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High school football: Plain Dealing routs Tensas in opener
It took only one play for the Plain Dealing Lions to assert their dominance against the Tensas Panthers on Thursday night in Plain Dealing.
On their first offensive play, the line opened a big hole for running back TJ McCauley. The result was a signficant gain. A few players later, Ladavious Scott went 12 yards for the season’s first touchdown with barely a minute gone in the contest.
The Lions went on to rout the Jaguars 36-6.
Scott led the Lions with 98 yards rushing on 12 carries. McCauley also had a big night, gaining 90 yards on 16 carries. He scored two two-point conversions and ran hard throughout the game, picking up many of his yards after being hit.
“It’s good to open with a win, because when you open with a loss it’s hard to dig out of it sometimes,” Plain Dealing coach James Thurman said.
The Lions lined up in a tight formation for much of the game and got big yardage up the middle on the ground behind a strong push by the line. But as Tensas loaded up to stop the run, senior quarterback Artavious Washington-Carper was able to hit junior Ladarious O’Neal twice for touchdowns of 26 and 29 yards in the first half.
The second TD pass made it 22-0 early in the second quarter and that was the score at the half.
“We kind of changed some of our personnel up, got some of our big guys where they’re not going both ways full time, get a good rotation,” Thurman said. “The offensive line really played hard. They kind of packed the box on us early on so we were able to hit them with two touchdown passes. That was great that our quarterback was able to put the ball where he needed to and Ladarious O’Neal was able to take it to the end zone.”
Plain Dealing increased its lead to 28-0 early in the third quarter on an 8-yard run by Washington-Carper. The Lions took over at the Tensas 20 after the Jaguars punter, under a heavy rush, was unable to get the kick off.
Plain Dealing added a final touchdown in the fourth quarter. Inside the Panthers 5, Washington-Carper fumbled the snap and lineman RJ Bragg picked it up and ran it in. Dezmond Player scored the two-point conversion.
A running clock was used for most of the second half.
Tensas didn’t score until the final minute. The Lions defense dominated. Freshman Ar’davious Washington-Carper, Artavious’ brother, intercepted two passes. Senior Jakevious Washington also had an interception.
The Panthers hurt themselves with numerous short snaps out of the shotgun formation. The Lions recovered one of those and took advantage of the others by making life miserable for Tensas quarterback Kedrick Giles, who took several hard hits.
“I felt like we got to their quarterback real well,” Thurman said. “We were getting some pressure on them. We had some guys that were coming pretty hard. The center was having to get the ball off and get a block right there. I think he was snapping it low a little bit and the quarterback was kind of getting in a little hurry.
“We hit No. 2 (Giles) pretty hard and he had to go out for a little while and that probably paid off for us. He’s their best player. He’s a heckuva athlete. So any time he was on the bench taking a break it really helped us out on defense.”
Overall, it was a satisfying win for Thurman, whose team ended last season on a seven-game losing streak. The Lions lost only one fumble and had only one penalty that was really costly.
“I’m very, very proud of the kids,” Thurman said. “We were able to come out in the shotgun a little bit, throw the ball a little bit and run the ball a little bit. We were just trying to be a little more versatile.”
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High school track and field: Bossier City’s Dart wins three events in state indoor meet; Parkway’s Machowski third in Division I boys high jump
Bossier City’s Will Dart, a senior at Loyola College Prep and an LSU signee, won three events in the Allstate Sugar Bowl/LHSAA Indoor Track & Field State Meet on Saturday at LSU’s Carl Maddox Fieldhouse.
Dart took the 800-, 1,600- and 3,200-meter Division II boys events. He is the first athlete to accomplish that feat in the Division II indoor state meet.
Dart set a Division II record in the 3,200 with a time of 9:39.26. The previous record was 9:44.38 by Zach Capello of Ascension Catholic in 2014.
He finished a little more than 20 seconds ahead of second-place John Walker McDonald of Dunham.
Dart ran a 2:01.24 in the 800. DJ Morton of University Lab was second in 2:03.79.
His 1,600 time was 4:25.59, just .21 off the Division II record. Dart finished 11 seconds ahead of runner-up James Christian of Episcopal.
Parkway’s Adam Machowski finished third in the Division I boys high jump with a leap of 6 feet, 3 inches. Terrance Armstrong of team champion Ruston won with a 6-4. Damien Trahan of Barbe also cleared 6-4 but Armstrong won on fewer misses.
Parkway’s Joslyn Crosby finished fifth in the Division I girls 1,600 in 5:28.68. Sophie Martin of St. Joseph’s won in 5:14.25.
Airline’s Tommy Williams finished sixth in the Division I boys 60 hurdles in 8:81. Sean Burrell of Zachary won in 8.06.
Airline’s Brianna Taylor barely missed qualifying for the Division I girls 60 finals. Needing a top-eight finish, she was ninth in the prelims in 8.01. That was just .02 behind the eighth-place qualifier.
Parkway’s Jazz Rasouliyan was ninth in the Division I girls 3,200.
Benton’s Jacob Marcinkus finished 11th in the Division I boys 3,200. Mclane Smith was 12th in the 1,600.
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Since 2015, when the Board of the Boston Cyclists Union last adopted a strategic plan, many things have changed within the organization, in the bicycling advocacy space, and in thought about people-centered cities. BCU has matured dramatically during this period, nearly tripling its budget and with proportionate growth in staff. Concurrently, the public sense of urgency has risen with respect to the related crises of climate change and congestion. At the same time, modernization of bicycle and pedestrian facilities proceeds at a glacial pace with respect to where we need to be in the region, though support for it and ridership continues to grow exponentially.
This new strategic plan takes account of these organizational and external factors.
If this vision resonates with you, and we hope it does, we invite you to join with us on the journey to reshaping Boston as a world-class bicycle city. If enough of us contribute our energy, imaginations, voices, resources, and resolve, then it can happen!
Read a message from our Executive Director and Board President about the Strategic Plan.
Our mission is to transform the streets of greater Boston into equitable and inviting people-centered spaces affording access and connection for every body. We accomplish this through organizing, advocacy, public actions, and holding city and state agencies accountable to build out the network of safe, protected bike infrastructure.
The Boston Cyclists Union believes that bicycling is a meaningful way to shape the future of our cities.
We envision a Greater Boston where people, especially those of color, elders, youth, female-identified people and those who have historically been most vulnerable can safely ride for transportation and leisure on a network of connected, low-stress and physically separated infrastructure year round. As a result, residents are healthier, cities greener with less pollution from motor vehicles, and traffic congestion eased as more and more opt for biking to reach their destinations.
Equity is central to our vision of the future. Residents, especially people of color and low income individuals whose opinions have historically been left out of planning processes, participate in the planning of their neighborhoods. Accommodations for people on bikes are as prolific in Roxbury as they are in Cambridge. Many will use bikes to connect to other forms of transit, which will be functional, well-maintained, and convenient. Inequities in health narrow and neighbors across the Greater Boston community can more easily access opportunities—education, employment, leisure, and commerce—safely by bicycle.
In our vision of the future, municipalities will fund bicycle infrastructure, access and education at levels that are meaningful. They will use data and an equity framework to inform their decision-making. Residents, trained in organizing best practices, will be engaged and active in planning their communities and agencies will keep their promises to build and maintain bike facilities in a timely manner.
We know that many voices are more powerful than one, and that organizing residents to speak up for their desired future not only brings in multiple perspectives, it decentralizes power, flexes strength, and leaves people feeling energized and civically engaged.
Dignifying each person
We value the humanity of our city’s residents. We seek to realize a mobility culture that places people ahead of vehicles and in which each journey recognizes people as beings deserving of respect. We recognize that creating a community that is inclusive takes work, and we strive to do the work to make any person who rides a bicycle feel welcome anywhere they are present.
Mobility justice
We recognize that inequitable investment in transportation infrastructure has left many without viable access to opportunity, and seek to reverse this pattern. In order to achieve a genuinely just transportation system, all users, including those historically disadvantaged through systemic injustice, must have access to safe and comfortable trips, regardless of their chosen mode of travel and free from harassment or bias in law enforcement.
Joy and freedom
We celebrate the joy inherent in the basic physicality of moving about the city by bicycle. Unlike those caged in cars, people on bikes maintain connection with their surroundings, other people, the community, and the natural world. We relish and nurture the vibrant bicycle culture and community in our city.
We see bicycles as a key ingredient in healthy, ecologically adaptive urban settlements. Given the criticality of forging a transportation system that does not emit greenhouse gases and other pollutants, we believe that bicycles can and must play a central role in the mobility future.
Leverage our collective power to more effectively press government and business leaders, and other influential actors, to fulfill and expand the ambitions of Vision Zero and a safe, connected bike network throughout Metro Boston
To achieve this, we will:
Focus on organizing residents
Continue to shift our focus from advocacy to community organizing.
Train members, grow our base, and support neighborhood leaders to build local bike groups that can work collectively to make improvements.
Use targeted Action Alerts, social media outreach, and other methods to mobilize people to engage in public processes.
Use civil disobedience to demand more urgent action when necessary.
Leverage and build relationships across diverse sectors — affordable housing and environmental justice activists, public health workers and physicians, faith leaders, transit and pedestrian advocates, and more — that build our power and expand our reach.
Hold elected and appointed officials accountable
Continue to play a leading role in the Massachusetts Vision Zero Coalition, which includes putting out progress reports on Vision Zero and Go Boston 2030 goals.
Advocate for Boston and other municipalities to allocate more budgetary resources for bike infrastructure.
Hold state agencies that own and manage roads accountable to reducing emissions, meeting mode shift goals, and making their roadways safe to bike.
Ask for campaign promises during municipal elections, and use questionnaires to educate voters about candidates’ positions.
Create and encourage public demonstration projects that showcase a bike-friendly, people-centered paradigm
Use and promote tactical approaches that connect to culture-shift strategies, such as people-protected bike lanes, parklets, and separated bike lane pilots at high-visibility locations.
Advocate for aggressive use of pilot projects and rapid interventions as stepping stones toward more permanent changes.
Advocate for policy change in a holistic way
Draw connections to policies that support a bike-friendly paradigm, such as those related to transit, congestion pricing, pedestrianization and more.
Highlight when a city or state agency is meaningfully addressing these policies, and doing it well.
Push developers and municipalities to create decent and dignified bike parking.
Build on our success with truck-safety-related policies to ensure safer trucks proliferate in Metro Boston, especially in connection with the development boom in the city.
Make a clear call to municipalities to embrace targets for pedestrianization of business districts and water frontages to accelerate expansion of the low-stress bicycle network.
Use strategic communications to frame the issue in systemic ways
Highlight the costs of failing to achieve progress on equitable and safe biking, relating to public health, injuries, economic development, climate, congestion, and quality of life.
Leverage Boston’s desire to be a leader on issues such as climate change, decarbonization of transport, and resiliency.
Counteract our deeply entrenched car culture through a focus on shifting hearts and minds
Create small experiences of a bike- and people-centered paradigm so the public can have an embodied experience of a future that aligns with our vision
Advocate for and promote open-streets and ciclovia events in more neighborhoods of Boston.
We will continue to advocate for Boston to participate in Park(ing) Day.
Host food rides and other group rides that are accessible to people of all ages and abilities to introduce non-regular riders to the experience of riding a bicycle in the city.
Treat events as opportunities to prove the business case for car-reduction and people-activated spaces.
Recognize the needs of youth and families in our work, knowing that the next generation is an important source of culture change
Host family-friendly events and rides, and provide childcare at events and trainings.
Partner with organizations that organize youth, and advocate for strong bicycle-education efforts in area public schools.
Hold pop-up bike repair in locations accessible to high school students, and create places where youth feel comfortable learning about bikes.
Hire high school students in our Bike to Market program.
Align ourselves with a broader group of partners, to amplify each other’s work and broaden our base of support
Connect with organizations working on public health, environmental justice, climate change, and affordable housing.
Emphasize with these partners the the urgency in achieving culture change and mode shift.
Use strategic communications to normalize and humanize biking
Use images of kids, families, seniors, women, and other underrepresented demographics to broaden the idea of who bike infrastructure is for.
Use easy-to-understand data, poignant storytelling, and visuals of how the street use could be re-imagined.
Highlight the joys of biking and the ways that cycling can help people access opportunities.
Frame issues in ways that remind residents that people-first design is not new; we used to live this way.
Become a more inclusive, equitable, and representative organization
Work to develop authentic and mutually beneficial relationships with communities of color
Develop trust by listening and being in dialogue with neighborhood groups, leaders, and individuals.
Be responsive to the needs of these communities by showing up in solidarity, and by offering resources and support.
Use a diverse set of approaches for communication.
Externally, ensure our programs, events and communications are designed to be inclusive to women, families, and people of color
Hold our meetings and events at accessible community venues.
Consider new types of programming and events that might appeal to a more diverse set of people.
Engage with youth-focused organizations to better understand and represent young people’s interests.
Offer programs that provide access and connection between BCU and people of color and under-resourced communities.
Use the frame of “safe street design” when we talk about our work, recognizing that bike safety is only one street safety issue faced by marginalized folks using public streets.
Internally, work to learn about, understand and recognize oppressive dynamics and patterns in our organization, and shift them
Continue to diversify our staff and Board of Directors.
Target organizational resources to support leaders and emerging bike groups in communities of color.
Reserve spots in our trainings for people of color to make sure that our organizing spaces feel and are welcoming and inclusive.
Work to provide stipends for interns and neighborhood organizers so we attract a more diverse candidate pool and build local leadership, knowing it is a privilege to be able to work for free.
We will build capacity to do more, and do it well
Build the capacity of the broader bike movement so that we can build a base of decentralized power
Train neighborhood leaders through our Leadership Institute.
View grassroots leaders as experts, and support them to develop neighborhood groups.
Work to provide stipends to leaders who do not have the privilege of volunteering their time.
Learn from other movements to increase our effectiveness and efficiency.
Develop our organizational capacity and skills in ways that increase our effectiveness
Budget resources for training staff.
Host interns to increase our capacity on projects, and also as a pipeline for board and staff recruitment.
Expand the size and diversity of our board to bring additional competencies to our work.
Increase the size and level of engagement of our committees and groups.
Thank and acknowledge our hard-working volunteers, who give an incredible boost to organizational capacity.
Focus on increasing the efficiency of our team
Streamline internal processes and systems, and leverage our new database to make efficient use of staff time.
Increase bookkeeping and operations resources to optimize the time of our Executive Director.
Deploy our strategy screen to discern highest need and most effective use of our resources.
Develop employee policies that will contribute to employee well-being and allow us to do our best work.
Embrace and embody a culture of appreciation for one another.
Bring in additional financial resources to support our work, including growing our membership and securing at least one new major foundation commitment
Recruit more corporate sponsors, with special attention to the information technology, biotech, and pharma industries.
Grow our fundraising rides.
Practice better stewardship of our major donors, and leverage our new Cadence Keepers giving society to do so.
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Home/Latest News/Oxford/AstraZeneca Covid vaccine has 70% effectiveness, full trial data
Oxford/AstraZeneca Covid vaccine has 70% effectiveness, full trial data
The Oxford/AstraZeneca Covid vaccine has efficacy of 90% in a little group who got a half-dose first, however just 62% in the bulk, complete trial data newly released in the Lancet has validated.
The results may produce a dilemma for regulatory bodies, which will need to decide on how the vaccine should be utilized if they authorize it.
Oxford University and its partner, AstraZeneca, are looking for regulative approval for their much-anticipated vaccine on the basis that it has 70% effectiveness after pooling the arise from trials in the UK and Brazil.
However it is the specific regulatory bodies in the UK, Europe and the US that will have to choose which dosing regimen is appropriate if they give it the consent.
” Our job as researchers is to create the information and make that openly offered for people to scrutinise and scientists to scrutinise and likewise now for the regulators and policymakers to scrutinise. These choices are not for us to make,” said Prof Andrew Pollard of Oxford University, primary private investigator on the trials.
It is possible the Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Authority (MHRA) in the UK, the European Medicines Firm (EMA) and the Fda (FDA) in the US will come to different conclusions.
Prof Sarah Gilbert of Oxford University’s Jenner Institute, who led the research study, told the Guardian that individuals in both dosage groups were secured in the trials from extreme illness after simply one jab.
” I have no qualms about utilizing the high dose/high dose regimen, which is what the majority of individuals in the trial have had,” she stated.
” It’s truly essential to note that within 21 days of the first vaccination, no one was admitted to medical facility with Covid or had serious Covid which’s simply after one dosage– that seeks any one dosage in these trials– no admissions to healthcare facility, which’s a truly major outcome for public health benefits.”
Both the Pfizer/BioNTech and the Moderna vaccines have actually reported 95% efficacy in their trials, however Gilbert stated it was very important to see how well the vaccines did after 6 months or a year. “It’s great to see high level of efficacy however that’s not the last response on any of the vaccines actually since it’s something that we need to accumulate information on in time,” she stated.
There is no evidence yet on the durability of defense from the other 2 vaccines, both made with novel mRNA innovation, whereas Oxford utilized an adenovirus vector– an innovation that has actually been shown to provoke a long-term response, she said. “We shouldn’t get too hung up on comparing these early numbers.”
The FDA is not likely to approve the vaccine as rapidly as the UK and Europe. It has also expressed concerns about the restricted ethnic background data in the trials and the lack of older individuals at highest risk, as the majority of participants were under 55. A big trial in which 20% are older people and there is greater ethnic representation is ongoing in the United States.
” We will be submitting the data to the FDA, however our finest assumption is that we will need the study readout from the US before we are most likely to get approval in the US,” said Mene Pangalos, executive vice-president of biopharmaceuticals R&D at AstraZeneca.
Oxford AstraZeneca’s is seen as the most worldwide essential vaccine since it is simple to make and disperse at fridge temperature, and the expense is low. AstraZeneca has carried out to manufacture 3bn doses and becomes part of Covax, the UN programme to disperse vaccines to all nations worldwide.
Speaking as the first individuals in the UK were provided the very first vaccine to be approved, that of Pfizer/BioNTech, the president of AstraZeneca, Pascal Soriot, said it was important to have numerous variations. “In fact, if you include the capacity, a minimum of the revealed capability, of Pfizer, Moderna and ours, there is still insufficient to vaccinate adequate variety of individuals around the globe,” said Soriot.
” We need all vaccines. So that’s actually an essential indicate remember when people start comparing information across various research studies. We need all this capacity, we need all these vaccines, to help dealing with the pandemic as rapidly as we can.”
The AstraZeneca vaccine is expected to be the essential of the UK vaccination program. The UK has ordered 100m doses; 4m are currently in the nation.
The scientists say they concurred with the regulator beforehand to pool the arise from the different dosing trials after one small sub-group was accidentally given a low starting dose. The expectation had been that two full dosages would work best.
The effectiveness information are based on 11,636 volunteers across the UK and Brazil. There were simply 2,741 people in the sub-group who received a low first dose, half of whom received the vaccine and half a placebo. But efficacy in that group was 90% compared with 62% amongst the rest.
But the researchers say it makes good sense to pool the results. “There suffices consistency to justify the proposition for pooled analysis of information, which will provide greater accuracy for both effectiveness and safety results than can be achieved in private research studies and provides a broader understanding of using the vaccine in different populations,” they write.
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Home/Latest News/We drive Volvo’s first all-electric car, the £60k XC40 Recharge
We drive Volvo’s first all-electric car, the £60k XC40 Recharge
Volvo’s first fully electric vehicle, the XC40 Recharge SUV, really is a car you drive by the seat of your pants.
That’s because this elegantly proportioned family-friendly Swedish off-roader has no ignition switch and no dashboard or console button to press to fire up its electric motor.
Instead, your posterior is the trigger to starting this battery-powered vehicle.
Bottoms up: Ray Massey has been driving Volvo’s first fully-electric car, the Volvo XC40 Recharge. It’s not due in showrooms until 2021, but we’ve had early access to a pre-production model on UK roads…
Providing you have the electronic fob about your person, the moment your derriere lands on the driver’s seat, weight sensors inside it send a signal to start up the electric power.
So the second you put your foot on the brake pedal (a safety measure) and move the central transmission lever into ‘Drive’ (or alternatively ‘Reverse’), you are ready to roll.
It acts in the same way that safety sensors detect the presence of child seats or alert the driver that occupants have not fastened their seat-belts.
In truth it’s a rather weird experience, especially if you have spent your life expecting that bit of excitement as an engine roars into action.
Given the near silent start-up, a little bit of sound theatre to mark the moment of the motor sparking into life wouldn’t have gone amiss here too – a cheeky bit of in-built ‘ta-dah!’ to start your driving ceremony.
Weight sensors in the driver’s seat recognise when a driver is seated and sends a signal to start up the electric power
Owners will need this fob to be on their person for the system to activate, though it does away with the traditional twist of a key in the ignition or a push of an ‘engine start’ button
Ray says that, given the near silent start-up, a little bit of sound theatre to mark the moment of the motor sparking into life wouldn’t have gone amiss
To give it its full name, we have been driving the XC40 Recharge Pure Electric P8 First Edition – a fully-loaded compact sports utility vehicle with premium price tag of £59,985 – double the cost of a petrol version.
But Volvo still expects to sell 1,500 in its first year.
And because the price is well over the £50,000 cap, it doesn’t qualify for the Government’s taxpayer-funded £3,000 Plug-in Car Grant. So it’s not a cheap option.
Later variants – including lower-powered and two wheel drive versions – I am assured will be more affordable. And Volvo would be mad not to have a stripped down version nudging £49,995 to get that price for consumers down to a more digestible £46,995. They’ve not confirmed it, though they’ve not denied it either…
It can also now be ordered in the UK on Volvo’s new mobile-phone style subscription service called ‘Car by Volvo’.
The model we’ve driven is the XC40 Recharge Pure Electric P8 First Edition – a fully-loaded version with premium price tag of £59,985
Later variants – including lower-powered and two wheel drive versions – will be more affordable and hopefully slow below the £50,000 ceiling to qualify for the taxpayer-funded £3,000 Plug-in Car Grant
The no-deposit subscription of £999 per month includes the cost of leasing the vehicle, maintenance, breakdown assistance, road tax, MOT, and a 10GB data plan for the in-car entertainment system. There will also be more conventional personal contract purchase (PCP) and personal contract hire (PCH) plans.
Our undeniably Scandi-chic zero-emissions test car was a pre-production model shipped over to the UK.
Having got our proverbial into gear on the electric XC40 we were off on a Covid-compliant launch on UK roads on a drive from the urban and suburban roads of Daventry in Northamptonshire and then over the border into neighbouring winding country lanes and fast-flowing highways of Warwickshire.
Once under way, the XC40 Recharge is a smooth, quiet, genteel and well-mannered mover around town.
Will it fit in my garage?
Volvo XC40 Recharge Pure Electric P8 ‘First Edition’
On sale: Now
First UK deliveries: Early 2021
Mode: Pure electric. Battery
Drivetrain: Two electric motors (one on each axle)
Power: 408 horse-power.
Drive: All-wheel drive
Battery: 78 kWh
0-to-62mph: 4.9 seconds
Top speed: Restricted to 112mph
Front trunk volume: 31 metres
As is the sweeping generalisation about Scandinavian folk, it is very polite and charming, though a little reserved at first. But then once you get comfortable and have spent a bit of time together, you suddenly discover a rather fun-loving and raucous side to the character as the ‘inner Viking’ emerges.
And sure enough, once we had the opportunity to put our foot down, it really did set sail.
Powered by twin electric motors – one on each axle – producing a hefty 408hp, it wooshes from rest to 62mph in just 4.9 seconds – putting it well into sports car territory.
You can get by extensively driving in ‘one pedal’ mode, using just the accelerator to press ahead and taking advantage of enhanced regenerative braking to slow the car down when you take your foot off the gas.
Consequently, this improves your driving behaviour, as it forces the user to anticipate more for roundabouts, junctions and traffic ahead, when you want to ease off the pedal and slow down with more a natural deceleration, rather than jumping constantly from accelerator to brake.
However, in line with its aim to reduce casualties on the road, all Volvos, including this one, now have their top speed limited to 112mph. So Germans on their de-restricted Autobahns will have their wings clipped.
They’re also sold with a Care Key for parents to issue to their recently-qualified offspring, which allows them to recalibrate the top speed to anything from 31mph when the key is in use.
With a claimed range of up to 260 miles on a single charge, Volvo bosses say it is more than sufficient for the average UK daily drive which averages around 30 miles.
But anyone planning a long distance journey – say 300 miles from London to Newcastle – would have to plan a recharge stop en route.
Happily however, it will just about manage the 253 mile journey from Downing Street to Barnard Castle on a full charge, should Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s political adviser Dominic Cummings be in urgent need of another eye-test.
The Swedish firm which is owned by Chinese car giant Geely, says batteries will reach 80 per cent of capacity in 40 minutes on a fast charger, with a domestic wall box doing the job at home overnight in about 10 hours.
With a claimed range of up to 260 miles on a single charge, Volvo bosses say it is more than sufficient for the average UK daily drive which averages around 30 miles
The Swedish firm which is owned by Chinese car giant Geely, says batteries will reach 80 per cent of capacity in 40 minutes on a fast charger, with a domestic wall box doing the job at home overnight in about 10 hours
Volvo has optimistic plans for half of its cars to be fully electric by 2025. The other half will be hybrids, it claims
The new XC40 Recharge is the first of five pure electric Volvos to be launched by the Swedish car firm over the next five years – a battery-only flagship XC90 is among those in the pipeline – which aims to have half of its cars fully electric by 2025, the rest as hybrids.
Order books are open now with first UK deliveries from early next year.
Although Volvo’s headquarters are based in the Swedish city of Gothenburg, the new all-electric XC40 Recharge is actually built in Ghent, in Belgium, alongside the rest of the XC40 range which cost from £29,720 for the 2.0 litre petrol and mild hybrid variants, and £39,130 for the plug-in petrol-electric hybrid (PHEV) versions.
Powered by twin electric motors – one on each axle – producing a hefty 408hp, it wooshes from rest to 62mph in just 4.9 seconds – putting it well into sports car territory
In line with its aim to reduce casualties on the road, all Volvos now have their top speed limited to 112mph
With ample rear passenger seat space, the XC40 is a more than capable family car for blossoming families
The petrol XC40 was originally launched back in 2018, when it won the prestigious European Car of the Year Award.
The XC40 Recharge is also first Volvo to include the Google Android-powered infotainment system – using the expertise of that firm rather than trying to devise its own system.
The absence of an internal combustion petrol or diesel engine means extra storage space for the family. An additional 30-litre storage compartment – dubbed a front trunk or ‘frunk’ sits under the front bonnet – while placing batteries under the centre of the car means space is not compromised elsewhere.
There’s a hands-free hatchback door into the 414-litre boot, accessed by wiggling your foot under the bumper to trigger a sensor.
he absence of an internal combustion petrol or diesel engine means extra storage space for the family. An additional 30-litre storage compartment – dubbed a front trunk or ‘frunk’ sits under the front bonnet
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There’s a hands-free hatchback door into the 414-litre boot, accessed by wiggling your foot under the bumper to trigger a sensor. Fold the rear passenger seatbacks flat and it becomes a van-like transporter of goods
Other clever interior touches include a removable waste bin, a fold-out hook in the glove compartment for bags – ideal for take-ways, curries and hand-bags – and a useful boot divider complete with hooks for keeping shopping bags separate and upright
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Despite this array of tech, we were most intrigued as to why Volvo had dispensed with the starter button or ignition key on their first pure electric car, in favour of its ‘bums on seats’ philosophy. So we asked the experts who devised it.
Beatrice Simonsson, senior project manager for the XC40 Recharge explained: ‘We wanted to make life less complicated for our users and therefore with an electric car we had the opportunity to take away the start/stop button.
‘The only thing the driver needs to do is to sit down in the seat, close the door, press the brake pedal and choose drive or reverse and then off you go.
‘Of course, for safety reason, put on your seat belt as well!’
As they say in Sweden, it’s ‘skol’ or ‘cheers’ to the new XC40 Recharge. Or, given its posterior-triggered electric motors, should that really be ‘bottoms up’?
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Cyxtera expands with new data centre capacity in Europe
As part of its global expansion, Cyxtera Technologies has announced a new data centre in Frankfurt and expanded presence in London to satisfy growing customer demand for the company’s secure colocation and infrastructure solutions.
The latest deployments, along with a planned expansion in Amsterdam later this year, extends Cyxtera’s presence in key European markets while providing customers with the high-calibre expertise and security required in today’s changing General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) landscape.
To address the growing demand for Cyxtera’s data centre services in Europe’s largest data centre markets, the expansions increase the company’s regional footprint to just under 650,000 square feet and 34 megawatts of power.
Cyxtera’s second Frankfurt data centre will help global enterprises expanding into Germany. Meanwhile, the company’s expansion in London – the data centre hub of the EMEA region – will see an additional 30,000 square feet commissioned in the company’s Slough data centre campus.
Both the new Frankfurt and expanded London data centres are expected to open in July 2019 with Amsterdam later in the year.
“Increasing our presence in London and Frankfurt is key to meeting the growing demand we are seeing from industries including the finance, manufacturing and technology sectors,” said Alex Pearson, senior vice president for International Sales at Cyxtera.
“Europe is a key region for Cyxtera and our customers, so this expansion is a natural progression.”
An example of customer demand in Europe is evidenced by Scan, a multi award winning GPU solution provider.
Scan is working with Cyxtera to offer an accredited NVIDIA Cloud Service Provider solution in the UK and Europe.
“We were searching for a data centre provider that could offer the ideal environment to support data intensive workloads such as AI & Deep Learning, GPU-accelerated Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) and super-fast storage,” said Elan Raja, CEO of Scan.
“We selected Cyxtera’s London data centres for their ability to meet both Scan’s and our customer’s strict infrastructure and security requirements and support our rapid growth.”
Cyxtera’s data centres meet key enterprise and service provider criteria, including:
99.9999% power uptime
Compliance with SSAE18, SOC-1, SOC-2, ISO 27001 and PCI DSS standards
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Speaking about the momentum the company is enjoying in Europe, Randy Rowland, president of data centre services for Cyxtera said, “Enterprises continue to turn to colocation to reduce operating costs and take advantage of the latest technology developments in infrastructure without the risk of losing control or the ability to meet security requirements.
“The increased demand for cloud and hybrid services is driving technology service providers to consume our data centre capacity.
“Our expansions ensure we continue to operate one of the largest global footprints in the colocation industry and can offer new and existing customers world-class service in major data centre markets worldwide.”
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The 2018 All-Ireland Champions Limerick lose out on a place in this years All-Ireland Final by a single point to Kilkenny, on a scoreline of 1-21 (24) to 2-17 (23).
Limerick will feel that they left themselves with too much of a mountain to climb early on in this game. They trailed Kilkenny 1-08 to 0-02 after 17 minutes and gallantly fought back only to be denied at the final whistle by a point. The players will feel they played within their capabilities.
The group of players and management have done themselves and everyone in Limerick proud and I’ve no doubt that they will regroup, refocus and return a revitalised team for Championship 2020 💚
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FB - Facebook M&A Call to Acquire Oculus EVENT DATE/TIME: MARCH 25, 2014 / 10:15PM GMT
OVERVIEW: FB has reached an agreement to acquire Oculus VR for total of approx. $2b, made up of $400m in cash and 23.1m in FB shares.
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MARCH 25, 2014 / 10:15PM, FB - Facebook M&A Call to Acquire Oculus
CORPORATE PARTICIPANTS
Deborah Crawford Facebook, Inc. - Director IR Mark Zuckerberg Facebook, Inc. - Chairman, CEO Brendan Iribe Oculus VR - CEO and Co-Founder. David Ebersman Facebook, Inc. - CFO
CONFERENCE CALL PARTICIPANTS
Mark May Citi - Analyst Mark Mahaney RBC Capital Markets - Analyst Brian Pitz Jefferies & Company - Analyst Brian Wieser Pivotal Research Group - Analyst Ron Josey JMP Securities - Analyst Youssef Squali Cantor Fitzgerald - Analyst
Operator Thank you for joining us today to discuss Facebook's Acquisition of Oculus. Now I'd like to turn the call over to Deborah Crawford, Director of Investor Relations at Facebook.
Deborah Crawford - Facebook, Inc. - Director IR Thank you. Good afternoon, and welcome to the call, and thank you for joining us on such short notice. Joining me on the call today are Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Facebook; Brendan Iribe, CEO and co-founder of Oculus; and David Ebersman, CFO of Facebook. Before we get started, I would like to take this opportunity to remind you that our remarks today will include forward-looking statements and actual results may differ materially from those contemplated by these forward-looking statements. Factors that could cause these results to differ materially are set forth in today's press release and on our annual report on Form 10-K filed with the SEC. Any forward-looking statements that we make on this call are based on assumptions as of today and we undertake no obligation to update these statements as a result of new information or future event. And now, I'd like to turn the call over to Mark.
Mark Zuckerberg - Facebook, Inc. - Chairman, CEO Thanks, Deborah. And thanks, everyone, for joining us today. I'm excited to announce that Facebook has reached an agreement to acquire Oculus VR, the leader in virtual reality technology. Our mission in Facebook is to give people the power to share, and make the world more open and connected.
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For the past few years, this has mostly meant building mobile apps that help you share with the people you care about. We've made a lot of progress on mobile. As of last week, there are now more than 1 billion people actively using our mobile apps alone. More than 20% of the time that people spend in apps on mobile phones is using Facebook services. And more than half of our ad revenue comes from mobile. We still have a lot of work to do on mobile, but at this point we feel strong enough in our position that strategically we also want to start focusing on building the next major computing platform that will come after mobile. The history of our industry is that every 10 or 15 years, there's a new major computing platform, whether it's the PC, the web, or now mobile. History suggests that there will be more platforms to come and that whoever builds and defines these, will not only shape all of the experiences that our industry built, but also benefit financially and strategically. Mobile is the platform of today. And now we're starting to also get ready for the platforms of tomorrow. To me, by far the most exciting future platform is around vision, or modifying what you see to create augmented and immersive experiences. Today's acquisition is a long-term bet on the future of computing. I believe Oculus can be one of the platforms of this future. Oculus builds virtual reality technology with the Oculus Rift headset and the unique software platform and services around it. When you put on their goggles, you enter a completely immersive computer-generated environment, like a game, or a movie scene or a place far away. The incredible thing about the technology is that you feel like you're actually present in another place with other people. It's different from anything I've ever experienced in my life and many people who try it also say the same thing. Oculus's mission is to enable you to experience the impossible. Their technology opens up the possibility of completely new kinds of experiences. Immersive gaming is the first big opportunity and Oculus already has big plans here they won't be changing. The beta version of the Rift is highly anticipated by the gaming community, and Oculus has already received orders for more than 75,000 development kits, which is pretty crazy by itself. These developers are mostly gamers, so this is a strong signal of how much people want to develop games for Oculus and how excited they are about it as a gaming platform. We're going to focus on helping Oculus build out their product and develop partnerships to support more games and accelerate their plans. And they'll continue operating independently within Facebook to do this. But gaming is just the start. After games, we're going to make Oculus a platform for many other experiences. Imagine enjoying a court-side seat at a game, studying in a classroom of students and teachers all over the world, consulting with a doctor face to face, or going shopping in a virtual store where you can touch and explore the products you're interested in, just by putting on goggles in your own home. This is really a new social platform. By feeling truly present, you can share unbounded spaces and experiences with the people in your life. Imagine sharing not just moments with your friends online, but entire experiences and adventures. These are just some of the potential use cases. But if you think about the social applications alone, this can change the way we communicate with our friends, families and colleagues. Little details like being able to make eye contact with someone with zero latency makes you feel like you're really present together. Oculus has the potential to be the most social platform ever. Today, social networks are about sharing moments. And tomorrow, they'll be about sharing experiences.
We think people will love using this technology and we're making a long-term bet that immersive, virtual and augmented reality will become a part of people's daily lives. So that's where we see the opportunities ahead for Oculus in future of computing. I'm really excited to have this opportunity to work with Brendan and his entire team. They've already achieved significant breakthroughs with just a small team. And we're looking forward to helping them scale their efforts over the coming years. Now, before I close, I just want to make one more point. For almost the last year, I've framed our strategy as three high-level goals over the next ten years- connecting everyone, one; two, understanding the world; and three, building the knowledge economy. With this acquisition, now each of those initiatives has an ambitious long-term bet associated with it, in addition to our important near-term work as well. For number one, connecting everyone, for the long term we have Internet.org, our initiative to make free basic internet services available to everyone in the world. And for connecting everyone, we also have our near-term efforts for our messaging and growth. For number two, understanding the world, we have our ambitious AI Research Group, which is trying to build a unified model of how every person [inside] the world is connected to each other. In the near term, our efforts here are in search and newsfeed, and will help your network surface more useful information to you. And for number three, building the knowledge economy, that's really about building future technology platforms. And we now have Oculus joining us, which long term can be one of the next important computing platforms. And of course we will continue to focus on our extremely important work of building out our advertising platform as well, as part of this. So with this in place, you should now have a clearer view of what our full strategy looks like over the next three, five and ten years. I look forward to updating you on our progress in each of these areas during our regular quarterly updates. Thanks for joining today. And now I want to turn it over to Brendan.
Brendan Iribe - Oculus VR - CEO and Co-Founder. Thanks, Mark. We're thrilled that Oculus VR is joining forces with Facebook and we're really looking forward to working together to create the best virtual reality platform in the world. In 2012, we started Oculus with the vision of making incredible, affordable and ubiquitous virtual reality available to the world. Virtual reality definitely sounds like something out of science fiction, but science fiction has a habit of becoming fact. And we believe that virtual reality will connect people in ways that they never before thought. VR opens up entirely new opportunities. They jet a new generation of creative, compelling and engaging services that will fundamentally change the way we live, play, share, and communicate. We started with a focus on next-generation gaming. Now we're teaming up with Facebook to invent the future. Facebook and Oculus share a common vision for the opportunities that virtual reality presents to the world. Facebook's mission is to connect the world. And Oculus is focused on developing a new medium that allows people to connect in entirely new ways.
A few months ago, when Mark and his team came down to visit our offices, it was immediately clear that the two teams share a passion for building a new world-changing communication platform. Moreover, our teams are culturally aligned with a focus on driving impact, moving fast, and hiring the best and brightest. As Facebook has grown, they continue to invest in efforts like the Open Compute Project, their initiative that aims to drive innovation and reduce the cost of computing infrastructure across the industry. This is a team that's used to making bold bets on the future. All of this gives us the perfect foundation for collaboration. Facebook brings greater scale, with unique resources and capabilities that accelerate virtual reality's future. By opening doors to new partnerships, helping develop the core functionality of our product, and supporting us with recruiting, marketing and infrastructure, the Oculus team can focus on doing what we do best, solving hard problems and delivering on the dream of virtual reality. We have a thriving community of developers and content creators who are building for the Oculus platform. With more than 75,000 orders for developer kits received so far, we are dedicated to making the Oculus Rift the best virtual reality platform in the world. And that vision depends on the creativity and imagination of our incredible community. Today's announcement is about bringing even greater energy and resources to our work, so that we're in an even better position to deliver our platforms to more people. We're looking forward to building the future with Facebook. Thank you.
David Ebersman - Facebook, Inc. - CFO Thank you, Brendan. And good afternoon, everyone. This is David. I now want to start by briefly reviewing the details of the transaction. Facebook will acquire Oculus for a total of approximately $2 billion, made up of $400 million in cash, and 23.1 million Facebook shares. The agreement also provides for an additional $30 million earn-out to be paid in a mix of cash and stock-- $300 million, I'm sorry. $300 million earn-out to be paid in a mix of cash and stock if Oculus achieves certain milestones. The transaction is expected to close in the second quarter of 2014. In the near term, Oculus isn't expected to have a material impact on Facebook's revenues. As Mark said, we're very excited to announce this acquisition. In the next 10 years, we know that the platforms on which we operate will evolve. We see great promise in virtual reality as a potentially important new platform and we're very impressed by the leadership position that Oculus is establishing in this space, as evidenced by the striking progress they've already made and the strong interest in their product by the developer community. We believe the combined strength of Facebook and Oculus will help drive the broader development and adoption of virtual reality technology, enabling over time a range of services including and beyond games, and making these services relevant and important for millions of people. Facebook will bring our capabilities, along with our close relationships with a broad range of developers, to help accelerate Oculus's growth. Over the past few months, we've announced two important strategic acquisitions, WhatsApp and Oculus. These are unique assets that fit well with our strategic goals. They build out the portfolio of investments we're making to drive future growth and to ensure that we're well-positioned strategically to create value for our shareholders over the next decade.
Now, let's open the call for questions.
Deborah Crawford - Facebook, Inc. - Director IR Operator, we're ready for the first question.
Operator Mark May
Mark May - Citi - Analyst Hi. Thanks for taking my question. Some of the questions that we're getting from investors after this announcement is, clearly Facebook has been making a few big, bold bets in the last couple of years; this acquisition, WhatsApp, Instagram, etc. But the questions I'm getting are- can you point me to some of the data points or milestones? Even if early on, the management is executing on some of the early strategic initiatives or outcomes that you're looking to get out if these deals. So I was just wondering if maybe with Instagram, we're a couple years into that deal. Can you give investors some confidence that the execution and some of the reasons why you bought that company have begun to play out, to give us some comfort that, as you look to do more big, bold bets like this, that we can have confidence in the management's ability to execute on these large deals? Thanks.
David Ebersman - Facebook, Inc. - CFO Thanks, Mark. This is David. I can go first. I think with Instagram, the priority for the Company from the beginning was to continue to grow the networks that they were building at that time, which we felt had the opportunity to grow from 20 million active users at the time we announced the deal, to many fold bigger than that. And we were planning or hoping they would get as big as 100 million people using the service. What you've seen in the two years since we announced the transaction is they've done, I think, considerably better than we anticipated or expected in terms of growing the size and importance of their network over time. So we obviously have other objectives for each transaction. It's going have a different set of goals associated with it. But we think Instagram is really a nice proof point of the effectiveness of the strategy we've taken in terms of really leading these companies to continue executing on their roadmap, taking advantage of Facebook only in areas that can really help them to grow more effectively.
Mark Zuckerberg - Facebook, Inc. - Chairman, CEO Yes, I mean I'll add a little to that. Like David said, whenour thesis, when we agreed to acquire Instagram is that one day we thought it could reach 100 million people or more. And within the first two years of working with them, we're already at 200 million. So that I think, that was an initial test case for us, because before that we had no experience with having a company join us and continue to operate independently. So the overwhelming success in the partnership that we've been able to forge with Kevin at Instagram and showing how that works has really been a great example for how we want to do things going forward.
It's hard to comment on what we expect will happen with WhatsApp and now Oculus, because neither of those deals have closed yet. But the theory for WhatsApp, which I think is extremely likely and compelling, is that they're on a path to have a billion people using their product in the near future. And there just are not that many services in the world that can reach a billion people, and all the ones that do just have to be incredibly valuable. Similarly, Oculus, there are not that many companies that are built on core technology that can be the next major computing platform. And the Oculus team is the clear leader here. I mean theythe quality of their product, even their development kit, I mean they probably could ship it as a consumer thing if they wanted, because it's so high quality and so much better than anything that anyone has built before. And all the best people in the field come to work at Oculus, because this is where you go if you want to work on this technology. So in each of these cases, there's a clear thesis. With Instagram, we're already way ahead of where we hoped to be. With WhatsApp, the theory is we're going to get to a billion people. And with Oculus, it's that they're the clear leader in something that has the potential to be the next important, or one of the next most important computing platforms.
Mark May - Citi - Analyst Great, thanks.
Deborah Crawford - Facebook, Inc. - Director IR Next questions, please.
Operator Mark Mahaney
Mark Mahaney - RBC Capital Markets - Analyst Great, thanks. Hey, Brendan, can I ask you a question? I know you talked about thethe press release talks about the applications for virtual reality technology beyond gaming to be in nascent stages, but as you have built out the (technical difficulty) over the next two or three years, what do you think will be the most interesting commercial, social, industrial, whatever applications? What do you think is closest to hitting-- for the ire to hit the fire? Thanks.
Brendan Iribe - Oculus VR - CEO and Co-Founder. Sure. Thank you. So we started in gaming. And that's obviously where Oculus got its kickoff. John Carmack, who is the creator of Doom and Quake, was one of the first to create the prototype with Palmer Luckey. We got involved shortly after that and we really had this vision to where it could go with immersive gaming and long-term entertainment. And then as we started developing virtual reality, and as we actually got a lot of the hard problems solved, we started to realize that virtual reality, it was going to be a lot about gaming. And it was going to be a lot about entertainment and different aspects of that, variations of that. But something that we didn't expect in the beginning that became really obvious, was how big the potential was for the social experience. And when you truly feel, in virtual reality, that you're actually present in another space, and look around and the brain is just completely convinced that it's comfortable and it's OK, but it's an entirely new, impossible place. Something fundamentally changes and you start to realize how big this can be.
And then, in that same sense of presence, in that same sense of a new space, if you can see somebody else, if you can actually look at them and your brain believes that they are right in front of you, you're not looking through a screen or a 2D window. But they're actually right in front of you. You know, you get the goose bumps. You do really start to realize just how big this can be and how big social and communications, how big of an impact it'll have on those industries. And as we realized that, and as we were talking to Mark and the Facebook team, it just became incredibly obvious and exciting for us to partner up and to create that new social platform.
Mark Mahaney - RBC Capital Markets - Analyst OK. Thanks, Brendan.
Deborah Crawford - Facebook, Inc. - Director IR Next question?
Operator Brian Pitz.
Brian Pitz - Jefferies & Company - Analyst Great, thanks. You briefly mentioned some other devices out there. We've recently seen the Sony VR headset for the PS4 and there's been some chatter around Microsoft maybe working on a similar product. Any concerns around new upcoming technologies that maybe we haven't seen in the marketplace? And then just a couple of housekeepingwhen does the full-blown headset actually launch? And will Oculus actually get any Board seats on Facebook? Thanks.
Mark Zuckerberg - Facebook, Inc. - Chairman, CEO Sure. So what we've seen is the Oculus product that they have now is way ahead of anything else that's out there. I mean Sony I think has demoed something very early. Microsoft hasn't even got to the point where they have anything to demo yet. And not only that, but the team is way further ahead in terms of just having so many of the most talented people at Oculus, that we feel good about that. The other thing that I think is important here is that in order to build a really big computing platform, there are a bunch of important use cases that you need to support. So whether you're looking at mobile and how people spend their time, or PC as before, we've measured this more with mobile, but what we see is about 40% of the time that people spend overall is in gaming. And about 40% is also spent on social communication. So about half of that is in Facebook, which is nice. And what we basically believe is that unlike the Microsoft or Sony pure console strategies, if you want to make this a real computing platform, you need to fuse both of those things together. And with thatwhen Brendan and I were talking about this and what Oculus is doing and how Facebook can add to that, that I think was the opportunity that we saw in working together, is to have this transcend the traditional console opportunity, to really make it more of a ubiquitous computing platform.
And (inaudible) these two companies. They're really the only ones that are set up to have that happen.
Brendan Iribe - Oculus VR - CEO and Co-Founder. Yes, I couldn't agree more.
Deborah Crawford - Facebook, Inc. - Director IR And then the launch, there was another question about when we can give a launch; (inaudible) answer that question and comment.
Mark Zuckerberg - Facebook, Inc. - Chairman, CEO We don't have anything to say on that now. There are development kits. You can order them. They're good.
Brendan Iribe - Oculus VR - CEO and Co-Founder. Really good.
Deborah Crawford - Facebook, Inc. - Director IR OK, Operator, next question please.
Operator Brian Wieser, Pivotal
Brian Wieser - Pivotal Research Group - Analyst Hi. Thanks for taking the question. I have a more general philosophical question. How do you tend to think about M&A and the buy-versus-build consideration? I mean you mentioned that they're ahead with the technology. But we also talked about this being sort of a very long time horizon issue. So to the extent that you could develop internally, I'm just wondering how you think about that more philosophically. Not necessarily just with Oculus.
Mark Zuckerberg - Facebook, Inc. - Chairman, CEO Well, in this case, the analysis, we did think about what would happen if we tried to build it from scratch. And the first thing that we realized is, in addition to being many years behind where they are in technology, they already have all the good people in the industry. So this is not a thing that, at least in terms of really intense graphics systems and hardware hacking that on consumer electronics that Facebook has done in the past. So this is a part of the culture that we needed to build out. What we started thinking about that, and reallyI mean the way that I started this process was thinking about now we have this strong position on mobile and we're feeling increasingly good about that. And we have this position now where we feel like we should be looking ahead in thinking about what the next platforms are going to be.
And then we kind of backed into that from there, and decided OK, well we think vision is going to be the next really big platform. It might take five or ten years to get there, just kind of like how the first smartphones were really introduced in about 2003 and then only reached a billion people about 10 years later. So we were thinking about what the next platforms are going to be. And then from there we kind of backed intowell, all right. Well, if we really want to be able to help push this forward, this is the realthis is the team that we want to work with they're years ahead. So that actually became a pretty clear decision from our point. The bigger question on their side wasthey had so many options in terms of what they could do, in terms of building this out independently or working with anyone who they want because they're the clear leaders in a very exciting space. So it was just through the conversations that we had and each of us getting excited about what we could add to each other's efforts was what I think made this come together.
David Ebersman - Facebook, Inc. - CFO The only thing I'd add, sort of, to the philosophical point you asked about. I think we've laid out in our communications over time three consistent strategic pillars that we're trying to invest in, to try and build the most valuable service that we can. In each of those areas, ideally we'd like to be making investments that are going to bear fruit over a shorter term, an intermediate term, and a longer-term horizon. A lot of those investments are going are going to come from our internal R&D efforts and our internal product development. But we want to be able to complement those with M&A where that makes sense. So we've been pretty selective over the ten-year history of the Company in terms of the acquisitions we've done. We'll continue to use it selectively as a tool where we feel we can access really extraordinarily valuable and unique assets.
Deborah Crawford - Facebook, Inc. - Director IR Next question.
Operator Ron Josey
Ron Josey - JMP Securities - Analyst Great. Thanks for taking the question. So Mark, just real quick, I really appreciated your comments on thinking about the next 10 years and Facebook's three key goals. Just thinking more aboutdo you think there's more to do from a continued acquisition perspective, or do you think the product set is good to go, at least for now in the short term, given I know we're 10 years out from really the short term, medium term and long term? And then, Mark, if you can talk a little bit more, maybe help us with understanding the valuation if that's possible. I know we're awfully early here. But that would be helpful. Thank you.
Mark Zuckerberg - Facebook, Inc. - Chairman, CEO Sure, I guess you can take the valuation if you want. (Inaudible) the first question.
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Yes, I think the key thing to keep in mind on this, is these are all incredibly rare companies. Right, so we'll go a long period of time without doing anything like this. And then I think we're in this kind of rare period now where we've just done two really close to each other. So I definitely don't think you should expect us to make multiple multi-billion dollar acquisitions within a couple of months, frequently. But I mean the way that we're thinking about this is, WhatsApp is one of the incredibly rare companies that we think will reach a billion people. And every company that reaches a billion people is incredibly valuable. And also, there are not that many things that are candidates to be the next major computing platform. And this company, Oculus, has a very clear lead in doing that. And we felt like we could apply a lot of levers to accelerate their growth. So these are two kind of rare instances. And in the future where we find rare companies, we'll consider this. But I think that the rate will certainly not continue.
David Ebersman - Facebook, Inc. - CFO In terms of valuation, the financial analysis that we did focused primarily on the games business because it's the furthest along, and it's the clearest opportunity where we have other businesses we can compare it to. And we felt comfortable we could justify the sole value of the acquisition just on the games opportunity if Oculus continues to execute it as we expect. On top of that, we see tremendous financial and strategic upside if we're successful in taking the platform into other areas like communications and entertainment. And we know there's already people in various industries that are interested in the technology. So if we can make that happen together, we think the technology will be worth multiples of the purchase price.
Ron Josey - JMP Securities - Analyst Thank you very much.
Deborah Crawford - Facebook, Inc. - Director IR Operator, I think we have time for one last question.
Operator Youssef Squali
Youssef Squali - Cantor Fitzgerald - Analyst Thank you very much. So I guess to us, it seems like we've been hearing about virtual reality technology for a while and without really having seen any major mass adoption, maybe with the exception of some gaming. So I guess the question is- why now? Why do you feel that we're on the cusp of something big, if that's what you doif that's how you feel? But also I think you made a comment about opportunity in five to ten years, so maybe a little clarity on that. And then what do you envision the Oculus business model to look like eventually? Is it mostly hardware sales? Is it advertising/licensing? Or all of the above? Maybe you can help us there. That would be great. Thanks.
Mark Zuckerberg - Facebook, Inc. - Chairman, CEO Sure. So in terms of timing on why VR is now possible, and Brendan should jump in if I miss anything here. But my understanding is technically, one of the things that's driving this is that folks can now start to reuse components that are being mass-produced for phones at low prices that are small enough and powerful enough, that you can repurpose to do the really intense graphics work that's necessary to render a full world quick enough to not make someone motion sick. So, I mean just to give you a sense of how this goes, you kind of need to getas soon as you move your head, you need to get down to generating and rendering on the screen in front of the person a completely updated world withinso about 15 to 20 milliseconds, or else it's just too jarring to feel real to a person. And this team now, for the first time, has been able to do that at a cost-effective price and then there's advantages beyond this, too. So they're doing that powered off of a PC today and hopefully in the future they'll be able to do that powered off of more and more ubiquitous computing devices as well. So that I think is why it's possible now, and why it's going to be exciting now. In terms ofand what's going to be possible in the future, you know I do think gaming is a start and once you start getting a network effect around people gaming, there are obvious communication cases. There are pretty interesting things that people have built just using the development kits. Like people will build a model of a place far away. And you can just go see it, right? And it's like teleporting. You actually believe that you're there. And that's reallyso I feel there's a real breadth of interesting things that just we haven't seen on any other platform before, because they haven't made sense. Just kind of like how there are mobile apps that didn't make sense to be on PC. I think you're going to see that and it's going to take a while for that to develop, which is partially why I think this is a five-plus year thing. In terms of our own business model, we're clearly not a hardware company. We're not going to try to make a profit off of the devices long term. We view this as a software and services thing, where if we can make it so that this becomes a network where people can be communicating and buying things and virtual goods and there might be advertising in the world, but we need to figure that out down the line. Then I think that's probably where the business will come from, if I had to say. But for the foreseeable future, the main goal that we have is just building out the product, using the different levers that Facebook has to make the product affordable to people, to make it ubiquitous, and use the different technologies that Facebook has developed to bring it to market as soon as possible.
Youssef Squali - Cantor Fitzgerald - Analyst All right, thanks Mark.
David Ebersman - Facebook, Inc. - CFO (multiple speakers) business models. The only comments I would add is that clearly the near term focus is going to be on investing in the platform and making it successful. That's got to be the priority. If we are successful in building the kind of platform that we think we can build here, there should be lots of different monetization opportunities and it's too early to make any concrete plans in terms of exactly what our approach will be.
Youssef Squali - Cantor Fitzgerald - Analyst Thanks, David.
Deborah Crawford - Facebook, Inc. - Director IR Great. Thank you, everyone, for joining us today. We appreciate your time and we look forward to speaking with you again.
Operator And this concludes today's conference call. You may now disconnect.
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Company That Was Perfect When Carl Icahn First Invested Now Even More So
So perfect, in fact, that it has no more need of Carl Icahn, nor he of it.
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It may have started as a spiteful lark, one that proved spectacularly profitable but still based on one committed loather’s loathing of another, another who he believed had once wronged him, and whose quixotic if ultimately more-or-less correct (if somewhat overenthusiastic) analysis created an opportunity for vicious vengeance. Yes, the partnership between Carl Icahn and gassy diet shake purveyor Herbalife may have, initially, been nothing but the financially living embodiment of the axiom that the enemy of one’s enemy (in this case, crybaby Bill Ackman, before he found love and god in the form of an old man who he no longer has use for) is one’s friend.
But from there, it blossomed: The chance marriage of convenience turned into one of genuine love, thanks to the happy accident that it made both sides incomparably richer, and in Icahn’s grandfatherly eyes—much more sympathetic, it must be said, than his paternal ones—appeared a genuine twinkle of affection, even adoration, for this pyramidical son. A genuine belief that the little scamp was perfect—a strange conviction to have about a stock that was essentially flat in a year that saw the markets set dozens of records, which is not something that one might expect of a perfect company, even in a weird year, to say nothing of a company whose business practices regulators keep calling illegal or illegitimate.
Mr. Icahn took it up on the offer partly because he sees no need for additional activism at the company.
Love, indeed, is a mysterious thing. When, indeed, did Icahn ever see the need for any activism at the company? His whole involvement therewith was predicated on the belief that it needed no activism at all. Oh, and that offer? Why, to get Mr. Icahn out of the stock, as it were, or at least most of it.
Mr. Icahn sold about $600 million of his 16% Herbalife stake back to the company in recent days…. That leaves him with a roughly 6% stake, worth $400 million. Given that his holdings will go below the level stipulated in an agreement Mr. Icahn has with the company, he also plans to give up the five board seats currently held by his representatives, the company said.
We’d suggest that now may be a good time for Ackman to have a second go at the company, but he doesn’t do things like that anymore.
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Kalpathi Group launches ed-tech platform Veranda
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The Chennai based Kalpathi Group, announced the launch of their new ed-tech venture Veranda Learning Solution, India’s first comprehensive 360-degree online education platform. Veranda comes from the Kalpathi AGS group that has immense experience in education, technology and top quality production with proven expertise in the past.
Veranda is building a unique online platform that will combine the best of technology, processes, and methodologies to deliver high-quality content seeking to be one of India’s first to offer a comprehensive 360 degree education. Focused on academic outcomes for its students, Veranda adopts a multi-modal delivery system backed by a rigorous and disciplined learning framework.
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Speaking on the occasion Suresh Kalpathi said, “with the launch of Veranda we aim to establish an education company of choice for our customers who need a committed partner to drive their success by offering affordable, best in class and focused online content. Our intent is firmly on being a reliable provider delivering outcomes for all those who opt for our courses”.
“The Indian online education market, supported by macro-economic changes, improvements in product offerings and changes in business models, is expected to grow to USD 1.96 billion by 2021 and to USD 4.87 billion by 2024. Veranda is ideally placed to play a dominant role in the education industry. Being built with an initial investment of Rs. 50 crores, Veranda plans to expand its portfolio through organic development and acquisitions.”
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Coutts Report shows mobile technology complementary not replacement to broadcast radio
A report released today by Commercial Radio Australia (CRA) and written by Professor Reg Coutts, finds that mobile broadband communications networks, particularly in regional areas, are not a replacement for broadcast free to air radio.
The report considers the potential for mobile networks to be expanded to a point where they are viable to accommodate all live free to air radio broadcasting at the same high quality to hundreds of thousands of listeners at the same time as a replacement for broadcast radio, and/or instead of rolling out DAB+ digital radio, which is currently available in the five major metropolitan cities.
The Coutts Report highlights that mobile networks in regional Australia are less cost effective compared to a potential DAB+ digital radio rollout in regional areas. Even with upgraded 4G networks using the most advanced LTE broadcast mode, there are technical and economic reasons for radio to be delivered using free to air broadcast technology in both regional and metropolitan areas.
Following the submission to the Federal Government’s Digital Radio Discussion Paper earlier in the year, to assist with future planning, and to introduce into the general discourse the reality of technical capability of both broadcast radio and mobile networks for mass live and local free to air radio delivery, the commercial radio industry commissioned highly respected telecommunications expert, Professor Reg Coutts of Coutts Communications, to analyse the use of mobile telecommunications to deliver free to air broadcast radio in Australia.
CRA chief executive officer, Joan Warner said: “There are a lot of misperceptions around the future of broadcast radio, mobile networks and the delivery of radio online and this report shows it may not yet, or even in the longer term, be technically or financially viable.
“Listening to radio online is complementary and not a replacement of broadcast radio, whether it’s analogue or digital. Listeners use streaming as a convenient alternative. The commercial radio industry is continually assessing technological innovation and economic viability. We recognise our listeners want to listen to radio wherever they are – in the car, at home, on their phone while in transit and as an industry we are constantly exploring the best way to achieve this."
“Internet radio on smart phones by itself cannot substitute for broadcast radio. Broadcast digital radio is globally where innovation is happening. The Government is currently depriving regional listeners of digital radio unlike their city cousins who have both digital radio and internet radio. Innovative local radio broadcasters need broadcast digital radio which so necessary for regional communities to thrive in the future . ” Professor Coutts said.
There are 220 commercial regional radio stations throughout Australia and, aside from questions over urban delivery, the report also suggests there is considerable uncertainty as to a plausible business model to support the upgrade of regional mobile networks from 3G to the most advanced form of 4G LTE Broadcast and it would also mean listeners would have to pay via their data plan for what they now can receive at no cost.
Importantly there would be significant impact on mobile cell capacity for other user’s applications (ie social media, internet browsing, video on demand etc) even if LTE Broadcast is able to be used to replicate broadcast radio’s live reach, robustness and quality.
The radio industry has rolled out digital radio in the five state metropolitan capitals and like the television industry, who have completely switched to digital, is looking to secure its digital broadcast future by continuing a phased rollout of broadcast digital radio to regional Australia.
The findings of this Australian study are consistent with recent European reports which show mobile networks complement broadcast radio, but are unlikely to replace it in the foreseeable future.
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Coutts Report Key Findings
Even with upgraded 4G networks using the most advanced LTE broadcast mode there are technical and economic reasons for radio to use free to air broadcast in both regional and metropolitan areas:
the limited range of LTE Broadcast;
the significant impact on mobile cell capacity for other user’s applications even if LTE Broadcast might be used to deliver radio;
this study shows cell capacity reductions from 10% to over 40% in regional areas;
there is no handover mechanism from LTE Broadcast to one to one streaming on 3G or 4G resulting in service drop out at the edge of LTE broadcast areas. The listener would need to manually reselect the streamed radio service;
business models for radio carriage over LTE Broadcast are still being evaluated but likely impacts are:- mobile network operators (MNOs) will need to pay to upgrade each of their networks; -broadcasters will need to pay the MNO’s for using the capacity required; and,-listeners would need to pay to receive radio streamed via mobiles which uses their mobile data plan rather than listening free to air.
data usage and battery drain has been consistently found to be of significant concern to listeners of mobile streamed radio.
Radio has always been and must remain, open, accessible and free to air.
Mobile internet radio is not ‘free’ to the user in that it depends on their data consumption.
The Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA), needs to plan and allocate the spectrum already set aside for digital radio to allow roll out in regional areas as part of a national plan for digital radio.
Digital Radio can support the progressive transition from analogue AM and FM radio techniques with greater efficiency, lower costs, better quality sound, offering greater listener choice and functionality and greater diversity of broadcasters.
Without broadcast digital radio capability, innovative regional broadcasters will increasingly be constrained compared to metropolitan broadcasters.
Further, audio streaming to a mobile phone, unlike free to air broadcast to a radio or DAB+ enabled handset, is not free as the streamed data contributes to use of the listener’s data cap of their mobile service contract.
Heavy mobile data traffic conditions can see a complete loss of the session. Even in non-congested times, receipt of an email on a smart phone can cause an interruption when listening to radio on the internet.
Demand Hotspots particularly if combined with a moving mobile user can be particularly challenging for listening to a streamed internet radio service.
Digital radio exhibits lower latency at 3-4 seconds, compared within internet radio where necessary buffering across all services can cause more significant delays of over 10-20 seconds. Latency is a particular problem where the content is an intrinsic part of a live sports experience making digital radio more suitable for sports crazy Australians.
Large capital and operational cost advantages using DAB+ compared to FM for regional areas the focus for this report.
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The Secrets of Basmati Rice My Article on Basmati Rice in The Cook’s Cook Magazine.
The Secrets of Basmati Rice
Soaked and washed, the rice cooked perfectly.Photo credit: Eva Baughman
Sudha Koul
Sudha Koul is from Kashmir, India. She came to the United States after marriage and raised a family while writing about Indian culture and cuisine
“Man can wait for rice, but rice should not have to wait for man.”
-Indian proverb
In Kashmir, India, this dictum meant that when called to dinner, we children were ready and seated, in the receiving mode, cross legged on the carpet, well before the dasterkhan or bolt of long cloth was spread out in front of us at mealtime. Then the cook — or my grandmother, or my mother — would come along with a bowl of just-cooked piping-hot rice and place a small pile of it in the middle of each plate. The vegetables and or meat or fish or chicken were next, served in little portions around the steaming rice in the middle. Later, when help became difficult to find and we evolved to sitting at a dining table and helping ourselves from all the dishes placed on it, we still followed the same custom and do so today. I am still taken aback when my guests here in the United States, looking at my Indian meal ask, “So, tell me, what should I take first?”
Rice is first in the spiritual and temporal conscience of India. It is the main course and the heart of most meals unless you are eating breads as they do in the Punjab and other parts of North India. The other dishes are more in the nature of condiments and accoutrements to rice. This is one of the many things I had to become accustomed to when I came to America as a newly married woman forty years ago. Our supermarket near Princeton had the following printed on its brown bags: “The meat makes the meal.” Not so where I came from. One lamb chop would make many meals and we prayed that we always had rice.
In fact, at that time in America, and to some extent even now, rice was not the carbohydrate of choice. If you wanted rice, parboiled or Uncle Ben’s reigned supreme. Things have changed dramatically since then. The variety of rice available in even the most mainstream supermarkets is quite astounding. There is of course good old Ben’s, but also good old Carolina rice — and now the two are surrounded by jasmine rice from Thailand, basmati from India, and their cousins, Texmati, Jasmati, and so on. Incidentally, basmati means “queen of fragrance,” which it is. No perfume compares to the soul-satisfying fragrance and presence of cooked basmati rice. The very aroma of basmati being prepared will stimulate a flagging appetite.
“No perfume compares to the soul-satisfying fragrance and presence of cooked basmati rice.”
When I was a child, the only respectable basmati was from Dehradun; it was more expensive than the many other varieties of rice grown. My maternal grandparents had rice fields where they grew mushk-i-budhij or bouquet garni, called thusly for the aromas the grain carried in its heart, and zag batha, or red rice, to be eaten only with fish cooked with daikon radish. But it was basmati that rose above the others for its sophistication and appearance; the grains were almost an inch long and very delicate. According to custom at that time, it was served mainly to sons-in-law (who are at the highest level in Indian family hierarchies), or to recuperating family members because it was easy to digest.
The other day I was trying to read the script on a ten-pound sack of basmati from India that I’d purchased from my local Asian grocery. The legend was in Urdu, albeit an archaic form more akin to Persian, that was not too easy to decipher. The word that stumped me was “brinj” the word in Kashmiri for small carpentry nails: what could it mean? I could not make head or tail of it until a friend in India informed me that rice is also called brinjin Persian/Urdu. I suspect from the length of the old basmati grain that the “nail” was named after that variety.
Soaked and washed, the rice cooked perfectly.
Basmati is no longer just from Dehradun in the northern hills below Mussoorie. Now it is grown in other places in India and has become a huge business; Pakistan has become a big exporter as well. As might be expected, quantity has taken precedence over taste, so the quality varies, as does the price. Hybridized incarnations have proliferated, but while they are good enough, they lack the soul and the length and slenderness of the old grain. Admittedly, they achieve their popular goal of spilling out perfectly like seed pearls on a plate as a biryani or a pillao, and this is particularly true of basmati exported to the USA. Now America has produced its own varieties of this fragrant rice, too.
I came to reflect on basmati recently when a dear friend, a foodie of the highest order, expressed his frustration with cooking American basmati. He complained that the grains cook too fast and turn to mush, even when cooked with very little water. I knew what he was talking about. The problem, I said to him, is that the rice is hastily harvested and too quickly sold. American basmati, Texmati, and the other Stateside “matis” soften easily because they are young. I gave up on them when I discovered the shortness of the grains and their tendency to overcook.
Aging rice is an un-American thing — it brings very little glory here, in the land of fast food. But the incontrovertible truth is that no aging means not-so-good rice. Aging thoroughly dries the grains, making it possible to store them in a hot or humid environment, and that is a must for storage of a staple through the Indian seasons. Hence the need for more water when you cook rice from India, which also needs time to cook perfectly and fluff slowly into individual grains. You just bring rice and water to a boil, lower the heat, and cook slowly until done.
No hurry here. Man must wait for rice. In India we say “Deyr aya durusth aya.” If it is late, it will be good.
Khada Masala Pullao (Whole Spice Pilaf)
Photo credit: Sudha and Kishen Koul
COOK25 min.
45 ml (3 tablespoons) butter or ghee, less if you prefer
1 medium stick cinnamon
3 whole cardamom pods, lightly crushed
5 ml (1 teaspoon) whole cumin seeds
2.5 ml (1/2 teaspoon) whole peppercorns
30 grams (1 cup) basmati rice
473 ml (2 cups) water, and if needed, a bit more for aged rice
Heat the butter or ghee in 4 liter (4 quart) saucepan over medium-high heat until it begins to sizzle.
2. Add cinnamon, cardamom pods, cumin seed, peppercorns, bay leaf, cloves; stir fry for a few seconds until fragrant.
3. Add rice and stir-fry for a few seconds until some of the grains turn golden.
4. Add the water and salt to taste, stir. Bring to a rolling boil, then immediately reduce the heat to very low. Cover and let cook until the water is absorbed, about 20-25 minutes. Serve hot.
Note: For a variation you can add a cup of peas when frying the rice, then proceed as above. Season to taste with salt as needed.
Sudha Koul is from Kashmir, India. She came to the United States after marriage and raised a family while writing about Indian culture and cuisine. She is the author of Curries Without Worries, Come with Me to India and The Tiger Ladies. Koul has also written for the Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles Times, and The Philadelphia Inquirer, and has appeared on PBS, BBC and other channels. She is currently working on a cuisine memoir of India.
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PwC partners enjoy profit payouts amid audit scrutiny
Terry Murden, Editor | September 17, 2018
Lindsay Gardiner: ‘strong performance’
Another of the big four accountancy firms has paid out hefty profits per partner at a time when the profession is under scrutiny over its audit work.
Profit at PwC was £935 million and the average distributable profit per partner before tax was £712,000. The effective UK tax rate for partners was 48%.
Criticism has been levelled at the big accounting and audit firms after they signed off accounts of companies that subsequently failed.
In June this year the senior PwC accountant who audited BHS’s accounts ahead of its sale for £1 just a year before the department store chain collapsed, was given a 15-year ban and six-figure fine from the industry watchdog.
PwC itself was fined £6.5 million, the biggest penalty ever issued by the auditors’ watchdog, over the handling of the collapsed retail chain’s accounts. It was reduced from £10m after it agreed to settle.
That same week KPMG was fined more than £3m by the Financial Reporting Council for misconduct relating to the scandal-hit insurance software firm Quindell.
Despite the penalties and reprimands, the big four firms continue to dish out huge payments to their top staff. Partners at Deloitte have recently received the biggest rise in payouts since the financial crash. Average profit for the 702 equity partners will be £832,000, a rise of 0.6% year-on-year.
Today PwC reported revenue of £3.76 billion for the year ended 30 June, up 5% from £3.6bn and said it was performing strongly.
Revenue growth in Scotland was in line with the UK, with above average growth in the delivery of technology and data services areas, where the firm has significantly invested.
Lindsay Gardiner, regional chairman for PwC in Scotland, said: “Delivering year-on-year growth in a challenging environment is testament to the tireless efforts of our entire Scottish workforce to support our clients and illustrates the importance of our continued investment in people and technology.
“It is pleasing to see a strong performance across core services in auditing, tax, and deals, and I’m delighted at the progress we have made in bringing technology solutions to Scottish businesses in critical areas like cyber security and data analytics.
“This has been reflected with a number of significant wins in digital transformation in both the private and public sector.”
In the UK firm, assurance revenues increased by a solid 3%, Consulting revenues were up by 1%, Deals grew strongly by 10%, and the tax practice, which includes specialists in areas such as immigration, legal services and pensions, experienced good growth of 7%.
Kevin Ellis, PwC UK chairman and senior partner, commented: “Despite uncertainty over Brexit, all four of our business divisions grew this year, with high demand for technology-related services, including cyber, data analytics and GDPR.
“Twenty-nine percent of the firm’s revenues came from inbound – organisations headquartered outside the UK – highlighting the importance of the UK as a global business hub.
“Momentum in our business is good, driven by a strong deals market and demand for technology-driven business expertise.”
Among many highlights in Scotland in the last year, PwC this year launched its first Data Science Graduate Apprenticeship, which will see 17 recruits gain a traditional university experience while receiving paid on-the-job training. The first recruits attending the universities of Edinburgh and St Andrews joined the firm last week.
Mr Gardiner added: “The launch of our Data Science Graduate Apprenticeship is a truly pioneering step in the professional services industry and ensures that our staff will develop the crucial skills required as data becomes much more integral to how all businesses operate.
“PwC has also increased its focus on the private business sector, and that will continue into the next year.
“I’m also incredibly proud of the work we have done with our communities. From promoting social mobility through our sponsorship of last week’s Social Enterprise World Forum in Edinburgh, to another successful One Firm One Day volunteering opportunity for our staff, and our ongoing fundraising activity with Samaritans.”
In the financial year, more than 150 staff were recruited to its offices in Edinburgh, Glasgow and Aberdeen.
Mr Gardiner continued: “The year was one in which the firm in Scotland increased investment in senior talent, with James Houston being made partner and eight new directors appointed. Our technology risk and data team now has more than 100 staff, and we have also appointed 57 graduates this month.
“In the year ahead we are confident in our abilities to navigate potential headwinds from the ongoing Brexit negotiations, leading up to the UK’s exit date in March 2019.
“With recent figures showing Scotland’s economy growing ahead of the overall UK, and increasing signs of recovery in the oil and gas sector, we believe we are well-positioned to continue our recent success.”
The firm’s total tax contribution was £1.182bn (2017: £1.163bn) and consisted of £709m in taxes collected and £473m in taxes borne.
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GOP Launches ‘LyinComey.Com’ Ahead Of Book Tour
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Saagar Enjeti White House Correspondent
The Republican National Committee has launched a website aimed directly at former FBI director James Comey ahead of a book tour expected to be critical of President Donald Trump.
The website, lyincomey.com, targets Comey’s credibility and includes quotes from senior Democratic party leaders maligning his character during the 2016 presidential election. The opposition research website targets Comey directly with charges like accusations that the former FBI director is portraying “himself as an innocent victim fired by President Trump” and that “James Comey wants to portray himself as a non-partisan, by-the-book Boy Scout rather than a politically motivated Washington insider.”
“No matter what his grandstanding book says, Comey has already confirmed multiple times under oath that neither President Trump nor his staff asked him to stop the Russia investigation,” the site triumphantly declares at the end. The website’s launch comes days before Comey is set to create a media sensation with a series of on-camera interviews across networks.
“James Comey’s publicity tour is a self-serving attempt to make money and rehabilitate his own image. Comey is a liar and a leaker, and his misconduct led both Republicans and Democrats to call for his firing. If Comey wants the spotlight back on him, we’ll make sure the American people understand why he has no one but himself to blame for his complete lack of credibility,” RNC Chairwoman Ronna McDaniel said in a statement.
A preview of Comey’s first of a series of interviews with ABCNews foreshadowed his characterization of Trump as a “mob boss.” ABCNews sources in the room with Comey at the time of the taping told Axios the interview would “shock the president and his team” and that it would “certainly add more meat to the charges swirling around Trump.”
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You know you might put on extra pounds if you regularly skip barre class or keep selecting M&Ms when you hit up the office vending machine. But if you haven’t changed your eating and exercise habits yet the number on the scale has suddenly crept up, something more could be going on.
Carrying extra pounds isn’t necessarily a problem, of course. But it could signal an underlying medical issue you’ll want to address. Maybe it’s a hormone condition, or a mood disorder, or another factor altering your physiology without you realizing it. The only way to be 100% sure of what it means is to consult your doctor. In the meantime, consider these 8 health-related reasons that might explain why the scale has soared.
An underactive thyroid (hypothyroidism)
Aside from realizing that your jeans are more snug, have you noticed other body changes—like exhaustion, drier skin, or thinner hair? These are all signs of hypothyroidism, a condition in which the butterfly-shaped thyroid gland in your neck isn’t producing enough of thyroid hormone. Your thyroid is kind of a master gland controlling many body functions, so when it’s not working right, symptoms appear throughout your system.
A major function it controls is your metabolism. “Think of your body as a car. You have an engine, and the thyroid hormone maintains the idling of the engine,” Michael Nusbaum, MD, bariatric surgeon and founder of Healthy Weight Loss Centers, tells Health. “If you’re not producing enough thyroid hormone, your idle gets turned down and you’re not burning as much energy overall.” When your resting metabolism slows, it decreases the amount of calories you burn throughout the day.
One in eight women will develop a thyroid disorder during her lifetime, according to the American Thyroid Association. Dr. Nusbaum says other symptoms to look out for are muscle weakness, constantly feeling cold, bloating, and constipation. If your doctor diagnoses hypothyroidism, you’ll likely be prescribed an oral replacement for thyroid hormone that can alleviate symptoms, including weight creepage, within weeks.
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PCOS is another condition caused by out-of-whack hormones. This endocrine disorder is characterized by an imbalance in the sex hormones estrogen and testosterone (women produce testosterone too, though in much smaller quantities than men do). This imbalance leads to irregular periods, acne, and even facial hair growth.
This disorder, which strikes one in 10 women of childbearing age, also disrupts the way the body uses insulin—the hormone responsible for converting carbohydrates into energy, Dr. Nusbaum says. Yep, you guessed it, that means weight gain. When your body becomes insulin resistant, the sugars and starches you consume are stored as fat instead of turned into fuel, he explains.
While there’s no cure for PCOS, women who have it can manage their symptoms with lifestyle changes as well as medication. Your doctor will help you find the method that’s right for you.
Mood disorders like depression and anxiety
Dealing with anxious or sad feelings by mindlessly munching is something almost all of us do on occasion. But either of these mood disorders can make overeating a regular coping mechanism. Dr. Nusbaum gives the example of breaking open a bag of chips, and after three, four, then five handfuls, “you’re not even tasting the chips anymore, your taste buds are completely saturated with the flavor, but you’re still eating, and you’re thinking, Why am I still eating?”
Depression and anxiety can both bring on fatigue, irritability, and a lack of focus. All three can throw you off your game when you work out or lead you to ditch the gym altogether…and pretty soon, pounds pack on.
Reflect on your mood over the past few weeks. If you’ve been consistently down on yourself, on edge, disinterested in things you usually enjoy, or have had trouble sleeping, consider asking your MD for a referral to a mental health professional. A therapist can help get to the bottom of what’s going on, and with proper treatment, help you keep extra pounds at bay.
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Perimenopause and menopause
How the five or so years leading up to menopause affects you partially depends on genetics, Dr. Nusbaum says. “I joke around with my patients because they’ll typically come in saying, ‘Holy crap, I’m starting to look like my mother.’” One way to get an idea of the way your body will change during perimenopause and then menopause itself is by asking your mom what changes she noticed in herself. Though your experience could be different than hers, there’s a good chance it’ll be similar—so if she began gaining weight at this point in her life, it could be the explanation for your weight change.
Once again, hormones are to blame for the extra pounds. “The rapid reduction in the amount of hormones present in your body throws you off kilter pretty quickly,” Dr. Nusbaum says. Lifestyle changes can help, so talk to your ob-gyn.
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Cushing’s disease
Cortisol is nicknamed the stress hormone, Diondra Atoyebi, DO, family physician at Piedmont Healthcare in Georgia, tells Health; your body releases it in response to overwhelming or dangerous situations. But when your system makes too much cortisol over an extended period of time, you can develop Cushing’s disease. One unpleasant side effect: abnormal fatty deposits in the abdominal area and around the face.
If you’re taking long-term steroids, you’re more likely to develop Cushing’s disease, Dr. Atoyebi says. The condition can also be brought on by tumors on the pituitary gland in the brain, which triggers an uptick in the production and release of adrenocorticotropic hormone—the catalyst that signals the adrenal glands to produce cortisol.
Weight gain is a hallmark sign of Cushing’s, but other symptoms include discolored stretch marks, acne, and fragile skin. Depending on the cause, Cushing’s disease can be treated in a variety of ways. If you have Cushing’s disease, your doctor will help you determine what’s best.
An ovarian or uterine tumor
Earlier this month, a 53-year-old woman in Singapore had a 61-pound tumor removed from from her uterus after showing up at the hospital struggling to breathe. To grow so large, the tumor was likely developing inside her for years. It’s an extreme case, sure. But it shows that if left untreated, large pelvic area tumors, such as uterine or ovarian tumors, can distend the abdomen the way excess fat does and send the scale soaring. In the case of the Singaporean woman, the tumor was benign, but others can be cancerous.
In addition to weight gain, symptoms of ovarian or uterine tumors include lower back pain, vaginal bleeding, painful intercourse, and constipation. But these signs are common for other conditions as well, Dr. Nusbaum says, which is why you should always consult your doctor to confirm the root cause of the problem.
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Before starting any new OTC or prescription medication, ask your doctor if extra pounds are a possible side effect. Psychiatric medications, especially for depression and bipolar disorder, commonly cause weight gain, Dr. Nusbaum says. “They act centrally on the brain, and while they intend to lower your depression, they inadvertently increase your desire to eat.”
Meds that combat high blood pressure can also cause extra poundage, Susan Besser, MD, family practitioner at Mercy Personal Physicians in Maryland, tells Health. Another culprit is taking insulin, a frustrating side effect for people who are battling diabetes—because maintaining a healthy weight is crucial to managing the disease. Staying active and sticking to a strict meal plan can help you take insulin without adding pounds.
If you rock up to work on only four hours of sleep, you’ll probably turn to snacking to give you the energy to get through the day. Why does exhaustion trigger cravings? Dr. Besser says lack of sleep messes with your hunger-regulating hormones. Levels of ghrelin, a hormone that tells your body it’s time to eat, increase after a restless night. At the same time, leptin, the hormone that signals fullness, may plunge. Put the two together, and no wonder your belt feels tight.
Sleep deprivation can also affect your decision making. Let’s say you can eat either a banana or a cookie. When you’re tired, you become more impulsive, and that impulsivity can coax you into grabbing that Oreo. A 2018 study published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition found that getting more shuteye can mean consuming up to 10 fewer grams of sugar throughout the day. That’s the best reason to turn in early that we’ve heard in a long time.
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Members of the Park Hills City Council discuss several ordinances regarding equipment purchases and special use permits during November's regular meeting.
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The Park Hills City Council met this month and approved special use permits, equipment purchases, and increased user fees charged for bulk trash pickup service.
The meeting began with several public hearings related to special use permits.
Following the public hearings, the council approved special use permits for the operation of a dog-breeding facility at 1029 W. Main St., the development of duplexes located at Firman and Meadow Streets, as well as the construction of duplexes at Emerson and Spruce Streets.
The council also approved an ordinance accepting a plat of a subdivision known as "Flat River Commons 2" in the area being developed near Fairgrounds Drive. The area now includes residential lots, where duplexes are planned to be constructed adjacent to the commercial lots located there.
The council accepted an ordinance to approve a subdivision plat located at St. Joe and Parkway Drives in the River Chase Estates subdivision area. Community Development Director Robert Sullivan said with the council's approval, the largest piece of property in the subdivision will be divided into four commercial lots.
The council moved on to increase bulk trash pick up fees from $7.50 to $10. The fee increase will take effect on Jan. 1.
The fee increase was proposed because the city has been losing money to provide the bulk pickup service as the cost of trash pickup and dump disposal has been steadily inflating.
The revised ordinance states that bulk trash collection service will be offered the second full week of each month during the year on the following schedule: Bulk trash in Ward 1 will be collected in January, May, and September; Ward 2 bulk trash will be collected in February, June, and October; bulk pickup in Ward 3 will be in March, July, and November; and Ward 4 bulk pickup will be in April, August, and December.
The council approved an agreement to transfer possession of Christmas decorations from the estate of the late-Gary McKinney to be used in Columbia Park, Elvins Park, and other Christmas displays around town. The city agreed to pay $10,000 for the large lot of holiday decorations. McKinney's estate will also receive a $40,000 charitable donation tax credit as part of the agreement.
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The council approved several other equipment purchases during November's meeting.
The fire department will purchase five new sets of turnout gear for a total of $10,000 from MacQueen Emergency Company of Eureka.
The Public Works Department will purchase a brush cutter attachment (Brush Wolf 4800X STD-Safety Chains Excavator model) at a cost of $7,970 from Abra Equipment Supply, LLC of Crosslake, Minnesota.
The Public Works Department will also be getting a new 8-foot plow blade at a price of $5,541.70 from Midwest Systems Truck Equipment of St. Louis.
The purchase of a Griswold pool pump was approved to replace the broken pump that prematurely ended this year's pool season. The Parks and Recreation Department will be getting the new pool pump for $7,015 from the Missouri Machinery and Engineering Company of St. Louis.
The Park Hills Water Department received approval to purchase a Motorola Ace Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) system designed specifically for the city's water system.
Utility Director Frank Shovlin explained to council members that the current system used to monitor and operate the city's water utilities had become outdated and frequently inoperable. He recommended the SCADA system, which has become an industry standard, to allow the department to provide water services to citizens effectively and efficiently.
The installation of the SCADA system will take more than a year to complete The new system will be purchased from Electric Controls Company, Inc. of Earth City at a price not to exceed $210,480.
City Administrator Mark McFarland said the city had budgeted $180,000 for the water system upgrade during this fiscal year. He said since the project's projected completion date falls in the next fiscal year, he does not expect the project to go over budget.
During November's regular meeting, the council also appointed Candy Inmam to the Park Hills Library Board following the resignation of Shauna Martin.
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Facebook Steps Up Censorship in Britain, Bans Populist News Site
Facebook continues on its course to become the UK’s Ministry of Truth, (the government department tasked with ensuring government propaganda can never be questioned in George Orwell’s novel ‘1984’.) by expanding its censorship of websites US Liberals like the social media site’s Mark Zuckerberg do not approve, or that question the globalist policies of Theresa May’s authoritarian regime, by removing from its platform content posted by anti – EU populists and critics of Islam in Britain …
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Cambridge has become the epicentre of the ‘wokeness’ epidemic plaguing our universities
The university has traded academic freedom for institutional virtue-signalling
From outside their gates, all institutions look monolithic. The Foreign Office, large multinationals, universities – all conjure up ideas of slow, endlessly resisted change. In fact all institutions are in flux. And never more so than today, when the whole underpinnings of our societies and morality are up for grabs.
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In recent years the ideology known as “wokeness” has ridden through public and private institutions. Government departments are duty bound to pursue “diversity” as an objective in itself, which in practice means a pursuit of quotas that prioritise a person’s characteristics over their ability. Heads of major corporations and departments talk about “intersectionality” and other creations of the ideological far-Left as though they will enrich their companies, rather than impoverish them.
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Report Exposes Persecution of Middle East Christians as ‘Close to Genocide’
Organized persecution of Orthodox, Syriac and Roman Catholic Christians in their traditional Middle East homelands by Muslim extremistsd is starting to take on the appearance of a genocidal war and has triggere an exodus from Muslim nations in the past two decades, a report commissioned by the British Foreign Secretary, Jeremy Hunt, warned Thursday.
Millions of Christians in the middle east have been driven from their homes, and many have been killed, kidnapped, imprisoned and discriminated against, including many women raped and kidnapped to be sold as sex slaves, the report compiled by the Bishop of Truro, the Right Rev Philip Mounstephen, found.
It also uncovered “shocking” evidence that in spite of appeasement of Islamic extremits by western government agencies, the persecution is worse today than ever with widespread discrimination against Christians across south-east Asia, sub-Saharan Africa and in east Asia – often driven by authoritarian Muslim tyrants and the traditional Islamic intolerance intolerance of religious diversity.
Its findings come after 359 people were killed and more than 500 wounded in attacks at hotels and churches in Sri Lanka on Easter Sunday.
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Mattis indicated that even should ISIS loose all of its territory there would still be a dangerous insurgency that could morph into an “ISIS 2.0” which he said the US would seek to prevent. “The enemy hasn’t declared that they’re done with the area yet, so we’ll keep fighting as long as they want to fight,” Mattis said. “We’re not just going to walk away right now before the Geneva process has traction.”
Defense Secretary Jim Mattis stands in front of a map of Syria and Iraq.
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Farage: Soros and EU Allies Engaged in ‘The Biggest Level of International Political Collusion in History’
Brexit campaign leader Nigel Farage has called out billionaire open borders campaigner George Soros and his “reliable friends” for collusion on a grand scale.
Speaking in a debate on the Paradise Papers in the European Parliament, the UKIP MEP pointed out that the financier had funded the exposé.
“I say this at a time when the use of money and the influence it may have had on the Brexit result or the Trump election has reached a level of virtual hysteria,” he said.
“Just last week the Electoral Commission in the UK launched an investigation to find out whether the Leave campaign took offshore money or Russian money.
“This came about as a result of questions asked in the House of Commons by one Ben Bradshaw, somebody linked to an organisation called Open Society.
“I just wonder when we’re talking about offshore money, when we’re talking about political subversion, when we’re talking about collusion, I wonder whether we’re looking in the wrong place.
“And I say that because George Soros recently gave Open Society, his organisation, which of course campaigns for free movement of peoples and supports supranational structures like the European Union, he recently gave it 18 billion dollars.
Hungary PM: ‘United States of Europe’ Plotters Using Mass Migration to Create ‘Post-National, Post-Christian’ Super-state
Hungary’s Viktor Orbán has warned that the elites plotting a United States of Europe are using mass migration to engineer a post-Christian, post-national super-state.
Breitbart London has seen a transcript of the Central European leader’s speech to the 7th Plenary Session of the Hungarian Diaspora Council, in which he told listeners: “A nation that has found its feet is a free nation. It is fair to say that since we found our feet we have begun to act as a free nation.
“But this has also brought with it some problems. Whatever a nation of serfs does will seldom lead to international conflict, but this is not the case with a free nation.”
The prime minister was referring to his country’s ongoing struggle with the European Union over whether or not it should be allowed to impose compulsory migrant quotas, and over Hungary’s decision to face its demographic challenges through policies supporting the family, rather than “seeking to build their future demographic and labour policies on immigrants” — like much of Northern and Western Europe.
Erdogan rejects ‘moderate Islam’ as a Western tool to weaken Muslims
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The idea of ‘moderate Islam’ was invented by the West and is being used to weaken the ancient religion, Turkey’s President Recep Erdogan has said in reference to Saudi Arabia’s reforms, while also lashing out at the EU’s “discrimination” of Muslims.
Last month, the Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia, Mohammed bin Salman, vowed to restore “moderate” Islam to the kingdom considered to be “home” of the religion. The Gulf monarchy currently follows a Salafist or Wahhabi version of Islam that is often described as being “ultraconservative” and administered through Islamic Sharia law. In what appears to be a direct reference to Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince, Erdogan denounced a “moderate” interpretation of Islam in a speech delivered at the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) Women’s Advisory Council on Friday.
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“The term ‘moderate Islam’ is being lathered up again. The patent of moderate Islam belongs to the West. There is no moderate or immoderate Islam; Islam is one. The aim of using such terms is to weaken Islam,” Erdogan said in Ankara.
BREXIT BOMBSHELL: Britain can expect £135 BILLION windfall after EU divorce, experts say
‘The Economists for Free Trade (EFT) group said Brexit will be “overwhelmingly positive” for the British economy provided the Government adopts the right policies.
The findings are sharply at odds with most mainstream economists who have warned the UK faces lower growth and more pressure on the public finances as a result of the vote to leave.
But at the report’s launch on Tuesday, the pro-Brexit Tory MP Jacob Rees-Mogg will say official forecasts are based on “false assumptions” of the Treasury and that the outlook for the public finances is “much better” than the Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR) is predicting.
The EFT – headed by Professor Patrick Minford – said the priority for the Government should be to bring down trade barriers with the rest of the world once Britain has left the EU while reducing the burden of regulation and taxation on firms and individuals.’
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Monday 13 November, 2017
Labour ‘Open’ to EU Courts Retaining Power over UK After Brexit
The Labour Party is open to allowing the European Court of Justice (ECJ) to retain power over the UK after Britain leaves the European Union (EU), the shadow Brexit secretary has said.
Sir Keir Starmer said he did not want to “rule… out altogether” the court retaining its jurisdiction over a supposedly independent Britain, which he said would not be a betrail of the referendum result.
With the UK outside the bloc and unable to influence the laws enforced by the court, the potential arrangement has been described as a form of “colonialism” by legal experts and leading Tory MP Jacob Rees-Mogg.
Just last week, an EU official taunted the UK, claiming the nation will become a “colony” of the EU after 2019, after Tory Brexit secretary David Davis admitted the withdrawal agreement will “probably favour” the EU.
EU Uses Sleazy Negotiating Tactics To Extort More Cash In Brexit Talks
We suspect that if the UK offers something approaching 60 billion euros, rather than the 40 billion euros it wanted to pay, the Irish border issue and others would magically melt away. May and Davis might see this as a price worth paying to stop having to be nice to the likes of Juncker and Barnier. They can watch calmly when a large German, French or Italian bank needs bailing out.
Washington Post Promotes Accusations Hungary Is ‘Hatemongering’ Against Soros… by Soros-Funded Charity
The Washington Post is promoting accusations the Hungarian government is “hatemongering” against billionaire open borders activist George Soros – accusations made by groups Soros is funding.
Germany Clumsily Admits To Supporting Regime Change In Poland
A diplomatic spat has developed between Berlin and Warsaw after the German Defense Minister said that her country should support the “democratic resistance of the young generation” in Poland.
What have we always told you about eating fast food?
Chipotle Tumbles: “Supergirl” Actor Says He “Almost Died” After Eating At Burrito Chain
“I know I’ve advocated for [Chipotle] in the past, but they’re terrible,” said Supergirl actor Jeremy Jordan, who looked pale laying in a hospital bed and showing viewers the IV in his arm, and claimed he “almost died” after eating at Chipotle.
“I know I’ve advocated for them in the past, but they’re terrible,” says Jordan, who looks fairly pale laying in a hospital bed and showing viewers the IV in his arm.
“I, as you can see, am in the hospital and I have fluids in my arm because the food did not agree with me and I almost died…. I just want to thank my wife for being amazing and talking me off the ledge when I was on the phone about to die and Chris Wood for holding my hair back metaphorically,” he says. “I love all of you; thank you so much. It’s been a night.”
Farage on Remembrance Day: ‘Embracing Our History, Nation, Will Bring Us Back the Society We Once Had’
Brexit leader Nigel Farage told Breitbart News Daily listeners that visiting historic battlefields will help them understand the sacrifices their countries made as the U.S., Britain, and Europe begin to re-embrace the nation-state.
Two survivors of Muslim child rape gangs have said that groomers are still abusing young girls in Rotherham.
Linzi Williams and Natalie Fuller, who have been best friends since childhood, waived their anonymity to speak to Channel 4 about being groomed and raped as children.
Ms. Williams was 15 when she was abused by Arshid “Ash” Hussain, but thought she was having a normal boyfriend-girlfriend relationship as she had never been out with anyone before.
After falling pregnant by her abuser and having an abortion, Ms. Williams told Channel 4 that the childhood trauma affected her ability to trust people and she now suffers from attachment problems.
“At one minute I thought I wanted to keep it, because I thought, ‘Oh, he’s going to be with me and everything’s going to be fine.’ Obviously, it wouldn’t have been,” Ms. Williams said
Christian Teacher Suspended for ‘Misgendering’ Pupil
A teacher has been suspended and could lose his job after allegations he referred to a pupil who was born female, but “self-identifies” as a boy, as a girl.
A complaint was made against Joshua Sutcliffe, a Christian who teaches at a British state secondary school, after he said, “Well done girls” to the pupil and her friend in class, when he saw the pair working hard.
The maths teacher apologised when “corrected” by the pupil, and thought no more about the incident until six weeks later, according to The Mail on Sunday, when he was called to the head’s office and told he was suspended from teaching while the Oxfordshire school investigates a “transgender complaint” made against him.
Mr Sutcliffe is to appear at a formal disciplinary hearing this week to face misconduct charges, after a week-long investigation found him guilty of “misgendering” the teenager, “demonstrating discriminatory behaviours” and having “contravene[d] the school’s equality policy”.
Macron’s ‘Deplorables’ Moment? French NWO Candidate Brands 8m Le Pen Supporters ‘Hateful Cowards’
Front – runner in the French Presidential election and pro-Federal-Europe establishment candidate, the former Goldman Sachs banker Emmanuel Macron has lashed out at his opponents supporters, branding them “anti-France” and “true enemies”.
In a moment resembling Hillary Clinton’s infamous “deplorables” comment, M. Macron took to the stage at a 10,000-strong rally in Paris to dub Front National the “anti-France party”, branding their supporters “fearmongerers” and “extremists”.
It is not the first time M. Macron, a former Investment banker with Goldman Sachs has shown his contempt for working and middle class French people, but amazingly, and largely thanks to a propaganda war of dubious legality waged by globalist organisations funded by billionaire George Soros, he still leads in polls. Still we know from brexit and Trump how reliable polls are these days.
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Survey Shows A Majority Of European Youth Would Participate In Uprising To Overthrow Status Quo
So a majority of young Europeans would join the revolution and overthrow the ruling elite? Unfortunately the silly, dumbed down little twats have no idea what they would replace it with. Much of the problem relates to increased corporate power and monopoly, which has resulted in a less dynamic economy characterized by a neo-feudal plantation model where a small group of people continue to rent-seek profits at the expense of society at large.
Young people feel remote and alienated from the people and institutions which make decisions that will shape their lives and future.
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Government intends to repeal 1972 European Communities Act after signing Article 50
from The Tap
So the Supreme Court finally published its judgment on whether the Government could trigger Article 50 using prerogative (executive) powers.It was absolutely right for the Prime Minister to appeal to the Supreme Court, contrary to some who have said that the Government wasted money in doing so. After all, the ruling divided into two distinct and important parts. The PM’s critics miss an important point, which is that the court had been asked to rule on the outcome of two of the UK’s High Courts, those of Northern Ireland and separately of England and Wales. The Government needed to establish a clear position on both. In the end, like the curate’s egg it was good in some parts but bad in others.Perhaps the most vital of the issues before the court was whether the UK government had an overriding legal obligation to consult the devolved administrations prior to triggering Article 50. In essence this would have handed enormous power to the devolved administrations. For the Government, this was perhaps the most difficult area for, if upheld by the Supreme Court, then it would have led to long delay and intense and complicated arguments between the devolved administrations and Westminster.
In fact, many believe that the purpose of this demand was to block the triggering of Article 50 completely. Certainly, had the Court ruled in their favour then the process would have ground to a halt, and Article 50 would have likely as not become bogged down in tortuous legal and political debates. To the Government’s relief, that now will not happen.
However, in the second part of the judgment, the Court, in a split decision, ruled against the Government’s appeal. It found that the Government had to legislate before invoking Article 50. This means putting a Bill through the Commons and the Lords which is capable of being amended.
Quitaly? Will Italy follow Britain out of the EU?
With a referendum in Italy, ostensibly on constitutional reforms but perceived as a referendum on the leadership of the ruling elite, looming in November and the anti – globalisation, pro sovereignty Five Star Party growing in popularity all the time. Should the constitutional changes be voted down, and the against campaign is showing a comfortable lead in opinion polls at the moment, it will put a Quitaly in-out referendum, similar to the so called Brexit vote that kick off the process of Britain leaving the European Union, at the top of the agenda.
Europe is at The End of its Existence. Western Europe Is Virtually Dead
The free flow of guns and grenades West is not the main problem Europe faces said the counter – terror expert said. Pointing to the existential crisis Mr. Wrona said: “The worst problem for is political correctness. Europe is at the end of its existence. Western Europe is practically dead. These people live in a void, without ideas. And then come along the young, who [only want] to make money, as once did the barbarians”.
EU Chief Warns of ‘Implosion’ as Trust in Europe Fades
EU leaders show almost every day they are desperate for Britain to vote to remain in the EU, so why do they keep doing things certain to alienate patriotic Britons. It’s bad enough that the idoiots in Brussels want to destroy European civilisation by allowing unrestricted immigration from backward cultures without admitting such backward countries as Turkey so that its 80 million Muslim inhabitans will be able to enter Europe freely.
Dutch Referendum This Week Shows why We Should Leave The EU.
Few of you were aware probably that there is an EU referendum vote in The Netherlands this week. As usual with anything negative about the EU barely a word has been printed in the topic in mainstream media and the silence from our notionally unbiased national broadcaster The Bolshevik Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) has been deafening.
French, Belgians, Dutch, Italians Follow Britain in Euroskepticism
Europeans want us British to lead them out of Europe. Don’t be fooled by project fear, the European Union (aka the Euronazi Federal Superstate) is falling apart. There will not be chaos if we leave, there will be chaos if we stay.
Head Of European Institute: Brexit ‘Better’ For Everyone
Brexit would be the best result of Britain’s in / out referendum for both Britain and the EU i a Belgian professor who heads up the European Institute at the London School of Economics (LSE) has said.
Johnson’s article lines up his reasons why Britain must exit on June 23rd. It’s time to be brave
OK, I know a lot of you think Boris is most accurately described by a word many people find offensive, but he’s put together a very good argument here on why we must leave the EU. Published in part here under ‘fair use’ terms and conditions, in the public interest …
Cameron’s EU Package: Not A Deal But A Few Turns In The Spin Machine
As we and almost everybody else predicted, David Cameron’s deal to improve Britain’s relationship with the EU is worthless. It changes nmothing, and can be vetoed once we have voted to stay in.
Cameron Plays Deal Or No Deal In Europe
David Cameron, who was apparently up all night trying to make other European leaders understand why his country needs a better deal in order to poersuade the prople it is a good idea stay in the EU. Unless Cameron gets what will enable him to sell the idea of surrendering national sovereignty to a Federal European Superstate ruled by a committee of unelected bureaucrats in to the British public he will not campaign for the UK to remain in the bloc
EU Refuses to Block Eurozone Integration to Reach Agreement With UK
Austrian Chancellor Werner Faymann said at the E?U summit on British membership terms that the European Union wants to reach an agreement with the United Kingdom, but it is not prepared to compromise the banking union (financial integration) or the further integration of monetary union (UK being forced to abandon the pound join the Euro?) to achieve this goal.
Cameron’s EU Deal Worthless. It Can Be Vetoed In European Parliament?
Opinion polls show Britain is evenly divided on the question of whether to leave or remain in the EU, though it has been suggested up to 10 million other voters, many of them women, have yet to make a decision. How they cast their vote will shape the future of the world’s fifth largest economy and the EU itself. But what is really at stake is more important than economics …
Obama’s intervention in UK politics triggers angry backlash
Angry Britons have launched a petition calling for U.S. President Barack Obama to be prevented from speaking in the UK parliament on Britain’s forthcoming referendum on European Union (EU) membership.
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The modern pollen-vegetation relationships of a tropical forest-savannah mosaic landscape, Ghana, West Africa
Julier, A.C.M., Jardine, P.E., Adu-Bredu, S., Coe, A.L., Duah-Gyamfi, A., Fraser, W.T., Lomax, B.H., Malhi, Y., Moore, S., Owusu-Afriyie, K. & Gosling, W.D. (2017) The modern pollen-vegetation relationships of a tropical forest-savannah mosaic landscape, Ghana, West Africa. Palynology online. DOI: 10.1080/01916122.2017.1356392
Categories: Adele Julier, Journal articles, Phil Jardine, Publications, Wesley Fraser, William Gosling • Tags: Bosumtwi, Ghana, palaeoecology, Poaceae, pollen, savannah, transitions • Permalink
Published open access:
Julier, A.C.M., Jardine, P.E., Coe, A.L., Gosling, W.D., Lomax, B.H. & Fraser, W.T. (2016) Chemotaxonomy as a tool for interpreting the cryptic diversity of Poaceae pollen. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology 235, 140-147. DOI: 10.1016/j.revpalbo.2016.08.004
Gosling PhD thesis 2004
Gosling, W.D. (2004) Characterisation of Amazonian forest and savannah ecosystems by their modern pollen spectra. PhD Thesis, Department of Geography, University of Leicester.
WDG Bolivia (2002)
Controversy surrounds the Quaternary palaeoenvironmental history of Amazonia. It is unclear whether moist evergreen forest, savannah or seasonally dry forest dominated the Amazon basin at the last glacial maximum (c. 21,000 years B.P.). In part the uncertainty surrounding the palaeoenvironmental history of Amazonia stems from a poor understanding of the ecological significance of the fossil pollen records from the region. In order to improve interpretations of the fossil pollen record it is essential to better understand the nature of the pollen rain produced by modern ecosystems.
In this thesis, three Neotropical ecosystems equivalent to those alluded to above were characterised by their modern pollen rain. This was achieved by examining samples collected in artificial pollen traps located within permanent (50 x 200 m) vegetation plots in the Noel Kempff Mercado National Park area, Bolivia. In each plot 10 traps were sampled for one field season (September 1998 to September 1999, or September 2000 to September 2001) and 5 traps were sampled from two additional field seasons (between 1998 and 2001). Pollen counts of at least 100 grains were made for each trap. In total 318 pollen taxa were distinguished, of which 116 were identified. The characteristic pollen from each of the three ecosystems were determined through a series of steps: spatial and temporal variations were explored using Spearman’s Rank correlations, the distinctive taxa of each ecosystem were identified using Principal Components Analyses (PCA), and the representativity of the pollen for each ecosystem was examined by comparing pollen and vegetation abundances. These analyses revealed a small number of taxa that can be used to characterize these ecosystems. Further PCA showed that it is possible to differentiate between the ecosystems by assessing the relative proportions of Didymopanax, Alchornea, Anadenanthera, Melastomataceae/Combretaceae, Moraceae/Urticaceae, Myrtaceae, Palmae, Pteropsidia (trilete), Poaceae and Solanum. These findings mean that it is now possible to detect these ecosystems in the fossil pollen record and consequently further information regarding the nature of the vegetation change in the Amazon basin can be gained.
Supervisors: Dr. Francis Mayle (University of Leicester, now at University of Reading) and Dr. Nicholas Tate (University of Leicester)
Examined by: Prof. Henry Lamb (University of Aberystwyth) and Prof. Andrew Millington (University of Leicester, now at Texas A & M), April 2004.
To borrow a copy from University of Leicester Library search for my name or thesis title here (item ID 7507349613), or download directly: Volume 1, Volume 2, and CD.
Categories: PhD thesis, William Gosling • Tags: Alchornea, Amazonia, Anadenanthera, Bolivia, Characterisation of Amazonian forest and savannah ecosystems by their modern pollen spectra, Didymopanax, last glacial maximum, Melastomataceae/Combretaceae, modern pollen, Moraceae/Urticaceae, Myrtaceae, Neotropical, Noel Kempff Mercado National Park, palaeoenvironment, Palmae, PhD thesis, Poaceae, Pollen trap, Principal Components Analyses, Pteropsidia (trilete), Quaternary, Solanum, Spearman’s Rank correlations, William Gosling • Permalink
Miller PhD thesis 2014
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Miller, C.S. (2014) 520,000 years of environmental change in West Africa. PhD Thesis, Department of Environment, Earth & Ecosystems, The Open University.
CSM (2014)
Global temperatures are predicted to rise by 2–2.5°C by 2065, profoundly affecting the Earth’s environment. The response of ecosystems to past climate fluctuations can inform on how systems will respond in the future. This thesis focuses on Quaternary environmental changes in West Africa, a region important because of its high ecological value and role in the global carbon cycle.
In 2004, the International Continental Drilling Program recovered c. 291m of sediments spanning the last c. 1 Myr from Lake Bosumtwi (Ghana). Pollen, charcoal and nitrogen isotopes (d15N) were analysed from the most recent c. 150m (c. 520 kyr). The latitudinal position and long duration of this core makes it unique for understanding West African monsoon dynamics and vegetation change.
To aid characterisation of the Bosumtwi pollen succession, an atlas of present-day pollen was constructed for 364 pollen and spore taxa.
The pollen record from Bosumtwi reveals dynamic vegetation change over the last c. 520 kyr, characterized by eleven biome shifts between savannah and forest. Savannah vegetation is dominated by Poaceae (>55%) associated with Cyperaceae, Chenopodiaceae-Amaranthaceae and Caryophyllaceae. Forest vegetation is palynologically diverse, but broadly characterised by Moraceae, Celtis, Uapaca, Macaranga and Trema. Low d15N values correspond to forest expansion and these are driven by high lake levels. The timescale indicates that the six periods of forest expansion correspond to global interglacial periods. The record indicates that the wettest climate occurred during the Holocene, and the driest during Marine Isotope Stage 7.
The vegetation and d15N records show a strong response to glacial-interglacial variability between c. 520–320 kyr and 130–0 kyr. Between c. 320–130 kyr there is a weaker response to glacial-interglacial cycles probably related to high eccentricity during the peak of the 400-kyr component of eccentricity, with high eccentricity resulting in greater seasonality and ultimately drier conditions.
Supervisors: Dr. William Gosling, Dr. Angela Coe (both The Open University) and Dr. Tim Shanahan (University of Texas at Austin)
Examined by: Prof. Henry Lamb (University of Aberystwyth) and Dr. Pallavi Anand (The Open University).
To borrow a copy from The Open University Library click here.
Categories: Charlotte Miller, PhD thesis • Tags: 520000 years of environmental change in West Africa, Angela Coe, Caryophyllaceae, Celtis, charcoal, Chenopodiaceae-Amaranthaceae, Cyperaceae, environmental change, forest, fossil pollen, Henry Lamb, ICDP, International Continental Drilling Program, Lake Bosumtwi, Macaranga, Marine Isotope Stage, monsoon, Moraceae, Nitrogen isotope, nitrogen isotopes in lake sediments, Pallavi Anand, Poaceae, pollen, savanna, savannah, Tim Shanahan, Trema, Uapaca, West Africa, west African monsoon, William Gosling • Permalink
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Unequal Justice for Paris Hilton
June 8, 2007 / Keith Kamisugi
UPDATE 6/26: Jeremiah Owyang just emailed me about a post on feministing.com on Jeremy Bearer-Friend’s thoughts below.
I was in Los Angeles yesterday sitting in a hotel bearing Paris Hilton’s family name (getting ready to deliver an e-advocacy workshop for the California Pan-Ethnic Health Network) when I received a call from Rex Huppke at the Chicago Tribune asking for comment on Paris Hilton’s abbreviated jail stay. Instead of offering my own thoughts — which would have been colorful — I put him in touch with allies with more expertise on criminal justice reform or the racial disparities in our prison system.
Rex’s article eventually quoted one of the sources I passed along — Bill Ong Hing — who contrasted on the ImmigrationProf Blog the special treatment offered to Hilton versus immigrants who are deported for much lesser offenses.
Another source I referred, Karen Shain, co-director of Legal Services for Prisoners with Children, wrote in an email to me that while her organization “doesn’t believe that most people (including Paris Hilton) need to be incarcerated, it is absurd that she was able to receive [such] special treatment.”
Jeremy Bearer-Friend, a Field Building Fellow with the Oakland-based Movement Strategy Center wrote to me that “it’s imperative to bring in an abolitionist angle.”
“The real scandal here is that women of color are the fastest growing population of incarcerated people in the US, yet this story is never told or reported on. The current media frenzy over Paris demonstrates only the apartheid state we currently live under, with a media that is absolutely uninterested in reporting on the mass incarceration of people of color.
“De-incarceration has been a central goal of prison reform and prison abolition work in California. That Paris has the opportunity to remain within her community and recover from her substance abuse amongst her family is an opportunity that all addicts should be able to enjoy. The reaction to this story is not to lock up everyone for longer and prevent addicts from accessing treatment. The solution is to shut down a broken system and replace it with public health money that can treat addiction and substance abuse in an effective and healing way.”
As I finish writing this post, I received a CNN email alert that a judge ordered Hilton back to jail. “She was taken from the court screaming, The Associated Press reports.”
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Call Her Ganda | Film Screening
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Join the Esperanza Peace & Justice Center, the San Antonio Gender Association (SAGA), & Transgender Education Network of Texas (TENT) for a screening of CALL HER GANDA. We hope this screening will help raise awareness about the attacks on the trans community, and the story of Jennifer’s community seeking justice will empower viewers and provoke action towards change.
About CALL HER GANDA
When Jennifer Laude, a Filipina transwoman, is brutally murdered by a U.S. Marine, three women intimately invested in the case–an activist attorney (Virgie Suarez), a transgender journalist (Meredith Talusan) and Jennifer’s mother (Julita “Nanay” Laude) – galvanize a political uprising, pursuing justice and taking on hardened histories of US imperialism.
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PJ is an award‐winning filmmaker and cinematographer whose work explores the overlooked subcultures and identities within the already marginalized LGBTQ+ community. Named one of Out Magazine’s “Out 100” and FILMMAKER Magazine’s “25 New Faces of Independent Film,” PJ’s film credits include TRINIDAD (Showtime, LOGO) and BEFORE YOU KNOW IT, which follows the lives of three gay senior men, described by indieWIRE as “a crucial new addition to the LGBT doc canon.” BEFORE YOU KNOW IT screened theatrically and broadcast premiered as the season finale of AMERICA REFRAMED on PBS, and was recently awarded the National Gay and Lesbian Journalist Association Excellence in Documentary Award 2016. Also an accomplished cinematographer, PJ shot the Academy Award‐nominated Best Documentary TROUBLE THE WATER. PJ is a 2015 Guggenheim Fellow, 2016 Firelight Media Fellow, and a 2017 Robert Giard Fellow.
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Innovent Announces the Results of the Phase I Clinical Trial of IBI302, a First-in-class Ophthalmic Recombinant Human Anti-VEGF and Anti-Complement Bi-specific Fusion Protein for Neovascular Age-Related Macular Degeneration at 2020 American Academy of Ophthalmology
Innovent Biologics, Inc.
SAN FRANCISCO and SUZHOU, China, Nov. 16, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- Innovent Biologics, Inc. ("Innovent") (HKEX: 01801), a world-class biopharmaceutical company that develops, manufactures and commercializes high-quality medicines for the treatment of oncology, metabolic, autoimmune and other major diseases, announces that the results of the Phase I clinical trial of IBI302, a first-in-class ophthalmic recombinant human anti-VEGF and anti-complement bi-specific fusion protein for neovascular age-related macular degeneration (nAMD) is released in e-poster at 2020 American Academy of Ophthalmology.
The Phase I study of IBI302 is an open-label, multi-center, dose-escalation clinical trial to evaluate the safety and tolerability of a single intravitreal injection of IBI302 in patients with nAMD. A total of 31 subjects were enrolled in the completed Phase I clinical study. All subjects received a single intravitreal injection of IBI302. No serious adverse event or dose limiting toxicity was reported. The study demonstrated good safety and tolerability of IBI302. One week after administration, improved vision and reduction of retinal edema were observed. By 28 days after administration, all 31 patients' best corrected visual acuity increased by 6 letters on average compared to baseline; the average central retinal thickness decreased by 141.2 microns compared to baseline, and the efficacy of some patients lasted until 6 weeks after administration.
"Intravitreal injection of anti-VEGF drugs have become the first-line treatment for neovascular fundus diseases. Although they have a good therapeutic effect on nAMD in the short-term, a single anti-VEGF treatment regime requires frequent or even lifelong intraocular injections, and there are some patients with poor response or declining effect. Therefore, there are still huge unmet clinical needs in AMD treatment. The IBI302 Phase I research has shown good safety and tolerability with promising effect. I believe and also look forward to the following research of IBI302 will show more positive results," said the principal investigator Professor Xiaodong Sun from General Hospital affiliated to Shanghai Jiao Tong University.
"IBI302 is an innovative drug independently developed by Innovent for the treatment of fundus diseases. It is globally the first anti-VEGF/anti-complement bispecific molecule and has been supported by the major new drug project of the Ministry of Science and Technology as a Class 1 new drug. IBI302 was designed to provide more targeted treatment and interventions to the cause of AMD by adding additional targets, and to bring more clinical benefits compared to anti-VEGF antibody. The results presented by the current Phase I clinical trial have brought us greater confidence in the next phase of IBI302 research and development. I hope that Innovent can benefit the majority of patients with fundus diseases and their families through more innovative targets and molecules," said Dr. Lei Qian, Senior Medical Director of Department for Medical Science and Strategies of Special Disease of Innovent.
About AMD
AMD involves macula and causes progressive central visual impairment. As one of the major blinding eye diseases among adults over 50, the incidence of AMD increases with age. In the developed countries or regions, the prevalence of people over 80 years-old can reach more than 30%. It can be divided into dry AMD and nAMD according to clinical manifestations and pathological types. About 80%-90% are dry AMD; and in patients with severe central vision impairment, nAMD accounts for about 90%.
About IBI302
Anti-VEGF therapy is currently the standard treatment for nAMD, but there are still some patients who do not respond well to long-term anti-VEGF therapy and even develop geographic atrophy and fibrosis. IBI302 is a bispecific anti-VEGF and anti-complement recombinant fully human fusion protein developed by Innovent. The N-terminus can bind to the VEGF family, block VEGF-mediated signaling pathway, inhibit vascular epithelium proliferation and angiogenesis, and reduce vasopermeability and leakage. The chronic inflammatory response related to complement activation is the key mechanism in the early stage of AMD. The C-terminus of IBI302 can inhibit the activation of the classic pathway and alternative pathway of complement through the specific binding of C3b and C4b, and reduce the inflammatory response mediated by the complement, so as to achieve the purpose of treating and controlling AMD.
The Phase I study of IBI302 is an open-label, multi-center, dose-escalation clinical trial to evaluate the safety and tolerability of a single intravitreal injection of IBI302 in nAMD patients. The enrolled patients with nAMD received intravitreal injection of different concentrations of IBI302. The study enrolled 31 patients.
About Innovent
Inspired by the spirit of "Start with Integrity, Succeed through Action," Innovent's mission is to develop and commercialize high quality biopharmaceutical products that are affordable to ordinary people. Established in 2011, Innovent is committed to developing, manufacturing and commercializing high quality innovative medicines for the treatment of cancer, metabolic, autoimmune and other major diseases. On October 31, 2018, Innovent was listed on the Main Board of the Stock Exchange of Hong Kong Limited with the stock code: 01801.HK.
Since its inception, Innovent has developed a fully-integrated multi-functional platform which includes R&D, CMC (Chemistry, Manufacturing, and Controls), clinical development and commercialization capabilities. Leveraging the platform, the company has built a robust pipeline of 23 valuable assets in the fields of cancer, metabolic, autoimmune diseases and other major therapeutic areas, with four products, TYVYT® (sintilimab injection), BYVASDA® (bevacizumab biosimilar injection), SULINNO® (adalimumab biosimilar injection), HALPRYZA® (rituximab biosimilar injection) officially approved for marketing in China, four assets in Phase 3 or pivotal clinical trials, and additional 15 molecules in clinical trials. TYVYT® is the only PD-1 inhibitor included in the NRDL.
Innovent has built an international team with expertise in cutting-edge biological drug development and commercialization. The company has also entered into strategic collaborations with Eli Lilly and Company, Roche, Adimab, Incyte, MD Anderson Cancer Center, Hanmi and other international partners. For more information, please visit: www.innoventbio.com.
TYVYT® (sintilimab injection) is not an approved product in the United States.
BYVASDA® (bevacizumab biosimilar injection) is not an approved product in the United States.
SULINNO® (adalimumab biosimilar injection) is not an approved product in the United States.
TYVYT® (sintilimab injection, Innovent)
BYVASDA® (bevacizumab biosimilar injection, Innovent)
SULINNO® (adalimumab biosimilar injection, Innovent)
HALPRYZA® (rituximab biosimilar injection, Innovent)
ALIMTA® and GEMZAR® are trademarks owned by or licensed to Eli Lilly and Company, its subsidiaries, or affiliates.
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Alternative Methods of Sealing Records
Posted on September 14, 2018 by ERIC J DIRGA PA
Many people desperately seek any method to seal their court records once it is determined that they no longer qualify to have their arrest record sealed or expunged by the typical means (sections 943.0585 and 943.059, Florida Statutes). This naturally turns to rule 2.420 in the Florida Rules of Judicial Administration and section 943.0581, Florida Statutes – administrative expungement. I will explore both of these options with their pluses and minuses.
The Typical Means of Expunging – Sealing Record Are Not Available
Before we can dive into the “alternative” methods of sealing or expunging criminal records, we should first briefly explain the typical means of doing this. Under Florida law, a person who has been arrested (to include receiving a Notice to Appear) may have the opportunity to have that arrest record sealed or expunged (see, What is Expungement). To qualify a person must:
have never been convicted of any criminal offense,
have never had a previous record sealed or expunged (under typical means),
have had the charges against him dropped, dismissed, or never filed on (expungement), or
have had a “withhold of adjudication” and the charge is not prohibited (sealing).
See, Qualifying for an Expungement.
A person no longer qualifies once they have successfully had an arrest record sealed or expunged or they have been convicted (adjudicated guilty) of a criminal offense. See, Difference Between “Withhold” and “Adjudicated”). This problem often raises its head when a person is found guilty of a crime that requires an adjudication of guilt by law, e.g., DUI, naively pled guilty at an arraignment to a minor offense that included an adjudication of guilt (see, Criminal Case Dispositions), or have already had an arrest sealed or expunged.
The impact of a criminal record (see, What is a Background Check) often goes unnoticed for years, long after the ability to change the situation through court proceedings in the original case. People who are affected by their past are usually trying to obtain or change their employment, including seeking promotions. Other common reasons include applying to be a resident at certain apartment complexes and trying to be a chaperone for their child at a school function.
Once they realize that their criminal history is affecting them, they seek to have this minimized. They either qualify to have it sealed or expunged and go through the 8-12+ month process or they don’t qualify and they seek alternative methods.
Alternative Methods of Sealing Judicial Records
Below are alternative methods of sealing court records.
Rule 2.420
Florida Rule of Judicial Administration 2.420 is titled “Public Access to and Protection of Judicial Branch Records.” This rule is directly governed by article I, section 24(a) of the Florida Constitution (Access to Public Records and Meetings):
Every person has the right to inspect or copy any public record made or received in connection with the official business of any public body, officer, or employee of the state, or persons acting on their behalf, except with respect to records exempted pursuant to this section or specifically made confidential by this Constitution. This section specifically includes the legislative, executive, and judicial branches of government and each agency or department created thereunder; counties, municipalities, and districts; and each constitutional officer, board, and commission, or entity created pursuant to law or this Constitution.
As noted, there are “exempted” records. Pursuant to rule 2.420, “confidential” records are exempt and may be released “only to the persons or organizations designated by law, statute, or court order.”
Confidential information includes information that is confidential under this rule or under a court order entered pursuant to this rule.
It is important to note that exempt records are confidential except for those people and organizations designated by law, statute, and court order. This means that records deemed confidential are still accessible to specific organizations (for specific reasons).
In order to have the court deem a record confidential, it has to be established that the confidentiality is required to:
prevent a serious and imminent threat to the fair, impartial, and orderly administration of justice;
protect trade secrets;
protect a compelling governmental interest;
obtain evidence to determine legal issues in a case;
avoid substantial injury to innocent third parties;
avoid substantial injury to a party by disclosure of matters protected by a common law or privacy tight not generally inherent in the specific type of proceeding sought to be closed;
comply with established public policy set forth in the Florida or United States Constitution or statutes or Florida rules or case law;
Florida Rule of Judicial Administration 2.420(c)(9)(A).
The rule spells out specifically how the motion must be presented when requested civil records or when requesting criminal records to be sealed.
If a record is deemed confidential pursuant to one of the reasons listed above, it is still accessible to specific entities for specific reasons. The Clerk of Court must allow access to confidential court records to persons “authorized by law.” Fla. R. Jud. Admin. 2.420(j)(1). This not only includes records determined to be confidential by motion but also those considered confidential by rule.
A record already deemed confidential by rule that is causing a person hardship cannot be “sealed” again to prevent this hardship. By example, Rule 2.420(d)(1)(B)(viii) specifically states that clinical records under the Baker Act are confidential. See, section 394.4615(7), Florida Statutes. However, section 394.4617(3)-(6) lists when and who may have access to it. If a person is finding a hardship because of the confidential record, then seeking to seal such record under rule 2.420 would be ineffective.
A sealed record by court order pursuant to rule 2.420 is no longer a public record and will not be posted and accessible on the Clerk of Court’s website. However, that is about all of the protections. You cannot lawfully deny that the event occurred as with the s. 943.0585-059 expungement-sealing. Moreover, the rule 2.420 sealing only applies to “court” records and extends no further. See, Rivero v. Farach, 43 F.L.W. D1091a (Fla. 3d DCA, May 16, 2018).
There are situations where seeking this type of relief may be positive for the person being affected by the record. First, the record sought to be sealed cannot already be deemed confidential (see above). Then the court must be convinced that the record must be sealed for one of the reasons listed in Rule 2.420(c)(9)(A).
A possible example is the case where someone (victim) seeks an injunction for protection against violence. That someone names a person as the respondent (aggressor). Once filed it becomes a public record. A name search through a Clerk of Court’s website will show that the person has been accused of a violent act.
If the alleged victim doesn’t appear at the hearing to determine its validity or is denied the relief, the “allegation” remains a public record. This can cause a hardship on the person accused in the petition. The filings in these cases are public records and it may benefit that person to try and have it sealed pursuant to rule 2.420.
The rule contemplates a variety of reasons why a record should be deemed confidential. You must follow the specific outline of how a motion presents this request.
Alternative Method of Expunging Non-Judicial Records
Section 943.0581, Florida Statutes – Administrative Expungement
This is a procedure for “expunging” an arrest record of an arrest made in error. The most obvious mistaken arrest is the mistaken identity arrest that sometimes occurs when a warrant is executed. People have been mistakenly arrested on a warrant because they have shared the same name as the person who the warrant was written for.
Many people believe that an administrative expungement applies when they have been arrested (not by mistake) when the charges have later been dropped or never even filed on. This is inaccurate even if the basis for the arrest was on a falsification. This is partly due to the remedy an administrative expungement provides (see Drawbacks, below).
There may be civil remedies that can compensate a person for false allegations that caused these damages (loss of liberty, employment, embarrassment, etc.) but that is beyond the scope of this post.
The Florida administrative expungement will remove the arrest from FDLE’s criminal history. It does not remove the record from the Clerk of Court’s website (if a case was generated). To do that, you will have to follow through with a rule 2.420 sealing or use section 943.0585, Florida Statutes (expungement).
In order to have an arrest administratively expunged, the arresting agency has to agree and notify FDLE (through an application that the arresting agency submits) that the arrest was a mistake. Despite protective language within the statute, law enforcement agencies are loath to admit to any mistakes requiring additional legal steps to be taken.
If a mistaken arrest has occurred, you will have available the administrative expungement procedure. Typically, mistaken identities are cured once you have entered the county jail systems and fingerprints have been taken and processed. However, this process can take several days. It is imperative that you hire an attorney and file an action for the false arrest. This action will usually result in a settlement (you will not get rich) and that will provide documentation that can be used to convince the agency to apply to FDLE for the administrative expungement.
Neither of the above options are streamlined to be used in a casual basis. Both fall short of a complete erasure of the record. However, the administrative expungement and the judicial rule both cover a niche that can be beneficial for those people who fall within their bounds of relief.
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Home › 2005 Broad-shouldered Military Jacket with Architectural Pleats
2005 Broad-shouldered Military Jacket with Architectural Pleats
Size 48 (unmarked): Best for any size between an IT 46 - 36 Chest - S and an IT 50 - 40 Chest - M/L.
Raf Simons oversized field jacket from A/W 2005-2006 'History of My World'. In excellent used condition with minor fading. Made in Belgium.
A/W 2005 was one of Raf Simons's classic seasons, focusing on reworked military shapes that gave a dramatic dimension to the designer's razor-sharp tailoring. Besides looking comprehensively stellar, 'History of my World' was a turning point for the Raf Simons aesthetic; it marked the transition from layered, subculture-inspired streetwear (clothes for boys) to an impeccably tailored modernist vision (clothes for men). Tim Blanks writes:
'Simons expanded on his poignant, futuristic vocabulary, which embraces a radical new shape. The presentation [...] made its point with a baggy-trousered, cropped-jacket silhouette that focused attention on a loose, gathered waistline. A lot of the clothes had military or uniform connotations [that] rang a little sinister. But, like the shoulder and elbow pads on his Jacquard knits, they were surely just reflecting the essentially combative nature of Simons' designs. If you're not thinking about these clothes, they're not working.' (our emphasis)
Military outerwear has been a consistent point of reference for Simons's designs: On one hand, his early work often engages with and subverts depictions of discipline, masculinity and order - concepts closely tied to martial culture. On the other, he also appears to be interested in the ways the strict principles of formal uniforms are distorted when worn by young people, such as the teenagers that were casted as runway models during the early years of his career. Collier Schorr's 'Base Portraits/Barracks' photos from the Raf Simons Redux publication precisely capture this idea: a young man stoically wears an 'Eisenhower' jacket from WWII. Instead of creating an image of pristine masculinity as originally intended, the jacket's square proportions engulf his narrow frame, highlighting the appropriative act occurring when a slender-framed teen wears a garment from a bygone era that was created for someone possibly older and bigger. It is this nuanced and profound appreciation of the experience of youth that characterises many of Simons's creations.
Designed around the same time as the Collier Schorr photos, the jacket features a wide-shouldered cut that tapers considerably towards the waist for an innovative top-heavy silhouette reminiscent of vintage military uniforms. The design is inspired by mid-century military tunics and features a strong shirt-style collar, large patch pockets and a belt on the waist. Thoughtful details such as the symmetrically placed snap buttons on the collar and a zipped compartment on the top of the front placket create a thoroughly modern feel. At the back, beautifully executed pleats add further volume to the structured silhouette while subtly echoing the design's regimental origins. The result is a serious statement piece that combines traditional form with avant-garde experimentation.
The fabric is a robust cotton canvas with a rigid drape that complements the architectural construction. A horizontal seam defines the waist area on the front while defining the shape of the back, where a sharp inverse pleat flawlessly transforms into a single vent. While adding a strong point of visual interest, the knife pleats on the sides of the back have a bi-swing function that allows the arms to comfortably stretch forward. Similar inverse pleats decorate the front pockets, while knife pleats are placed symmetrically on the buttoned cuffs. Precise geometrical topstitching decorates the upper back. The matte gunmetal hardware complements the deep black fabric, while the interior is unlined. All interior seams have a flat fell construction, while the neck features Simons's signature metal pull chain.
A thoughtfully finished and beautifully constructed piece, this jacket is an enticing reminder as to why Simons is one of the most celebrated designers working nowadays. We strongly recommend it.
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Ex-SMAP member Masahiro Nakai to leave Johnny's agency after over 30 yrs
KYODO NEWS - Feb 21, 2020 - 19:57 | Arts, All
Masahiro Nakai, a former lead member of disbanded popular Japanese pop idol group SMAP, said Friday he will leave, in late March, talent agency Johnny & Associates Inc., which he belonged to for over 30 years.
The 47-year-old said at a press conference in Tokyo that he has had difficulty motivating himself to take on new challenges after SMAP broke up in 2016 and that he has established his own office to manage his work.
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"I'm basically on my own," said Nakai, who has been hosting a number of TV shows since the break-up. "I thought I needed to put myself in a new environment."
SMAP was so popular that shortly before they disbanded in 2016, more than 370,000 people signed petitions from Japan and abroad begging the group to reconsider their break-up.
Asked whether SMAP may get back together, Nakai said that it is still a possibility.
Three of the five-member group -- Goro Inagaki, 46, Tsuyoshi Kusanagi, 45, and Shingo Katori, 43 -- formed a group "Atarashii Chizu," meaning new map after they left the agency in 2017.
Takuya Kimura, 47, is remaining with Johnny & Associates, one of the most powerful agencies in Japan's entertainment industry. Its founder Hiromu Kitagawa died last July at the age of 87.
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Japan talent agency warned by regulator over ex-SMAP members
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New York police detective John Shaft arrests Walter Wade Jr. for a racially motivated slaying. But the only eyewitness disappears, and Wade jumps bail for Switzerland. Two years later Wade…
Killing Zoe
Zed is an American vault-cracker who travels to Paris to meet up with his old friend Eric. Eric and his gang have planned to raid the only bank in the…
A botched robbery indicates a police informant, and the pressure mounts in the aftermath at a warehouse. Crime begets violence as the survivors — veteran Mr. White, newcomer Mr. Orange,…
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Execution-style murder of 6-year-old Michigan boy, two others, was about ‘drugs and money,’ police say
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WARREN, MI – A 37-year-old Michigan man has been charged with the murder of a 6-year-old boy, the boy’s father, and the boy’s father’s girlfriend.
Nicholas Raad Bahri of Bloomfield Hills is accused of the “execution-style killing” of 6-year-old Tai’raz Moore and 28-year-old Isis Rimson at a home on Otis Street in Warren on Oct. 1.
Detroit police also found the body of 32-year-old Tukoyo Moore, Tai’raz’s father, in a torched car around the same time. Bahri is also charged with his murder.
When asked about motive for the murders on Tuesday, Warren Police Commissioner Bill Dwyer simply said “It was all about drugs and money. I’ll leave it at that” but noted that the suspect and victims did know each other.
Macomb County Judge john M. Chmura found probable cause for all 15 counts against Bahri, who has an extensive criminal history, in 37th District Court in Warren on
Black man who was led by mounted police using a rope sues over ‘slave’-style arrest
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The Black man’s hands were cuffed behind his back as two white police officers on horseback steered him through the streets of Galveston, Texas. The mounted officers used a long blue rope to guide the man several blocks under the glare of the summer sun.
Footage of Donald Neely’s August 2019 arrest triggered a national outcry, with the scene drawing comparisons to the inhumane treatment of enslaved people in the 1800s.
According to Neely’s lawsuit, the way he was arrested made him feel “as though he was a slave.” The lawsuit, filed against the city and its police force last week, alleges that Neely’s arrest on suspicion of criminal trespassing was “extreme and outrageous.”
The police chief apologized, and the charges have been dropped, according to Neely’s attorney, Julie Ketterman. But Neely is now seeking up to $1 million in damages for emotional distress, malicious prosecution, and negligence after suffering
Galveston police sued by Donald Neely, Black man who was led by rope by officers on horses
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According to his new lawsuit, Neely said the way he was arrested made him feel “as though he was a slave.” The lawsuit, filed against the city and its police force last week, alleges that Neely’s arrest on suspicion of criminal trespassing was “extreme and outrageous.”
The police chief apologized, and the charges have been dropped, according to Neely’s attorney, Julie Ketterman. But Neely is now seeking up to $1 million in damages for emotional distress, malicious prosecution, and negligence after suffering both mental and physical anguish by those who had a duty to protect him, the attorney said.
The lawsuit alleges that he suffered physical and emotional pain, including handcuff abrasions, as he was led on foot to a mounted-officer staging area because no vehicles were immediately available to transport him.
The Galveston Police Department said it would not comment on an active lawsuit.
Neely, who has long experienced
Shampoo police show ugly side of beauty industry
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Hair braider Dara Collier knows her craft. She started practicing twists and weaves as a child, until she mastered each look.
Customers near Atlanta appreciate her advanced skills, but Georgia regulators will not let her do something more basic: shampooing.
Washing clients’ hair outside a state-approved salon without cosmetology credentials is illegal in Georgia. As a self-employed braider, Collier does not need an occupational license to run her business in Georgia.
But that also means she cannot legally cleanse hair — something she would like to do as an extra precaution during COVID-19.
Regulators do not care that shampoo is safe, sold over-the-counter and routinely used at home by children. “It does not make a lot of sense,” Collier says.
Other states impose even stricter licensing rules, treating shampoo like a controlled substance.
A 2017 Institute for Justice analysis showed that 37 jurisdictions specifically mandated licensure for shampoo assistants
Brazilian model told Rio de Janeiro police she was ‘happy’ there after she was reported her missing
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A Brazilian model went to the police after she was reported missing by her family to say she was ‘happy’ with her life in Rio de Janeiro just months before she was found ‘disorientated’ and shoeless in one of the city’s slum, reports have claimed.
Eloisa Pinto Fontes, 26, once graced the covers of Elle, Grazia and Glamor but was reported missing by relatives in May.
She was thought to be living with a boyfriend in Barra da Tijuca in the West Zone of Rio, according to her family, but was found in the Morro do Cantagalo favela in Rio in the south-east of the country on October 6.
A local neighbourhood watch team were tipped off about an unknown woman who had been wandering the favela – shirtless and shoe-less – for two days.
Months ago, on July 30, Fontes is believed to have visited police at the 16th
Man says woman bleached his clothing in fear of Covid: Richmond Heights Police Blotter
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Family trouble: Richmond Park Drive West
A man reported Sept. 4 that the mother of his child was pouring bleach onto his clothing because of the pandemic. He was not concerned with the clothing but wanted her to leave his apartment. The woman left without further incident and the locks to the apartment were changed since he believed she had a key.
Psychiatric situation: Ruth Ellen Drive
A boy, 14, agreed to go to the hospital Sept. 4 for a mental health evaluation. His guardian said he became angry after she told him not to listen to rap music with vulgar language.
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Officers responded to Five Points Grille Oct. 5 for a report of a woman passed out on the floor in the lady’s restroom. The woman, 24, had vomited and urinated on herself and could not stand on her own. She was
Police identify 2 women shot and killed in separate incidents in Flint
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FLINT, MI — The identities of two women shot and killed in recent days in Flint have been released by police.
Officers with the Flint Police Department responded around 10:30 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 6, to the 4900 block of Clio Road, between Pierson Road and Stewart Avenue, where shots were fired.
It was discovered that 18-year-old Mariah Lenea Henderson had been shot as she drove her vehicle along Clio Road. She was transported to Hurley Medical Center for treatment of her injuries but later pronounced deceased.
Related: 18-year-old woman shot and killed while driving in Flint
Flint Mayor Sheldon Neeley issued a statement Wednesday afternoon in response to the news.
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GARY — A police response Wednesday night to Gary/Chicago International Airport was related to a reported robbery that occurred earlier in a different part of the city, officials said.
Officers were dispatched about 5:10 p.m. and met with a 31-year-old Hammond man, who told them he was robbed about an hour earlier in the 2500 block of Broadway, Gary police Lt. Dawn Westerfield said.
The man told police another person assaulted him and tried to steal his jewelry while armed with a handgun, Westerfield said.
Anyone with more information is asked to call Sgt. Gregory Wolf at 219-881-1210. To remain anonymous, call the department’s crime tip line at 866-CRIME-GP.
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SOUTHINGTON — Local authorities have arrested an eight-year veteran of the Connecticut State Police on assault and other offenses after they say he took a mirror off a wall and broke it during an argument.
Police said Christopher Russell got into an argument with a family member Saturday while they were at a wedding.
When they returned to Russell’s Southington home, the argument “continued and became physical,” when Rusell “took a mirror off the wall” and broke it, Southington Police said.
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Google has done well to remove beauty filter from its phones, but it can’t really police its app store for this
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Google’s move is to be lauded, but as long as beauty filters continue to be available on the Android Playstore as also other app stores, it likely won’t mean much.
Last week, Google announced that it would no longer include beauty filters in its phones’ camera app. Social and traditional media have helped popularise a rather constricted view on physical beauty; now, phones have also included such features to allow users to tweak their photos to conform to these standards of appearance.
Scientists see this as a factor behind poor mental health and appearance-related dysphoria, especially among teenagers and young adults. Google’s move is to be lauded, but as long as beauty filters continue to be available on the Android Playstore as also other app stores, it likely won’t mean much.
Also, limiting filters and similar apps will address just part of the problem.
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Enrique Peñalosa and Congestion in Bogota
July 16, 2011 Colin colombia 16 comments
Alternate Title: My Official Endorsement of Enrique Peñalosa for Mayor of Bogota
Congestion in Bogota is unreal. Latin American capitals are known for chaotic traffic and poor infrastructure. Combine that with sky-high immigration to Bogota of displaced persons from Colombia’s armed conflict, and you have an amazingly crowded city.
There are almost no highways in Bogota, which is a problem in a city of 8 million. Trips across town can be depressingly slow. I soon saw I’d need a bicycle.
Here are some shots that illustrate the amount of available space.
That one of two buses is on Decima downtown. I have to squeeze through that gauntlet when I ride my bicycle downtown, since there’s even less space on the outer sides of those two lanes. This time I didn’t fit. The sidewalk’s not an option because it’s congested with pedestrians. This illustrates how precious space is in this town – every inch matters.
In the middle shot those buses are moving. That’s a typical pedestrian buildup quickly crossing before the next wave of cars.
On the left you can see in the lower left corner the cicloruta, the dedicated bike path. I obviously couldn’t go too fast to get the camera out and snap a shot.
I never thought about space until I saw the speech, Power, Politics, Cities given at the London School of Economics by former Bogota mayor and current candidate Enrique Peñalosa. As mayor from 1998-2001 Peñalosa effected tremendous change in Bogota, so substantial he’s recognized internationally as a top urban development expert with an emphasis in developing (third world) cities. Since then he’s worked as an urb dev consultant and Board of Directors president of the Institute for Transportation and Development Policy. He attended Duke in the US, IIAP in Paris, and was a visiting scholar at NYU.
Peñalosa speaks for about 40 minutes, in English and it’s worth it.
At the 6:30 point, Peñalosa starts to talk about physical space. He talks about private property vs. public property. He’ll ultimately argue that a true democracy isn’t just about voting. It also demands we take all citizens into account when allocating public space and property. This is especially important in developing cities where the upper class is tiny but control most of the wealth and resources.
Think about it. Is it fair that so much of the space between private buildings be allocated to cars when just over 20% own cars? Think about how much space a car with one person inside uses. How much space per person does a crowded bus use? And someone on a bike?
Peñalosa says a city can be friendly to people who drive cars or people who don’t drive cars. There’s no compromise. Space is a zero-sum game. Peñalosa is clear about advocating against car drivers. He prioritizes public transport, cycling, and walking. He adds that a good measure for any investment a city makes (new park, building, road) is this question: Does it make the city more or less pleasant to walk?
Enrique Peñalosa launched Bogota’s bus rapid transit system, the TransMilenio (or ‘el TransMi‘). He took two street lanes away from cars on wide thoroughfares, dedicating them to a subway-like system of huge buses. I’ve passionately cursed the TransMilenio many times for how much of a pain in the ass it can be, but it’s important on long trips. I can’t imagine the chaos before. In Bogota’s rise and fall, The Economist calls the TransMilenio “transports of crowded discomfort.” TransMilenio’s misery can’t be blamed on Peñalosa, since he’s been out of office a decade, and usage has skyrocketed and government efficiency has fallen. That Economist article actually endorses Peñalosa while shaming the last corrupt piece of shit.
Even though it sucks, you have to understand the TransMilenio is good and necessary for developing cities. Whenever I’d get pissed at it, I’d fume that the smaller Medellin has a Metro while Bogota doesn’t. But Medellin is a narrow city half the population of Bogota. They’re crammed inside a narrow valley so they only need one line to be convenient for most everybody. Bogota’s much bigger and sprawled in every direction. The city simply can’t afford to build a subway for all the lines it would need to cover the city. Peñalosa mentions at the 35:00 point that a subway would’ve bankrupted Bogota for thirty years.
Ciclorutas
Peñalosa also built the ciclorutas, Bogota’s Bike Path Network, which took more public access from space-hogging cars. I recently heard another bike-riding gringo in Bogota complain about the ciclorutas, but I love them. It has nuisances, but generally I think they’re great and I’ve loved becoming a cyclist in Bogota. So much so there’s an upcoming post called Bikes and Cycling in Bogota.
Also kick ass about bike culture is Ciclovia – several thoroughfares are closed on Sundays and holidays for cyclists, joggers, rollerbladers, dog walkers, and walkers. Nobody denies it makes the city pleasant. Bogota takes it even further with No Car Day, a whole day when personal cars aren’t allowed on the streets.
Upper income citizens with cars aren’t the only ones who take more than their fair share of public space. Some of the lowest income citizens, street vendors, steal space specifically in congested areas. Street vendors create bottlenecks to increase exposure to their trinkets. By laying out their big blanket of widgets in the sidewalk, they force pedestrians over and into the bike path in many areas.
Enrique Peñalosa put laws in place restricting street vendors in some areas, especially Chapinero. He’s hated among those workers, but tough shit. It’s not easy to get mad at these poor people doing what they do just to survive, but a city can’t have that. I’ve heard Carrera 13 through Chapinero was unpassable in the 90s. And it’s still bad because the street vendors have returned. Check out these pics of the “bike path.”
Exhibits A, B, and C prove beyond a shadow of a doubt that street vendors steal space from pedestrians and cyclists.
One time it was a little jammed on the bike path at Calle 72 and Carrera 11, as always, and I was in a hurry as always. I had to veer off the bike path a little to avoid some pedestrians. A vendor had baseball caps laid out on a blanket. The blanket stretched all the way up to the edge of the path. I veered only a little, but enough to run over the brims of the last two caps. The old man yelled, “¡Oi, papa!” But I didn’t care. Move your shit, bitch.
Trucks Prohibited
There’s currently a law to take effect soon which would prohibit large commercial trucks from entering the city. Because products still need to get here, there will be distribution centers located around the outskirts of town. The oversize trucks will deliver there, where product will be switched to smaller trucks which are allowed to enter the city.
My Highlights from Power, Politics, Cities
There’s liberal ideas throughout Peñalosa’s speech which may turn off right-wing gringos, but you have to understand that 60% of Colombia are in the bottom two social classes (2 of 6). Distributing wealth and resources more equally in Latin America is important.
The poorest people live in dangerous neighborhoods far from where they work. Mobility is crucial. The TransMilenio and bike paths increase accessibility for everybody.
At 13:00 Peñalosa mentions how upper income car owners in developing cities, thinking they’re more important, park on sidewalks. Here’s a shot of that from Chicó:
This one isn’t so bad because there isn’t high pedestrian traffic and the car doesn’t completely block the sidewalk. But you often seeing cars parked sideways so pedestrians have walk in the street in order to pass.
At 15:00 Peñalosa says a good measure for a city is how pleasant it is for children, the elderly, handicapped, and the poor.
At 26:00 Peñalosa says low density population cities (St. Louis and most of the US) make it very expensive and almost impossible to provide low cost, high frequency public transportation. Bogota’s density is almost as high as Manhattan’s. If you like life in the suburbs, this vision is not for you. And it’s impossible for cities like Atlanta, Houston, or Los Angeles.
Throughout the video Peñalosa says city planning isn’t technical. There’s no black and white, no clear-cut right and wrong. City planning and urban development is political. It’s up to the people what kind of city they want to live in.
At 30:00 Peñalosa makes a MAJOR CULTURAL POINT about social class in Latin America and Southern Europe: Why are there more bicycles in the Netherlands than Spain or Italy when the weather’s much better in Spain and Italy? Spain and Italy are the primary sources of the status and social class bullshit that exists in Colombia and greater Latin America. A businessman in Spain or Italy considers himself way too important to be seen riding a bicycle, but the Dutch corporate executive jumps on an old bike like everyone else.
At 36:00 he makes a point about symbols. Building TransMilenio sent a message that public transport is more important than car owners. And later he says protected bicycle paths raise the status of cyclists. “A protected bicycle way shows that a citizen on a $30 bike is just as important as a citizen with a $30,000 car.” AMEN!
At 38:00 Peñalosa paints an interesting picture. Imagine a developing city in Africa, Asia, or Latin America that allocates most of their streets for public transport and bicycles. Almost no cars. Wonderful.
I Met Enrique Peñalosa!
I’d heard Peñalosa doesn’t just talk the talk about not driving cars. He can be seen around town on his bicycle. One night I went to Zona Rosa, on my bicycle as usual, which I park in the Andino garage for free. I pulled up to the bike rack and saw a tall Colombian I recognized. I’d watched the Power, Politics, Cities video at least five times by then (over ten now), and thought I recognized Enrique Peñalosa giving his ticket to the attendant.
I tapped his shoulder to turn him around and said, “Oiga vecino, creo que nos hemos conocido, no? Como es su nombre?” He looked left, then right, then quietly, almost whispering, “Enrique Peñalosa.” I switched to English and started drooling all over him. I told him how much I love his ideas. I said that everything he wants in a city, I want in a city. I told him I’d watched the Power, Politics, Cities video many times and I have so much admiration for him.
He asked what I was doing in Colombia. He gave me his email address and I told him he’d win the mayoral election. He was wearing a helmet, ligas, and a flourescent vest. I was wearing a helmet, which I only wear after 6pm so the cops don’t bother me, and ligas. No flourescent vest. But I felt we were the same. I gave him a big handshake and he left.
Bogota Mayoral Race
Alvaro Uribe, the popular right-wing ex-president credited with restoring security to Colombia, recently endorsed Enrique Peñalosa. This caused a stir because Uribe’s a Liberal, but Peñalosa is in the Green Party. The endorsement caused last year’s presidential candidate Antanas Mockus to quit the Green Party.
Peñalosa is favored to win, but some surveys have shown Polo candidate Gustavo Petro leading the race. I’m sure Petro’s a great guy, but GET SERIOUS people. Peñalosa is among the top urban development managers in the world. Intelligent economists all over the world with no interest in Bogota are hoping he wins. There’s no debate. Peñalosa is the guy. Let’s just elect him and enjoy the progressive city he’d build.
Never in my life have I liked a politician so much. But watching that video, I’m like a bobblehead agreeing with everything Peñalosa says. He’s not a politician as much as he’s a visionary and top-notch urban manager.
Follow Enrique Peñalosa on Twitter.
UPDATE: Peñalosa lost the mayoral race to Gustavo Petro. Maybe Bogotá doesn’t deserve him.
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Dan Sanchez says:
Hopefully Penalosa will win. Public transport is crucial in big cities. I grew up in Morelia, Mexico and I always took public transport to school and other places. It took its time, but I always got there safely. I also used to get around the city on my bike and I would often go out of town on my bike with a group of riders to different places on the outskirts of the city for exercise. I’ve been in several accidents because car drivers are clueless or don’t give a shit about cyclists (I once made a dent on the backside of a VW bug which went through a red light right into me as I was sent flying over it). I don’t bike as much now, but the point remains clear: drivers don’t give a shit about cyclists. As I’ve gone back to visit my hometown over the years and see it grow exponentially outwards in all directions (like Bogota) and the traffic congestion increase, it has been made clear that cars have been given priority over other methods of transportation, and today I would be afraid to get around on the bike. There are no dedicated bike lanes, although public transportation (public buses) are still efficient and get you where you need to go. Anyhow, it’s good if Penalosa gets elected to office again and gets city planning right back on track.
Andrew Meyer says:
Here’s hoping Peñalosa wins. Great ideas and he seems to have his heart in the right place. Of course, the election’s still a long way off, but here’s hoping.
That kind of urban shit is enough to turn me off to Bogota entirely. I can handle it, but I despise commuting. I do hope they make some serious strides to ease the congestion. The other point, of course, is that if they could end the civil conflict, there would be less displaced citizens in Bogota and that would ease the problem nicely.
Of course, ending the civil conflict is no small task.
Serious conflicts are difficult to end because it requires two sides to do it. To FARC this is an existential conflict. That being the case, the only way it will end is when they no longer exist, or they own Colombia. Consider Rome and Carthage, Zimbabwe and Cambodia. As to ‘Left’ solutions, you should be really nervous at the blood that acompanies their solutions. Stalin killed 30+, Mao around 100+, Pol Pot half the country, Hitler 6+ jews not counting war dead, Cuba I don’t know the number. All those numbers are in millions.
The poverty is a function of social suppression endemic to former Spanish colonies. Los Ricos don’t want the poor to become better off because that means they will have less. Fact is that wealth is not a zero sum game, but they don’t buy that. Maybe Chile does now, but that is it. Ugly truth is that the best thing that ever happened to Chile is Pinochet. Direct redistribution doesn’t work.
That is a very interesting blog. In London cycling is dangerous (although people do it), is cycling dangerous in Bogota?
I think people cycle more in Holland and Denmark because it is a lot safer – more cycle paths. The idea of cycling in Italy is crazy – Italians are too dangerous at driving !!
I am not sure if this
““A protected bicycle way shows that a citizen on a $30 bike is just as important as a citizen with a $30,000 car.””
Is a left wing view point. I don’t think protecting all citizens equally is a left wing view point. Well not for UK left wing anyway. Here left wing means :-
1) Certain people e.g. single mums are more important than others and should have housing YOU can not afford
2) If you don’t work for the Government your pension is not important.
3) Taxes make us richer
Left wing certainly does NOT mean treat everyone the same. Maybe it should do but doesn’t.
If you want to know why Latin America is poor and the USA, UK, Canada etc aren’t sure there is just one thing that explains it – the R.C.
If it was the RC church, then why is Mexico also poor?
Additionally, does anyone want to ride bicycles to work in Phoenix or Houston in the summer? Or perhaps Fargo in the winter? One size fits all transportation decrees are always insane.
I am staying out of this one
Coward !!! 🙂
Seriously though, it doesn’t mean that bicycles aren’t a good thing for Bogota. They probably are based on what I’ve read. But good solutions require reason, not dogma is the only point I had.
Puxesaco says:
Fat bottomed girls you make the rockin’ world go round
GET ON YOUR BIKES AND RIDE!
“Mike on July 18th, 2011
I think you will find that Mexico is a Catholic country
Rubio says:
A couple corrections…. Peñalosa is NOT considered a leftist here in Colombia, he’s actually center-right. And Bogotá is NOT as dense as Manhattan, it’s much MORE dense. Bogotá is the 9th densest city on Earth, beating out NYC, Moscow, Tokyo, Mexico City etc….
Otherwise, great article 🙂
Conservative philosophy cedes to the government any activity that can not be performed by the private sector — national defense, public health, public safety. We are not against public transportation, just ineffecient, unionized, fossilized systems as exist in USA. Private Operators could do a better job as they do in Mexico with route taxi system.
In the US left has curious obsession with trains. It is part of their Euro envy. They enjoy inflicting light rail systems on San Diego, LA, San Jose, Seattle, Sacramento, Portland. Incredibly expensive to operate and nobody rides them because we prefer cars. They set up huge bureauocracy with police departments, lucrative boards of directors positions, & lots of union jobs.
Transmileneo is kind of specialized system that could be run by gubmint. Word around the campfire from old friends is that they have security problems. Have not been to Bogota for a while so I do not know.
Jimmy Huero
I spent a week in Mexico City and purchased a bike to get around. The freaking Chilangos have no compunction about pushing around cyclists.
They do have some bike paths down center medians of busy streets. Sometimes the bike path is a steel grate that runs over the subway route and you hear the subway trains 30 feet underneath you. One bad weld and you you fall onto the top of a subway train.
There is a burgeoning bike movement which I am sure will grow in left (PRD) dominated Mexico City. DF is flat and will soon have many more bicycles — just as soon as the police learn to extort money out of cyclists.
I cycle around Los Angeles for Cardio — often in high profile gang areas. At night I have been stopped close to 1 dozen times by LAPD. They advise that my light was of insufficient brightness or that I appeared to be intoxiated. Neither of these was ever true, they just wanted to search me for guns and drugs.
They stop me because despite by black irish ethnicity I “skew” cholo– short hair, Ben Davis Pants, & old school tatoos. Meanwhile a bunch of Emo Kids ride by on single speeds drinking beer and the officers do nothing. Price to pay for a mis-spent youth.
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MYSTICAL REVIVAL - FOOTWEAR & ACCESSORIES
Metals, crystals and designs borrowed directly from Tarot cards. At a time when profound changes have affected our entire system and have even influenced, (or changed), trends, fashion has been overwhelmed by a new way of living and thinking. This change has, however, restored value and substance and a trend that talks to our psyche, speaks of the real world and daily life, yet in imaginative and mystic ways too. This particular theme has also affected footwear and key accessories. We are seeing the most varied of decorations, detachable and mixed, in an encounter between old and new, in a mixture of contemporary and vintage aesthetics, which also offers a new life to many materials.
A nod to evasion and otherworldly qualities inspires footwear and accessories for Autumn/Winter ‘21/’22, since, in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic, the need for reassurance has also increased: the chain shoulder bag makes headway, as do cowboy boots and layered necklaces with an edgy look. And all personalised with mystical details such as healing stones, zodiac signs, good luck icons and crystals. Shoulder bags, already considered a fundamental fashion element for Autumn/Winter ‘21/’22, add a more striking touch to the classic silhouette: bags become smaller, acquiring more internal compartments in the name of practicality, but also sporting embossed surfaces, shiny leathers and geometric padding, in a trendy aesthetic with studded designs and vintage-inspired closures.
By mixing different shapes, the shoulder strap is enriched with contrasting metals, such as gold and silver. Although consumers continue to experiment with new trends, hair accessories remain a must-have item, with cross-seasonal appeal.
The hair-slide, in particular, is inspired by the mystical charm of the “Season of the Witch” and mixes beads, natural pearls and healing crystals: an item that therefore offers a great opportunity to reuse leftover components, raw materials and worn metals. Already considered a must-have, layered necklaces offer endless styling options, and offer great additional opportunities for personalisation and gifting.
Dominated by the #misticorder, the necklaces mix multiple decorative charms including hearts, lockets and medallions, but also good luck icons such as the protective evil eye, celestial motifs and tarot designs. In line with the demand for greater customisation, sets of earrings gain high commercial appeal, with consumers trying to create their own look, mixing multiple patterns and different lengths, good luck symbols, celestial motifs, pearls, crystals and studs. In keeping with the demand for comfortable, cross-seasonal accessories and also following the increased interest in DIY crafts that arose during the pandemic, a handcrafted wrap scarf is the perfect accessory to pair with outerwear or use as a home blanket, in a mixture of historical designs, oversized flowers and mystical details. An accessory loaded with symbolism, borrowed from the world of art, history and science to create a harmonious blend of luxury and storytelling. Reflecting the dark side of the "Phantasmagoria" trend and with the dystopian references of last season, in the autumn and winter of ‘21/’22, the cowboy boot will once again demonstrate its charm, and, thanks to its stylistic versatility, will remain popular throughout the year.
Taking advantage of the continuing success of the #jewellerification trend, and reusing the resulting decorative details, such as studs and chains (some of which are detachable), these boots will offer an important sales opportunity, in addition to that of the more classic boots.
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Song Lyric Sunday | “Let’s Hear It for the Boy” – Deniece Williams
Song Lyric Sunday was created by Helen Vahdati from This Thing Called Life One Word at a Time. For complete rules or to join in the fun, click here.
This week’s theme is “boys.”
Let’s Hear It for the Boy was the second song released from the soundtrack of 1984’s Footloose and became a #1 song for artist Deniece Williams.
In the film, the song was used in a scene where Kevin Bacon tries to teach Christopher Penn how to dance, and Penn is having a hard time.
Fun Fact: When Williams recorded Let’s Hear It for the Boy the first time, Dean Pitchford thought it sounded too girlish, so she flew from Los Angeles to New York to quickly do another take under deadline pressure. She ended up doing the proper take late that night after a long flight, but it was worth it. When she saw the film, she thought the scene where they used her song was incredible.
George Merrill and Shannon Rubicam of the duo Boy Meets Girl sang backup, and also wrote Whitney Houston’s songs How Will I Know and I Wanna Dance With Somebody (Who Loves Me).
See my Song Lyric Sunday selection on Nesie’s Place.
Disclaimer: I have no copyrights to the song and/or video and/or hyperlinks to songs and/or videos and/or gifs above. No copyright infringement intended.
Let’s Hear It for the Boy
by Deniece Williams
Songwriter: Dean Pitchford, Tom Snow
My baby, he don’t talk sweet
He ain’t got much to say
But he loves me, loves me, loves me
I know that he loves me anyway
And maybe he don’t dress fine
But I don’t really mind
Cause every time he pulls me near
I just wanna cheer
Let’s give the boy a hand
Let’s hear it for my baby
You know you gotta understand
Maybe he’s no Romeo
But he’s my loving one-man show
Whooa, whooa, whooa-oh
My baby may not be rich
He’s watching every dime
We always have a real good time
And maybe he sings off-key
But that’s all right by me, yeah
Cause what he does, he does so well
Makes me wanna yell
Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa
‘Cause every time he pulls me near
Let’s hear it for my man
Compiled from SongFacts.com, Genius Lyrics, YouTube, Wikipedia, and Google
December 9, 2018 Felicia Denise Helen Vahdati, Music Challenge, Music Video, Song Lyric Sunday, Word Prompt
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crushedcaramel says:
Yaaaaay! Love it!
msjadeli says:
What a blast to the past! Good one!
This song brings back a few memories.
Love this song and the movie!
Wonderful upbeat song! I like the movie it was featured in, too, and this video is really cute. 🙂
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Tags: Abbey Theatre, All My Sons, Barry Barnes, Cassio, Cyprus, Des Cave, Desdemona, Gavin Fullam, Guthrie Theatre, Iago, James Cosgrove, Joe Dowling, John Barry O'Connor, Liz Fitzgibbon, Malcolm Douglas, Marty Rea, Michael James Ford, Minneapolis, Minnesota, Othello, Peter Gowen, Peter Macon, Psy-Ops, Rebecca O'Mara, Riccardo Hernandez, Rosie Redmond, Sean O'Casey, The Field, Tyrone Guthrie, Venice, William Shakespeare
The Abbey joins in the Shakespeare 400 celebrations with its first ever production of Othello and it’s a vibrant cracker
Beware my lord of jealousy, it is the green-eyed monster that doth mock the meat it feed on
Respected soldier Othello (Peter Macon) has secretly married Desdemona (Rebecca O’Mara), to the dismay and fury of her father Brabantio (Peter Gowen) when he is roused with the news by failed suitor Rodrigo (Gavin Fullam). But the support Brabantio initially receives from his peers on the Council; Lodovico (Barry Barnes), Gratiano (Michael James Ford), and the Duke (Malcolm Douglas); evaporates when they realise his righteous indignation is directed at Othello, for the Ottomans are moving against Cyprus, and Othello is Venice’s indispensable man. Little does Othello realise that Cyprus will turn out to be a psy-ops front rather than a naval engagement. For despite being governed by his friend Montano (Des Cave) Cyprus will prove no home as his ensign Iago (Marty Rea) whispers poison in his ear in an attempt to usurp Cassio (John Barry O’Connor) as Othello’s lieutenant.
Director Joe Dowling seems to dispense with Coleridge’s celebrated ‘motiveless malignity’ of Iago for a fascinating interpretation; that Iago himself is acting throughout under the spell of the same species of madness he casts over Othello. While he is resentful of being passed over for promotion, his true anger seems to circle around his wife Emilia (Karen Ardiff) having betrayed him with the Moor. Iago’s cold treatment of Emilia thus seems a parallel to Othello’s rough abuse of Desdemona – having been turned against her. And his wail at the result of his handiwork adds to this impression; a man suddenly waking from a fugue state horrified at what he’s done. Macon’s performance is extremely impressive, and surprising. Instead of ‘the noble Moor’, dignifying every syllable, he gives us a soldier whose early scenes of camaraderie are rambunctious bordering on rowdy, and whose descent into madness involves howling, screaming, and an epileptic fit. Othello’s modesty about his linguistic skills can seem farcical given his poetic eloquence, but here it signals insecurity because English is his second language, as the American Macon delivers Shakespearean verse with some acutely noted notes and flourishes of sub-Saharan African speech. Rea, in a rare occurrence, is asked to act in his own Northern Irish accent, and this also strips away posturing. Instead of grandstanding in his own villainy in RP, Iago is a street-corner slouch of bored contempt and hidden spite; in which each soliloquy seems to expose a man trapped in his own world of hatred – given memorable visual expression by Sinead McKenna’s lights spotlighting a wordless conversation between Cassio and Desdemona while Iago creeps closer to them, railing at them, lost in solipsistic hate.
Desdemona’s passivity works best as a sheltered girl’s naivety about the world, but O’Mara is too old for the role. Desdemona is thus infuriatingly clueless, but O’Mara does gives full impact to James Cosgrove’s fight direction by selling one of the most shocking stage-punches I’ve seen. Ardiff is a highlight in support making Emilia a beacon of common sense and proto-feminist, but rendering Bianca (Liz Fitzgibbon) as an O’Casey streetwalker is a cheap and mean gag. Dowling’s staging is less naturalistic than previous returns from Minneapolis like 2003’s All My Sons or 2011’s The Field. Indeed Act 3’s celebrated temptation scene takes place against what becomes a blood-red backdrop of ocean upon which vast shadows are cast as Iago corrupts Othello. Before that Venice has been represented by a massive suspended plaque, and as Othello descends into psychosis the walls almost literally close in on him, as the ocean backdrop is truncated by successively closing over more and more of the wooden panelling of Riccardo Hernandez’s set which is identical to the Abbey’s off-stage decor.
It remains bizarre to have chosen this play because of one line, which elicited sustained tittering heedless of the dead and maimed littering the stage during its delivery, but Dowling affords the Bard’s tragedy of jealousy a bold debut.
Othello continues its run at the Abbey Theatre until the 11th of June.
Tags: Abbey Theatre, All My Sons, Arthur Miller, Beowful Boritt, Bosco Hogan, Brooklyn, Brooklyn Bridge, Denis Clohessy, Eddie Carbone, Electra, Gaiety Theatre, Gate Theatre, Guthrie Theatre, Joe Dowling, Joey Phillips, John Proctor, Lauren Coe, Love/Hate, Malcolm Rippeth, Minneapolis, Niamh McCann, Oedipus, Peter Coonan, Scott Aiello, Sicily, Sigmund Freud, Socrates, Syracuse, The Crucible, The Field
Joe Dowling returns to Dublin from Minneapolis to direct another of Arthur Miller’s signature tragedies, following his acclaimed 2003 Abbey version of All My Sons.
Our tragic hero Eddie Carbone (Scott Aiello) works on the docks in 1950s Brooklyn; still an Italian stronghold as our narrator, and local lawyer, Alfieri (Bosco Hogan) informs us. But more important it’s still a Sicilian stronghold, and, as Alfieri warns us, the descendants of the Greeks at Syracuse are about to enact another tragedy. Eddie’s long-suffering wife Beatrice (Niamh McCann) raises Eddie’s niece Catherine (Lauren Coe) almost as her own daughter, but everything is about to change for the Carbones as she prepares to shelter her cousins Marco (Peter Coonan) and Rodolpho (Joey Phillips), fresh off a boat from Sicily and very illegal in their immigration status. But Eddie is aggrieved when Rodolpho takes a liking to Catherine, and so picks fault with Rodolpho’s extroversion that Marco has to protectively step in. But Eddie’s true motivation is even darker…
Set designer Beowulf Boritt places dockyard gantries funnelling the audience’s gaze in an odd trick of perspective towards a huge backdrop of the Brooklyn Bridge. These gantries then close in to create, with the addition of a dropped-down light-shade, the Carbones’ apartment. Dowling dispenses with the elaborately shifting sets of his 2011 version of The Field, instead seamlessly changing location for scenes via Malcolm Rippeth’s expressive lighting design. He also makes notable use of Denis Clohessy’s sound design to inject a literal note of menace at the curtain when Marco effortlessly lifts a chair by one leg to issue an unspoken threat to Eddie to leave Rodolpho alone. Coonan’s physicality is brilliantly used to make Marco a man of few words, gentle, unless you cross him, and then implacably set on hurting enemies in the approved pre-Socratic Greek moral code.
Aiello is fantastic as a decent man destroying himself, at times even echoing The Crucible’s John Proctor’s concern for his good name. Aiello keeps audience sympathy as Eddie’s mind unravels because of an incestuous desire he can’t even acknowledge to himself without tearing up (though he does this maybe once too often). His attempt to convince Alfieri (a very empathetic Hogan) that Rodolpho’s ‘not right’ is played for laughs as Alfieri simply does not get what Eddie is trying to nudge, nudge about. Rodolpho is clearly not ‘not right’, but Eddie does seem to have half a point, in that Rodolpho decided (rather too quickly) to marry literally the first eligible American citizen he set eyes on. But then Alfieri’s warning that God can give someone an excessive amount of love is evidenced in a shocking scene of aggressive sexuality.
Freud notwithstanding human incest in Greek tragedies was unwitting. Miller deliberately shocks with the intentionality here, even as the vice inexorably closes for Eddie in this riveting, disturbing production.
A View from the Bridge continues its run at the Gate Theatre until the 24th of October.
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Clarcia
Founded: Dec 08, 2016
Ex-Nation
by Clarcia » Wed Feb 06, 2019 8:12 pm
Namibia and Southern Africa
It had taken a few months, but the Boers had finally been defeated. Their leaders had been improsoned and the remaining rebels rounded up and taken home. However, there was still more to be done. The 150,000 strong force that has stamped out the Boers now turned and began to quickly overrun the Namibian colony. The Germans didn’t appear to or out much defense, so the British quickly struck into the territory.
Togo and Cameroon
In Ghana, a security force of 75,000 Colonial and British forces moved in and quickly started to secure Togo. The British were starting to overrun what litttle forces were left there. In Cameroon, supported by a couple of light airships and the West African fleet, 75,000 British trips from the home land landed on the coast of Cameroon and began to occupy most of the colony. These campaigns hopefully would end quickly along with the Namibian one.
Tanzania. The prize German colony. This one would be as easy as a nice fine cup of tea! 150,000 colonial troops from the South and 100,000 from the North began to overrun Tanzania. In a few short weeks with the small German garrison, surrender would be almost assured.
250,000 Indian soldiers deployed near Nairobi. They would all go to face he Italians in Somalia and Soth Sudan/Eritrea while more Indians were transported over. There was also a small garrison along the Nile. If the Italians tried their North African strategy again, they’d at least have some troops to hold them off till reserves came.
Parliament, London
“These people are under British rule and fight for us, they deserve representation! Good night gentlemen.”
H.H. Asquith sighed and slumped into his chair. The Dominion Rights bill had just successfully passed and the Parliament loudly applauded. This bill in effect gave the opportunity of 20 seats to Canada, 15 seats to India, 7 to Australia, 5 to South Africa and 3 to New Zealand isn’t eh British Parliament for fighting in this war. Elections would quickly be held and representatives appointed to office while after he war, more fair representation would be implemented. Of course, a dominion could always refuse if it wanted. This bill would keep unity in the colonies and begin to mend Indian relations with Britain. Finally, a way forward!
Mi5 headquarters, Classified
For almost 50 years, Mi5 has been an unrivaled network of spies, informants and collaborators that extended British intelligence World Wide. No one could stop them, their subversion knew no bounds. However, the Italian and German networks had grown strong. There was real conflict on the horizon.
This was why today, a new organization was founded. Spies of World Renown would be used to specifically break up enemy spy rings and assert the British Inteligence as unchallenged once more!
The name of this organization? You already know it.
The Ottomans has swept through Aden. Destroying much of the city in reckless fur or.
However, one interesting man had managed to slip out in the chaos...
He mounted a horse with Sherif Ali, King if Mecca and rode to plan the Arabian rebellion, a plan that could turn the tide against the Ottomans.
And so began Lawrence’s great legend.
With the French military finally getting itself back together, the British force of 400,000 soldier split into two equal groups. The first half would join the Norhern French forces against Germany while the other half would directly be put under the command of French generals to fight off the Italians. A reinforcement of 200,000 brits were already on the way from England, ready to join the fight as well.
While the Home Fleet was in Denmark, the North Dea fleet composed of 5 dreadnaughts, 3 battleships, 7 cruisers and 10 destroyers began the Great blockade. No trade to Germany kr Sweden would pass them. Those goods would be confiscated but he Royal Navy and the ships would be directed back from wence they came.
The airships continued to defend the skies of Copenhagen. They would stay there for most of the war. Meanwhile, the 200,000 troops holding the line at the Kiel canal dig further in. They would create trenches stretching for miles in the future. In a few months, they hoped it would be done.
It wouldn’t be long now. Almost a million soldiers were pinned between the Italian armies. The Suez has miles upon miles of fortifications in place. The Ottomans wouldn’t get there anytime soon. They just needed to hold out until they could evacuate into the Med. the amediterranean fleet was already escort the largest ever assembled fleet of merchant vessels and transport ships to get everyone out under air cover. There, they would evacuate to the Atlantic and make the long jkurney to Kenya to puch back North, retaking British land.
Meanwhile, the HMAS Imperator singles out an Ottoman airship making its way back to the lines. Firing slack after salvo, it made short work of the airship as it crashed to the ground. The lines would hold. The fleet was almost to them now, having passed Malta.
All of Africa is not yet lost.
Message to Paolo Thaon di Revel
Greetings old chap!
We respect your decision to not accept the fight, this is war after all. In this case with this note, there is a hefty sum of Irish Whiskey for you lads in the naval command. Do not worry, it is not poinsoned. If it was, we’d have to contact the IRA. Well, may we someday meet on the High Seas, know that I respect your talents. It is clear from Egypt that we underestimated you!
Cheerio, and if we meet in the Med with our escort, know that the Navy won’t let our boys perish without a damn good fight!
-Admiral Hood
Valtrona
Founded: Nov 29, 2018
Civil Rights Lovefest
by Valtrona » Wed Feb 06, 2019 8:23 pm
< STATUS UPDATE ON THE WAR >
The Italian High Command met once again in Rome, to discuss issues regarding the war. The meeting was lead by King Victor Emmanuel III, who served as the commander-in-chief of the armed forces. Various high ranking Italian generals and admirals served in the High Command, and each served a role in the overall war effort. They convened for 7 hours, in which they discussed military secrets and national emergencies that required attention. A small contingent of Italian officers also met with the Spanish King in Madrid. There, they discussed a potential Spanish entry into the war. The meeting was largely kept a secret from the Entente, covered up by the NIS. A consensus was agreed upon, and each side left the meeting fairly satisfied, but no one besides the Command, the King, and the NIS knows what occurred behind those closed doors. One this was evident, Spanish troops had lined all across the Franco-Spanish border and near Gibraltar.
[Franco-Italian Front]
As the front seemed to stagnate, both sides prepare their forces for the other to attack. Defenses were constructed, as anti-mechanized weapons were developed due to the rising mechanization of European militaries. The Hannibal-class Heavy Artillery is an example, having the firepower to takedown various mechanical forces. One Italian soldier remarked that: “The war against the Entente is an attempt to challenge the status quo of the European theater, which is dominated by the Anglo-French Powers. Soldiers here fight not for a greater cause, but to protect their friends and family from foreign powers. However, the government fights for the prospect of a greater Italian Empire, one that will protect the people of Italy, and allow for our nation to become one of the great powers of Europe. With regards to that, it is a cause worth fighting for.” - Benito Mussolini, 1915
Meanwhile, agents of the French Resistance have recently been more active. They’ve given intel on Italian military positions, sabotaged infrastructure, and carry out planned assassinations of Italian military officers. The Italian NIS was sent in to cleanse these rebellious Frenchmen. The NIS already managed to purge the resistance out of Savoy, Nice, and Corsica, and are currently trying to located remaining groups in Italian occupied France. NIS operatives have instigated a counter-espionage against the Resistance’s espionage, creating a secret spy war behind the frontlines.
[Air and Naval War]
The captured naval bases at Toulon, Malta, and in North Africa had effectively secured Italian dominance over the Central and Western Mediterranean. Soon, the Suez Canal would be conquered by the Italians, which will secure the Eastern Mediterranean as well. With the conquest of the Socotra Islands and taking of various ports in Sudan, the Regia Marina has managed to effectively contest the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden. Italian submarines, referred to as Black Hounds, have harassed and destroyed Entente convoys going through the Mediterranean. Only those with a significant escort fleet have managed to survive the Black Hound’s wrath. The Regia Aeronautica has been continuously bombing French industry and military instillations. Meanwhile, a small detachment has been sent out to support Operation Oasis. The main issue was how to take down the HMAS Imperator, which was solved with the powerful Meucci guns, which have the power to at the very least damage the Imperator.
[Africa Front]
Operation Oasis was a success. British forces in Egypt have fallen back to plan a defense to hold off the Italians until they evacuate. A push by the Italians forced the British to fall further northwards, cutting off the city of Kossier from the rest of the British forces. In Sudan, the advance reached the eastern bank of the Blue Nile. The cities of Omdurman and Khartoum were besieged by the elite Italian Marauders, however fierce fighting from the British defenders prevent the cities from being overtaken completely. Italian forces in British Kenya prepare the defense for a potential counter-attack by British reinforcements.
In Ethiopia, reports indicated a small contingent of Ethiopia troops assaulted the border around Eritrea. Similar reports showed the Ethiopians being continuously aggressive against Italian border guards. This, toppled with the apparent letter from the Ethiopian King requesting for assistance for a planned war against Italy, forced the Italian government to issue a formal declaration of war against Ethiopia. Italian forces did a lighting attack against the Ethiopians, determined not to lose a second time to these “savages” as they’ve called them. Overrunning the Ethiopian defenses, the Italian forces advanced further into Ethiopian territory. The cities of Adowa, Gondar Sokota, Barri, Harar, and Ankobe fell swiftly to the Italians, as they advanced to take the Ethiopian capital of Addis Ababa. Reports indicate that the Italian treatment of Ethiopian POW’s and civilians as quite alarming. Tens of thousands of civilians were killed in Chlorine and Mustard gas attacks of Ethiopian cities. Many soldiers who’ve surrendered were massacred and burned at the stake. Many were disturbed by these events, however the Italian government has denied any direct involvement. They’ve stated that these attacks were “outliers” and were not intentionally directed at killing the native Ethiopian population. With reports coming through about the mass killings of POW’s and civilians, and the extensive use of chemical weapons against the Ethiopians, many begin to wonder whether or not these really were just isolated incidents.
{Telegram to the British Admiralty}
Greetings Admiral Hood. We are glad you respect our decision not to fight. We here at the Italian Admiralty would graciously accept you gift of Irish Whiskey, we know the boys in blue will be pleased. The next time we meet, will be somewhere out in the Atlantic or Indian Oceans. British naval strength in the Mediterranean has significantly diminished, especially with Gibraltar and the Suez soon to fall to the Central Powers. We'd advise you to evacuate as many of your ships from the Med. as soon as possible. We want a naval battle, not a naval massacre. Don't think that our generosity will make us soft, for we will still decimate your navy just as we did to the French in Toulon.
With the Most Sincere Regards,
- Paolo Thaon di Revel
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Scurvy Sea
Capitalizt
by Scurvy Sea » Wed Feb 06, 2019 10:49 pm
"The British Empire has betrayed us."
The Prime Minister stood at a podium, his eyes staring out waves of an endless crowd in front of him, murmurs and shouts instantly arising from it's ranks.
"Every time our men leave our shores they don't come back. Whether it be in Somalia, Egypt, or International waters, our men die. Our so called "rulers" the British Empire do not treat us with the respect we give them. Our lords in London see us only as fuel for their futile war effort! We, as Australians, truly have no purpose in this war other than to die for the reputation of a shriveling Empire. And to pay us back, they dare to offer us seats! Seats to a parliament an unbalanced and unjust parliament in exchange for the lives of boys! To those men in Parliament I carry a message. The days of Caesar, Genghis, and Alexander are over. Your empire will not see another turn of the century, but Australia, an Australia independent of English oppression will. I state, henceforth that we, as Australians, will no longer stand idle as men are murdered by English incompetence, we will no longer watch as you bleed our proud lands of every drop of blood and silver we have left. We will stand independent from your crooked sense of what is right and wrong. In our lands the worker will be cherished, not the banker.
Do not expect more Australian men to arrive to your ports to die. From this day forwards we, the Australians, a colony with the veil of tyranny lifted from our eyes, instead present ourselves as an independent nation, separated from relations with the British Empire.
The crowd roared to life, there had been no talk of this politically. No votes, no polls, not even gossip. For all those in the audience knew, not even the Commonwealth Parliament knew of this decision. The only gossip stemming from the war was the talk of leadership in the military being shifted around significantly considering their timing in the middle of a war. Nevertheless, now Prime Minister Fisher stood at the head of the crowd, a soldier on either side of him and Striders walking along the edges of the crowd, some of them thumbing their quivers as they eyed the numbers of the crowd.
Australia from this day forwards, praises the efforts of the Central Powers. We offer our support to their efforts. Unlike the murderers of the Entente we will be decent in war. You will never see an Australian ship drop bombs onto the heads of civilians. Nor will you see Australian armies annihilating cities and their inhabitants, and you have my word you will never see Australian lives thrown away carelessly in war efforts by the careless hands of generals. Unlike the Entente we will survive this century and come out a Utopia of likes the world has never before seen. Ladies and gentlemen, workers and citizens, as we move towards the common goal of a bettering ourselves as a society and lashing out against oppressors, understand that I will not falter as your leader. I have stood where you once were, I will not corrupt like those in London have already proven themselves to be. I will guide us towards becoming a better nation, a better Australia free from the grasps of our overlords. As of tonight, every citizen of the Commonwealth of Australia is a citizen of the Socialist Dominion of Australia! A government that will not treat workers any less than they would treat themselves! A land where workers thrive and the corrupt politicians and corporations that suckle the life out of men and women will never be welcome! God bless the Independent Socialist Dominions of Australia!
It wasn't long after that the crowd was nearly ready to rush the stage either to strangle or kiss the Prime Minister. while some broke into cheers and others into screams absolute chaos broke into the crowd. A man in the middle of the crowd was dressed like anyone else, and just as everyone else in the crowd he was caught in the chaos. He was among those screaming in a bloodied choir, his arms slamming from side to side as he fought his way up through the crowd until he was only rows back from the Prime Minister, his hand finally finding it's way past his lapel and into his overcoat, returning with glimmering steel and a revolver similar to those that Australian officers frequented using. No sooner had he taken it from his coat did he pull the trigger. Blood splattered over the stage behind the Prime Minister as he fell to the floor of the stage, the soldiers at his sides suddenly beginning to fire into the crowd with just a general idea of where the shot had come from, while striders began to envelop the crowd with explosive bolts of flame, despite the ravenous and frantic horde, the striders could not be toppled by pure manpower at the legs it was hopeless to even attempt, and yet the striders had never performed better than at that moment, suppressing crowds. Almost as if they had been designed that way.
The Prime Minister's mouth sputtered with blood one of his bodyguards grabbed him, dragging him away from the scene as quickly as he could manage.
Unfortunately, Andrew Fisher had not yet been killed, and this was not yet over.
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Inoffensive Centrist Democracy
by 1000 Stars » Thu Feb 07, 2019 7:42 am
A man named Sebastián wakes up in his cot.
He and his crew are delivering supplies to a port in Italy.
The supplies include
-Clothing
-Weapons
As Sebastián gets dressed and heads out to see the horizon he is confronted by the captain.
"Hey Greeny" the captain says "You were supposed to be up here 40 minutes ago"
Sebastián actually was on time
The captain was actually just a cheap dick
Sebastián says "Yes sir sorry sir"
Sebastián looks over to the sea
As he looks he Hears an explosion
The ship shakes and everyone is jostled around
The ship starts to capsize
Sebastián looks ovwr the side of the ship and notices a hole in the boat about 8 ft wide
As Sebastián heads over gets into the life boat he hears the crew stuck under the vessel
He tries to save them but the door is locked
The life boats drop one by one and a fellow crewmate yells
"Sebastián you cant save them come on before the ship capsizes"
Sebastián is forced to flee before they all perish
As they drop down they paddle away and the ship ainks below the waves
Sebastián looks towards the sea and notices a submarine surface
He cant see it very well but he knows who is responsible
The British...
Spainish merchant boats notice the survivors and rescue them
They are brought back to spain and report what they experienced
King Alonso is forced into one action to keep Spanish sovereignty
Spain declares war on the British empire
Spain joins the central powers
100,000 men invade gibraltar with mechanized support (from mechs obviously)
50,000 men are delagated to protecting the coast
100,000 men are sent to help Italian forces in africa
100,000 men are sent to Morocco to fight off the French and british
50,000 men are held in reserve forces and will be deployed when needed
And the remaining 300,000 men are lined up on the french border and launch an offensive into france taking minimal land
Upon our entrance into the war Italy handed occupation of Morocco over to the Spanish
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The neo glactic empire
Iron Fist Consumerists
by The neo glactic empire » Thu Feb 07, 2019 8:09 am
Kemal grabs the daily news papers
He reads quickly through the lines but stops when he catches glimpse of
SPAIN JOINS THE WAR ON THE CENTRAL POWERS SIDE
This war is just growing more and more
He said to himself
THE CAUCASUS
The ottoman armies resume their offensive
They advance to the city of astrakhan again but there the russians stop them soon a the battle of astrakhan starts
while in crimea the ottoman 100k strong men leave and ensircle the russians between them and the romanians
The last british garrison in arabia surrenders
General ali pasha knew the british well come back for the oul fields he also knew the only port that can be used as a naval landing ground was in basra kuwait defences were prepared
Coastal guns built
Barb wires constructed and trenches dug the men were ready 500k men start deploying in possible landing areas and half of the ottoman air fleet over russia travels to arabia
The sinai was ready for any british offensive nearly 1 million men were there and ready with heavy fortifacations
While coastal artillery set up in arabian red sea coast prayed for any british merchant or convy the red sea well turn red
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RETALIA
Founded: Jul 23, 2018
by RETALIA » Thu Feb 07, 2019 11:28 am
*President Woodrow Wilson does not want to join the war the generals want to join the war*
Zexania
Founded: Oct 06, 2018
by Zexania » Thu Feb 07, 2019 11:35 am
The ottoman advance has been stopped at astrakhan they attempted to assault but waves of artillery shells stopped them while in crimea 200k men enter the peninsula facing half of their strength enemy troops a "beach head" was secured after some brutal fighting
the eastern front
The armies in poland were in full retreat thr german adance was to much luckily 2/3 of the army survived while the other caused heavy casualties for the russians
The russian armies kept retreating and warsaw was open to attack while in galicia the russian armies attack austrian lines in concetrated points soon breaking them and enveloping many men left and right
While in sweden the baltic navy searches for the swedish navy to engage it meanwhile the armies march into northern sweden and southern sweden
In romania the armies reach the romanians and engage in heavy fighting iron walls fire through romanian soldiers and rip them apart while artillery bombards their lines heavily soon they well cross and push them to the border
by Valtrona » Thu Feb 07, 2019 1:42 pm
Prime Minister Antonio Salandra read the headlines: “SPAIN ENTERS THE WAR IN FAVOR OF THE CENTRAL POWERS”. He couldn’t believe it, his prayers had been answered. With this news, France was surely to give up much sooner than expected. The Italians gracious gave their occupation of Morocco to the Spanish, and sent aid to Spain to support their war effort.
The front hasn’t even moved an inch. The Italians eagerly wait for the French counter-offensive to retake their land. A German contingent of 15,000 elite divisions arrived on the Frontlines. They were supposed to make their way to Africa, but the High Command figured they would be of more use against the French in Europe. Defensive structure and anti-vehicle emplacements were established all along the front. Various bridges across the Rhône and Isère Rivers were destroyed to hinder a potential French attack. The Italians were ready for anything the French would try and pull.
“The Mediterranean will soon be ours.” -a phrase that has spread all across the political landscape of Italy. The Spanish intervention will see Gibraltar fall to the Central Powers. Meanwhile, British forces in Egypt are attempting an naval evacuation to save their remaining forces. With the inevitable capture of the Suez Canal, the Entente would have no way of contesting the Mediterranean. The Central Powers would have complete dominance over the Mediterranean Sea. New Italian warships are under construction, and will soon be able to keep ahold of the Mediterranean, and sail into the Atlantic and Indian Oceans. The Regia Aeronautica was sent to hunt down any remaining Entente ships, in conjunction with the Regia Marina. Meanwhile, the Meucci guns were set up along the front in a undisclosed location. The Regia Aeronautica would try and draw the HMAS Imperator into battle, so the Meucci gums can destroy the airship once and for all.
Kosseir fell to the Italian invaders while the British were trying to evacuate. They put up a valiant fight, but the overwhelming force from the Italians forced them to surrender. Over 50,000 soldiers were killed or taken as POW’s after the city fell. At the same time, British forces fell back from El Alamein. This was due to the amounting pressure from the Italians and need to evacuate. Both sides took heavy casualties in the near 2-month long battle for the city. Soon, the Italians will compress the British around Cairo and the Suez as the British try and evacuate their massive amount of forces from Egypt. Meanwhile, the Italians slowly advanced to take the Khartoum, as the city of Wad Mendineh fell to the Italians. Omdurman and Khartoum were continuously bombarded by the Italians, as to wear down the city’s defenders.
Addis Ababa, the capital of Ethiopia, fell to Italian forces. It wasn’t much of a battle, tens of thousands were killed, whole city blocks leveled, and the Royal Family of Ethiopia was imprisoned and tortured. Due to the ruling party of Ethiopia being killed, the Italians opted to annex the entirety of Ethiopia with the permission from the surrendering military. Italian Eritrea and Italian Somalia was to unite with Ethiopia to form Italian East Africa, under the governorship of Governor Giacomo De Martino. With the capitulation of Ethiopia, Italian forces are free to begin their advance into Uganda and further into Kenya.
by 1000 Stars » Thu Feb 07, 2019 2:24 pm
The Spanish fleet blocks the western side of Gibraltar so that no-one can escape
The spanish airfleet of 20 airships engages the British garrison
The spanish fleet stands no chance but only occupies them while the Infantry advance into the city
100,000 Men charge into Gibraltar and the fighting begins
Labstoska
Founded: Apr 22, 2016
by Labstoska » Thu Feb 07, 2019 3:03 pm
The Petain administration
Across Paris military trucks could be seen moving through the streets, wherever they stopped soldiers stepped out, burst into the house they had parked in front and dragged out some sort of screaming Politician, public demagogue and any vital part to the Dupont administration in a number of pre-emptive arrests carried out throughout the entire nation in preparation for the final coup d'état. The French people themselves who had once been so very protective of their democracy simply stood as it was stolen from right under their fingers, they'd all known that this was coming if not Petain then who? If not now then when? Eventually the trucks rounded on the presidential offices, armed soldiers went in first, searching the building to make sure that Dupont hadn't gotten wind of the coup and was going to try and bring some of them down with him, nothing was discovered.
President Francis Dupont rested his head in his hands. His office when he first entered it had been designed with a modernist outlook in mind to be representative of the great technological leap that he was attempting to put France through, little had he known that spectre of war had been far stronger than he had predicted and a war with the Italians had drained the funding for any effort of national improvement to the point where they only existed on paper. His office had grown less like a catalyst for progress and more like a prison keeping Dupont chained to a dying nation.
Dupont reached out for a bottle of wine near the end of his desk and puree and hefty amount into his glass, as if late he had grown quite enamoured with the bottle, in his situation who wouldn't be with rumours of a coup passing around the nation like a wildfire Dupont didn't believe that he would be in office for much longer. Three heavy, quick knocks landed upon Dupont's office door, he hadn't any appointments this late and he had specifically requested to his servants that no one be permitted to enter so the final option was that the day had finally arrived. Dupont slumped in his chair and allowed the knocking to continue he didn't bother to answer the end result would still be the same.
The door burst open as Philip Petain and two armed men flanking him on either side. Petain stopped directly in front of the president's desk and said in a matter of fact tone " Francis Dupont, you have been deemed unworthy to guide the French state and are under arrest for treason, corruption, conspiring against the French people and leaking vital state secrets to the Italian menace. You still have a right to a trial yet I think we both know how that'll turn out" Petain practically spat these words while the president did nothing but smile, it was the smile of a man who had seen too much, lived to long and faced one too many storms. The two soldiers Petain brought with him grabbed the president and grabbed his limp body out of the building and flung him into an armoured truck which proceeded to follow the convoy out of the city of Paris, the city that none of the truck's occupants would see again.
The next few days were followed with further arrests, yet it was less than expected the French people had grown more or less apathetic towards the political state of the nation, as long as the war was won it didn't matter who did it. The loyalty of the French people was furthered by the foundation of two new ministries: First was the ministry of public loyalty an organisation dedicated towards the complete and utter eradication of treason throughout the nation, of course this wasn't what was told to the public, to aid them in this task small spider like machines were developed capable of recording all information it saw on a small ocular device and putting it on film for the people of the ministry to play and discover any form of treachery.
The second ministry was the ministry for Military redistribution, they were intended to correct the mistake that was the business as usual policy, they were too organise the rations and ensure that every citizen no matter their wealth or caste in society would fill out their duty to achieving victory. Any citizen found to be hoarding a significant amount of wealth and not paying the necessary war taxes would have their entire estate taken by the ministry and would be sent to one of the ministry run work camps that were suddenly appearing throughout the nation. These were but the first days of the Petain administration.
The Franco-Italian front
The morning had begun relatively normally for the Italian men in the trenches, they climbed out of their subterranean barracks, warmed their hands over a fire, sourly shovelled the soupy gunk they got as food into their mouths and joked about the Australians. They'd been forcing the French into an all out retreat for the past few days now not to mention that the Spanish had joined with them morale was on an all time high. Yet then a few of the Italians with more a more acute listening skills were able to pick up a peculiar grinding sound as if some kind of gigantic behemoth were tunnelling it's way through the Earth towards them... Yet this was no matter, people were known to have heard worse on the trenches, they simply went back to consuming their breakfast. Then the noise became louder more and more people heard it, some took a quick peak over the trenches to check if the French were launching an offensive yet still nothing, the men were getting nervous now and some were even... BANG! Across the trenches hundreds of burrower torpedoes hit their targets ,caring nought for the destroyed bridges, and collapsing vast amounts of the Italian fortifications.
The remaining Italians were left to stare around in shock and awe at their new ruins, what followed next was a horde of tripods appearing on the horizon. They were some of the only vehicles able to cross the rivers that the Italians had blocked off by destroying their bridges and normally the tripods would never be considered for such a duty but with the Italians dismayed and disorganised and the tripods speed and versatility taken into consideration it was deemed that they would finish off the weak and wounded. Any Italians unable to retreat or fortify were quickly mowed down by the tripods as they stalked over the battle field.
The French offensive was planned to coincide with a mass uprising in both Valance and Avignon distracting the Italian garrisons in those cities and allowing the French military to sweep in and claim the cities for themselves. Uprisings in Marseille and Grenoble were less fortunate, the NIS was no laughing stock and their efficiency was quite frankly frightening. Key figures in the French resistance were arrested and plans about the offensive were leaked, in both those cities the Italian forces after finishing their reorganisation managed to form an effective defence against the French forces keeping them out of the two cities. Over the next week or so a new frontline was formed the Italians and dug in and peered over their trenches once in a while to shake their fists at their enemies.
the Franco-Spanish front
News of Spain joining the central powers was a shock to all those living in southern France yet most still simply shrugged it off, between the great South American wars of independence and the Spanish American war, Spain had become the but of many people's jokes throughout Southern France. Yet their armies still were a menace and so from the Italian front the Ozymandis was sent to help fortify the front lines there, right behind the moving fortress were a great horde of bunker crabs ready to turn the mountainous Spanish border into a quite literal hell for the encroaching Spaniards, every road was transformed into veritable fortress and every mountain in the range became practically a living being with bunker crabs crawling over it and the infantry themselves creating new machine gun emplacements. Whatever happened now the Spanish would advance no further.
The secret war
Australia had fallen into almost complete anarchy, everyone was too busy attempting to kill one another to notice a single unmarked airship glide it's way into the nation. The airship proceeded to make it's way further into Australia for two days straight not stopping once until it arrived at an unmarked Australian prison, it had been all but abandoned except for one man and a couple of guards with enough of a grudge to hold him there. It didn't take long for the airship's marine attachment to take the prison and secure it's lone prisoner, the man inside was known as Ned Kelly and had been deemed by the French intelligence agency to be perfect for their goals in Australia. Kelly was brought into the ship after being put under a sedative and was brought to a large, clean and somewhat unsettling room within the airship filed with macabre machinery and grim faced surgeons.
The moment Kelly was placed in front of them they began their work. The first problem was the legs, Kelly was lacking them but no matter it provided the surgeons a chance to experiment. New legs were provided mechanical and improved in every manner to their organic yet they did not stop their sinister practice here, slowly they advanced up Kelly's body removing and replacing, removing and replacing providing Kelly with everything and more that he would require in the near future, he was fast becoming an icon of the transhumanism that the French intelligence agency was ever more commonly being associated with.
When the surgeons finished their work, Kelly was dropped out onto the outskirts of a small mining town with a single message left in his pocket In exchange for our services, we expect you to do one thing cause the government hell .
Kelly was not the only target visited by this mysterious airship, deep in the outback the airship happened upon a large grouping of aboriginal nomads meeting to discuss the ongoing crisis. Many of them looked up to the airship with nothing but disdain and held their weapons up to defend themselves from any attack they may attempt, but none came instead a large hatch opened at the bottom of the ship and from it came a stream of supplies guns and armaments with no explanation or reason for this gift the airship dumped it's weapons and left yet every man there knew what this fortuitous encounter meant. Revolt.
The Franco-Spanish Border
The Spanish Troops look at the french border and turn straight backwards towards the mountains
They will not be attacking what behemoth fortifications lay below them
Instead they will force the french to keep forces on their front allowing the italians to advance further into france
The Spanish soldiers make their way down the coast pushing all the way to modern day sengal
After this offensive the Spanish are stretched and their supply lines do not do well in the scorching desert
They consolidate their positions and wait for any counter offensive they might face
The Spanish garrison is mostly organised
Some men go on the beaches playing soccer (football) and relax themselves
Others dig into the ground preparing the trenches
by Scurvy Sea » Thu Feb 07, 2019 6:45 pm
An assassination attempt had nearly taken the Prime Minister's life. Instead only taking his left eye although his injury was not fatal, his head was still examined to ensure that no shrapnel had spread in skull. Andrew Fisher would be in hospital for two weeks whilst the armed forces carried out crowd control during the shifting of the government. Striders were deployed in the worst of these areas, almost instantly becoming a boogeyman to Fisher's opposition. Though in these 2 weeks, there would be no witch hunts, no immediate action following Fisher's declaration. Despite the heavy policing and iron-fisted enforcement by the new administration, with the Prime Minister away from the helm now was the best possible time to take action for those that dared to oppose him. This would not be a wasted opportunity.
Somewhere in Western Australia
He sat in a dusty room nestled snugly above a bar, a bar in a town lost somewhere in the mountains. It wasn't even noon yet and already the bar was in full swing, arguments shouted, glasses thrown, and fights breaking out could be heard all through the day and night thanks to the cracks in the rotten wooden floor. His hand swung up, crushing a mosquito against his neck while his eyes still scanned over the letter in his hand, and the one laying on his lap, both of them having been opened.
One from none other than Admiral Hood, of the Royal Navy. The one he held currently being from King George himself. These letters sung praises of a man named General Harry Chauvel. Speaking wide and far about his accomplishments for Australia's role in the war and his lengthy career. Commander of the 1st Light Horse Brigade, widely accomplished in the Boer war, and regarded almost as a hero in the eyes of his men. Recognized for his strategic accomplishments in saving the lives of soldiers, keeping losses at a minimum in nearly every engagement. Though these letters from both accomplished men got the same thing wrong.
He didn't go by that title anymore. Not since the Prime Minister's most dedicated soldiers stormed his home nearly taking him into custody like the rest of the commander of the armed forces that Fisher didn't approve of. Unlike them, he got away. Since the declaration bounties had been openly placed in towns across Australia for the General, dead or alive. The truth is, the general was a tactical threat to have lose. Intelligent, charismatic, and an established tactician. It was doubtful that soldiers would refuse Chauvel's call would he beckon them to it. And unfortunately his opportunity had come.
Both the King and his good friend, the Admiral sent letters of support to him. And it was clear from this sign, they were relying on him. Relying on him to return Australia to the way it once was. Safely under the guidance of Parliament. Although officially removed from the armed forces, Chauvel would always be a soldier of the English dominion of Australia. He stood up from the bed, lifting his coat and flat cap from a hook on the doorway, slipping the envelopes firmly into his pockets. He had some letters to write.
Somewhere in the Queensland Outback
The nomadic groups had returned to their point of gathering a day later. It was a wide clearing of land on the top of a long plateau. Tents and caravans stretched all through the clearing from different clans, and were in the process of being packed up and moved off. The meeting had come to a close with an unanimous decision. The dispensing of arms from the mysterious airship had provided them a unique opportunity, one that brought peace to rather intense tribal relations and...perhaps a solution to a national problem. Fisher. Long had the Aborigines been oppressed by the British Imperialism that colonized Australia. Centuries of oppression had plagued the people, dwindling their numbers every day. Under the new leadership, it's likely the number of graves would only rise.
The meeting had stretched much longer than expected, lasting all through the night, only ending as the sun broke the horizon, painting the barren landscape with a thousand shades of orange and red.
They were going to war. There seemed to be no option left. Genocide was as likely as ever now, and in the end it boiled down to fight or flight. Like the Mongols to the north, they were simply tired of being pushed around, and these new ways of war provided both advantages and disadvantages to their traditional style of battle. Heavy machines and thousands of men could never make it across the outback. Oceans of mud would swamp tanks and walkers after just a mile. Men in wool uniforms could never dream of marching through the heat. And unlike the thousands of men the new government possessed. The Aborigines knew the land better than anyone.
The weapons cache contained explosives, rifles, shotguns, even machine guns and a few flamethrowers. It wasn't much, but to use it effectively they would need one experienced in it. One among them stood out. One of the youngest actually. A young man, the age of 24 and the son of a hunter. His name was Warragul Duwal. He had been a Corporal in the Australian Imperial Force as a Strider. His career path had been bright, most senior officers that served with him estimated that he could have been a General at some point in his career if not for his skin color. Because of his occupation as a Strider he had served in Somalia. And was one of the few to return alive. Almost immediately after returning home Warragul had deserted, taking his Strider unit into the outback, and hadn't returned from it since.
Among them, he was one of the most dangerous. Knowledge in conventional and unconventional weaponry. A markman by all accounts, with a rifle and a bow. And for the time being, a leader of an upstart rebellion force in the Australian outback, determined and motivated to crush the oppressive rulers that had tormented them for so, so long.
A Forgotten town, somewhere in South Australia
The Constable's office burned. Along with most of the other buildings in the small settlement. Survivors ran screaming from the safety of their town into the scalding heat and unknown of the outback, because even that was safer than what was in their town. Pounds floated freely down the street, caught in the wind. One of them sticking to the face of a constable, laying bloodied and beaten on the dusty cutting through the town.
The bar was the only building left inhabited in the whole town, the laughter and cheers of men inside echoing afar. The tavern was packed nearly elbow to elbow with men of questionable character. Each of them carrying some form of firearm on their person. Despite the appearance of chaos in the bar, they all gave an amount of space to the thing in the center of the bar they had all gathered around. At the center of the room was the constable's leather armchair near a table loaded with bottles, now absent of liquor. And sitting in the chair was a sturdy figure of steel his eyes nearly hidden by the darkness in his helmet, only visible by the visor on his helmet, he was only minimized only by his tan duster that draped down to the floor. He carried a semi-automatic rifle on his shoulder, three revolvers across his body, and what could be described as what looked like a pipe with the stock of a gun attached to it. Metal screeched with his every movement, his hand slapping the table with an astounding thud as he broke into laughter. "A-And you know what the goddamn note said!? IN EXCHANGE FOR OUR SERVICES, JUST GIVE THE GOVERNMENT HELL!" The laughter in the bar sky rocketed, though most of it could just be interpreted as more of a nervous chuckle.
"So that's just what I fuckin' intend to do! Speakin' of that, did anyone send that goddamned telegram yet? I want the boys out at Lake Maurice to have everything ready when we get there! God help you all if I have to set up my own damned tent!
One of the nearby men laughed louder than the rest, a few nervous eyes glancing towards him as he spoke. "Heheh! What are you gonna do about it if you do, ya cunt!? Glare at us behind your fuckin' bucket!? He laughed hard, the rest of the room falling to a deathly silence falling over the room. Including from Ned himself.
"Lighten up a little you big bastard! I'm just kidding with you after all!" But he was unheard, Ned standing up and promptly turning around to face him. It didn't take more than a second before Ned lifted his fist upwards towards the outlaw in front of him, his arm jolting backwards as buckshot fired outwards from his knuckles of black steel, the man, and the two behind him suddenly dropping onto the ground, leaving a mess where they had been standing before.
The room kept silent, until Ned buckled into laughter, knocking over a couple of bottles as he stumbled into the table. He rested a hand against his helmet, shaking his head quickly. "Bucket head! Haha! Good one that!" An outlaw near the mess bent down, grabbing two of the bodies by their collars and beginning to drag them before Ned swung a hand up, causing many to flinch. "Don't worry about it. We're out of here. Grab what's left in the bank and mount up! We've got hell to raise don't you know!?
Awaiting at the lake was a small army of nerdowells and revolutionaries unwilling to live under the rule of a tyrant. Though not the largest fighting force ever assembled, they had all been geared well. A massive camp had been built around the lake to house the society of outlaws, an entire portion of it nestled away in a nearby cave where they worked 24 hours a day with machinery stripped from factories in town that were not yet entirely under control of the new administration. It was in this cave network that metal workers melted farm equipment, car parts, scrap, whatever they could find into suits of armor, reminiscent of Kelly's. If all went to plan they'd possess a fighting force of bulletproof men under the guide of one of the most dangerous killers to ever live.
This battle for power was going to divide the nation more than ever before. The Great War would become a footnote in history in Australian history books, instead replaced with the battle of four forces vying for control over Australia.
May the best man win.
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Deutschess Kaiserreich
Founded: Sep 23, 2018
by Deutschess Kaiserreich » Thu Feb 07, 2019 8:14 pm
The Baltic front.
The armored cars were the first to smash onto the Russian cavalry. Even with their bravery, it was not matched against fully automatic weapons and hardened steel. They were cut down in droves as they attacked and lost even more as they fled the fields of the Liepaja with Rommel perusing them. Time after time he attacked the fleeing Russian forces giving them break at great cost to his logistical tail. Even with commands from oberkommando east telling him to stop and wait for infantry and supply support. Rommel ignored the orders and tried to advance as fast a possible to catch up with the Russian Baltic HQ. But heavy counterattacks by Russian cavalry and infantry destroyed much of Rommel's forward forces...
Rommel looked at the carnage below through his binoculars. His Panzers and Cars smashed head-on against the Russian cavalry charge. Panzers used their claws to swipe horses mid charge and fill them with bullets as his cars rammed the horse and fired into the oncoming infantry horde. But without infantry support, his armor was getting surrounded. He turned to the car next to him and told the radiomen within. "Tell Reinhard to withdraw his forces to the ridge! NOW!"
Rommel was beginning to panic as he saw too many panzers and cars get overwhelmed by the oncoming Russian horde. They threw or stuck grenades onto the vehicles busting them open like a tin opener. Suddenly Rommel was blasted off his feet as a mound of dirt detonated right next to him...
His ears rang loudly and his vision turned black. His head was woozy and he could hear gunshots get closer. He drew his pistol in time to shot a Russian soldier as he climbed over the hill. The soldier collapsed clutching the wound. Gunshots from behind Rommel got closer but these were his personal guard. They raced to the side of the ridge and rained fire on the Russian special forces trying to climb it. Corpses fell onto their comrades climbing the ridge making them tumble down the hill. Rommel felt himself being picked up and stuffed him into his car. He felt his car race away as he finally fell to the darkness.
German Losses at the battle of Liepaja
-120 German Soldiers
-21 Armored Cars
-6 Light Panzers
-2 Medium Panzers
Polish Salient.
The 7th Shock army advances
After resting for a week and recovering from their losses the 7th and 8th shock army resumed their attacks to finally close the Warsaw salient. The Panzers were the first to assault with infantry support and attacked the outer Russian defenses smashing them open. The Russians broke fast and attempted to flee over the river and in the process have many soldiers trapped on the other side of the river. In the chaos, they also left several bridges intact of the 8th shock army to cross. The 7th encountered much more resistance and took many losses from Russian counter artillery. But as the walls began to close the Russians held the line with a fanatical resistance allowing many civilians to flee through the gap. For the night the Germans rained everything they had onto the Russian lines but they failed to break. But as dawn rose one last Panzer charge by the 7th army broke the lines of their defenses and...
1.5 million Russian men were trapped in Poland...
...With winter about to set in...
German Losses
-3,000 Soldiers
-46 light Panzers
-4 Heavy Panzers
Map of Encircled Russian Poland
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The Deutsches Kaiserreich
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Retconning lots of lore so expect some non-sensical parts in my factbooks.
by Valtrona » Fri Feb 08, 2019 3:03 pm
The votes were tallied in the Free City of Trieste. An emergency referendum was called by the King of Italy to decide whether or not they wished to join Italy, or remain an independent nation. After the votes were counted, 84% of the people wished to unify with Italy. They immediately decided to unify with Italy before the Austrians were to react. As per the Conference of Trento, which gave Italy various land acquisitions from Austria-Hungary in exchange for staying in the Central Powers, the Free City of Trieste was established. Annexing Trieste would would effectively break the agreements of the Trento Conference. However, the Austrians knew that they could not threaten the Italians, as they had a war to win. It was unclear whether or not the NIS tampered with the votes during the referendum, but the Italian government denies any involvement in affecting the outcome of the referendum.
The French launched a massive counterattack across the Frontlines. The Italians were forced back, giving up the cities of Valence, Avignon, and Arles to the French forces. The Italians managed to stabilize the front, momentarily halting the French offensive. They established a rudimentary defensive line, based on the old frontlines from earlier in the war. The NIS managed to hunt down many of the rebellious members of the French Resistance, arresting and interrogating them for information. The counterattack resulted in medium damages to Italian forces while the French suffered high casualties due to Italian defensive lines and small-scaled counterattacks.
The German contingent of 15,000 soldiers was given to the Spanish, as they seemed to need it more against the French. Aid to the Spanish continued to come through, mainly in the form of a lend-lease of military equipment and supplies. Some Italian officers were also sent to Spain to quickly train their army in the ways of modern warfare.
The Regia Marina has blockaded the northern Egyptian Coastline. Admiral Paolo Thaon di Revel was sent out with a large task force to prevent the British ships from going across the Suez. The Regia Marina has also arrived in the Alboran Sea, to support the Spanish invasion of Gibraltar. They would be returning for a second time to hopefully take Gibraltar from the British. The Regia Aeronautica has ended its bombing raids against the French, and has focused instead on defending Italian sky’s from Entente airships.
Italian forces finally managed to take the cities of Omdurman and Khartoum after fierce fighting. With the Fall of these cities, Italian forces swept across and occupied the entirety of Anglo-Egyptian Sudan. The advance continued into Northern Uganda, where they were delayed at Dufile Fort by the British garrison. In Kenya, the advance reached the Tana River. They managed to take the cities of Lamu, Witu, and Borati, and temporarily halted the advance to resupply the advance. The goal: was to reach Lake Victoria and conquer the entirety of Uganda and Kenya.
In Egypt, a concentrated assault was launched. It’s goal was to try and break the British defensive ring and prevent the evacuation of British soldiers. However, the British are putting up a good fight against the Italians. Soon though, even the British will be forced to give ground or be routed, causing the evacuation to be effectively destroyed.
by 1000 Stars » Fri Feb 08, 2019 3:35 pm
After days of forcing their position in Gibrlatar and almost 4,000 deaths
The Spanish forces Liberated their brothers and sisters in Gibraltar
3900 men
2 air ships
30 planes
Sebastián walks down along the beach with his troop
After his experience on the boat he enlisted into the military
He turns over to the shore
The sun is setting and its beautiful
He thinks of the ship
The screams of his friends from under the hull
No he can't think about that now...
He has to be strong...
As hes thinking he hears a gunshot
"BRITISH DEVILS UP AHEAD"
Hmm must be the 4th colonial division Sebastián thinks to himself
They've been chasing the poorly equipped british colonial divisions across the coast for 2 weeks now
They stand little to no chance against the well equiped spanish divisions...
The Spanish have advanced little in way of land but have made it all the way to dakar in Senegal
Their next goal is to reach the liberian border by the end of 1915
We are hopefully for final victory
Franco Spanish Border
General Francisco Franco looks down at the french fortifications
"Yeah we're not getting through that"
He sets down the binoculars
"We need to put our effort somewhere other than these mountains
But we have no other border with them besides these cursed large hills"
(Very very large hills)
The Atlantic Coast
The Trenches have been completed and the machine MMGs (medium machine guns) are in place
The bunkers are soon to be done and next will be the coastal guns
The men Do not get to relax on the beaches anymore...
The Italian officers are hardasses
Although the men are more prepared for an invasion now...
The men drill on the beaches and rest after a hard day of training in the under ground barracks connected to the bunkers
"If the fortifications keep improving we will be able to hold off a Tsunami" -General Franco
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Regnum Trinitatem
Founded: May 01, 2018
by Regnum Trinitatem » Fri Feb 08, 2019 8:46 pm
The Austro-Hungarian Raids
The initial wave of planes descending onto the city of Zagreb in the early morning had been one of the most overall devastating actions taken against the city during the battle. Entire blocks were decimated by the strike. If the Austrians had not been wise enough to evacuate the city before the attack, the losses would certainly be intense after just the first 20 minutes.
The anti-air defense weapons that Zagreb was blessed with served well to prolong the destruction of the city. Though as the initial cloud quickly broke away into designated fighting squadrons, it became harder and harder for the gunners below to land a hit on the scattered planes. Austrian airplanes were scrambled to defend the city against the attack, managing to help nearly all throughout the bloody aerial battle.
The attack took nearly two days of constant attack, the defenses of the city crumbling further everyday. Each day came with a series of dogfights and light bombing to keep the defenses from truly resting. Shell casings rained from the skies for most of the day, nearly every rooftop in the city peppered with the impact of machine guns. The crumpled frames of aircraft could be found at random throughout the city in pyres of flames. With the support of anti-aircraft weaponry throughout most of the daylight. But it was only when night fell that the true force of the Mongols was shown.
The city was dominated from dusk until dawn. Only the constant, desperate fire of the defenders managing to keep the horde at bay long enough that the city wasn't wiped out too soon. Entire city districts disappeared, whatever garrison left in the city to defend was hopeless to defend against the tide throughout the night.
It wasn't until early into the second night of the battle that the chaos had finally ended. The sun rose over the horizon, shining on a dead city.
Smoke could be seen for literal miles, entire blocks enflamed, and the skeletons of defenders still clutching their weapons, even as they lay dead at their posts. Only a select few districts in the city had been left mostly untouched, any last bastions of humanity undoubtedly surviving in these lucky pockets. Survivors reported seeing airships land in the dead of night, near airfields, armories, wherever they believed they could restock on supplies for their ships before taking off for a final time. Leaving the wreckage of humanity behind them.
The Mongols had not gotten away easy. Over 250 Mongol airplanes had been destroyed in the fighting. Many of the airships in the fleet, now with nothing to ferry would leave the campaign, beginning the return trip to Mongolia. The battle had not been well for the Horde, but the cost had well been worth it.
The region would be softened with the loss of such a city. The Aerial Cavalry, although shaken by it's losses was as powerful as it had ever been in the campaign. Pushing Southwards almost immediately before the shock could lose it's value. The fleet made it's way through the skies towards the cities of Sisak and Kutina, bombing them fiercely for hours with only 32 losses for the annihilation of both cities before surprisingly the fleet kept heading South. Until passing over the Serbian border and plotting a steady course towards Albania.
The Mongol Invasion of China
The Motorized Cavalry had been fortunate to receive an influx of new recruits. These recruits would be the base of the Mongolian military on the ground. A surge of new riders arrived in Dihua to establish a base of power in the Xinjiang region. For now, the Mongols only conquered the countryside, claiming towns and small cities as their own instead of going deeper into China. Trenches had begun to get dug into the hills and mountains near the city in preparation for a garrison of foot soldiers en-route to the city.
Motorized Cavalry became a common sight for those living near the Mongol-Chinese border. Patrols coming by daily to ensure the state of their borders, for now, no counter-attack had struck just yet.
by Zexania » Sat Feb 09, 2019 9:16 am
Over 1.5 million men are currently trapped in poland
Luckily the other 2.5M managed to retreat
German attacks on the trapped men didnt help and they were running out of supplies quickly
Thus they start to fortify their positions until help comes
While the other 2.5M orginaize and prepare
In austria the men advance out of northern galicia the offensive was directed at the weakest spots of austrian positions and thousands of artillery shells poured in a breakthrough was made and the armies punched through their lines protected by iron walls.
In sweden the offensives were a succes now the armies dug in but artillery shells kept firing and heavy bombardment only got heavier.
In romania the armies advance after battering the romanian armies for several weeks the russian armies enter oddysa and start a brutal fight to retake the city while the northern group assaults.
The front was hopeless
No offensives were possible
Thus the generals decided to fortify and hope for the best
The russian people view the war as a crusade it was thr ottomans who attacked them first after all but as the conflict grew worse and worse and more and more men died and the more and more thr civillian population suffered the people started to protests this morning a protests in petro grad was shutted bt armed police many erupted across european russia.
The same morning the infamous rasputin was found dead in his appartment his assasin had fled into neutral norway
Appearently the tsar didnt care as it was he who ordered it.
Atheris
by Atheris » Sat Feb 09, 2019 11:07 am
København, Danmarks Hovedstad, 1915
Copenhagen, Capital City of Denmark, 1915
"The streets are hell."
A Danish soldier scribbled into his notebook, barely covered in an alley.
"Each time one person goes out into the street they're killed on the spot. Their scalps ripped from their heads, the lucky ones.
The unlucky ones are captured alive. Shoved onto the street. Belts... I don't think I need to describe the rest.
Some of these people were our own. The others were Swedes. Damn Swedes. Killing... torturing... raping our people in the streets. Most religious people imagine hell as an inferno, impossible to escape. Blistering heat, constant torture, unescapable pain.
Those currently in Copenhagen know otherwise."
- Nikolai Jensen
Christian is currently in his bunker, away from all outside forces.
The raids over Berlin and Stockholm? Those were attacks, sure. Unfortunate deaths, rogue pilots.
But this?
This is uncensored genocide.
Then the bunker doors slowly creak open. Christian looks up, expecting to see one of his men.
He then looks down at his chest.
Whatever it is... it's red. He's tired, cold. Damn, he was so cold.
He looks up. "Mother... mother."
He finally drifts asleep.
Mutliple Newspapers, 1915 - Aarhus and Alborg
"THOUSANDS OF DANES KILLED IN COPENHAGEN STREETS!
SWEDISH FORCES MOBILIZE ACROSS COPENHAGEN, MASSACRE DANISH
DANE KILLS DANE, SWEDES HELP
KING CHRISTIAN X SHOT AND KILLED!
COPENHAGEN IN SWEDISH HANDS!
KING CHRISTIAN X LAID TO REST IN JUTLAND
QUUEN ALEXANDRINE BECOMES QUEEN REGENT FOR SON
Simon Gade stands on his podium.
"Danish friends, brothers, countrymen.
You have saw what the Swedes have done in the north.
Our leaders do nothing in response except for watch.
Well I say no more! As of now, I declare the Danish government null and void!
The Danish people shall rise up in the glory and needs of her people! Death to traitors!"
A cry of "death to traitors" rang out in Aarhus, and Simon Gade raised the banner of the Greater Danish State.
Revolutionaries took up arms and flags. Propaganda was made. This was it.
DEATH TO TRAITORS!
Likewise, in Alborg, the leader of the Danish Red Army, Sebastian Caspersen, took his stand. Raising a Danish banner with a yellow star in the canton, he marched on Alborg, declaring the Danish People's Republic.
Iceland and Greenland declared their independence, and the Danish West Indies joined the United States of America.
As the powderkeg was sparked and the Kingdom went up in flames, the Danish Civil War had begun.
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by The neo glactic empire » Sat Feb 09, 2019 1:07 pm
ottoman homefront since 1914
Pre 1914:
The reforms made in the late 19th century helped the ottoman empire many ethnicities now laid down their arms though some arab nationalisim was still there
The only group that wasnt fine was the young turks
In the outbreak of the war most of the population viewed it as jihad against the russians and british invaders but generally as the war got more bloody the young turks started gaining more and more ground and support
By late 1914 protests started demandinf a republic and an end to the war
As the war continues arab nationalisim started to go down a bit mostly due to the empire forcing arab nationalist to enlist and die in the caucasus the young turks started to spread between the army officiers
Sultan kemal sat down in a bunker in ankara
An army officier by the name of kemal placed his bag close to the sultan then left the meeting
Shortly after the room exploded and kemal and many other high ranking officials traveled to constantinople claiming that the sultan was killed by his brother ahmed and orderinf the arrest of many relatives of the sultan
Afew hours later a new order was launched from ankara to constantinople ordering the arrest of kemal and his partners
The troops were confused and soon fighting broke out in the capital between "kemalist" and "loyalist" after several hours the sultan himself arrived and the fighting stopped
An order was issued to arrest kemal and 5 other high ranking officiers 2 generals and 1 admiral
The capital suffered greatly from the fighting with 10k dead civillians 8k dead soldiers and several burned blocks of thr city
Shortly after the arrest of kemal many young turks members were arrested in 2 days all party members have been either arrested or fled into bulgaria
The sultan started a broadcast to all ottoman subjects
In the broadcast he made sure that the ottoman empire well still be the ruling islamic nation and all its subjects are all equal no matter of faith or race.
However the sultan had his own concerns about the arab nationalist thus he sent in 20k men to the holy city of mecca
Sherif hussen was effectivly being beseiged
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by The Bananic » Sat Feb 09, 2019 1:35 pm
Status Update on War
Something was worrying Ferdinand. The Italians had annexed Trieste. It was completely expected to happen, but so soon! It was a clear violation of the Conference of Trieste. Not to mention that the fleet in the Adriatic had gone to refuel in Vlorë, Albania leaving it open to an enemy attack. No, now was not the time to worry it was the time to celebrate. Serbia had fallen and the Treaty of Visegrád was written and signed. Not to mention that a garrison of 300,000 was in Serbia to keep the peace.
Treaty of Visegrád
Article 1:
- Serbia will cede some borderlands, including Belgrade, to Austria-Hungary
- Serbia will be divided into two puppet states, Principally of Niš and the Duchy of Vardar
- These states will be direct vassals of Austria Hungary, and will both be ruled by a Hapsburg Monarch
The Support Troops were arriving at the Russian-Romanian Front. They were numbering 700,000 in all. Their commands were to stop any Russian advances into Romania.
The orders were to launch a counter-offensive. All across the front, the army targeted the less defended areas in concentrated attacks. They pushed back the Russians to the Dniester River and a couple miles farther East from Lemberg.
Air Fleet
The Austro-Hungarian air fleet was sent out to intercept the Mongolian fleet that was rampaging through the country. In multiple cities Anti-Air was set up to shoot down the Mongolian Fleet should they appear near the cities.
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by Valtrona » Sat Feb 09, 2019 2:14 pm
< PAPAL UPDATE >
As they sky turned red in the late Autumn of 1915, Pope Julius IV reminisced his past. He couldn’t believe that he had become the Pope, and especially under these circumstances. As per the Latern Treaty, the Vatican City was given to the Holy See. He managed to solve one of the Papacy’s major issues in just a few months of taking office. Now, Pope Julius IV has called a Papal conference in the Vatican. This conference, known as Vatican II, will hopefully result in more reform for the Catholic Church. Spearheaded by the Progressives and Pope Julius IV, they hope the conference can fix many of the Papacy’s most contentious policies. The King of Italy has allow for Cardinals, Archbishops, Bishops, and Priests from Entente nations to come to the conference. Which was a surprise to many, as he previously prevented Entente Cardinals from going and voting in the Papal Conclave of 1915. The meeting began, as Pope Julius IV gave his speech behind closed doors. No one knows what was said, but what was heard was the screams of various Conservative members of the Church.
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by 1000 Stars » Sat Feb 09, 2019 4:07 pm
The Spanish Home Front
Spanish people are volunteering like wildfire
90% of the forces gathered enlisted themselves
Although there are some who wish to see us destroyed...
The communists are up to it again
Its lingering in the air...
A revolt is gonna happen...
King Alonso knows it
We just dont know how much traction it will get among the populous...
Franco-Spanish Border
*writings in a spanish soldiers journal*
"Almost nothing has changed
The french sit there and wait for us to attack
But were not coming...
A few artlliery pieces have been set up...
The generals planning on shelling them from afar
Were not going down there...
And they can't get up here...
So I guess we have the high ground?"
Western African Front
The army has not made it far
They are to far from supply lines and have to wait
Dakar has been taken and The army has stopped and is wait for ottoman support
If any comes...
by Deutschess Kaiserreich » Sat Feb 09, 2019 7:37 pm
To: Russian HQ of Warsaw.
The time for your surrender has come. Your leaders have abandoned you to winter. They have paused all attempts to break through our line and have withdrawn many miles from the current front. Your troops are starving and freezing. If you tell them to lay down their arms they will be given shelter and food. Russian high command will be held in the palace of Konigsburg until all hostilities with Russia end. They will be treated well... But only if they surrender.
There needs not to be more death and pain.
OberKommando East
General Paul von Hindenburg
by Clarcia » Sun Feb 10, 2019 12:10 am
It was time. Grand Admiral Hood sighed as he surveyed the evacuating troops. It was time to admit they had lost in Egypt. 50k men would hold the Italians back as the 400k that hadn’t my been caught in Sudan evacuated to the convoy. General James Lochhead Jack would surrender the remaining troops once the convoy left, lowering the final British flag and giving it to the Italian general personally. The British wouldn’t surrender to any damn Turks.
After some more preparation, the fleet and convoy set out. The entire British Mediterranean fleet along with the HMAS Imperator and 6 other airships departed as blasts could be heard behind them. As part of a scorched Earth campaign, the entrances to the Suez were to be sealed. While just a small interference, it would slow the Central Powers down.
The fleet was to stay in the Middle of the Red Sea to avoid coastal bombardment. After that, they would make a run through Djibouti. It would hopefully go well. The Mediterranean fleet was quite powerful, still, Hood was uneasy. With these volunteers were Britain’s great hope. They would lift the fire of the inferno that would beat the Central Powers.
My dear Admiral,
Sorry this message is short, I beg you treat my friends who stayed back to help us flee well. They’re braver than most. You really beat us his time. Be seeing you around.
Grand Admiral Hood
As the Spanish fleet blocked the Gibraltar force’s escape, they seemed to forget that Britannia still ruled the waves of the Atlantic.
A quarter of the British Atlantic fleet including 5 dreadnoughts, 3 battleships, 8 cruises and 15 destroyers launched themselves at the Spanish as the 45,000 surging soldiers fled Gibraltar. They started heir escape as the British fleet threw down with the Spanish enemy. At this point, the Spanish fleet date lied with their Admiral. Stand and be destroyed with honor, or flee like cowards.
Meanwhile, in Galicia, small recon zeppelins that were too high to hit with fortress guns surveyed the area. Invasion plans were to be prepared to match the terrain soon. For now, it was time to wait…
As the Civil War began, the British Force in Kiel held firm. 200,000 extra soldiers reinforced their position to defend against the Germans. Accompanying them were 150,000 soldiers that were to march North. They would support true Danish loyalists and crush the Communist and Fascist forces. Hopefully, they could help end this civil war quickly.
Finally, a convoy steamed through the Canal. A continuous stream of weapons and equipment were to be sent to Russia to reinforce the Russian troops escorted by the British fleet.
Australia, somewhere in Innawanga
Emmille Watson strided into General Chauvel’s camp. He was escorted by a handful of heavily armed Mi5 agents.
“Greetings General,” he began, “I understand you have answered the call to retake Australia. The Home islands are honored that you decided to rise to the challenge. You must know that now, you have been given control of the New Zealand army and 50,000 British soldiers as well as any spare equipment that you could want. Mi5 has also offered their agents in the continent. I have been appointed as your liaison to the Government. It’s a pleasure to meet you.”
He then extended a hand to the General.
Lawrence couldn’t believe it. The Ottomans were practically shooting themselves in the head. Arabs had heard of the Ottoman troops surrounding Mecca. People were staring to flock to the city, rifles in hand. They would not allow the Ottomans to desecrate such a holy place for their own selfish goals. This was coupled with the emerging news of Lawrence’s deal with Sharif. If they helped the British and fought back the Ottomans, they would be given their own grand Arab state. By now, there were thousands of Arabs that had arrived. Lawrence could feel the anger and knew that a full scale revolt was right around the corner….
All it would take would be a little push…
Spain, Mi5 files, classified
Though there were few Mi5 spies in Spain, that didn’t mean they couldn’t be useful. The spies did small things to build tension. A disguised spy would shoot a labor union members, a policeman would be shot, small things to some, but in Spain, any addition to the now massive powder leg of revolution would just make things worse. Soon, something would burst.
The Spanish had now taken Dakar. However, it was no matter. 100,000 Colonial soldiers rushed to secure the lines. With the Spanish supply lines stretchers across desert, holding them back should be easy.
The German Colonies
The campaigns had gone quite well. The colonies of Togo, Namibia and Cameroon we’re almost completely occupied with the exception of some colonial fortresses that still fought valiantly. Meanwhile, Spanish Equatorial Guinea had been invaded. Soldiers began to occupy the territory and stamp down any resistance. In Tanzania, the going was much more rough. The Germans were still holding strong in the coast. It would take awhile to dislodge these hardened forces. On the Italian lines in Kenya, the forces were reinforced with 100,000 more British Home troops. They were quickly deployed to the front to make their stand and hold, ready to create a stalemate.
Trieste, Mi6 Files, Classified
Michael Hargrove, otherwise known by his code name of 008 was ready. The city was being transferred to the Italians and their spy agency must already be here. He decided to leave a paper trail for someone to follow. He carried vital information. The U.K. wanted to talk about something important, and for now, they needed a serious audience...
by Labstoska » Sun Feb 10, 2019 5:34 am
The back allies of Paris
Jacques Moreau looked behind him cautiously and nervously gripped the revolver that was laying in his pocket as he entered the ruined manor . The reasons for Mr Moreau's paranoia were altogether justified when you understand that he was one of the last remaining leaders of an outwardly socialist perhaps even communist political group, ever since Petain had moved in and seized control of the government his ministry of public loyalty had been doing a frighteningly good job at all those who dare attempt to raise a fist at the government and recently their propaganda machine had declared an all out war against all leftist groups within the country, their primary ammunition; The Paris commune, the revolution that they claimed had started a downward spiral for the great republic that had only been reversed by Petain seizing control of the government.
The worst thing about this campaign on the home front was that the public was falling for this dictatorial drivel! War often tore nations apart when they were facing heavy losses however in rare cases it could force them to double down and begin a new wave of national unity and unfortunately for the proletariat it had happened in the worst possible way, the people had placed Petain - a man who had seized power forcefully - on some kind of pedestal forming somewhat of a cult of personality around him. It was despicable and Jacques was willing to do anything so that it could be reversed... Even betray his country.
He furtively looked about the ruined manor, it had once belonged to one of the wealthy industrialist families of Paris who had made a dammed fortune out of the second industrial revolution and had sent the proletariat to the smog ridden slums. Oddly enough this house hadn't been destroyed by Italian bombers but rather it had been burnt down by the ministry of military redistribution, the family who had once owned had been found to not be contributing enough to the war effort and had their estates confiscated, they themselves had been sent off to the slums to work in the vast munition complexes that now dominated the outskirts of the city as for the house itself it and the entire neighbourhood was to be demolished so that a new industrial park to be constructed upon it's corpse. Jacques chuckled to himself, the irony was simply to precious to ignore.
Then Jacques spotted a figure wearing a dark overcoat and brown bowler hat standing in the middle of the ruined lounge looking at a torn, burnt photo of the old inhabitants of this house. Jacques called out in a somewhat trembly voice "To all things there are a season" the man in the lounge looked up before his eyes fell upon Jacques, the man himself had a long sharp face that seemed to permanently locked into a cold grimace when he began to speak his voice was like a sharp dagger " So you're the communist I believe" Jacques rose himself to his full height and said in a confident voice " Indeed I am the leader of the French people's alliance for social advancement" The grim man rolled his eyes and responded in a lethargic voice " Whatever all you're fronts and organisations and revolutionary committees serve the same purpose, now do you have the public support that you promised my government?"
Jacques began to sweat a little, he had a number of people throughout the urban areas of France ready to start agitation hopefully from there the people would realise the righteous nature of the revolutionary cause, of course that wasn't what the spy wanted to hear but Jacques needed the Italians guns if not the revolution would be murdered in it's cradle. Jacques reassembled his confidence and said "Of course, the people of France will not stand for..." Suddenly a rustle in the ruins interrupted their conversation.
Both men turned around quickly to see what could've been moving and they were both quickly able to catch the glimpse the shine of some metal thing. It was one of those cursed ocular arachnid drones that the ministry of public loyalty had been deploying across the entire nation! Both men pulled out their pistols and began firing wildly in the direction of the arachnid yet too late it had scuttled away out of the ruins and presumably to one of the ministry of public loyalty's offices to have it's film watched and both men's faces revealed to the ministry. The two men looked at one another an utter of complete terror on both their faces. In an action that to any outsiders would have seemed perfectly coordinated, the two men both raised their pistols up against one another and pull the trigger. The spy was killed instantly the bullet went through his skull eviscerating his brain yet Jacques was left alive a little longer, the bullet had only gone through his chest leaving him to bleed out, Jacques smiled as he bled out at least he wouldn't have to find himself in one of those horrific ministry laboratories.
The Spanish front
The Spanish border may be quite impregnable yet there was one front with them that could still be won; the home front. The Spanish had been growing consistently more and more disgruntled with the Spanish government ever since their loss in the Spanish-American war and that discontent had carried over into wartime a perfect storm ready to be unleashed by the French intelligence agency. Over the past few weeks since the Spanish declared war a multitude of French agents had been sneaking into Catalonia accompanied with a handful of MI5 agents to stir up agitation and supply rebel groups, so far the French had been making ample use of their Arachnid drones to track own Italian NIS agents and Spanish counter-intelligence forces and make sure that they didn't put a wrench in their plans.
As for supplying revolutionaries, the FIA had managed to come into contact with several groups of Communists, anarchists and Catalonian nationalists and had promised them support if they were to ever launch a rebellion against the Spanish government yet the difficult part was getting them supplies, with the border so tightly patrolled and the Medeteranian effectively becoming an Italian lake a new solution had to be devised, instead of going over, under or around the Spanish border supplies would instead be dropped via airship into locations that had been agreed upon with the revolutionaries, guns were not the only thing to be given but experts on guerrilla warfare and veteran revolutionaries who sought sanctuary in France were also smuggled into Spain. The revolution was still some way off but they had made head way.
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These New Beauty Brands Won’t Promise To Make You Look Younger
'Pro-age' is the new beauty buzzword as solution-based hair and skincare aimed at menopausal women shake up the shelves. Meet the disruptors leading the charge.
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When Sonsoles Gonzalez, a 25-year veteran of the beauty industry, noticed her hair greying and thinning in her late-40s, she knew she was experiencing a wider, untapped ‘cosmetic’ issue: the menopause.
“Greying required me to colour every four weeks and my thick black pony tail became thinner,” she tells Future Women. “I started struggling to find products that could work with my changing hair. I noticed how really no-one was talking to me. I wasn’t surprised, having been part of that industry for many years. I can tell you we spent no time on this target.”
She’s right, of course. Just like in Sonsoles’ native New York, the Australian beauty industry is booming from Brisbane to Melbourne – with beauty sales topping $6.5bn in 2018, following 10 years of uninterrupted growth. Frustratingly though, most mass market skin and haircare companies continue to have one woman in mind.
“I myself wrote many briefs all of which targeted women ages 18-44,” she says. “The playbook for most CPG [Consumer Products Goods] companies was based on size of the market (which was up until now Millennials) and the belief that [we should] ‘hook them early and get them for life’. It was traditionally believed that ‘older’ women were set in their old habits, and therefore were not eager to try new products. This is obviously not right as there is data that shows 82 percent are willing to try new product.”
Image Credits: Instaram @pepperandwits
This may explain why some household names have been slow to recognise the shift in discussions around the menopause and ageing in general. Beauty at 50 is no longer in line with the traditional (and tired) anti-ageing trope, just as “going through the change” is now seen as an outdated adage for something that eventually impacts us all as women – and not necessarily negatively.
“Women’s attitudes towards ageing have changed,” Sonsoles says. “Twenty or 30 years ago, women our age were expected to go into retirement and spend the rest of their lives watching over grandkids, traveling, gardening. Women today have different expectations. Many see the 50’s as an opportunity to reinvent themselves: either starting new careers or beginning to date again.”
Whitney Gosden, co-founder of menopause-focused beauty brand Pepper and Wits, says this attitudinal shift has led to much-needed frank conversations around the upside of getting older.
She tells Future Women: “No one can stop the ageing process, and it’s important for women to feel good about themselves during every stage of their lives. Menopause is a natural process and it’s simply the start of another phase of women’s lives. Today, a lot of our society’s broader cultural conversation is focused on women’s issues.
“Topics that had not previously been discussed quite so openly are now being destigmatised, and menopause is certainly one of them. But there’s still such a lack of education and understanding among women at all ages about this topic overall. We’d like to fill that gap and help women embrace the ageing process as part of a healthy life experience.”
On top of this shift, it’s clear that menopausal women have huge untapped spending power. “[In the US], these women control over $15 trillion dollars,” Sonsoles adds. “They spend 2.5 times more than the average consumer, and are the largest demographic with income over $100M.” Yet this age group has remained virtually invisible in the beauty industry, except when it comes to creams, lotions and potions that promise to rewind the years, until now.
One 50+ shopper summed up the frustration perfectly: “I’m not the person I was at 20 and wouldn’t want to be. Why are beauty brands so obsessed with turning back the clock? I want products tailored to my hair and skin now that actually work.”
Image Credits: Instagram @pausewellaging
It turns out that a pioneering faction of the beauty industry is listening, with a new wave of pro-age products shaking up the virtual aisles. French favourite Vichy and British brand Stratum C have both launched skincare lines that promise to tackle issues like dryness and acne brought on by menopause. While new US brand Pause Well-Aging and the Procter-and-Gamble-developed Pepper and Wits are offering hormone-free solution-based products to soothe physiological symptoms such as hot flashes, brain fog and vaginal dryness. The luxury press is also leading the charge. British Vogue recently teamed up with L’Oréal Paris to challenge stereotypes around age with their Non-Issue Issue. For her part, Sonsoles has spent the last few years developing Better Not Younger, a haircare range specifically designed to meet the needs of menopausal hair.
So what do the experts think? Dr Louise Newson, a specialist at the British Menopause Society, recently told The Sunday Times Style that hormone replacement therapy or HRT is “the best response, even to mild symptoms of menopause” because it replaces lost oestrogen, strengthening collagen and preventing dryness. She says there’s no need to use menopause-specific skincare, although most of these new products are designed to complement HRT rather than replace it. But, Sonsoles’ customer feedback clearly demonstrates that simply feeling good in your own skin can make a huge difference when navigating the changes that come with the menopause.
“We get so many consumers writing to us, simply saying ‘thank you for thinking of us’,” she says. “It feels good to be excited again!”
Image Credit: Instagram @betternotyounger
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Intex Aqua Zenith with 4G VoLTE, Android Nougat Launched; Specifications, Pricing, And More
Intex has launched the company’s latest smartphone in the Aqua series – Intex Aqua Zenith at a price tag of Rs. 3,999. The available exclusively on ShopClues and it is targeted towards consumers living in tier-III and tier-IV cities.
On the specifications front, the Intex Aqua Zenith features a 5-inch display with a resolution of 480 x 854 pixels and it is powered by 1.1GHz MediaTek MT6592 processor which is paired with 1GB of RAM. The smartphone runs on Android 7.0 Nougat operating system and it has 8GB internal storage which can be expanded further up to 128GB via microSD card.
On the photography side, the Intex Aqua Zenith features 5-megapixel rear camera with LED flash and features 2-megapixel front-facing camera for selfie & video-calling. The camera features beauty mode, HDR, and self-timer.
The Intex Aqua Zenith has dual-SIIM support and comes with connectivity features like 4G VoLTE, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth. The smartphone comes with sensors like Accelerometer, Proximity sensor and Ambient light sensor.
The Intex Aqua Zenith measures of 14.5x1x7.2cm, and weighs 150 grams.
The Intex Aqua Zenith packs 2,000mAh battery.
Press Release Quote:
Ishita Bansal, Product Head – Mobiles, Intex Technologies said,
“We are very optimistic about our partnership with ShopClues. The Intex Aqua Zenith is one of our efforts to see that a smart phone is within the reach of a larger population of our country. Intex and ShopClues share the focus towards the Tier III – Tier IV Markets. With the right product and the strength of ShopClues in the smartphone category, there can be nothing but growth.”
Nitin Kochhar, Senior VP – Categories, ShopClues said,
“We at ShopClues have always been the market leaders in the starter smartphone category. 50 per cent of our orders come from our focus on the Tier – III and IV markets and we have constantly partnered with various manufacturers to serve this demographic – Bharat. Our partnership with Intex is a prime example of our efforts towards achieving our country’s shared vision of bringing a larger audience to the digital economy.”
Intex Aqua Zenith Specifications:
Display: 5-inch display with a resolution of 480 x 854 pixels
Processor: 1.1GHz MediaTek MT6592 processor
Memory: 2GB RAM, 8GB internal storage which can be expanded further up to 128GB via microSD card
Operating System: Android 7.0 Nougat
Rear Camera: 5MP rear camera with LED flash
Front Camera: 2MP front facing camera for selfie & video-calling
Dimensions: 14.5x1x7.2cm
Connectivity: 4G VoLTE, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth
Battery: 2,000mAh
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easyJet welcomes Joey – carrier’s first guide dog
Ozgur Tore
easyJet welcomed its first member of its 'furry flight club' yesterday, with guide dog Joey reaching the milestone of 35 flights with easyJet alongside his owner Jan Gibson. Joey, a Labrador, will be seven next month and has been with Jan for five years. Much like easyJet’s ‘flight club’ loyalty scheme for its most frequent flyers, furry flight club will focus on rewards which are most appreciated by the airline’s most loyal four-legged friends – doggie treats.
Easyjet carries, hundreds of passengers with an assistance dog each year. In 2012 easyJet established a committee of European experts (ESAAG – the easyJet Special Assistance Advisory Group) to provide guidance and advice to the airline on the services it provides to passengers who require special assistance. The group is chaired by Lord David Blunkett and is made up of experts in disability issues and accessible travel. It meets regularly with easyJet managers to discuss the company’s proposals, best practice and emerging issues.
Jan Gibson, Joey’s owner, commented, “All our flights have been with easyJet and we have always been made to feel welcome on board. As this is Joey’s 35th flight, some of the crew have travelled with us on more than one occasion so we feel like family. The crew and passengers often fuss Joey and take photos as it’s not often you get to see a dog on a plane. Joey even gave a Captain a lovely ‘kiss’ while a ‘selfie’ was being taken, and he has been in the cockpit when the aircraft was on the ground.
“Joey enjoys flying, and will usually sleep at my feet through most of the flight, although does go for a walk half way through. I give him a chew after take-off to help his ears equalise the pressure, similar to us having a sweet, and also when we are on final descent.”
Peter Duffy, easyJet’s Group Director, Customer and Marketing, commented, “We are delighted to welcome Joey as the first member of our ‘furry flight club’. With 35 flights under his collar, he must be one of the most travelled dogs in the country and we are really pleased Joey, Jan and Roger have chosen to fly with us again and again.
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Study finds ‘dark matter’ DNA is vital for rice reproduction
By Isabel 20/07/2020 News, Plant Science
Researchers from the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University (OIST) have shed light on the reproductive role of ‘dark matter’ DNA – non-coding DNA sequences that previously seemed to have no function.
Their findings, published in Nature Communications, have revealed that a specific non-coding genomic region is essential for the proper development of the male and female reproductive organs in rice.
“Rice is one of the major global crops and is the staple food in many countries, including Japan,” said Dr. Reina Komiya, senior author of the research paper and associate researcher from the OIST Science and Technology Group. “Further research into how these genomic regions affect plant reproduction could potentially lead to increased productivity and more stable yields of rice.”
Many previous developmental studies have focused on genes – the sections of DNA that provide instructions for making proteins. But in complex creatures like plants and animals, a large fraction of the genome – typically between 90-98% – doesn’t actually code for proteins.
The vast expanse of this ‘junk DNA’ has long puzzled biologists, with many dubbing it the ‘dark matter’ of the genome. But recent research suggests that many of these non-coding genomic regions may have a function after all, giving rise to non-coding RNA.
Scientists have now identified numerous types of non-coding RNA, ranging from small molecules only 20-30 nucleotide bases in length to long molecules of over 200 nucleotides. Although studies show that non-coding RNA plays a vital role in the regulation of gene expression – the process where a gene’s instructions are used to make RNA or protein – the precise function of each specific non-coding RNA remains poorly understood.
Dr. Komiya is particularly interested in reproduction-specific RNAs. “These are non-coding RNAs that are produced as the reproductive system forms. I wanted to uncover what role they play in the development of stamens and pistils, the male and female reproductive organs in plants.”
Making mutants
In the study, Dr. Komiya’s group focused on a reproduction-specific microRNA – a major class of small non-coding RNAs – called microRNA2118.
The scientists created mutant rice strains by deleting a region of the genome that contains multiple copies of the specific DNA sequence that gives rise to microRNA2118. They found that the mutant strains were sterile and showed abnormalities in the structure of the stamens and pistils.
The stamens in mutant strains contain anthers – the part of the stamen that houses pollen – that are shorter and more curled than in wildtype strains.
“This means that the role of microRNA2118 in the proper development of the stamens and pistils is essential for plant fertility,” said Dr. Komiya.
Revealing RNA and probing proteins
In order to delve deeper into how microRNA2118 controlled development of the anther, the scientists then identified which other molecules were affected by microRNA2118.
The pistils in mutant strains contain a higher number of stigmas – the part of the pistil that collects pollen – than in wildtype strains. Yellow bars indicate 1mm.
They found that microRNA2118 triggered the cleavage of long non-coding RNA, producing many tiny RNA molecules, called secondary small RNAs.
“Interestingly, these small RNAs were rich in uracil, one of the four nucleotide bases found in RNA, which is very unusual compared to other small RNAs,” said Dr. Komiya. “We hope to find out the exact function of these small RNAs – and whether this difference in nucleotide composition is important – in further research.”
The scientists also discovered that two Argonaute proteins that were only produced in the stamen were dependent on the presence of microRNA2118. Previous research has shown that Argonaute proteins team up with small RNAs to carry out many regulatory functions, such as silencing genes and cleaving RNA.
Dr. Komiya’s group therefore proposes that the Argonaute proteins may interact with microRNA2118 to trigger production of the secondary small RNAs. The proteins may also interact with the secondary small RNAs to silence specific regions of the genome. The team hopes to elucidate exactly how the Argonaute proteins and secondary small RNAs affect development of the plant reproductive system in further research.
MicroRNA2118 targets over 1000 long non-coding RNAs for cleavage to produce many secondary uracil-rich small RNAs, which is possibly aided by Argonaute. These secondary small RNAs then may interact with Argonaute to regulate development of reproductive organs.
“Reproduction is an important phenomenon of passing genetic information to the next generation and is essential for maintaining a stable yield supply. However, development of the reproductive system is complicated, and many aspects remain unknown,” concluded Dr. Komiya. “This study shows that non-coding RNAs, derived from regions of the genome that were thought to be non-functional, are vital for plant reproduction. Exploring non-coding RNAs further is an exciting and important area of research.”
Top left: Saori Araki (Science and Technology Group), top right: Reina Komiya (Science and Technology Group), bottom left: Koji Koizumi (Imaging Section), bottom right: Ngoc Tu Le (Plant Epigenetics Unit).
Read the paper: Nature Communications
Article source: Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology (OIST) Graduate University
Author: Dani Ellenby
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Five years late but:
Daionii wrote: Does anyone know of any English resources for Mapuche/Mapudungun?
I don't suppose you/anybody knows what indigenous languages are spoken in Chubut?
Chubut Province? Mapudungun.
I read about Tehuelche but it seems to only have a handful of speakers left.
It's been dead for about half a century.
langmon
Token value Central/South American lingua franca?
Postby langmon » 2018-11-10, 11:42
I was wondering if there is one single particular Token Value Central/South American Lingua Franca.
For the purpose of explaining what I mean by "token (symbolical) value", I'd like to provide an Africa-related example.
Maybe a certain person would like to be able to speak at least one ethnic African language, even if it is very clear to him/her that there also are many Africans who don't understand this one particular single language. This very language could be Swahili, for example. So even if/she meets Africans who speak another one, there still can be a token/symbolic value be involved when he/she tells them that it would be possible to use this one too, instead of English or another one.
Is there also a one particular Central/South American language that can serve the same token/symbolic purpose?
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Postby vijayjohn » 2020-12-21, 3:39
Swahili is only a lingua franca in some parts of East Africa. Guarani is a lingua franca in and around Paraguay from what I understand (particularly on the border with Brazil), and e.g. Tukano is the lingua franca of the Vaupes R9ver Basin.
vijayjohn wrote: Swahili is only a lingua franca in some parts of East Africa. Guarani is a lingua franca in and around Paraguay from what I understand (particularly on the border with Brazil), and e.g. Tukano is the lingua franca of the Vaupes R9ver Basin.
Quechua was once the lingua franca in parts of the Andes. The issue is that the indigenous languages have been replaced by Spanish as the lingua franca (and by Portuguese in Brazil). This makes it a rather different situation from Africa, where languages like Swahili are national languages. In South America I think only Guaraní comes close, but as Vijay mentioned, only in Paraguay. In Bolivia and Peru, Quechua and Aymara have official status, but so do several other indigenous languages, so they aren't necessarily used as lingua francas anymore, just spoken by their own populations.
The Spanish used Quechua as a lingua franca in order to transition towards making Spanish the lingua franca, just as they did with Nahuatl in Mexico. IIRC, the Inca elite spoke Puquina but used Quechua as its official language and eventually shifted towards Quechua. Some villages in the Amazon to this day use Quechua as a lingua franca, at least in Peru. Guarani is also used as a lingua franca on the borders of Paraguay.
Re: Central/South American lingua franca?
Postby Linguaphile » 2020-12-26, 18:16
vijayjohn wrote: The Spanish used Quechua as a lingua franca in order to transition towards making Spanish the lingua franca, just as they did with Nahuatl in Mexico. IIRC, the Inca elite spoke Puquina but used Quechua as its official language and eventually shifted towards Quechua. Some villages in the Amazon to this day use Quechua as a lingua franca, at least in Peru. Guarani is also used as a lingua franca on the borders of Paraguay.
Quechua and Náhuatl were already used as lingua francas in their respective regions before the arrival of Spanish-speakers, though. Quechua still is to some extent, but Náhuatl at this point is not.
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Re: Responses to alpha player questions.
Actually, looking at all the references in the code and text, I decided to go with shields. There are too many things that would not make sense if it was hull all over the place.
Some enemies do reference hull strength, and the hull repair bays still say that, but I think that's acceptably clear still. The main thing is with parts, and those say Shields universally now, and even the hull repair bay says it repairs shields. Which are presumably part of the hull.
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I don't think there's any chance of confusion over hull repair bays, especially once the effect has been seen the first time.
Awesome -- thanks.
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With regards to the hull repair bays - if we're renaming everything from hull somethings to shield somethings, we could just call it a shield recharge station. But I agree with Breach that there's little chance of confusion, at least after the first time you use it.
"Bear in mind that this is a literal system that you can visually look at."
In this case, then, is each system just whatever happens to be in the section labelled as such on the vehicle? In other words, if I have a 5% bonus to shield systems, does that bonus apply to the components in the section of the Exo labelled "Shields", or does it apply generally to all bonuses to shields/regeneration/regeneration window/etc?
Quote from: Aeson on September 09, 2013, 03:19:16 PM
Done. Good point.
All things in the shield slots. There are other things that affect shielding (generally Auxiliary) stuff that go in other systems, but those would not get the bonus from things that are affecting the shield system specifically. An auxiliary system is like putting a power cell in your gun in a place where you might have put ammo. Actually we have that.
"All things in the shield slots. There are other things that affect shielding (generally Auxiliary) stuff that go in other systems, but those would not get the bonus from things that are affecting the shield system specifically. An auxiliary system is like putting a power cell in your gun in a place where you might have put ammo. Actually we have that."
Just to make certain I'm understanding this correctly - the bonus applies to anything at all which is located in the appropriate section? So if I put an Auxiliary Reactor with 100 power generation in the Shield section and had a total of +15% to shield systems, the Auxiliary Reactor would effectively output 115 power? Or would the bonus only apply to shield-specific statistics on components in the Shield section? Sorry that I'm kind of beating this into the ground, I just want to make certain I understand how it works properly.
It should be anything at all in that system, yes.
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Is there a point in attacking factory as first mission?
Is it intended that Axis can run missions which are one mission further out than other commanders can, which essentially allows her to bypass certain missions by hopping over them?
Quote from: orzelek on September 09, 2013, 06:35:29 PM
It's actually a super bad idea, yeah.
Yep! Otherwise her bonus would be kind of stinky. This is compared to having things like 50% better loot (Meg) or a weaker ending robot army (Tuck) or two epic exos from the start (Genji). I think these are pretty fair equivalences. Though some commanders are "better" than others potentially, which is okay; doing intentionally-hard builds is part of the fun of these games (like doing all Fighters in FF1, which I liked; or doing all White Mages in FF1, which I always thought was insane. ).
From what I can see there is currently sensor range and sight range for each bot.
Sensor range is being talked much about... but I have problems finding the sight range.
Is it shown somewhere?
Sight range is the same for all exos except the sniper, which does indeed note its increased sight range as an inherent stat. I think.
Quote from: x4000 on September 10, 2013, 01:59:42 PM
Hmm, that should probably go in her tooltip.
On that note: I haven't played with him yet, but I don't really see the point in Tuck's bonus; it doesn't take effect until the end of the game, and it doesn't really do anything that you can't accomplish by taking a Siege Exo with a full rocket load into a Lion's Den mission.
All true. I'd been on the fence about him for a while anyhow. So just in for the next one:
* Completely redid Tuck's bonus, since he was kind of useless with his other bonus:
** Tough and resourceful, Tuck's skills at sleuthing lend him an enormous tactical advantage in missions: he can see both his objectives and the location of all terminals and loot without first exploring to them.
* The description of Axis has been rewritten to make it clear how powerful she is:
** A professional scout drone pilot before she became an Exo driver, Axis has the ability to see 4 missions out on the city map instead of the usual 3. Even more importantly, she has the ability to undertake missions that are 2 away rather than the usual 1, thereby letting her skip missions at will.
Tuck's new bonus sounds really good for the regular missions. I'm not sure that I'd say that his old bonus was bad, but I would agree that it wasn't quite up to par with the others when you could kill off roughly 30% of the non-boss robot army in a Lion's Den.
The new description for Axis is much better than the old one, in my opinion.
A question, though - if I have a Fuel Depot mission next to a Lion's Den, a Manufacturing Plant, a Command Center, or an Assassination mission, will completing the Fuel Depot mission count as a success or failure of those missions? I would expect that since those missions are essentially a 'destroy everything over here' you'd get the benefits, but since I've never seen a Fuel Depot next to any of those I've never been able to test it. In other words, will destroying a Lion's Den by completing a Fuel Depot reduce the Bot Army by a similar amount to actually completing the mission, will destroying a Manufacturing Plant via a Fuel Depot reduce Bot levels, will destroying a Command center via Fuel Depot cause the Bots to attack 5 days sooner, and will destroying an Assassination mission via Fuel Depot destroy the boss bots that were the targets of the Assassination mission? Or is the Fuel Depot more or less meant as a way to more rapidly advance through an area?
Edit: One more question - I currently have a 13-range Plasma Cannon with 9 AOE radius on an Epic Siege Exo. However, I'm not capable of safely using the Plasma Cannon because I can only target tiles up to 8 range away because that's where my sight range ends, and I can't blind-fire beyond that with the Plasma Cannon. Is this supposed to be possible, and are there components that can increase the sight range (not sensor range) of my Exos?
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By weasel, April 2, 2005 in DeathList Forum
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If theres only 28 if them, it wouldn't be impossible for them all to die in 2008. Its amazing enough to think they are alive 91 years after the war ended. And considering must countries are down to one or two, most of them would get an obit somewhere.
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there's also one Canadian vet living in the USA. Makes a pleasant change from the tide of draft dodgers heading in the other direction eh?
Having been the one who researched for and wrote John Babcock's Wikipedia entry, I have to stand up and defend my countryman. After serving in WWI, Babcock did indeed move to the USA, but then he joined the United States army (back when you could do that sort of thing) during the World War II era (though he didn't serve in the war itself). So if he's a draft dodger, he's piss poor at it.
Speaking of immigration, for some reason I am reminded that I read somewhere that punishment for defacing a bridge in certain parts of England is still "deportation to Australia." So if ever you're looking for a cheap vacation...
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If theres only 28 if them, it wouldn't be impossible for them all to die in 2008. Its amazing enough to think they are alive 91 years after the war ended.
The war ended in 1916? That's a surprise to all those who died fighting up to 1918 that all their effort didn't count...!
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CP I wasn't accusing yer man Babcock of draft dodging, merely commenting on the irony of an experienced Canadian warrior moving to the USA as against Canada's role as a bolt hole for Americans unwilling to fight for their country.
I know. I was just looking for an excuse to post the Australia thing.
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Wonder how much the fare is from England to Australia? Well, maybe when the law was written the offenders were strapped onto the back of a camel or something, headed south.
The math says that 32 will die this year
Assuming that we know about every veteran that has died in 2007 (still a big assumption, but not so much as at the end of last year, since many of the "under the radar" veterans died and most of the remaining ones are relatively high profile), then the final tally was 34 actual veterans and 5 "era" veterans. So overall, the math provided a pretty fair guess.
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Does anybody know the verifiability of this? I saw this on Wikipedia, and if this source is trusty enough then it looks like there's finally decent proof for Serioli's death.
There was discussion about it on Wikipedia, and I think it was agreed that it's a local news source, and trusty enough to at least confirm his death. Definitely dead, leaving us with 19 veterans and a handful of "era-ers."
The verified veterans count goes down to 18, as Erich Kästner decided to celebrate the New Year by dying. The picture is in German, mind, but easily shows the thing we want to know - he's dead.
Wow. Out of all the major players in World War I (Italy, France, US, UK/Australia/Canada, Ottoman Empire), who would have thought that Germany would be the first to lose all of its World War I veterans? Well... depends on whether you count Russia as a major player or not I suppose, which you probably should... but still.
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Are we sure about this? I know Wikipedia is not always reliable but it has the last surviving German as a Franz Kunstler.
He lives in Germany, but he served in the Austo-Hungarian army. Not quite sure how I managed to miss that as a major WWI player, seeing as how they started the whole bloody thing (ish).
People keep reporting on Wikipedia that Stanisław Wycech has died. If true, that would mean the end of both the last German and the last Polish veteran of WWI has died in January 2008, but I can't find a link for Wycech.
Edit: Here's an obituary in English
Louis de Cazenave has died - and as the BBC mentioned it, it's a first hit for All Nails In The Coffin on the DDP.
Oh, joy - another update! People really have to stop dying for a few days....
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France's oldest vetran Louis de Cazenave dies
Crap.................. you beat me by seconds
Edited January 20, 2008 by heaven can wait
And since I posted it at the same time in the DDP thread, this may be the first triple simultaneous post in DL history! And here I thought I had a scoop... I should also note that the BBC report is technically wrong. There are two more French veterans, Ponticelli and Raymond Cambefort, but the French government doesn't recognize his tenure due to the length of service.
And since I posted it at the same time in the DDP thread, this may be the first triple simultaneous post in DL history! And here I thought I had a scoop...
Actually, you posted yours at 5.10, one minute after us
Is it just me, or has the deaths of WWI veterans sped up recently?
Here's an overview of the last six months.
August: none
September: none
October: Tuveri
November: Bertolami
December: Coffey, Serioli
January: Kästner, Wycech, de Cazenave so far
The above is nowt special, they died a bit faster at the Somme.
True, but it pretty much declined to a two month break after that and now it's rising up again.
Sh*t luck for France, as last week also saw the end of the line for Raymond Cambefort.
Harry Landis dead, but the only US WWI survivor now left is going out partying still....
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So I've seen many movies this year, but possibly none more disturbing than DOGTOOTH {KYNODOTAS} (2009). Soooooo disturbing because it could be a reality so easily. It is a film that can't really be described. It has to be seen, but I do not recommend this movie for those who don't care for VERY disturbing stories. All I will say is it is a great example of why people can be so truly different from each other. I mean that is part of it, but yeah it just makes you think.
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This fall I have decided to try to watch a lot of the serious classics I still have not seen, and been to ashamed to tell anyone So far it has been fun.
-Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure
-Big Trouble in Little China
Bill and Ted was entertaining, and I always like a fun time travel story. If I had seen it as a teenager I think it would have med me a very annoying Party on dude indeed.
Big trouble surprised me with its rather good Hong Kong-inspired fighting. It seems that Carpenter was trying to do something more that the usual fight movie. There was so many good movies made in the 80ies.
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I watched half of Wonder Woman 1984, got bored and turned it off. If this is the best DC can do, it's a sorry state of affairs. I thought the first one was fun, but it degenerated into 'explosions and punching CGI stuff' in the last half hour, which seems to be the endgame of all superhero films these days. Sigh.
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but it degenerated into 'explosions and punching CGI stuff' in the last half hour, which seems to be the endgame of all superhero films these days. Sigh.
Hmmmmm... How are superhero movies supposed to end then. Tea? . . . . . .LOL I understand what you mean, but I would love some alternate ending scenarios here.
I think WB might know it is a weak follow up, which is why they didn't delay it any further. Or maybe they thought it would get them ahead of the game in the new streaming theatrical wars. Idk, I am waiting until I can see it in a theater here in the U.S. Anyone know where they are open?
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based on my Fiancé's brothers recomednation today we watched "soul". Surprisngly thoughtful movie and definitely not aimed at the kids here. It was nice to see Jamie Foxx play an older, considered dude and not be madly gurning his way through a performance. Plus graham norton had a good co star role, go the guy form cork.
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Sad to hear about Wonder Woman 1984. With 1984 in the title I kind of hoped it had taken a lesson or two from Thor Ragnarok which was great fun. Though, come to think of it, it was a lot of CGI punching going on. Almost nothing but CGI punching, and some good 80ies music. Turns out I have simple tastes some times
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I like Thor: Ragnarok a bunch because it had sharp dialogue and lots of humour, and also played it totally over the top. It had a real sense of fun and love. I just don't get that from these DC films and all the comedic elements feel very forced and badly scripted. The MCU was wise to bring in Taika Wattiti, whose other films I find genuinely affecting and funny. Ragnakor is one of the few films where I don't get superhero movie fatigue as much. It felt fresh.
I agree completely. Superhero fatigue, that is a good description. Now I know what I have suffered from a while now. I did like SHIELD season 4 though, we just watched it.
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Pillars of Eternity: General Discussion (NO SPOILERS)
Gun jams/backfires and weapon breaks
By sim-h,
April 9, 2015 in Pillars of Eternity: General Discussion (NO SPOILERS)
sim-h 105
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Doubtless some people will cry 'micromanagement' but I would love to see a more realistic and immersive system of wear and tear on weaponry.
At the moment as far as I can tell (I've only played 70 hours and not yet into Act III) weapons are indestructible and guns always work.
It would be great if the tradeoff for using a gun not a bow was that occasionally the gun would jam (useless for that combat) or backfire (hahaha). Weapons should also break. A broken weapon should still be usable but with -10 or more accuracy and lower damage.
Weapons breaking would also open up bashing down doors and containers. Divinity:OS allows that, which was refreshing, and it's a pity PoE didn't go that route.
These systems (and encumbrance) are holding back the immersion factor for me, in an otherwise brilliant game, which is a shame!
MasterPrudent 290
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There was actually a weapon degradation and repair system planned at one stage in the game's development. When it was revealed in an update the community response was largely overwhelmingly negative and it was scrapped. Here's the update that described the planned system: http://forums.obsidian.net/topic/64048-update-58-crafting-with-tim-cain/
Should've stuck to their guns on that.
Eurhetemec 140
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Perfect topic for a mod, I'd suggest.
It's not a matter of "crying micromanagement" - this is already a game which involves absolute micromanagement in combat (due to no PC AI). What you're proposing is adding an extra layer of micromanagement, which would be fine in a more simplistic game, like, say Fallout 3, but doesn't really fit in well here. In the end, even most CRPG-fans only have so much tolerance for micro.
What you need for "immersion" is clearly way beyond what most people need, and the only way to deal with needs so extreme is mods, which fortunately, should appear.
So now I can blame the kickstarter dudes for some more stuff, as well as tombstones and goldeNPCs...
Yes, yes I know the game wouldn't have been made otherwise. I'll just have to make do with what we've got
I want to lose myself in a believable world. The real world is also fine, tho. Honest.
You need to explain why.
Mindlessly "sticking to your guns" is not smart behaviour nor behaviour to be praised or emulated. And you've given no logical/rational reason as to why they should have.
The fact is, some systems, even they aren't going to be sure about - so it's worth asking and hearing what people think. The devs have shown throughout the process that they do not mindlessly follow the community, nor mindlessly stick to their guns. That's a good thing. It shows that they are rational, which devs need to be outside of one-person passion projects.
Good devs, like Obsidian, are smart, and listen, and when an idea isn't popular, but they know it'll work and end up popular, they go with anyway. Equally, even if an idea is popular, they may have to dump it because it just doesn't work in practice. Here we have an idea that wasn't popular and probably wouldn't have added to the game for most people, because it would simply have lead to:
A) Treks back to town to fix stuff
B) Buying boring consumables to fix stuff in the field
I get that.
But for you, you need more than others do. Do you understand that? The game isn't made for you, it's made for most people. It can't be any other way. Mods can help with this kind of thing for those who need them.
You wouldn't usually fix a broken weapon. You'd need a new one. In my game, most of my characters are carrying several spare weapons at all times. I don't see the issue, to be honest. It adds value to loot.
Interested to know what you're looking for from a fantasy cRPG then?
That's funny, because I'm probably the one on the boards that would be the quickest to say the exact same thing.
In this case, it really boils down to me enjoying durability and attrition mechanics, as well as extensive crafting systems. Your argument is just as applicable to the resting mechanic as it is to a durability mechanic, by the way; you either buy "boring consumables" to rest in the field, or you "treks back to town" to rest.
At the end of the day, individual mechanics do not make a game, but the gestalt of the mechanics do. Sometimes even two good mechanics can make a third one, that would've been good on it's own, bad.
For my sake, they could've introduced starvation mechanics too. Think or die.
It's not made "for most people". It's made for what really is (or was) a pretty niche market, precisely because mass appeal is dependant on the lowest common denominators, appealing to the most base instincts possible. Also, this is basically argumentum ad populum.
Edited April 9, 2015 by Luckmann
gkathellar 1,978
gkathellar
(12) Mage
Location:Region of Erroneous Complaint
Yeah, that would be fun, and not at all an RNG irritation that people would reload out of almost without fail.
Divinity:OS
Oooh, that's a good example. Remember how in Divinity:OS you would just carry around a repair hammer and thus make the entire durability system into little other than a minor irritation?
Yeah, when it comes to durability systems, you can go the Fire Emblem route, or go home. And the Fire Emblem route would be complete garbage in this type of game.
If I'm typing in red, it means I'm being sarcastic. But not this time.
Dark green, on the other hand, is for jokes and irony in general.
"Most people within the market", then. It makes no difference. The systems are unpopular (with this market, and that's a fact!), and you haven't explained what they add.
Yeah that was annoying in D:OS. Repairing sucks. I'm not suggesting that, I'm suggesting weapons break. Armour could I guess get repaired at an armourer, but since there are n thousand suits of armour every screen in PoE I doubt it would be made much use of.
Oh and you reload every time you miss your first shot in combat?? Wow.
Gorbag 200
Gorbag
There has to be a reason for things like that to exist, other than them being realistic and therefore arguably cool to have.
Guns jam and stuff breaks irl. People are also clumsy irl, so a mechanic where one of your characters could suddenly drop and destroy some potions or food would also be realistic. People forget stuff, so a mechanic where your fighter has forgotten his sword in the tavern or that place you looted earlier, so you have to go get it, would be realistic as well. It would be pretty close to real life if your character could suddenly catch a fever and you have to stop adventuring and take camp for several days as he/she can't move or walks at 1/10 speed.
Stuff like that reinforces realism and it might be cool to have (in a "look, they have that!" sort of way), but is ultimately useless (not to mention very bothersome once the initial "wow" reaction calms) unless it serves some purpose.
Durability was supposed to be a money sink before they cut it, but it ultimately boils down to either a ton of backtracking or another resource management system (e.g. you have to buy and carry around 10 (ton) hammers so you don't have to backtrack every time you go out adventuring). The game already has the resting mechanic doing the same thing and at least that has much better reasons to exist from a mechanical point of view.
Nothing gold can stay.
Wait, what? Where are you getting that from?
If weapons break at random, people will often just reload to avoid that random chance coming into play, especially if it's a weapon they like/have invested resources into/want to keep.
It makes any such system of random breaks pointless and irritating.
Wulfram 19
Wulfram
Replacing the accuracy penalty with a small misfire chance might not be a bad thing. Though giving guns too many special rules is a bit of a trap for RPGs, I think. Everyone accepts abstraction with every other weapon, but introduce guns and suddenly you need to represent every detail.
I don't see much point in a durability system. Gold sinks are silly outside of MMOs. And it doesn't seem sensible to me that our weapons would be falling apart in the couple of months of the game, particularly since we're probably changing weapons fairly regularly? And basic maintenance should be assumed as something you do when resting.
Edited April 9, 2015 by Wulfram
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Ink Blot
Incorrigible Mountebank of the Obsidian Order
Location:Some Backwater in the Orion Arm
I see what you did there...
I'll toss in my two cents that this is not a mechanic that I'd enjoy. I've dealt with it in several other games I've played and it's either completely trivialized by carrying around the proper tools; or it's a skill which becomes a 'must have' for one or all your characters; or it's just an extra annoyance that adds nothing of value to the game (IMO, of course).
D:OS has it, but it just means you need one character with the skill and then just hand off the degraded weapon(s) to that character to repair. It turned out to be nothing more than tedious.
Wasteland 2 has weapon jams and that just became an "I'll toss a mod on the gun that negates that completely and avoid using the weapons that don't allow the use of that mod".
Edited April 9, 2015 by Ink Blot
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Dee-Jay
Random weapon malfunctions have NEVER been fun in any game I've played.
And while gear degeneration has its uses it mainly serves to sustain demand in a player driven economy. In a single-player RPG I see no room for such a feature.
If guns get a misfire system, I want a grappling system exclusive to swords with cruciform guards.
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Starthief
These games never go far enough where it comes to realism. You should only be able to use armor of the appropriate size, and you should have to unstring bows when traveling, and clean and sharpen swords, and select appropriate campsites, and you should have to deal with blisters and mosquitos, and there should be a realistic pooping system where you have to avoid poison ivy.
Eh. A lot of games have had breakage and repair systems and it's been fun in... pretty much none of them.
Irrevenant 21
Irrevenant
You should only be able to use armor of the appropriate size
Ahhhh, another thing I liked about Arcanum.
"Heh heh. Dirt... Nap... Dirt nap!"
manageri 79
manageri
And let's not forget that when you walk 12 hours between locations in game the loading screen should last 12 real hours. In fact they should have sold us treadmills with the game that you have to hook up to your computer and walk that distance for real before you can continue playing. I just can't feel immersed at all without this, so unrealistic.
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Sleazebag
There should be a bone degradation system for using bows and crossbows, all for the sake of realism. It wouldn't be fun in the least, but the middle ages weren't either. Also you should be able to contact the plague from hanging around the catacombs too long, and it would be untreatable and you would die, but you would get a special ending reel about the futility of life.
Also your party should be forced to eat, poop and piss, and if you eat too much your character would get a stomache that reduces their dexterity and constitution. Also you would cause a hazard aoe around you for corrode damage, due to your flatulence, at timed intervals.
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Sabin Stargem
Blegh. Repairing things has always been tedious in videogames. Didn't appeal to me in STALKER, was irritating in System Shock 2, and wasted time in New Vegas. Leave this nuisance to modders.
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News and Notes: Video Game Edition
Thread: News and Notes: Video Game Edition
November 10th, 2011, 7:44 PM #1
The Rick
tag champ
a state between sadness and anger
Simpsons Arcade Game rated for multiple platforms link
Originally released in 1991, The Simpsons Arcade Game was a four-player beat-'em-up from Konami. The game allowed players to plow through side-scrolling levels as Bart, Lisa, Homer, and Marge, pummeling generic suit-wearing bad guys, Matt Groening Life is Hell extras, and recognizable residents of Springfield alike. The arcade game was ported to the PC and Commodore 64 the same year, but never made it to the consoles of the time.
In 2009, Electronic Arts released a mobile phone game called The Simpsons Arcade, but the new classification suggests that the project is unrelated. Handed down yesterday, the listing details Konami as the publisher and retro specialist Backbone Entertainment as the developer. The Emeryville, California-based studio has previously released downloadable versions of Marvel vs. Capcom 2, Super Street Fighter II Turbo HD Remix, and Super Puzzle Fighter II Turbo HD Remix. It also developed Sonic's Ultimate Genesis Collection, a compilation of 40 games from Sega's 16-bit system, for the Xbox 360 and PS3.
The Simpsons is another in a line of downloadable console ports for Konami's licensed coin-op games of the late '80s and early '90s. Last year, Konami and Backbone teamed up to release X-Men: The Arcade Game on the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3. The publisher also worked with Ubisoft for 2007's Xbox 360 release of the original Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles arcade game and in 2009 saw the French publisher remake the game's arcade sequel, Turtles in Time.
Game of Thrones action RPG in the works for 2012 release
Winter is coming. A Lannister always pays his debts. Incest kills the little children. Whichever Game of Thrones catchphrases you prefer, it's hard to not get excited about Cyanide Studios' upcoming action role-playing game, especially after seeing the first screens.
In development for years at Cyanide and due to be published in early 2012 by Atlus for the Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, and PC, Game of Thrones has a lot more going for it than association with one of the most popular fantasy television series of all time.
For one, it's got an original story written under the supervision of author George. R.R. Martin, featuring a pair of original characters, both veterans of Robert's Rebellion, whose actions will help shape the future of the Seven Kingdoms
Launch site for game
I spent a ridiculous amount of money on the Simpsons arcade game back in the day. It on XBLA = instabuy.
Bloof(ilter)
Yea I'd be there.
Though I have played it on MAME a bunch of times.
Although saying this, it HAS to have online capabilities. That's a deal breaker for me.
She was a lot like you
...maybe not quite as heavy
I may have passed right over it, but is there a date on The Simpson's Arcade Game?
Originally Posted by Dr. Atty!
not yet. The project was just outed by the Australian ratings board two days ago. From what I understand, in Australia video games have to be presented quite early for approval before they hit the Australian market.
link to Australian Classification Database
Steam forum hackers gain access to information
link to story gamespot.com
Hacking activities have been the story of the year within the game industry, and the latest victim is Portal creator Valve Corporation. On Sunday, the Washington-based game company's message forums for its digital distribution platform Steam were infiltrated by a hacker collective. It now appears as if the culprits accomplished more than just vandalizing the website.
In a message sent to Steam users and forum-goers today, Valve managing director Gabe Newell said that the hacker group gained access to the Steam database in addition to its forums. In so doing, the individuals involved had access to various pieces of information, including "user names, hashed and salted passwords, game purchases, email addresses, billing addresses, and encrypted credit card information."
Newell said that the company currently has no indication that the intruders took any of the encrypted credit card numbers or personal identifying information. He also said there is no evidence that encrypted credit card numbers or passwords had been cracked. However, Valve is still investigating the attack.
As a result of the security breach, Newell said that all forum users will be required to change their passwords the next time they log in to the message boards. However, as it does not appear as if any Steam accounts were compromised, Newell said that it will only be advisable, and not mandatory, to change these passwords.
Currently, the Steam forums are offline. Valve plans to reopen them "as soon as we can."
Valve are a good two months behind on their Left 4 Dead 2 DLC. Bastards.
They made Portal and Portal 2 so you and your few extra pounds are forbidden from calling them bastards. Especially after your birth parents abandoned you.
Bah Portal and Portal 2 are old news. I want the new.
And the new is a DLC add on for a game that was released two years ago, which adds levels from the original game that was released three years ago.
November 10th, 2011, 9:59 PM #10
They released dlc for Portal like two weeks ago.
And Portal > you. Whoever is reading this, it's true. No debating facts. That's science.
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Pretty fucking stoked for both the Simpsons arcade game and the Game of Thrones RPG. I'll tear that shit up.
November 11th, 2011, 4:44 AM #12
I always prefered the Turtles arcade game to The Simpsons but I'll still pick this up if it comes to PSN. It's surely made for drop-in/drop-out online play though.
I'd love for them to do an all out remake of the Turtles Arcade Game. Remaking arcade games for dlc is really a great idea. It lets them touch them up and stuff like TMNT, Simpson's and (were they to do it) Double Dragon would all get my money.
I only got the Turtles in Time remake as they were taking it down from psn and xbl, but wound up having a ball with it. Great fun on four player of you have friends over. I see Simpsons being very much the same.
MASHY SPIKE PLATE
I'm a moving Butterfly
Streets of Rage Remake plzkthx
Kyle_242
Ugh, I HATED that Turtles in Time remake. I don't really see why they need to overhaul classics, especially in terms of graphics...I think Capcom generally gets it right by just porting the arcade version but adding various filters you can use. I kinda like my retro games pixelated, and I don't care if I'm playing 4:3 on a HDTV, but there's no harm to adding all the visual customization options for people who prefer a smoother or widescreen look.
Also this is just a flash game, but it looks rad and may have given me a boner:
[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I6atT6G8Gng"]Abobo's Big Adventure - Trailer - YouTube[/ame]
Originally Posted by dubya
The game seems to be coming sooner than I though. The Atlus website lists Game of Thrones as early 2012. link
I think that the property is in good hands with Atlus. They have published some good RPGs as of late. Demon Souls, 3D Dot Game Hero, and the Persona series are some of the well received RPG games under their cultivation.
I have not, however, played anything from the studio that is making it. Game of Thrones is being developed by Cyanide studios. The studio began as 8 people broke away from UbiSoft in 2000. Being a little known developer isn't a bad thing though. Remember, Rocksteady was in obscurity until it made a little game called Batman Arkham Asylum.
[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p3KK0Z-rzlw"]Max Payne 3 Design and Technology Series: Creating a Cutting Edge Action-Shooter - YouTube[/ame]
I want it I want it I want it.
Next Xbox in 2012, PS4 dev ramping up - Report
Gamespot story
It appears next-generation console rumors are coming to a consensus. Edge today reported that Ubisoft, Electronic Arts, and other unspecified major developers are developing games for the successor to the Xbox 360 with a late 2012 launch expected.
According to the site, Ubisoft Montreal and "certain EA studios" are working on games with Microsoft-provided "target boxes" that use off-the-shelf computer parts matching the planned specifications for the company's next console. The first legitimate devkits for the system are expected to be provided to developers by the end of this year. The given late-2012 release window lines up with rumors from last week that pegged the next Xbox as launching in the holiday season next year.
Edge also provided a corroborating take for another next-generation rumor that had been floating around, this one about Sony's next PlayStation. Last month, rumors circulated that Sony had begun work on PlayStation 4 games--a notion backed up by Edge's report that "one major Sony-owned studio has now ceased PlayStation 3 development" to work on the next console from the electronics giant.
Kojima talks Metal Gear Solid 5
Gamespot story link
It is no surprise that more Metal Gear Solid is on the way. Series creator Hideo Kojima has even alluded to the next mainline title in the past, but the fifth game in the series has now been confirmed via a teaser for the next issue of the Official PlayStation Magazine in the UK.
Kojima is set to occupy the cover of the next issue of OPM, and along with that comes word that he will be openly discussing his plans for Metal Gear Solid 5. No other details outside of the game's confirmation were revealed.
Recent rumors have pinned Kojima's next project as powered by the Fox Engine, which was publicly shown for the first time during Konami's E3 press conference this year. Beyond MGS 5, the tease reveals that Kojima will also be discussing "Project Ogre," his desire to kill off Solid Snake, and what life after Metal Gear may hold.
Metal Gear Solid 4 came out in 2008, and teases about the next installment in the series have persisted since then. Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker for PSP landed last year, and in the run-up to its release was heralded by Kojima himself as a "full-scale sequel." Metal Gear Solid: Rising is also still under development, and is expected to resurface at next month's Video Game Awards.
For those who may not quite be up to date with Kojima's signature series, the Metal Gear Solid HD Collection--containing Metal Gear Solid 2, Metal Gear Solid 3, and Peace Walker--hit shelves last week.
anyone know why MGS HD has been delayed for 3 months in Europe? What could possibly take them that long to change from the US version?
EA under Fire in Germany over Origin, Battlefield 3
gamepolitics.com
Overclock.net has gathered an avalanche of stories related to how Battlefield 3 and Origin are being received in Germany (thanks to Solarian for tip). The short answer is that Germans seem to hate it because of the company's terms of service and what Origin is doing on people's PCs.
The first article in German gaming magazine GameStar features an analysis of the ToS by a German lawyer, who says that it enables EA to gather all kinds of information on the computer for some vague use. They call this a "massive privacy violation."
Another damning bit of information comes from the Amazon forums, where a user shows off a YouTube video of Origin accessing programs it shouldn't. The video maker claims that Origin accessed a tax management program and their cellphone management software. They found this by using a process monitor. That video can be found here. Naturally this is not helping the game's rating on Amazon's German site.
Another story linked by Overclock.net says that German retailer Media Markt/Saturn is accepting opened returns of the game at its retail outlets.
The print media is even getting on the bandwagon; Lübecker Zeitung ran a story recently with the headline, "Datatrap in new shootergame." "Games giant wants to spy on customers" is a recent headline of weekly newspaper Der Spiegel. Finally, if you understand German, this news report will be of interest.
EA: “Origin is not spyware”
pcgamer.com Nov 1, 2011 by Nathan Grayson
This isn’t the first time EA’s Origin service has raised eyebrows (and ire) for its unflinchingly iron-fisted EULA. Now, though, the service is under fire in exciting new locales – primarily from German paper the Spiegel (via Eurogamer) – for allegedly granting EA the ability to access other EA programs without notifying users and giving “partners” free rein to collect information on “IP addresses, usage data, software, equipment, software usage and existing hardware peripherals” for marketing purposes. According to the Spiegel, these things may even violate German privacy laws.
EA, however, isn’t hurriedly thrusting any red hands behind its back. This, claims the publisher, absolutely isn’t what it looks like.
“We have updated the End User License Agreement of Origin, in the interests of our players to create more clarity,” EA Germany said in a statement. “Origin is not spyware. Neither do we use nor install spyware on the PCs of users.”
“We do not have access to information such as pictures, documents or personal data, which have nothing to do with the execution of the Origin program on the system of the player, neither will they be collected by us. EA takes the privacy of its users very seriously. We have taken every precaution to protect the personal and anonymous user data collected.”
To conclude, EA noted that its EULA sticks to the “industry standard” where privacy is concerned – but added that it’s certainly open to addressing any concerns the German government might have.
Even so, it always bears repeating: Actually read the EULA before clicking the “Why yes, you may harvest my healthy internal organs in the event of a global pandemic” button. It’s time-consuming, sure, but – much as I wish more elements of kindergarten carried over into the real world – there aren’t any takesies-backsies here.
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in the shadow of the statue
LOL I love how much everyone adores Steam but constantly shits on any competitor for doing totally normal stuff that everyone (including steam) does.
Originally Posted by Excel
It's exactly the same delay that we got with MGS2 and MGS3 which were both delayed due to production issues. I presume it's cheaper for them to do a staged release than to produce enough discs to release Worldwide for day one.
I'm expecting a little bonus content to make up for it although I'm toying with the idea of picking the US version up when I'm in the States next month.
Originally Posted by Beefy
It may actually be rather cheap over here by then. Stores have been dropping prices on games quite a bit recently and it wouldn't shock me to see that for $30. Uncharted 3, Arkham City, Battlefield 3, Rage are all going to be $30 a week from today at Best Buy and probably some other stores. The new Ass Creed, which came out Tuesday, will be 35.
I have discovered that the 360 US version is region locked though, as I was thinking of importing it, but if you are on PS3 then I would definitely import it. I don't know why but all the games I want have been delayed till 2012. This, MGS3D, resident evils Revelations and Racoon City, and im sure a couple more im forgetting.
Level 6 Laser Lotus
C H I L D is the ish, man.
Originally Posted by Guy
Max Payne 3 Design and Technology Series: Creating a Cutting Edge Action-Shooter - YouTube
I came in this thread to post this. It looks like a mix of Alpha Protocol and Splinter Cell: Conviction with Fallout: New Vegas' VATS mode thrown in for some of the "killcams".
360 degree prone shooting sounds great too.
Originally Posted by grimshaw
That's because Steam is great and Origin sucks.
mr sabu
dude it's iron man.. man
http://www.xbox360achievements.org/n...x-Payne-3.html
A sequel to 2006's Bully could be in the offing once Rockstar has finished with Max Payne 3, according to Rockstar Games VP Dan Houser. In a recent interview with Gamasutra, Houser explained that the company favours the method of leaving a gap between games, rather than rushing into a sequel.
Rockstar Vancouver developed the original Bully, which got an Xbox 360 re-release with the Bully: Scholarship Edition in 2008, but the dev is currently polishing up and finishing work on Max Payne 3, which means the next project in its sights could be Bully 2.
"Contrary to a lot of people, we like to take a little bit of time at the end of a game before starting a sequel, so we can wait for the excitement or disappointment and everything else of the experience to shake down and really see what we should do in the next game," Houser explained. "So we knew that we didn't want to start doing the Bully sequel instantly at that second with those guys - even though it is a property that, like Max, we adore and might come back to in the future. There was just no impetus to do that then."
"So we said, 'You can do Max, and then we will see what we can do with Bully'," Houser added. "So it was really waiting for the slot to open up and the group to open up to at least start work on it."
With Max Payne 3 due for release in March 2012, it's entirely possible that Rockstar Vancouver might start up development on Bully 2, not forgetting that Rockstar also has a little game called Grand Theft Auto V on its radar too. A sequel to Bully would be hugely welcome though, and this is the second hint that it could be on the cards, with composer Shawn Lee mentioning that he'd be working on the soundtrack back in 2009.
Steam's a bad website in a bad browser, with a bad voice service, a good IM client and a good store. The EULA is exactly as intrusive as every other, and the DRM has on occasion locked me out of my own games. It's silly that the fact that steam has a lot of users, some cheap sales and a nice chat system means that it's not subject to the same criticism in unrelated areas.
The only thing I agree with is the voice chat. It's terrible. I use Skype instead when I need to talk to people in games.
"locked you out of your own games"? Also, it doesn't have as many problems as Origin which is why there's not as much criticism directed at it.
i've been locked out of single player games in steam because my internet was down.
I was speaking specifically about the conspiracy theories regarding Origin scraping registry data mentioned in the EULA, which is something that Steam does too. Because Steam is regarded as a good service - which it is overall (horrible voice chat and groups/community features notwithstanding) - and because Valve is regarded as a 'good guy' company, it gets a free pass on things like dRM and privacy.
People should WANT origin to be good, because a monopoly is bad, and Steam is absolutely a monopoly right now, with a whole lot of power.
I agree with you. I refuse to get on the steam band wagon, even with most of my gaming friends using it. I would rather buy from a lesser know site and download the game. If this means I miss out on some good games, or have to wait for them to be available else where then so be it. I tend to be a stubborn bastard like that.
It has been mentioned before around here somewhere. It really is amazing how easy it is for game companies to push their shit down their customer's throat, and receive little to no backlash. EA receives more than its share of criticism, because of their business practices in the past. They were one of the first game companies to be call out on not paying over time, and forcing workers to work crazy hours. Over 100 hours according to published spouse blogs in 2004.
I actually thought EA was getting a little better. With their "EA Partners" they allow developers to retain the right to their own IPs. It encouraged the development for new ideas. This was one of the ways Valve was able to bring the Orange Box and other games to the console market.
Origin was originally know for making such ground breaking titles like the Ultima series, the Wing Commander series, and System Shock. EA has now uses the name(acquired in '92) for its gaming system that looks into the hard drives of its users.
Originally Posted by El Berto Del Negro
Could you not 360 shoot from the ground in the last two Max Paynes? Or am I thinking of Stranglehold?
ATTY: the MSG collection is already advertised somewhere for $30 on the dark dark friday. i will look for it soon
Woah. Excellent. Hadn't noticed that one yet. So much for Battlefield 3 for me.
35 at kmart. 30 for battlefield there
One Man Gang
Old men talking!
Young men dying!
Originally Posted by Matthew
And I read that as the Madison Square Garden collection. I'm a weirdo.
I posted this picture up in the VIP but I love it so fucking much I'm going to post it here too:
Rumor: Smash Bros-Style Game Coming To PlayStation
IGN link
Over the last couple of days, rumors have been furiously circulating concerning a PlayStation 3-exclusive fighting game in the style of Nintendo's ubiquitous Smash Bros. series. This game, apparently called (or code-named) Title Fight, has been talked about at a personal blog called The Paul Gale Network over several posts, with the writer apparently having an inside source at the game's developer, purported to be SuperBot Entertainment.
As noted by Eurogamer, SuperBot Entertainment's website confirms at the very least that it's an exclusive developer for Sony Computer Entertainment America, and that it's currently toiling away on a PS3 exclusive, giving some credence to the rumor. Eurogamer also points to job advertisements posted by SuperBot Entertainment, advertisements that ask for developers with experience working on fighting games.
According to the report on Paul Gale Network, fighters are rumored to include Kratos (God of War), Parappa the Rapper (Parappa the Rapper), Nathan Drake (Uncharted), Sly Cooper (Sly Cooper), Fat Princess (Fat Princess), Colonel Mael Radec (Killzone) and Sweet Tooth (Twisted Metal),...The final roster is rumored to include more than 20 Sony characters.
The characters thus far don't gravitate like the Nintendo bunch, but could be loads of fun.
Last edited by The Rick; November 29th, 2011 at 12:15 AM.
GameStop listing for first-party PS Vita memory cards lists 4GB, 8GB, 16GB, and 32GB cards starting at US$30 and going to US$120; other Sony accessories revealed
GameStop link
Last month, Sony finally announced a global release date for its upcoming PlayStation Vita console, revealing the system would ship worldwide beginning February 22, 2012. Later, the publisher outlined the console's game transfer fees, saying that players who wish to play their PSP UMD-based titles on the Vita will have to repurchase them at a discounted price.
Now, retailer GameStop has revealed prices for the four memory cards that will be available with the new console. The 4GB memory card will cost $29.99; the 8GB will cost $44.99; the 16GB will cost $69.99; and the 32GB memory card will cost $119.99, almost half the price of the PlayStation Vita itself. The 3G-enabled console will retail for $299, while the Wi-Fi-only version will retail for $249.
Earlier this year, Sony Computer Entertainment America senior staff developer support engineer Chris Norden reiterated that retail PS Vita games will come on 2GB and 4GB game cards and revealed the 3G version of the PS Vita will only be able to download games up to 20MB in size as a result of 3G mobile carrier restrictions. Norden clarified that Vita owners will still be able to download larger games using the system's Wi-Fi functionality.
When comparing prices of the Vita memory cards to PSP memory cards, the differences are as follows: SanDisk Gaming Memory Stick PRO Duo cards for the PSP in 2GB, 4GB, and 8GB are currently priced at $18.99, $37.99, and $50.99, respectively. A Sony 32GB Memory Stick PRO Duo is currently priced at $125.
The GameStop Vita hub also lists a number of accessories for the console, including carrying cases, an AC adapter, official headset, portable charger, car adapter, card cases, protective films, headphones, and more. The PlayStation Vita Starter Kit (priced at $24.99) includes six of the accessories: pocket pouch, car adapter, protective film, card case, headphones, and a cleaning cloth.
According to a Sony Computer Entertainment Australia representative, the publisher has "not yet announced software, accessory, and peripheral prices for PS Vita in Australia."
The PlayStation Vita is due to launch in Japan on December 17, in some other Asian territories on December 23, in Europe and North America on February 22, 2012, and in Australia on February 23, 2012.
Come on Sandisk. Please let me know that you will ease the burden of the new memory cards. Sony still has its proprietary card over priced, and SanDisk seems to load faster on my PSP.
The_Mike
Noli Timere Messorem
This wonderful world of purchase power.
Sony's peripherals have been overpriced since the PS1 was released. £20 in the late 90s for a shitty memory card that could hold 15 saves was already far too much.
I wonder if I'm getting old and crotchety, because I am less and less interested in new games and consoles and more and more turned off by the whole industry. It seems to be constantly nickel-and-diming the customer, but it's not as if the asking price is ever cheap. I miss the days of buying a MasterSystem with a built-in game already there for free and not having to buy three or four control devices just for a single player, then memory things and a stream of DLC for a game that cost $60 and had clearly not been playtested.
Originally Posted by The_Mike
I miss the days of buying a MasterSystem with a built-in game already there for free and not having to buy three or four control devices just for a single player, then memory things and a stream of DLC for a game that cost $60 and had clearly not been playtested.
This one really annoys me. Having to download a patch day one. I payed $60 for this and you didn't get it fixed. I get some of the glitches that are found with multi-player maps, because they get so much traffic things will arise that were not caught. However, when game crippling bugs still exist upon shipment that is inexcusable.
I don't miss the master system per se, but I understand where you are coming from. It was cool when the industry was budding, and wanted to get their games into peoples hands. Customers were treated with good service. The industry is becoming less and less customer friendly each day.
I appreciate updates but they annoy me to no end. My old ps3 had been yellowing (twice thus far) and I nursed it along to Black Friday when I got the new one and Uncharted 3, a game I've waited ages for. Transfer was tricky on account of my old one having a bigger hd and involved not being able to use the new system for over a day while I transferred and swapped drives.
When done I anxiously tossed in Uncharted and... Two updates off the bat. And this was one of those lovely times where my internet got wacky. Get the game ready on release. If there's things to fix later, fine, but immediately having updates is just annoying.
Agreed. Immediate updates are ridiculous, and often updates just are not handled well in any sense. I got Heavy Rain about a year after it came out, and of course had to update it. Had to. And it was 900MB and I had a 2Mb connection. So this game I just purchased I could not play until the next day because somehow they needed to fix a gig worth of it and I had to download the whole thing and had no option of skipping it and playing as-is. It's not even a multiplayer game. There really is no excuse. You are right, The Rick, customer friendly seems to no longer be in the vocabulary of much of the games industry.
The Rogerer
I don't do tricks
The Heavy Rain patch was a result of the Move integration which is something that the game was pressured into, by my guess. They had to abandon their plans to make further DLC storylines to work on it.
The PS3 patching process seems bad compared to the 360, but the 360 is still a console based around the possibility that it doesn't have a hard drive and they cannot release a patch that would make the game unplayable on an old Arcade system. Since every PS3 has a hard drive there's nothing to stop updates getting out of control.
Auto-updating is one of the reasons why I keep toying with PS+ (although obviously that wouldn't help the situation where a game needs a patch straight out of the box).
It's funny that. The notion that they provide the ability as a paid service is them acknowledging that it's a desirable thing to have, and yet they allow the annoyance to remain for most users who won't make the jump.
GamePro shutting down
gamespot link
Veteran gaming publication GamePro has announced it will be closing both its print and online editions as of December 5, with the November issue to be the magazine's last.
The publication announced the news via its website with the following statement:
"Thank you for your loyalty, support, and participation in the GamePro.com community. At noon on December 5, 2011, the U.S. version of GamePro online will shut down as an independent site. GamePro will become part of PCWorld.com, offering gaming news, reviews, and how-tos from the PCWorld team. Thank you to the entire GamePro staff for their hard work and dedication."
GamePro is a subsidiary of International Data Group. The magazine first launched as a monthly publication in May 1989, and as an online outlet in 1996. An IDG spokesperson told Industry Gamers that the closure of GamePro came as a result of a lack of advertising money, and resulted in a spate of staff layoffs. The spokesperson declined to comment on how many employees had been let go.
"The US editorial and business staff worked hard to earn a passionate, loyal following for GamePro and I am grateful for their dedication and hard work over the years," Mike Kisseberth, head of IDG's Consumer and Small Business media group, told Industry Gamers. "GamePro, like all businesses, must keep up with industry changes and economic realities."
According to Industry Gamers, GamePro will now work on creating "custom content for vendors and events," with the remaining editorial team being absorbed into PCWorld.com, also owned by IDG.
At its height, GamePro was such a recognizable brand with gamers that it received its own line of action figures, where toys of pseudonymous editors like Dr. Zombie and Major Mike were sold alongside game characters like The Legend of Zelda's Link and Sonic the Hedgehog.
While GamePro is folding, it did survive its primary print rival for much of its run, Electronic Gaming Monthly. That publication shut its doors in 2009, just shy of its 20-year anniversary.
Shadow of the Colossus director leaves Sony - Report
The Last Guardian may also be the last Fumito Ueda-led game from Sony. Eurogamer is citing "Japanese video game development sources" as providing word that Ueda has left not just the Team Ico development team, but Sony entirely.
According to the report, Ueda will finish up work on Team Ico's long-awaited The Last Guardian as a freelancer, and afterward pursue personal projects.
Ueda is best known for his work with Team Ico on the PlayStation 2 action games Ico and Shadow of the Colossus. Released in September of 2001, Ico cast players as a horned youth who had to escort a princess safely from her prison. Four years later, Team Ico's Shadow of the Colossus followed a young warrior who hunts down and destroys 16 massive beasts in order to save a fallen maiden. The two games were bundled and rereleased in a high-definition, 3D-compatible PlayStation 3 bundle earlier this year.
Although The Last Guardian was shown in trailer form for the first time at the 2009 Tokyo Game Show, Ueda had been working on Team Ico's PlayStation 3 debut since 2005. At the time, he said that the three years it took to make Shadow of the Colossus was too long and that he hoped to release his next game in less time. At the 2010 Tokyo Game Show, a late 2011 release window was attached to The Last Guardian, but that was retracted the following spring.
UPDATE: A Sony representative told GameSpot the company does not comment on rumor or speculation.
December 1st, 2011, 10:32 PM #48
http://kotaku.com/5864186/respect-ma...vegas-creators
South Park RPG. I can dig it.
I'll play Kyle as a paladin.
December 3rd, 2011, 2:08 PM #50
http://www.joystiq.com/2011/12/02/xe...-release-date/
Originally Posted by Joystiq
After this morning's accidental retail reveal of Xenoblade Chronicles coming to North America, Nintendo has made the game's launch official, pinning an "April 2012" release date to the much hyped Wii RPG. Nintendo teased the reveal earlier today with a new gallery of Xenoblade artwork that mysteriously popped up on Facebook, though at the time there was no news attached to said tease.
Despite Nintendo not giving a date to the game, this morning's image indicated an April 3 launch. GameStop's website, however, reflects an April 2 date, post-official announce. We're just gonna go with "early April" for now.
By pretty much all accounts, Xenoblade is a Wii JRPG that's supposed to be amazing. So I'm really curious to see whether I can call out fanboys on their bullshit, or enjoy a JRPG for the first time in like 6 years. Either way I win!
T.I (uh oh)
Nintendoid
Zebes
Originally Posted by Kyle_242
Believe the hype.
I'm just finishing up with Xenoblade (after 120 hours or so), and it's at the point where I don't want to play Zelda, because I'm not sure if anything can follow Xenoblade without being a disappointment.
It's not perfect, but it is epic, the scope of the game is enormous, it rewards exploration, and the world feels so alive. One of those games where the game as a package is far greater than the sum of it's parts, because there is nothing particularly revolutionary about Xenoblade, it's just that everything is executed and integrated so well.
December 6th, 2011, 1:56 AM #52
EA Origin Bans: Update Edition
http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2011...pdate-edition/
Unfortunately, despite repeated attempts to receive a statement on EA’s current position on their banning procedure, we have only been met with silence for the last fortnight. After some initial responses, pointing affected customers toward their support lines, we received an ambiguous statement that avoided the current issue and rather said there were plans to “review” whatever the current secret policy might be. And then no responses to our emails since. All the while, we’re hearing of case after case of customers being affected.
I’m building up quite the portfolio of affected gamers, who find after a forum violation they’re unable to access their Origin games. And within this is a more disturbing trend – those who are finding that their forum bans are, without explanation, becoming permanent bans. Permanent bans from accessing their Origin accounts, their Battlelog accounts, and therefore downloading purchased games, and playing online. Something which obviously raises serious questions about consumer rights, which is of course another angle we’re currently investigating.
The pattern tends to go like this:
Person says a naughty word on an EA forum.
Person receives 72 hour ban from forums, which blocks Origin too.
Person contacts EA customer support and is told “tough”.
Person writes to RPS.
With the occasional addition of:
Person finds their ban has become permanent with no warning, and no option to appeal.
Of those people who contact us, we tend to get two types. The first who write invective-speckled fury on the forum, and then to us, and obviously entirely deserve their forum bans. The second are those who have done absolutely nothing wrong on the forums, but are punished erroneously, either for quoting an insult someone else has called them, or doing nothing offensive whatsoever. But neither group, according to EA’s words to us in March, should be being banned from Origin or accessing their games. A statement, however, that EA doesn’t appear willing to repeat nine months on.
So there’s Rob, who was accused of posting a commercial to his support site – a site that EA links to itself in its own support site FAQ – who received a ban. And James, permanently banned (until his account mysteriously popped back to life recently, with no communication from anyone) for saying “e-peen”. We’ve heard from Alex, who put a sweary joke on the forum, not directed at anyone, and found himself locked out of his games. Toma got in touch to say that after previous bans for what sound like entirely unacceptable forum posts, months later he has now found himself banned because of his Gravatar logo – a Reddit troll face. Buh? Pointing out that one of the main devs at EA uses the Me Gusta face got nowhere, and he has been told he’ll learn of his account’s fate in seven days, so certainly longer than the traditional 72 hour ban, potentially permanent.
Most exceptional perhaps is Aaron, who after receiving a 72 hour ban was told by EA support they couldn’t help because “the game developers control this”. Pardon? His crime? Someone else swearing on the forum, with his username in their post. Trying the live chat support instead, he was then informed that his account was permanently banned, and that “all property, items, and characters associated currently are or will soon be deleted.” Followed by, “Is there anything else I can do for you?” Aaron tried again, pointing out that forum bans shouldn’t affect games. And then came this incredible reply:
“Please be informed that your account not only suspended, But it is also Banned, So you will no longer to play the game in single player.”
Aaron chronicles his adventures here.
At this point, with no reply from those within EA who have responded to this matter in the past, we can only suggest that our readers avoid the EA forums. The chances of being banned seem far too risky, when the consequences are the loss of access to products you have paid for. We are aware we’re not the only ones looking into the legality of this matter.
You don't need to wonder anymore why people prefer Steam.
This is why a DD future is scary. You don't own shit. Terrible form from EA. If EA made decent games these days (and if they weren't also available on Steam and via retail) this would be a much bigger issue.
Hahaha that's what you get for posting on official forums. If I was in charge you'd be banned for any post.
Creator of Mario, Zelda Says "I’m Retiring", Will Make Smaller Games
Kotaku link
The man behind Super Mario Bros. and The Legend of Zelda says he plans to retire from his current position at Nintendo so he can spend time working on smaller projects and with younger developers or on his own, Wired reported tonight.
Shigeru Miyamoto, 59, told Wired's Chris Kohler that he's been telling people in his office that he's going to retire, but that he means he is retiring from his current position, not from the industry.
"What I really want to do is be in the forefront of game development once again myself," Miyamoto tells Wired. "Probably working on a smaller project with even younger developers. Or I might be interested in making something that I can make myself, by myself. Something really small."
The developer says he hopes to show off a new project he's working on sometime next year.
Sempiternae!
http://wii.ign.com/articles/121/1214255p1.html
This story has changed quite a bit overnight.
Absolutely terrible, and part of the reason that I hate the way things are going with people in the community being given authority (for example, Wikipedia). Give one of these little dicks any influence, and they will gladly take it out when they can. I have my Mass Effect 1 and 2 installed with my Origin account, but I don't really bother with that as I play those games on the Xbox anyway. I suppose they could go on to block my online pass access for it and other games, and fuck them.
It's no wonder that people are angry about the new 360 dashboard. Games are trying to find more and more ways to corral customers, and Randian dickheads have discovered that human compulsion can be completely abused to make them more money.
Last edited by The Rogerer; December 8th, 2011 at 10:20 AM.
What is the story with the 360 dashboard?
Hlebsfall
The Beast From Belarus
Emirates Champion
'Games' is something like the 4th option along for a start.
December 8th, 2011, 12:54 PM #60
Bad Collin
BC 4 Lyfe
It has adverts too doesn't it? Absolutlely disgraceful.
December 8th, 2011, 1:17 PM #61
I thought this, but at the same time I think about people paying for Sky Plus still having to manually skip through ad breaks. The 360 can justify that most of the 'ads' are actually just pointers to things they are offering on Xbox live. The adverts are arguably less intrusive now than they were in the previous update. I've said in the 360 thread, it has a few things going for it, but it comes across as a complete mess in other ways, and the Bing thing seems stupid unless you have a kinect and perfect diction.
December 20th, 2011, 9:38 PM #62
Americans spent $4.2 billion on games in Q3 - NPD
Gaming sales have been trending up recently, but the industry isn't far removed from the lean times, a fact that was hammered home today as the industry-tracking NPD Group released its sales figures for the July-September period. According to the market research firm's US Games Market Dynamics report, US consumers spent a total of $4.2 billion on games in the third quarter, down 11 percent year-over-year.
"New physical retail sales had a rough third quarter," said NPD analyst Anita Frazier in the report. "Increases in sales from some of these other monetization methods, and full game and add-on digital downloads in particular, only partially offset the decline seen in the new physical retail channel."
New sales of physical games totaled $1.3 billion for the quarter, with nontraditional gaming sources like used games, downloadable add-ons, subscriptions, and social game revenues combined to reach an estimated $1.64 billion. The remaining amount was accounted for by hardware and accessory sales.
The NPD Group wouldn't say if sales are improving, but Frazier did tease the company's next quarterly report (due in March), saying, "We are already seeing some dynamic changes in the marketplace in Q4." That report will also include the NPD Group's expansion into covering game sales in the UK, France, and Germany.
The third quarter report derived its figures from a combination of retail tracking, consumer studies, and spend predictions from retailers, as well as through "calibration with third-party sources."
In Week Two of the Vita vs. 3DS Showdown, Guess Who Lost?
On Dec. 17, Sony released the PS Vita, its PSP successor. The PS Vita is a fine machine (read Kotaku's review). In its first week, Sony sold over 360,000 Vitas.
But during the machine's second week, sales plunged to approximately 72,000 machines sold. That's fewer than the PSP, which came in second in hardware sales with over 100,000 units moved.
The Nintendo 3DS, no stranger to sluggish post launch sales, sold a whopping 482,000 units, thanks to a strong game line-up.
The sales week, Dec. 19 to Dec. 25, coincided with the country's Christmas—meaning that far more people were getting 3DS handhelds than Vita ones.
To put things into context, the Wii (91,176 units) and the PS3 (75,479 units) took third and fourth place.
If the Nintendo 3DS is any indication, don't count any of these handhelds out.
I think it will be really interesting to see sales numbers once the Vita launches in Europe and in the US. The lack of titles for the 3DS was a big disappointment for me, but Vita is touting quite a launch schedule. This is, however, the same way the 3DS started. They showed off some nice titles at events, and then didn't follow through on delivering them in the quick fashion they claimed. If Sony can support the Vita with quality titles in the "launch window" they should be able to build up steam.
January 2nd, 2012, 5:25 AM #64
Big Game Makers Take Names Off SOPA Support
The Stop Online Piracy Act, currently a bill before the Congress, is utterly detested by the Internet, in case you don't read the Internet. Gamers don't think much of it either, as it would have some rather stupid ramifications for how they enjoy that lifestyle and consume its products. So it's of note that Nintendo, Sony and Electronic Arts have taken their names off the latest list of supporters of the bill.
Business Insider points us to the official Senate Judiciary committee roundup of supporters and notes that, last time, Sony, Nintendo and EA were on this list. This time they aren't. It's not hard to guess why, given what happened to GoDaddy; it's terrible PR in the sector that is most opposed to the bill and requires the most management, even on a good day.
Now, Sony still has three music divisions listed in support, and as Voodoo Extreme notes, it, Nintendo and EA are members of the Entertainment Software Association, and that organization is still listed in support. So there's still lobbying in support of this bill done on behalf of all three, and you better believe they are very influential members of that organization. My opinion is that one of the three, maybe, and two of them definitely, could get the ESA to drop its name. That is my opinion, though.
To make a record of it, yes, we're aware that Anonymous has allegedly threatened Sony over this. Again, this is by definition a leaderless organization, so anyone can make and upload a video threat in its name. Similar calls to action have been shot down by others within Anonymous in the past. So whether this comes to pass, no one can say, and no one can say if this is even a legitimate threat.
But it does speak, generally, for the anger against SOPA, and it's not hard to see why Sony would pull its name—well, the names over its video game unit, anyway—from the bill in light of that. That's not to say it, Nintendo of America and EA no longer support it, not with the ESA still aboard.
January 11th, 2012, 1:35 PM #65
WantChina Times and Gameplanet are reporting that some 300 Foxconn employees working on Microsoft's Xbox 360 manufacturing line threatened suicide after the corporation denied a promised compensation package.
Foxconn--one of the world's largest contract manufacturers of electronic components and products for companies like Apple, Dell, HP, Nintendo, Sony, and Microsoft--has once again come under fire over poor working conditions at one of its Chinese factories.
According to a WantChina Times report, around 300 employees at the Foxconn Technology Park in Wuhan, China, (reportedly working on the Xbox 360 manufacturing line) threatened a mass suicide from the building's roof last week after Foxconn refused to pay out compensation packages it had previously promised.
Citing Chinese anti-government website China Jasmine Revolution, WantChina Times reports that the Foxconn employees first asked for a raise, which was refused, before being told they had a choice between continuing work at the current pay rate or quitting their positions and receiving a compensation package.
According to the report, Foxconn terminated the promised agreement when most of the employees chose the compensation package.
The workers climbed onto the building's roof and threatened to jump in protest, but were reportedly dissuaded from the suicide attempt by the mayor of Wuhan.
Microsoft has since issued the following statement to media in response to the reports:
"Microsoft takes working conditions in the factories that manufacture its products very seriously, and we are currently investigating this issue."
"We have a stringent Vendor Code of Conduct that spells out our expectations, and we monitor working conditions closely on an ongoing basis and address issues as they emerge. Microsoft is committed to the fair treatment and safety of workers employed by our vendors, and to ensuring conformance with Microsoft policy."
Foxconn made international headlines in 2010 after 18 employees attempted suicide, and 14 died in protest over poor working conditions and low wages throughout Foxconn's factories in China.
Sony CES briefing recap
Given Sony's position as a global consumer electronics giant, the company had no shortage of new tech to tout at its Consumer Electronics Show address Monday night. Sony trotted out various executives to talk about computers, phones, tablets, cameras, HD, 3D, and even a bit of PlayStation 3.
As for the game-specific content, that was anchored by Sony's showing for the PlayStation Vita. Set for release in North America and Europe next month, the PS Vita has sold more than 500,000 units since its Japanese debut in December. Sony followed that stat up with announcements that it had sold 6.5 million systems across all its PlayStation brands over the holidays, including 3.9 million PS3s and 1.6 million PSPs.
Back to the Vita, Sony Corporation executive deputy president Kaz Hirai announced a pair of new services that might be in place for the system's Western launch. First up, Hirai confirmed Sony's own Music Unlimited service for launch, and then he added that video streaming service Netflix is aiming to have its app ready for the PS Vita debut as well.
As for the PS3, the console's presence was somewhat muted at the show, with the biggest news coming in the form of the Play Memories Online service, launching this spring. Play Memories Online will allow users to upload their photos and videos to the cloud. The PS3 will be integrated with the service through the Play Memories Studio, an application that puts a gaming slant on viewing, sharing, and editing photos.
Other announcements touched on Sony's gaming arm, with word of new PlayStation Certified mobile devices. Sony also touted its push for 4K resolution (which has four times the number of pixels as current high-definition resolutions) in consumer electronics, starting with a new 4K home theater projector. The company is also working on 4K-capable TVs and upscaling Blu-ray players.
February 4th, 2012, 4:03 PM #66
Oklahama state rep wants violent-game tax
gamespot.com
The price to play video games rated Teen, Mature, and Adults-Only in Oklahoma might be on the rise. An Oklahoma state representative has introduced a new bill that would charge a 1 percent excise tax on "violent" video games.
As reported by Oklahoma news outlet KFOR, state representative Will Fourkiller (D. 86th District) last month introduced House Bill 2696 to the state's legislature. If the bill is signed into law by Republican governor Mary Fallin, all games sold in the state rated Teen, Mature, and Adults-Only would be charged a 1 percent excise tax beginning as early as July 1.
The money collected from the tax, according to the bill, would be given to Oklahoma's obesity-fighting Childhood Outdoor Education Revolving Fund and the Bullying Prevention Revolving Fund.
Fourkiller said he was inspired to draft the bill because he had witnessed obesity, violence, and bullying throughout his time as a teacher, coach, and registered nurse.
"A gentleman shot a police officer and stole his car," Fourkiller said. "He had been playing Grand Theft Auto. Not everybody is going to react the same, but I believe after hours and hours of watching the screen, playing the video game, being that person and taking on that role, people get desensitized."
Fourkiller specifically called out Rockstar Games' Bully, an open-world title that casts players as an adolescent wreaking havoc in a school setting. Fourkiller told the news site he was particularly surprised such a game exists, because bullying is what happens to many kids who play games like it, he said.
Fourkiller said the aim of HB 2696 is not to bring down the video game industry, or to eradicate Teen, Mature, and Adults-Only titles. He said the initiative is an effort to bring awareness to the matter of violence in video games.
According to the Oklahoma State Legislature information page regarding HB 2696, the bill will be read before the House on Monday, February 6.
How utterly pathetic.
Will the bill also include a tax to watch movies and TV shows rated Teen, Mature and Adults Only? I don't think so.
Tax should only ever be to raise money to pay for a societal need.
It should not be used to encourage or discourage behaviour/
DVDA
Oath Keeper
A democrat wanting to tax shit? No way.....
Not that I think you can really separate the two but why? I see no reason for a society not to tax to discourage behavior. Not when we set laws to discourage behavior.
That kind of Nanny State liberal thought is dangerous.
February 5th, 2012, 3:49 AM #72
What about tax on tobacco or alcohol?
Between cancer and drunk drivers I think that can be labeled as a societal need.
Well originally those taxes were to pay for the damage to society caused by those products. In recent years they have been used more to discourage use. It's social engineering and I dont think people would generally agree that they want their taxes used for that purpose. Taxes should be to provide services. Nothing more
It's social engineering and I dont think people would generally agree that they want their taxes used for that purpose. Taxes should be to provide services. Nothing more
Ya fuckin A right.
Again. Why? We set laws to socially engineer. I don't see a reason why a tax can't do the same.
Because that's not what a tax is. That's not what it's for. If someone told you, "well, we want more people to eat out in restaurants because the industry is failing, so lets put a tax on groceries, making them more expensive and thus encouraging people to eat out at places there food wont be taxed so much" would that be ok with you?
If you (society) dont want people to smoke, then it should be a law that they cant smoke. Propose a bill to ban it completely and let democracy take its course. Otherwise let people smoke, and tax it to the extent that smoking costs society (i.e. healthcare costs, and enforcement of anti smoking laws). Dont tell people that they can do something but that the tax man is going to make money off you for doing it for no other reason than so they can say "well you shouldn't do it then". Thats bullshit.
There is a tax on housing because money needs to to be raised to pay for social needs like street lighting, local government and refuse, amongst other things. There should be a tax on smoking only to pay for its costs to society. There should be a tax on video games for only the same reasons. I.e no tax other than the same sales taxes that are on any other product.
Maybe if it could be proven scientifically that violent videogames harm society the same way smoking has been proven to harm society (and trust me, this has never been conclusively proven, only bellowed from the rooftops by people who need to champion a cause), then I could accept and support an extra tax on those games.
A fee charged ("levied") by a government on a product, income, or activity. If tax is levied directly on personal or corporate income, then it is a direct tax. If tax is levied on the price of a good or service, then it is called an indirect tax. The purpose of taxation is to finance government expenditure. One of the most important uses of taxes is to finance public goods and services, such as street lighting and street cleaning. Since public goods and services do not allow a non-payer to be excluded, or allow exclusion by a consumer, there cannot be a market in the good or service, and so they need to be provided by the government or a quasi-government agency, which tend to finance themselves largely through taxes.
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Aside from the reasons already given, why should a tax on adult entertainment (violent games) be directly used to support children?
That too
Whether or not I would personally be okay with something doesn't acthally have much to do with if it's a legitamit use. I'm not okay with the fact that it's illegal to smoke marijuana but I'm not about to claim that the purpose of a law isn't to some extent social engineering.
It seems to me that a sin tax is basically everybody coming together and meeting halfway. The folks that want it illegal get to charge you extra to do it so in theory less people will do it (whatever it is, it can be alcohol and drugs or as you put it groceries though I'm not certain that would work but I see your point) and the people who want to do it still get to do it. Everybody wins and everybody loses and in the spirit of cooperation and moderation everybody goes home and shuts up since they got something.
Taxes as you point out are for funding a government and beyond that it gets real hazy real fast. Housing taxes do go to street lights and schools but I don't have children, my head lights work perfectly well and I own several flash lights. Fuck street lights. Fuck schools. We have however as a society decided that both of these things should exist. Once taxes are collected however they are just tossed into the account and you would have a difficult time separating them back out if you tried.
As far as specifically a tax on video games if you could prove that video games caused violence (something I'm personally very skeptical of) how would you find out on the otherside how much violence is caused by it to levy an "appropriate" tax. If I understand your point it's basically that a sin tax should be used to pay for the damage it causes and no more. Well sure smoking causes lung cancer but sometimes lung cancer just happenes. Same with drinking and liver damage or drinking and car accidents. If you could prove video games cause an increase in violence still how much violence can you blame on it or do you simply assume that ALL of it is caused by games and use that as a baseline.
The dictionary definition of a tax seems to be pointless here. It's like me pointing as I beat you to death with a shovel that the purpose of a shovel is to dig holes and not be used as a weapon. Clearly it can be used as a weapon and depending on the situation is quite effective in that role. The same goes for a tax, it's purpose is to finance a government. That's not proof it cannot be used effectively for other things nor a reason in and of itself not use it for other purposes.
I'm not actually for a video game tax I think it's silly and misguided. I have no probplem whatsoever with setting taxes to discourage behavior that we as a society deem to be bad but not so bad that we want to waste money on having the legal system deal with you. Personally I wish we'd do it more often and get rid of a lot of laws that are really just clogging up our legal system, our jails and eating money that could otherwise be spent on frankly anything. If I could get all the people in jail for drug use and recoup the money we spend/spent on lawyers (both prosecution and defense not to mention the DA and everybody involved with the paperwork) and guards and the costs of keeping a prisoner I could care less if they litterally just flew a biplane over the superbowl raining raining it down it would be a better use of the funds than what we are currently doing. I'd much rather get some money out of them not to mention with any luck cause a serious blow to the gangs thriving on gun sales. Same for prostitution. I think it's a waste of money to do all the things I mentioned above to keep a man who's major flaw is being to pathetic to get laid or a woman who's willing to sell her body in jail. It doesn't make sense.
If your argument is that we shouldn't use a tax that way I'd like to know your reasoning for why it shouldn't be used that beyond that wasn't the original plan for one.
I've already explained my reasons. The government shouldnt be encouraging or discouraging any types of behaviour with incentives. If something is legal, then you should be able to do it. If they want to take some of the legitimate tax on cigarettes to create posters and ads advising me of the health risks then fine, thats cool. But they really shouldnt be tell me I have to pay more to do one legal activity than I would pay to do another.
We shouldn't have a government nannying us into marrying through tax breaks for couples. We shouldnt have a government pushing us towards staying in loveless relationships because of the financial incentives. We shouldnt have the government tacing us extra for smoking "for our own good" when we all know they would completely shit themselves if everyone did stop smoking because their cashflow would substantially drop. We shouldnt have a government encouraging us into making any decisions by making our cost of living higher or lower artificially. It's punishment for a legal activity, and reward for acting a certain way. It's bullshit
Ah. I disagree but I see you're point.
PSN accounts undergoing name change
Beginning February 8, the PlayStation Network will be officially folded into Sony Entertainment Network; new terms of use prohibit cancelling preorders.
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Later this week, PlayStation Network accounts will become Sony Online Entertainment accounts, the Japanese technology giant announced today.
The change will happen on February 8 when players sign on to the service and accept the new terms of service, user agreement, and privacy policies. At that time, all PlayStation 3 and PlayStation Vita (but not PSP) accounts will be renamed rebranded as SEN.
According to Sony, the change is in name only, and users will not be asked to change their passwords or usernames.
"This helps us get closer to our goal of establishing a global comprehensive network platform of services across games, movies, music, and more," reads a line from Sony's statement.
The Sony Entertainment Network was first announced in August as a service that included Sony's three major online businesses: PSN, Video Unlimited, and Music Unlimited.
The new terms of service and policy agreements include a number of changes, among them a specific clause that preorders placed through PSN can not be cancelled.
"You may not cancel a preorder at any time, and refunds are not available for preorders, subject to applicable laws," reads the line from the document.
In September, the PSN's terms of service agreement was updated to prohibit class-action lawsuits against Sony. Months later, Sony was sued over the issue, with a northern California man claiming unfair business practices on the part of technology giant.
Fucking Sony. Now next time they get hacked all the information is in one location. The inability for cancellation of per-orders isn't too great either.
We are on the verge of the next generation of consoles, and Sony can't stop hurting their own image this generation. I like my PS3, but it has been full of broken promises and disappointments. Not to mention they seem to drop an originally touted feature each year. (back-compatibility one year, no dual boot OS the next)
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Originally Posted by doct1400
Ah. I disagree
No, yer just too fuckin dumb to understand.
February 20th, 2012, 4:33 PM #86
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Originally Posted by Defrost
Bert you are my hero.
Originally Posted by Fanny
also Bert is a badass everyone's afraid of now
Bert, you're one of my favourite posters.
Originally Posted by Vice
You are a glorious bastard.
bert is one of the best posters ever
February 21st, 2012, 5:58 AM #87
Winston Nicks A Lilt.
'When a man insults my country, I insult him... by taking his woman' - Tony Yeboah. Alf is the 'Official Hot Squeeze' as voted by the RQA. Level 5 cocksmith.
Metal Gear Rex vs Ray was brilliant.
Wrong thread... ehhhhhh?
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February 21st, 2012, 1:38 PM #88
Sony Working on its own Kinect
A patent filed in late 2011, but which has only been published this month, reveals that Sony is working on its own version of Kinect, Microsoft's popular motion-sensing peripheral for the Xbox 360 (and now PC).
Of course, the argument could be made that Kinect was Microsoft's own version of Sony's EyeToy (indeed, this new patent directly references 2003 trademarks Sony owns), a camera released almost a decade ago on the PlayStation 2 (and updated for the PlayStation 3), but it's too nice a day here to get bogged down in that quagmire.
The patent is for a "USER-DRIVEN THREE-DIMENSIONAL INTERACTIVE GAMING ENVIRONMENT", which would involve plugging a camera into a PlayStation and using it to read both a player's movements and their positioning in a 3D space.
It was filed by none other than Richard Marks, the main man behind Sony's PlayStation Move peripheral.
Now, as with any other patent, remember this doesn't mean Sony will be releasing a 3D camera for the PS3 (or a future console). It just means the company is thinking about it.
3DS Hits 5 Million Sales in Japan, Sets Record
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The Nintendo 3DS is the fastest selling system in Japanese hardware history.
That's the word from Nintendo today, as their handheld eclipsed the five million sales mark just 52 weeks after its February 26 launch last year.
The 3DS unseats its predecessor, the DS, by getting to 5,000,000 four weeks faster. The DS had previously beaten its predecessor, the Game Boy Advance, by two weeks in getting to five million.
All of the data comes by way of Media Create.
If you do better with pictures than words, this handy chart tells the same story.
Now these points of data make a beautiful line…
So much for the 3DS being the new Virtual Boy.
This is why I think it's too early for people to start doomsaying the Vita. Once a Monster Hunter game comes out for it, sales are going to skyrocket in Japan.
February 22nd, 2012, 4:44 PM #91
RKOEvolution
Gearbox has revealed the release date for the much-awaited FPS/RPG hybrid Borderlands 2! The first Borderlands was an amazing game for co-op with your buddies or randoms online and the sequel appears to step it up a bit. Will be a day-one purchase for me.
Source: http://www.g4tv.com/thefeed/blog/pos...ate-announced/
The release date for Borderlands 2 has been announced. The games hits PC, PS3 and 360 on September 18, 2012. Mark your calendars, people.
The sequel will feature all new characters, skills, environments, enemies, weapons and equipment, which are designed to come together in an ambitiously crafted story. Yeah, that sounds pretty good to me, man.
February 29th, 2012, 8:07 AM #92
#WOKEN
So GAME in the UK have announced that they are not stocking any future EA games after SSX, including Mass Effect 3. Add this to a list of titles that already includes Tekken Prime 3D, The Last Story, Mario Party 9 and (for the launch weekend at least) all of Ubisoft's Vita titles.
The story is that they have lost their credit insurance and so are struggling to pay for these games up front. When you consider that Mass Effect 3 is one of the biggest releases of the year, and they originally had exclusive rights to sell the collector's edition, it's hard not to think that GAME will be entering administration any day now...
If they last another six months then you can add FIFA 13 to that list as well.
That said, if they really don't make any money on new games then does it really matter?
RISE ABOVE HATE
Leaked memo details GAME-EA rift
While MCV is still awaiting an official response from GAME regarding the news that Mass Effect 3 won’t be in-stores next week, an internal memo from current group channel director Tom Devine has shed some light on the situation.
The document, obtained by IGN, appears to confirm Eurogamer’s claims that SSX will be the last EA title to appear in GAME and Gamestation stores for the time being upon its release on Friday.
Here’s the memo in full:
“Last week we held an event for out partners in the industry and explained the challenges we are facing in the short term – and we asked for their support. We asked them to trade with us using manageable credit terms, and for them to continue to do that whilst we work through the strategic review and refinancing our business.
“We gave the industry commitments – we committed to integrity and openness in our dealings, and working with everyone equally.
“We committed to only stocking products on which we could get the right credit terms, regardless of the title or the supplier. We will not stock products if the terms are not right for our business – we will not sacrifice long-term credit requirements for short-term sales opportunities.
“As a result of us taking this position – a position that we believe is critical to our long-term health as a business – we have taken the very difficult decision not to stock EA’s March releases, including Mass Effect 3.
“As a specialist retailer dedicated to games and gaming, it is never easy to make a decision not to stock a title, particularly one with such a strong fan base, it is imperative that we treat every supplier evenly, that we stick to our commitments, and that we don’t sign up to payment terms that will hamper us further in the future.
“It is even more critical that we manage the a[appropriately with our loyal customers. We know they will be disappointed regarding Mass Effect in particular, and in recognition of thus, we will be contacting our Mass Effect pre-order customers and as a gesture of goodwill we will be offering them £5 of reward card/elite card credit.
“I know that many of you will have to mage customer and supplier feedback directly, and I would like to thank you in advance for your support and am prepared to answer any questions you have directly – just grab me as I walk around.”
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Originally Posted by RKOEvolution
Happy with that. Borderlands was great co-op with the obvious shite end boss being its only real downfall. And 18th September, perfect for a birthday present, woop.
I'm glad Borderlands 2 on PC is going to be $50 instead of $60, I'll preorder if it shows up on Steam.
March 5th, 2012, 2:11 PM #97
UNSTOPPABLE. UNBEATABLE.
Valve Building A Console?
Steam Box: Is Valve Working on a Console?
By David Daw, PCWorld Mar 5, 2012 10:00 AM
Could gaming software titan Valve be getting into the hardware business? The makers of iconic games like Half Life and Portal and the creators of the gaming distribution program Steam are reportedly working on a hardware platform they could be announcing as early as this week’s Game Development Conference.
The rumor, reported by The Verge last Friday, puts Valve in an interesting position to shape the next generation of console gaming. The hardware’s presumed heavy integration with Steam would create a console store that Xbox Live Arcade and the PlayStation Store would have a lot of trouble keeping up with. PCWorld Editor Jason Cross actually discussed the advantages Steam has over other game and app stores on a recent episode of the Game On podcast.
The Verge speculates that Valve’s console would feature upgradable hardware that used biometrics in some way along with a proprietary controller that let you swap out components depending on game type. Valve filed a patent for just such a controller last year.
This is all in line with Valve president Gabe Newell’s comments in a recent interview with the PA Report. In the interview Newell confirmed that the company had some exciting plans ahead with biometrics in games, and even confirmed that the company was looking into the hardware space saying simple “well, if we have to sell hardware we will.”
Without any actual confirmation, this is simply remains a rumor. But we may find out what (if anything) Valve has in store soon. Rumor has it that Valve was already setting up meetings about their new console at CES and is planning to reveal the hardware either at this week’s GDC or at E3 this summer. We’ll let you know here at Game On as soon as we hear more.
GAME not stocking Street Fighter X Tekken and Asura's Wrath
Capcom's Street Fighter X Tekken and Asura's Wrath will not be available from GAME or Gamestation.
Both were scheduled for release this Friday on March 9th.
It is the latest in a string of blockbusters not stocked by the High Street chain, including Mass Effect 3, Mario Party 9, The Last Story and FIFA Street.
GAME has lost credit insurance with suppliers following a poor Christmas.
It has been given some support by its banks, but has had to negotiate better credit deals with its suppliers.
The company has failed to secure better terms with Nintendo, EA and now Capcom.
Both Street Fighter and Asura's Wrath will be available at HMV, Play.com, Amazon.co.uk, Shopto.net, The Hut, leading independent retailers and supermarkets.
No decision has yet been made on Resident Evil: Operation Raccoon City, which launches on March 23rd.
"Unfortunately Capcom must confirm that Street Fighter x Tekken for PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 and Asura’s Wrath, both scheduled for release on Friday March 9, will not be stocked by GAME or gamestation either in their retail outlets or on their online stores operating in the UK and Ireland," a Capcom spokesperson told MCV.
"Capcom wants to reassure its consumers that both these titles, including the Special Edition of Street Fighter X Tekken, will be available at a wide variety of retailers across the UK and Ireland. For those consumers who have already placed a deposit for a pre-order for any of these titles then a full refund will be available – please contact your local GAME or Gamestation shop or visit the online stores."
March 6th, 2012, 6:46 AM #99
Originally Posted by Judas Iscariot
Steambox would pretty much kill any interest I have in an Xbox720 or PS4 to be honest. Do want.
March 6th, 2012, 7:36 AM #100
Originally Posted by Bert
It is my birthday on release day, Bort... hook me up?
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IOWA CITY, Iowa — Mak is back and the No. 14/13 University of Iowa women’s basketball team continues to roll.
Junior guard Makenzie Meyer returned to the court after missing two games with a knee injury and the Hawkeyes (20-5 overall, 11-3 Big Ten) won their fourth game in a row, 88-66, over Illinois (10-15, 2-12) on Thursday in front of 6,877 on Mediacom Court in Carver-Hawkeye Arena.
Meyer entered the game with 6:32 left in the first quarter and two seconds later, she made a layup to tie the game, 6-6. She finished with 10 points, one of four Hawkeyes to score in double figures. Senior center Megan Gustafson scored 27 points with 17 rebounds (in 28 minutes), junior guard Kathleen Doyle scored 12 points with four assists, and senior guard Tania Davis contributed 10 points and a game-high five assists.
“Tania had a nice game for us,” Iowa head coach Lisa Bluder said. “She shot the ball well, had five assists, only one turnover, had four rebounds. She did a good job leading us.”
Davis was 5-of-5 from the field. Gustafson was 9-of-11 from the field and 9-of-11 from the line.
Iowa won the battle of the boards, 44-26, and outscored the Illini, 48-16, in the paint.
The Hawkeyes scored 20-or-more points in all four quarters for just the second time this season and the first time since crushing Western Kentucky, 104-67, on Nov. 13.
Alex Wittinger led Illinois with 15 points and seven rebounds. She scored seven points in the fourth quarter.
QUOTING COACH BLUDER
“I’m happy with four people in double figures. We shot the ball well. Again, high assists (19). I’m really excited about the rebounding. I thought we dominated the boards and it allowed us to get our transition going which I thought was also good.”
STATISTIC OF THE GAME
Seventy-eight. That’s how many times Gustafson has finished with a double-double in points and rebounds during her career, a Big Ten Conference record. Ohio State’s Jantel Lavender had 77 double-doubles from 2007-11 before being selected in the first round of the WNBA Draft by the Los Angeles Sparks.
“That’s pretty cool that she just claimed another one of those records that had stood for quite a while,” Bluder said. “She continues to dominate in the scorebook.”
MAKE IT 10 IN A ROW
Iowa shot better than 70 percent from the field in the first (71.4) and fourth (72.7) quarters to finish at 55.2 percent for the game (32 of 58). The Hawkeyes have shot above 50 percent from the field in 10 consecutive games.
Iowa has won 17 consecutive games on Mediacom Court in Carver-Hawkeye Arena, including a 13-0 mark this season. The last loss for the Hawkeyes at home was 92-74 against Nebraska on Jan. 28, 2018.
All eyes will be on Iowa City on Sunday when the Hawkeyes entertain league-leading No. 7/8 Maryland (23-2, 12-2) with tip-off set for noon (CT). The Terrapins defeated Nebraska, 89-63, on Thursday.
“We’re excited, for sure,” Gustafson said. “We’re going to keep focusing on preparing every game, no matter who we’re playing. This will be fun game, we’re expecting a nice crowd, so we’re excited.”
Tickets for Sunday’s game may be purchased HERE.
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Delhi High Court seeks government reply on unsafe drugs ban plea
Ranbaxy whistleblower Dinesh Thakur, who first filed the case in October, has raised several questions about the government and regulator's accountability towards the public as well as the country's parliamentary committees and statutory bodies.
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NEW DELHI: The Delhi High Court has given the health ministry time till January 4 to respond to a lawsuit seeking a ban on certain medicines sold in India even after government experts flagged them for safety issues several years ago, ET has learnt.
Thakur, in his petition, asked the court to direct the Union health ministry to ban three drugs from the Indian market -- appetite stimulant buclizine, anti-depressant flupenthixol+melitracen and painkiller aceclofenac+drotavarine. He also sought a disciplinary enquiry and criminal proceedings against “any corrupt practices and negligent conduct” in the process of granting approvals for these drugs.
The government is expected to explain what action they plan to take on these drugs and explain why they haven’t been banned yet under Section 26A of the Drugs & Cosmetics Act, said Sai Vinod, the lawyer who filed the petition on Thakur’s behalf. “They also have to explain why enquiry into how these drugs were approved in the first place has not been concluded in so many years," he told ET.
The court is expected to hear the case next on March 20. While the government last week banned buclizine for appetite stimulation, the rest of the drugs are still available in the Indian market.
"Way back in 2012, the honourable (Parliamentary) Standing Committee (in their 59th report) raised serious doubts regarding the safety, efficacy and stability of the abovementioned drugs," said Thakur in his petition.
The three medicines together had a market size of around Rs 67 crore for the 12 months ended November 2018, shows pharmaceutical market research firm AIOCD PharmaTrac.
ET's queries to the health ministry and the Central Drugs Standard Control Organisation (CDSCO), India's apex drug regulatory body, remained unanswered till press-time on Thursday.
Slow Action
Thakur reckons the government failed to take action even after the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Health and Family Welfare and statutory bodies such as the Drugs Technical Advisory Board pointed out potential safety issues with these drugs.
"More than six years have lapsed since the issue was red-flagged by the honourable Standing Committee," his petition stated, adding the government has not satisfactorily determined the safety and efficacy of these medicines.
The health ministry on December 13 banned the use of buclizine as an appetite stimulant, nearly a week after the court's order. However, two senior health ministry officials told ET on the condition of anonymity that the ban was not a result of the ongoing court case.
"This (the move to restrict buclizine) has been going on for much longer," one official said.
As early as 2013, the health ministry's New Drugs Approval Committee (NDAC) found "no convincing literature" to support the use of buclizine as an appetite stimulant for children.
DTAB has made "repeated" recommendations to prohibit the flupenthixol+melitracen combination, but government efforts to ban the drug have been overturned by the Karnataka High Court, according to Thakur's petition. At the same time, while the Karnataka court told the government to reconsider the matter in July 2017, the Centre has not taken any steps since, he alleged.
"Worryingly, the respondents (health ministry and CDSCO)…are still unable to ascertain the extent of illegalities and procedural lapses that may have resulted in granting faulty market approvals,” the petition stated, adding no penal or disciplinary action has been initiated against the manufacturers or government officials involved in granting the approvals.
His latest petition follows a letter he wrote to the Prime Minister's Office in May seeking a commission to investigate the manner in which several potentially irrational medicines have been approved and marketed in India.
It also marks his second attempt at fighting a legal battle over this issue after he withdrew an earlier petition at the Supreme Court of India in March 2016.
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Scientists Try To Thwart Flu Virus By Resetting Its Clock
By Lydia Zuraw
When flu viruses (in red) accumulate an escape protein too quickly, they exit the cell nucleus (in blue) before they've made enough viral copies to spread the infection.
Flu viruses can tell time. Sort of. And the viral clock-watching could provide a new way to fight the flu.
A study in Cell Reports describes how researchers tapped into the flu's internal clock as they search for ways to keep the virus from spreading.
Flu viruses hijack the machinery inside host cells to replicate. The theft is a complicated process that takes time. A virus enters the nucleus of the cell, copies itself thousands of times and then breaks out before the immune system attacks. Every minute counts.
"I like to equate it to a bank robber who knows that no matter what he does, he's going to set off some alarm," says Benjamin tenOever, a virologist at Mount Sinai School of Medicine who led the research. "In anticipation of that, he times what the police response is to get from the station to the bank."
While replicating, the virus directs the cell to produce a protein that the virus needs to exit. The protein level serves as a kind of hourglass for the flu. After about eight hours in the cell, the virus has enough to skedaddle and leaves.
To trick the flu, researchers fiddled with how fast the escape protein accumulates inside cells. Speed up the protein production, and the virus leaves the cell before it has made enough copies to infect someone else. Slow down the protein production, and the virus dawdles long enough to be rubbed out by the body's immune system.
TenOever hopes that this understanding of how viruses keep track of time will aid in creating more effective antiviral drugs and flu vaccines, though nothing like that is likely to materialize anytime soon. "If you could simply look for small molecules that interact with this protein, you would essentially cause the virus to live in the cells too long, which would give our immune systems enough time to catch it red-handed," he says.
And inoculating people with a defective virus that can't keep track of the time, tenOever says, "would allow even those who perhaps didn't have the same immune system strength of a 2- to 49-year-old to receive it because you're lowering the capacity of the virus to cause disease."
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Doc’s license revoked after 20 years of complaints
Health News Florida | By Carol Gentry
Published April 1, 2011 at 10:57 AM EDT
Sarasota physician Leonard Rubenstein was a thorn in the side of the medical establishment for nearly 20 years.
Time after time, patients complained that he charged them large sums for tests and treatments that not only didn’t work, but were unnecessary to begin with.
State health officials filed 24 complaints against him through the years, including allegations of financial exploitation of patients. He was reprimanded repeatedly, fined more than $50,000 and placed on probation at least three times.
Finally, on Friday, the Board of Medicine revoked his license.
Steven Lubell, Rubenstein’s attorney, told the board that was “unduly harsh” and said the doctor’s actions did not warrant the medical equivalent of the “death penalty.”
But Department of Health attorney Sharmin Hibbert said previous medical boards had imposed repeated discipline on Rubenstein, without result.
“What else is there you can do?” she asked. “You’ve imposed every possible penalty and this behavior has not stopped.”
This time, DOH prosecutors were armed with a legal opinion from Administrative Law Judge Susan B. Harrell. After taking testimony in three cases, she recommended revocation of Rubenstein’s license in each one.
Rubenstein was also asked to pay the state’s cost of prosecution, more than $98,000.
He can appeal the revocation to the courts.
In another case Friday, the board dismissed the case against emergency room physician Michael Lawless of St. Petersburg in two cases, including one involving the death of a 28-year-old from an aneurysm. Members of the board said Lawless handled both cases appropriately.
“The standard of care is ‘what would a reasonable and prudent practitioner do, not a perfect one,’” said Lisa Tucker, an obstetrician from Pensacola.
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Carol Gentry, founder and special correspondent of Health News Florida, has four decades of experience covering health finance and policy, with an emphasis on consumer education and protection.
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'Cultured': A Look At How Foods Can Help The Microbes Inside Us Thrive
By Jonathan Lambert
Korean kimchi, made of salted and fermented vegetables, contains microbes that contribute to its distinctive taste.
Katherine Harmon Courage wants us to think about digestion as a collaborative journey between us and our microbes. In her new book, Cultured: How Ancient Foods Can Feed Our Microbiome, she envisions digestion not as a simple food-in, excrement-out process, but as a series of encounters with varying microbial players that takes place along the winding 30-foot tunnel of our gastrointestinal tract. Along the way, microbes digest the food we can't, and in return we give them a warm, well-stocked place to live.
But a surge in microbiome research over the past two decades has revealed they do much more than simply digest food. They can mediate weight gain, fight off infection, and even alter our mood. Scientists still have much to learn about the identity of these microbes, which are important, and how the beneficial ones work their magic.
Incomplete understanding hasn't stopped the burgeoning probiotic industry, which argues that we can improve our gut health by taking a pill stuffed with billions of beneficial strains of bacteria, or eating a probiotic-infused yogurt with breakfast. The thinking goes that we just need to eat the right microbes to construct a healthier gut.
Courage believes this focus on the microbes themselves is myopic. She views the process of digestion as collaborative because the food we put into our bodies affects the kinds of bacteria that live and thrive there. In her book, she explores the science behind how what we feed our microbes affects our health.
She thinks we can learn how to better work together with our microbial partners by looking to the past. From Greenland to Greece, Courage explores the ancient gut-friendly foods that have become integral parts of many food cultures, and offers suggestions on how to diversify the kinds of foods we feed our microbiome.
We spoke with Courage about the science behind pro- and prebiotics, and what she learned exploring fermented staples across the world. The interview has been edited for brevity and clarity.
A lot of the buzz around the microbiome has been about the microbes themselves, and what they do for us. You focus much of your book on what they eat, the " prebiotics" we feed them. Why?
It may be less interesting to talk about fiber than about all these new species we're learning about and infusing into foods, but what we feed our microbes is just as important as what microbes are there.
I think that, from our human perspective, it's helpful to think about microbes in two broad categories. There are microbes that we have in our guts throughout our lives that are adapted for living there, and then there are the microbes we get from food or supplements. Those latter ones just kind of pass through. They can survive the journey, and can certainly provide benefits along the way, but they aren't long-term residents of the gut, and they're not going to have the long-term health impacts that more-permanent residents might have.
We're starting to learn more about how we can create the conditions for those resident microbes to thrive and potentially benefit us, and a large part of that is what we feed them. And much of what we feed them is fiber.
What happens if we don't feed our microbes?
So then they start to eat us — our lower intestine, which is only a single human cell thick, which helps us absorb as much as we can from our digested food before we expel it. But it also makes it easy for things to escape.
When our microbes don't get enough fiber, they can start eating away the mucus lining protecting this thin layer, and sometimes the lining can break, which can lead, literally, to leaky gut syndrome, which is associated with many poor health outcomes.
When I think of fiber, I think processed, cardboard-like breakfast cereal. Is fiber more diverse than that? How important is having a diverse diet of fiber to cultivating a healthy microbiome?
Prebiotic fiber is just any kind of carbohydrate that we can't digest ourselves that instead passes through out digestive system as food for microbes. There are many different types of fiber that get broken down by different microbes at different stages of digestion. That's why it's a good idea to eat a wide variety of foods, and not just focus on a particular supplement here and there. Lots of different kinds of fibers help lots of different microbes thrive and create different beneficial compounds for us. Which is good because we're learning that generally, a more diverse microbiome is an indicator of health. If you look at people's guts around the world — and even in the same society — people with more diverse microbiomes tend to be healthier overall.
What are some examples of different types of fiber and the foods that carry them?
One kind of fiber that's gotten a lot of focus is inulin. We've actually been adding it to foods for longer than we've been looking closely at it, but it's commonly found in foods like chicory root or sunchokes. It's a very long carbohydrate chain, which means it takes a bit longer to pass through our system and get broken down by microbes. Research shows that it encourages growth of bifidobacteria, lactobacteria [two strains of bacteria commonly associated with health benefits].
Another big one comes from fruits and veggies, called Fructo-oligosaccharides. It's shorter than inulin and adding it to your diet has been shown to reduce markers of inflammation.
Galacto-oligosaccharides are another form of fiber found in milk, and are broken down in the colon.
I was really surprised to learn about resistant starch as another form of fiber. It comes from more simple carbohydrates that have been cooked and then cooled; think of cold potato or pasta salad. So once those starches are crystallized, they become the type of resistant starch that our bodies can't break down anymore [but our microbes can]. Even cold pasta, which you don't necessarily think of as being healthy, can be a great source of resistant starch.
Do other aspects of our diet besides fiber affect the microbiome?
Almost everything we eat has some kind of impact on our microbes. One example I talk about in the book is meat. Really kind of fatty meats like pork can have a negative health impact on us via our microbes, because they produce a metabolite called TMAO, which has been linked to negative health outcomes. But fish oil has been shown to be beneficial — the microbes of mice fed fish oil instead of pork lard produced much fewer TMAOs.
Another exciting area of research is looking at how gene expression in the same microbial strains can change, based on what they're being fed. Different metabolites get produced not by different microbes, but by the same microbes being fed differently.
You looked at a lot of research comparing Western diets to more traditional, hunter-gatherer diets. How did their diets and microbiomes differ?
Researchers look to hunter-gatherer societies to try to understand what our ancestral diets looked like, before the advent of agriculture. This can give us clues potentially to the kinds of diets humans are adapted for.
These studies find that we eat a lot less fiber than we probably used to.
The FDA recommends something like 30 grams of fiber a day, but most Americans don't even get that. Traditional hunter-gatherer cultures, like the Hadza group in Africa, eat 100-plus grams of fiber a day.
So people eating modern, Western diets are getting maybe 15 to 30 grams of fiber a day, when our bodies may be adapted to expect over 100. This lack of fiber seems to be making a big impact on the diversity of our microbiome. These traditional, high-fiber dieters have a much more diverse microbiome than [people eating] more modern diets, [and the former] is often linked to better health outcomes. It's hard to draw hard conclusions about cause and effect here, because there are so many other lifestyle factors at play, but it certainly seems that our low-fiber diet is not great for our health.
In reporting your book, you go on a culinary quest exploring all these different fermented and microbial foods. What was the most surprising food you encountered?
By far it was Kiviak, which is a traditional Inuit food from Greenland. Kiviak is birds, specifically Auks, fermented inside a seal skin. So when Auks are in season they capture the birds and stuff [up to 500] in the seal skin, sew it up and leave it underground to ferment for a year, and then dig it up and eat it.
It's important to remember that fermentation didn't necessarily come about because people were thinking about the health benefits. It was a way to preserve foods and make it through a harsh Greenland winter.
A lot of these foods are not seen as individual things to be eaten for a specific benefit, but rich, integral parts of food culture. How does culture shape how we feed our microbiome?
There's really not a culture out there that doesn't incorporate some kind of fermented food, and many have a rich diversity of different kinds of fermented foods.
We think about things like kimchi as being the Korean fermented food, and it is actually their national food, but they have so many other kinds of fermented foods that they infuse throughout the whole cuisine.
These foods aren't really viewed as this separate thing. You're not eating kimchi as a little healthful snack for your microbes and then going back to your normal diet. These fermented foods are incorporated into the food culture — they're condiments, sides, flavorings. A meal seems incomplete or unbalanced without them.
And that kind of consistency is a healthier, more sustainable way to feed our microbiome?
Yes. Generally, the kind of wild fermented foods — like kimchi, sauerkraut, or pickles — tend to have a higher diversity of microbes than your store-bought, probiotic-infused yogurts. Whether each individual strain in these foods is good for us is still unknown, but again, higher diversity tends to be associated with better health.
What advice do you have for those wanting to boost the health of their microbiome?
It's really about creating the right environment for our native microbes, and the best way to do that is by eating a lot of diverse types of fiber for them. I don't think probiotics or seeking out specific fermented foods is bad, of course, but focusing on fiber is a good first step.
Jonathan Lambert
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Rural Areas Send Their Sickest Patients To The Cities, Straining Hospital Capacity
KCUR | By Alex Smith
Saint Luke's Hospital of Kansas City is one of the 18 hospitals in the Saint Luke's Health System. Two-thirds of the COVID-19 patients transferred to Saint Luke's from rural areas need intensive care. "We get the sickest of the sick," says Dr. Marc Larsen.
In Kansas City, hospitals are treating local COVID-19 patients as well as patients transferred from rural counties in Missouri and Kansas, where there's no mandate or culture for wearing masks.
Registered nurse Pascaline Muhindura has spent the last eight months treating COVID-19 patients at Research Medical Center in Kansas City, Missouri.
But when she returns home to her small town of Spring Hill, Kansas, she's often stunned by what she sees, like on a recent stop for carryout.
"No one in the entire restaurant was wearing a mask," Muhindura says. "And there's no social distancing. I had to get out, 'cause I almost had a panic attack. I was like 'What is going on with people? Why are we still doing this?'"
Many rural communities across the U.S. have resisted masks and calls for social distancing during the coronavirus pandemic, but now rural counties are experiencing record-high infection and death rates
Critically ill rural patients are often sent to city hospitals for high-level treatment, and as their numbers grow, some urban hospitals are buckling under the added strain.
Kansas City has a mask mandate, but in many smaller communities nearby, masks aren't required — or masking orders are routinely ignored. In the last few months, rural counties in both Kansas and Missouri have seen some of the highest rates of COVID-19 in the country.
At the same time, about three out of four counties in Kansas and Missouri don't have a single intensive care unit bed, so when people from these places get critically ill, they're sent to city hospitals.
A recent patient count at St. Luke's Health System in Kansas City showed a quarter of COVID-19 patients had come from outside of the metro.
Two-thirds of the patients coming from rural areas need intensive care and stay in the hospital for an average of two weeks, says Dr. Marc Larsen, who leads COVID-19 treatment at St. Luke's.
"Not only are we seeing an uptick in those patients in our hospital from the rural community, they are sicker when we get them because [doctors in smaller communities] are able to handle the less sick patients, and we get the sickest of the sick," says Larsen.
Dr. Rex Archer, head of Kansas City's health department, warns that capacity at the city's 33 hospitals is being put at risk by the influx of rural patients.
"We've had this huge swing that's occurred because they're not wearing masks, and yes, that's putting pressure on our hospitals, which is unfair to our residents — to our residents that might be denied an ICU bed," Archer says.
A study newly released by the Centers For Disease Control and Prevention showed that Kansas counties that had mandated masks in early July had decreases in new COVID-19 cases, while counties without mask mandates had increases.
Hospital leaders have continued to plead with Missouri's Republican Governor Mike Parson, and with Kansas's conservative legislature, to implement stringent, statewide mask requirements but without success.
Parson won the Missouri gubernatorial election on Nov. 3 by nearly 17 points. Two days later at a COVID-19 briefing, he accused critics of "making the mask a political issue." He says county leaders should decide whether to close businesses or mandate masks.
"We're going to encourage them to take some sort of action," he said Thursday. "The holidays are coming and I as governor of the state of Missouri am not going to mandate who goes in your front door."
In an email, Dave Dillon with the Missouri Hospital Association agreed that rural patients might be contributing to hospital crowding in cities, but argued the strain on hospitals is a statewide problem.
The reasons for the rural COVID-19 crisis involve far more than the refusal to mandate or wear masks, according to health care experts.
Both Kansas and Missouri have seen rural hospitals close for year after year, and public health spending in both states, as in many largely rural states, is far below national averages.
Rural populations also tend to be older and to suffer from higher rates of chronic health conditions, including heart disease, obesity and diabetes. Those conditions can make them more susceptible to severe illness when they contract COVID-19.
Rural areas have been grappling with health problems for a long time, but the coronavirus has been a sort of tipping point, and those rural health issues are now spilling over into cities, explains Shannon Monnat, a rural health researcher at Syracuse University.
"It's not just the rural health care infrastructure that becomes overwhelmed when there aren't enough hospital beds, it's also the surrounding neighborhoods, the suburbs, the urban hospital infrastructure starts to become overwhelmed as well," Monnat says.
Unlike many parts of the U.S., where COVID trendlines have risen and fallen over the course of the year, Kansas, Missouri and several other Midwestern states never significantly bent their statewide curve.
Individual cities, such as Kansas City and St. Louis, havemanaged to slow cases, but the continual emergence of rural hotspots across Missouri has driven a slow and steady increase in overall new case numbers — and put unrelenting strain on the states' hospital systems.
The months of slow but continuous growth in cases created a high baseline of cases as autumn began, which then set the stage for the sudden escalation of numbers in the recent surge.
"It's sort of the nature of epidemics that things often look like they're relatively under control, and then very quickly ramp up to seem that they are out of hand," says Justin Lessler, an epidemiologist at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.
Now, a recent local case spike in the Kansas City metro area is adding to the statewide surge in Missouri, with an average of 190 COVID patients per day being admitted to the metro region's hospitals. The number of people hospitalized throughout Missouri increased by more than 50% in the last two weeks.
Some Kansas City hospitals have had to divert patients for periods of time, and some are now delaying elective procedures, according to University of Kansas Hospital chief medical officer Dr. Steven Stites.
But bed space isn't the only hospital resource that's running out. Half of the hospitals in the Kansas City area are now reporting "critical" staffing shortages. Pascaline Muhindura, the nurse who works in Kansas City, says that hospital workers are struggling with anxiety and depression.
"The hospitals are not fine, because people taking care of patients are on the brink," Muhindura says. "We are tired."
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Alex Smith began working in radio as an intern at the National Association of Farm Broadcasters. A few years and a couple of radio jobs later, he became the assistant producer of KCUR's magazine show, KC Currents. In January 2014 he became KCUR's health reporter.
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Big manifesto ideas: on sustainable development and upland protection
Posted on 25 July, 2014 by Green Alliance blog Leave a comment
There has been no shortage of great proposals in our series of big manifesto ideas for the parties going into the next election.
Leading thinkers have contributed ideas, alongside our own, for achievable actions to make the UK a greener, more prosperous country, on areas like low carbon infrastructure and innovation, and community involvement in energy supply and planning.
Today’s ideas, from WWF and RSPB, would make the UK a global leader on sustainable development and take a significant step towards protecting our threatened uplands.
Would you vote for them? What ideas are missing? Let us know what you think on twitter at #manifestoidea.
Leo Hickman
Chief adviser on Climate Change at WWF-UK
What’s the big idea?
The UK to become a global leader on sustainable development
The UK, in searching for its 21st century role, has a golden opportunity to become a global champion of sustainable development. In Paris next year, countries will try to reach a new agreement on a global deal on climate change. This will follow the EU’s agreement on energy and climate for 2030. Both these activities link into the UN’s Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) process which will conclude shortly before the Paris COP.
The SDGs are the best opportunity in a generation to set the agenda for international poverty reduction and environmental protection. But, to make it possible, the UK must be clear that tackling climate change is its top foreign policy objective for 2015. To champion the SDGs the government needs to reform Foreign Office and DFID priorities to support solutions that meet both poverty reduction and environmental objectives.
Meeting the sustainable development goals will improve the health and economic prosperity of developing nations. This is in the UK’s self interest: we need all our trading partners to thrive and prosper without depleting the global environmental resources we rely on. The UK needs to forge a new, lasting relationship with the rest of world and leading on global sustainable development would be a diplomatic boon.
There would be resistance from some with vested interests in maintaining a status quo.
What has to change?
Explicit government commitment is needed to engage fully and constructively in both the UN climate negotiations and Sustainable Development Goals in 2015. The current commitment to spend 0.7 per cent of gross national income on aid to the poorest countries should be maintained or even increased; and finance for climate change responses should be additional, not double-counted.
Specific actions would be:
Scale up the FCO’s climate diplomacy network to push UK interests on climate change around the world. They have already helped to encourage China and South American countries to pursue decarbonisation. They have also helped to generate low carbon trade between the UK and other nations. The trust and expertise they offer has helped improve the UK’s image around the world.
Ensure the DFID minister, foreign secretary and prime minister refer to climate and development priorities in all international speeches and the UK’s direction is signalled by key ministers. The US, China, Germany, France and India ensure climate change is on the agenda for their most important international meetings, the UK’s position will not be taken seriously if it is not echoed by leaders.
Publicly link the climate talks with the new Sustainable Development Goals and vice versa. The prime minister should make clear at both the climate and SDG talks that action on climate change is essential to meet development aims. The two agreements should be seen as complementary, with opportunities for mutual benefit in areas including low carbon development; climate adaptation and resilience; and new flows of finance.
Why should it be in the manifestos?
The sustainable development agenda, recast as the lasting diplomatically, economically and environmentally beneficial priority it should be for the UK, would have much broader appeal than it does at present.
@LeoHickman
Martin Harper
Director of conservation at RSPB
A licence for driven grouse shoots in England
The English uplands are in a bad way: just ten per cent of peatland sites are in favourable condition, and intensive management is increasing water pollution and greenhouse gas emissions. Driven grouse shoots are the most intensive form of game management and the trend has been towards practices which threaten the upland environment, such as increasing the surplus of birds shot, excessive burning, land drainage, using medicated grit, and both legal and illegal predator control. Indigenous wildlife, like hen harriers, could disappear from the environment unless this changes. Unlike other commercial activities, driven grouse shoots require no licence to operate. Licensing would ensure that the shooting community helps to manage the moors sustainably, supporting birds of prey and other threatened species.
A licensing regime would benefit the 100 million people who visit our uplands each year, with a higher quality environment. It would benefit land managers who already operate sustainably. It would also benefit the population more widely: the uplands gather more than 70 per cent of our drinking water and store billions of tonnes of carbon in peat and soils, services that are degraded by poor management practices. Wildlife would also benefit, birds like peregrine, goshawk and the three pairs of hen harrier attempting to nest in England this year, sphagnum mosses and hundreds of specialist invertebrates.
There are some estates that are looking to intensify their shooting operation and increase the commercial value of their land, despite the fact that they receive large amounts of public money from EU farming subsidies. They would object to any regulation that might restrict their commercial objectives.
Licensing shoots would make good practice mandatory. Shoots acting within the terms of the licence would have nothing to fear. Vicarious liability should also be introduced for wildlife offences, making the landowner or shoot organiser responsible for any illegal persecution.
A licensing regime should specify the following:
All driven grouse shooting should be included.
Hunting should be subject to a transparent planning and reporting process, including commitments to meet agreed quotas of grouse shot and statutory obligations for protected species, habitats and areas.
An expectation of reasonable access for monitoring purposes.
Implementation of the management necessary to meet site conservation objectives of any protected area managed as a grouse moor.
Any breach of conditions or existing environmental legislation should lead to the licence being revoked
It should be cost neutral to the state.
Landscapes like the Pennines and North York Moors require protection, so they can continue to be wild places where wildlife flourishes, where people can work in ways that protect the land and visitors can find peace and inspiration.
@martinRSPB
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A whole lot of MEANING IN BENGALI
यह शब्द (A whole lot of) अभी हमारे डाटाबेस मे नही है ।
शब्द का अर्थ नही मिलने के निम्न कारण हो सकते है:
शब्द (A whole lot of) के अ़क्षरों मे गलती।
यह शब्द (A whole lot of) डाटाबेस मे ना हो ।
इस शब्द को डिक्शनरी कम्युनिटी में पूछने के लिए - यहाँ क्लिक करें
HinKhoj English Bengali Dictionary: A whole lot of
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Charlottesville Woolen Mills
Charlottesville Woolen Mills (HMBS4)
Location: Charlottesville, VA 22902
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N 38° 1.317', W 78° 27.396'
As early as 1795, several types of mills operated here. In 1847, Farish, Jones, and Co., opened a cotton and woolen factory. John A. Marchant gained control of it by 1852 and renamed it the Charlottesville Manufacturing Company. His son, Henry Clay Marchant bought it in 1864. Although the Union army burned the factory in 1865, Marchant reopened it in 1867 as the Charlottesville Woolen Mills, which became Albemarle's largest industry. A community grew up around the mill and Marchant built worked houses and a chapel. By the 1880s the mill specialized in making cloth uniforms; it remained in operation until 1964.
HMBS4
Marker Number
Q-24
Department of Historic Resources
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HumorNama
in Education, Featured Posts
45 Types of Humor with Examples
by Shagun Tyagi August 17, 2020, 12:11 am 2.4k Views 72 Votes
Physical Humor:
Slapstick Humor:
Farcical Humor:
Silent Humor:
Edgy Humor:
Blue Humor:
Dark/Black/Gallows Humor:
Aggressive Humor:
Deadpan Humor / Dry Humor:
Droll Humor:
Parodic Humor:
Satirical Humor:
Spoof:
Burlesque:
Wordplay:
Epigrammatic Humor:
Hyperbolic Humor:
Mordant Humor:
Witty Humor:
Ironic Humor:
Juvenile/Sophomoric Humor:
Bodily Humor:
Surreal Humor:
Improvisational Humor / Improv:
Alternative Humor:
Situational Humor:
Anecdotal Humor:
Sketch:
Topical Humor:
Screwball Humor:
Observational Humor:
Stand-Up:
Self-Enhancing Humor:
Self-Deprecating Humor:
Lowbrow Humor:
Highbrow Humor:
Heritage Humor:
Inside Humor:
Internet Humor:
Musical Humor:
Affiliative Humor:
One-Line Joke Humor:
Cringe Humor:
Ventriloquism:
Anti-humor:
Surreal Comedy is the form that involves bizarre, creepy, and nonsensical behavior which is also funny at the same time. It includes deliberate and obvious illogical behavior to create amusement.
Absurd and dream-like situations are created to make the jokes unpredictable for the audience.
“My friend said, “sticks and stones may break my bones but words will never hurt me.” So, I threw a dictionary at his face.”
Not all the genres of humor are script-ready! There are times when the comics have to go on the stage, understand the audience, and just wing it the way they feel is best.
It requires one to be funny, and extremely amazing at both coming up with jokes and humorously delivering them.
Improvisational Humor, shortly called improv, is a genre of comedy that is unplanned and is performed without a script. The comics have to make up the whole act, along with the dialogues at the moment, while they are performing.
They can draw a source of inspiration from the audience or absolutely anything to start with the act, and use their wit, sense of humor, and theatrical skills to present the whole act.
Alternative Humor is a style that doesn’t rely on the already set standards and ways of comedy. This form of comedy is considered to be different from a pre-existing style or a mainstream way of a comedy routine, and it breaks free from the standardized structure of punch lines and jokes.
The humor that arises out of everyday situations, which are quite mundane and ordinary, is called Situational Humor.
Situational Comedy is a very popular genre and is widely used in TV shows. Series like “Friends” and “How I Met Your Mother” are based on this style.
It uses various genres of humor, such as slapstick, screwball, and farce, to make the situation more and more hilarious for the audience.
Creating humor out of an anecdote, i.e. an abstract story, either real or fictional, told with great characterization and concrete details about the subjects and places involved.
An anecdote is always presented in a recalling way of the mentioned incidents or events involving real people.
“Kevin Hart Took His Son’s Phone But Forgot One Thing”, a stand-up comedy video by Kevin Hart is the example of a hilarious anecdote.
Example of Anecdotal
Sketch comedy is a humorous series of short scenes called sketches, played by a group of people, which make up a whole story, or a complete sketch. Sketches contain various humorous elements and unlike improv comedy, they are well-written, rehearsed, and memorized.
Indian Comedians have time and again proved their talent in this genre, Naveen Richard and Sumukhi Suresh are quite well known for this type of comedy.
This video titled “THE BREAK-UP” by Kenny Sebastian and Kannan Gill is hysterical!
Example of Sketch
Topical type is based on trends or current events, in any field like politics, news, or pop-culture. It is satirical, subtle, witty, and often hard-hitting. After Trump’s Disastrous Axios Interview, American comedian Jimmy Fallon uploaded a video making fun of the president’s interview on his YouTube channel.
Example of Topical Humor
Screwball type is a subgenre of the genre, “Romance-Comedy”, and it is well known for the satirical depiction of the traditional romantic stories.
In films based on screwball humor, it is often seen that the female character dominates the relationship instead of the male character, while his masculinity is being challenged.
It includes farce, repartee, and plots comprising marriage and courtship.
It is a genre of comedy that is based on the common aspects of everyday life and pokes fun at the things that go unnoticed. Observational comedy also brings out the facts about society by observing and stating things that aren’t as normal as our society accepts them to be. It humorously does all of that!
It often leaves the audience wondering, “Oh, I never thought about it this way!‘, or “Oh, yessss.. How could I have not noticed that!”
This type of comedy genre is generally espied in stand-up comedy, like this video by Kenny Sebastian.
A humorous observation about exams that we found on Twitter:
“I skip questions in exams like I’m gonna be a different person when I come back to them.”
Stand-up comedy is probably the most famous type of comedy these days. It is where a comic gets on stage to perform a monologue, or deliver a humorous act by interacting with the audience. The comedian might also make use of props in the act.
In a stand-up routine, the comic can use different types of humor such as farcical, blue, dark, cringe, deadpan, and more.
Now, humor isn’t always seen in shows, movies, or stand-up videos. Humor is a part of our everyday lives. Most of us choose to involve it in our daily conversations for sometimes impressing our colleagues, sometimes making new friends, and many times to just have fun in whatever we are doing. When it comes to oneself, humor can be perceived and conferred in two ways. Let’s have a look!
This is positive humor based on oneself, which is used to find amusement in tough times and sailing through it in a fun way, and by avoiding stress. Also, this type of humor in advertising is used by top brands when they are launching a superior product to its previous version.
“Self- Enhancing” here refers to the quality of using humor in a good-natured way, while targeting one-self in a situation.
For example, if Jack didn’t score well in an exam, he says:
“I have failed the exam. I’ve not lost my mind. I’ll do better next year!”
Creating humor by targeting oneself in an aggressive or unhealthy way, by creating humor at one’s own expense, and putting yourself down to sound funny, is called Self-Deprecating Humor.
If we look at it psychologically, this is considered to be an unhealthy form of humor when one tries to sound funny by pitying themselves, for example, we found a tweet that says:
“It’s garbage day?
I can’t believe they made a day dedicated to me. :)”
Let’s say you are a comedian. You have a show, and you know anything about your audience. Now you’re thinking what genre of humor would be apt for the audience that could comprise anyone, any age, gender, city, or country.
This humor can be understood by anyone with little or no effort. Like bathroom jokes, fart jokes, or sarcasm relating to common things which everyone comes across, is called Lowbrow humor.
It is a different type of comedy that doesn’t require background knowledge of anything and it is very easy to understand and relate to. It is not specific to any culture or heritage either, it is for people who come from anywhere or everywhere.
It’s not always that everyone would get a joke. It can be because it is made to get a laugh out of a specific type of audience. Let’s dive deep into this genre.
Highbrow is the opposite or lowbrow, as the name suggests. It is the type of humor which is sophisticated and cultured, and not everyone would get it, and it requires the concerned background knowledge to be understood, such as high-level math jokes, or a chemistry joke pulled by a chemist.
It is characterized by advanced knowledge regarding the subject matter and is deliberately witty. Highbrow comedy can be based on classic literature, history, or politics.
For example, if Elon Musk tweets a high level-physics joke, only the physicists around the world would get it.
Elon Musk: Surely Not A Comedian.
It is a genre in which the comics discuss the stereotypes, myths, or traits about their heritage or culture, playfully.
A Hindu joking about the cows being worshipped in their culture would be Heritage Humor.
For example, you might have seen Kenny Sebastian joke about his Tamil culture.
Inside Humor is used to characterize the private jokes or inside jokes. These inside jokes and this genre of humor are understood by the people who are a part of a particular group, club, or society.
Only the people who are aware of the circumstances behind an inside joke find it humorous.
For example, if you’re a member of a religious group, you will get the jokes being pulled by other members of your group, and someone who is not in your group, would probably not get that joke.
That was all about group-focussed humor. Let’s move on to other types of humor that you might have experienced in various instances.
Internet Humor refers to the repetitive circulation of jokes or something humorous via the internet which then becomes a trend or a popular meme.
These types of jokes are gaining more popularity among millennials every day because, well, they are on the internet after all. Reddit, Instagram, YouTube, and other social apps are the major platforms for Internet humor. The most recent example being that of ‘Binod’ which was spammed all over the live streaming videos.
Example of Internet Meme
Musical Humor is found in the films or theatrical plays in which dialogues are interspersed with songs to create humor and also advance with the plotline.
Although all the Bollywood movies have musical numbers in them, to quote a favorable example, “Hum Aapke Hain Kaun” stands to be a fine musical comedy of the 90s.
It is the style of comedy that is used to enhance one’s relationships among new people, friends, or in the workplace. It is an amusing and positive kind of humor used to facilitate conversations in a fun and benevolent way, to often ease tension among people.
Ellen DeGeneres is the epitome of Affiliative Humor as he does a great job with her guests on her talk show.
As the name suggests, this is the humor created using one-liners, jokes delivered using a single line. A one-liner needs to be short, concise, and meaningful to draw the impact in a quick instant.
They are majorly created using wordplay, they can even consist of puns.
“The worst time to have a heart attack is during a game of charades.” – Demetri Martin
This is the humor derived from the awkwardness of the social situations, created by putting the characters in greatly embarrassing situations where they humiliate themselves by saying or doing the most awkward or offensive things.
For those who get it, Cringe Humour can be hilarious, and for those who don’t, it can just be offensive and meaningless.
There are many scenes in “The Office” where Michael Scott does Cringe Comedy. Watch the video below, for instance.
Also, TikTok!
Example of Cringe
This genre of comedy is often less heard of but probably witnessed by everyone, either in real life or in reels!
Humor using Ventriloquism is created by performing a humorous act in which a ventriloquist, the person leading the action, uses his puppet, or dummy, by creating an illusion and portraying that their voice is coming from the dummy, rather than themselves.
In the famous Bollywood movie “Dil Hai Tumhara”, Jimmy Shergill has practiced this comedy with his puppet.
Anti-humor is a kind of indirect humour, where the comic delivers a joke or punch-line, which is deliberately not funny, and also not expected by the audience at the time, which in itself creates an ironic situation which is quite humorous.
The pranks pulled around the world are based on anti-humour, like the one you’re pulling the prank on is not expecting it, and the main deed of the prank pulled by you isn’t funny but played out as a prank, it becomes hysterical!
So, you are all set with your “Humor-Guide”, encompassing all the types of humor that could possibly have been witnessed by great eras of literature, theatre, and art. Being suffused with plenty of humor examples, we hope reading this blog would have been an illuminating journey.
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Mompha files N5m suit against EFCC over alleged unlawful arrest, detention
Mompha
An Internet personality, Ismaila Mustapha, popularly called Mompha, on Tuesday filed a suit seeking to compel the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) to pay him N5 million as damages for alleged unlawful re-arrest and detention.
Mustapha, who is facing a N32 billion fraud charge, was re-arrested on Friday, (Aug.14) by the EFCC.
He was re-arrested when he went to the EFCC Office, Ikoyi, Lagos, to reclaim his five wristwatches, one Apple airpod, one iPhone, eight mobile phones and one pair of sunglasses seized from him by the anti-graft agency in 2019.
The visit followed a ruling given by Justice Mohammed Liman on July 24, in which the judge ordered the release of the seized items on the grounds that the EFCC did not list them as exhibits in court.
In the suit filed on his behalf on Tuesday by his counsel, Mr Gboyega Oyewole (SAN), Mustapha is praying the court to declare that his re-arrest and detention by the EFCC was unjustifiable and unlawful.
He is equally urging the court to declare that the continued seizure of the items violated his right to own property under Section 44 of the constitution.
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He is praying the court to order the EFCC not only to free him but also to give him back the seized items and pay him N5 million as damages.
A litigation officer in the office of Mustapha’s lawyer, Mr Kayode Adeboye, who swore to an affidavit in support of the application, averred that Mustapha’s arrest was baseless.
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According to Adeboye, in line with the bail conditions, Mustapha had been reporting at the EFCC office fortnightly without defaulting.
However, the spokesman for the EFCC, Mr Dele Oyewale, said that Mustapha’s re-arrest was connected to a fresh set of cyber fraud charges.
The court has yet to fix a date to hear Mustapha’s N5 million suit.
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Absa report suggests African markets improving
Published by: Andrew Mizner at 28/10/2019
The African bank’s third annual African Financial Markets Index shows a general step up in the qual...
The African bank’s third annual African Financial Markets Index shows a general step up in the quality of the continent’s financial markets, with Mauritius and Egypt among those leading the improvement, but with plenty of work still to be done.
Africa’s financial markets are improving in quality and depth; but there are still many problems to tackle if they are to become truly competitive with each other.
Published by Absa Group and economic thinktank OMFIF (the Official Monetary and Financial Institutions Forum), the African Financial Markets Index 2019 ranked South Africa as having the best performing markets for the third time across the index’s three years of existence.
Speaking at a launch event in London, Denise Coppin of Absa told reporters that “sustainable financial markets are critical” if Africa is to fulfil its potential, and she was enthusiastic about the “positive developments in the index”.
David Marsh, co-founder and chairman of OMFIF, said the organisation had received feedback that countries are making policy based on the previous two years of the report, in the aim of improving their overall position and attracting more investment.
The team behind the research were keen to stress that the report was not intended to be a competition, but rather hoped that it would stimulate improvement among the other 19 countries ranked, and those not yet part of the index.
Speaking at the launch, Jeff Gable, Absa’s head of macro and fixed income research, and one of the report’s authors, said: “This isn’t really about financial markets competing,” instead, the focus of the index was “openness, transparency and accessibility of African financial markets”.
He was keen to encourage a spirit of collaboration to improve the continent’s internal strength, saying: “Countries within Africa can learn from one another rather than learning for the Asian Tigers” or Latin America, and hoped that they would use the rankings to inspire improvement in individual categories.
Gable added that with the infrastructure gap never seeming to close, African countries have tended to focus on capital from overseas, but he argued that there are savings to be put to work on the continent, which could provide economic growth.
SIX PILLARS
The publication covers 20 countries, chosen on the availability of suitable data to assess their markets. The authors of the report tell ALB that further countries would be considered as and when the data becomes available.
The report graded the countries on six pillars: market depth; access to foreign exchange; market transparency, tax and regulatory environment; capacity of local investors; macroeconomic opportunity; and legality and enforceability of standard financial markets master agreements.
Although South Africa was ranked as top overall, Gable noted that to a large degree it owes its position due to historical factors and argued that it was more interesting to look at individual countries’ improvements or drop-offs.
The report identified an overall improvement across the board and in particular in the market transparency, tax and regulatory environment category. The only area which had declined was the access to foreign exchange category.
COUNTRY PERFORMANCE
The index described South Africa as having “deep market liquidity anchored by strong domestic investors” and noted that it has the largest market capitalisation of any of the countries. The country was top of four of the six pillars and it remains well ahead of second placed Mauritius, which jumped up from number four in 2018, and which was characterised as having a “sizeable pool of investible pension assets with strong legal framework”. Mauritius did top the legality and enforceability of standard financial markets master agreements pillar and was second for transparency and local investor capacity. Gable outlined that its success was also partly attributable to having improved in measurable categories.
There was again a drop to third-placed Kenya, where “sovereign bond listings enhance asset pool”, but from there on the rankings were tight, with Namibia, Botswana and Nigeria all having similar positions, albeit that Botswana had fallen from second place in 2018 as a “drop in pension assets reduces local investor capacity”.
The middle group is Tanzania, Zambia, Rwanda, Uganda, Egypt, Morocco and Ghana, all of which are again close together, followed by Seychelles, Mozambique, Ivory Coast and then Angola. Egypt, however, has been something of a success, rising five places, having a “strong macroeconomic outlook and high transparency”, ranking best for macroeconomic opportunity.
Bottom of the index’s 20 countries remains Ethiopia, which was characterised as having had “rapid economic growth but still lacking financial markets infrastructure”. Just ahead of it is Cameroon, with “weak domestic investor capacity” and Senegal with a “fast-growing economy but small pool of local assets available for investment”.
Gable did note the areas missing from the report, highlighting the difficulty in measuring the performance of personal finance across a country, with a need to identify further measurables, while despite the efforts of reports such as the Ibrahim Index of African Governance, Absa found good governance difficult to quantify and could not incorporate it.
Ultimately Gable and Marsh were keen to stress the need for the report to reach its fifth year before wider conclusions can be drawn but noted the steady improvement throughout the countries within the report as an encouraging trend.
Absa recently benefitted from a USD 75 million commitment from United Kingdom development finance institution (DFI) to support investment in local businesses. The bank was previously part of Barclays Africa until its 2017 sale.
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Financial Frictions and Occupational Mobility
Jose Mustre-del-Rio
(Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City)
William Hawkins
(University of Rochester)
We study the effects of financial market incompleteness on occupational mobility. Incomplete insurance not only generates an increase in consumption volatility, but also a reduction in occupational mobility and a worsening of occupational matching. The correlation between occupation-level productivity and labor supply is lower than under complete markets. Low-asset workers remain in low-productivity occupations even when the expected value of switching is positive. Negative occupational productivity shocks therefore have larger effects on such workers’ future earnings than they would for better insured workers. In a calibrated model, we find that the welfare costs of market incompleteness can be as large as 25 percent of lifetime consumption.
Jose Mustre-del-Rio & William Hawkins, 2012. "Financial Frictions and Occupational Mobility," 2012 Meeting Papers 1123, Society for Economic Dynamics.
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Say Anything but Your Prayers
An imaginative reconstruction of the life of Elizabeth Stride, the third victim of Jack the Ripper. The beast of poverty and disease had stalked Elizabeth all her life, waiting for the right moment to take her down. To survive, she listened to the two extremes within herself–Bess, the innocent child of hope, and Liza, the cynical, hardbitten opportunist. While Bess paints rosy pictures of what lies ahead and Liza warns of dangers everywhere, the beast, in the guise of a man offering something better, circles ever closer.
York’s Moon
York’s Moon is an unconventional murder mystery, a love story, and the story of the little guy fighting city hall and winning. Sort of. When a dead guy falls off the train just yards from Yorktown, a hobo camp near West Wheaton, California, all manner of forces begin to collide.
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The Surgeon’s Mate: A Dismemoir
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A suspense thriller with a murder mystery at its heart, Black Leather begins with two blonde sisters, one black husband and a murdered Navajo. Reality becomes increasingly uncertain as a husband works to help his accused wife. Evidence isn’t what it seems to be, neither woman is who she seems to be, and all three hold close their dark secrets. His long-repressed temptations resurface as he slides deeper and deeper into the sisters’ sleazy world of black leather, racial preferences, razor sharp toys and mistaken identities. Is he married to a murderer, or just sleeping with one? One thing is for sure—both women are trouble, and he can’t stay away. A dark erotic thriller by the internationally-acclaimed Elizabeth Engstrom.
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Home » Celebrities » Chris Brown Reunites With Son Aeko, 10 Mos., & Ammika Harris In Sweet Pic — See Family Photo
Chris Brown Reunites With Son Aeko, 10 Mos., & Ammika Harris In Sweet Pic — See Family Photo
While Chris Brown has quarantined in the US, his son, Aeko, has been sheltering with his mother, Ammika Harris, in Germany. Now, after months apart, the family has finally reunited.
Chris Brown only had two words to say when he finally – FINALLY! – reunited with his son, Aeko Catori Brown: “Made it.” Chris, 31, posted the happy update on Oct. 6, and shared a picture of himself alongside his 10-month old son and the baby’s mother, Ammikka, Harris, on Instagram. In the picture, young Aeko is all bundled up in a red, white, and blue-plaid hoodie. Ammika is in a red, fuzzy coat and facemask, while Chris looks on while rocking his own camo jacket.
MADE IT ❤️
A post shared by CHRIS BROWN (@chrisbrownofficial) on Oct 6, 2020 at 9:39am PDT
Chris did not confirm where the photo was taken. However, it’s likely that he traveled overseas to reunite with his little one. Ammika and Aeko were in Germany when the COVID-19 (and subsequent travel restrictions) hit the United States back in March. Chris and Ammika agreed that instead of risking their new son’s health, she would stay overseas with the newborn.
CATORI has something to say
A post shared by Ammika Harris (@ammikaaa) on Sep 16, 2020 at 12:22pm PDT
“Ammika would love nothing more than for her and Aeko to be reunited with Chris,” an insider told HollywoodLife EXCLUSIVELY in July. “But their main priority as parents is the safety and well-being of their baby. Chris [was] not allowed to fly to Germany due to the current travel restrictions, which does not allow US citizens to fly to Germany.”
Ammika could have flown back to the US with her son, but the insider noted that that would have been “a very long flight and that would be taking a lot of risks, especially since Aeko is too young to wear a mask. That’s just not a risk they’re willing to take right now. Chris and Ammika know they have all the time in the world and will be reunited when the time is right.” Apparently, that time is right now.
Breezy didn’t add anything else to his IG caption, but considering how he has spent most of the year separated from Aeko, it’s safe to say that he’s over the moon to finally be spending time with his son. Luckily, Chris has been able to spend time with his daughter, Royalty Brown, 6, amidst the coronavirus crisis, as they’ve both been in California throughout the lockdown and quarantine. orders.
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Home » TV & Movies » Julie Andrews Exposes Scandal in Trailer for Shonda Rhimes' Upcoming Netflix Drama, Bridgerton
Julie Andrews Exposes Scandal in Trailer for Shonda Rhimes' Upcoming Netflix Drama, Bridgerton
Posted on : November 2, 2020
The countdown to Bridgerton is on.
Netflix released the first teaser trailer for Shonda Rhimes' upcoming period drama on Monday, giving a glimpse at what promises to be a scandalous telling of romance and rumor among the competitive world of Regency London high society. (After all, the tagline on one poster reads, "Tea Shall Be Spilt.")
In a voiceover following the town distribution of a document called "Lady Whistledown's Society Papers" — dated Tuesday, April 6, 1813 — Julie Andrews introduces herself as the elusive Lady Whistledown.
"You do not know me and never shall, but be forewarned, dear reader: I certainly know you," she says.
As scenes from a glamorous ball unfold, Lady Whistledown continues, "The social season is upon us. We shall discover which young ladies might succeed at securing a match."
"Let it be known, if there's a scandal," she adds, as a montage of risque scenes flash across the screen, "I shall uncover it … and share every last detail."
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Based on Julia Quinn's best-selling novels, Bridgerton is one of Rhimes' first projects with Netflix after signing an eight-show deal with the streaming platform back in 2017.
It marks the 50-year-old producer's Netflix debut following a successful career on network television, where she launched popular television series such as Grey's Anatomy, Scandal and How to Get Away With Murder.
Aside from Andrews, 85, Bridgerton's large cast includes Phoebe Dynevor, Regé-Jean Page, Adjoa Andoh, Ruby Barker, Jonathan Bailey and Golda Rosheuvel.
According to Netflix, "Bridgerton follows Daphne Bridgerton (Dynevor, 25), the eldest daughter of the powerful Bridgerton family as she makes her debut onto Regency London's competitive marriage market. Hoping to follow in her parents' footsteps and find a match sparked by true love, Daphne's prospects initially seem to be unrivaled."
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"But as her older brother begins to rule out her potential suitors, the high society scandal sheet written by the mysterious Lady Whistledown casts aspersions on Daphne," the description continues. "Enter the highly desirable and rebellious Duke of Hastings (Page), committed bachelor and the catch of the season for the debutantes' mamas. Despite proclaiming that they want nothing the other has to offer, their attraction is undeniable and sparks fly as they find themselves engaged in an increasing battle of wits while navigating society's expectations for their future."
Created by showrunner Chris Van Dusen, who began his long-running relationship with Shondaland working on Grey's Anatomy and then Scandal, the show is based on a series of eight books, one for each sibling, so fans of the saga are hoping that the television adaptation could continue on past its initial season, which will be eight hour-long episodes.
Author Quinn told Entertainment Weekly in July that the issue of "prestige" is the reason why it has taken so long for her story to be adapted (the first book was released in 2000). "Producers would rather do the 496th Jane Austen than something with a 'romance novel' label," she said.
Bridgerton premieres Dec. 25 globally on Netflix.
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Records show Sona on a beach when Conservatives claim he confessed to robocalls
By Lawrence Martin. Published on Nov 17, 2013 9:00pm
At the same time as some Conservative party staffers allege meeting with Michael Sona and reporting that he told them of his involvement in the robocalls controversy in the riding of Guelph, travel records show that Sona was vacationing on the island of Aruba.
Sona is charged with violating the Elections Act in a controversy stemming from the 2011 election wherein robocalls directed voters to the wrong polling stations.
Some of the most damaging testimony, according to a sworn statement by Elections Canada investigator Allan Mathews, comes from Rebecca Dockstaeder, who worked for CPC MP Chris Warkentin.
According to the Mathews document, Sona allegedly came by her office and that of another Warkentin staffer, John Schudlo, and boasted of his robocalls work “a week to 10 days” after the May 2, 2011 election. That would mean between May 9 and May 12.
However travel records show that Sona flew on US Airways to Aruba, in the Caribbean, on May 7 and only returned late on May 14th, a Saturday. He was not back in his office – he worked on communications for Tory MP Rob Moore – until May 16, the Monday.
Norman Boxall, Sona’s legal counsel, is aware of the discrepancy, but said yesterday he would not be commenting “at this time.”
Conservative Party lawyer Arthur Hamilton, who arranged for the staffers to testify and sat in on the sessions when they did, did not respond to an email asking for an explanation.
Though some of the staffers also allege Sona was responsible for making the fake Guelph robocall, the calls went out in both official languages. Sona barely speaks a word of French, however, raising the question of how he could have made a bilingual recording.
According to the Mathews document, which is called an Information to Obtain a production order (ITO), Dockstaeder claimed Sona told her and Schudlo that he obtained a list of phone numbers of Liberal voters and recorded a message impersonating Elections Canada.
She claimed that Sona spoke of “buying a ‘burn phone’ with cash and that he said he had bought a Visa card with cash so that it could not be traced as with a usual Visa card.” Sona closed their office door, the ITO says, and “he then went on to describe to us what sounded very very similar to the story that we’d been hearing about these robo calls.”
Dockstaeder said Sona worked with a friend on the scheme which raises the possibility, though she didn’t reference the language question, that this person could have done the recording in both languages.
Her office colleague Schudlo, who says the meeting with Sona was a week after May 2, alleges Sona “spoke of purchasing a disposable phone and somehow went online to make calls to voters that their normal polling stations had been changed.”
Sona has denied the charge against him and has told reporters he is being framed and set up as the fall guy for an attempted vote–rigging operation by the Conservatives that, he says, went far beyond the riding of Guelph. The Conservatives deny any role in orchestrating such a scheme. Guy Giorno, former chief of staff to Prime Minister Stephen Harper, called any such action would be “despicable.”
According to the ITO, another Conservative staffer, Mitchell Messom, said he met with Sona within two weeks of the election, meaning May 16 by the latest. According to the ITO, Sona told him about using a burner phone registered to Separatist Street in Joliette, Quebec, a fictitious address used by someone who registered under the phony name of Pierre Poutine. At a later meeting with Sona, Messom was accompanied by Tyler Barker. Barker recalls Sona spoke of making crank calls to Liberal supporters “but in no way did he say that he had any systematic form of vote suppression employed.”
Two other staffers met with Sona well outside the dates he was in Aruba. One of them, Benjamin Hicks, said Sona spoke of using a computer and a cell phone to direct automated calls to identified liberal supporters.
Elections Canada has heard complaints of dirty tricks in the 2011 election from over 200 ridings. Many of the grievances don’t amount to much, sources say, but a substantial number are thought to be of a serious nature. A source with knowledge of the Elections Canada probe said investigators are handicapped because they are being blocked from gaining access to Conservative party records. As a result, he said there is only a small chance of charges beyond those against Sona being laid.
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Galway, 16th May 2017 – The Irish Exporters Association (IEA), in partnership with Ulster Bank, Iarnród Éireann Irish Rail, Rhenus Logistics and Fleet Transport, this morning held the second in a series of 4 large Supply Chain Seminars which will take place around the country as part of a new supply chain collaborative initiative, the IEA Supply Chain Series 2017.
The event titled “Securing the Interests of Irish Exporters in the West” took place at the Clayton Hotel Galway and attracted over 80 exporters and manufacturing companies from all over the west of Ireland. The Seminar included an IEA Expert Advisory Panel and Industry Speakers, Panel Discussion and Breakout Sessions:
The IEA Expert Advisory Panel with keynote address from Tony Buckley, Assistant Secretary & Deputy Director General of Customs at Revenue, advised attendees of the opportunities and challenges for the western region from a Revenue perspective and preparing for Brexit. Other Industry speakers included Ulster Bank and Rhenus Logisticswho provided expertise on customs, fraud prevention, logistics and the economy and exporters Hewlett Packard Enterprise, Crospon and JFC Manufacturing.
A lively panel discussion led by Simon McKeever, IEA’s Chief Executive took place on common supply chain challenges and solutions to doing business on and off the Island of Ireland relevant to the western region.
Breakout sessions in the areas of ‘Skills & Regulatory Update – A Focus on Brexit’, ‘Manging your Foreign Currency Risk’ and a ‘Multimodal Working Group’ were welcomed and attended.
Advisory Panel & Speakers:
Economy: Simon Barry, Chief Economist Republic of Ireland, Ulster Bank
Customs: Tony Buckley, Asst Secretary & Deputy Director General of Customs, Revenue
Fraud Prevention: John McGinley, Information Security & Cyber Manager, Ulster Bank
Logistics: Declan Sinnott, Managing Director, Rhenus Logistics
Blockchain: David Collins, GPAS Business Consultant, Hewlett Packard Enterprise
Industry Speakers:
John O’Dea, CEO, Crospon
John Concannon, Managing Director, JFC Manufacturing
Simon McKeever, Chief Executive, Irish Exporters Association commented: “The West of the Ireland is an extremely important export location. It has the distinct advantage of being internationally connected with access to airports in Knock and Shannon and ports in Foynes and Galway. With an abundance of thriving LifeSciences, ICT, Food & Drink, Manufacturers and International Business Services across the region, our supply chain initiative will provide a network for our corporate members across all sectors to interact and exchange information on challenges, industry requirements and best practice while keeping up to date with local, national and international issues affecting the export industry supply chain. The IEA is currently lobbying for the development of infrastructure in the west in road connectivity and broadband and mobile phone coverage which is imperative to the development of business in the region.”
Pat Horgan, Head of SME Banking South Midlands and West, Ulster Bank, said: “The event this morning was a great opportunity for our team in the West to hear about the challenges and opportunities facing businesses in Galway and the surrounding areas and how we can help them. Most business relationships cross borders and time zones and managing that supply chain is vital to their growth. Ulster Bank provides invaluable support for these businesses, whether it’s through managing foreign exchange risk, supplier payment methods or advice on expanding to capitalise on market developments. We’re delighted to continue our strong relationship with the Irish Exporters Association and to continue to provide meaningful support for businesses.”
Glenn Carr, General Manager Freight Iarnród Éireann Irish Rail commented: “We are delighted to be a partner of IEA Supply Chain as we firmly believe there is continued opportunity and interest for the growth of rail freight in Ireland. We are determined to convert that interest and deliver freight train services that are price-competitive, reliable, safe, punctual and environmentally friendly. Our inland port in Ballina currently provides direct rail freight services to both Dublin and Waterford. Supply Chain Ireland allows us to showcase our services and work with all the key stakeholders in developing and growing multi modal logistics solutions.”
Declan Sinnott, Managing Director, Rhenus Logistics Ireland stated: “The Irish Exporters Association Supply Chain programme of events in 2017 provides a real platform to share and exchange supply chain innovations and developments across a number of industries. Rhenus Logistics is proud to sponsor the Irish Exporters Association and its partners through this programme in 2017.”
Jarlath Sweeney, Group Editor/Director, Fleet Transport said: “Thanks to the motorway from Galway to Dublin, locally based manufacturers have benefited from faster road freight movements to Dublin Port. However, the routes to Waterford and Rosslare Europort needs investment and improvements to improve transit times. Galway, with two airports nearby – Shannon and Ireland West Airport Knock have an opportunity to offer a broader range of air freight services for the pharma sector, of which there are many located in the West of Ireland. Supply Chain topics such as these are sure to be discussed at the next IEA meeting in Galway.”
Speaking at the event on Wednesday, John O’Dea, CEO of Crospon noted: “Recent changes in US importation rules for medical devices are requiring SME Irish exporters to put new infrastructure in place, and companies need to tune in to the new realities to avoid costly delays.”
John Concannon, Managing Director, JFC Manufacturing: “We’re an international business renowned for manufacturing innovative, high-quality plastic products. Since our formation in 1987 our innovative agricultural products have assisted farmers in working more efficiently saving them time and money.”
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Synapse Death Metal / Co. Dublin
SYNAPSE formed in mid 1991 as a 4-piece and were pretty active in the early 1990’s with their main influences being early SEPULTURA, SLAYER and OBITUARY. They recorded and released their debut 4-track demo ”The Awakening” in 1992 and shortly after decided that a second guitarist was needed to improve their recording and live sound. So Alan Duffy joined the ranks.
It was this line-up that recorded the ”Cries Of The Unborn” demo in Stare Sudios at the end of July 1993. Subject matter of tracks on the demo dealt with varies political and social topics of the time. ‘Afterdark’ and the title track ‘Cries Of The Unborn’ dealing with abortion and giving two different views the subject. The track ‘Cradle’ is about the Irish famine in the 19th century. ‘Secret Tears’ tackled child abuse and ‘Warthorn’ is political propaganda in the Middle-East. Over 8 tracks it was quite a lot to tackle at the time for a demo release.
Band information is pretty sketch on this lot. There’s little or no references to them online other than the same brief repeated over and over. So I’ve tried to ‘fluff’ it up with some added comments made by guitarist Justin Wilson in an interview he did for ‘DEPRIVED ZINE’ back in 1994.
The only recent news on SYNAPSE is that they had the track ‘Afterdark’ feature on the compilation CD ”Aggressive Tyrants – 20 Years Of Irish Metal – Vol.1 [’87-’94]”, released in 2010. The CD is available to buy from the UNDERGROUND MOVEMENT label or from INTO THE VOID in Dublin.
Thanks a million to Alan Duffy and Stuart Halpin for allowing me to upload the demos to the Archive!
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Synapse – Cries of the Unborn
Synapse – The Awakening
Forlorn Existance – Compilation Tape 1993
Various Artists – Aggressive Tyrants: 20 Years of Irish Metal Vol.1 (’87-’94)
Synapse – Live @ The Rock Garden, Dublin (28/11/1993)
Deprived – Issue No.2 (1994)
High Speed Death – No.6 (October 1993)
High Speed Death – No.7 (March 1994)
Stone Skull – Issue No.2 (1995)
The Oath – I (1993)
Through Ireland’s Eye – Issue No.1 (1994)
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Members (Current)
Stuart Halpin - Vocals
Justin Wilson - Guitars
Alan Duffy - Guitars
Paul Girvin - Bass
Paul Brennan - Drums
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SLEEPY HOLLOW returns for a spellbinding third season of action, intrigue and “Ichabod-isms,” picking up after a disquieting break in the supernatural action, as Ichabod (Tom Mison) and Abbie (Nicole Beharie) adjust to a world seemingly without Moloch, witchy wives, demonic sons and headless, ex-best friends. But nothing is at it seems in Sleepy Hollow!
Sleepy Hollow, Season 3
I, Witness
With old enemies gone, Abbie and Crane are seemingly moving on with their lives. However, the discovery of a mysterious tablet shows that there may be a new dark prophecy surrounding our Witnesses. The two team together, with the help of an old amulet, and continue their epic takedown of the forces of evil.
When Pandora uses her powers to unleash a new form of evil, Abbie and Crane are forced to face their pasts in unexpected ways.
Blood and Fear
Fear is rampant in Sleepy Hollow when Pandora releases an ancient artifact from her box that can transform an ordinary human into a terrifying figure from the past.
The Sisters Mills
More powerful than ever, Pandora unleashes her most evil force yet. Meanwhile, Abbie and Jenny work together when the latest monster targets the children of Sleepy Hollow.
With Booth and Brennan in tow, Abbie and Crane set out to prove that supernatural forces are at play when a mysterious death plagues the FBI. As Pandora unleashes a force to awaken the dangerous Red Coast General Howe, both teams must find a way to save the town from the British Army of the Undead. Can the power of Booth and Brennan combined with Abbie and Crane be enough to stop Pandora’s evil forces?
This Red Lady from Caribee
When Pandora unleashes an iconic monster to haunt the residents of Sleepy Hollow as they sleep, Abbie and Jenny are tempted to confront a painful part of their past. Meanwhile, Abbie makes a crucial decision for her career and Crane does his best to guide her with wisdom from his own experiences. Will Ichabod lead Abbie to the right decision?
When Reynolds heads to D.C. to discuss developments in the Nevins case, Abbie is left in command. Jenny and Joe deal with unexpected consequences as a result of stealing the shard, which leaves both the lives of the heroes and Abbie’s career in great peril. Meanwhile, a new, more dangerous evil force is revealed.
In the aftermath of Jenny and Joe’s run-in with Sophie, Abbie is in deep water with Reynolds. Meanwhile, the Witnesses deal with lasting implications of the shard and find themselves in grave danger as they come face-to-face with a greater evil than they could have imagined.
Following Abbie’s huge sacrifice, Crane and Jennie find themselves at a loss. In an effort to save Abbie, Crane forms and unlikely partnership and Jenny confronts a former foe.
Incident At Stone Manor
In the quest to save Abbie, Crane and Sophie are forced to battle a supernatural force targeting the citizens of Sleepy Hollow, while Pandora and The Hidden One only grow stronger. Meanwhile, in an effort to find out what truly happened to her sister, Jenny faces an old foe: her father. Can our heroes solve their most personal case yet?
As Abbie, Crane and Jenny struggle to find normalcy, The Kindred reemerges as a new threat. While the team attempts to figure out why The Kindred has turned to evil, Crane finds that his romantic encounters with Zoe may have caused long-lasting trouble.
Sins of the Father
When Jenny makes the decision to confront her father, family turmoil from the past rises to the surface. Meanwhile, Atticus Nevins returns to town, bringing more danger than the FBI could have imagined.
As a monster resembling the fabled New Jersey Devil ravages Sleepy Hollow, Crane must draw on his past to find the connection. Meanwhile, Jenny and Joe stumble as they navigate their new relationship and Abbie continues to struggle with the aftermath of her trauma.
On an FBI team-building day, Abbie and Sophie come face to face with a monster that may finally blow their cover with Reynolds. Meanwhile, Jenny and Joe find themselves in possession of something precious and Crane discovers that the symbol from the Catacombs may be more important than he realized.
After a supernatural event takes the Witnesses by surprise, both Crane and Abbie are forced to work alongside their most hated foes yet. Meanwhile, Jenny and Joe struggle to salvage their relationship, as they continue to battle their own internal demons.
As The Hidden One grows stronger, Crane must examine his past with Betsy Ross to find the key to stopping him. Meanwhile, Jenny wonders if she can ever have a relationship with her father, and Abbie faces a hard decision as things with Reynolds become more strained.
With a single day left before The Hidden One regains omniscience, Abbie and Crane must do the unthinkable in a last-ditch effort to save the world. Meanwhile, Jenny, Joe and Sophie devise a plan to stall as the Witnesses work.
After a startling discovery, Abbie and Crane realize what they must do in order to make Pandora’s box complete again. Meanwhile, the team works tirelessly to stop The Hidden One, before he destroys all of humanity. Can the Witnesses succeed with the fate of the world in their hands once again?
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Prude & Prejudice
Prude & Prejudice by Francine Carroll
So any of you Kindle, Nook, or other E-Reader?
Well there is a fantastic site that you can get ebooks from. They range from being free to being low cost-and have every genre you can think of.
The site is called BookBub and I suggest you check it out today. I mean who doesn’t love free stuff?
But free books can either be good:
And some are horrible.
This is one of the horrible ones.
Our main character is supposed to be based on Elizabeth Bennet but is gifted with the name Prudence Higginbottom.
That is the name the author came up with? Did she put a blindfold on and pull out random Scrabble tiles?
Anyway, Prudence prefers Prue as she hates her full name. Besides being bullied about that she also had to contend with being overweight growing up.
She has since then lost the weight, gone off to university, and successfully operates a farm to fork organic café with her family. Her family consists of her quiet father, outlandish mother, and three sisters. Of the sisters I’m not entirely who is who as they change the names (Alice, Mary, & Cate), but I’m pretty sure that Cate is Jane. I don’t know why they have to complicate things for us readers.
So Prue and her mother have been fighting over the organic farming for years, (Prue’s mom thought it was a horrible idea) but it looks like Prue’s plan is really going to pay off. An organic food distribution company is moving to the area and will need someone to provide food for the workers during lunch and catered events. Mrs. Higginbottom works hard to become their choice.
Prue ends up getting there later and is stuck with a jacket XXXL jacket. She bemoans this fate as she feels it makes her look fat.
Now I had a problem with that plot point. If someone wears something that is that much bigger than them, as Prue is a medium; it shouldn’t make her look fat but as if she is wearing the wrong size. The author uses it as an important plot device, but it makes no sense.
As she is moving things around and doing her duties as a caterer, she overhears the company owners-the handsome Charles Bradley (Charles Bingley) and William Darling (Mr. Darcy). Charles tell William he should help the caterer girl, Prue, but William says no she looks big enough to handle her tray on her own and makes fun of the name Prudence Higginbottom.
She becomes so upset over what he said that she starts talking smack about him. She also overhears another conversation and thinks he is talking about immigration, continuing her bad-mouthing to everyone.
She also looks up William Darling online and finds a report by a Georgina Wickham (George Wickham) on CheatingDirtyB*******.com and believes it.
Anyone can put anything on the internet. Why would you believe it?
Then the author is against free speech, as when Mrs. Higginbottom shares her beliefs and right to speak her mind:
“What kind of world do we live in where people can’t express their opinions in their own homes? Its political correctness gone mad, that’s what it is.”
Everyone acts like she is crazy and shouldn’t be talking. Like that’s not right. I know this takes place in England and maybe people feel different there, but I’m an American and I believe that people should have the right to whatever their opinion or view is. I may not agree with it, I may not like it, I may think it rude, crude, stupid, etc-but I still think you have the right to express yourself-especially in your own home. I mean I think this book is pretty stupid, boring, and a waste of time-but Carroll had a right to write it, just as I have a right to review and share what I think.
Later Mr. Bennet Mr. Higginbottom says this, which makes no sense:
“My dear,’ cut in Mr Higginbottom, ‘If you read anything besides gossip magazines, you might realize that the history of the human race is the history of immigration. People have always moved around the globe extensively and the kind of national pride you express is a very recent thing, which in my opinion is exploited by politician’s and shock jocks for their own nefarious ends.”
Ugh, haven’t you ever heard of WWI or WWII, both of which involved a lot of national pride. I mean I know England was involved with both of them.
So then Prue gets drunk one night at the bar and gets super angry at William Darling, yelling and screaming at him. Cate has to take her home, and then after realizing that she messed up a great contract, Prue has to swallow her pride and go apologize to Darling.
Now one of the big reasons why I love Jane Austen is the complexity of the characters, the amazing wit, and the way she can tell an interesting story without having to resort to silly ploys. This book was nothing like that as it was boring and the language dull. No wit, Prue was annoying, and Darling was a shadow of a character.
Anyways they have a party-Mrs. Higginbottom makes a fool of herself, Cate is embarrassed, Prue and Darling talk everything out, Darling was talking about farming not immigration and he aplogizes for his earlier comments,they are married, blah, blah blah.
Blah, blah
Yes, I found this book to be incredibly boring, too easily “sewn” up at the end, and more as a vehicle to discuss Carroll’s views rather than remaking Pride and Prejudice.
In my opinion, I would just pass this one on by.
For more on Pride & Prejudice, go to Mr. Darcy Takes a Wife: Pride and Prejudice Continues
For more Pride & Prejudice variations, go to Book Club Picks: The Darcy Monologues
For more books based on Jane Austen, go to A Visit to Highbury: Another View of Emma
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News World UK economy takes 25% hit from COVID, recovery seen slow
UK economy takes 25% hit from COVID, recovery seen slow
Britain’s economy shrank by a quarter over March and April as entire sectors were shuttered by the coronavirus lockdown, in what looks likely to be the bottom of a “catastrophic” crash before a long and slow recovery.
In a slump dwarfing previous downturns, the economy contracted by 20.4% in April from March, when it shrank by nearly 6%. It was 24.5% smaller than in April 2019.
Both of April’s readings represented bigger declines than the unprecedentedly weak forecasts in a Reuters poll of economists. The Office for National Statistics said the economy had shrunk back to its size in 2002.
“This is catastrophic, literally on a scale never seen before in history,” Paul Johnson, director of the Institute for Fiscal Studies think tank, said. “The real issue is what happens next.”
Prime Minister Boris Johnson said the figures were no surprise as Britain’s huge services sector was being hit particularly hard by social distancing measures, but he said a recovery would follow.
“Coronavirus is likely to hit a country like the UK economically very hard, we depend on services, on human contact,” he said. “But we’re also a very resilient and a dynamic economy and we will bounce back.”
Much of Britain’s retail sector is due to open its doors next week and the government last month urged people who could not do their jobs at home to return to work as lockdown restrictions are gradually lifted.
Bank of England Governor Andrew Bailey – who has warned of the deepest recession in three centuries this year – said on Wednesday he could see some signs of a recovery but long-term economic damage remained likely.
But the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development says Britain could suffer the worst downturn among the countries it covers, with an 11.5% slump this year.
The BoE is expected to announce a fresh increase of at least 100 billion pounds ($126 billion) in its bond-buying firepower next week.
IFS director Johnson told Sky News the hit might be short, if the roughly one third of private sector employees who are temporarily laid off can return to work, consumers go out and spend again and Britain avoids a second COVID-19 wave.
But he said it was more likely that unemployment would jump when the government’s wage subsidy scheme ended in October, and that Britain would limp into 2021 with the risk of a Brexit shock also on the horizon.
Britain left the European Union at the end of January and began a no-change transition period which lasts for the rest of 2020. Talks on a broad new deal have made little progress.
The ONS said output in the dominant services sector fell by 19% in April from March while manufacturing was down more than 24% and construction crashed by 40%.
In the three months to April, the overall economy contracted by 10.4% from the previous three-month period.
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[Exclusive] A tantalizingly Tasty interview
It was a breezy day and we welcomed the warmth that SM Entertainment building has to offer us. Tho with the heater on, we could still feel the chill but all that changed, when we entered the room where we were supposed to interview the Tasty. From slightly chilly, to warm (when we entered the building) to slightly sweating (from the hotness that exudes from the duo). Tasty, a duo consisting of male twins, DAE RYONG and SO RYONG welcomed greeted us in with the brightest smile.
Talented duo, Tasty
“Hi! We’re Tasty! I’m DAE RYONG, and I’m SO RYONG” introduced the boys, but in my head I kept trying to differentiate which one is which, but thankfully, they wore different style of clothing. That helps me a little, but who is older? DAE RYONG or SO RYONG? “DAE RYONG is the older brother and I’m the youngest”, mentioned SO RYONG as if knowing what I was thinking. Perhaps they have been asked the same question every time they met someone new? Hmm…
Tasty! When we heard the name Tasty, we thought about delicious food and but that’s not what the name Tasty means to the duo “Our CEO came up with the name right before the shooting of our first music video and it doesn’t have to do with food. It means that sexy, handsome and how we want to show our capability, which is Tasty” says the Big Dragon (the meaning of their name in Chinese) DAE RYONG. So what do you think readers? Doesn’t the word Tasty mean much more now? Betcha when someone says “Wow, that looks tasty!” in a restaurant and you thought of two hot and sexy men, hehe..
Being the talented duo that they are, who can dance and sing to both fast songs (such as 너 나 알아 and 떠나가) and slow, RnB style, but which kind of song do they prefer? “We prefer fast songs which we can dance to. Because we are good at dancing, we want to show the fans what we enjoy doing“. Its no wonder that they still dance for the song Addiction, which was a pretty good ballad, but made strong with the dance performance which showcases the duo’s talent in dancing.
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Talking about the songs, makes us wonder what kind of music videos that they would want to shoot next, as we’ve seen them always performing their dance moves in the videos. Perhaps a video with a nice story line and a leading lady? “We want to shoot good music videos. So, we want a nice set and nice angles where we can focus on the dance moves”.
The duo, being identical twins, from head to toe, even their voice are alike. So we asked, who gets recognized more on the streets and were the fans able to tell them apart? Tasty twins laughed and said no, most of the people can’t tell them apart “Hope they will soon” – added DAE RYONG. And when on the streets, DAE RYONG gets recognized more than SO RYONG. “When we were in Tokyo last time, a guy came up to us and said he knew us and asked for our autograph and we were quite surprised”.
When talking about twins, most people would be questioning whether twins have misunderstandings and being human, yes, they do. “To be honest, we fought a lot with each other to the point that we don’t fight anymore as we have always been together”. Interviewer – so, when you two are apart, would you feel that the other is maybe feeling sickly or something? Like a telepathic connection. And this brought laughter to the two of them and sadly, no, unlike all the myths you (readers) have heard or read about, twins do not have telepathic connection but they do know what the other’s are thinking about, due to the time spent together.
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And this is something to be jealous about, as the duo have traveled to many places before, due to their line of duty. But each country has different kind of fans and which country do they feel more memorable? “Countries I have visited are all very memorable. But if I have to choose a specific one, for me, its the Philippines, the weather was hot and the fans, they have crazy energy. The food was good too and I want to go there more often” says SO RYONG. While for DAE RYONG, “Other than China and Korea, I would say its Thailand. We had fun in Thailand a few years ago” and hopefully when Tasty comes to Malaysia, we’ll show them how different it is here and the crowd will be cr-a-zy for them, right K-popped! readers? Let’s show ’em! Which comes to our next question, have the twins thought about coming to Malaysia for a concert or maybe a holiday? “We would want to and are willing to go to any country for the fans. I hope we get a chance to go to Malaysia in the future” says SO RYONG.
So what’s next in store for Tasty? “Right now, we’re focusing on our Chinese promotion, so there is no plan yet for a new album. But we hope that the fans will look forward to our next song, when it comes out!”
Any messages to the fans in Malaysia? “Dear Malaysian fans, hope to see you guys soon!” says SO RYONG while DAE RYONG added “Keep supporting us and see you guys on Instagram and Twitter! If you miss me just hit me!”
Thanks for the wonderful time guys and a special thanks to SM Entertainment, Woollim Entertainment and ME Malaysia for the exclusive interview with Tasty!
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Chapter 408 – Xiao Tianji!
“As expected of the Martial God! What a formidable Divine Sense!” At this moment, a grey robed old man suddenly appeared in front of Luo Feng. After he descended to the ground, the old man gazed at Luo Feng and shook his head as he said, “Why can’t you change that bad habit of yours? If you don’t, then you’ll be destroyed because of your own doing one day!”
Luo Feng remained silent. At this moment, he knew who he’d offended, it was the Martial God of this era. Perhaps the Martial God’s present strength wasn’t capable of threatening the Exalted Han Empire right now, but what about the future? Needless to say, he’d bit off more than he could chew and offended an extraordinary expert for the Exalted Han Empire!
The old man turned around to gaze at An Nanjing, and then he said, “We have no intention to become enemies with you. That incident from before was our mistake. You’ve already killed nine dragons and an attendant, so how about we let the matter rest?”
“No!” An Nanjing said, “I really can’t kill him with you protecting him. But don’t worry, I’ll be able to kill him one day! The Exalted Han Empire? One day, I, An Nanjing, will head over and pay it a visit!”
As soon as she finished speaking, An Nanjing turned around and walked towards the combat arena.
When they heard An Nanjing, the expressions of Luo Feng and the old man had instantly changed. An Nanjing’s words had transformed enmity between just her and Luo Feng into enmity that was between two powers! Head over to pay the Exalted Han Empire a visit? If an ordinary person had spoken these words, then the two of them would definitely scoff at it, and they wouldn’t take it seriously even if it was a Monarch Realm expert who spoke these words!
However, the weight it carried was completely different when it was spoken by the Martial God!
A wisp of killing intent flashed through the depths of the old man’s eyes. Right at this moment, An Nanjing suddenly stopped and said, “I’m not killing him now merely out of consideration for my clan. After all, my clan has even more important affairs to attend to, and it doesn’t have any residual strength to engage with your Exalted Han Empire. It’s not because I can’t kill him, understand?”
The old man’s heart shook as he said, “An Nanjing…. You’re from the An Clan!” At this moment, there was no killing intent in his eyes anymore, and there was only fear and shock.
An Nanjing didn’t answer the old man. She walked up the arena, and then she glanced at Yang Ye and said, “Staying alive is the most important!” She immediately walked off to the side and fell silent after she spoke those words.
Yang Ye rubbed his nose. He was naturally aware that staying alive was the most important. However, would they let him live? He’d killed the Crown Prince of the Exalted Han Empire, and he’d even refined the Crown Prince into a puppet. So, how could they possibly let him off?
Meanwhile, the grey robed old man’s gaze descended onto Yang Ye, and he sized Yang Ye up before he said, “Your strength is pretty good. You’ve actually cultivated the Sword Dao to such an extent at such a young age. No wonder you were able to kill Mu Jun. Mu Jun’s death can be attributed to his lack of strength, and it was fate. My Exalted Han Empire has no desire to avenge him. However, the Mortal Emperor Armor, Mortal Emperor Seal, and Immortal Binding Rope are precious treasures of my Exalted Han Empire, so you must hand them over. Besides that, it’s said that others witnessed you taking Mu Jun’s corpse. Even though he’s dead, he’s still the Crown Prince of my Exalted Han Empire, so how can his corpse possibly fall to the hands of an outside? Hand it over as well!”
His voice was flat, yet it carried an indisputable tone.
Yang Ye turned around to look at Qian Huan, and he said, “Senior, there’s nothing wrong with taking the possessions of the other party to the battles during the Hidden Dragon Rankings, right? Moreover, the Hidden Dragon Rankings hasn’t come to an end right now, yet someone has openly threatened a participant in the rankings. Could it be that this isn’t a violation of the rules?”
The grey robed old man laughed coldly when he heard Yang Ye, and then a wisp of ridicule arose on the corners of his mouth.
Qian Huan pondered deeply for a moment before he said, “You’re right, it isn’t wrong to take the possessions of the other party to the battles in the Hidden Dragon Rankings. It’s your right to take your opponent’s possessions. However, the Hidden Dragon Rankings have come to an end now, so it’s a private matter between you and them. I have no authority or reason to interfere!”
Actually, the decision of whether it had ended was entirely dependent on him. If he had the intention to protect Yang Ye, then the Hidden Dragon Rankings would be considered to have not ended yet and vice versa.
Protect Yang Ye? What reason did he have to do that? He had none!
Yang Ye immediately laughed coldly when he heard this. As expected, all rules are useless before formidable strength!
Meanwhile, the grey robed old man said, “You originally just had to hand over those three treasures of my Exalted Han Empire. But I’ve changed my mind now. You have to hand over everything that belonged to Mu Jun. Of course, you can refuse, but you’ll definitely be unable to bear the consequences of that decision!”
“As expected of the Exalted Han Empire. You truly are overbearing!” Right at this moment, light laughter suddenly resounded, and then a middle aged man who leaned on a walking stick and had a piece of white cloth covering his eyes had appeared here.
“Xiao Tianji!”
The expressions of Qian Huan, the grey robed old man, and the representatives from the other sects had immediately changed. The name Xiao Tianji could be said to be extremely renowned throughout the continent. Besides the mysterious and unfathomable strength he possessed, Xiao Tianji was famous because he could predict the future and see through the workings of the heavens!
His ability to see through the workings of the heavens was the real reason he was terrifying! Moreover, his wisdom was terrifyingly shocking as well. Even though the people of the continent respected the strong, when one’s wisdom had arrived at a certain level, then that person could kill imperceptibly. Because their schemes would very likely cause one to offend numerous others without even realizing it and gain numerous enemies….
So, even if the Xiao Clan had never had more than 3 members throughout history, it had been able to survive in the continent for 10,000 years. It was none other than because no power dared to rashly offend the Xiao Clan. Conversely, many powers even tried to stay on friendly terms with the Xiao Clan. Because just a single word from the Xiao Clan might be able to allow their sects to escape calamity!
However, the members of the Xiao Clan had always been elusive, so Qian Huan and the others wondered why Xiao Tianji would make an appearance in the Ancient Battlefield.
Xiao Tianji paid no attention to the grey robed old man, and he walked slowly towards Yang Ye instead. Yang Ye frowned when he saw this middle aged man walk towards him. Even though the middle aged man’s eyes were covered by a piece of white cloth, Yang Ye had the feeling that the middle aged man could see him, and this feeling of his was extremely strong!
Xiao Tianji nodded lightly to Yang Ye, and then he said, “Not bad. You’re like a brilliant blade with condensed Sword Intent. An extraordinary genius in the Sword Dao indeed. Oh, right. I forget to introduce myself. I’m Yuxi’s father, your future father-in-law. That’s correct, right?”
Yuxi’s father? My future father-in-law?
Yang Ye was instantly stunned. This middle aged man is Xiao Yuxi’s father? But future father-in-law…. He suddenly thought about everything that had happened between them….
Yang Ye smiled with embarrassment, and then he bowed to the middle aged man and said, “Father-in-law!”
Since he dared to act, then he dared to bear the consequences of his actions. Since their relationship had already come to that, how could he possibly be worthy of Xiao Yuxi if he were to act hesitantly and feign ignorance when her father had come looking for him?
A wisp of a smile instantly arose on the corners of Xiao Tianji’s mouth when he heard how Yang Ye addressed him, and then he said, “Very good. Yuxi didn’t misjudge you. Do you know that if you used any excuses to avoid it, then regardless of how reasonable those excuses were, there would be no need for those fellows from the Exalted Han Empire to make a move against you because I would have killed you myself! Fortunately, you didn’t disappoint me, and you didn’t disappoint Yuxi!”
Yang Ye couldn’t help but laugh bitterly when he heard this. So this father-in-law of mine actually had the intention to kill me….
Meanwhile, the grey robed old man said in a low voice, “Xiao Tianji, my Exalted Han Empire and your Xiao Clan has always stayed out of each other’s business. Could it be that you intend to become enemies with my Exalted Han Empire this time?”
Xiao Tianji turned around and said to the grey robed old man, “You’re the Exalted Han Empire’s Luo Yan, right?”
“So what if I am!?” The grey robed old man spoke in a cold voice.
Xiao Tianji shook his head and said, “Out of consideration for how difficult it was to attain your realm of cultivation, I’ll give you a piece of advice. Return to the Exalted Han Empire right now and do it at the quickest speed you can muster. Otherwise, you’ll never be able to return there again! As for my son-in-law, you don’t have to worry about him. His life isn’t destined to end. At the very least, it isn’t destined to end today because I’m here!”
The grey robed old man’s expression instantly became unsightly. If it was anyone else who said that he might perish today, then he would definitely scoff at it, but it wasn’t the same when these words were spoken by Xiao Tianji!
The grey robed old man hesitated for a short while before a wisp of a ruthless expression flashed through his eyes. He said, “Xiao Tianji, could it be that you thought that I would fall for it and leave obediently? Let me tell you that you were mistaken! If that fellow, Yang Ye, doesn’t hand over those three treasures of my Exalted Han Empire, then he’ll definitely be unable to leave the Ancient Battlefield!”
Xiao Tianji shook his head and said, “It’s too late for you to leave now….”
As soon as he finished speaking, an unexpected event occurred….
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Intel CES 2020
Innovation through Intelligence
At CES 2020, Intel debuted a new event format entirely focused on reaching its customers, ecosystem business partners, press, analysts, and influencers through an exclusive, invitation-only restaurant activation and buy-out of Canaletto Ristorante at The Venetian® Resort.
In the interior of the restaurant, Intel showcased technology demos from the company’s press conference as well as an Innovations Lab. For the front patio, Intel wanted to create a visually dramatic brand experience that would draw attention to its CES presence, while underscoring four of its strategic technology pillars: Compute, 5G Networking, Artificial Intelligence and Autonomous Vehicles.
We immediately saw an opportunity to bring Intel’s “Innovation through Intelligence” strategy to life through a series of data sculptures by world-renown media artist, Refik Anadol. Refik interprets large data sets – using proprietary processes and algorithms, artificial intelligence, and machine learning to transform data into visual, kinetic art.
Intrepid worked with Intel business groups to secure datasets that Refik could transform into data sculptures that aligned to Intel’s strategy. We collaborated with our environmental design partner, Design Group Italia, to create an elegant configuration of four 11-foot tall, dual-sided video LED monoliths and an integrated LED video floor to create a visually stunning and immersive experience for invited guests. The back of the LED monolith featured motion graphics depicting the data analysis process Refik used to create the captivating imagery. The entire activation was powered by Intel hardware.
Intrepid was also asked to develop the CES style guide to ensure a consistent look and feel across all CES activities – including the MobileEye booth, press conference, retail experience and press reception invitation at Canaletto.
The survey results from customers and press was overwhelmingly positive – with 90% indicating that it was a valuable experience and a more high-quality experience over the booth. Customers said they felt they were part of something very special and exclusive – with less chaos, fewer crowds, no show floor noise and much more valuable, efficient, meaningful interactions.
The activation was at capacity during the entire CES event, and the visual impact of the data sculptures drove social media buzz way beyond Intel’s target by at least 100X based on the views of Refik’s Intel Data Sculpture videos on Instagram and other platforms.
“We were thrilled with the results. Our goal was to inspire conversations about the future of data analysis and the many opportunities and experiences it will enable in our lives. Through this dynamic fusion of art, data and technology I think we were able to accomplish that” said Victor Torregroza, Event Manager for Intel’s Sales and Marketing Group.
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Key West is not Kokomo
TOPICS:AOPAFAA Southern Region Airport DivisionKey West International Airportself-service facility
Posted By: Sandy Murdock July 10, 2018
FAA FINDS KEY WEST IN VIOLATION OF GRANT ASSURANCES ON PILOT SELF-SERVICE
Self-service one of 4 complaint elements
Basic Policy Question not a matter of Part 13
Solid equitable issues raised
This is the third in a series of decisions by the FAA in response to three complaints filed by AOPA against three different airports[1]. The FFA’s Southern Region Airports Compliance dismissed the complaint against the Greenville Regional Airport Authority. The Waukegan National Airport must have recognized the likely outcome of its case and volunteered to add a self-service fuel station.
The last of this trilogy was also decided by Ms. Heather A. Haney, the Airports Compliance Specialist in a 10-page decision. She summarized the four issues in the Part 13 compliant submitted by AOPA’s General Counsel, Ken Mead.
Her summary of the facts, laws, policy and particularly the burden of proof is textbook perfect, providing little basis for an appeal under Part 16. The decision does find for the complainant and orders the County of Monroe[2] to “provide a location for self-service.”
That said, Mr. Mead’s initial complaint and the July 5 article on the AOPA website make some strong equity arguments about the current airport/FBO status quo. The Key West case is a perfect example of how the practical circumstances of an airport, particularly a physically constrained airport like EYW, may create a locational monopoly.
The confluence of the name Key West and the lyrics of an all time favorite Beach Boys song, Kokomo brought to mind the lyrics of Love/Phillips/ Meicher/Phillips-
Kokomo, even in comparison to Key Largo, with its sands, drinks, steel band and perfect chemistry, is mythical. The existing statutes, regulations and policy statement do not provide an ideal airport with FBO “fair prices…access and transparency”.
The 2017 FBO Industry Consolidation and Pricing Practices, Q&A issued by the FAA paints a non-Kokomo view of the world of airports and their FBO vendors. That view looks to the sponsors being the direct link to the FAA, through its AIP grants. The FAA looks to, relies upon, the recipients of those federal dollars to comply with the Assurances. As a matter of reality, the FAA does not have the staff size nor the technical competence to assure directly that the local rates and charges of FBOs are fair and reasonable. At best, it might act on proof with specific hard data that the Sponsor allows the FBO to charge egregious prices, general allegations are not enough.[3]
AOPA President Baker acknowledged that the FAA Q&A “was an important and welcome first step in highlighting these issues and assisting communities and airports in developing policies that will ensure fair and transparent pricing and reasonable airport access.” In that same article, he pointed to the creation of an Airport Access Advisory Panel as a mechanism for further discussion about the relationship between AOPA and the FBO industry. If that initiative has had any progress, a GOOGLE search did not discover it.
The network of FBOs is already established and the terms of their requirements as service providers with their customers, GA and BA, are embedded in contracts of differing terms and expiration dates. The DESIRED answers to AOPA complaints are not likely to be furnished by FAA airport compliance specialists on individual complaints. The policy issues are not within the scope of such proceedings.
Longer term methods are a more likely approach to the Kokomo which AOPA seeks.
AOPA has an unequalled airport network and its representatives should appear at their airport authorities to assures that the terms and criteria embedded in the Minimum Conditions and RFPs are relevant to the association’s needs. That is a far more proactive and positive tactic than filing Part 13 complaints.
The FAA has found unusual mechanisms, like ARAC, to find solutions to complex matters. Oddly enough, the association which represents FBOs has posted an intriguing article by one of its Board members posing an alternative approach–“Should U.S. FBOs Adopt a European Model?“. Perhaps a person trusted by both sides could “mediate” a dialogue of how to get to a Kokomo for both stakeholders.
[1] Technically, the Part 13 action is directed against the sponsors, but each airport has Signature as its FBO.
[2] Or is it Monroe County- see 06/29/2018 footnote 3 and the 3rd name on the CC list at page10.
[3] There actually is a fair amount of transparency of fuel prices at airports–http://nata.aero/data/files/gia/ashville%20informal%20complaint%20ltr%20(signed)%206.7.18.pdf;https://www.airnav.com/fuel/guarantee.html;http://www.acukwikalert.com/all-fbo-fuel-prices-by-price/;https://www.globalair.com/airport/fuelmap.aspx;https://www.foreflight.com/products/foreflight-directory/
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Ariana Grande Would Like Fans to Stop Grabbing Her Friends
Image: Getty
Ariana Grande has once again had to issue a social media directive to her fans regarding their behavior: this time to tell them to stop touching her photographers and friends at concerts.
In an Instagram story, Grande wrote:
“Friendly reminder, Grabbing/touching people without their consent is harassment. Please do not put your hands on my photographers or friends or anyone you don’t know for that matter when you’re in the pit at my shows. It’s never okay or funny. Thank you. (I can’t believe this has to be said...but unfortunately it happens often...thanks for listening.)”
That is an excellent reminder, both for Grande fans and humans in general, for instance, men who feel the need to touch the small of a woman’s back in order to “scoot by.”
But as MTV News points out, these are fans “sitting in more prominent seats where her friends and photographers would be in the first place” not the cheap seats where it’s impossible to dance without accidentally touching a stranger. What is the purpose of this? Are people who paid thousands of dollars for VIP at an Ariana Grande show really daring one another to poke her cousin’s elbow? I also can’t believe this needs to be said, but y’all are making Ariana Grande scold you like second graders on a field trip and need to settle down.
[MTV News]
Adam Levine is out after eight years of judging The Voice after what sounds like a disaster of a night at the NBC Upfronts presentation on May 13, where Levine openly pouted about new rules for the show in front of the moneybags he needed to impress for his $26 mil a year:
“But it was when Levine brought his apathy out on stage at Radio City Music Hall — in front of his NBC bosses hosting the annual Upfront showcase of returning and new programming — that things came to a head. Singing on stage alongside his fellow coaches, Levine was nearly motionless — a stark contrast to his much more enthusiastic and animated colleagues. “Adam had been checked out for a while,” notes an NBC insider, “’but this was a new low. It was essentially the straw that broke the camel’s back.’”
So now Gwen Stefani is back. Welcome back.
[Page Six]
Kendall Jenner stayed out late dancing with boys following her breakup just like one is supposed to, only she got to do it in France. [Page Six]
More Ari news: Her Madame Tussauds wax replica bears a likeness in that it is wearing a sweatshirt. [People]
Good baby news: The Carters are expecting. Congratulations, Carters! [People]
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The Carters are expecting. Congratulations, Carters!
I was very excited for a moment before clicking through and realizing that you weren’t talking about THE Carters.
In hindsight, that news would have gotten its own article and not be buried as a last mention in a Dirt Bag roll up.
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Dual-Use Software Criminal Case Not So Novel
“He built a piece of software. That tool was pirated and abused by hackers. Now the feds want him to pay for the computer crooks’ crimes.”
The above snippet is the subhead of a story published last month by the The Daily Beast titled, “FBI Arrests Hacker Who Hacked No One.” The subject of that piece — a 26-year-old American named Taylor Huddleston — faces felony hacking charges connected to two computer programs he authored and sold: An anti-piracy product called Net Seal, and a Remote Administration Tool (RAT) called NanoCore that he says was a benign program designed to help users remotely administer their computers.
Photo illustration by Lyne Lucien/The Daily Beast
The author of the Daily Beast story, former black hat hacker and Wired.com editor Kevin Poulsen, argues that Huddleston’s case raises a novel question: When is a programmer criminally responsible for the actions of his users?
“Some experts say [the case] could have far reaching implications for developers, particularly those working on new technologies that criminals might adopt in unforeseeable ways,” Poulsen wrote.
But a closer look at the government’s side of the story — as well as public postings left behind by the accused and his alleged accomplices — paints a more complex and nuanced picture that suggests this may not be the case to raise that specific legal question in any meaningful way.
Mark Rumold, senior staff attorney at the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), said cases like these are not so cut-and-dry because they hinge on intent, and determining who knew what and when.
“I don’t read the government’s complaint as making the case that selling some type of RAT is illegal, and if that were the case I think we would be very interested in this,” Rumold said. “Whether or not [the government’s] claims are valid is going to be extraordinarily fact-specific, but unfortunately there is not a precise set of facts that would push this case from being about the valid reselling of a tool that no one questions can be done legally to crossing that threshold of engaging in a criminal conspiracy.”
Citing group chat logs and other evidence that hasn’t yet been made public, U.S. prosecutors say Huddleston intended NanoCore to function more like a Remote Access Trojan used to remotely control compromised PCs, and they’ve indicted Huddleston on criminal charges of conspiracy as well as aiding and abetting computer intrusions.
Poulsen depicts Huddleston as an ambitious — if extremely naive — programmer struggling to make an honest living selling what is essentially a dual-use software product. Using the nickname “Aeonhack,” Huddleston marketed his NanoCore RAT on Hackforums[dot]net, an English-language hacking forum that is overrun with young, impressionable but otherwise low-skilled hackers who are constantly looking for point-and-click tools and services that can help them demonstrate their supposed hacking prowess.
Yet we’re told that Huddleston was positively shocked to discover that many buyers on the forum were using his tools in a less-than-legal manner, and that in response he chastised and even penalized customers who did so. By way of example, Poulsen writes that Huddleston routinely used his Net Seal program to revoke the software licenses for customers who boasted online about using his NanoCore RAT illegally.
We later learn that — despite Net Seal’s copy protection abilities — denizens of Hackforums were able to pirate copies of NanoCore and spread it far and wide in malware and phishing campaigns. Eventually, Huddleston said he grew weary of all the drama and sold both programs to another Hackforums member, using the $60,000 or so in proceeds to move out of the rusty trailer he and his girlfriend shared and buy a house in a low-income corner of Hot Springs, Arkansas.
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What Does It Take to Win a Planning Grant From the Feds?
Reconnecting America has crunched the numbers on which projects won planning grants from the feds last month. Planning awards were announced through three programs: Sustainable Communities Regional Planning (SCRPG), Community Challenge, and TIGER II.
Reconnecting America has mapped and analyzed the winners of competitive grants from HUD and DOT. ##http://reconnectingamerica.org/public/display_asset/2010_hud_dot_award_maps##Click to enlarge (PDF)##
It’s worth noting that these are the types of competitive grant programs that John Mica is planning to put under the microscope when he takes the chair of the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee.
“We had unelected officials sitting behind closed doors making decisions without any hearings or without any elected officials being consulted,” Mica said soon after the election. “I’m going to have a full review of that.”
He’s looking for “rational explanations” of why the grants went to the projects they went to. Criteria for the awards were announced well in advance, but it’s true that the departments could have been more transparent in their process. Reconnecting America’s report can help fill in some of the gaps in the agencies’ own explanations of what they were looking for when they made their decisions.
In addition to mapping the top winning regions, Reconnecting America pulled out some common themes, illustrating the awarding agencies’ priorities. They include:
Equity: ensuring equitable benefits from development with regional affordable housing plans and inclusionary zoning
Planning for transit corridors and stations: for instance, a project in Seattle will strategize for up to 25 transit corridors and 100 new stations planned for the year 2025
Comprehensive planning: for regions without an existing plan or for those filling in gaps on affordable housing, transportation, or sustainability
Street connectivity and safety: complete streets, off-street trails, and making transit stations more accessible to pedestrians and cyclists
Economic development, including workforce development
Zoning and land use reform: fostering compact, mixed-use development
Healthy eating: improving access to healthy food and integrating local food systems
Generally, the report reflects the growing cohesion between DOT, HUD, and the EPA and the increased desire to achieve goals systematically, instead of operating within separate silos.
Mica: “The Focus of the Bill Is on the National Highway System”
By Tanya Snyder | Jul 8, 2011
First, to recap: The transportation reauthorization proposal that House Transportation Committee Chair John Mica unveiled yesterday (sans legislative text) calls for $230 billion over six years, cutting 33 percent out of current spending levels. The plan maintains the current 80/20 split between highways and transit funding, supports state infrastructure banks in lieu of a national […]
Think of Trump’s Budget as an Attack on Cities
By Angie Schmitt | Mar 17, 2017
Yesterday Donald Trump released a budget outline that calls for severe cuts to transit, and the reaction was swift and scathing. The National Association of City Transportation Officials called it "a disaster" for cities. Transportation for America said it was a "slap in the face" for local communities that have raised funds to expand transit.
HUD Announces Winners of $100M in Sustainability Grants
By Tanya Snyder | Oct 15, 2010
Planners in 45 regions in 27 states have a little more to work in their efforts to shape sustainable growth. Yesterday the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) announced the winners of nearly $100 million in grants from its new Sustainable Communities Regional Planning Grant Program, intended to connect “housing with good jobs, […]
Los Angeles and the Case for Transit Oriented Development: Building and Funding TOD
By Joel Epstein | May 25, 2012
This is the third part of a three part series on Transit Oriented Development written by Joel Epstein. Part I ran on Wednesday and introduced the series and looked at Metro’s current role. Part II ran yesterday and focused on the TOD history of L.A. since construction of the Red Line. The series was originally […]
Grants Issued for Affordable Housing, Transformative Climate Communities, Climate Change Research
By Melanie Curry | Jun 30, 2020
Strategic Growth Council awards a pile of implementation and planning grants for sustainable, healthy communities
U.S. DOT Releases Rules for ‘TIGER II’ Grants, Bringing HUD on Board
By Elana Schor | Apr 26, 2010
The U.S. DOT today released its first round of guidance for the so-called "TIGER II" program, a $600 million pot of competitive transportation grants considered a quasi-sequel to the popular $1.5 billion merit-based fund included in last year’s stimulus law. A ribbon-cutting in Dubuque, Iowa, where a broad revamping of downtown development won TIGER grant […]
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‘Star Wars: The High Republic’ Trailer Introduces the Golden Age of Jedi
Teased for months as something called “Project Luminous,” then introduced formally last February as Star Wars: The High Republic, the new series of books and comics is finally set to launch this week from Lucasfilm and a bunch of publishing partners including Del Rey, Insight Editions, Disney Lucasfilm Press, IDW, Titan, and of course Marvel Comics.
The first books, including the novel Star Wars: Light of the Jedi by Charles Soule, go on sale this week and to mark the occasion there’s a new trailer for the entire initiative:
The High Republic era of Star Wars takes place hundreds of years before the Skywalker Saga; the trailer calls it the “golden age of Jedi.” The first wave of stories also includes young adult novels, books for kids as young as six years old, and several different comic series. Here’s the synopsis for Light of the Jedi:
When a shocking catastrophe in hyperspace tears a ship to pieces, the flurry of shrapnel emerging from the disaster threatens an entire system. No sooner does the call for help go out than the Jedi race to the scene. The scope of the emergence, however, is enough to push even Jedi to their limit. As the sky breaks open and destruction rains down upon the peaceful alliance they helped to build, the Jedi must trust in the Force to see them through a day in which a single mistake could cost billions of lives. Even as the Jedi battle valiantly against calamity, something truly deadly grows beyond the boundary of the Republic. The hyperspace disaster is far more sinister than the Jedi could ever suspect. A threat hides in the darkness, far from the light of the age, and harbors a secret that could strike fear into even a Jedi’s heart.
At a “Launch Event” for The High Republic, it was revealed that Lucasfilm plans The High Republic to continue for several years, through multiple phases of stories. The first is called Light of the Jedi after the Soule novel. Today we learned that the next two phases will be called Quest of the Jedi and Trials of the Jedi.
You can get more information on all the first wave of High Republic books here; the entire Launch Event video can be watched below:
Gallery — Amazing Star Wars Concept Art:
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Funds raised for creation of Lethbridge Exhibition Park military monument – Lethbridge
The Lethbridge United Services Institute, in partnership with Exhibition Park, have announced a campaign to bring a monument to the city with historic significance. The goal is to not only display a monument to the First World War, but to remember and honour veterans from Alberta.
“We are pleased to announce and unveil a capital project recognizing the rich military history of Alberta,” said Glenn Miller, president The Lethbridge United Services Institute.
London’s Royal Canadian Regiment Museum unveils new LAV III monument
“The connection the city of Lethbridge has, being an artillery town from 1908,” Miller said, “111 years ago it started and continues today with 20th Independent Field Battery.”
Funds are being raised for the creation of a quarter-size bronze monument of six horses, towing an 18-pounder field gun, and will be on permanent display at Exhibition Park. The monument is expected to cost approximately $200,000 and organizations are reaching out to government, business and individuals for funding.
“It’s a great piece of history for Exhibition Park,” said Rudy Friesen, CEO of Lethbridge Exhibition Park. “We’ve been on this location since 1910, we played a significant part — this property, at least — in both world wars.”
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The monument will be modeled after the last gun to be fired in the First World War from the Lethbride 39th Battery. It’s news a former member of the battery is proud to hear.
Small Alberta hamlet receives 1st-ever war memorial in time for Remembrance Day
“It’s special to bring to the citizens of Lethbridge the history of the artillery here,” said former reservist Don Graham, “and I think by bringing things like the monument into Lethbridge, it kind of reminds folks, yes, we were there and we still are.”
Having served as a reservist for 13 years, Graham hopes that this statue will remind younger generations what Canadian soldiers went through in defense of the country.
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Photo courtesy of The Mariners Museum, Newport News VA
Name Birmingham City
Completed 1920 - Chickasaw Shipbuilding & Car Co, Chickasaw AL
Owner Isthmian SS Co, New York
Homeport New York
Date of attack 9 Jan 1943 Nationality: American
Position 7° 23'N, 55° 48'W - Grid EO 5238
Complement 56 (10 dead and 46 survivors).
Convoy TB-1
Route New York - Trinidad - Rio de Janeiro
Cargo General cargo, including machinery and tinplate
History Completed in June 1920 for US Shipping Board (USSB)
On 9 Jan 1943 the Birmingham City (Master Michael Francis Barry) served as the ship of convoy commodore in convoy TB-1, when the Broad Arrow off the port beam was struck by two torpedoes fired by U-124 at 04.33 hours and caught fire, lit up the entire convoy. At 04.36 hours, Mohr fired another torpedo which struck the Birmingham City on the port side amidships at the #3 hatch and the ship began to blaze. The explosion blew the port lifeboats overboard, destroyed the fireroom bulkhead and caused her to sink on an even keel in three minutes about 50 miles north of Paramaribo, Dutch Guiana.
The most of the nine officers, 29 crewmen and 18 armed guards (the ship was armed with one 4in, one 3in and four .50cal guns) immediately abandoned ship as she rapidly settled. The #1 motor lifeboat capsized on launching, pitching men into the water and contributing to the drowning of several crewmen. The remaining survivors left in #3 boat or jumped overboard and swam to several rafts. The #1 boat was later righted and the men from the rafts were transferred to it. Three officers, two crewmen and five armed guards died, most from drowning. All survivors were picked up by USS PC-577 ten hours later and landed at Paramaribo.
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Vinexpo Asia-Pacific preview
By Lucy Britner
Published: 22 May, 2012
More than 1,000 exhibitors from 30 countries will present their products at Vinexpo Asia Pacific.
Vinexpo Asia-Pacific Hong Kong
Hong Kong Convention & Exhibition Centre
Expo Drive
Wancha
www.hkcec.com
Opening time: 9.30-18.30
Who's there
Those confirmed to exhibit include Rémy Cointreau, Baron Philippe de Rothschild, Advini, Champagne Louis Roederer (France), KWV, DGB (South Africa), Treasury Wine Estates (Australia), Jackson Family Wines (US), Zonin, Gancia (Italy), Gonzales-Byass, Baron de Ley (Spain), Concha y Toro, Santa Rita (Chile), Grupo Penaflor (Argentina), Dynasty and Yantai Changyu Pioneer Wine (China).
The show is larger this year, with an extra 2,000sq m, bringing the total floor area to 10,500sq m.
Around the show
Check out Juanico’s stand (DE14, Uruguay Pavilion). The company is launching the Familia Deicas Group’s Pueblo del Sol wines. General manager and chief winemaker Santiago Deicas will be on hand to answer questions.
Hayman’s gin (stand E54) has also turned its attention eastwards and will be at the 2012 show. Director James Hayman says: “Asia is predominantly a dark spirits market but we are seeing an emerging interest in the gin category as the cocktail culture starts to develop in the region.”
Treasury Wine Estates (TWE) and Wolf Blass head winemaker Chris Hatcher is to lead a series of 11 masterclasses throughout the event to show off the company’s New World portfolio.
Among the winemakers and ambassadors at the show will be Ed Sbragia of Beringer, Wynns Coonawarra’s Sue Hodder, Nicolai St George of New Zealand brand Matua and Penfolds wine ambassador Jamie Sach.
TWE will be hosting the masterclasses on its own stand (Hall 1 stand DE-93) in a custom-designed 20-seater tasting room.
In addition, TWE will also showcase some new product development. Most notable will be the inaugural vintage of Penfolds Bin 169 Coonawarra Cabernet Sauvignon, which is set to be unveiled as part of the 2012 Luxury & Icon release.
If biodynamic Chablis is your thing, go along to Brocard’s stand (FG 37-10) and talk to the French producer’s commercial representative in Asia, Frédéric Brouca.
For a taste of France, Le Club des Grands Domaines features eight of the 17 winemakers from the Vignobles & Signatures’ club, which was created 28 years ago by winemakers from all over France.
The eight present at the show will be Champagne Drappier, Jean Durup Pere & Fils from Chablis, Saint André de Figuière from Côtes de Provence, Roger Groult from Calvados, Domaine de l’Hortus from Côteaux de Languedoc, Alain Jaume & Fils from southern Rhône, Louis Tête from Beaujolais and Château de Tracy from Pouilly Fumé. Special offers for new clients on their first orders from any of the eight producers at Vinexpo Asia are to apply and you can see Champagne Drappier’s new livery at the show. Visit stand HJ44.
Concha y Toro will be focusing on the 2008 vintage from the Fine Wine Collection, including Don Melchor, Carmin de Peumo and Gravas del Maipo. There will also be a preview of new packaging and two new SKUs for the Asian market – the Casillero del Diablo Late Harvest and Pinot Grigio. Stand CD16.
Janneau armagnac is to launch Dragon Vintages – a series of three armagnacs from three years of the dragon. They are a 24-year-old, a 36-years-old and a 48-year-old. Check them out at stand C72.
Masterclass pass
You can also buy a Certificate Programme Pass – the pass, for trade professionals, includes access to three masterclasses:
T for Tasting, presented by Andreas Larsson. The one-hour masterclass is entitled Looking Beyond the Label – the Virtues of Blind Tasting
M for Matching, presented by Hong Kong resident Debra Meiburg MW. Meiburg has spoken throughout Asia about the finer points of wine appreciation. Meiburg will deliver a one-hour master class on Eight Treasures: Pairing Wines with Chinese Flavour
S is for Sales will cover the Asian approach to the evolution of wine consumption in the region.
All three masterclasses will be repeated four times over three days and you can get a certificate at the end. Its costs $100 (HKD1,000)
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Service Sales Corporation Brings World-Class Footwear Retailing to the Middle East
Service Sales Corporation (SSC) is Pakistan’s largest retailer, operating multiple retail banners including the Servis Store, Servis Megastore, and Servis Factory Outlets, as well as the Shoe Planet chain. The company focuses exclusively on the sale of footwear, with over 500 brick-and-mortar locations generating an annual sales volume of more than 13 Million customer transactions and nearly 20 million units of merchandise.
SSC at a Glance
Focus: Branded and private label footwear
Sales Volume: Over 13 million transactions annually
Channels: Over 500 brick-and-mortar locations
Systems: Oracle ERP, Oracle Retail Analytics, Microsoft POS
Differentiators: Pakistan’s largest retailer and one of the country’s top two consumer brands
Seizing an Opportunity for Growth
Although SSC is the largest retailer in Pakistan, the country’s highly fragmented retail footwear market allowed the company to achieve its brand dominance with just a 10% overall market share. SSC saw this as a green-field opportunity for the growth of the chain.
But they needed the systems and processes of a world-class retailer in place to make it happen.
First and foremost, the company sought to establish best-practice retail processes across all its retail banners. For instance, SSC lacked a standardized retail calendar along which they could conduct financial and merchandise planning for each of their retail seasons. In the absence of such a calendar, the company was losing out on the opportunity to pool buys and take advantage of greater buying power.
The company also sought ways to reduce inventory carrying costs while simultaneously improving in-stock position on the merchandise with the greatest demand.
Held Back by Legacy Technology
From a technology standpoint, the absence of standardization was also becoming a challenge. SSC was running a small-scale off-the-shelf software package that had been heavily customized by local programmers to support the company’s needs. But as the organization grew, the one-off nature of the customizations was becoming a roadblock. More and more of the company’s operations were being handled outside of the ERP system in complicated spreadsheets that were understood by only a handful of personnel.
Visualizing Success
“I had a vision of bringing world-class retailing to Pakistan,” says Ahmed Hussain, Chief Strategy Officer and CIO at SSC. “I knew that with the right approach, we could do it.”
A Carnegie Mellon graduate and former program manager at Microsoft, Hussain has a strong grounding in technology and an understanding of how it has enabled some of the most successful U.S. retail chains to scale and out-compete their rivals.
Hussain headed to the U.S. to attend Oracle Retail Crosstalk and explore the latest and greatest in operational and analytics retail systems.
“I’d always considered systems like Oracle Retail prohibitively expensive and complex to implement for SSC. But when I attended Crosstalk, one of the presenters made it clear how packaged the systems had become,” says Hussain. “I knew then that SSC was ready to take the leap into this grade of ERP system.”
Selecting the Right Solution
After adding offerings from SAP and Microsoft into their solution evaluations, SSC ultimately chose Oracle. “The technology was going to be a far better fit right out of the box. So long as we could find the right implementation partner, Oracle was the clear winner,” says Hussain.
SSC reached out to Oracle for recommended implementation partners, and got connected with Logic’s President, Amber Naqvi.
“We had just rolled out Accelerated Implementation by Logic℠, designed to help retailers rapidly and cost-effectively implement Oracle Retail using the platform’s out-of-the-box retail best practices. We also had strategic plans to expand into the Middle East and were looking for the right client to partner with in the region. It was an ideal match,” says Naqvi.
Bridging Business Process Gaps
While the SSC team was excited about the Accelerated Implementation by Logic, they had concerns that not every aspect of a completely packaged implementation approach was going to be a fit for their business processes or for the regional retailing requirements.
The SSC and Logic teams met in Dubai to talk out the expected challenges of the imple-mentation – reviewing the approach for everything from retail processes to staffing and managing the project.
“It turned out that many of the business processes we thought were unique could actually be supported using standard workflows within Oracle Retail. Logic’s approach is truly a streamlined retail ERP implementation,” says Hussain. “We left our first working session knowing they would be a great partner, and I was happy we had all the pieces in place to achieve our vision.”
Planning the Work
The team needed to break ground quickly, and Logic’s experienced U.S.-based personnel formed the nucleus of expertise required for a successful start. But the project didn’t yet have the local Oracle Retail resources needed for longer-term success. “We quickly got to work recruiting the best talent to be found in the region,” says Carl Hixson, Partner at Logic and U.S.-based leader of the SSC project.
“While there were simply no Oracle Retail experts to be found in Pakistan, there was a pool of talent with experience in Oracle Financials. The skillset translates remarkably well,” adds Hixson. Shabbir Mukhi, one such expert, was brought on board by Logic to become the nucleus of the local implementation team. “I had a lot to learn but knew I could help SSC succeed,” says Mukhi.
To add management gravitas, Saad Khan, a career Middle East liaison to major U.S. software corporations, was brought on board as Managing Director of Logic Middle East. The Logic and SSC teams selected Dubai as their official face-to-face meeting place, and would hold a series of three two-week long all-hands sessions at key milestones of their otherwise distributed implementation work.
“At the project kickoff, we needed to quickly cement relationships and open up the lines of communication. So we took everyone – both Logic and SSC personnel – on safari together. It was a tremendous experience. And while it diverted us from working directly on the project for a day, it paid dividends throughout the coming year,” adds Khan.
Working the Plan
Guided by the Accelerated Implementation by Logic, the imple-mentation team got to work. While Oracle Retail’s out-of-the-box processes where a great match for SSC, some the unique aspects of the implementation required the team to call on their experience, technical acumen, and creative problem-solving skills to deliver a successful solution.
The first was an issue with the third-party batch scheduling tool that essentially acts like an orchestra conductor, synchronizing the movement of data between Oracle Retail’s various modules.
Because of a legal restriction, the software couldn’t be licensed for use in Pakistan. The Logic team worked quickly to select another tool, integrate it with Oracle Retail, and test the solution to mission-critical standards.
The Accelerated Implementation by Logic is also designed so that retailers can run Oracle Retail in a fully hosted environment. Unfortunately, none of the hosting providers in the region could deliver on the required specifications for system performance, uptime, security, and failover. Shifting gears, Logic and SSC worked together to implement a world-class data center within SSC’s facilities that would meet and exceed the company’s needs.
“We had to come up with solutions for unique challenges and business processes such as how the local VAT is calculated, intermittent store data collection issues that affected sales audit, and how to handle SSC’s wholesale outlets that operate like retail locations but roll up through a separate P&L,” says Wanda Cloninger, one of Logic’s program managers responsible for SSC. “But each challenge was taken in stride and solved elegantly by the team.”
Lastly, SSC required deeper communication between Oracle’s assortment planning and allocation capabilities, so that the company’s merchants could execute allocations directly from their store-level plans. The Logic team developed a seamless integration between the two modules that would help SSC save on personnel costs while enabling more accurate merchandise allocations.
With diligent, dedicated teamwork that spanned two hemispheres, SSC rapidly went live with a range of Oracle Retail modules including Merchandise Financial Planning (MFP), Retail Demand Forecasting (RDF), Assortment Planning (AP), Retail Merchandising System (RMS), Retail Price Management (RPM), Retail Sales Audit (ReSA), and Retail Merchandising Analytics (RMA).
At an exciting launch party, SSC’s CEO used the company’s new systems to issue the first purchase order in front of a crowd of revelers, both in-person and remote.
“Going live with Oracle Retail was an exciting and proud moment for SSC and our partners,” says Hussain. “Doing it rapidly and cost-effectively made the achievement all the more satisfying – and impressive.”
Realizing New Benefits
Since transitioning all of the company’s banners to unified, best-practice business processes, SSC has already seen a range of business benefits that will serve as a foundation for ongoing success and growth.
“We now have a single version of the truth,” says Hussain, “both from the perspective of the retail processes with which we run the business and the data that we use to manage and measure our performance. It’s night and day from where we began.”
Benefits experienced by SSC from their new retail systems include:
Reduced Inventory. Using scientific planning and transparen-cy into the quantity and location of inventory, SSC has been able to streamline its buys to match demand and reduce the need for safety stock.
Reduced Stockouts. With data and insights about styles that are in-demand, SSC has achieved a better in-stock position – and a reduction in lost sales – through more intelligent buying and allocation.
Streamlined Assortments. SSC was able to identify non-productive SKUs, cull them from merchandise assort-ments, and re-focus inventory investments resulting in increased merchandise turns.
Trusted Data and Insights. The company now relies on a single system of record with data that encompasses stores, DCs, and supply chain so it can make decisions at the chain and local levels, and then act on those decisions to delight customers and improve business performance.
Organizational Knowledge. With more of SSC’s best practices embodied in the company’s systems, they can now leverage a broader local talent pool making it easier to grow the business and create new jobs.
Coming Full-Circle
Three years after he sat in the audience as an attendee at Oracle Retail Crosstalk, Ahmed Hussain returned to the event. But this time, Hussain was a presenter. “I was pleased to tell the story of how we went from vision to reality with Oracle Retail, and it was fitting to do so at Crosstalk, where the idea first took hold.”
With world-class systems in place, SSC is poised to achieve its goals of expanding its business, growing the brand, and furthering the company’s success in Pakistan and beyond.
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National Pension Service to open London office
by Philip Gowman posted 26 Mar 2012 6 Apr 2012 updated 6 Apr 2012
in News and Current Affairs. < 1 minute read
Deputy prime minister Nick Clegg wearing a taekwondo uniform in Seoul during a trade mission
The Korean National Pension Service (NPS), one of the world’s biggest pension funds, is to set up a new base in London. The NPS announced the decision after a meeting between its chairman, Jun Kwang-woo, and the deputy prime minister, Nick Clegg, who is visiting Seoul for the Nuclear Security Summit. http://bit.ly/HBfyx3
Filed in: Asides | Business & economy | In the news
General post tags: Investing in UK
Korean Naval Firepower Part 1 - When Wako Attack
Meet Mr Daddy, and Park Kwang-su, at the Apollo, 29 March.
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3rd Model Winchester Model 1873 ’73 Lever Action Rifle Factory Round Heavy Barrel, MFD 1884 Antique
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LSB#: 140325XX25
Model: 1873 Rifle
Serial Number: 157589 (The “A” suffix found on the lower tang is technically not part of the serial number but Winchester’s method of tracking the specific mechanical configuration of the receiver group.)
Caliber: .44-40 Winchester (.44 Winchester Center Fire)
Action Type: Lever Action with Full Length Tubular Magazine
Markings: The top of the barrel is marked “Winchester’s Repeating Arms, New Haven, CT. / King’s Improvement Patented March 29.1866. October 16.1860.” and “44 CAL”. The lower tang is marked “157589A”. The top tang is marked “MODEL 1873”. The bottom of the brass carrier is marked “44 CAL”.
Barrel Length: The round heavy barrel is 241/4” in length and 0.820” in diameter at the muzzle.
Sights / Optics: The front sight is a blade dovetailed into the top of the barrel. The rear sight is a “U” notched semi-buckhorn elevator sight which is dovetailed into the barrel. The upper tang is drilled, tapped and filled for an aperture sight.
Stock Configuration & Condition: The stocks are two piece walnut with a lacquered finish. The buttstock crescent shaped steel buttplate, a smooth straight grip, and a forend with a blued steel nose cap. The buttplate has a brass trapdoor over a hole in the stock for access to the stock bolt, but we think the trapdoor is installed upside down. The buttstock is slightly darker in color than the forend and shows heavy oil staining in the wrist area. The wood to metal fit is excellent. Besides dark marks from old bruises under the finish, there are few marks in the current finish. The buttstock shows a small compression mark on the left side of the wrist, a few shallow compression marks in the belly and at the toe, a tiny compression marks at the front of the comb, a shallow compression mark on the right side near the belly and a few light scuff marks. The forend shows two small compression marks on its left side between the rear sight and the nosecap, several more on its underside near the nose cap and four light scrape marks on the left side near the nosecap. There are no cracks or chips noted. The LOP measures 13 1/16” from the front of the trigger to the back of the buttplate. The buttplate shows surface loss, light pitting at the toe and a scratch between the lower screw and the trapdoor. The buttplate is in about Good condition. The stocks rate in about Very Good overall condition.
Type of Finish: The rifle is blued.
Finish Originality: The finish is original.
Bore Condition: The bore is bright, tending to gray at the muzzle. The rifling shows light wear. There is extremely light pitting near the muzzle.
Overall Condition: This rifle retains about 20% of its metal finish, most of it on the receiver, lower tang and the underside of the barrel. he barrel, magazine tube and receiver have all developed a brown patina. The barrel and magazine tube show a very few light marks with a few tiny compression marks on the right side of the magazine tube midway along its length, two small compression marks on the right side of the barrel at the front of the forend, and a few marks on the left side at the forend. There are two light compression marks in the top of the barrel just in front of the rear sight and scattered light pinprick surface erosion on the top of the rear sight. The sides of the receiver and the lever show scattered light surface frosting. The receiver shows surface loss on its edges, thinning, and a few light marks on each side. The upper tang and the rear of the lower tang show surface loss. The lower tang also shows a spot of surface loss behind the trigger from the lever, a hole drilled into, but not through, the metal just behind the mainspring tensioning screw and a few light scratches. Most of the screw heads are distressed. The markings are clear. Overall, this rifle rates in about Very Good condition.
Mechanics: The action functions correctly. It has a dust cover on the receiver that slides on an integral rail typical of the Third Models. The hammer has a half-cock position and the lever safety is operational. We have not fired this rifle.
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Event Archive - Il Trittico - By Puccini: Pacific Opera Victoria
Fri. October 25th 2019 - Fri. October 25th 2019 @ Royal Theatre (All Ages)
Tickets at: Royal Theatre Box Office
Presented by: Pacific Opera Victoria
Music: Classical
Music by Giacomo Puccini
Libretti by Giuseppe Adami and Giovacchino Forzano
Puccini's classic 1918 collection comprises three distinct works that, when presented together as the composer wished, provide a rare and unforgettable experience.
Il tabarro (The Cloak): Dark and brooding. A noir thriller of infidelity and murder.
Suor Angelica (Sister Angelica): Delicate and sweet. A lyric tragedy of loss, suicide, and forgiveness
Gianni Schicchi: Bracing and astringent. A wicked black comedy full of devilish chicanery.
Pacific Opera Victoria (Opera)
Pacific Opera Victoria (POV) has earned a reputation as one of Canada's leading opera companies, thanks to its dynamic repertoire choices, its original productions, and its commitment to creating meaningful opportunities for artists and audiences. Founded in 1979 and incorporated in 1980, POV has become one of Canada's most exciting arts institutio... more info
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Funny Words Comedy Writing Workshop:
Sun. February 7th - Sun. February 7th @ Victoria Event Centre (All Ages)
Other Dates / Times
Jan. 24, 2021 1PM
Feb. 7, 2021 1PM
Feb. 14, 2021 1PM
$80 Buy Tickets Online
Theatre: Comedy
Are you interested in comedy but have no clue where to start? Think you’ve got some dumb stories that could get some good giggles? Always wanted to try Stand-Up comedy but don’t want to have to face being the only femme act on the show and therefore have the responsibility of showing an audience the yes, we can be funny too! Want a space to try out your jokes without dudes talking over you? Have you been writing for years and haven’t shown anyone? Maybe you’ve literally never written a single word in your life. Everyone is welcome.
Jan 17, 24, 31, Feb 7, 14, 21 with a showcase in the week following
1PM-2:30PM Purchase your ticket here: https://www.universe.com/events/funny-words-comedy-writing-workshop-early-session-tickets-M5TGCB/
3PM-4:30PM Purchase your ticket here: https://www.universe.com/events/funny-words-comedy-writing-workshop-late-session-tickets-1J8N0C/
$80 - Six week course (90 minute classes) and a spot in our final showcase show. Other guest instructors on a weekly basis.
In the event that public health restrictions prevent Funny Words Comedy Writing Workshop from going ahead, all tickets purchased for this event will automatically be valid for the next scheduled Melanin Magic date. Refunds will be made available as needed - email [email protected] to arrange.
Emily Woods is running a six week course exploring writing comedy for live audiences at the Victoria Event Centre. Ending with a standup show featuring all the students. A safe space to ask questions and learn tips on writing your own stories and jokes. No need to worry about showing up to an open mic night and being the only female or minority on the bill, by the end of this course you will have the confidence to crush those shows and start performing all over the city. Open to people of all genders and sexualities, no performing or writing experience needed.
ABOUT THE TEACHER: Emily Woods has been doing comedy for four years in Canada and the UK. A strong female presence on any show: she specializes in telling the honest truth in a positive and shocking way. Focussing on confessional comedy she wants to personally connect with audience members and normalize some of the weird stuff we all think but are too afraid to say. After two years on the open mic circuit of London, England, Emily started to get frustrated with what she was experiencing and seeing at shows. She started her own comedy production company, Blazers Comedy alongside another international female comic in London. These shows focused on having diverse lineups and always putting the audience first.
Emily started being a regular act at large clubs in the UK as well as becoming an award nominated comedian.
2018 Leicester Square new act of the year semi-finalist
2019 Max Turner Award Finalist
2019 Up The Creek One to Watch finalist
2019 99Club bursary for top five female and non-binary comedians showcase
“A striking take and a gift for finding the funny side of everything, including taking anti-depressants.” -Bruce Desseau
“She’s forever beaming with a jolly smile, even while excoriating herself over her looks or lack of self-respect, or being brashly honest about life... there’s something refreshingly engaging about her quirky presence.” -Steve Bennett
While performing every night at clubs across England, Emily worked to finish her BA Acting (international) in the spring of 2020 from East 15 Acting School. This added experience in performing has given Emily a well rounded outlook that she uses to focus on making standup shows the best that they can be for the performers as well as the audience. Emily did her first amatuer split bill show, “Bitch and Nerd” at the Edinburgh fringe to sold out shows. She was set to perform her debut one woman show “Emily Woods: Thanks For Leaving Me, Dad.” at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival for the month of August 2020 with the professional production company Objectively Funny. The pandemic put those dreams on hold but also helped her find her way to Victoria where she now works as an Event Producer at the VEC focusing on bringing diversity and class to comedy as well as integrating standup with other performance genres.
≫ COVID Safety Info ≪
▪︎ Due to COVID-19, there will be a limit of 50 tickets available for purchase. Tickets must be purchased in advance in groups of up to 6. You will be seated at your table once the whole group has arrived. Physical distancing must be observed between groups.
▪︎The bar will provide table service. Instead of going up to the bar, a server will visit you to take orders and to clear empty glassware.
▪︎ Bathrooms are limited to 1 person at a time. We’ve installed groovy high-tech foot switch-activated lights. Please tap the foot switch on when you are going in, and tap it off when you exit.
Read the VEC's full safety plan here:
https://victoriaeventcentre.ca/covid19/
≫ Land Acknowledgement ≪
We would like to gratefully acknowledge that the territory on which this event takes place is on the traditional, stolen, unceded land of the Lekwungen and W̱SÁNEĆ peoples. We acknowledge the rich cultural history of the many peoples and rituals that have been affected by the ongoing process of dispossession and colonialism. We hold this understanding in our interactions and engagements with this land and its people.
≫ Accessibility ≪
Our seating is a combination of high tables, bar stools, and cocktail tables with chairs. If you require assistance with this, please contact us at [email protected] and VEC staff will do their best to accommodate.
There are three multi-user, gender-inclusive bathrooms with stalls. One bathroom has a larger stall with its own sink and a grab bar (more details in the ‘Bathrooms’ section).
The Victoria Event Centre currently does not have an operational elevator, and there is one long flight of stairs at the venue entrance. The only way into the VEC is up 27 wood stairs, 11″ deep, 6″ high. There are wooden 2.5” handrails 38” up the wall on each side of the staircase (54” apart, so not graspable on both sides at once). See further details in ‘Getting Inside’ section)
If you would like to attend the event but require assistance with accessing the space, please contact us at [email protected] and VEC staff will do their best to accommodate.
Inside the Victoria Event Centre there is a gender inclusive wheelchair accessible washroom that technically fits necessary size dimensions, but is missing a bar and a handrail beside the toilet. There are two stalls, in the washroom, but only one of these has been renovated to meet 5'x5' wheelchair clearance.
More detailed venue accessibility info is available at:
https://victoriaeventcentre.ca/attendees/accessibility/
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Local Government Channels on Offchan
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The relationship between faculty1 and student is central to the academic mission of the University. No non-academic or personal ties should be allowed to interfere with the integrity of the faculty-student relationship. Consensual sexual relations between faculty and student can adversely affect the academic enterprise, distorting judgments, or appearing to do so to others, and providing incentives or disincentives for student-faculty contact that are inappropriate. The prohibition extends to all academic advisors and program directors, including those based in the College Houses and other University-owned or administered housing. The prohibition also extends to graduate, professional, or undergraduate student assistants, but, in their case, only with respect to those undergraduate students over whom they have academic responsibility. Faculty and academic supervisors who are or have been sexually involved with or dating students must decline to participate, either formally or informally, in any evaluative or supervisory academic activity with respect to those students. The Provost, Deans, Department Chairs, and other administrators should respond to reports of prohibited sexual relations that are brought to them by investigating and, if warranted, initiating appropriate disciplinary action or remedial measures against the faculty member or supervisor involved.
Economist 8f1c. Economist e Economist 93a0. If you are not their TA, why is it anybody’s business. I didn’t go around looking for undergrads, but I dated undergrads two separate times during my masters.
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These relations are fraught because of differences in power and experience, because they can involve serious conflicts of interest and because they can have disruptive effects on the functioning of and climate within our professional workplaces. Graduate school provides a transition between young adulthood and full professional stature, and graduate students mature enormously over the course of their studies. Before graduating they may participate in many of the professional functions of faculty, including undergraduate teaching, training and supervising new graduate and undergraduate students, evaluating students and writing recommendation letters, managing collaborations, and writing and reviewing manuscripts and proposals.
This is especially true in large research groups, where an overworked and distracted professor may be at the apex of a complex hierarchy of students and postdoctoral associates. Despite this professional trajectory, when it comes to romantic and sexual relations, for graduate students the current unwritten policy is: anything goes. Suppose A and B, new graduate students, join a research group, and are to be trained by senior graduate student C. Now C starts dating A.
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Can B expect the same professional attention to his or her development from C? How will the professional development of A and B be impacted if A and C break up? Professor X hires a new student D, who previously dated her student E, but is now dating F in the lab next door. Of course, graduate school is a time when many people meet their first spouse, and there are many examples of successful long-term relationships forged by graduate students in the same group or department just as there are many successful long-term relationships between faculty and their students.
When the resolution of these dual-career situations involves placing both in the same department or workplace, the conflicts of interest and complications to workplace dynamics invariably follow. The problems caused by graduate student dating within the workplace may be especially severe in fields with large gender imbalances.
Sorry, but this is one of the reasons life in the academy IS worthwhile for me. It lifts my spirits to work with youthful people. Undergraduates are at the peak of their physical attractiveness and, having worked elsewhere with a bunch of tired-looking people, this is much better, regardless how old I look. Maybe this reason is felt more by faculty who have not yet embraced their own declining looks. I earned these wrinkles, but I’d rather not spend all my time with people my age.
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Going on a date with a non-academic, the grad student deploys his best impersonation of a normal human being. Videoconferencing from his apartment with his advisor, the grad student feels like the victim of a home invasion. International students are the lifeblood of academic institutions and forge invaluable bonds between us all. To use them as bargaining chips—in service of a pandemic, no less—is reprehensible and makes us a lesser nation in every sense of the word.
Black Lives Matter. And it is the obligation of each and every one of us to actively pursue justice, equity, and visibility in order to realize the truth of these three words. Logging on to a videoconferencing session, the grad student squeezes himself into the one remotely clean corner of his apartment. Staying safe in his apartment, the grad student seizes the opportunity to socially distance himself from pants. Editing a paper draft to an obsessive degree, the grad student relishes a rare moment of having control.
Exiting his office for the last time this decade, the grad student does not have any desire to look back.
A number of colleges and universities banned faculty-undergraduate dating or otherwise shored up their consensual relationship policies after the Education Department published a reminder letter about sexual harassment liability, in Other institutions had adopted such policies earlier. And while many involved in or affected by these decisions support them as preventing potential abuse, others remain critical of policing connections between consenting adults.
Fear of legal liability and increasing acknowledgement of academic power structures changed that, leading institutions to adopt a mix of policies regarding these relationships.
The undergraduate student had approached the GSI with a simple express a wistfulness that we ‘probably shouldn’t date should we?
Waddell and others have endorsed changes that would completely prohibit relationships between faculty or academic staff and undergraduate students. Proposed changes come in the wake of the Larry Nassar scandal as former MSU Dean William Strampel faces charges of sexually assaulting students in his department. At just words, it lacks clarity on whether that applies only to undergraduates or to all students, and it also doesn’t clearly define “educational responsibility.
Waddell said that lack of clarity was “the main motivator” for proposed changes. Terry Curry, MSU’s associate provost and associate vice president for academic human resources, said the policy, as is, “strongly discourages” sexual relationships between students and instructors. He said, though the policy applies to all students, there are “not very many” complaints or violations. There is always a possibility that these things happen on occasion in the context of some other complaint.
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Where an undergraduate student could get by skimming the readings, grad students are expected to read everything and make intelligent.
He suggests third-party grading to avoid such conflicts of interest. Another reason is the risk of litigation. These terminal degree years likely represent my best shot at meeting lots of intelligent, motivated, young people who share my interests and values, and any policy that says otherwise strikes me as institutional player-hating. So from a strategic standpoint, is it a good idea to date undergraduate students not in my class? Hell yes. We graduate students may be getting our Ph.
The beauty and travesty of the UC policy governing consensual relationships is in its vagueness. On the other hand, a cautious TA interpreting this literally could deduce that this makes everybody with any remote connection to UCLA off-limits. A better question is why undergraduates would want to date TAs. So why TAs? I eat ramen literally twice a week. So unless nerdiness, isolation and ramen turn you on, there are more fertile pastures out there.
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Sexual or romantic relationships may raise concerns of conflict of interest, abuse of authority, favoritism, and unfair treatment when both people are in the MIT work or academic environment, and one person holds a position of power or authority over the other. These relationships may also affect others in the work or academic environment, undermining the integrity of their supervision and evaluation as well. These concerns exist even when the relationship is considered consensual by both individuals.
In some instances, consent may not be as freely given as the more senior person in the relationship believes. Because of the possible adverse effects on the other party and on their fellow students, co-workers, colleagues, and others, the Institute prohibits all faculty, other academic instructional staff, other employees, and other non-student members of the MIT community paid or unpaid from having sexual or romantic relationships with certain MIT students and employees, whether or not the relationship is consensual.
A summary of this policy is as follows, with more detail in the noted sections:. Where this policy imposes a duty to notify and recuse, that duty falls on the person in the position of power or authority in the relationship. Where required, notification and recusal must take place as soon as practical after any action has been taken by either party to establish a sexual or romantic relationship.
By Keyana Stevens. Yale University has officially banned relationships between its professors and all undergraduate students. University students are adults, and so are their professors, and to dictate which kinds of decisions they can make is a bit paternalistic. A uniform policy would serve Yale much better. Sexual behavior that is welcome or consensual does not constitute sexual harassment under the law.
I’m a 28 year old male graduate student and am far more interested in dating undergrads then women my own age. Maturity has more to do with the – Dating.
Physical contact is not a required element of such relationships. A Covered Relationship may exist on the basis of a single interaction. The University of Michigan strives to create and maintain a community that enables each person to reach their full potential. To do so requires an environment of trust, openness, civility, and respect. The teacher-student relationship lies at the foundation of the educational process.
As a matter of sound judgment and professional ethics, faculty members have a responsibility to avoid any apparent or actual conflict between their professional responsibilities and personal relationships with students. Faculty have a collective responsibility to the student experience as members and representatives of the University community, and with each class of incoming students who are bound together in space and time.
The faculty at the University fulfill their essential role with students in learning, research, and service environments, and do so with a commitment to honoring the highest professional and ethical standards. An overarching goal for the context of the faculty-student relationship is to create a professional, productive, and equitable environment for independent learning and academic growth.
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R omantic relationships between university professors and their students are becoming less and less acceptable. Many of the new university policies that have emerged in the last few years have focused on undergraduates and how to better protect them, typically with a campus-wide ban on staff dating undergrads. But a number of universities also demand that faculty members do not start relationships with graduate students they supervise. This month, Princeton University went further and declared that faculty members were no longer allowed to date any graduate student—even if the couple works in different departments.
Pre-existing relationships are exempt from the new rule. The university is encouraging greater collaboration across departments, Burdine says, which extends the concerns about unequal power between a professor and a student beyond the immediate supervisory relationship. Princeton is the first university to take the campus-wide step but others will follow, says Jamelle Sharpe , who works at the University of Illinois College of Law in Urbana-Champaign and has surveyed academic policies in this area.
Sharpe is leading a cross-campus review of the University of Illinois regulations, and his team will make recommendations later this year. He says universities have traditionally distinguished between undergraduates and graduate students when they set consensual relationships policy, and assumed that undergrads need more protection. But he says that may no longer be appropriate.
People meet future spouses all the time at university. Although I understand that in some cases, grad. Applies to i’m a grad student can be intellectually stimulating, the same research faculty and another individual graduate student-faculty dating a student advice: date today. The ways in which you view dissent in college and grad school are different. Or, other students may just complain in general about you helping a certain student more than others.
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Need you guys opinion I’ve heard about some college girls dating a TA in-exchange for little “help” I admit I dated a girl from a class I tutored we’re both undergrads , and sometimes we got “private session” a week before an exam no dirty mind please. Do you guys think it also unprofessional to do such thing anyway? Although it could be problematic if they end up in some section of yours in the future, but you should be able to avoid that with planning, or if not address it with the professor in charge before hand and come up with a workaround.
Nothing wrong professionally with it if you don’t interact with the student in any sort of “official” capacity e. TA or class instructor , especially if the undergrad is in a different field!
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Blanchard wins Walmart BFL Gator Division event on Lake Okeechobee
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Dan Blanchard of Sarasota, Fla., took home top honors in the Boater Division at the BFL Lake Okeechobee event after landing a total catch of 30 pounds, 6 ounces. For his efforts, Blanchard walked away with $6,000.
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CLEWISTON, Fla. – Dan Blanchard of Sarasota, Fla., weighed a five-bass limit totaling 30 pounds, 6 ounces Saturday to win the Walmart Bass Fishing League Gator Division event on Lake Okeechobee. For his victory, Blanchard earned $6,000.
“The cold front really shut the fish down,” said Blanchard. “But it was great for me and played to my strengths. I was able to flip under the mats and found an area on the north end of the lake holding big fish. I used craws and beaver-style baits to punch through the vegetation. Several guys came through where I was, but they were moving too fast. You really had to slow down out there.”
Rounding out the top 10 pros were:
2nd: George Kapiton, Inverness, Fla., five bass, 28-00, $3,000
3rd: Don Demott, Boca Raton, Fla., five bass, 27-13, $2,000
4th: Chris Brill, Lehigh Acres, Fla., five bass, 25-13, $1,400
5th: Clint Boyles, Deltona, Fla., five bass, 25-10, $1,200
6th: Mike Surman, Boca Raton, Fla., four bass, 21-15, $1,100
7th: Robert Crosnoe, Inverness, Fla., five bass, 21-14, $1,000
8th: Kyle Walters, Grant Valkaria, Fla., five bass, 21-10, $900
9th: Charlie Evans, Gilbertsville, Ky., five bass, 21-07, $800 + $1,000 – Evinrude Bonus
10th: Steve Fairtrace, Palm City, Fla., five bass, 20-15, $700
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Adam Trott of Sarasota, Fla., weighed in three bass totaling 19 pounds, 13 ounces Saturday to win $3,000 in the co-angler division.
Rounding out the top 10 co-anglers were:
2nd: James Trudel, Boca Raton, Fla., five bass, 18-14, $1,500
3rd: James Brooks, Inverness, Fla., five bass, 17-08, $1,000
4th: Edwin Rivera, Orlando, Fla., five bass, 16-04, $700
5th: Ricky Timmerman, Umatilla, Fla., five bass, 12-10, $600
6th: Mike Cermak, Sorrento, Fla., five bass, 12-02, $550
7th: Quinn Stumpf, Davie, Fla., five bass, 11-10, $500
8th: Scott Crisafulli, Miramar, Fla., five bass, 11-06, $450
9th: Isidoro Delapaz, Fellsmere, Fla., four bass, 11-05, $400
10th: Dave Dickens, Sarasota, Fla., four bass, 10-13, $350
The next BFL Gator Division tournament is scheduled for Feb. 18 on Lake Okeechobee in Okeechobee, Fla. After the fifth Gator Division tournament is complete, the top 40 boaters and 40 co-anglers based on point standings will qualify for the Oct. 4 – 6 Regional Championship on Lake Seminole in Bainbridge, Ga. Boaters will compete for a top award of a Ranger Z518 with a 200-horsepower Evinrude or Mercury outboard and a Chevy Silverado, while co-anglers will fish for a new Ranger Z518 with a 200-horsepower Evinrude or Mercury outboard.
The BFL is a 24-division circuit devoted to weekend anglers, with 120 tournaments throughout the season, five in each division. The top 40 boaters and co-anglers from each division qualify for a regional tournament and compete to finish in the top six, which then qualifies them for one of the longest-running championships in all of competitive bass fishing – the Walmart BFL All-American presented by Chevy. The 2012 BFL All-American is being held May 17 – 19 on the Potomac River in National Harbor, Md. Top winners in the BFL can move up to the EverStart Series or even the Walmart FLW Tour.
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REIGNING Mutya Pilipinas titlist and Top Model of the World Philippines Tyra Rae Florito Goldman, 18, will go for the coveted crown at the 26th Top Model of the World finals to be held at Vibe Bar, Meraki Resort in Hurghada, Egypt tonight (tomorrow morning PH time).
The 5-foot-9 Boston-born and Las Vegas-raised BS Biology student will vie alongside some 40 delegates worldwide and aim to be the first Filipina to win the title outright.
For the record, US-based Michelle de Leon represented the Philippines in the tilt in 2007 and finished as first runner-up to Brazil’s Natalia Guimaraes who eventually forfeited the title in order to join the Miss Universe Brazil that year. Michelle assumed the title vacated by Guimaraes who eventually won as Miss Brazil and finished as first runner-up at the Miss Universe Pageant that year.
Tyra was crowned as Mutya Pilipinas-Tourism International last year but did not compete for the international pageant in Malaysia due to a technicality. First runner-up Cyrille Payumo was sent Malaysia instead and won the crown, the fifth for the Philippines.
Mutya Pilipinas president Cory Quirino and Top Model of the World national director Roberto de Venecia are both optimistic that Tyra is the right choice for the modeling tilt in Egypt and will, hopefully, prove to be a blessing in disguise like Cyrille’s case.
Binibining Pilipinas opens a new era with a bigger and better edition of the most prestigious beauty pageant in the country.
The search is on once again for a new batch of queens who will carry the name of the Philippines across the globe and cement its status as a powerhouse in international tilts.
Interested applicants have until January 31, 2020 to submit their application forms. They will then go through a rigorous screening process by the esteemed Binibining Pilipinas Charities Inc.(BPCI) executive committee that will culminate on February 6.
Download the application form at www.bbpilipinas.com or visit Bb. Pilipinas official Facebook page.
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Catering giant Compass reports full year operating profits down nearly 70%
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Compass, the world's largest catering company, has posted a nearly 70% drop in operating profits for the full year to September 30.
The FTSE 100 firm, which supplies meals at offices, stadiums, hospitals and schools, said on Tuesday that it saw operating profit plunge from £1.85 billion to £561 million in the period, as lockdowns worldwide saw demand tank.
Revenues were down 18.8% to £20.2 billion.
But the catering giant, which serves 5.5 billion meals a year across 45 countries, returned to profit in the fourth quarter after implementing cost-savings, pivoting to delivery, making technology platform acquisitions, and re-negotiating contracts with clients.
The company completed a £2 billion cash raise in June to help it see out the pandemic using London Stock Exchange Group-backed fintech platform Primary Bid, in a major opportunity for small investors.
Chief executive Dominic Blakemore said that he is confident the company can restore operating margins to above 7% “and get back to industry-leading performance, and that is before we fully restore the volumes we enjoyed pre-Covid”.
Compass caters at Chelsea and Spurs, and the boss said he is "delighted the Government is dipping a toe in the water in terms of external and internal sporting events" after December 2.
Blakemore said: "Our financial performance has obviously been seriously affected by Covid.
"After March more than half of our business closed, with sports and leisure, business and industry and education all particularly hard-hit.
"We moved really quickly to respond... And since the summer our performance has improved.
“We are very excited about a vaccine, as you can imagine, it has given everyone a lift. But we can't base our planning on that and our focus continues to be on controlling what we can control.”
The company said it has seen innovation normally expected within three to four years in just months.
Blakemore said: "In terms of growth and prospects for the business, we are seeing really good new business wins particularly in North America.
"We've accelerated our focus on kiosk and apps that have focused on pre-order and click and collect in particular.
"We believe that our scale and focus on operational execution leave us really well-placed for future growth, and really emerging from this pandemic stronger than we have ever been."
Analysts at Barclays said: "Compass can return to its ‘compounder status’ along with margins back to around 7% in a couple of years, and the group remains one of our preferred picks in the sector on a 12-month view as we expect confidence in that outlook to rebuild."
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Mads July 8, 2018 January 20, 2019
As many of you will have seen this past Wednesday, I am a huge fan of Lorie Langdon’s Olivia Twist (my review can be found here). It was certainly one of my favorite new releases for 2018. Today we have a wonderful post–an interview with the author herself, Lorie Langdon!
Olivia Brownlow is no damsel in distress. Born in a workhouse and raised as a boy among thieving London street gangs, she is as tough and cunning as they come. When she is taken in by her uncle after a caper gone wrong, her life goes from fighting and stealing on the streets to lavish dinners and soirees as a debutante in high society. But she can’t seem to escape her past … or forget the teeming slums where children just like her still scrabble to survive.
1) Was there a particular book/series/author that inspired you to start writing? I have many inspirations. The Outlander Series by Diana Gabaldon captured me so completely that I longed to recreate something similar. But I knew I couldn’t write in her verbose, detailed style. Then I read the Harry Potter books and saw how they inspired an entire generation to love reading. I began to think I could write something for a younger readership. It wasn’t until I read Twilight that I was inspired to write young adult literature. My first published books, the DOON SERIES were a mash-up of inspirations from all three!
2) Was there a specific moment that inspired Olivia Twist?
OLIVIA TWIST, is a love letter to characters that first entered my life as a child in the musical, Oliver!, and later in Dickens’ classic, Oliver Twist. After my Grandma took me to see a rerelease of the movie musical, I became obsessed with the story and would sit in my room and listen to the double album soundtrack for hours, making up new adventures for the characters. In my favorite daydream, Oliver had been born a girl and was disguising her true gender as a safety measure. I imagined that the two became embroiled in endless mysteries and eventually fell in love.
As a teen, I devoured every bit of historical fiction I could get my hands on, including the classic Dickens’ novel, Oliver Twist. I quickly realized two things: The Artful Dodger was not the hero I had envisioned, and the film had missed a major character; Oliver’s half-brother, the villainous Monks. When I began writing my own books, the dynamic duo of Jack and Olivia would not leave me alone, and a mash-up of the original novel and the film began to solidify in my mind.
3) Do you draw inspiration from pop culture (TV shows, Video Games, Movies, etc.), and if so, which ones? All the time! For my book, GILT HOLLOW, the hero, Ashton Keller was inspired by the character of Bellamy Blake on The 100. I was struggling to pull together a solid vision for a boy who had been convicted of manslaughter at the age of 14 and returns to his hometown seeking revenge after serving four years in juvenile detention. Bellamy’s anger punctuated by moments of vulnerability gave me the perfect inspiration!
4) If you could live anywhere (any time, era, and place), where would it be? I would love to live in Victorian, London for a while! But then I’d want to come home since women didn’t have many freedoms back then.
5) If you had 24 hours to do ANYTHING you wanted, what would you do? I would fly to St. Thomas with my husband and sons and spend the day snorkeling and eating great seafood!
6) You’re trapped on an island, but are allowed to bring one person, one food item, and one object. What are your choices? My husband. Avocados (so I could grow more with the seeds), my Bible.
7) What was the most difficult part of writing about such well-known characters? Turning off the part of my brain that was worried about reader expectations. I had to be true to my vision, while knowing that Dickens’ fans may not embrace that vision. Fortunately, the Dickens’ readers who I’ve heard from have loved my interpretation.
8) Did you enjoy getting to give classic literature your own spin? If so, which story/character did you enjoy reinterpreting the most? One of my favorite things about writing OLIVIA TWIST is Olivia’s sense of justice, kindness, and love. She experienced a harrowing childhood as an orphan living on the streets and uses what she learned to fight for those who can’t help themselves. Even after she’s taken in by her wealthy uncle, she doesn’t forget those who are still suffering. Her ability to circumvent the restrictions society has placed on her as a female, while still accomplish her goals, is one of my favorite things about her. It sounds odd, but Olivia inspires me to be a better person!
Thank you so much, Lorie, for taking the time to answer those questions! Dear readers, please make your reading life even more magical by picking yourself up a copy of Olivia Twist.
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Mags’ Bakehouse is a family-run business looked after by husband and wife team Pat and Mags Bergin, at their purpose built bakery in Nenagh, Co Tipperary. They both grew up in homes where local buttermilk, butter, and fresh eggs, were used on a daily basis to make delicious, homemade bread, and cakes.
Mags recognized that there was a significant local demand for traditional baked goods like scones, tarts, and Soda bread. So, with a passion for great quality food, lots of patience, determination, and the delicious family recipes handed down from Mags’ mother and grandmother, the Mags’ Bakehouse was born.
Mags and Pat feel a strong sense duty towards their customers and have committed to always being true and honest about their ingredients and process, and to maintain only the highest standards. This commitment to quality has helped them to win multiple awards, including the Blas na hEireann and Great Taste awards from the Guild of Fine Foods for their range of bread, scones, and tarts (See our products page for more information).
They operate a fully manual process using Spelt flour, wholemeal flour, pinhead oatmeal and bran, and their bread is handcrafted and baked in a stone-based, deck oven which gives a lovely aroma, flavour, and texture to the products.
We begin by preparing by hand each our mixes and pastries.
Into the Ovens
Our bread and tarts are placed carefully in our stone-based, deck ovens.
The bread is taken out of the ovens and individually checked for quality.
Everything is individually wrapped and packed, and prepared for delivery to Tipperary, Clare, and Galway.
And we're off to deliver our bread, tarts, and other goodies across the country to your local supermarket's door.
Mags Bergin
“I was born and grew up in Cahir, Co. Tipperary, with 3 sisters and 3 brothers. Aside from our three kids, we also have 3 dogs – Fluffy is a 9-year-old, mini jack Russel cross. We also have Milo and Bindi (brother and sister), who we rescued from an equine centre in Mallow, they’re poodle/terrier cross – they certainly keep me fit!
I started the bakery business in 2004 from my kitchen. Things have certainly changed since then, and we now we have a purpose-built bakery, with amazing stone-based, deck ovens – all still under the same roof! We bake with ingredients that you’d find in any kitchen across the country, and we still use my mother’s and granny’s recipes.
Home baking was an everyday staple in our house, you can always taste the difference in a home-baked product. My granny would regularly come over when we were kids, to bake for us our daily bread, scones, and tarts. We were very lucky to have apple trees in our garden, which granny would use for our tarts, crumbles, and jams. I’ll never forget us all playing on the homemade see-saw in the garden, eating my mother’s fantastic gingerbread with a glass of milk.
We hope you love what we make as much as we do!”
Pat Bergin
“I was born and grew up in Rosegreen (Cashel), Co.Tipperary, along with my brother and sister. The family we have now is considerably bigger even before sharing the house with the entire kitchen team, the three dogs, and our own kids. Neil, our eldest is in University, and the two girls – Elke, who studying for her leaving certificate, and Lisa (the baby!) is in her transition year. Aside from looking after the kids, helping Mags to manage the bakery, and running my own picture framing business. I’m also involved with North Tipperary Wheelers cycling club which i love and it keeps me fit.
The Bakery is very much a big family business and something that we all love. It’s also great to be part of the network of other local businesses, especially those that we buy our ingredients from, like our amazing apples that we peel, core, and slice, every day from Con Traas’ Apple Farm in Moorstown, Cahir, or the buttermilk we get from Arrabawn dairies.
We hope that you love our products as much as we enjoy making them!”
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10 of the best Airbnbs in New York City
Where to Stay Trip Planning New York, NY, United States
Katie Scott Aiton
New York City remains the most populous city in the US. First-time visitors quickly realize their ideas of seeing it all in a small amount of time are optimistic. The city simply has too much going on – and it is expensive.
This makes it a perfect city to Airbnb. You have a huge amount of options in all neighborhoods, but we’ve put together some of the more interesting places you can rent while visiting NYC.
$160/night Lenox ave and 125th street, Harlem
Original artwork, chandelier, and aged brick walls.
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This brownstone in Harlem was recently featured in The New York Times home section.
Dramatic black kitchenette with mirrors, vintage posters, and lights. Great for entertaining, or treating yourself to a home-cooked meal.
$275/night, SOHO, Lower Manhatten
For those looking for an open, spacious, minimalist loft this converted textile factory is located between SoHo and Nolita.
“I’ve retained the industrial character of the original space while providing the comforts you’re used to at home–leather couch, comfortable bed, flat screen with satellite, Wi-Fi.”
$799/night, Greenwich Village
Floor-to-ceiling classic swing loft windows, original artwork, designer pool table, fully stocked kitchen and a space measuring 15 feet longer than a basketball court. According to the reviews, the description of this apartment in Greenwich village is not exaggerated.
Landlord Edward remarks;
“Enter from a key-locked elevator directly into this massive awe-inspiring loft located in the city’s trendy & vibrant Greenwich Village.”
$122/night, Franklin Street, Greenpoint, Brooklyn
A modern penthouse in Greenpoint? Yup. Please. With 360° views of the Manhattan skyline from the private terrace, you can sit and enjoy evening drinks in one of the coolest hoods in New York.
“The bedroom is a full-height mezzanine loft with stairs up to a private roof deck with even more amazing views of all of the Manhattan skyline!”
$500/night, McCarren Park, Brooklyn
This apartment has knee-to-ceiling windows and views of Lower Manhattan up to Queens Borough Bridge.
The listing is on the water’s edge and next to McCarren park, one of Brooklyn busiest public parks. The owner, Fabio has this to add about the location;
“It is easy to relax and enjoy this exclusive view from the comfort of the stylish living room when the Empire State Building and Chrysler Building sit right in front of you or while lounging on the terrace. And if you feel like breaking a sweat go downstairs to the gym or outside for a run at McCarren Park or for a swim in the pool at the park as well.”
$220/night, Williamsburg, Brooklyn
The residency is claimed to be not only one of the City’s most unique homes but the first legally built home constructed entirely from shipping containers.
“We offer sustainable, comfortable, wonderful living in Williamsburg. Our guests will occupy one private container (apartment) on the ground floor with its own bathroom and kitchenette.”
$550/night, TriBeCa, Lower Manhattan
This Tribeca apartment, with a private elevator, is a bit of a splurge, but from the reviews, it’s worth it to be able to drink champagne in the over-sized bath tub.
Light, high-ceilinged, three bedroom loft space in Williamsburg.
The owner remarks that the neighborhood has “tons of great cafes, bars, and shops within a short walk, and a short hop to all the great nightlife, shopping, and eating that Williamsburg (the best neighborhood in NYC!) has to offer.”
$680/night, Park Avenue, Manhattan
The brownstone was formerly occupied by an heir of the Rockefeller family. It has an expansive rooftop and terraces. If you are traveling with adults the house has three bedrooms which will take the sting out of the price a little.
This loft is described as “gallery chic” and that’s about as much info as you get. Unfortunately no parties or events to be had here and the owner kindly requests; “Use as much Kiehls soap as you’d like but please leave the bottles.” Bless.
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Eleanor B. Betlem Greece: Tuesday, March 12, 2019 at age 93. Predeceased by beloved husband, Frederick Betlem; son, David Betlem; daughter, Paula Betlem; brother, Frederick Bonnet. Survived by daughter-in-law, Anne Betlem; grandson, Todd (Chrissy) Betlem; granddaughter, Deborah (Keith) Anderson; great-grandson, Kaelan Anderson; brother, Paul Bonnet; many nieces, nephews and dear friends. After graduating from Suny Geneseo Eleanor taught in the Greece School District for over 35 years, where she became known as “The Management”. Eleanor was a dedicated teacher and made many friends; we never went anywhere that she didn’t run into a former student or parent. She was fearless in stating her opinions. Eleanor was a fantastic cook and shared her talent with family and friends often. She had a jest for life, enjoying her family, sewing, bridge, travel, theatre, Syracuse Basketball and the Arts. We will miss her quick wit and infectious laugh. Friends may call Friday (March 22nd) 4-7 PM at Vay-Schliech and Meeson, 1075 Long Pond Road, where her family prayers will be held at 7:00 PM. Private Interment. In lieu of flowers, contributions may be made to the American Heart Association in her memory. For more information or to sign Eleanor’s online guestbook, please visit Meesonfamily.com.
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Barb Gardner says:
I am so sorry to hear of Eleanor’s passing. She was a great lady with a wonderful sense of humor. I will miss her dearly. Glad I got to speak with her a couple of weeks ago. I’m in Florida and won’ Be able to come to calling hours. My thoughts and prayers are with you.
Ruth Royer says:
My condolences to Eleanor’s Family. She was certainly a wonderful, caring person who was a joy to teach with and a kind person who I was glad to call a friend. She always called a spade a spade, but was always right in the advice she had to offer. She was one of the true dedicated teachers I worked with over the years and was always available to offer a helping hand to others! She always remembered all her students by name over all the years she worked with them. She was a loyal friend to others and kind to the core. A great lady that had a long wonderful life!
Sue Hulbert says:
Sorry I’m not in Rochester to celebrate the life of Eleanor . I have such wonderful memories of working with her at Lakeshore Elementary School. I will always remember her as a fun person. Rest In Peace Eleanor.
Candy and Herb Humphrey says:
Eleanor was our wonderful neighbor at Chapel Oaks. She brightened her surroundings with her warm greetings, witty perceptive comments, and bright smile. I’m so glad we had so many chances to spend time with Eleanor. She made the world a better place. We send love and prayers and will miss Eleanor tremendously.
Nancy Vesling, Minoa NY says:
I would just like to express my sympathy to your family. I had Mrs. Betlem for my third grade teacher at Craig Hill, 55 years ago. She is a teacher I remember that we had fun but also learned a lot. Whenever I get a compliment on my handwriting, I say, well I can thank Mrs.Betlem my third grade teacher!
Lois Schaeffer says:
Eleanor will be sorely missed by her friends at Chapel Oaks. We enjoyed playing Bridge and Euchre together as well as other activities. Her factual comments made her who she was and I respected her. Miss you dear lady and may you be united with the family you so loved.
Kathy Trent says:
Chrissy and Todd, We are so so sorry for the loss of your precious grandmother. She was loved and a blessing to her family. Prayers for you during this hard time. Much Love, Dr Steve and Kathy Trent
Cheryl Rissiberger and Karen LaRue says:
My sister and I were very sad to learn of Mrs. Betlem’s passing. Our sympathy to all of her family. Mrs. Betlem was our third grade teacher at Barnard School some 65 years ago. She always made learning a fun and rewarding process which helped form the habits that guided our successes in life. She had a great spirit and passion in everything she did. Her impact on our lives will never be forgotten. Thoughts and prayers are with her family.
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The monthly Wikimedia Highlights summarize the most notable WMF activities and other movement news from the Wikimedia blog. The intention is to provide value for those readers who might not have the time to read the entire blog, and to facilitate translations.
The Wikimedia Highlights were started in 2011 as a combination of the most notable aspects of the monthly Wikimedia Foundation report and the Wikimedia engineering report (including basic financial and traffic data) with a brief selection of other important events in the Wikimedia movement during that month. Following the growth of the Wikimedia blog in scope and coverage, and with the Foundation's reporting switching from a monthly to a quarterly publication schedule, the Wikimedia Highlights now (since the October 2014 issue) focus on summarizing news from the Wikimedia blog entirely.
Each new issue is posted on the movement-wide announcement list WikimediaAnnounce-l and on the blog of the Wikimedia Foundation (RSS). You can also subscribe here to get a summary message delivered to your user talk page on any Wikimedia project right after each issue is published.
Read the highlights in your own language (if available) or translate them.
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"Sunset over Lake Mälar with 1854 statue of Carl XIV John of Sweden removed" by Jacob Truedson Demitz and KJacobsen, CC BY-SA 4.0; "Wmhack-5" by Saurabh Jain, public domain; "Wikidata English map" by Markus Krötzsch, TU Dresden, public domain/CC0. Collage by Andrew Sherman.
Here are the highlights from the Wikimedia blog in April 2016.
1 Find, Prioritize, and Recommend: An article recommendation system to fill knowledge gaps across Wikipedia
2 First-ever Wikimedia Hackathon at Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee
3 A strike against freedom of panorama: Swedish court rules against Wikimedia Sverige
4 In Brief
Find, Prioritize, and Recommend: An article recommendation system to fill knowledge gaps across Wikipedia
Map by Markus Krötzsch, TU Dresden, public domain/CC0.
The Wikimedia Research team has designed a system that finds, ranks, and recommends missing articles to be created across different language versions of Wikipedia. It takes into account editor interests (extracted from their public contribution history), proficiency across languages, and the projected popularity of an article in the target language, if it were to be created. One controlled test of these results show that recommendations tripled the rate at which editors create articles, while maintaining the same level of article quality.
The tool comes with an API, currently integrated into the Content Translation tool. Over the coming months, the Wikimedia Research team will be monitoring the tool closely to learn more about how it’s being used by editors and how it can be further improved. If you try out the article recommendation tool, you can provide the Research team with feedback on our discussion page.
First-ever Wikimedia Hackathon at Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee
Participants fixing bugs. Image by Saurabh Jain, public domain.
The Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee hosted a one-day session to help students understand the working of the MediaWiki community. The day-long hackathon included every aspect of MediaWiki, from installing the software, setting up the environment to fixing some easy bugs, and submitting the patches for review. It was attended by 20 students, who were given certain pre-requisites and were selected based upon the fulfillment of these, thereby making certain that all the attendees were at the same phase. At the end of the day, we had 15 successful patch submissions (pushed) to the core. Additionally, 5 more changes have been committed locally and are to be pushed (as of now).
A strike against freedom of panorama: Swedish court rules against Wikimedia Sverige
Photo by Jacob Truedson Demitz and KJacobsen, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The Supreme Court of Sweden has ruled against Wikimedia Sverige (Sweden) in a case involving freedom of panorama in the country. The Court decided that Swedish copyright law does not allow Wikimedia Sverige to post images in its online database offentligkonst.se (a website / database covering publicly placed art) without permission from the artist.
The Wikimedia Foundation respectfully disagrees with the Supreme Court’s decision to erode the freedom of panorama that is a fundamental part of freedom of expression, freedom of information, and artistic expression. As we read it, the Swedish copyright law in question only limits the production of three-dimensional copies of sculptures, and cannot be interpreted as placing limits on pictures of public art being published on the internet. The fact that the copyright law allows images of public art on postcards, even for profit and without the artist’s consent, demonstrates this intent and, in our opinion, is inconsistent with the Supreme Court’s interpretation of the law.
TED is partnering with the Wikimedia community to add “ideas worth spreading” to Wikimedia projects: In a new partnership with Wikimedia community members, TED has donated the massive amount of metadata behind more than 2,000 talks, many of which have been transcribed and translated by a worldwide network of TED volunteers. By adding TED metadata to Wikidata, Wikimedians Jane Darnell and Andy Mabbett are documenting what knowledge is available from TED talks and making it easier for that information to be found and used across Wikimedia projects.
Europeana Art History Challenge begins: With 40 languages, 30 countries, and hundreds of artworks, the Europeana Art History Challenge has now begun—the largest ever GLAM-Wiki competition and the first to highlight Wikidata. The project is “based” on Wikidata, and improving the quality of the metadata there about these works, their artists, genres etc. is just as much a part of this competition as are the translations on Wikipedia.
He reaches across continents: editing the Urdu Wikipedia from the Czech Republic: Over the past seven years, Jiří attained a remarkable command of the Urdu language, which is the official language of Pakistan and six states in India, and has written or expanded a number of articles in the language’s Wikipedia. Jiří likes to contribute articles especially on historical, biological and pharmacological topics. He is especially proud of his contributions on Czech history, although he would like to focus on articles about medicinal plants in the near future.
Andrew Sherman, Digital Communications Intern
The Wikimedia Research team has designed a system that finds, ranks, and recommends missing articles to be created across different language versions of Wikipedia. This and other stories from across the Wikimedia movement in April's blog highlights.
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Organization: Families and Friends of Missing Persons Unit (FFMPU)
In the Loop: young people talking about missing (by Families and Friends of Missing Persons Unit in collaboration with Emily, Izi, Lily and Max. )
This book is written by and for children and young people who live with having someone missing in their lives. That missing person might be a parent or grandparent, a brother or sister, an aunt, uncle or cousin. The young people from In the Loop* tell us that they “get it”. They live with not knowing and are very often able to empathise with others in similar situations. Young people tell us that they feel the ‘missing’ of their loved one in every aspect of their lives – at home, at school and socially. It can affect the way they relate to others in their family, their friends and at school. It not only impacts the here and now, but at times, their view of what the future holds. They express the belief that ‘missing’ affects how others relate to them too. Young people, supported by the adults in their lives, met each other, shared their thoughts and stories with Liz Davies and Emmanuel Kassiotis from Families and Friends of Missing Persons Unit and then allowed Hannah Park and May Hammoude to work alongside them to produce what you hold in your hands. Most of the words, pictures and photos are theirs and are included with their permission. They have entrusted them to the team at Families and Friends of Missing Persons Unit in the hope that their insights and shared experiences will be helpful for others who live with or are touched by ‘missing’. The following pages provide their insights and some (hopefully) useful information for living with ‘missing’.
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The educational integration of separated minors: a comparison of the situations in France and Quebec by Eva Lemaire
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Protection of children and vulnerable adults: police disclosure of damaging allegations by Bennion, F. A
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European commission communication on protecting children in migration by European Commission
European commission communication on protecting children in migration
European Parliament resolution on the protection of children in migration (May 2018) by European Commission
European Parliament resolution on the protection of children in migration (May 2018)
Facial identification of children by Elidh Fergusan
In situations where comparative material is present, for example, child pornographic material, or the captured sighting of a missing individual, the potential to use facial comparison techniques to aid identification is an appealing one.
Uprooted: THE GROWING CRISIS FOR REFUGEE AND MIGRANT CHILDREN by UNICEF
Uprooted: The growing crisis for refugee and migrant children presents new data that paint a sad and sobering global picture of the lives and situations of millions of children and families affected by violent conflict and other crises that make it seem safer to risk everything on a perilous journey than to remain at home.
Traumatic Loss in Children and Adolescents by Anthony P. Mannarino , Judith A. Cohen
This article discusses the distinctive features of CTG, how it is different from normal bereavement, how this condition is assessed, and promising treatments for children who experience a traumatic loss.
First Implementation report on protection of children against sexual abuse in the circle of trust by Council of Europe
The 1st monitoring round of the implementation of the Lanzarote Convention focuses on the protection of children against sexual abuse in the circle of trust. Two reports will cover this theme in the 26 States (those which were Parties to the Convention at the time the monitoring round was launched)
Implementation Handbook: putting the investing in children recommendation into practice by Eurochild
The 2013 European Commission Recommendation “Investing in Children: Breaking the cycle of disadvantage” presented a comprehensive policy approach to child poverty and well-being. A new Implementation Handbook by Eurochild and its partners in the EU Alliance for Investing in Children, shows how member states can translate the policy guidelines into action.
"Cut Off From Justice: The impact of excluding separated migrant children from legal aid by Dr Helen Connolly, Ilona Pinter
In April 2013, the Government implemented changes to the legal aid system which means that separated or unaccompanied migrant children - those without a parent or guardian in this country - are no longer be able to get free support with their immigration cases. The report focus on the issue.
Lanzarote Committee’s second implementation report “The protection of children against sexual abuse in the circle of trust: the strategies” by Lanzarote committee
In a new report, the Lanzarote Committee analyses the strategies used by 26 State Parties to protect children against sexual abuse in the circle of trust (extended family and persons close to the child who exercise influence over the child). According to the report, States Parties to the Council of Europe’s Convention on the protection of children against sexual exploitation and sexual abuse (Lanzarote Convention) are undertaking effective steps in this field.
Lanzarote Committee’s second implementation report: Protection of children against sexual abuse in the circle of trust: The strategies by Lanzarote committee
Lanzarote Committee’s second implementation report: Protection of children against sexual abuse in the circle of trust: The strategies
Let children be children: Lessons from the Field on the Protection and Integration of Refugee and Migrant Children in Europe by Eurochild and SOS Children's Villages
Let children be children: Lessons from the Field on the Protection and Integration of Refugee and Migrant Children in Europe
Lost in Migration: Working together to protect children from disappearances, from European priorities to local realities by Missing Children Europe
Challenges and progress in implementing the European Commission Communication on the Protection of Children in Migration: Providing effective protection and enhancing integration at local level.
Undocumented Children in Europe: Invisible Victims of Immigration Restrictions by Luca Bicocchi, Michele LeVoy
This report focuses on the needs of undocumented migrant minors across nine different EU countries.
Disappearing, departing, running away. A surfeit of children in Europe by Anon
Study carried out in Belgium, France, Spain and Switzerland on the disappearances of unaccompanied foreign minors placed in institutions. This publication seeks to contribute ways of improving the care of unaccompanied foreign minors arriving in European countries.
Breaking the cycle: Collaborating and behaving differently to improve the outcomes and experiences of missing children by Kerry Wade
The purpose of this paper is to explore how, by encouraging all key stakeholders to “play nicely and act maturely” to share responsibility, the author was able to improve outcomes for children reported missing to Gwent Police. The paper shows that sharing responsibility is a critical factor in such collaboration, requiring people and agencies to let go of power that usually interferes with a preparedness to avoid blame, a willingness to enjoy the rewards of success and together manage the risks.
Haunting Argentina: Synecdoche in the protests of mothers of the Plaza de Mayo by Karen A. Foss
This essay analyzes the protests of the Mothers by means of the metaphor of haunting and suggest that their symbols‐diapers as kerchiefs, slogans and sayings, circling the plaza, and marches‐enact a haunting by means of synecdoche.
Protection of children against sexual abuse in the circle of trust: The strategies by Lanzarote committee
Protection of children against sexual abuse in the circle of trust: The strategies
Family Factors and Runaway Missing Children: A Review of Theories and Research by Ravi Shankar B. G., Ravindra D.Gadkar
This paper reviews the research that has investigated the relationship between family factors and runaway incidence of Children. It also examines the prominent theories to understand runaway phenomena. It aims to assist practitioners and policy makers who work with children and families to make evidence informed decisions
Running the Risks: The links between gang involvement and young people going missing by Rachel Sturrock and Lucy Holmes
The UK Missing Persons Bureau estimates that as many as 160,000 children and young people are reported missing every year. Research from the Children’s Society over the past decade has shed some light on this issue and the recent spotlight on CSE has pushed the issue of children and young people going missing up the political agenda. However, the link between gang involvement and going missing from home is still very much unknown, with no specific research or national data collected indicating how many are affected.
Ambiguous Loss and Its Effects on Children: Implications and Interventions for School Counselors by K Guidry, C. Simpson, T Test, C Bloomfield
The purpose of this article is to define and describe the concept of grief and how it may explain challenging behaviors with students. Additionally, this definition will be expanded by introducing the definition of ambiguous grief.
Meeting the Needs of Sexually Exploited Young People in London by Harper, Z, & Scott, S
A research report based on interviews with social services on the issue of child trafficking, in the UK.
The link between: Trafficked children and missing by
Every year approximately 250,000 people are reported missing to the police and other agencies across the UK. About two thirds of these reports will be children under 18 (Home Office: 2010), and a proportion of will have been victims of trafficking.
Protecting undocumented children: Promising policies and practices from governments by PICUM
Focusing on the areas of education, health care, protection from violence and non-detention, this report seeks to support and disseminate such policies, by presenting several promising examples from governments at all levels, alongside some available data and relevant policy documents at EU level.
UNICEF releases report “children’s rights in return policy and practice in Europe’’ by UNICEF
UNICEF has concerns about the situation and the protection of unaccompanied and separated children who may be returned to their country of origin. One of the main recommendations of the report is that return policies should be made child proof and in line with children's rights.
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