was one of them at the time long time ago now."
Author: Mauresmo Quotes Category: French Athlete Quotes
"It took me time to adjust and to realise it was not going to happen like it did in the juniors."
"When I finished the juniors I felt, perhaps for about a year and a half, that everything was going to be the same and that I would be able to go out there and win any match. But it wasn't the case. I struggled."
"Whether it's in the right way or sometimes the wrong way, you learn about life and its lessons."
"I hope there is still more to come. I didn't feel too good in the first two rounds, but today was much better."
"Who are you in love with now?"
Author: Mauresmo Quotes Category: Love Quotes
"The match was up and down, but overall, I'm happy to be in the semifinals again, ... She has a very interesting game. She volleys well, serves well, can control her slice backhand well. She made some mistakes from the baseline but has an unusual game compared to the other girls who just hit hard from both sides."
Author: Mauresmo Quotes Category: Happiness Quotes
"I sensed that Patty was experiencing difficulties breathing. But it was a potential banana-skin because she was playing with a lot of freedom."
Author: Mauresmo Quotes Category: Potential Quotes
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Junior Journalist
Raymond Bureau
JV/Varsity Basketball: In Pair of One-Point Games JV Wins, Varsity Falls vs. Cornerstone
Both games ended on buzzer-beating attempts by the opposition. One fell short, and the other swished through the net to give both games an exciting finish. Trinity Christian Academy's junior varsity Conquerors came up victorious by a single point, but Cornerstone Christian's varsity hit the three that gave the Cougars the one-point win in overtime.
JV: Conquerors 55, Cornerstone 54
Tomarion McCray topped 20 points for the second consecutive game as he dropped 29 in Thursday's seesaw affair. McCray especially came alive in the second quarter when he scored 11, including 3 for 3 at the line, to help give Trinity a slim one-point lead (29-28) at the half. He then got 8 in the third and hit two more clutch free throws down the stretch as the Conquerors held off Cornerstone's last-ditch effort.
Neither team led by more than five points at any time. For the most part, teams traded leads all night long. Cornerstone led 17-16 after one period, and the Conquerors took the slim lead just before the halftime buzzer. Cornerstone then led 45-43 after three, and the Conquerors outscored the Cougars 12-9 in the fourth.
Cornerstone took advantage of missed free throws and rebounds to surge down the court just before the final buzzer. After a timeout, the Cougars inbounded underneath their own goal with 1.7 seconds left. Mr. Domarian took the inbound pass and took the lay-up. The ball hit inside the rim and bounced out as the final buzzer sounded.
Trinity's Jacqary Sineus scored 12 points with six of them in the first quarter. Josh Robinson had a season-high 10 points and was clutch in the second half, scoring eight, and R.J. Albury's four points proved vital. The remaining players added defense and rebounding in addition to finding the open man in a textbook team-oriented performance.
Varsity: Cornerstone 45, Conquerors 44
Cornerstone's Jamel Tanks nailed a near half-court buzzer-beating three pointer from the sideline to propel the Cougars to the one-point win. With 1.4 seconds on the clock following a timeout, Tanks took the inbound pass at mid-court, dribbled once, and fired. This shot came after Trinity's Travis King tapped in a second-chance shot to give the Conquerors a 44-42 lead with 9.9 seconds remaining. Trinity's King and Cornerstone's Jafari Kendrick traded baskets earlier in the extra period.
Trinity gradually and methodically chipped away at a 14-point deficit after one quarter that saw Cornerstone surge to a 18-4 lead. Trinity outscored the Cougars 14-8 in the second and 11-7 in each of the final two quarters. That 22-14 margin in the second half forced a tie at 40-all and the extra frame. Donavon Paris's three-pointer and Xavier Cobb's free throw in the final moments competed the comeback.
King led the Conquerors with 14 points on a pair of threes and four deuces, one of them in overtime. Cobb was next with 8, and Miles Brooks scored 7. Cobb sank six free throws to help Trinity come from behind. Paris and Fred Highsmith each finished with 5, Colton Warren had 3, and Evan Wilson contributed 2.
Tanks and Kendrick tied for the Cornerstone high with 12 total points. Tanks hit a pair of threes in the Cougars' big first quarter in addition to his game winner, and Kendrick spread his six field goals evenly throughout the game.
The two schools will meet again at Cornerstone Christian for a JV/Varsity double-header on Thursday. February 6. The action will begin at 5:30 p.m. All coaches on both sides look forward to another exciting night of basketball.
First, though, the JV and varsity Conquerors will visit Englewood High School beginning at 5:30 on Friday. January 24.
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JV/Varsity Basketball: McCray, Brooks Lead Conquerors to Sweep of Englewood
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'Aliens,' 'The Dark Knight Rises' actor Jay Benedict dies at 68 from coronavirus
Sara M MoniuszkoUSA TODAY
Actor Jay Benedict, best known for his roles in 1986's "Aliens," 2012's "The Dark Knight Rises" and the U.K. TV series "Emmerdale," has died at 68 from the coronavirus.
Kristin Tarry, of TCG Artist Management, confirmed the news of his death to USA TODAY on Monday. She represented Benedict for the past 20-plus years.
"It is with great sadness that we announce the passing of our dear client Jay Benedict, who this afternoon lost his battle with COVID-19. Our thoughts are with his family," the company tweeted Saturday.
Benedict played Newt's father in "Aliens" and Rich Twit in "The Dark Knight Rises." He took on the role of Doug Hamilton in the long-running series "Emmerdale," which has been airing in the U.K. since 1972. He appeared on the show in the late '90s. He leaves behind his wife, Phoebe Scholfield, and sons Freddie and Leopold.
"Emmerdale" co-star Vicki Michelle shared a tribute for Benedict on Twitter on Sunday.
"Shocked to hear one of our most brilliant actors and kind lovely man Jay Benedict has passed. Married to my lovely friend Phoebe Scholfield," she tweeted along with a photo of her and Benedict. "My heart goes out to her and her family at this sad time"
Shocked to hear one of our most brilliant actors and kind lovely man Jay Benedict has passed. Married to my lovely friend Phoebe Scholfield#AlloAllo My heart goes out to her and her family at this sad time#PhoebeScholfield@FreddieBenedict#LeoBenedict#SyncorSwim#COVID19pic.twitter.com/YJ7nn25ftv
— Vicki Michelle (@vickimichelle)April 5, 2020
Actor David Menkin also shared his thoughts.
"Jay Benedict - one of the greats - passed away today. If you work in ADR, dubbing, voiceovers, theatre or film in London, you know why we're heartbroken; a big voice and even bigger personality has left us," he tweeted.
Other celebrities have also recently passed away because of complications from COVID-19.
Patricia Bosworth, an actress who once starred alongside Audrey Hepburn and later wrote biographies on several stars including Marlon Brando and Montgomery Clift, died Thursday from the coronavirus at 86.
Emmy- and Grammy-winning musician Adam Schlesinger, co-founder of the band Fountains of Wayne and songwriter for TV's "Crazy Ex-Girlfriend," died Wednesday from coronavirus complications. He was 52.
Legendary jazz pianist and teacher Ellis Marsalis Jr., the patriarch of New Orleans' great musical family, died Wednesday at 85 from complications of coronavirus. And Lee Fierro, the actress best known for playing mourning Mrs. Kintner in Steven Spielberg's 1975 "Jaws," died of complications from coronavirus at 91.
Contributing: The Associated Press; Bryan Alexander
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Texas woman finds tiger in house, tells dispatch: ‘I’m not lying’
Tiger was nicknamed ‘Tyson’ after ‘The Hangover’ movie
Feb. 13, 2019 1:45 p.m.
A woman who called Houston’s non-emergency dispatch line after discovering a tiger inside a cage at an abandoned home told the shocked dispatcher: “I’m not lying.”
The Houston Chronicle obtained a recording of the call after animal rescue workers found the well-fed animal resting on a bed of hay Monday inside a cage they said could be easily opened.
Police say a group of people looking for a place to smoke marijuana happened across the tiger on Monday. The woman told the dispatcher: “It’s pretty big.” Authorities say the animal weighed 350 pounds (159 kilograms).
Investigators have leads into who owned the tiger but say it may not be the person who owns the property.
The tiger has been moved to an animal sanctuary in Texas. The tiger was nicknamed “Tyson” after the movie “The Hangover.”
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Schipul - The Web Marketing Company Proud to Sponsor SpaceUp Houston
Explore the Solar System One Participant at a Time at the 2nd Annual SpaceUp Houston Unconference
Houston, TX - January 12, 2012 – Schipul - The Web Marketing Company (www.schipul.com), a leading Web marketing, social media consulting and Web design company, today announced it has joined the growing list o sponsors for SpaceUp Houston (each organization focused on education and innovation in the aerospace sciences. SpaceUp Houston recently began selling tickets for the second annual SpaceUp Houston Unconference. The event is scheduled for February 25th and 26th, 2012 and will be held at The Lunar & Planetary Institute (LPI) near Johnson Space Center.
A private reception will be held Saturday evening, February 25th, followed by the Explore the Solar System Panel where aerospace experts discuss manned and unmanned missions and plans for the future. Seating is limited for this exclusive evening presentation.
Tickets to participate in the 2nd Annual SpaceUp Houston Unconference are $25 for adults. Students ages eight to 18 are free with adult registration. Breakfast, lunch, soft drinks and snacks are included. Admission to the private reception on February 25th is $10 per person. Those wishing to attend the Explore the Solar System Panel without participating in the full unconference can do so for $10 per person.
About the Unconference
The SpaceUp Houston 2012 Unconference will feature spontaneous sessions created by attendees. Participants will decide the topics, schedule and structure of the event. An unconference is also known as a user-generated conference or BarCamp. Learn more about the unconference format at https://spaceuphouston.org/spaceup-2012-unconference/.
About SpaceUP Houston
SpaceUp Houston, a 501(c)(3) organization founded in 2010, brings the Houston-Clear Lake community together in sharing and discussing the possibilities for space exploration covering NASA programs, hobbyist projects, start-up companies, research, and the arts. SpaceUp events are designed as catalysts for future science, technology, engineering, and mathematics development. SpaceUp Houston is made possible because of generous sponsors including The Boeing Company, Thinkgeek, and HGK Asset Management. Our supporting partners include NASA, Lunar & Planetary Institute,Schipul – The Web Marketing Company, and Yuri’s Night. The official SpaceUp Houston Twitter stream can be found at Twitter.
Questions can be directed via email to SpaceUp Houston at press@spaceuphouston.org.
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Thai Prime Minister invite Japan to increase role in ASEAN
Thailand’s slow economic recovery
Thai Exports to grow 4% in 2021
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Bahar Karaman
Thai Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra today called on Japan to play a key role in connecting the Southeast Asian region, particularly in the development of the Dawei deep seaport mega project near the Thai-Myanmar border and cooperation in preparing the region for possible disasters.
The Thai premier openly sought the Japanese support in handling natural disasters and exchanges of information with the Asian Disaster Preparedness Centre in order to connect a disaster arning system through satellite.
Thai PM Yingluck Shinawatra made the overture in a meeting among member countries of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations ASEAN and Japan
Ms Yingluck made the overture in a meeting among member countries of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations ASEAN and Japan, held on the sidelines of the 21st ASEAN Summit in the Cambodian capital. The ASEAN-Japan Summit, the 15th of its kind, lasted about one and a half hours.
Next year marks the 40th anniversary of ASEAN-Japan relationship
She called on Japan to take a larger role in connecting the region, especially especially regarding logistics to link Thailand’s border areas with neighbouring countries, and the Dawei project with Laem Chabang deep seaport on eastern Thailand.
Japan should increase its activity in the Mekong region through the Initiative for ASEAN Integration and the Mekong Japan Forum with emphasis on agriculture, public health and human resources development, said Ms Yingluck.
Next year marks the 40th anniversary of ASEAN-Japan relationship. The Thai prime minister said she believes the ASEAN and Japan relationship will be strengthened in every aspect while trade and investment will also be enhanced. MCOT online news
via Thai PM urges more Japanese participation in ASEAN | MCOT.net.
Asean summit highlights China’s role in Southeast Asia
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Thailand has largely avoided widespread community transmission of Covid-19, but the kingdom is not faring well on the economic front, with a projected contraction of 7.1 percent this year.
Headline Editor
As a region, Southeast Asia has fared relatively well in keeping coronavirus cases low, with the notable exceptions of the Philippines and Indonesia.
Laos’ debt challenge is deeply concerning, with some media commentators suggesting the country is falling into a debt trap as a result of Chinese infrastructure investments connected to the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI)
On 23 September, the Fitch Ratings agency downgraded Laos’ credit rating to CCC — the second downgrade in 2020, having dropped to B- in May.
As many as 798 projects added a combined over 5.11 billion USD to their investment capital, down 23 percent year-on-year in project number but up 6.8 percent in value.
Bui Dung
Hanoi (VNA) – The total amount of foreign investment poured into Vietnam this year to September 20 reached 21.2 billion USD, equivalent to 81.8 percent of the same period last year, reported the Ministry of Planning and Investment.
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Prospects Daily: Yen depreciates further, India’s WPI inflation falls
Kasikorn Research expects Thailand’s GDP to grow 2.6% in 2021
Thailand expects 400 foreign visitors in early November
The Japanese yen depreciated as much as 0.6% to 89.67 per dollar in New York morning trade, the weakest level since June 2010, amid growing investors’ speculation that the Bank of Japan will push for further monetary stimulus. The yen also declined to a 20-month low versus the euro, dropping to 120.13 in earlier trading.
Financial Markets…The Japanese yen depreciated as much as 0.6% to 89.67 per dollar in New York morning trade, the weakest level since June 2010, amid growing investors’ speculation that the Bank of Japan will push for further monetary stimulus. The yen also declined to a 20-month low versus the euro, dropping to 120.13 in earlier trading.
Spanish government bonds fell for the first time in three days, with the benchmark 10-year yields climbing 10 basis points to 4.99% (the steepest rise in a month), following a report that showed an unexpected decline in euro-area industrial production in November. Italian bonds fell as well, with the 10-year yield rising 6bps to 4.19%, after falling to a 14-month low of 4.13% last week.
Global corporate bond issuance reached $126 billion last week, the biggest weekly volume on record, as companies worldwide continued to take advantage of extreme low borrowing costs. Company bond sales worldwide enjoyed a banner year in 2012, when issuance activity reached an unprecedented $3.95 trillion, as corporate borrowing rates touched a record low of 3.243% in December (based on the Bank of America Merrill Lynch Global Corporate & High Yield index).
Chinese shares surged on Monday, with the CSI 300 (an index of Shanghai and Shenzhen listed stocks) jumping 3.8% to a six-month high level, after a regulator said the country can raise quotas for cross-border investment in its financial market by 10 times. The China stock index has gained 22% from a nearly 4-year low reached on December 3.
High-income Economies…Euro Area industrial production fell a smaller 0.3% (m/m) in November compared with a 1% drop in October. Industrial output in Germany, Europe’s largest economy, remained broadly stable, rising 0.1% (m/m) after a steep 2% decline in October. French production rose 0.5% (m/m), while Italy and Spain reported declines of 1% and 2.5%, respectively.
German wholesale price index inflation remained flat in December (0.0% m/m) following 0.7% drop in November. Wholesale prices were also stable on a year-on-year basis at 3.2% (y/y).
The OECD’s composite leading indicators suggest that economic growth likely firmed in the US (with the index rising to 101 in November from 100.8 in October) and in the UK (to 100.7 from 100.5). An index level of 100 represents the long-term trend in economic activity. In China (99.7) and India (97.9), signs of a turning point were more marked compared with the previous month. The indices for Italy, Germany, France, and the Euro Area as a whole also point to stabilization in growth prospects, according to the OECD.
South Korea’s trade surplus fell to $28.5 billion in 2012 from $30.8 billion in 2011, as exports fell 1.3% (y/y) as a result of the global economic slowdown and the European debt crisis, while imports fell a smaller 0.9% (y/y).
Developing Economies… Bulgaria’s inflation accelerated in December to 4.2% (y/y), after easing in the previous two months. Annual average inflation for 2012 was 3% lower than the 4.2% recorded in 2011.
Thailand: Year in Review 2012
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THE ADVOCATE 359 VOL. 78 PART 3 MAY 2020 as the Full Court, could review such verdicts, but the grounds were narrower (see n 9, above). 43. This was the Hamasak case in 1889. Hamasak had pleaded guilty before the Indian agent who had arrested him and who then sentenced him to six months’ imprisonment. According to this agent, Begbie’s ruling rendered the law banning the potlatch “a dead letter” by holding that the reference to the potlatch in it was so vague that it was virtually impossible for a defendant to know what he was being accused of and therefore to plead properly. See Douglas Cole & Ira Chaikin, An Iron Hand Upon the People: The Law Against the Potlatch on the Northwest Coast (Vancouver: Douglas & McIntyre, 1990), quoting the judgment at 35–36. The law was tightened up to address Begbie’s criticism of it after his death. 44. Quoted in Williams, “Sam Greer”, supra note 21 at 27. 45. Ibid at 24–25. 46. Ibid at 25, quoting various sources. The author claims that Premier Robson intervened to release the four innocent persons, but this was in 1869–70, when Robson was on the Legislative Council. He did not become premier until 1889, nearly 20 years later. 47. Ibid at 27. 48. See the text accompanying n 11, above. Practice Restricted To WCB Sec. 257 Determinations, Opinions and Court Applications on referral ______________________ 778-426-4455 ______________________ • Claims and appeals • Vice Chair at Review Board for 6 years • More than 25 years personal injury litigation Vahan A. Ishkanian Barrister & Solicitor • Cell 250-508-6336 • Fax: 250-544-0728 • E-mail: vishkanian@wcbbclawyer.com
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By Kyle Koster | Jan 13, 2021, 2:33 PM EST
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When logging onto the Internet (capitalized in assorted style guides back then) required a dial tone, they pumped up to four baseball games into my childhood home for the price of a cable-television package. A great bargain — especially for me because my parents paid the bills. In addition to the beloved Detroit Tigers, there would be a Chicago Cubs game on WGN, an Atlanta Braves contest on TBS, and for a few years, the occasional New York Mets tilt courtesy of WWOR. Fond memories of circling the channel guide tucked into the Sunday paper and highlighting the games I intended to watch that week remain, like the creep Elaine Benes met on the subway.
Initially, the Mets were a clear fourth option, only to be used an emergency in the same way a bachelor might spread tuna fish over some crackers when a shopping trip simply wasn't an option. But a funny thing happened on Opening Day 1996. A 25-year-old rookie shortstop named Rey Ordóñez took his position and immediately revealed himself to be a defensive wizard — perhaps the most flashy and dynamic since peak Ozzie Smith.
They talk of love at first sight as a romantic thing yet it exists in the nuanced ways all other complicated feelings do. Because I loved Ordóñez from the moment he took a grounder. There was something magical in the way he moved, a magnetism that radiated in standard definition half-a-country away with someone who was beginning to grapple with the pubescent rite of realizing that the childhood dream of playing shortstop in the Majors would exclusively be something other people did.
Ordóñez was the infield version of Joe DiMaggio's Yankee Clipper, navigating choppy seas from deep in the hole to the second base bag. He dove headfirst, feet-first, knee-first and without abandon. He showcased his world-class arm on relay throws and could negotiate a fastball from every angle. The most entrancing actor working with the most spectacularly challenging material.
A limited media diet brought on the nightly meal of waiting to see the day's Web Gems on Baseball Tonight, then loyally disagreeing with his disrespectful exclusion or ranking. All of this was decidedly trivial and just one of the many things you keep to yourself in your early teens. But perhaps that was the point.
It was my little thing, one of the first things outside of the monoculture that brought passion. No one was walking the streets of West Michigan discussing this slick-fielding player from another coast and league. It felt like this little secret, this corner of the world I could enjoy as much or as little as I wished. Being the only person in my life who cared this much about the New York Mets created a cycle deepening the connection.
Looking back it makes a lot of sense why Ordóñez resonated so much. Sure, there was the surface level similarity that like him, I couldn't hit all that well but loved to play the prestigious position. Deeper than that, though, even then I understood he was a deeply flawed player. That his presence on offense was minimal. Twelve career home runs in 3,415 plate appearances and a steady flow of sub-.300 slugging years drives that home with more power than he ever had.
This was the time all the crippling self-consciousness and hormones converged in a symphony of uncertainty. It was the time to see all limitations and imperfections for the first time and learn, oh so clumsily to deal with them all. It was a time of self-limitation and acceptance of flaws. The pure dream of childhood of superstar receded and was reshaped into a more realistic size: a light-hitting defensive middle infielder. In time it would move to utility man and then to the more healthy guy who drinks beer shirtless or scribbles word about the sport online.
They stopped carrying WWOR around the time Ordóñez won his third Gold Glove. There were other worlds to conquer and getting a car to conquer them took precedence. There were new and largely less healthy was to channel whatever the hell was going on with my emotions into.
But I think about that period of life a lot. And if it really mattered who Ordóñez was as a player. Or if he was simply a canvas upon which to work things out, one faulty or flimsy projection at a time.
He somehow turns 50 today and the brittle bones inside my body feel as though they could turn to dust in full Last Crusade fashion. And then a revelation rocks synapses.
This lens never changed. The loss of childhood wonder gave way to a new template, in sports and in life, where a public figure or artist is harnessed, transmogrified and contorted to mean something you want it to mean.
Perhaps the best we can do is to find the muse who allows our spirit to take flight, even if it's in the form of a 6-4-3 double play.
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Book Review: Steel Crow Saga by Paul Krueger
Title: Steel Crow Saga
Author: Paul Krueger
Genre: Epic Fantasy
Publisher: Del Rey
Publication date: September 24 2019
Four destinies collide in a unique fantasy world of war and wonders, where empire is won with enchanted steel and magical animal companions fight alongside their masters in battle.
A soldier with a curse
Tala lost her family to the empress’s army and has spent her life avenging them in battle. But the empress’s crimes don’t haunt her half as much as the crimes Tala has committed against the laws of magic… and her own flesh and blood.
A prince with a debt
Jimuro has inherited the ashes of an empire. Now that the revolution has brought down his kingdom, he must depend on Tala to bring him home safe. But it was his army who murdered her family. Now Tala will be his redemption—or his downfall.
A detective with a grudge
Xiulan is an eccentric, pipe-smoking detective who can solve any mystery—but the biggest mystery of all is her true identity. She’s a princess in disguise, and she plans to secure her throne by presenting her father with the ultimate prize: the world’s most wanted prince.
A thief with a broken heart
Lee is a small-time criminal who lives by only one law: Leave them before they leave you. But when Princess Xiulan asks her to be her partner in crime—and offers her a magical animal companion as a reward—she can’t say no, and soon finds she doesn’t want to leave the princess behind.
This band of rogues and royals should all be enemies, but they unite for a common purpose: to defeat an unstoppable killer who defies the laws of magic. In this battle, they will forge unexpected bonds of friendship and love that will change their lives—and begin to change the world.
Stand alone or series: Stand alone (?!) (NOOOOOO)
How did I get this book: Review copy from publisher
Format (e- or p-): ebook
By the time December 31 2019 rolls in, I am certain this year will go down in history as my favourite reading year since the start of The Book Smugglers, 11 years ago. Steel Crow Saga by Paul Krueger is another brilliant and beautiful book that the reading gods have deemed me worthy of reading in 2019.
It starts with the end of a war. A war that has ravaged different nations, left people hurt and reeling over everything that has been lost. There are complicated issues of colonialism and what happens after the empire is defeated and the colonisers are gone but not completely destroyed. What is the way forward? Drastic humiliation and annihilation of the defeated as some desire or an attempt at politics and diplomacy based on mutual understanding and a spirit of cooperation?
The latter is at the heart of the story, a story that also has a history of Firsts in a world full of Magic. Shadepacting is when a Shang or someone from the Sanbu Islands create a shared, consensual bond with the spirit of an animal who becomes part of one’s soul. Calling out a shade makes it solid until you ask it to return inside. Meanwhile, the people from Tomoda, can bend and forge anything metal.
That’s the bare bones of the worldbuilding.
But then, we have the characters, the true heroes of this saga.
Prince Jimuro of Tomoda is the last surviving member of his royal family. A revolution has brought down his kingdom’s rule after decades of conquest and subjugation. After being kept a war prisoner and prolonged peace talks, the Prince is finally able to return home to be crowned and to start the healing process across nations. If he survives the journey. Jimuro is a young, earnest leader who genuinely cares for his people and who just wants to do better but also maybe doesn’t yet fully grasp the extent of the crimes his family committed because he thinks it was all very civilised. Tl;dr – redeemed cinnamon roll.
Tala is a soldier who survived the worst of war, and who lost her entire family to Jimuro’s army. Tala has a secret who can change everything everyone knows about shadepacting. And she is also now the person responsible for Jimuro’s safety. Tala is a seasoned, disciplined soldier, who smiles little and trusts no one, and keeping Jimuro alive may be the hardest thing she will ever do but she will do everything in her power to follow her orders. Tl;dr – tormented cinnamon roll.
Lee is a petty thief and accomplished tracker who has always put herself first in a life that has been crushing and unforgiving. The book opens and Lee is about to be killed for a crime she didn’t commit (for a change) when she is saved by a hot Princess who then invites Lee to become a member of the law and to go on a dangerous adventure to capture Prince Jimuro before he reaches home. Tl;dr – cynical yet hilarious cinnamon roll.
Princess Xiulan, a member of the Shang royal family and also a pipe-smoking detective who loves to read and takes life advice from her fave series of crime novels. She wants: to capture Prince Jimuro so that she can score against her sister, The Favourite; to be crowned Queen; to read tons of books and study more; and to shag Lee senseless, not necessarily in this order. Tl;dr – precious cinnamon roll, TOO PURE FOR THIS WORLD.
So off these characters go, Jimuro and Tala, Xiulan and Lee travelling to an inevitable collision in a road-trip adventure with twists, deaths and kisses. With a foot firmly set on very real, complex issues of post-war and post-colonialism, Steel Crow Saga is effectively, a book about building up, compromising, learning from mistakes, making good on promises, mending bridges and yes, screwing up but then listening and making amends. It is about politics and diplomacy, about change and specially about letting go of noxious historical narratives– and this happens both in the large scale of the new world these characters are building and the small scale of their personal, internal choices. It is about doing good in order to change the world for the better. The balance is *chef’s kiss*.
Full of queer characters, there is also a huge amount of lovely, LOVELY romance here and this is just not something I am used to reading in my epic fantasy sagas. There is critical darkness and violence in this book but it somehow manages to completely circumvent the pitfalls of Grimdark to fall squarely on the side of romantic, hopeful and joyous. I guess I could say this book is to Fantasy what Becky Chambers’ books are to Science Fiction?
This book is so good, I am just sitting here quietly crying after just finishing it, sad because it is over and I don’t have more pages with these characters. THESE LOVABLE FOOLS.
Tl;dr: THIS IS ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS IN A YEAR FULL OF BEST BOOKS AND I WANT ONE MILLION MORE BOOKS SET IN THIS WORLD. BRING BACK MY CINNAMON ROLLS.
Rating: Oh, yes it is another 10.
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If your blissful, brunch-filled Sunday morning turns into a slightly anxious Sunday afternoon and then a full-on, stressed-out Sunday evening, you’re not alone. The “Sunday scaries” are a real phenomenon, and it could be a sign of a much bigger problem.
Feeling depressed at the thought of the week ahead is a form of anticipatory anxiety that affects the body both physically and mentally. More than 3 in 4 Americans report feeling “really bad” anxiety on Sunday night, often triggered by a flood of hormones associated with work-related stress and dread.
For a more in-depth look at the reality of Sunday scaries, we surveyed over 1,000 people about the apprehension they feel as the weekend comes to a close. Read on as we explore how many people feel uneasy about going to work on Monday, what Sunday anxiety symptoms look like, and options for coping with the added stress.
Common Occurrence
There’s something about leaving work on a Friday and feeling relief at not having to get up early the next day – and knowing that, at least for now, your lingering to-do list at work is on pause. Of course, that reprieve won’t last forever, and eventually, you’re going to have to face the real world again.
According to our survey, 81 percent of people said they experience an elevated sense of anxiety on Sunday in anticipation of the week ahead. While some people feel that dread first thing Sunday morning (15 percent) or Sunday afternoon (29 percent), 57 percent of people reported feeling especially stressed out Sunday evening instead.
Sixty-two percent of people polled dreaded Monday most of all and got the worst night of sleep on Sunday (63 percent). As we’ll continue to explore, restless sleep could be a common symptom of job-related anxiety.
Impact of Work-Related Stress
Fifty-nine percent of people acknowledged feeling anxious on Sunday in preparation for the workweek ahead – which was more common among people who felt dissatisfied with their job (65 percent) than people who were happy at work (57 percent). Anxiety can manifest in long-term mental and physical health concerns. In addition to feeling nervous or tense, anxiety can trigger fatigue, restlessness, and difficulty concentrating.
Disturbed or poor sleep (43 percent), depression (37 percent), and increased irritability (30 percent) also ranked among the most common Sunday symptoms experienced. Disturbed or poor sleep (51 percent) and depression (54 percent) were especially common among people who weren’t happy with their job. No matter the industry, sleep plays a vital role in our physical and mental health. Not only do the Sunday scaries make it harder to sleep at night, but also losing out on quality sleep can make your workweek worse.
Harmful Coping Mechanisms
While it may be more appropriate to seek medical attention for constant and long-term anxiety, other solutions like aromatherapy, meditation, vitamin supplements, and journaling can help counter symptoms caused by anxiety. Of course, it’s important to recognize what’s causing your anxiety, especially if it’s work-related.
Unfortunately, some people may attempt to numb their Sunday misery in slightly less healthy ways, and it may not work for them. For those who got drunk Friday through Sunday, 46 percent said they felt heightened anxiety on Sunday. Compare that to those who reported not drinking at all on the weekend: Only 21 percent of that group said they felt anxiety on Sunday.
Alcohol is a common form of self-medication for depression. However, the initial relaxation you may feel won’t work as a long-term solution, as it’s been proven to interrupt sleep and even induce anxious thoughts.
Ninety-five percent of people who said they experience the Sunday scaries believe their heightened anxiety is a result of work-related stress. Among those polled, 80 percent who got along with their boss reported anxiety, which was slightly higher than those who didn’t enjoy spending time with their supervisor (75 percent). A good relationship with your boss can be a positive for your career, but the other side of that growth is more work and greater expectations. It’s understandable, then, that anxiety levels are higher for those with a good relationship with their manager, but professionals may need to learn “no” to keep from burning out.
Experts suggest the most common causes of workplace stress include the fear of being laid off, having to work overtime due to cutbacks, the pressure to perform, and a lack of control over how employees perform their duties. As a result, some people may bring work home over the weekend. But writing a to-do list for Monday may be the extent of work-related activities you should do on the weekend, next to closing your laptop and relaxing.
Anxiety-Inducing Workplaces
Almost everyone finds his or her job stressful from time to time. Whether it’s dealing with co-workers, an inbox you can’t seem to get through, or mounting deadlines, all jobs have their difficulties. Still, some careers may be inherently more difficult than others. Studies suggest dealing with frequent deadlines is among the most stressful job aspects, followed by growth potential and having to interact with the public.
People working in education (86 percent), legal (86 percent), and finance and insurance (86 percent) had the highest likelihood of experiencing Sunday anxiety. While many of these are in-office positions, remote employees don’t always have an easier time managing work-related stress. For many people working from home, the interruptions, isolation, long hours, and an uneven work-life balance can create additional stress. According to our survey, remote employees (84 percent) were the most likely to experience Sunday anxiety compared to those working in an office, classroom, or traveling role.
Finding Stress Relief
With so many people experiencing work-related stress and anxiety on Sunday, we asked them to describe their best coping mechanisms. For 29 percent of people, feeling Sunday anxiety meant finding time to work out. Exercising won’t just help you burn calories – it can also have a positive impact on your mental health. An increase of “feel-good” endorphins (like a runner’s high) makes hitting the gym like meditation in motion. It can improve your mood in the same way that it benefits your physical health.
Watching TV or movies (16 percent), spending time with friends and family (12 percent), and participating in outdoor activities or doing chores (9 percent each) also ranked as popular solutions for managing the Sunday scaries.
Worries in the Workplace
The weekend never seems long enough. As much as we look forward to Friday, we may sacrifice our sanity worrying about the workweek ahead. Based on our survey, a majority of people experienced heightened levels of anxiety on Sunday, and many believed that stress was related to their job.
In addition to feeling anxious, those surveyed acknowledged losing sleep over their Sunday scaries and even experienced depression. While some admitted to coping by consuming alcohol over the weekend, others worked out and spent time with their friends and family – much healthier solutions.
We surveyed 1,034 people who are fully employed and start a typical workweek on Monday to measure their levels of anxiety on Sunday. Participants ranged in age from 18 to 70 with an average age of 36 and a standard deviation of 10 years. We had a minimum of 20 respondents per each industry surveyed. We measured anxiety on a scale of 1 to 5, with 1 being “no anxiety felt out of the usual” and 5 being “a lot more anxiety felt out of the usual” to determine whether people had elevated anxiety on Sunday compared to other weekdays.
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Global stocks rise ahead of US data amid virus unease
November 23, 2020 Staff Reporter Capital & Money Markets 0
BEIJING (AP) — Asian stocks and Wall Street futures rose Monday as investors looked ahead to quarterly U.S. economic data amid unease about anti-coronavirus restrictions and wrangling over the American presidential election.
London, Shanghai, Frankfurt and Hong Kong advanced. Japanese markets were closed for a holiday.
Investors awaited U.S. economic growth data due out Wednesday after Wall Street’s benchmark S&P 500 index ended last week down as rising infection numbers collided with hopes for a possible vaccine. Also Wednesday, the U.S. Federal Reserve is to report on its latest meeting, though no surprises are expected.
Investors have been rattled by decisions to reimpose anti-virus controls in the United States, Europe and some Asian countries that threaten to hamper retail spending, travel and other business activity.
“In the short term, the negative news may well win out,” Patrik Schowitz of J.P. Morgan Asset Management said in a report. He noted U.S. data are “beginning to wobble a bit.”
In early trading, the FTSE 100 in London rose 0.4% to 6,378.47 and the DAX in Frankfurt added 1% to 13,266.93. The CAC 40 in Paris gained 0.8% to 5,538.19.
On Wall Street, the future for the benchmark S&P 500 index was up 0.7%. That for the Dow Jones Industrial Average was 0.8% higher.
On Friday, the S&P 500 and the Dow both lost 0.7%. The Nasdaq composite dropped 0.4%.
In Asia, the Shanghai Composite Index rose 1.1% to 3,414.49 and the Hang Seng in Hong Kong was 0.1% higher at 26,486.20.
The Kospi in Seoul jumped 1.9% to 2,602.59 and Sydney’s S&P-ASX 200 added 0.3% to 6,561.60.
India’s Sensex advanced 0.5% to 44,112.67. New Zealand and Southeast Asian markets also gained.
Investor enthusiasm surged on announcements by pharmaceutical companies of promising preliminary data from tests of possible vaccines. Those hopes have been tempered by the reality of the weeks or months required to test, produce and distribute a possible vaccine even if it is successful.
On Thursday, the governor of California, the most populous U.S. state, announced an overnight curfew for most residents.
Also last week, U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin rattled markets by withdrawing emergency loan programs for small businesses. Congress is deadlocked on an aid plan to replace supplemental unemployment benefits that supported consumer spending and expired months ago.
Investors have been encouraged by court decisions rejecting some of President Donald Trump’s challenges of results of the Nov. 3 election. Trump has fueled market jitters by refusing to concede or to brief Joe Biden’s team on national security and anti-virus work.
“The election was not stolen. But a smoother and stronger recovery may be,” Mizuho Bank said in a report. It said blocking Biden’s transition team from briefings “means that precious time is stolen from tackling a resurgent health crisis that will extract an economic toll.”
Mnuchin’s decision to withdraw emergency loan money, over the Fed’s opposition, undercut the central bank’s ability to support a recovery, Mizuho Bank said.
“The Fed’s policy has been unnecessarily and prematurely denied the Treasury’s backing,” the bank said.
Also Monday, Singapore revised up its third-quarter economic change to a contraction of 5.8% over a year earlier, an improvement from the previous estimate of a 7% drop.
In energy markets, benchmark U.S. crude rose 81 cents to $43.23 per barrel in electronic trading on the New York Mercantile Exchange. Brent crude, used to price international oils, added $1.01 to $45.97 per barrel in London.
The dollar declined to 103.78 yen from Friday’s 103.84 yen. The euro gained to $1.1881 from $1.1858.
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NANS Rejects Proposed Cultural Exchange Programme between Nigerian, S’African Youths
The National Association of Nigeria Students (NANS) has opposed the proposed cultural exchange programme between Nigerian and South African youths to address xenophobic attacks on Nigerians and promote unity between the two countries.
The President of NANS, Danielson Akpan, said this shortly after a closed door meeting and a news briefing by Mr Bobby Moroe, the Acting High Commissioner of South Africa to Nigeria, on Wednesday in Abuja.
The briefing was on cultural exchange programme between Nigeria and South Africa to foster unity between the two countries.
Akpan said that the proposed exchange programme by the South African High Commission and the federal government for youths and students’ body would not work in view of the prevailing situation in South Africa.
According to him, “We do not need the proposed exchange programme; how do you carry out exchange programme in a place where you are not safe?
“Our members, who are schooling in South Africa, have been calling us that they want to come back home.”
He said attacks by South Africans on Nigerians and other nationals were unjustifiable and condemnable.
He called for concerted efforts by both governments to tackle the situation.
He said the molestation of Nigerians by South Africans is not justifiable, if they can burn Nigerians’ owned shops and businesses, while South African businesses thrive in Nigeria.
“We have Multichoice, MTN, Shoprite and other South African companies numbering over 180 of them and we have not attacked any.
“Nigerians are also angry and we are humans. We cannot continue to keep quiet and watch our people being killed. Why are they not allowing Nigerians to take laws into their hands?
“This has to stop; the proposed exchange programme by the South African High Commission and the Federal Government of Nigeria for youths and students body has failed,” he said.
The meeting was organised by the high commission in collaboration with the National Youth Council of Nigeria (NYCN), Global Peace Initiative (GPI) and Committee of Youth on Mobilisation and Sensitisation (CYMS) and NANS. (NAN)
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Pickerington Central Roundup: Garner Wallace settles into role at quarterback
JARROD ULREY
ThisWeekSPORTS.com
When the Division I state football poll was released earlier this month, Pickerington Central senior Garner Wallace and some of his teammates took notice.
The Tigers have a new quarterback, as Wallace has succeeded three-year starter Demeatric Crenshaw, but their expectations haven't changed.
That is also true for Wallace, even though he's shifted from being a starter in the secondary, one of the team's top wide receivers and the backup quarterback for a program that has won two of the last three state titles.
"Coach (Jay) Sharrett was saying at the beginning of the season that we know we lost a few key parts but if we can have a good attitude, a lot of our guys really love football and have been playing together since (learning the sport in the Pickerington Youth Athletic Association)," Wallace said. "A bunch of articles before the season didn't know who was going to be at quarterback and that it was going to be hard to replace Demeatric, so it's time to show what I've got."
Central has outscored its first four opponents by a combined 174-12, including beating Groveport 43-3 on Sept. 18 to improve to 4-0 overall and 3-0 in the OCC-Buckeye Division.
The next matchup for the Tigers -- who are first in the latest state rankings ahead of No. 2 Dublin Coffman -- is Friday, Sept. 25, at home against Lancaster.
For Wallace, taking advantage of the opportunity to grow into his new role has been crucial.
He completed all six of his pass attempts for 91 yards, including a 40-yard touchdown to senior wide receiver Gavin Edwards, in a 47-0 win Sept. 11 over Central Crossing.
A Northwestern commit on defense, Wallace has made the transition to starting quarterback while supported on offense by senior running back Nick Mosley and senior wide receiver Lorenzo Styles Jr.
Mosley has committed to Bowling Green and Styles, who also plays defensive back, is headed to Notre Dame.
Mosley has rushed for 11 touchdowns, with junior Olando Kamara and sophomore Dylan Bryan also becoming key running backs for the first time.
Wallace threw for 110 yards and one touchdown and rushed for 79 yards against Groveport, while Mosley had 119 yards rushing and four scores as Central handed the Cruisers their first loss.
"Garner has taken his athletic ability, combined with his improved quarterback decision-making and sharpened our offensive scheme to be very effective the first (four) weeks," Sharrett said.
During the 2019 track and field season, Wallace ran on both the 1,600-meter and 3,200 relays that won Division I state championships and was fourth in the 1,600 as the Tigers captured their second consecutive team title. The 2020 spring sports season was canceled because of the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic.
Last winter, Wallace averaged 13.5 points and was first-team all-league and third-team all-district as the boys basketball team reached a district semifinal and finished 18-7.
He was the Tigers' second-leading receiver with 20 catches for 220 yards last fall while earning second-team all-league and honorable mention all-district honors.
"We've been getting better every single game," Wallace said. "Against Central Crossing we were clicking pretty much the whole game. We didn't really have to pass it at all because we've just been killing it up front. Our defense has been getting the ball into the red zone half the time, so that hasn't hurt us."
Wallace, who is 6-foot-4 and 190 pounds, plans on participating in basketball and track later in the school year. He projects as a free safety in college but is content to focus on his new role this fall.
"The biggest thing for me is that I didn't play a ton (at quarterback) my sophomore year and I didn't play much quarterback last year," Wallace said. "Picking up on reads faster is just the toughest part of the game and as the game progresses, I'm picking up on reads faster. Last year was my first year playing safety for the first time since sixth grade, so that's how it was for safety, too."
Girls tennis team enjoys strong season
The girls tennis team's lineup largely has been stable throughout a successful season that has produced another league championship, all characteristics of the Tigers under longtime coach Kelli Rings.
This year, Rings has a reason beyond habit for keeping things as they are.
"It's working and I don't like changing what isn't broken," Rings said. "Everybody knows their role. In a way, they've exceeded my expectations. They've bought in but they're still not satisfied. They're not passive. They see their goals and they're going for them.
"Once we get toward the postseason I might juggle some things, but those would probably be the only changes."
With Semmie Moore, Khandice Thomas and Alexis Heren at first, second and third singles, respectively, Central was 12-2 overall before playing Bexley on Sept. 23.
The Tigers finished a 5-0 season in the OCC-Buckeye with a 5-0 win at Newark on Sept. 8, giving them their first league championship since 2017 and 10th in 13 seasons.
Ella Culver and Sydney Vernadakis have played first doubles, ahead of Robyn Beaty and Issysis Hill at second doubles.
Central, which did not drop a court in OCC-Buckeye play, advanced in the Ohio Tennis Coaches Association Division I district tournament with a 3-2 win at Dublin Jerome on Sept. 14. The Tigers will play host to Hilliard Bradley in a district quarterfinal Monday, Sept. 28.
"We've had some big wins but Jerome was definitely the biggest," Rings said. "(League rival) Reynoldsburg has a good team and we beat North 5-0, which is always a fun win for us to get. New Albany (a 3-2 loss Aug. 18) was disappointing but we had some hard-fought matches. If the girls are stepping up to the plate, there's not a lot more I can ask for."
--Dave Purpura
Boys golf team coming up aces
Even with its entire lineup back, the boys golf team took nothing for granted as it pursued a program first, one it ultimately achieved in winning a second consecutive league championship.
Powered by a balanced lineup, Central went 20-0 in the OCC-Buckeye to finish four matches ahead of second-place Reynoldsburg (16-4). Blake Bennett's 75.25 average in the four-round league tournament paced the Tigers, ahead of Jaden Thompson (76.5), Cole Crandall (77.75), Aidan Allen (79.67) and Carter Woodward (86.25).
Central finished with a league average of 310.25, 9.5 shots better than last year, when it placed first in the OCC-Ohio. The Tigers' only other league championship came in 2001.
"(Our attitude is) let's just keep this rolling as long as we can. Being able to go undefeated in the league is really special," coach Chris Cores said. "The guys have worked so hard since the end of last season and the scores are showing that. ... Even on days when I feel we're struggling, they're so much better than last year. The guys are super close, always helping each other out during the round and on the range."
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Florence Weather in February
What’s the weather like in Florence in February?
Florence is in the north of Italy and has a humid subtropical climate that’s slightly more on the warmer side of things. February is quite chilly with temperatures beginning to warm up towards the end of the month.
Geographical influences
Florence weather in February is cold and damp with quite a lot of rainfall over the month. While snow is common in winter, it tends to fall in December rather than February. The city has four distinct seasons similar to the UK with winter having the lowest temperatures of the year. Make sure to pack plenty of warm jackets and winter clothes for your visit as temperatures rarely increase above 10°C.
The average temperature is a chilly 7°C that gradually decreases to just 3°C after dark. There are six hours of sunshine per day, which has increased by an hour since last month. There’s a 60% chance of cloud coverage in February, which may affect how much sun you’ll get on your holiday. The average rainfall is around 49mm, which means you can expect eight rainy days scattered over the month.
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From Mandisa Mfeka to Zozibini Tunzi - Five women who slayed 2019
31 December 2019 - 07:30 By Cebelihle Bhengu
Zozibini Tunzi was crowned Miss SA and Miss Universe in 2019.
Image: Supplied/ Miss SA
Bonang Matheba, Naledi Chirwa, Zozibini Tunzi, Saray Khumalo and Mandisa Mfeka - these five women slayed 2019 with big moves, impressive victories and, in some cases, made history.
It's been a difficult year for SA women with so many cases of abuse and femicide, but these five women inspired and spread hope.
Zozibini Tunzi was crowned Miss SA on a significant day for South African women, August 9, National Women's Day, and used the stage to share her views on women abuse and gender-based violence.
Tunzi said: “We have absolutely no reason to keep smiling, because South African women are dying every day and mostly people are doing nothing about it. It is not up to us, it’s up to perpetrators to start doing right.”
This win propelled her on the path to the Miss Universe title, where she further cemented herself as an advocate for women's rights and natural, African beauty. Tunzi became the country's first black Miss SA to win the Miss Universe title, and the first Miss Universe to be adorned with the new diamond-studded Miss Universe crown, called “The Power of Unity”.
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All-round media personality Bonang Matheba made 2019 the year she ventured into business by launching her House of BNG brut methode cap classique (MCC) and a brut rose MCC, which is SA's equivalent to champagne.
A huge achievement on its own, the move also made history as Bonang become the first black woman to become a member of the Cap Classique Producers' Association.
Since its launch, House of BNG has graced Prince Kaybee's music video as well as some of the country's biggest events, including President Cyril Ramaphosa's inauguration, became the official Miss SA celebration partner and a Vodacom Durban July partner, to name just a few.
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Saray Khumalo
After four attempts at climbing Mount Everest, Saray Khumalo finally made history by becoming the first black African woman to conquer the mountain. Speaking about her desire to achieve the unthinkable, Khumalo said, “My dream is to go higher and go further for as long as I breathe. To pave a way for my children and other ordinary people, so we may realise and accept that ordinary people like us can achieve extraordinary heights,” reported TimesLIVE.
Her inspirational journey began on April 20 and ended on May 16 with her standing “on top of the world”.
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Naledi Chirwa
Naledi Chirwa is the EFF's youngest female MP.
She rose to prominence in 2015 during the height of the fees must fall protests, during which activists advocated for free higher education for poor students. In 2016, Chirwa was arrested while she was studying drama at the University of Pretoria, where she was later suspended.
During her maiden speech in June this year, she highlighted the plight of women, particularly lesbians, and said, “I am infuriated by your tone-deaf attitude to thousands of lesbian women, subjected to corrective rapes and facing their tormentors in the streets, because our criminal justice system cannot protect those who sex differently.”
Chirwa also raised the issue of equality and inclusion of women in the political and economic spheres.
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Mandisa Mfeka
On May 25, South Africans were introduced to Major Mandisa Mfeka, SA's first black female combat fighter pilot. Mfeka's participation in Ramaphosa's inauguration may have seen her become an overnight sensation, but she had been flying over our skies for a number of years.
She joined the South African Air Force (SAAF) in 2008, and enrolled at the Central Flying School in Langebaan, Western Cape, and received her licence in 2011.
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> $7.5 million to beef up SA's red meat industry
$7.5 million to beef up SA's red meat industry
The Marshall Liberal Government will inject $7.5 million into South Australia’s red meat sector in a bid to grow productivity in the industry and further strengthen biosecurity.
This new State Government investment from the Economic and Business Growth Fund will focus on technology adoption, vital infrastructure for growth and measures to enhance biosecurity in the red meat industry.
Minister for Primary Industries and Regional Development Tim Whetstone said the funding boost will aim to boost on-farm productivity to increase the number of sheep and cattle that are raised and processed in South Australia.
“The funding announced today will build on the Beef and Sheep Industry Blueprints which highlight enormous opportunities for South Australia to increase farmgate returns and create greater market access,” said Minister Whetstone.
“A key element of this proposal will be a planned roll out of voluntary electronic individual sheep identification readers to increase traceability in the sector.
“This Government wants to support our producers to increase the number of cattle and grow the sheep flock to capitalise on strong market returns.
“The State Government will also be further investing in the One Biosecurity program which has had almost 400 livestock producers join since it was announced last year.
“Biosecurity is at the forefront of the Marshall Liberal Government’s agenda to grow agriculture and One Biosecurity aims to provide greater traceability and market advantage for our producers on a world stage.
“We recognise the importance of growing the state’s agriculture sector and the red meat industry will play a vital role by building on our economic strengths.
“The red meat and wool industry is South Australia’s largest manufacturing employer supporting 30,000 jobs.
“Over 11 million sheep, 950,000 head of cattle and 57 million kilograms of wool are produced annually in this state with a total production and processing revenue of $2.4 billion.
“The long-term aim is to increase the amount of quality product available for processing.”
The funding will focus on three areas:
Improve Productivity: In partnership with industry, private sector and universities, we will consolidate extension programs, demonstrating the value of business planning and data-based decision making to building industry resilience to adverse events.
Install Infrastructure: funding will stimulate industry and private sector investment in installation of individual animal identification readers and systems for sheep in key saleyards, meat processing facilities and on-farm. The use of this technology will demonstrate benefits to traceability and productivity, accelerating adoption of individual animal identification.
Enhance Market Access: Funds will be invested in the SA Government’s ‘One Biosecurity’ program, to enhance both the online system and assist in industry take-up.
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NBC’s Pierre McGuire is the man in middle of it all; At NHL games, ‘Inside the Glass’ means heads-up!
From coaching to radio to network TV, Pierre now transforms the energy on the ice to NBC's national audience of avid hockey fans
By David J. Halberstam 05/21/2019 0
Fearless and wearing no helmet, NBC's McGuire has had encounters with flying pucks and split sticks
Halberstam
Pierre McGuire, NBC’s Inside the Glass reporter for 14 seasons, might consider a Lloyd’s of London insurance policy. Game after game during the Stanley Cup, McGuire reports from his risky station, the arena’s nerve-center, right down at ice level. Basketball announcers might prefer being downstairs. In hockey, doing so takes braveness and courage, especially if you’re McGuire and don’t wear a helmet.
At Pierre’s vantage point, pucks dart across the air at dangerous speeds; turning inanimate discs into unpredictable projectiles. Just recently, one of those flying pucks came within a hair of knocking him out cold. Reminded of the incident, the hardened vet just shrugged it off.
McGuire is wired with unrestrained energy, especially during the playoff chase. Night after night, in buildings where 19,000 impassioned hockey fans empty their lungs, Pierre transforms the energy on the ice to the viewers at home; the emotion fans might see on their screens and the vigor they can’t feel.
Never fully out of harm’s way, Pierre is a victim waiting to happen. He’s had some nutty things occur through the years.
Several years ago for instance, at a playoff game in Buffalo, McGuire got hit over the head with a stick. Longtime Sabres trainer Rick Simonick told him, “You’re bleeding badly.” McGuire spewed, “No kidding, it’s running through my eyes.”
For Pierre, it’s a hazard of the trade. Just another night in the office. Where’s the next game, he thinks.
When I asked him if he’s recognized as he hops from one city to the next covering the Stanley Cup, the likable and bald-headed McGuire says, “My hairline gives me away. I can’t travel incognito.”
Pierre and I talked last Friday.
First, Game # 3 of the St. Louis-San Jose series, Erik Karlsson’s goal in overtime should have been nullified because of a hand pass by Timo Meyer. What are your thoughts? Four officials on the ice and none of them saw it.
It wasn’t handled well. A major mistake was made. The play isn’t reviewable and the league will have to look into why it’s not. All overtime goals should be reviewed. It would have nullified Karlsson’s goal.
You’ve done it all. You played. You coached in college and briefly in the NHL. You’ve scouted. You were an assistant general manager. You’ve done radio. You’ve been on network TV. What do you miss most?
I love being around the NHL. But I miss coaching, being with players every day. I admire them.
You broke into the NHL through the legendary Scotty Bowman, 85, whose daughter Alicia went to St. Lawrence where you coached.
Scotty is a great mentor and an amazing friend. I learn something from him every time we speak.
How did the relationship come about?
At the time I was coaching St. Lawrence, Scotty was doing Hockey Night in Canada. It was between the years he coached in Buffalo and Pittsburgh. One day he showed up at one of our practices and came up to me afterward. He says, ‘I’m Scotty Bowman.’ I said, yes, I know sir. He went on to tell me that he liked the way I ran practice. We started talking regularly. One June evening in 1990, I came home and there was a message form him. Scotty said he was being appointed to run hockey operations in Pittsburgh. He asked me to join him.
A day after the call, I joined him in Vancouver where the draft was being held. And that’s where we picked Jaromir Jagr with the fifth pick.
What is it about Scotty Bowman that makes him special?
He’s the best coach ever in the NHL, by far. Scotty coached in five decades. Think of his legacy, his coaching tree, guys who either played or worked for him; Mike Keenan, Al Arbour, Red Berenson, Mike Babcock, Jacques Lemaire, Larry Robinson and many others.
You were coaching a St. Louis minor league team in Baton Rouge, Louisiana when the Montreal Canadiens asked you to do radio.
Ted Blackman, a legendary Canadian media personality and executive reached out to me and said he liked the way I handled interviews when I was coaching. He told me a change was being planned for the Canadiens broadcasts. Ted said, “Pierre, I can’t pay you what you’re making, but I guarantee you’ll be on national television in two years.” So I took the job.
Did you have any emotional connections to the Canadiens?
I grew up in Montreal and listened to Danny Gallivan’s play-by-play and partner Dick Irvin. The team and the broadcasts meant a lot to me.
Were you on network TV in two years?
Blackman was spot-on. I loved doing radio but TSN called and there I was, hired to do hockey on Canadian national television a couple seasons later.
By the way, working Canadiens broadcasts was special. The club doesn’t get in your way. You’re given quite a bit of freedom. If you have to be critical, do so.
So how did you end up on NBC and the man ‘Inside the Glass’
During the 2004 Stanley Cup, ESPN’s rights were winding down and I had a call from Sam Flood who’s NBC’s production head. He asked me whether I can serve as a reporter from a potentially newly created vantage point on the ice. I told him absolutely. But I also said that I was doubtful the league would allow a reporter there. Then Flood said something to the effect that he was confident that his NBC bosses, Dick Ebersol and Ken Schanzer, would get the league to allow it.
Weeks went by and I didn’t hear anything. One day the phone rings. It’s Flood telling me that NBC got the rights and that he wants me on the broadcast team as discussed. Over time, the “Inside the Glass” role has taken on a life of its own. The next season, the NHL was shut down by a work stoppage. But by 2006, the games started again and I was with NBC. My contract with TSN allowed me to work for NBC.
Who do you pattern yourself after?
No one. It has never been done. Inside the Glass is an unprecedented role.
Flood is a hockey guy. Isn’t he?
Sam knows the sport well and captained Williams’ College team. So he’s passionate about the game. To make the telecasts work effectively from ‘Inside the Glass,’ it’s critical to have a strong tape operation and replay packages from ice level. NBC does.
How much did you travel this playoff season?
I worked 11 games in the first round and 14 in the second. In the second round, I was in a different time-zone every time we moved from one game to the next. I travel commercially and had no close calls. My airline of preference is Delta.
Doc Emrick. What makes him so good?
Energy, annunciation, thorough preparation, understanding of the game and he has the perfect phrase for the right moment. In overtime in the Winter Classic in Buffalo, “Sidney Crosby, with the game on his stick!” You can’t caption it any better.
Scotty Bowman was so successful for so long because he adapted decade by decade. Same for Mike Emrick. He’s always current.
Who is the young, up and coming broadcaster nationally in the NHL?
Well, to begin with, our John Forslund and Kenny Albert are excellent. And I think Brendan Burke who did some games for us earlier in the playoffs, the Islanders’ announcer, has a bright future ahead of him.
What do you do in the off-season?
I try to be a good husband and spend time with my kids. My daughter Justine is a rower at Dartmouth and my son Ryan is a good hockey player. He’s at a boarding school, Belmont Hill School in Massachusetts. I like hitting the ice with him in the summer.
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There are more men than women in Crawford County, Indiana. Total population of Crawford County, Indiana is estimated at 10,655 people with 5,403 male and 5,252 female. There are 151 more men than women in the county, which is 1.42% of the total population.
The Crawford County, Indiana Gender Ratio is 103 men to 100 women (103:100) or 1.03. Crawford County, Indiana's gender ratio is higher than the Indiana State average of 97 men to 100 women (97:100) or 0.97. The gender ratio is also higher than the national average of 97 men to 100 women (97:100) or 0.97.
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Gender Ratios vary by age group as well as location. The table below shows the gender ratios breakdown in Crawford County, Indiana by age.
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10 to 14 109 to 100 105 to 100 104 to 100
20 to 24 86 to 100 103 to 100 105 to 100
45 to 49 109 to 100 99 to 100 100 to 100
55 to 59 107 to 100 96 to 100 93 to 100
70 to 74 105 to 100 † 85 to 100 79 to 100
80 to 84 72 to 100 † 67 to 100 79 to 100
85 and over 59 to 100 † 49 to 100 79 to 100
† Due to very low population in this demographic, the ratio shown is not statistically significant.
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The end of books is good for writers and readers
BORDERS in Boston’s Back Bay is closing, a familiar story in a recession that has laid waste to many once-prominent names. But this time, something’s different.
When most stores fail, we understand that to be some combination of bad luck, poor management, and hard times. It’s tough luck for investors and employees, but not really for us as consumers. We know we’ll always have places to shop for clothing, furniture, electronics, and the like.
Not so with books. When Borders shutters, Boston will have, permanently, one fewer bookstore. Barnes & Noble won’t be eyeing its empty site on Boylston Street as a possible location for expansion. Nor will we see any new bookstore start-ups. There are a great many business ideas where some entrepreneur can strike it rich; bookselling is no longer one of them.
The book is dead. Books (and by “books’’ I mean words printed on paper with a hard- or softcover binding) trace their inception in the 1440s to one extraordinary new technology: the printing press. New technology as well — readers, tablets, and smartphones — mark their end. It’s been a marvelous, nearly six-century ride, but now it’s over. Two weeks ago, the American Association of Publishers reported that January sales for adult hardcovers were down 11.3 percent, adult paperbacks were down 19.7 percent, and adult mass market books down 30.0 percent. Expect to see those kinds of numbers repeated.
Not all kinds of books will suffer as badly, of course. Children’s books and art books — where layout and graphics are paramount — will persist. Paper is still (for a time) a better medium than digital screens for complex layouts and — especially relevant for kids — far better at absorbing spills and accidental drops. But when it comes to long-form, picture-free books such as novels, paper no longer makes sense. Electronic readers are this year’s hot-selling items because they really are a better way to read. They’re lighter, more portable, and easier to use. Turning pages is effortless. And as e-books can be readily linked to multiple devices, one is never without a book — if you forgot your Kindle, you can just pick up reading the same book on the same page on your iPad.
E-books are hardly perfect — bookmarking, for example, is still more complicated than bending down a corner — but the technology will inevitably improve. Undoubtedly some will cling to books, entranced with the feel, heft, and smell of paper. For them, there will always be print-on-demand. But they’ll be an increasingly small number, anachronisms similar to writers who could never give up their Smith Coronas.
The death of the book will change things. For many, bookstores are special places of contemplation and discovery, and their loss will be deeply felt. Libraries too will have to rethink. Eventually, all books will be converted to a digital medium (even if only scanned), making it unnecessary for someone to visit a place to research or read. Libraries will perhaps evolve into public providers of information, but all of those beautiful buildings? Probably unnecessary.
Even our homes will change. The shelves on which we proudly display the books we have read (or haven’t, but hope to impress others) will stand empty. Indeed, the whole notion of “owning’’ books will eventually seem an oddity, in the same way that displays of CDs or DVDs seem irrelevant to a streaming world.
But is this really that bad? The end of books may be to the betterment of both writers and readers. The expense of publishing and distribution necessarily meant the imposition of middlemen — agents, editors, printers — who picked and chose what would get published. Now anyone can write a novel, for example, and make it available for sale. The industry seems to be figuring out the issue of digital rights management (something the music industry still hasn’t solved), meaning that authors get paid for their creativity. And even though e-books are less expensive than books, arguably more of that will get back to the people involved in their creation.
Marshall McLuhan famously wrote that “the medium is the message.’’ I’ve never understood why. It is the message — “the information,’’ as journalist James Gleick calls it — that matters. Books die. Digital rises. The medium changes; the message remains.
Originally published in The Boston Globe, April 3, 2011, on the op-ed page.
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Samsung Galaxy S7 And S7 Edge Preview
By Matt Humrick 21 February 2016
Page 1: Introduction
Page 2: Design
Page 3: Technical Specifications
Page 4: Camera
Page 5: Hardware
Page 6: Software
Page 7: Final Thoughts
In the past, Samsung has equipped its Galaxy devices with different hardware for different regions, generally preferring Qualcomm SoCs for the North American market and its own Exynos chips for other regions. Last year, Samsung decided to use its Exynos 7420 SoC, the first to use a 14nm FinFET process, exclusively for its Galaxy S6 phones, avoiding the Snapdragon 810 and its thermal problems. With Samsung developing its own custom 64-bit CPU for the Exynos 8890, along with a new high-end Snapdragon from Qualcomm, it would not be surprising to see Samsung revert back to dual-sourcing SoCs for the Galaxy S7. While Samsung has not specified what chip will power its new flagship globally, we do know that the S7 will use Qualcomm's new Snapdragon 820 for the North American market.
Featuring four of Qualcomm's new custom 64-bit Kryo CPUs arranged in a heterogeneous dual-cluster configuration, with one cluster optimized for higher performance and the other optimized for lower power, the 820 focuses on improving single-threaded performance. In our performance preview of the Kirin 950, we found that Kryo holds an instructions per cycle (IPC) advantage over the Cortex-A72 CPU in both integer and floating point operations. However, octa-core SoCs such as the Kirin 950 can perform better when running multi-threaded workloads. The 820, coincidentally, uses Samsung’s second-generation 14nm LPP (Low Power Plus) FinFET process that enables lower power consumption at a slightly higher frequency than the first-generation LPE process used for the Exynos 7420.
Samsung pairs Qualcomm's SoC with 4GB of LPDDR4-1866 RAM, which should help alleviate the memory pressure problem that limited the Galaxy S6’s multitasking performance.
All of the Galaxy S6 phones include two or three options for internal storage capacity, with the S6 and S6 edge offering up to 128GB. The Galaxy S7 and S7 edge come in only one configuration, however: 32GB. If that's not enough, the internal UFS 2.0 NAND can be supplemented with a microSD card.
The Snapdragon 820 includes an integrated X12 LTE modem capable of Category 12 download speeds of up to 600Mbps and Category 13 upload speeds of up to 150Mbps. The Galaxy S7 also includes support for 802.11ac MU-MIMO Wi-Fi, with peak theoretical throughput of up to 867Mb/s, and Bluetooth 4.2 LE.
Hardware support for Samsung Pay, the company's wireless payment system, first appeared on the Galaxy S6 and S6 edge, with software and vendor support rolling out late last year. Like Apple Pay, it uses the fingerprint scanner to authorize payments at terminals supporting NFC. Unlike Apple Pay, Samsung's solution works at most traditional magnetic stripe credit card terminals too, making it a far more useful solution.
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Nashten 21 February 2016 19:24
Glad to see that Samsung brought the MicroSD card slot back.
I still won't buy a Samsung phone, but they look even better. I can't wait to see what the SD820 holds in store for us when more products hit the street with it.
I shouldn't talk about SD slots though considering I own a Nexus 6... :D
chuckydb 21 February 2016 19:40
Micro-usb 2.0...
Come on!! Really?
xHDx 21 February 2016 19:56
What staggers me is how does a Phone manage to use that much RAM? Windows uses a max of 2/2.5
alchemy69 21 February 2016 20:16
Take drink every time someone whines about the lack of a removable battery.
Edwin Herdman 21 February 2016 20:57
The "(sensors with) smaller pixels are bad" line is a myth, and I'm disappointed to see it spread here. There are densely packed sensors, and there are physically large sensors - both are good things.
Of course, if you had the exact same pixel count, larger pixels are naturally better, but this is not the question facing sensor makers. The "small pixels" line is harmful because it leads people to think that small pixels are naturally compared to large pixels - almost nobody does this, because it would mean viewing pixels off different size sensors at the same size. With a few exceptions, people compare the full images at the same size - where total sensor size is much more important.
DP Review's Richard Butler took a look at this question last year, with some extra math details on page 2 of the article "The effect of pixel size on noise."
Calvin Huang 21 February 2016 21:08
I have a phone with USB-C (Nexus 6P), and while I do appreciate the ergonomics of the new plug (it both feels more secure while being less awkward to insert/unplug), the lack of compatibility is a huge drawback. I have to be sure to always carry my own cables with me, and there are no wireless charging dongles that use USB-C. So if you go to Starbucks and want to make use of their Qi charging pads, you're SOL. Granted, it'd be less of an issue if the device had Qi charging built-in, but in the case of the S7, it still doesn't make sense to release a phone that isn't compatible with their VR hardware.
thezooloomaster 21 February 2016 23:15
Who uses USB on phones for anything other than charging these days, anyway?
none12345 22 February 2016 00:47
Removing the MicroSD slot, and the waterproofiting from the s5 were 2 big mistakes. Glad to see they realized their stupidity and added them back in for the s7.
I wouldn't even consider a phone that doesn't have a microsd slot.(or whatever replaces it in the future). The non-removable battery sucks, but its far easier to live with when the waterproofiting and microsd slot are back in.
MasterMace 22 February 2016 04:22
USB 2.0 and a locked down battery are big signals for me to stay away from Samsung, still. That, and my experience with the GS4
giovanni86 22 February 2016 06:07
Still concealing the battery. There almost back to normal. if there note 6 doesn't have battery removal its another year im skipping my Note 4 is plenty.
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“XXX: The Return of Xander Cage Blu-Ray” screencaptures
Last week, “XXX: The Return of Xander Cage Blu-Ray” has been released in the United States on demand, DVD, Blu-Ray. It’s not your typical Toni movie, but since there are no typical Toni movies anyway it has been fun to see her doing some popcorn action gun-wielding (that was a spoiler) flick opposite Vin Diesel and a bunch of performances straight out of a video game. Screencaptures from the Blu-Ray as well as from the making of featurette have been added to the photo gallery.
“xXx: The Return of Xander Cage” now playing in theaters
“xXx: The Return of Xander Cage” is playing in theaters today, and critics are either embracing or dismissing the third installment of the series for the loud, action packed nonsense that it is. Returning to the franchise he launched in 2002, Vin Diesel reprises the titular role as an extreme-sports thrill-seeker-turned-government-operative long presumed dead by the NSA. Cage is a man with his own very particular set of skills, and the ruthless agency chief (Toni Collette) enlists his help for a high-stakes operation that involves racing against a band of renegade evildoers in pursuit of “Pandora’s Box,” a curious device that’s knocking military satellites out of the sky and into densely-populated areas. Here’s a couple of reviews with more highlights on Toni Collette’s character (and the critics consensus that she is too good of an actress for this).
Peter Travers, Rolling Stone
Who wanted Xander Cage back? Is it you? It sure as hell isn’t me. […] Toni Collette, who is way too good for this crap, also shows up as Agent Marke, another suit barking orders at Cage. The Australian actress must be wondering how she went from being nominated for Oscars and Emmys to starring in this toxic fluffball.
Mike LaSalle, San Francisco Chronicle
Toward the end, the action becomes repetitive and tiresome, but there are pleasures to be had. Diesel is a terrific action star, in that he can give a movie a lift just by being there. Collette embraces the cold-blooded extremes of her role.
Glenn Kenny, RogerEbert.com
A disaster ensues, and stern buttoned-up spymaster Marke (Toni Collette, here probably earning more to merely maintain an erect posture than she usually does when she’s actually being an incredible actor) calls a meeting at an appropriately eerily-lit CIA boardroom.
Matthew Lickona, San Diego Reader
There isn’t much point in reviewing a film that summarizes itself thusly: “Kick some ass, get the girl, and try to look dope while you’re doing it.” But a job’s a job: Xander Cage (Vin Diesel) is, according to this third entry in the XXX series, the guy you call when you need “someone that can walk into a tornado and come out the other side like it was a damn gentle breeze.” (This line is spoken by Academy-Award nominee Toni Collette, who looks appropriately miserable throughout.)
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The promotion for xXx’s January 20 release is in full swing, and while Toni has not participated in any of the public appearances at press junkets and premieres so far, she’s featured in a few of the film’s featurettes and cast interviews. Most of these official clips only have a couple blink-and-you-miss-it blips, with the exception of the b-roll, which shows more of Toni’s work behind the scenes. Three clips have been added to the video archive, with hopefully more to come.
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“XXX: The Return of Xander Cage” Los Angeles screening pictures
It’s been almost a year since Toni’s last public appearance – at the G’Day Gala in January – so brace yourself for some new pictures! The promotion for “xXx: The Return of Xander Cage” has officially kicked off and Toni and her co-stars Vin Diesel and Nina Dobrev surprised a flock of fans on Saturday at a special fan screening for the film, which hits theaters on January 20.
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New theatrical trailer for “xXx: The Return of Xander Cage”
After a promising teaser, the full theatrical trailer for “xXX: The Return of Xander Cage” has been released today by Paramount Pictures – offering us more glimpses as Toni Collette’s character. It’s fair to say she’s playing Xander’s boss. The fun of Return of Xander Cage is that it almost prides itself with looking exceedingly dumb. Mind you, this is only the trailer and it features Diesel’s former extreme sports guy spy somehow surfing gigantic ocean waves on a motorcycle, skiing through the jungle, and pulling some sick moves by skateboarding across the side of a moving bus. If it didn’t have a winking spirit it could come across as tedious, but the trailer has a gleeful anarchy about it that guarantees the movie won’t take itself too seriously. Screencaptures from the trailer have been added to the photo gallery.
Toni Collette gets the character poster treatment for xXx3
It’s been three months since we saw the first trailer for Paramount’s highly-anticipated XXX: The Return of Xander Cage, which is set to hit theaters next January. Tomorrow we’ll get to see the second full trailer, but until then, we have 12 new character posters to check out. These posters feature Vin Diesel’s Xander Cage, Donnie Yen’s Xiang, Rory McCann’s Torch, Tony Jaa’s Talon, Deepika Padukone’s Serena, Kris Wu’s Nicks, soccer star Neymar Jr., Nicky Jam as Lazarus, Toni Collette as Jane Marke, UFC star Michael Bisping as Hawk, Nina Dobrev as Becky and Ruby Rose as Adele.
This big screen adventure brings back Vin Diesel’s iconic character Xander Cage to the big screen, 14 years after his first adventure. The original xXx fared well at the box office, taking in $142.1 million domestic and $277.4 million worldwide from a $70 million budget. Despite the initial movie’s success, Vin Diesel did not return for the sequel, 2005’s XXX: State of the Union, which starred Ice Cube as Augustus Gibbons’ new recruit, Darius Stone. That sequel didn’t fare quite as well at the box office, taking in just $26.8 million domestically and $71 million worldwide. Both Xander Cage and Augustus Gibbons are back with a slew of new cast members in XXX 3.
A woman (Toni Collette), whose race horse rises through the ranks, is pitted against the racing elite in a race for the national championship. Releases September 4, 2020 in the United Kingdom & Ireland.
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Directed by Charlie Kaufman. An unexpected detour causes a woman who is trying to figure out how to break up with her boyfriend to rethink her life.
Awaiting theatrical release in 2021
A stowaway on a mission to Mars sets off a series of unintended consequences. Starring Anna Kendrick, Toni Collette, Daniel Dae Kim & Shamier Anderson.
Nightmare Alley
In Guillermo del Toro's remake of the 1947 film classic, a corrupt con-man teams up with a female psychiatrist to trick people into giving them money.
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Netflix adapts Karin Slaughter's best-selling novel "Pieces of Her" into an 8-part miniseries, starring Toni Collette as a mother haunted by her past.
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Share this Story: FIFA says crisis hindering search for new sponsors
FIFA says crisis hindering search for new sponsors
Graham Dunbar • THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
The FIFA corruption crisis is hurting its search for new World Cup sponsors.
Targeting almost $6 billion in revenue from the 2018 tournament, FIFA has not signed any new sponsors since last year's World Cup in Brazil.
"Definitely the current situation does not help to finalize any new agreement. That is a fact," FIFA secretary general Jerome Valcke said Friday ahead of this weekend's qualifying draw.
The first big event for host Russia has brought hundreds of international media to St. Petersburg, offering a natural stage for a sponsorship launch. However, Valcke said no major deals would be completed until FIFA's future is clearer -- after Sepp Blatter is replaced as president next year.
"I'm sure until the (presidential) election, until the 26th of February, there will not be major announcements," Valcke said, adding that "at least two major companies" have been in negotiatons.
Amid growing frustration with FIFA since May 27, when American and Swiss federal investigations of alleged bribery and money-laundering were revealed, current sponsors have asked to meet with FIFA management.
FIFA received a letter from sponsors this week and will organize a briefing in August by its lawyers and marketing officials, Valcke said.
Valcke spoke at a news conference hours after Visa said FIFA's responses to the recent crisis were "wholly inadequate."
"We believe no meaningful progress can be made under FIFA's existing leadership," the United States-based credit card company said Thursday.
Long-time FIFA backer Coca-Cola and second-tier sponsor McDonald's have also broken ranks from their traditional loyalty by criticizing the football body's handling of bribery allegations. Two of FIFA's eight vice-presidents were among 14 soccer and marketing officials indicted in the United States in May.
Blatter and Valcke are expected targets in the U.S. Department of Justice's case.
FIFA's slate of current World Cup sponsors is looking thin as its seeks to fill 34 available slots for two-tournament packages taking in the 2018 event in Russia and the 2022 tournament in Qatar.
Two top-tier sponsors, Dubai-based airline Emirates and Sony, were among several commercial partners who did not renew last year.
Only seven of 14 available positions in FIFA's top two commercial categories have been filled, and none of the 20 slots in a new regional category designed to increase revenue from the 2010-2014 tournament cycle.
FIFA earned $1.63 billion in marketing revenue tied to the 2014 tournament in Brazil. Its total "event-related revenue" in that four-year commercial period was more than $5.1 billion, the governing body's accounts showed in March.
Valcke said the 2018 tournament should be worth more and insisted FIFA was not behind schedule in signing deals to meet its revenue targets.
"No, it's not too late as long as we are doing it in the early part of 2016," the French official said.
With some sponsors committed to other big events in 2016 -- such as the Olympics in Rio de Janeiro and the European Championship -- promotional campaigns tied to the 2018 World Cup would typically start after they are finished, Valcke said.
Blatter's right-hand man since 2007 is unlikely to clinch the new contracts. FIFA rules require the president to propose appointing a secretary general and a new leader elected in February will want to choose his own person, Valcke said.
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Share this Story: From opening day to clinching day, Blue Jays lineup has different look
From opening day to clinching day, Blue Jays lineup has different look
Bob Elliott
The Blue Jays opening day centre fielder was in Maryland on Wednesday night.
So too was their second baseman from April 6, 157 games ago at Yankee Stadium.
Their opening night starter, along with their scheduled every day left fielder were here too.
Their starting shortstop was in Phoenix, while his replacement watched from the third base dugout.
None of those key players from the Game 1 of the season had an at-bat or threw a strike on this night.
Yet, ladies and gentlemen ... we give you Your 2015 Toronto Blue Jays, the American League East champions.
They’ve come a long way in this remarkable season, to the point when at 7:26 p.m., Russell Martin caught a foul tip off the bat of Ryan Flaherty recording a LaTroy Hawkins strikeout as the Jays had a 15-2 win over the Baltimore Orioles in the first game of the doubleheader.
After Hawkins’ whiff, Chris Colabello was the first to hop the dugout fence and race to the mound. There were gentle hugs all around after the Jays’ 92nd win before a corporal’s cadre of friends and relatives as the Jays won the AL East for the sixth time in franchise history.
There were embraces on the mound before players left the field to form another line hugging manager John Gibbons, his coaches, general manager Alex Anthopoulos, assistant GMs Tony LaCava and Andrew Tinnish, executives Stephen Brooks, Dana Brown, along with three men who were working for the Jays 22 years ago Jeff Ross, Kevin Malloy and Jay Stenhouse.
In the top of the ninth with Jays fans feeling a tad full of themselves — and maybe Natty Boh (National Bohemian) beer — and after watching Jose Bautista and Justin Smoak go deep, they began a “Thank you Alex, Thank you Alex” cheer to Anthopoulos seated behind the third base dugout. It was the Jays’ 26th time scoring in double figures this season.
The Way it began
On opening night in New York, Dalton Pompey started in centre, Devon Travis was at second, Jose Reyes was at short, Drew Hutchison was on the mound and Kevin Pillar was in left in place of Michael Saunders, whom the Jays traded for was supposed to be the every day left fielder.
It has been said five or six — thousand times — that baseball, like life, is a game of adjustments.
The Jays made adjustments on the way to winning.
Pompey was demoted the first week of May, returning as a September call up, while Pillar went from a scheduled back-up role to playing Gold Glove defence in centre.
Travis injured his left shoulder and has not started since July 25.
Hutchison, the opening day starter and winner, was removed from the rotation and has not started since Sept. 9.
Saunders, who stepped on a sprinkler head, started only nine games, none since May 9.
Reyes was dealt to the Colorado Rockies July 28 for shortstop Troy Tulowitzki.
The only Jays in the opening day lineup and Wednesday were Russell Martin, Jose Bautista, Josh Donaldson and Pillar. Only Bautista and Pillar were in the same spots in the batting order and only Bautista played the same position in the field.
The Jays did an August AA Airlift — Alex Anthopoulos, not American Airlines — bringing in Tulowitzki, Hawkins, David Price, Ben Revere and Mark Lowe.
The winner in the clincher was bouncy Marcus Stroman, who tore his ACL in a fielding drill in spring training and was thought to be lost for the year. He pitched eight innings.
Much was made of how the culture changed when the Jays said goodbye to Brett Lawrie, Colby Rasmus, Adam Lind and Casey Janssen, and hello to players like Martin and Donaldson, who had won before with other teams.
Maybe, but when Tulowitzki played his first game the Jays were 50-51.
“The change started in the spring,” said Mark Buehrle, “a change in culture doesn’t always result in wins.”
The 1991 Jays were a talented team, and they improved in 1992 when Dave Winfield and Jack Morris arrived.
The next year, 1993, Paul Molitor and Dave Stewart were an influx of experienced talent looking to win.
This year’s Jays were talented. They climbed a competitive notch with the arrival of Donaldson and Martin and jumped again when Tulowitzki and Price arrived.
“We got a bit of a kick in the butt at the deadline,” said Buehrle.
Tulowitzki didn’t make an error in 162 chances throwing on the run, from the hole and ranging into the outfield as he did at Yankee Stadium when Pillar’s chinny-chin chin crashed into his shoulder blade causing a small crack. He is close to returning to the lineup.
While Tulowitzki only hit .214 with three homers and eight RBIs in August, he provided protection for Encarnacion, who hit 11 doubles, 11 homers, drove in 35 runs, hit .407 and had a 1.379 OPS.
“I always thought we could be this good,” Encarnacion said. “We needed to put things together and in August we did.”
It will be almost 22 years between post-season appearances ... from Oct 23, 1993, to Thursday Oct. 8, a span of 8,020 days
In between the Jays played 3,499 games.
Back in 1993 when Jays fans honked horns on Yonge St., Buehrle was in grade 8, R.A. Dickey was in grade 11, Hawkins was a third-year pro at class Fort Wayne and Gibbons was a minor-league instructor with the New York Mets.
When Joe Carter hit his homer Aaron Sanchez was 114 days old, while closer Roberto Osuna and Pompey were not even born.
As Hall of Fame broadcaster Tom Cheek said so eloquently so many year ago and is probably saying it again:
“And the Blue Jays are the champs! The Blue Jays are the champs of the American League East!”
Buehrle comprehends the passion amongst the fans and excitement since the Jays have not played a post-season game since 1993.
“It’s like when we won the World Series in 2005 with the Chicago White Sox,” Buehrle said. “People were talking about the franchise not winning since 1917 ... I was like ‘sorry, I wasn’t even around then, I wasn’t even thought about being around then. I can’t take responsibility for that.
“Same with here. Toronto hasn’t won since 1993 ... well this is only my third year here.”
When the Jays clinched their first post-season berth it came in the first few hours of Saturday morning. They didn’t even know they had won until arriving at the park and having the logistics explained to them.
Then, they beat the Tampa Bay Rays 10-8 and celebrated.
And on a Wednesday afternoon in Game 1 of a doubleheader the magic number went from one to zero, the Jays had clinched the AL East title. Rather than a wild celebration there was a second game to play, although none of the Game 1 starters were in the lineup.
Can con
Revere reached on a bang-bang play to open the Game 1 as first base ump Stu Scheurwater of Regina said the lead-off man beat the throw from second baseman Jonathan Schoop. O’s manager Buck Showalter appealed the call. After checking with New York, the play was reversed.
The last time the Jays clinched the AL East came on a chilly, rainy night in Milwaukee on Sept. 27, 1993 at County Stadium. Right-hander Pat Hentgen pitched 62/3 scoreless throwing 114 pitches. Manager Cito Gaston used Tony Castillo, Mike Timlin and Duane Ward for 21/3 hitless innings. Hentgen won his 19th game and Ward saved his 43rd in the 2-0 win before 14,931.
Former Brewer Paul Molitor homered in the second and Devon White knocked in Ed Sprague, who had singled and raced to third on Robbie Alomar’s double.
MASN-TV was showing an Orioles classic game against the California Angels Wednesday afternoon from July 15, 1989 at Memorial Stadium. And the first player we saw on the TV? Angels lean Gold Glove centre fielder Devon White, who singled in the sixth, stole second and scored on a Tony Armas single.
White knocked in one of the runs on Sept. 27, 1993 for the Jays the last time the Jays clinched.
White was 3-for-4 for the Angels in 1989. What made the game memorable in O’s history was Mike Devereaux hitting a walk-off, two-run drive down the left-field line. Manager Doug Rader argued for 10 minutes that the ball was foul. The next day he was ejected when he handed in the lineup to the crew of Ken Kaiser, Larry Young, Jim Joyce and Jim McKean. It contained a nasty ad lib or two.
One from the hallway
LaCava, assistant GM, walking into Camden Yards with Jays analysts Joe Sheehan and Jason Pare and seeing broadcaster Jerry Howarth: “Why don’t you do your own version of Russ Hodges classic call in 1951 when Bobby Thomson homered and he said, ‘The Giants win the pennant! The Giants win the pennant!’ You could say ‘The analysts win the pennant! The analysts win the pennant!’ You’d be a big hit in the analytics community.”
From opening day to clinching day, Blue Jays lineup has different look Back to video
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In The Home Janis: Little Girl Blue
Uncompromising rocker Janis Joplin, as you’ve never known her before: an eye-opening documentary featuring unseen footage, private letters and interviews with band members.
Joplin died at age 27 from a heroin overdose, within a few short years of Jimi Hendrix, Brian Jones and Jim Morrison – the quartet later tagged the ‘27 Club’. Her tragic early death turned her into an icon, and in the process the woman and her talent were diminished. Oscar-nominated director, Amy Berg, with access to Joplin’s personal letters (read by singer Cat Power) and previously unseen footage and interviews, looks behind the myth. She charts the evolution of Joplin from her 1950s Texan home-town, to San Francisco in the era of hippie-dom and psychedelia, to her breakout performance at the 1967 Monterey Pop Festival. Most importantly, the film celebrates Joplin’s raw, brazen talent, and the clout of her unmistakable gravelly voice.
Screening locations:
Cinema Nova
Luna Palace
Dendy Newtown
Director: Amy Berg
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Simpson hurts Panthers
The Kelowna Owls scored on their first possession and cruised to a 37-6 lopsided win over the Vernon Panthers in high school football.
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The Kelowna Owls scored on their first possession and cruised to a 37-6 lopsided win over the Vernon Panthers in high school senior football action Friday night at the Kelowna Apple Bowl.
Two-sport star (quarterback) Parker Simpson stole the show, throwing three touchdown passes and running in another two, including a 65-yarder).
“Their quarterback was the difference,” said VSS head coach Sean Smith. “He is so dangerous with his feet and delivered enough accurate passes to keep us honest in the secondary. There were five, six times in the game I thought we had him in the backfield, but his athleticism allowed him to escape. Once he’s in the open field, he is very tough to bring down.”
The Owls led 23-0 at the half and added two second-half touchdown passes. The Panthers, using their third quarterback in two weeks, struggled on offence early on.
A combination of bad snaps and execution miscues led to a sloppy, penalty-filled first half.
“We were constantly fighting situations where we had 15-plus yards to go for a first down and that made it tough on our offence.”
Panther Pivot Levi Nicholas, getting his first high school start, went 9-for- 18 for 81 yards through the air and added another 51 (and a touchdown) on the ground.
Tight end Josh Hyer led all receivers, hauling in four receptions for 35 yards.
Defensively, the Cats were led by Grade 11 standout Ben Hladik’s 7 tackles and one sack.
“Ben and Josh (defensive ends) were outstanding for us all game. They were given the tough task of containing a very athletic quarterback and graded out very well. Ben made a few tackles that very few kids in the province are able to make.”
Senior cornerback Zach Hyer stood out in the secondary, picking off a Simpson deep ball to prevent another Owl score.
“Despite the lopsided score, we had some great individual performances on both sides of the ball. We have a roster that has a lot of inexperienced kids, mixed with some players that are potential provincial all-stars. I think we’ll be OK by the time the regular season rolls around.”
The Panthers host the AAA Rutland Voodoos in exhibition play Friday at Vernon Secondary. Kick off is 3:30 p.m.
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It is one of the central Asian Nation with thriving metropolitans like Almaty or Astana, stupendous beaches along the Caspian Sea and rugged mountain peaks along the Russian and Chinese borders. It is one of those countries where history and heritage are given immense importance, which is why you will find numerous structures from the past immaculately preserved, and a number of museums displaying artefacts. Being transcontinental in its origins, it is unique in every regard. With flights to Jordan you will head to this largest landlocked country in the world. Its landscape specializes in mountainous terrain, home of the nomadic livestock farming communities settled in the highlands. Its culture is mostly remote and eccentric; however, progress has paved its way for major cities in every region. Tourism experienced a boom due to the international airports of the country. Experts at Travelhouse UK have surfed all major airlines for Kazakhstan flights , bringing forward excellent air operators for your service.
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This country is an extensive country and the best time of the year to visit can be decided after you speculate what you are looking for during your vacations. There are beaches where you will find hot summers and mild winters on the contrary the mountainous regions are mostly covered with ice. It is suggested that you take some precautions while heading to the country after taking cheap flights to Kazakhstan. In case, you are looking for skiing then visit during the winters, while for sight-seeing its best that you choose summers or springs for your expedition. Due to continental climate both summers and winters are harsh. Rain showers are expected all year round, however most of the rain is recorded during the winters.
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This land has its identity defined with being the descendants of the Mongol empire in Central Asia. Its rich past has added much to its beauty and heritage. Astana its capital has a number of iconic landmarks displaying its history, culture and its latest development as a progressive nation. Travelers can buy cheap flights to Kazakhstan to explore the modern metropolitan. In line with its official title, the Presidential Centre of Culture in Astana is one huge treasure exhibiting galleries of artwork, collections of musical instruments, canvasses, and even a library of books to cover national heritage. The Centre serves as the facility for representing the country on a diplomatic basis. With its golden dome and marble structure gleaming in a distance, the Noor Astana Mosque stands as the largest mosque in central Asia. Symbolizing the international outreach of the capital city of Astana, the Bayterek is the lone observation tower overseeing the central business district. It is established in a clearing surrounded by a small park among all the skyscrapers and towers of the city. Both the Khan Shatyr Entertainment Centre and Duman Entertainment Centre are a major draw for the visitors. There stunning exterior is an evidence of modern architecture and they host a combination of facilities, including giant aquariums, swimming pools, cinemas and even indoor games.
Almaty sits at the base of the Trans-Ili Alatau mountains and is hailed as the largest city. This beautiful city is a former capital and offers a number of attractions including the famous Almaty Tower, one of the tallest structures in the world, one of the largest museum of Central Asia- the Central State Museum and the Panfilov Park home to an orthodox church and a cathedral. This city offers a luxuriant escape with restaurants, shopping areas and spectacular boulevards to intensify its beauty.
Aktau meaning the White Mountain is located on the east coast of Caspian Sea. This city is strategically developed in such a way that it can easily bear the harsh climatic conditions and the lack of fresh water. The city is a proof of modern technology as the seawater is desalinated to make it useful. In the past plantation was impossible here but now there is a Botanical Garden, cultural centers, a concert hall, cinemas and dozens of libraries, gyms and sports grounds. Even the streets of this city are made inspiring, laced with lavish green lawns lined with poplars and acacias.
The Mausoleum of Khoja Ahmed Yasawi is an important attraction in the city of Turkestan. This mausoleum is an incomplete structure until date, it was initiated in the era of Tamerlane but later on the work stopped. It now stands as a distinctive medieval structure of the past also listed in the UNESCO World heritage site.
Apart from incredible sight-seeing the country also offers adventure lovers, their fair share of attractions. One such example is Medeo. This scenic valley lies in the proximity of Almaty and among other attractions; it serves as a ground to world’s largest speed skating rink. There is also a ski resort, which offers one of the best skiing spot in the Central Asia so buy cheap flights to Kazakhstan to indulge in this adrenaline infused activity among the picturesque setting.
Aksu-Zhabagyly Nature Reserve is home to country’s green valleys, gushing rivers, snowcapped peaks and glaciers. It is one of the best places for the nature lovers and birders to visit. Apart from 1300 flowering plants in the reserve it is also home to diverse wildlife.
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'Dazzling': Our verdict on Crown Sydney's 'six-star' hotel
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Airport review: Kempegowda International Airport, Bangalore, India
Kempegowda International Airport in Bangalore, India. Photo: iStock
SQ503 to Singapore, economy class
The arrival is relaxed due to the availability of a day room just a short walk from the airport at the 154-room Taj Bangalore. The flight is in the evening, so a quick refresh and a meal at the hotel's multi-cuisine, all-day dining restaurant Café 77 East precedes a quick van ride, courtesy of the hotel, to departures. The airport is 30 kilometres from the CBD.
Bangalore is known as the garden city, and its airport continues this theme with verdant greenery throughout, right now they are adding more plants, ponds and trees to Terminal 2, and not just within the terminal. It's one of three airports in the world to have green corridors around the runway.
Inside, Eames Tandem Sling seating in alternating colours of caramel and a darker brown abound. Charles and Ray Eames originally designed their tandem seating for Chicago's O'Hare International Airport in 1962. They're robust, comfy and look good.
With a high ceiling and abundant space, the airport feels spacious.
For the busiest airport in Southern India (at the end of 2018-19, a record 33.3 million passengers transited through BLR), this is one smooth experience. There is no queue for my economy flight to Singapore, and the service is possibly the best I have received in any airport. After being handed my boarding pass, I amurged in a genuine manner to "have a great journey" before being directed to security.
In India, security lines are usually segregated, with women frisked in a private area, but not here. The airport has introduced the unisex Smart Security Lane, a new system that accelerates the process of screening. There is also an Automated Tray Retrieval System. With no lines, getting through took just five minutes.
Pick of the bunch is 7Tawas noodles for fresh biryani. There's also a decent Mediterranean café. A sign says Starbucks is about to open soon, which is a shame. There are a few bars, the small one nearest my gate offers quick service, and the usual airport steep prices ($A33 for a half bottle of wine). Best though is the laminated guide to which cricket game is currently on the big screen.
The local offerings are good, the highlight being the silks and saris from Ritu Kumar at Shopper's Stop, a mini fashion mall full of Indian designer wear. Elsewhere there's a good range of Southern Indian handicrafts. There's also two bookstores to peruse.
Should you need a kip, there is a line of sleep pods available where you pay per hour. The O2 Spa offers a 30-minute express facial, but the pick, if time allows is a 45-minute jet lag recovery package which includes an aromatherapy massage with "jet-lag eliminator" essential oil followed by a cleansing facial.
There is an abundance of charging stations to prepare for the journey ahead, and free Wi-Fi, although the process of logging on doesn't work for international sim cards; you need a local number to receive the one-time code for authentication.
A breeze to get through, good shopping, ample space, relaxing massages, sleep pods, lush greenery and beautifully designed chairs, this airport has it all for those that want to relax before a flight. The Wi-Fi situation is the only thing holding it back.
Andrea Black travelled courtesy of Adventure World Travel
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Marlys Koschinsky
Open house reception to bid farewell to dean of science
Friends and colleagues of former dean of science Marlys Koschinsky will have a chance to wish her well in the next stage of her career at an open house reception on Tuesday, September 29.
The event runs 2 to 4 p.m. in Katzman Lounge, Vanier Hall, and will offer light refreshments as well as collegiality.
Dean of science Marlys Koschinsky congratulates Daniel Heath on his lifetime achievement award.
Reception celebrates successes in science
The 15th Annual Faculty of Science Celebration of Success, April 1 in the CAW Student Centre, recognized the extraordinary achievements of its educators and researchers, says dean Marlys Koschinsky.
“Whether it be a high impact publication, a prestigious grant or award, demonstrated teaching effectiveness, or superlative efforts on a special project,” she said, “I want to recognize and celebrate the impact of what we do in science, and to share our accomplishments with the University of Windsor community and beyond.”
PhD student Corey Scipione discusses his research project with a conferee at the American Heart Association’s Scientific Sessions.
Science grad students invited to present research to American Heart Association
Two UWindsor doctoral students received invitations to present their research projects at the American Heart Association’s Scientific Sessions.
Corey Scipione
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Reception honours equity champion
Family, friends and colleagues came together at Kerr House on June 4 for a reception honouring Lynda Corkum as the 2014 recipient of the Mary Lou Dietz Equity Leadership Award.
Dr. Corkum was nominated by Charles Macdonald and Marlys Koschinsky who spoke to her many contributions over the years to equity and diversity.
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Heart health subject of public discussion
A Café Scientifique on June 16 will address issues of cardiovascular health.
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UWindsor alumnus Gary Kalaci was the keynote speaker Friday at the Faculty of Science’s Celebration of Student Excellence.
Reception celebrates science students’ successes
A reception Friday honoured top science students.
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Organizer seeking student volunteers for science outreach program
Sharing her passion for science with elementary and high school youth helped to remind Michelle Bondy why she loved the subject in the first place. Now she is hoping to spread that enthusiasm with the help of student volunteers from the University of Windsor.
A UWindsor biology grad (BSc 2009), Bondy is outreach program coordinator for the Faculty of Science, and has started recruiting for Let’s Talk Science, which offers free hands-on activities to engage children in science, technology, engineering and math.
Michelle Bondy
Reception fêtes accomplishments of science faculty, staff and students
As a relative newcomer to campus, Steven Rehse—who joined the physics department in May 2011—says the Science Celebration of Success serves several purposes for him.
“First, it’s great to see what people in other departments are doing. Second, there is a social element and I am still getting to know people,” he said. “Finally, it’s great just to keep reminding ourselves of the extraordinary things going on in our faculty.”
Steven Rehse
Local charity donates $10,000 to cancer research project
Her brother Kevin survived cancer but was ultimately killed by side effects of its treatment, says Kate Couvillon. That’s why she welcomes research into alternatives to chemotherapy, like the work on dandelion root extract conducted in the lab of UWindsor professor Siyaram Pandey.
“I think it’s good that people reach out in support of efforts like this,” she said September 20, as the Pajama Angels made a $10,000 donation to the Kevin Couvillon Research Project.
Siyaram Pandey
Campus planting sparks sharing of tree stories
The Kentucky coffee tree (Gymnocladus dioica) derives its common name from reports that early European settlers used its seedpods as a coffee substitute. The species survives in Canada only in southwestern Ontario, where it is considered threatened.
That population grew by one Wednesday, as the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences and the Jull EES Club helped to plant a specimen in front of Memorial Hall in celebration of National Tree Day.
Amy Tanner
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captain paranoia 11 Jan 2021
So we are to have seven regional vaccination 'super centres'. I'm not sure the is sensible from a logistical point of view.
Let's say we want those centres to do the bulk of the 2 million vaccinations, and allowing them to work 16 hours a day, and do equal numbers in each centre. That requires each centre to do 41,000 vaccinations a day, or 2550 an hour, or 42 per minute. Allowing a 15 minute post-injection anaphylaxis alert time, that requires waiting space for 640 people.
Assuming each injection takes 2 minutes, that's a parallel processing path of 84 slots.
Those numbers sound...challenging.
Then there's the issue of access. Seven regional centres means long journeys for most people. If we want to prioritise the elderly first, those journeys will be difficult to impossible.
My father (90) has been called for vaccination this week, but, even though it's only 8 miles away, it would have been difficult, had he not still been reasonably mobile, and able to drive.
He did ask about transport, and the suggestion was to use the bus. That doesn't seem a great idea if were trying to isolate (my parents were regular bus pass users prior to this, but haven't used it at all since March). Another suggestion was a taxi; that would cost £60 round trip, and that also has transmission risks.
So, even with local vaccination centres, there are access problems. For a small number of regional centres, access and throughput seem to be beyond practical implementation.
I guess we'll see how it works.
The New NickB UKH Supporter 11 Jan 2021
In reply to captain paranoia:
I can see the benefit of the big centres in big population centres, but not doing the sorts of numbers you are talking about.
5-10,000 a day would make sense, hundreds of places doing 500 a day each and thousands of places (doctors surgeries) doing 50-100 a day.
jkarran 11 Jan 2021
> Let's say we want those centres to do the bulk of the 2 million vaccinations, and allowing them to work 16 hours a day, and do equal numbers in each centre. That requires each centre to do 41,000 vaccinations a day, or 2550 an hour, or 42 per minute. Allowing a 15 minute post-injection anaphylaxis alert time, that requires waiting space for 640 people.
You have to assume this has been thought through by capable people with a grasp of the problem. We can only hope they weren't then overruled by someone whose mate's fund's conference centre was running out of money.
As people will be called individually rather than in bubbles/families, it's not just forty something people per minute, all day, every for months, it's nearly that many cars in and out. Maintaining 2 seconds separation (and ignoring any disruptions like lights) that requires more than 1 lane in and out dedicated to vaccinations.
> Those numbers sound...challenging.
> Then there's the issue of access. Seven regional centres means long journeys for most people. If we want to prioritise the elderly first, those journeys will be difficult to impossible.
I suspect the super-centres won't in reality be doing the lion's share (I hope they're not simply Nightingale style dazzle, breaking out the cammo for the cameras), we have tented vaccination hubs in the P&R carparks here plus what's being done in conventional settings.
> I guess we'll see how it works.
Yes. Hopefully much better than we fear.
Toerag UKH Supporter 11 Jan 2021
> Assuming each injection takes 2 minutes, that's a parallel processing path of 84 slots.
I'm imagining a queueing system something akin to all the security gates at a major airport. could be challenging to anyone in a wheelchair or not used to being cattle herded like that.
Oh yes, challenging indeed.
I saw the map - If you live in Cornwall then it's Newquay (?) or Plymouth, a not insignificant drive to either for some.
elsewhere 11 Jan 2021
The large centres can seat 10,000-100,000 people so there is space to wait. There's circulation space for 10,000-100,000 people leaving at the end of an event so there is loads of indoor space for social distancing whilst getting in & out for vaccination. There's loads of car parking and no traffic jams when operating at 1%-5% of normal capacity. They're often pretty much on one level and very wheelchair friendly. And finally, they're empty!
Offloading the logistics of getting 2M people a week to & from the vaccination centre onto the individuals probably makes sense as like your dad, the majority can manage it. Logistically it's far easier than taking the vaccinator to the individual.
Post edited at 13:09
In reply to elsewhere:
Large centres are the answer. But a lot more than seven are required. There will be at least one unused sports centre in every town. Use them all. That was really my point; divide and conquer.
And I agree that taking vaccines to individuals is certainly not the answer (although it will be required in a small number of cases, such as those in assisted living), and not what I was suggesting.
dread-i 11 Jan 2021
>The large centres can seat 10,000-100,000 people so there is space to wait. There's circulation space for 10,000-100,000 people leaving at the end of an event so there is loads of indoor space for social distancing whilst getting in & out for vaccination. There's loads of car parking and no traffic jams when operating at 1%-5% of normal capacity. They're often pretty much on one level and very wheelchair friendly. And finally, they're empty!
I'd agree with some of that. I've been to events in Excel in London, where the next trade show along was showing helicopters, with several parked up for display. Having several rooms the size of a dozen football pitches is great. However, with excel, the issues is in getting there. The DLR runs by the side of it, but that gets pretty busy at the best of times. Also, it can be a fair old walk from the station to the actual hall.
With car parks and traffic jams, major concert or sports events handle tens of thousands of people, but traffic us usually jammed up for some distance around. The idea of giving people injection in their cars, waiting and then releasing them in a stream, sounds reasonable. With empty roads and a bit of load balancing, e.g. an entire household in one car, cars from north and south given different timings to reduce load on certain roads, it sounds workable.
They should do everything possible to deter people from just showing up, on the off chance.
In reply to dread-i:
I think the big venue might work when they are down to the 65+, 60, 55+,50+ age groups who are progressively more mobile (physically & driving).
There's a traffic jam when 100% capacity empties out after an event but I doubt there will be when 10-30% of normal capacity arrives and leaves in 8-12 hours.
neilh 11 Jan 2021
You are given alternatives if you cannot get there or have issues.
These centres will possibly just be practising for the larger moretransport mobile numbers as they move down the age range. Put it this way if I was offered a vaccination this week 200 miles away I would be there at the alloted time.
A bit of perspective.On the other hand you can try getting one in France . Might take you seriously alot longer...........with alot of form filling and an interview before hand.
For once maybe we should count our blessings.
Andy DB UKH Supporter 11 Jan 2021
I'm sort of hoping that the large centres are headline-grabbing examples to get the public engaged with the idea and will be followed up with some slightly smaller centres. The cynic in me thinks they are headline-grabbing to deflect attention away from elsewhere. In reality, I think once vaccine supply isn't the bottle neck we will probably see all sorts of tempory vaccination centres.
There are large centres, there have been for weeks, my workplace is one (Council building with a large public space on the ground floor), we have another about 4 miles away.
These centres are set up to do 300-500 people a day. I am hoping what I am seeing locally is replicated nationwide and there are hundreds of such centres.
I’ve just checked, vaccines currently being administered at 1,000 sites, which isn’t enough, hopefully will be a lot more in a week. 2.4m given so far.
In reply to Toerag:
> I saw the map - If you live in Cornwall then it's Newquay (?) or Plymouth, a not insignificant drive to either for some.
The nearest to me is 90min+ drive (each way) and York's pretty well connected. Realistically they're not going to be doing the bulk of the work, they only really bolster the capacity of their cities and immediate environs and then (if used safely) only for a less vulnerable, more mobile subset of the population who aren't yet invited. They'll probably prove useful toward the middle-end of the project when supply has ramped up and we get to to a less invitation lead regime but certainly not a silver bullet for reaching the over 70s! Then again, by that point we'll have necessarily built extensive locally accessible capacity. Being a cynic I fear they could be little more than another white elephant, a way to funnel money to racecourses and conference centres while generating a photo-op for the army.
In reply to Andy DB:
> I'm sort of hoping that the large centres are headline-grabbing examples to get the public engaged with the idea
Looking for the locations, I found this map, showing the super centres, and the local hospital hubs.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-55566404
Clearly, as my parents are being invited for local vaccination in the small, local hospital, these supercentres aren't the only vaccination sites. Vaccination has been going on since mid-December, and not at super centres.
So my OP is a bit too negative, but, given that Johnson is at the Bristol centre today, it's obviously a useful PR exercise. The BBC reporter actually asked him why he had travelled to Bristol, as that didn't seem an essential journey... Of course, Johnson said it was part of his job, although it might just as well have been done at the Excel centre...
freeflyer 11 Jan 2021
> Clearly, as my parents are being invited for local vaccination in the small, local hospital, these supercentres aren't the only vaccination sites. Vaccination has been going on since mid-December, and not at super centres.
I think you and Andy DB are on the money. Bubble mate works part-time in her local GP surgery and last few days they've been contacting 1,000 patients to tell them not to come for their second jab, followed by contacting a different 1,000 to tell them to come for their first one.
Apart from the FFS aspect of that, once the logistics are sorted out I don't see why it shouldn't happen quickly. After all, if E484K or another variant turns out to escape the current set of vaccines, we'll all need another one.
https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/951284/UK_COVID-19_vaccines_delivery_plan.pdf
Looks like this 7 are the first of about 50, alongside 206 hospital sites and 1,000 local centres.
In reply to The New NickB:
Thanks. That looks far more sensible. I'm significantly reassured from my post-headline news position this morning...
ianstevens 11 Jan 2021
In reply to jkarran:
> You have to assume this has been thought through by capable people with a grasp of the problem. We can only hope they weren't then overruled by someone whose mate's fund's conference centre was running out of money.
Have you been following the actions pdf the UK government for the past 18 months?!?!?!
Jenny C 11 Jan 2021
My GP has been doing vaccinations since December, not just for their parents but also as a centre for other practices in the local community. Downside is that vaccination is taking priority over normal duties, meaning an even slower service for patients as there are less routine appointments available.
Personally I do think that vaccination hubs are a great idea, BUT these should be in the local area (we all understand the definition of local, don't we?). So as someone else suggested sports halls and community centres, rather than enormous exhibition centres.
mick taylor UKH Supporter 11 Jan 2021
In reply to Jenny C: and Captain Paranoia
CP: I reckon your opening info is way off.
The plan is to have 2,700 vaccine centres. I reckon the bulk will be still be carried out health centres/GP’s as in your example. In Leigh (Grter Manc) they have been using Leigh Sport village (the rugby stadium) which is doing a massive number based on reports.
I do think these new massive hubs have a function and I think the aim is for them to vaccinated 1,000’s a week. They are local to their community (lots of people live near Man City’s stadium) and they have the infrastructure (described upthread).
I also understand that we vaccinate 15 million people for normal flu, so this is more than doable
In reply to neilh:
> For once maybe we should count our blessings.
You may be right. I was very pleased when an elderly uncle in England got vaccinated in December.
I've been trying to find daily/weekly figures, the best I've found is https://www.england.nhs.uk/statistics/statistical-work-areas/covid-19-vaccinations/.
The total number of vaccinations for COVID-19 in England as reported by the date of publication. All figures are as recorded on the National Immunisation Management Service (NIMS) database.
Cumulative Total Vaccinations to Date
8th December 2020 to 10th January 2021 - 2,333,764 (provisional data)
Of which, 1st dose - 1,959,151
Of which, 2nd dose - 374,613
In the week ending the 27th December a total of 243,039 people received an NHS vaccination for COVID-19 in England.
In the week ending the 3rd January a total of 308,541 people received an NHS vaccination for COVID-19 in England. This takes the total vaccinations given since vaccinations began on the 8th of December to 1,112,866
Hopefully this means 2,333764 - 1,112,866 = 1,220,898 vaccinated in week ending 10th Jan - exponential growth of vaccinations would be fantastic and is pretty much what we need. That's assuming mostly first vaccinations now as second vaccinations being delayed.
BBC reported that the plan is to have 2,700 vaccination centres. They could be talking rubbish I guess.
Ed: Hancock just reported that since Thursday when Oxford vaccine started to be used, an average of 210,000 people a day been vaccinated. Bloody impressive!!
In reply to mick taylor:
> BBC reported that the plan is to have 2,700 vaccination centres. They could be talking rubbish I guess.
> Ed: Hancock just reported that since Thursday when Oxford vaccine started to be used, an average of 210,000 people a day been vaccinated. Bloody impressive!!
At last some good news!
Bacon Butty 11 Jan 2021
And they've upped the mid Feb target from 13,5 to 15M.
I might get done by the end of March
> CP: I reckon your opening info is way off.
I agree. NewNickB's link shows a much better situation than was presented in the news this morning. As upthread, I'm much more reassured by this.
I over-reacted to the puff piece in the news trumpeting just these seven new centres, and not mentioning the smaller scale infrastructure they are using & planning to use.
wintertree 11 Jan 2021
> I over-reacted to the puff piece in the news trumpeting just these seven new centres,
It's really easy to get drawn in by the negativity of all this given the number of obvious things that could have been done better. I try very hard to mind against doing that because it's just not personally helpful, and its easy to get drawn in to.
On that front of being drawn in to negativity - I prefer to harness it as a way of looking forwards at what we should do.-It’s great that the vaccination is scaling up so well. However, the pandemic isn't over until it's over globally. I fear that if we don't go for hard borders crossed inwards only with MIQ - and that only open to people with a negative test before travelling, and push for and hold near elimination, the cycle will repeat again next winter one way or another.
I'm not much of one for wide spread campaigning, but I am gong to put together the best case for this that I can and send it far and wide. Not now, because home schooling is sapping the time I had for everything. But late spring.
In reply to wintertree:
> However, the pandemic isn't over until it's over globally. I fear that if we don't go for hard borders crossed inwards only with MIQ - and that only ope to people with a negative test before travelling, and push for and hold near elimination, the cycle will repeat again next winter one way or another.
Exactly. We'll have herd immunity for the variants the vaccine can protect us from, but not those that have mutated elsewhere since. The whole world needs herd immunity to all the strains active around the world at the same time to kill the virus off, anything else results in the situation we currently have with flu.....except Covid is more infective and hits harder .
> except Covid is more infective and hits harder .
And unlike flu, this coronavirus is only just getting started adapting to its current hosts. It’s a kitten compared to SARS and MERS. Hard to believe playing with fire has gone so far and the threats are still not recognised very clearly.
Good stuff. Let’s hope the good news about vaccination roll out doesn’t encourage people to ignore the regs.
The government report I linked to seems to be suggesting about 1450 in England, which obviously isn’t 2700 even when the Scotland, Wales and NI are taken in to account, but I hope they are right.
My wife had to go to Salford Royal, her 82 year old aunt went to a CCG site about a mile from home.
> It's really easy to get drawn in by the negativity of all this given the number of obvious things that could have been done better.
Guilty...
I actually played back tv to double check and they did say 2700. Anyway, it’s the first time I’ve felt the government has had a plan, of any description. I/we need any ounce of positivity given the totally negative situation we are (and will be) in for some time.
Wife and me just been chatting about the possibility of visiting family in Fife at Easter, but I’ve learnt not to be too optimistic when it comes to this!
nniff 11 Jan 2021
I have a new vaccination centre 1.5 miles away from me as the crow flies. Cheerily, I have a pop-up mortuary 1.8 miles away.
Not quite sure what to make of that
My father in law is now eligible, being well into his 80's and has an appointment for 1 Feb, with a second three weeks later. For the vaccination, I hasten to add.
Regardless of all this, the other world carries on. My wife runs a prep school, and the father of three young kids at the school (all under eight) had a stroke on Saturday and died on Sunday. Totally crap day at work for her today, but not as bad a day as for the remains of that family.
My GP claims to have done 1,000 vaccinations last week. Really don't care where vaccinations are being done so long as they get them done ASAP and with minimal disruption to other healthcare provision.
I think we all need to recognise that given the hardship of lockdown, traveling for a vaccine reality isn't a big deal. Had a bit of an argument with mum about this as she was stressing over the possibility of traveling to the far side of Sheffield - if she's was asked to go to Leeds or even Rotherham I might have had some sympathy, but they both drive so what's there problem?
In reply to Jenny C:
> but they both drive so what's there problem?
Quite a few people I know are developing a sort of agoraphobia (not quite the right word) after spending so long confined to home and their immediate localities as much as possible. People who have travelled the world are becoming nervous about going to the next town. I think the effects have been seeping insidiously in to them for quite some time.
marsbar 11 Jan 2021
I was like that after the first lockdown.
Lockdown is a tactic, vaccination is the big strategy. Always has been imho. Whitty was saying this from day 1.
The numbers being vaccinated are eye catching compared to Europe.
its too easy to look at day to day stuff rather than the big picture.
> Lockdown is a tactic, vaccination is the big strategy. Always has been imho. Whitty was saying this from day 1.
Given our inability to eliminate with TT&I, that was never in doubt.
Using the lockdown tactic inadequately has brought us to this crisis point.
It's a pleasant surprise to see the government apparently managing something well, but I guess logistical organisation is something that is probably largely immune to political influence (barring outsourcing to inadequate private contractors).
My sister has had to fight really quite hard to qualify to vaccinate (in spite of 40 years nursing experience). That's not an isolated experience. So it's not all plain sailing on the organisational front.
> Good stuff. Let’s hope the good news about vaccination roll out doesn’t encourage people to ignore the regs.
The shift in government and press output this week suggests that threat is now on the radar. Next threat is the 'economy first' tory back benchers when the death rate starts to fall.
It makes sense to offer free vaccination world wide paid for by richer countries like the UK. If shared with other richer countries, it's almost peanuts compared to the costs so far within the UK so far. It might save the UK vast amounts of money within the UK by reducing the rate of transmission into the UK or reduces the risk of a new variant that needs a new vaccine.
As I understand it that is what will happen.The richer countries effectively subsidise the cost of the vaccine to poorer countries.Its one of the advanatages of the Oxford vaccine-- its cheap-and will have been designed with that in mine from Day 1. I look at the Pzier one as one for rich countries.
> As I understand it that is what will happen.The richer countries effectively subsidise the cost of the vaccine to poorer countries.Its one of the advanatages of the Oxford vaccine-- its cheap-and will have been designed with that in mine from Day 1. I look at the Pzier one as one for rich countries.
Good point. I know pharma pricing varies for richer/poorer countries. Hopefully UN/WHO/other will support national vaccination programmes - it make economic & public health sense for us and saving lives is good thing generally.
oldie UKH Supporter 12 Jan 2021
> You are given alternatives if you cannot get there or have issues. <
Thats great but its extremely poorly advertised, This morning I was helping a very worried neighbour in her 80s. She'd had a letter telling her to visit the website and fill in an online form, however she was only given a choice of major centres all totally unreachable without hours on public transport. Nowhere was there an option to say "can't get there" and she was worried she'd miss vaccination. I tried a couple of searches but could find no details of what she should do (nor on her GP practice's website)..
I told her to ring her surgery and they were able to inform her that there would be more local centres sometime in the future and they would contact her (presumably there is some NHS IT system to let her GP know she hasn't taken up the initial offer).
There must be loads of people in their 80s and 90s who can't get to the existing centres.
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A very brief history of time
There are some very good artists in Tate Modern's new film and video show. Shame we don't get to see more of them, writes Adrian Searle
Exquisite mannerism ... Yang Fudong's Liu Lan. Courtesy Shanghart Gallery
Adrian Searle
@SearleAdrian
Thu 7 Oct 2004 06.12 EDT
Tate Modern's exhibition Time Zones is long overdue, the first survey of time in recent film and video that the Tate has ever mounted. One could quibble and say that the subject applies to almost anything, and complain too that not all the work is terribly recent, or entirely unfamiliar, though only one work has, to my knowledge, been shown before in London. It is thoughtfully presented, however - a juxtaposition of very different styles and sensibilities.
With engagingly rough-textured directness, Turkish artist Fikret Atay encouraged a pair of bored teenagers in his hometown of Batman, Turkey, to improvise a Kurdish song and dance in the town's grubby ATM booth. There's a subtext: Kurdish music was banned for a long time in Turkey, and the presence of the cash machine is at odds with the down-at-heel, probably cardless kids, for whom the booth is as much as anything a place to get out of the wind.
How different in style this is to the exquisite mannerism of Shanghai-based Yang Fudong's Liu Lan. In this pale, watery black and white film, a young man in a white suit meets - or perhaps fantasises about meeting - a traditionally dressed country girl who lives beside a reed-fringed lake. The dreamy nostalgia of the film is heightened by the sadness and sentimentality of the music, the stylised acting, and the woodblock-cut credits at the end, as though the film comes from another time.
Time in Yang's work feels elastic, cyclical rather than linear - just as it is in Serbian artist Bojan Sarcevic's circular walk through Bangkok. It's a purposeful yet absurdly pointless stride that brooks no interference, and engages no interest from the slower-paced street-sellers and hawkers of the city. I expect him to come a cropper like Monsieur Hulot. He doesn't.
Unlike Sarcevic, we can drift through the day along with the 12-hour continuous take of the Zocalo, the vast square in the centre of Mexico City, by Francis Alÿs, and zone out in the slow ecclesiastical time of Wolfgang Staehle's live-feed webcam shot of the 11th-century monastery at Comburg in Germany. The monastery, viewed on its distant hill, was yesterday afternoon a German picture postcard in the slanting autumn sun. By evening it was pretty dark, as one would expect. Stay long enough and the place will be obliterated by rain, wrapped in fog and capped by winter snow. The seasons will turn, the nights lengthen towards the winter solstice ... you get the picture.
We could do with a few sofas, rather than the dodgy ergonomics of Tate Modern's benches. When Alÿs's Zocalo, May 20, 1999 was last seen in London in a Lisson Gallery show, you could stretch out as the shadow of the enormous flagpole in the centre of the Zocalo made its 12-hour, sun-dial sweep of the square. People line up to stand in the shadow, huddling together at the flagpole's base at midday.
Constant vigilance and rapt attention aren't what works like Alÿs's or Staehle's are really asking for. They are opportunities for a different kind of immersion, another register of perception. It is not so much a case of watching them closely as of their slowly unrolling or endlessly looped presentness.
I could also keep watching Fiona Tan's camera all day, as it inquires, insinuates, probes and glides over the make-up and kimonos, the faces and jewellery and hairdos of the Toyisha archery festival in Japan, where young girls perform a highly stylised archery contest as a rite of passage into adulthood. Saint Sebastian appears an almost entirely celebratory work, apart from the title, and filled with visual texture and pleasure and tiny human incident. Nowadays, this is a rare thing, and I have to say I loved it in a way I doubt Tan intended.
Jeroen de Rijke and Willem de Rooij's 10-minute view of a Jakarta cemetery, one of two films the pair have made in the city, also has an intent more subtle than it appears. Their work is characterised by space and atmosphere as much as it is preoccupied by the passing of time. Strollers and mourners drift between the graves. The towers of the city crowd the horizon, like different kinds of tombs. It is as though we were hovering slightly above it all, with a highly focused, elevated view. Like God, perhaps. The work of these two artists from the Netherlands is painterly and rich; I kept thinking of Courbet. There is always some indefinable pathos in their calculated witnessing of the passing world.
We are also witnesses to the tedious and inane machismo of Israeli car-hounds in their all-terrain gas-guzzlers, as they rev and shunt and stall their cars around the impossible gradients of the tyre-wrecked sand dunes outside Tel Aviv, in Yael Bartana's Kings of the Hill. I guess this is meant as metaphor for the Israeli male mindset, and of a state ranting and miring itself in sand. It works well enough, but I feel the work isn't altogether apposite here.
With rather more ingenuity, Anri Sala's 2002 double projection, Blindfold, shows a pair of new, naked billboards in Albania. Their blank, canted metal surfaces catch and reflect the low sunlight, which blasts the static camera like a blinding death ray, bleaching out the sky and surrounding buildings in blisters of light. As the sun moves, the buildings and passersby emerge from a strangely day-for-night, light-shocked gloom. This film almost takes us back to the strategies of 1970s structuralist film-making, yet its matter-of-fact materialism is another metaphor for the fitful emergence of global capitalism in Albania. This isn't Sala's best work, by any means, and though I like the work in Time Zones a lot, I keep thinking this isn't quite the video and film show we need right now. What is needed is more depth, with more than one or two works by each artist. More time, in other words, more space, more sofas.
· Time Zones: Recent Film and Video is at Tate Modern, London SE1, until January 2. Details: 020-7887 8008.
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War would be illegal
Fri 7 Mar 2003 05.31 EST
We are teachers of international law. On the basis of the information publicly available, there is no justification under international law for the use of military force against Iraq. The UN charter outlaws the use of force with only two exceptions: individual or collective self-defence in response to an armed attack and action authorised by the security council as a collective response to a threat to the peace, breach of the peace or act of aggression. There are currently no grounds for a claim to use such force in self-defence. The doctrine of pre-emptive self-defence against an attack that might arise at some hypothetical future time has no basis in international law. Neither security council resolution 1441 nor any prior resolution authorises the proposed use of force in the present circumstances.
Before military action can lawfully be undertaken against Iraq, the security council must have indicated its clearly expressed assent. It has not yet done so. A vetoed resolution could provide no such assent. The prime minister's assertion that in certain circumstances a veto becomes "unreasonable" and may be disregarded has no basis in international law. The UK has used its security council veto on 32 occasions since 1945. Any attempt to disregard these votes on the ground that they were "unreasonable" would have been deplored as an unacceptable infringement of the UK's right to exercise a veto under UN charter article 27.
A decision to undertake military action in Iraq without proper security council authorisation will seriously undermine the international rule of law. Of course, even with that authorisation, serious questions would remain. A lawful war is not necessarily a just, prudent or humanitarian war.
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· Simon Tisdall (Comment, GuardianUnlimited, March 5) states that: "Either George Bush is being deliberately duplicitous on the Palestinian question or he is very badly informed." The Bush administration sees the key to defeating world terrorism and that of solving the Middle East conflict as essentially being linked: once tyrannical regimes have been removed, democracies can flourish in their place, and these democracies can put their own houses in order rather than attacking their neighbours.
Arafat and Saddam are two examples where regime change is required. By setting this in motion, the root cause of the Middle East problem - the Arabs rejection of Israel's existence - can finally be addressed. It can be addressed by a new generation of Arab leaders who will use their huge financial resources to put their own societies in order rather than diverting internal dissent by attacking their enemies. It is precisely this destruction of hostile regimes policy which led to the recent emergence of flourishing democracies in eastern Europe and, a generation before, to the redefinition of Japanese society from a militaristic one to a peaceful one.
Ian Solomon
· Your front page (Britain's dirty secret, March 6) is a disgrace. You are becoming the worst sort of fifth column.
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Issues of sexual assault: the Tehelka case
Updated: May 26, 2016 09:45 IST
“Tehelka” tried to conceal the gravity of its Editor-in-Chief’s alleged sexual assault, which is rape under the amended IPC. It tried to divert attention to an inquiry by an in-house committee mandated by a 2013 law meant to protect women in workplaces. This Act deals with sexual harassment of a lesser degree, the offences under it are non-cognisable, and it is in limbo since the government has failed to draft the Rules.
The Goa government and police have taken the right step in filing a First Information Report (FIR) against Tarun Tejpal, Editor-in-chief of Tehelka magazine, for sexual assault on a woman colleague while she was fulfilling work-related responsibilities. Sexual offences are cognisable crimes and the state is duty bound to take action if the information of such a crime is in the public domain. Tehelka has often advocated the rights of women and other sections of the marginalised and therefore its admirers are shocked and angered at the ethical and moral collapse of the organisation as soon as it was called upon to use the same standards for itself as it had rightly demanded of others.
All too often, because of the nature of the offence, reporting of a sexual crime depends on whether or not the victim of the crime is able to speak about it and report it and it is a shocking reality that this heinous crime is also one of the most under-reported. The reasons are many. Social stigmatisation, traumatising legal procedures, the hostile attitude of public officials, discouragement from families and friends who want to protect the victim from the toll that fighting a case may impose on her, are some of the often compelling factors that impose silence around the crime. This, in effect, works to the benefit of the perpetrator of the crime. In the case of a working woman, almost always an employee subordinate to the man who has sexually assaulted her, reporting the crime is all the more difficult because of the apprehension that it would involve, in addition to everything else, the loss of livelihood. In case after case this is what happens: the woman who dares to complain of sexual harassment against her boss loses her job.
The young woman journalist in the Tehelka case showed exemplary courage in reporting the crime to the second-in-command, the Managing Editor, Shoma Chaudhury. But she was let down again by those she had trusted. Ms Chaudhury, who received her complaint, chose to accept the farce of an apology offered by Mr. Tejpal, chose to whitewash his crime, chose to accept his self-serving, self-decided, self-imposed punishment of a six-month sabbatical. She further defended her decision by the outrageous statement that “it was more than what was asked for” — after all, he didn’t just apologise, but look, there’s atonement too, six whole months of not being the Chief Boss. If other rapists locked up in the jails of India had been beneficiaries of such an approach, they would all be lining up at the doors of their victims, offering their apologies, promising months of atonement. It is easier after all to atone in the circle of loving friends and families than to face the law and the consequences of your crime.
The crime is rape
And make no mistake, going by the victim’s complaint under the amended Indian Penal Code’s definition of rape in Section 375B read with Explanation 1, the crime committed was rape, which if proved, gets the accused a jail sentence of a minimum of seven years. Further, under the amended law, under Section 376(2)(f) of the IPC where the offence of rape is committed by a “relative, guardian, teacher, or a person in a position of trust or authority” and also under Section 376(2)(k) where “anyone being in a position of control and dominance over a woman commits rape on the woman” the offence is considered an aggravated form of rape and the punishment is enhanced to a minimum of ten years. The Tehelka case would invite these provisions.
The gravity of the offence was sought to be concealed by Tehelka in another way too, and regretfully some women activists and women lawyers, in their misplaced arguments on several television channels, became party to this exercise in deception. It was put out that the complainant herself would prefer that the case be referred to an in-house committee mandated by the law against sexual harassment at the workplace. Actually the Act is in limbo as the Central government has failed to draft the Rules. Since Tehelka did not have such a committee, it set one up within a day. This was then showcased as a serious effort by Tehelka to address the grievance of the young journalist.
Ambit of the 2013 Act
This law, known as the Sexual Harassment of Women at Workplace (Prevention, Prohibition and Redressal) Act, 2013 is based on the Vishaka judgment of the Supreme Court of India. It was meant to serve the purpose of getting quick justice to women employees without the lengthy procedures of a court case — in cases of sexual harassment of a lesser degree, which come under the anti-molestation clause of the IPC. This is clear from the very definition of “sexual harassment” in the Act ranging from “physical contact or advances” to a “request for sexual favours” or “making sexually coloured remarks.” They are all offences in themselves, but are certainly not to the degree of the crime of rape. But more importantly, the Act, which is designed to find a civil remedy, has a specific clause that makes all cases under it non-cognisable.
Under Clause 27(1) of the 2013 Act, “no court shall take cognizance of any offence punishable under this Act save on a complaint by the aggrieved woman or on authority of the Internal Committee.” Clause 27(3) specifically states that “every offence under this Act shall be non-cognisable.” These are ambiguous clauses in the Act that could be read as a nullification of the mandatory responsibility of the State to take suo motu notice of a cognisable crime, such as the offences figuring in the Tehelka case. It would be a mockery of the struggle of working women for justice if the Act were to become an instrument to reduce the gravity of a cognisable crime such as rape, which should be tried under the relevant anti-rape laws. It was not to provide justice to the victim but to protect the accused, in this case the boss, that such a case was going to be referred to an internal committee. However, events have overtaken this attempt to underplay the crime, and the processes of law have already started with the filing of the FIR.
Agency and the law
The other argument advanced to support Tehelka’s handling of the case is that a complainant has “agency,” the capacity to take her own decisions, and that therefore if she chooses not to report the crime to the police and chooses other ways of finding justice or even remaining silent, that is her business and should be respected.
The assertion of agency by a rape victim in relation to the action to take against her tormentor requires that she has full information of the different laws, that she has the time to think things through, the pros and cons of not going to the police to file a complaint. Was she informed that the 2013 Act against sexual harassment deals with offences of a lesser nature? Was she informed that the punishment under the Act could not in any way match the crime that was inflicted on her? Did she know that her job was protected by the law? Was she offered the best legal advice and support to fight for justice? Without such a framework, the use of the argument of agency ends up as a shield to protect the accused from being prosecuted under the anti-rape laws.
In cases such as Tehelka, it is essential for the organisation and management to advise the victim to file a case with the police and to provide all legal help, which would better help her make an informed choice. In fact, the employer herself under the Vishaka judgment had a duty to report the offence to the police. Men in positions of power, who use that position to exploit women employees for sexual gratification cannot be allowed to get away with it.
And what about Gujarat?
There is also a political dimension to this. Since Tehelka’s sting operations had exposed the Bharatiya Janata Party’s corruption and underhand dealings, the present case has provided the BJP with an opportunity to hit back. In fact, the case highlights the double standards being used by that party. If in this case the Goa government run by the BJP can take suo motu notice of a cognisable crime, why is the same alacrity not being shown in Gujarat, also led by the BJP, where in violation of the law a young woman known to the Chief Minister was reportedly put under intense surveillance by the Anti-Terrorist Squad, on his orders? This constitutes a cognisable crime that requires the State to file an FIR for the violation of Section 5.2 of the Indian Telegraph Act and possibly of Section 354D(ii), which deals with the offence of stalking a woman under the amended IPC. The crimes differ but both are cognisable and therefore the same processes of law should be as applicable in Gujarat as they are in Goa.
(Brinda Karat is a member of the Polit Bureau of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) and former Member of Parliament.)
The article has been corrected for factual error.
The bio-note described Brinda Karat as a member of the Polit Bureau of the Communist Party of India and former Member of Parliament. She is a member of the Polit Bureau of the Communist Party of India (Marxist).
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10 Things to Consider When Designing an eBook
by The Logo Creative
You know how people say, “don’t judge a book by its cover?” Well, as truthful as that might be, many will skip that advice and judge a book based on its design. The design makes the first impression, so whoever says that it’s only inside that matters is wrong. In this article we will give you 10 Things to Consider When Designing an eBook.
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Run Studio Run by Eli Altman
Run Studio Run is a book that details how to manage and grow a small creative studio. The first edition was successfully funded on Kickstarter and available for purchase through Extracurricular Press in May 2018.
Run Studio Run is a step-by-step guide that helps you look at your studio critically—as a business as opposed to an artistic endeavor. You will establish goals and paths and how to reach them. You will see that the more of your business you can commit to process, the more you will free yourself up to do the work you really love.
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Logo-a-gogo By Rian Hughes
Logo-a-gogo is a logo book that’s Jam Packed with almost 5,000 images, Logo-a-gogo is an inspirational visual history of the iconic brand identities created by British designer Rian Hughes who has over three decades of experience as a comic book illustrator and type designer. The book was released in the UK in April 2018.
It features iconic characters and brands such as Batman, Hed Kandi, Spider-Man, James Bond, The Avengers, and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.
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Lance Wyman: Process. A proposal for the 1976 USA Bicentennial identity by Unit Editions
In this book review, we are reviewing Lance Wyman: Process. A proposal for the 1976 USA Bicentennial identity by Unit Editions
This book is a near reproduction of the one-off, leather-bound ‘sketchbook’ that Lance Wyman made to document his design process for the creation of a logo and identity design for the 1976 American Bicentennial celebrations to mark the creation of the USA as an independent republic. It’s a record of the creative process that Wyman went through to arrive at a refined and workable solution.
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Know Your Onions: Graphic Design By Drew de Soto
Know Your Onions by Drew de Soto is a very enlightening book offering a different view of the things you encounter every day as a designer.
Drew De Soto who is a print-focused designer has been a graphic designer for over 25 years, this book is a guide for working in the Graphic Design industry and first published by BIS Publishers in 2012.
As he says in his Introduction: “After a 25-year career in graphic design, I’ve picked up a few things and turned them into ‘custom settings’. Read this book and save yourself 25 years.”
Drew was kind enough to send us a copy of the book to review and we were looking forward to tucking into this one, Again I would like to thank Drew for sending us the book and answering our questions as part of this review. Let dive in and take a look at Know Your Onions: Graphic Design By Drew de Soto.
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Book of ideas Volume 2 by Radim Malinic
The book I had been waiting for after reading the first Book of Ideas that blew me away! which we also reviewed. I was really looking forward to receiving the second coming in vol 2, We had this on pre-order and received it before release giving us time to read and review it. The book was released yesterday on 7th September at a launch event in London and like the first book again I am blown away!
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Branding: In Five and a Half Steps: The Definitive Guide to Creating Brand Identity in Five and a Half Steps By Michael Johnson
Michael Johnson is one of the world’s leading graphic designers and brand consultants. His studio, johnson banks, is responsible for the rebranding of many notable clients, including Virgin Atlantic, Think London, BFI, Christian Aid, and MORE TH>N, and he has garnered a plethora of awards in the process.
In early 2014, Michael Johnson started work on a key book he felt was missing from his shelves – a definitive guide to the entire branding process that wasn’t biased to either strategy or design, but treated both as equals. Two and a half years later the project came to fruition in Branding: In Five and Half Steps, published in Autumn 2016 by Thames and Hudson.
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Draplin Design Co. Pretty Much Everything by Aaron James Draplin
Graphic designer Aaron Draplin looks back on his career so far in this colourful, detailed and heartfelt book.
Aaron Draplin is the graphic designer behind the branding of Ford Motors, Esquire, and even the Obama Administration. This big colourful book takes a look back on his amazing career so far in this heartfelt and pointed retrospective.
Designer Aaron James Draplin’s book Pretty Much Everything certainly lives up to its name. This mid-career retrospective is stuffed with countless examples of his influential work, ranging from snowboard graphics to logo designs, and insights into Draplin’s unruly career path.
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Work For Money, Design For Love by David Airey
Following on from the previous book review in this edition we will be looking at David’s second book Work For Money, Design For Love by David Airey. This book answers the most frequent questions about starting and running a design business.
Its a refreshing, straight-talking advice guide from the Logo Design Love author and designer that is David Airey. In this book, David answers all the questions designers have about launching and running their own design business. As David explained the idea for the book was inspired by the many questions he receives from designers that visit his blogs.
Some of the most common questions designers ask are ” How do I find new design clients?” “How much should I charge for my design work?” “I have a difficult client how do I handle them?”
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Logo Design Love by David Airey
In this Logo Book Review, we are going to be taking a look at Logo Design Love by David Airey – A guide to creating iconic brand identity’s published in 2009 and a popular logo design book by David Airey an Irish Graphic Designer. The book has received a vast amount of credit from the design community and can be found on the bookshelves of thousands of logo designer’s around the world.
I have had this book since it was first released and it’s been a very valuable resource for me over the past 9 years. It’s one of those books I think every logo and brand identity designer should own. It’s perfect if you’re just starting out or if you’re like me and experienced designer whos been in the game for near two decades it’s also worth owning!
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