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Dr. J Unabridged
By: Julius Erving, Karl Taro Greenfeld
Narrated by: Julius Erving
Categories: Biographies & Memoirs, Sports
By: Julius Erving,Karl Taro Greenfeld
Magic, Kareem, Riley, and the Los Angeles Lakers Dynasty of the 1980s
By: Jeff Pearlman
Narrated by: Malcolm Hillgartner
Best-selling sportswriter Jeff Pearlman draws from almost 300 interviews to take the first full measure of the Lakers’ epic Showtime era. A dazzling account of one of America’s greatest sports sagas, Showtime is packed with indelible characters, vicious rivalries, and jaw-dropping, behind-the-scenes stories of the players’ decadent Hollywood lifestyles. From the Showtime era’s remarkable rise to its tragic end - marked by Magic Johnson’s 1991 announcement that he had contracted HIV - Showtime is a gripping narrative of sports, celebrity, and 1980s-style excess.
About as good as you can hope for
By ERIC SANDAGE on 08-27-19
Three Ring Circus
Kobe, Shaq, Phil and the Crazy Years of the Lakers Dynasty
Narrated by: Brian Hutchison
In the history of modern sport, there have never been two high-level teammates who loathed each other the way Shaquille O’Neal loathed Kobe Bryant and Kobe Bryant loathed Shaquille O’Neal. From public sniping and sparring, to physical altercations and the repeated threats of trade, it was warfare. And yet, despite eight years of infighting and hostility, by turns mediated and encouraged by coach Phil Jackson, the Shaq-Kobe duo resulted in one of the greatest dynasties in NBA history.
Ok I've finished it and have more thoughts
By Bobby S on 09-24-20
The Life of Kobe Bryant
By: Roland Lazenby
Narrated by: Ron Butler
Seventeen-time all-star; scorer of 81 points in a game; MVP; and a shooting guard second only to Jordan in league history: Kobe Bryant is one of basketball's absolute greatest players, a fascinating and complicated character who knew when he was a mere boy that he would be better than Jordan on the court. The debate about whether he achieved that is a furious one - but Kobe has surpassed Jordan on the all-time scoring list and has only one less championship than Jordan (five to Jordan's six).
KOBE BEAN BRYANT
By Allaeldien Abdelrahman on 12-14-18
I Came as a Shadow
An Autobiography
By: John Thompson
Narrated by: Jesse Washington
The long-awaited autobiography from Georgetown University’s legendary coach, whose life on and off the basketball court threw America’s unresolved struggle with racial justice into sharp relief.
By JB on 12-22-20
By: Robert Cherry
Narrated by: DeMario Clarke
The author, a native of Philadelphia and an alumnus, as was Wilt Chamberlain, of Overbrook High School, spent four years researching and interviewing the most important people in Wilt's life. The result is a capturing of Wilt's personality and thoughts that relatively few people other than family and closest friends ever knew.
By Me & My Girls on 07-05-15
The Sixth Man
By: Andre Iguodala, Carvell Wallace - contributor
Narrated by: Sullivan Jones, Andre Iguodala
The standout memoir from NBA powerhouse Andre Iguodala, the indomitable sixth man of the champion Golden State Warriors. Andre Iguodala is one of the most admired players in the NBA. And fresh off the Warriors’ third NBA championship in the last four years, his game has never been stronger. Off the court, Iguodala has earned respect, too - for his successful tech investments, his philanthropy, and increasingly for his contributions to the conversation about race in America.
Lost its legs in the 4th
By JKay on 07-08-19
By: Andre Iguodala, and others
By: John Stockton
Narrated by: John Stockton
A fast, gritty, durable player who could read a basketball floor as well as anyone who ever played the game, John Stockton left the NBA after 19 seasons with the Utah Jazz, holding a massive assist record, including the career mark (15,806). He also twice led the league in steals - with a career total of 3,265 - and retired as the NBA's all-time leader. And during Stockton's career, the Jazz never missed the playoffs.
Inspiring story from an authentic person.
By M. Clark on 09-05-19
I Am Brian Wilson
By: Brian Wilson, Ben Greenman - contributor
Narrated by: Fred Berman
As a cofounding member of the Beach Boys in the 1960s, Wilson created some of the most groundbreaking and timeless popular music ever recorded. With intricate harmonies, symphonic structures, and wide-eyed lyrics that explored life's most transcendent joys and deepest sorrows, songs like "In My Room", "God Only Knows", and "Good Vibrations" forever expanded the possibilities of pop songwriting.
Surviving the Minor Keys in Life - Love Overcomes
By Russell on 12-01-16
By: Brian Wilson, and others
Not a Game
The Incredible Rise and Unthinkable Fall of Allen Iverson
By: Kent Babb
Narrated by: Michael Butler Murray
Through extensive research and interviews with those closest to Iverson, acclaimed Washington Post sportswriter Kent Babb gets behind the familiar, sanitized, and heroic version of the hard-changing, hard-partying athlete who played every game as if it were his last.
By jonathan meharg on 05-05-20
The Breaks of the Game
By: David Halberstam
Narrated by: Brian Troxell
The tactile authenticity of Halberstam's knowledge of the basketball world is unrivaled. Yet he is writing here about far more than just basketball. This is a story about a place in our society where power, money, and talent collide and sometimes corrupt, a place where both national obsessions and naked greed are exposed.
This book is a must read for all NBA junkies.
By Kyle on 06-13-18
Elway
A Relentless Life
By: Jason Cole
Narrated by: Pete Larkin
The unauthorized biography of John Elway, Hall of Fame quarterback, two-time Super Bowl champion, now president of football operations and general manager of the Denver Broncos.
Analyzing greatness
By Michael G. Salardino on 10-24-20
Eleven Rings
The Soul of Success
By: Phil Jackson, Hugh Delehanty
Narrated by: Matt Walton
During his storied career as head coach of the Chicago Bulls and Los Angeles Lakers, Phil Jackson won more championships than any coach in the history of professional sports. This is the story of a preacher's kid from North Dakota who grew up to be one of the most innovative leaders of our time. Eleven times, Jackson led his teams to the ultimate goal: the NBA championship - six times with the Chicago Bulls and five times with the Los Angeles Lakers. This book is full of revelations.
Listener Beware
By Robert S. Wegener on 07-12-13
By: Phil Jackson, and others
The Life of Pete Maravich
By: Mark Kriegel
Pistol is more than the biography of a ballplayer. It's the stuff of classic novels: the story of a boy transformed by his father's dream and the cost of that dream. Even as Pete Maravich became Pistol Pete, a basketball icon for baby boomers, all the Maraviches paid a price. Now acclaimed author Mark Kriegel has brilliantly captured the saga of an American family: its rise, its apparent ruin, and, finally, its redemption.
Extremely Good!
By steve on 12-12-12
The Last Pass
Cousy, Russell, the Celtics, and What Matters in the End
By: Gary M. Pomerantz
Narrated by: Gary M. Pomerantz
Out of the greatest dynasty in American professional sports history, an intimate story of race, mortality, and regret. About to turn 90, Bob Cousy, the Hall of Fame Boston Celtics captain who led the team to its first six championships on an unparalleled run, has much to look back on in contentment. But he has one last piece of unfinished business. The last pass he hopes to throw is to close the circle with his great partner on those Celtic teams, fellow Hall of Famer Bill Russell, now 84.
Great Premise, Not Quite Fulfilled in Good Book
By Joe Kraus on 11-06-18
Narrated by: Bob Souer
When most people think of Michael Jordan, they think of the beautiful shots, his body totally in sync with the ball, hitting nothing but net. He is responsible for incredible moments so ingrained in basketball history that they have their own names: The Shrug, The Shot, The Flu Game. But for all his greatness, there's also a dark side to Jordan: A ruthless competitor, a gambler. There's never been a biography that balanced these personas-until now.
horrible naration
By Hiro on 03-27-18
The Enigmatic Life of Walter Payton
At five feet ten inches tall, running back Walter Payton was not the largest player in the NFL, but he developed a larger-than-life reputation for his strength, speed, and grit. Nicknamed “Sweetness” during his college football days, he became the NFL’s all-time leader in rushing and all-purpose yards, capturing the hearts of fans in his adopted Chicago.
Honest Accounting Of A Fascinating Life
By RevInTampa on 08-19-15
The Glory Days and Party Nights of the Dallas Cowboys Dynasty
Narrated by: Arthur Morey
They were America's Team - the high-priced, high-glamour, high-flying Dallas Cowboys of the 1990s, who won three Super Bowls and made as many headlines off the field as on it. Led by Emmitt Smith, the charismatic Deion "Prime Time" Sanders, and Hall of Famers Troy Aikman and Michael Irvin, the Cowboys rank among the greatest of all NFL dynasties.
This is a football book right?
By Aaron on 12-07-09
Iron Ambition
My Life with Cus D'Amato
By: Mike Tyson
Narrated by: Adam Lazarre-White
When Cus D'Amato first saw 13-year-old Mike Tyson spar in the ring, he proclaimed, "That's the heavyweight champion of the world." D'Amato, who had previously managed the careers of world champions Floyd Patterson and José Torres, would go on to train the young Tyson and raise him as a son. D'Amato died a year before Tyson became the youngest heavyweight champion in history.
this book is greatness just like Mike
By Rob Tison IV on 06-29-17
With his flights of improvisation around the basket and his towering afro, Julius Erving became one of the most charismatic (and revolutionary) players basketball has ever known. But while the public has long revered this cultural icon, few have ever known of the double life of Julius Erving. Dr. J traces the inner lives of the nearly perfect player and the imperfect man - and how he has come to terms with both.
©2013 Julius Erving (P)2013 HarperCollinsPublishers
What listeners say about Dr. J Unabridged
@JWTheBlueprint
I may overrate it, but I’m a hoops junkie!
What made the experience of listening to Dr. J Unabridged the most enjoyable?
When talking hoops with people these days, it’s sad because the legends of the past are often forgotten. And that’s the case when talking professional ball or street-ball. You watch TV and you would think that the game was played by only Magic & Bird in the 80’s, followed by Jordan in the 90’s. Growing up in Philadelphia I know better. One of the most popular figures of my childhood was Julius “Dr. J” Erving. He was larger than life in the city. He was also a legend in street-ball. Most of the older men in my neighborhood wanted to be him and all of the older ladies would have given him their love canal if they had the chance. Not only was he considered a great ball player but he has always been considered someone who carried himself with class.
The great thing about biographies is the chance to hear stories and learn details about someone’s life you had no knowledge of. The Doc was an amazing ball player and he did carry himself with class but he was far from perfect. This book is not only filled with amazing stories of legendary games and players but it also talks about his shortcomings and his personal struggles. If you are a hoops fan and love the history of the game, this is a must-read.
Michael A. Austin
I would have liked to hear him tell his own story rather than read from a book I was pleasantly surprised at his candidness
Umer Mahmood
The Doctor is in the house...
He's got a smooth voice in his audible reading, and the book itself is a great read. He's lived quite a life, with ups and downs, and I love his vulnerability. He's a human underneath all that fame, and has made mistakes like all of us do at some points in our life. Highly recommended !
I’m not sure what the hype is about
Okay...I’ll start by saying I’m not a HUGE basketball fan. I enjoy watching games and I’m a product of the Kobe/Shaq Lakers era. I’ll also say I waited a day before writing this review. With that being said I’ve heard about Dr. J but didn’t really know much about him except he was an exceptional basketball player. Figured hey why not learn about someone who was a pioneer of the game. I left dissappointed. The play by play of his games was probably one of the few good points of this book (along with some of the story of his childhood). So much of it felt fake or maybe half truth like that I went and did research for my own sanity and found missing puzzle pieces that made some of what he harped on and emphasize make A TON more sense (and furthered my dislike of the book). If I wanted to be a Dr. J fan this didn’t help. I think it would be great for someone who already was/is a fan but if you’re just looking for a good inspirational read I’d suggest pick up another book or just read the first few chapters of this one (MAYBE) but stop there!
Very insightful book for those of us who are true doctor J fans I learned a lot about him personally and his trials and travails in life.
legend in sports history!!!
Erving talks about some odd contract moves in his career. He talked about when he tried to jump from the ABA to the NBA's Atlanta Hawks at one point, even though he hadn't been drafted yet. Those who only remember Erving from his Philadelphia days probably will get the most enjoyment out of his autobiography, "Dr. J."
Jason P Linde
Phenomenal book! One of the best sports autobiographies ever!
Julius Erving has a uniquely American story - the underdog driven by a great work ethic and an ability to see and do things on the court never before imagined.
This book tells the whole story and is wonderfully written and narrated.
Buy it and listen and you follow the Doc in his flight from Hempstead to Amherst to Norfolk and on to Philadelphia and beyond.
Insightful!
Unflinchingly honest and derailed account of the coolest if all the superstars. The Dr is still the man.
Israel Phiri
The Most transparent autobiography!
Dr J has been has to be the best autobiography I have read. He tells it all.
He doesn't hide anything about his life. Both the good and the bad are shared with us.
Great Audio
Great basketball player and a true man. If you weren't a fan of Dr. J before, you will be after this audio.
A real eye opener
One of my all time favourite basketball players.
Now I feel I know the man behind the name Dr. J.
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By: Ruth Rendell
Narrated by: Ric Jerrom
The Rottweiler
Narrated by: Nigel Anthony
The first girl had a bite mark on her neck, but they traced the DNA to her boyfriend. But the tabloids got hold of the story and called the killer 'The Rottweiler' and the name stuck. The latest murder takes place very near Inez Ferry's antique shop in Marylebone. When the Rottweiler’s trinkets start showing up in the shop, suddenly, everyone Inez knows is a suspect, and the killer feels all too close.
Lots of atmosphere, and a Freudian mystery.
By Sparkly on 11-03-12
Narrated by: Jenny Sterlin
Having published 45 books, Ruth Rendell is an internationally popular mystery writer. She has won four Gold Dagger and three Edgar awards. She has been presented with the Commander of the British Empire honor, and named Grand Master by the Mystery Writers of America. In A Sight For Sore Eyes, Ruth Rendell’s exceptional literary talent shines from each word. Teddy Brex is a handsome young man. Raised by parents who never loved him, he has grown to put his trust in objects.
one of Rendell's best
By Celia on 07-08-16
The Keys to the Street
Narrated by: Simon Russell Beale
Mary Jago had donated her own bone marrow to save the life of someone she didn’t know. And this generous act led directly to the bitter break-up of her affair with Alistair. For him, it was as though her beauty had been plundered. But the man whose life she had saved would change Mary’s life in a way she could never have imagined.
Mystery with humor and insight
By Ida Hagman on 10-02-12
A Fatal Inversion
By: Barbara Vine
Narrated by: William Gaminara
In the long, hot summer of 1976, a group of young people is camping in Wyvis Hall. Adam, Rufus, Shiva, Vivien and Zosie hardly ask why they are there or how they are to live; they scavenge, steal and sell the family heirlooms. Ten years later, the bodies of a woman and child are discovered in the Hall’s animal cemetery. Which woman? And whose child?
By Jill on 06-15-14
When his father dies, Carl Martin, a philosophy graduate and struggling novelist, inherits a house in a trendy London neighborhood. Carl needs cash, however, so he rents the upstairs room and kitchen to the first person he interviews, Dermot McKinnon. That was colossal mistake number one. Mistake number two was keeping his father's bizarre collection of homeopathic "cures" that he found in the medicine cabinet, including a stash of controversial diet pills.
Great book! Love Ruth Rendell
By Delah on 12-16-15
One Across, Two Down
Narrated by: Nicky Henson
There are only two things in life that interest Stanley: solving crossword puzzles, and getting his hands on his mother-in-law’s money. For 20 years, the puzzles have been his only pleasure, the money his only dream. It has never occurred to Stanley that his mother-in-law would try to outsmart him and the money would never be his. Until now. It is only now that Stanley, so clever at misleading double meanings and devious clues, decides to construct a puzzle of his own - and so give death a helping hand.
By Suzanne fox on 03-09-18
Narrated by: Julian Glover
In a gloomy cellar, the figure of a beautiful, pale woman makes no move when the man advances on her from the shadows, puts his hands around her neck and strangles her. Arthur Johnson is a mild-mannered, shy man who has never known how to talk to women. His resulting loneliness has twisted his yearning for love and respect into a carefully constructed predilection for violence and control.
Totally a Ruth Rendell read
By Dottie B. on 08-08-12
The Water's Lovely
Narrated by: Siân Thomas
The man who had died was Ismay's stepfather, Guy. Nine years on, she and her sister, Heather, still live in the same house in Clapham. But it has been divided into two self-contained flats. Their mother lives upstairs with her sister, Pamela. And the bathroom, where Guy drowned, has disappeared. Ismay works in public relations, and Heather in catering. They get on well. They always have. They never discuss the changes to the house, still less what happened that August day.
Not my favorite RR
By wobbly on 05-08-14
An Unkindness of Ravens
A Chief Inspector Wexford Mystery, Book 13
Narrated by: Michael Bryant
Rodney Williams's disappearance seems typical to Chief Inspector Wexford - a simple case of a man running off with a woman other than his wife. But when another woman reports that her husband is missing, the case turns unpleasantly complex.
Brilliantly written and very entertaining
By Marilyn on 06-02-09
The Speaker of Mandarin
A Chief Inspector Wexford Mystery, Book 12 (Unabridged)
There were some things about Chief Inspector Wexford's trip to China that he could never have dreamt of: That an old woman would haunt him from one city to the next. That a man would be tragically drowned. Or that, back in England, he would be investigating the murder of one of his fellow tourists.
Under-appreciated gem of mystery writing
By Constance on 05-16-15
Narrated by: Tim Curry
Walking to the shops one day, 50-year-old Eugene Wren discovers an envelope on the street bulging with cash. A man plagued by a shameful addiction - and his own good intentions - Wren hatches a plan to find the moneys rightful owner. Instead of going to the police, or taking the cash for himself, he prints a notice and posts it around Portobello Road. This ill-conceived act creates a chain of events that links Wren to other Londoners - people afflicted with their own obsessions and despairs.
Portobello's Lovely Mean Streets
By Lynn on 09-16-10
Kissing the Gunner’s Daughter
Narrated by: Davina Porter
Wexford is horrified by the carnage he encounters at Tancred Manor, home of a famous anthropologist, but he is determined to do all that he can for 17-year-old Daisy, the only survivor of the mass murders that obliterated her family.
Entertaining but predictable with rushed ending
By Customer on 08-17-12
Put on by Cunning
Narrated by: Charles Kay
Sir Manual Camargue had just announced his intention of taking a second wife, 50 years his junior. On the same cold winter's day, he died as a result of what was surely a tragic accident. But Wexford doubts that Camargue's death came by misadventure.
One of the Best Mysteries I Have Ever Read
By Paul and Courtney on 01-05-12
Make Death Love Me
Alan Groombridge had a fantasy. Husband to a woman he didn't like, father of two children he had never wanted,and manager of the second smallest branch of the Anglian-Victoria bank in the country, Alan was doomed to a life of domestic boredom and tedious routine.All that saved him was that one fantasy: stealing enough of the bank's money to allow him just one year of freedom -one year in which to live a different sort of life. But one day there was no more dreaming and no more games.
Flawed humans...
By Lola Connors on 05-10-17
The Face of Trespass
Two years ago, he had been a promising young novelist. Now he barely survives in a near derelict cottage with only his own obsessive thoughts for company. Two years of loving Drusilla - the rich, unstable girl with everything she needed, and a husband she wanted dead. The affair was over. But the long slide into violence had just begun....
The Killing Doll
No one would have described Manningtree Grove as fashionable. Few would have found it especially interesting. But it was not an unpleasant place to live: the old railway line lay in a valley, and the gardens looked onto it. It was the kind of place where nothing ever happened. Yet it was here that Peter Yearman first sold his soul to the devil....
Narrated by: Harriet Walter
Like most families, they had their secrets...and they hid them under a genteelly respectable veneer. No onlooker would guess that prim Vera Hillyard and her beautiful, adored younger sister, Eden, were locked in a dark and bitter combat over one of those secrets. England in the '50s was not kind to women who erred, so they had to use every means necessary to keep the truth hidden behind closed doors - even murder.
Well-written, absorbing psychological mystery
By Bonny on 02-08-15
The Veiled One
Narrated by: Robin Bailey
Concealed by a shroud of dirty brown velvet was what looked like a heap of rags. In a desolate subterranean car park of a Shopping Centre, Dorothy Sanders pulled back the velvet curtain revealing the grim discovery of a woman’s body. Inspector Michael Burden, for a while conducting the investigation without the help of Wexford’s intuitive genius, blunders down a number of blind alleys before uncovering the truth.
5/5*
By Mark Miller on 05-29-15
In this psychologically explosive story from "one of the most remarkable novelists of her generation" People, the discovery of bones in a tin box sends shockwaves across a group of long-time friends.
In the waning months of the second World War, a group of children discover an earthen tunnel in their neighborhood outside London. Throughout the summer of 1944 - until one father forbids it - the subterranean space becomes their "secret garden", where the friends play games and tell stories.
Six decades later, beneath a house on the same land, construction workers uncover a tin box containing two skeletal hands, one male and one female. As the discovery makes national news, the friends come together once again, to recall their days in the tunnel for the detective investigating the case. Is the truth buried among these aging friends and their memories?
This impromptu reunion causes long-simmering feelings to bubble to the surface. Alan, stuck in a passionless marriage, begins flirting with Daphne, a glamorous widow. Michael considers contacting his estranged father, who sent Michael to live with an aunt after his mother vanished in 1944. Lewis begins remembering details about his Uncle James, an army private who once accompanied the children into the tunnels, and who later disappeared.
In The Girl Next Door Rendell brilliantly shatters the assumptions about age, showing that the choices people make - and the emotions behind them - remain as potent in late life as they were in youth.
©2014 Ruth Rendell (P)2014 Simon & Schuster Audio
From Doon with Death
A New Lease of Death
The Best Man to Die
The Long Night
Semiotics: The Basics
Waterloo: The Campaign of 1815
What listeners say about The Girl Next Door
Happy Helena
Kept unfolding more twists and turns
This was one of the best Ruth Rendell mysteries I have read (of many). Somehow, even though you know both the crime and the culprit from the first chapter, the unveiling of the lives of all the senior citizens affected dozens of years after the event is absorbing. While things are tied up more or less neatly at the end, you will not find what you thought will happen has happened. Rendell gets the reader into the psyche of several characters who met as children during WWII, and how life has warped or injured them, and how they have survived when they all re-meet much later in life. While you don't necessarily like the characters, Rendell has made you care about what they will do. Really enjoyed this long book, and as ever, the map of London in front of you always helps with Rendell's excellent evocation of scenery.
ANOTHER EXCELLENT RENDELL NOVEL
It's a love story, it's a mystery with a twist, it's good. Rendell always gives the annoying people a good kick, I like that.
If you're a fan, don't miss this one.
...what?
The narration was wonderful, but the plot didn't make any sense. The whole book felt like those first few chapters when you're waiting for the story to get started. I kept thinking I must only be a few chapters in, and then suddenly it ended. What was the plot? I really don't understand. Maybe it doesn't lend itself to audio, but I have no idea what I just listened to or why.
Almost, but not quite
This book wasn’t for you, but who do you think might enjoy it more?
The book is intended as a suspense work, so readers who like suspense may enjoy it.
What was most disappointing about Ruth Rendell’s story?
So much tension was built up, but the ending was anti-climatic.
What about Ric Jerrom’s performance did you like?
Solid read
What reaction did this book spark in you? Anger, sadness, disappointment?
I first saw this book on the shelves of a store in Australia. I read the book jacket, and it promised to be engaging. Right from the start of the work, the reader knows who is killed, who did it, and why. But, it's not until sixty years later that the bodies are discovered and the crime investigated. That worked. What did not work was 70 something year sleuths and their crimes of passion that bordered on the ridiculous.
catFox
Oddly good
Not really much of a mystery in her usual way but actually pretty compelling story of an elderly group of friends. Loved the development of Rosemary.
Kate Anderson
There is no mystery
Someone who is interested in character development, but not mystery
Would you ever listen to anything by Ruth Rendell again?
Yes; I usually enjoy her writing.
What does Ric Jerrom bring to the story that you wouldn’t experience if you just read the book?
I would have preferred to read it.
Disappointment. There are no twists and turns. No particular plot points that her further character development contributes to the mystery.
I really disliked this book. I'm sorry I wasted the time and the credit on it
Tuxdog
Interesting characters and good listen
Would you listen to The Girl Next Door again? Why?
Thought the overall story was interesting and the character development paid off towards the end of the book.
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Fleet Cyberattacks: Prevention and Response
September 28, 2018 • by Daryl Lubinsky
The increasing vulnerability of vehicles is the main reason why automotive component manufacturer Continental AG recently decided to offer cybersecurity solutions.
Photo courtesy of Getty Images.
Hackers continue to conduct cyberattacks to make money and cause chaos, and those cybercriminals’ increased attention on vehicle fleets is an emerging trend. Monique Lance, marketing director for cybersecurity company Argus, notes that many vehicles contain 100 or more electronic control units.
“They are made up of a lot of complex software,” Lance said in a telephone interview from Argus’ Tel Aviv, Israel headquarters. “Vehicles have more code than a fighter jet.”
Because of that software and the fact that the vehicles are connected to the Internet, they are vulnerable to cyberattacks, Lance added.
She continued on to note that companies running large vehicle fleets are attractive targets for cyberattackers, who attempt to damage or destroy computer networks or systems. Lance said the prospect of holding a fleet for ransom is an attractive one for hackers.
Since the mid-1990s, OBDII ports in vehicles have provided very easy means for attackers to penetrate a vehicle. Vehicle manufacturers that originally installed OBDII ports did so with little thought to cybersecurity at the time, Lance said.
“That provides attackers direct access to the in-vehicle network, where you have brakes, steering, and other components that are safety critical,” Lance said. “When we’re looking at businesses that depend on running these large fleets, you can imagine how attractive that would become to a cyberattacker.”
OBDII ports provide just one means of accessing a vehicle, Lance said. Attackers can also take control remotely via cellular connections, WiFi, Bluetooth, navigation systems, and more. These remote attacks are potentially much more dangerous because they are scalable.
Preventing and Responding to Attacks
The increasing vulnerability of vehicles is the main reason why automotive component manufacturer Continental AG recently decided to offer cybersecurity solutions from Argus and automotive software company Elektrobit, pre-integrated into their connected vehicle electronics products such as telematics units, infotainment systems, and gateways.
Continental notes that its cybersecurity program allows OEMs and fleets to prevent, understand, and respond to cyberthreats. Elektrobit offers security software to help prevent possible attacks, such as authenticated identification, secure updates, and remote analytics and diagnostics.
Argus provides products that offer additional protection from cyberattacks against the vehicle as well as the ability to detect and respond to attacks in real-time on telematics and head units, advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS), other high-performance ECUs, and embedded ECUs. Argus Lifespan Protection is an automotive security operations center that provides OEMs and fleet managers visibility into the cyber health of their fleets, analysis of cross-fleet information to generate insights into the nature of attacks when they happen, identification of emerging threats, and a rapid response to incidents by immunizing the fleet.
Just as important as preventing cyberattacks and threats, Lance emphasized the new offering from Continental, Argus, and Elektrobit provides fleets and automakers with the ability to learn when an actual attack takes place, to understand the scope of the attack after it takes place, and how to respond immediately.
“Everything we do is based on a comprehensive approach that will enable fleet managers and automakers to secure their vehicles throughout the lifespan, even while they’re on the road, which is also critical,” she said.
Cyberattacks on Fleet
Lance said trucks’ common communication protocols make attacks easier. When cybercriminals can create one hack that could affect an entire fleet of trucks, that means less of a monetary investment for them. “When it comes to cybersecurity, it’s all about reducing the return on investment for the cybercriminal,” she said. “The more effort they need to put in and the more investment they need to make, the less likely they will be to target your vehicle. If they find there is common protocol across a fleet of trucks, hacking one truck will mean they will be able to hack many more, and it will make it more attractive to them.”
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Camrose: 'Uphill battle does not deter us', says acting chairman
Camrose: 'Uphill battle does not deter us', says Kevin White
By Benjamin Paessler @journal_ben News and Sports Reporter
The community club's vice chairman says the decision was "fantastic" (Camrose photo: Daryl Whitlock)
BASINGSTOKE Town has sought to clarify its position after comments earlier this week regarding its future plans and ambitions.
In a statement on the club's website, acting chairman Kevin White said he wanted to "add a little meat to the bones of the comments".
He said: “The Gazette have done an unbelievable job in raising the profile of the Camrose scandal.
"The fact they have been shortlisted in the British Journalism Awards for their investigation is further testament to that. The recent article talked about my own personal love of wanting to return to our old ground.
"As a Club, we’ve also made that position clear on a number of occasions. However, I think the emphasised use of ‘but’ when commenting on an ‘uphill battle’ has been lost a little bit in translation to some who have expressed concern.”
Kevin added: “Yes – I believe there is an uphill battle ahead of us, I think that goes without saying.
"But that does not deter us – it just means that we have to arm ourselves with very tools that can allow us to make it happen.
"It’s going to be a huge ask – but this town has proven time and time again, that when the chips are stacked against us and even being dealt a bad hand – as a community, we find a way”.
“We look forward to working with the council and other representatives to ensure that the future of this club is protected.
"We will continue to keep everyone updated with progress, meetings and ongoing work."
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Council Must Urgently Promise No Development on Ecologically Important Site say Bath Conservatives
Thursday, 10 December, 2020
On the day the Bath and North East Somerset Council Cabinet gathers for its last meeting of 2020, local Conservatives are calling on it to declare it will not develop the ecologically important 'Tufa Field' site off Englishcombe Lane.
Local residents have launched a petition to try to persuade the Council to save the site, where recently legally-protected slow worms were destroyed - it is claimed - by preparatory work undertaken by the Council's own development company.
Bath Conservatives spokesperson, former councillor Bob Goodman, said:
"This isn't a Party political matter, it's about Bath's landscape and environment, which should matter to all of us. I am speaking with councillors of all political persuasions who are very concerned about what might happen over the next few weeks.
"This land is owned by the Council, and planning permission was given by the Council to the Council's own development company to build on it. It is entirely in the Council's power to promise now that it will not destroy this very special environmental site within the City. They should do the right thing, and protect this precious site.
"Residents are worried that, with no full open Council meeting now due until March, development work may begin on the site, and its fragile ecology be destroyed for ever. There needs to be a firm decision taken now, in public, by the Cabinet."
The Tufa Field site was declared of County-wide importance by Council ecologists. It's rare habitat is the result of the unique underlying geology, meaning the Council's plans to transplant any remaining slow worms and other wildlife to another site seems unlikely to succeed.
In July, the LibDem Council declared an Ecological Emergency. Bath Conservatives say the Council should put its words into action, and help local residents to set up a Community Interest Company to help protect the site for future generations.
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Pep Guardiola to succeed Manuel Pellegrini as Manchester City boss
Last updated on 1 February 20161 February 2016 .From the section Footballcomments560
Pellegrini confirms Manchester City exit
Pep Guardiola has agreed a three-year contract to become Manchester City manager in the summer.
The 45-year-old, currently in charge at Bayern Munich, will replace Manuel Pellegrini, who will leave on 30 June.
A statement from Cityexternal-link said Chilean Pellegrini, 62, was "fully supportive" of the announcement being made.
The club said negotiations with former Barcelona coach Guardiola had been "a recommencement of discussions that were curtailed in 2012".
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Roberto Mancini was City boss at the time, and led them to the domestic title that year.
Pellegrini succeeded the Italian in 2013 and took the club to a Premier League and League Cup double the following season.
He has won 64 of his 99 Premier League games as a manager, a record only eclipsed by Jose Mourinho, who won 73 of his opening 99 league matches as Chelsea boss.
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City could yet win four trophies under Pellegrini this season.
They are already through to the final of the League Cup and are second in the league behind Leicester City.
The Blues are also through to the knockout stages of the Champions League and will play Chelsea in the fifth round of the FA Cup.
"I talked to the club and I will finish my contract on the original date," said Pellegrini on Monday.
"We signed a contract for one more year, but with a clause that one of the club or me cannot use that extended contract. So I will finish here on the original date.
"They are not doing anything behind me. I knew this a month ago. But I don't think it's good, this rumour and speculation about different things. I would prefer to finish the speculation today. That's why I told the press, I told the players, and I spoke with the club two weeks ago saying that I would do it."
Why City went for Pep
Barcelona's most successful manager with 14 trophies in four years, including three La Liga titles and two Champions Leagues.
Took a year's break before joining Bayern in 2013, following the club's Champions League, Bundesliga and German Cup treble under Jupp Heynckes.
Won the league twice in his two full seasons with Bayern, who are eight points clear in his third campaign. He is yet to win the Champions League with the German club and has been knocked out at the semi-final stage twice.
They face Italian giants Juventus in the last 16 of Europe's elite club competition in February and Guardiola said: "Winning the Champions League would make my time here complete."
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Former Man City winger Trevor Sinclair said news of Guardiola's appointment was "a massive, massive statement" by the club and "huge news for all City fans".
He told BBC Radio 5 live: "He's the hottest manager out there. Every club would want him.
"And when you look at the recruitment possibilities now, that's where you really start to get excited. He'll be able to bring in some huge players."
Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp spoke to the media before his side's game with Leicester on Tuesday, and said of Guardiola's appointment: "He is one of the best managers in the world, no doubt about this.
"He had two big, big clubs where he has worked at and now he will do his job at Manchester City.
"Pep won everything in Spain, nearly everything in Germany, so I think he wants to win everything in England, that is clear."
What’s it like to play for Guardiola?
Former QPR boss Harry Redknapp told BBC Radio 5 live: "City are fighting on all fronts still, and you wonder what signal it sends out to the players when they know the manager isn't going to be there at the end of the year.
"Pellegrini is an excellent manager and a really nice guy. I'm sure he'll want to go out as a success. It's a massive move for Man City. Guardiola is really a big statement."
Stoke manager Mark Hughes said: "I don't think the news itself was a surprise, maybe the timing of it?
"I think Pellegrini's done a great job. Coming in after Mancini the club seemed a bit fragmented. He's won trophies, which is what they demanded. It's unfortunate that when a manager with the quality of Pep Guardiola comes on the market, a team like Man City feel the need to go after him."
BBC Match of the Day presenter Gary Lineker tweeted his views on Pellegrini's exit
Former Oasis frontman and Manchester City fan Liam Gallagher posted a series of tweets regarding Guardiola's appointment
Phil McNulty, BBC Sport's chief football writer:
The announcement that Guardiola is to be the next Manchester City coach is not a huge surprise - but the timing is.
Manuel Pellegrini is still in charge and is still in serious contention for four trophies.
What is beyond question, however, is that this is the most powerful statement of intent from City's Abu Dhabi owners that they intend to construct a club to stand alongside any in world football.
Guardiola is the game's most coveted coach with a history of claiming the top prizes.
The combination of the charismatic Catalan's coaching brilliance and the financial backing he will receive makes this a partnership the rest of football world could come to fear.
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Comment posted by Rob Hughes, at 16:02 1 Feb 2016Rob Hughes
16:02 1 Feb 2016
Pep want a new challenge, so he taken a job at another club who are reigning champions and the deepest wallet in the Premier League. Not much of a challenge IMO. He should have tried managing Norwich or Sunderland if he wanted a real challenge!
Pellegrini has done well, and behaved with dignity throughout - a credit to football which is refreshing and he deserves better IMO.
Comment posted by remainiacs0 leavers1, at 16:19 1 Feb 2016remainiacs0 leavers1
cloughy will be laughing his head off......he won 2 european cups with no hopers like forest......if pep lives for a 1000 years thats one feat he will never achieve.what would cloughy be worth today? a proper football man..RIP Brian...
Comment posted by david99, at 16:24 1 Feb 2016david99
Wow! That Guardiola really likes a challenge doesn't he?
now Man City.
He certainly does know how to go to clubs that haven't got money or resources and use his coaching skills to the full to really make good players and a winning team out of unpromising material.
Comment posted by Lee, at 16:02 1 Feb 2016Lee
They say money doesn't buy class. This demonstrates it. You have a manager in place who could win 4 trophies and he's already being offloaded. Poor!
Comment posted by U16032842, at 16:15 1 Feb 2016U16032842
I wonder how he will cope in a league with 19 proper teams instead of three or four?
Comment posted by thewinner50, at 16:01 1 Feb 2016thewinner50
Fair play. He's VERY good. Just hope they managed Pellegrini's departure appropriately and with respect as he seems like a very nice bloke.
Comment posted by Alex126, at 16:00 1 Feb 2016Alex126
Hoping that one day a 'world-class' manager will try their hand at a league 1/league 2 side and see how really good they are. Doesn't seem particularly hard to win a lot of trophies at Barcelona and Bayern.
Comment posted by Senator McCarthy, at 16:44 1 Feb 2016Senator McCarthy
They may or may not be gaining one of the best managers in the world but the Prem is losing one of the most dignified.
I can hear the United fans now:
"We didn't want him anyway"
Comment posted by Spurtle, at 16:22 1 Feb 2016Spurtle
It might be asking a lot, but it would be nice if the more organically run clubs like Spurs and Leicester prevented City and Pep from being as successful as the City owners hope they will be.
Comment posted by mymumlookslikenormanhunter, at 17:39 1 Feb 2016mymumlookslikenormanhunter
It would be nice if the gentlemanly Pellegrini won more this season than Pep wins next season.
All well and good and best of look to him but a great manager? not for me. Great is taking an average or under achieving sleeping giant and creating your own dynasty.Clough at Derby and Forest, Revie at Leeds, Shankly at Liverpool and obviously Fergie at United. The likes of Mourinho and Pep only manage giant, ready made teams with Huge resources, easy peasy.
Comment posted by Perton66, at 16:21 1 Feb 2016Perton66
The PL is much more competitive than its equivalents in Spain and Germany. We'll see how good he really is!
Comment posted by FootieFan81, at 16:01 1 Feb 2016FootieFan81
Guardiola often considered the premier coach in the world, alongside Mourinho but feel he has been incredibly fortunate to manage a very talented Barcelona team and then Bayern, who were European Champions at the time. Can't help but feel he has underachieved at Bayern, albeit not helped by the walking their domestic league and not being sharp enough. Hope Pellegrini wins all four like Heynckes.
Comment posted by witness2gr8ness, at 16:02 1 Feb 2016witness2gr8ness
Shocking lack of class from the owners...
Actually scrap the work shocking.
Comment posted by Landlova, at 17:38 1 Feb 2016Landlova
Well I really hope Pep in not another Special One, I'll emigrate if he is.
Thought Manuel has behaved quite the gentleman too and wish him every success in the future.
Comment posted by yorkshireflatcap, at 17:30 1 Feb 2016yorkshireflatcap
I'm not a man city fan, but I actually feel sorry for Pellegrini. He's doing a sterling job and now he's been shown the door... What happened to respect?
Comment posted by sweetness, at 16:58 1 Feb 2016sweetness
Who should Man U appoint next?
has won the premiership as manager
has shown he can handle big name players
lives locally
knows the premier league
plays attacking football home and away
has shown he can handle being at a big club
Manuel welcome to Old Trafford
As a Man Utd fan it's a sad day.
This is another nail in the coffin, pushing Man Utd down into a lower league to Man City. They really are/will be up there with Real Madrid, Barcelona, PSG, B. Munich...
Man Utd are this generation's Liverpool. Simply can't compete on the same level as the top tier of clubs. So disappointing for a club that could, if it made the right decisions, be up there too.
"City disrespectful", Utter rubbish. As all City fans know. Mr P himself only wanted another one year contract, he is 62 and he's spoke about his future on a previous match days. We have loved and adored him at the club and however the season ends, he will go with the greatest respect from the people who matter. The fans. On a side note, I'm also looking forward to Pep arriving.
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Irish cafe owners go viral after seeking caretakers for stunning coastal island
The owners got over 23,000 applications from people wanting to look after the uninhabited island in Co Kerry
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We've heard of competitive job opportunities - but this story goes above and beyond.
Alice Hayes and Billy O'Connor, who run a coffee shop and accommodation on Great Blaskey Island off the coast of Kerry, posted a tweet on January 10 saying that a vacancy was open for a unique position.
They wrote: "Looking for long term management of Island Accommodation and Coffee Shop. Couple or two friends."
Within hours, the untouched beauty of the Island had thousands of people responding to the tweet, begging to be given the chance to take on the job.
One user wrote: "I'd absolutely love this, how could I convince the wife".
Another wrote: "I will take that position!!! I have always wanted to go to Ireland, my great grandfather was born there and it is a goal for me to go. Working there would be awesome."
News of the vacancy quickly went viral, with international media sites like CNN picking up on the overwhelming response.
Hayes and O'Connor live on the nearby Dingle Peninsula, with O'Connor running boat tours to the island in summertime.
Together, the couple refurbished the island's three holiday cottages and look after its coffee shop.
The 1,100 acre island has some fantastic views and landscapes, with wind turbines providing plenty of electricity for those staying there.
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The idyllic location of the island, on top of the chance to spend the summer there, led to thousands of people sending their CVs to the owners.
Just nine days after first sharing the vacancy, Hayes and O'Connor said that they'd had over 23,000 applications.
They wrote on Twitter: "We are beyond overwhelmed at the response for the job post. Posting the advert last year, we were concerned we would not find ANYONE. We have received over 23,000 applications. If only we could get everyone who applied to stay for one night , we’d be fully booked for..
"...the next 30 years. Again, a HUGE thank you to everyone who took time to apply , we can’t explain how much your interest means to us -So sorry if we haven’t got back to you yet, our inbox is chocca block. Hopefully we will meet you all sometime over the next 30 years."
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The cancellations might come as bad news to Lil Wayne's Australian fans, but Weezy is sure to thrill his African followers with his first tour through the continent, which kicks off Dec. 7. Stops in South Africa include Cape Town, Johannesburg and a newly added date in Durban.
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Value, Conflict, and Order: Berlin, Hampshire, Williams, and the Realist Revival in Political Theory
by Edward Hall
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Library of Congress Classification JA71.H258 2020
Dewey Decimal Classification 320.0922
Is the purpose of political philosophy to articulate the moral values that political regimes would realize in a virtually perfect world and show what that implies for the way we should behave toward one another? That model of political philosophy, driven by an effort to draw a picture of an ideal political society, is familiar from the approach of John Rawls and others. Or is political philosophy more useful if it takes the world as it is, acknowledging the existence of various morally non-ideal political realities, and asks how people can live together nonetheless?
The latter approach is advocated by “realist” thinkers in contemporary political philosophy. In Value, Conflict, and Order, Edward Hall builds on the work of Isaiah Berlin, Stuart Hampshire, and Bernard Williams in order to establish a political realist’s theory of politics for the twenty-first century. The realist approach, Hall argues, helps us make sense of the nature of moral and political conflict, the ethics of compromising with adversaries and opponents, and the character of political legitimacy. In an era when democratic political systems all over the world are riven by conflict over values and interests, Hall’s conception is bracing and timely.
Edward Hall is a lecturer in political theory at the University of Sheffield.
“Hall offers a lucid and wide-ranging account of three leading philosophers who provided the impetus for the realist movement in contemporary political philosophy. He argues that the realism they sparked represents not only a negative critique of the dominant Rawlsian paradigm, as others have claimed, but also the foundation for an affirmative alternative to it.”
— William A. Galston, Senior Fellow, Brookings Institution
“Over the last fifteen years, the revival of political realism has produced a sharp methodological critique of ‘ethics-first’ theorizing. But that is all this revival has produced so far. Can political realism be grounded on firm philosophical foundations? Can it offer a substantive alternative to the moralisms it criticizes? Hall’s deep and challenging book gives us grounds for optimism on both fronts. Through a sympathetic but clear-eyed reading of Isaiah Berlin, Stuart Hampshire, and Bernard Williams, Hall shows us the promise and limits of a realist ethics and politics. What emerges is a compelling vision of skepticism without despair, disenchantment without nihilism, and humility without paralysis. This book is a terrific achievement.”
— Alison McQueen, Stanford University
"...Hall has written a terrific book on the realist revival in political theory, one that will establish him as one of the leading ‘new political realists’. It is, quite simply Hall’s analytical brilliance, paired with admirable lucidity and creativity, that allows him to develop critical – but remarkably fair – accounts of Berlin, Hampshire, and Williams, and, ultimately, to make a major contribution to the realist revival in political theory."
— Contemporary Political Theory
Part One: Isaiah Berlin
1. Pluralism, Relativism, and the Human Horizon
2. The Sense of Reality
Part Two: Stuart Hampshire
3. The Vitality of Conflict
4. From Conflict to Compromise
Part Three: Bernard Williams
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Over three-quarters of night-time economy businesses expect to go bust within a month
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More than three-quarters of night-time economy businesses say they will collapse within a month, according to a new survey.
The research, carried out by Sprout CRM and the Night Time Industries Association (NTIA), found that 75.6% of businesses think they will be closed for good by Christmas as a result of the impact to trade caused by ongoing Coronavirus restrictions imposed by Government.
Over 73% of businesses surveyed have already begun laying off staff, with more than half (65%) already making over 40% of their workforce redundant.
It comes as 99% of England prepares to be plunged into tougher Tier 2 or 3 restrictions from Wednesday (2 December), which will force wet-led night-time economy venues including bars and nightclubs to remain closed, putting hundreds of thousands of jobs at risk.
For the most part, clubs and bars across the UK have been locked down completely since the pandemic first hit in March.
The survey, which received responses from more than 400 businesses within the hospitality and night time economy sector, also further highlighted the growing concerns over rent arrears that have been building across the entire hospitality sector.
Nearly three-quarters (74.4%) of businesses surveyed were commercial tenants, with 77.6% saying they owed over two quarters in rent arrears and were suffering extreme financial hardship.
"[The Government's new tiered restrictions] has led us to believe that they are intentionally aiming to collapse our sector," said Michael Kill, CEO of the NTIA.
"Every town and city across the UK stands to lose valued and much loved venues. This will be another stab in the heart of our town and city centres.
“We stand to lose the cultural institutions and amazing workforce of professionals that the UK are renowned for globally. Our clubs, bars, venues, security, freelancers, staff, managers, DJ’s and many more will lose their livelihoods and continue to suffer financial hardship without Government intervention."
In a direct appeal to the Prime Minister, Kill added: "Mr Johnson, what are you doing to save the lives and livelihoods of the many businesses and workers within the night time economy, businesses that have been closed since March and are continuing to suffer?
"They have staff and freelancers that will lose their jobs irrespective of furlough because the businesses won’t survive.
“I hope you are sleeping well at night because thousands within our sector are struggling to sleep, in fear of their future.”
Bosses from some of the UK's biggest night-time economy operators were expected to be meeting with Business Secretary Alok Sharma last week in an attempt to secure a potential lifeline for the sector, but it is understood that meeting was delayed.
In recent weeks, Britain's biggest nightclub operator Deltic has warned landlords that the company faces collapse unless a sale is agreed imminently.
Meanwhile, Revolution Bars announced earlier this month that it had launched a Company Voluntary Arrangement (CVA) that will lead to the permanent closure of six of its 76 sites.
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‘World’s largest’ cycling database launched
Rebecca Morley 1st August 2019 Landscape
Transport for London (TfL) has launched the Cycling Infrastructure Database, the “world’s largest” database of cycling infrastructure which will help to make cycling in London easier and more tailored to people’s needs.
The database contains the details of all 240,000 pieces of cycling infrastructure in London, such as cycle parking spaces and cycle lanes.
TfL research has shown that many people feel uncomfortable about setting off on a cycle journey without knowing what to expect, particularly when it comes to finding a place to park or a protected cycle lane.
To create the database, TfL surveyed every street in every London borough to collect data on all 146,000 cycle parking spaces across London, as well as gathering information on 2,000 kilometres of cycle lanes, 960 traffic filters and 58,000 wayfinding signs. The database also contains 480,000 photographs of cycling infrastructure, allowing users to see exactly what can be found on the street and where.
The database has now been made available to London boroughs and has also been released as open data for third-party developers. The data has already been used to upgrade TfL’s own Journey Planner, meaning that people using the planner for cycle journeys can now see the nearest and most convenient place to park for every journey.
Third-party developers will be able to use the data for their own journey planning tools, which will make it simpler for Londoners to plan cycle journeys using their preferred apps. TfL will invite app developers to a ‘hackathon’ later this year to explore ways to use the data to make cycling simpler and easier for more Londoners.
The database will also make it possible for TfL and the boroughs to plan future investment in cycling effectively. The database has already been used to develop TfL’s Cycle Parking Implementation Plan, which last month set out how TfL will work with partners across the capital to invest £2.5 million in new cycle parking across London, targeting areas of highest demand.
Will Norman, London’s walking and cycling commissioner, said: “Last year London saw the quickest growth in cycling journeys on record, but we must continue to do everything we can to make cycling easy and convenient for everyone. TfL’s Cycling Infrastructure Database is the biggest collection of cycling information anywhere in the world and has the potential to transform the way we think about cycling. It means that wherever you live or work in the capital you can properly plan your journey from beginning to end, knowing the quickest and safest route through every London neighbourhood.
“With the open data being available to councils, developers, policymakers and anyone who wants it, it will be a really useful tool for planning new cycling investment in years to come.”
Christina Calderato, TfL’s head of planning, added: “We’re investing record amounts in cycling as we see the number of people cycling in the capital continuing to increase year on year. The Cycling Infrastructure Database will make it easier for people in London to plan their journeys, allowing people to set off from home knowing where they can park at their destination. The data will also help us to work with the boroughs and invest in cycling where it is needed most.”
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We were so lucky he was diagnosed when he was – BBC News
A mother whose eight-year-old son was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes has urged parents to be alert to symptoms.
Trudi, from Chepstow, said first she suspected Harrison might have been struggling with lockdown.
But when she took him to the doctor thinking he might have a urine infection, he was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes.
Official figures show the number of children presenting with symptoms in Wales fell by almost a third during the pandemic.
If left untreated, children with type 1 diabetes can develop life-threatening diabetic ketoacidosis.
“We were so lucky that he was diagnosed about a week or so before most children are diagnosed, when the symptoms get a lot worse,” Trudi said.
Symptoms can include increased thirst, use of the toilet, tiredness and weight loss.
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Will CFA Become The New MBA Or Masters In Finance?
As CFA gains ground with finance employers, industry experts question the relevance of business school degrees.
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The MBA has been the choice degree for many hoping to work in finance but a rival three-letter qualification is pushing the business school staple to lose some of its lustre.
The rapid rise in the number of students taking the CFA examinations at Levels I, II and III has called into question the need for a full-time finance degree.
Some financial sector experts argue that students who have completed all three levels of the CFA exams and become chartered financial analysts have an advantage over those with an MBA or Masters in Finance.
“It dominates the MBA in the finance sector,” says Steven Young, head of the accounting and finance department at Lancaster University Management School.
The CFA qualification is being helped by growth in the number of charter holders. More than 160,000 candidates took CFA exams through 2014, up from around 50,000 in 2003, fuelled by demand from emerging markets.
“In the past two years we’ve seen important growth in the number of students who are interested in the CFA exams,” says Viet Ha Tran, senior associate director for finance programs at IE Business School.
The exclusivity of CFA — data suggest more than half of test takers will fail at each stage of their attempt — and the sheer complexity of what the students have had to study put an employer premium on charter holders.
“Most of the financial institutions are putting their junior employees through CFA training,” says Lancaster’s Steven.
Enthusiasm around the CFA exams is illustrated by the number of employers that have long targeted CFA holders. The top recruiters include JP Morgan Chase, HSBC, UBS and Citi.
“The CFA charter is often listed by hiring firms as a prerequisite for employment,” says Stephen Horan, managing director of credentialing at the CFA Institute.
CFA credentials are particularly sought after by asset managers. Aberdeen Asset Management for example, Europe’s largest listed fund house, requires the CFA or the Investment Management Certificate for some roles.
“Investment managers must prove [that] they can apply technical knowledge within an ethical framework. The CFA program is designed to do just that,” Stephen says.
What sets the CFA qualification apart, he suggests, it that it focuses specifically on investment knowledge — most graduate school programs cover a broad range of topics.
Another key advantage is that the CFA program can be completed alongside a full-time career. MBA programs, comparatively, have traditionally demanded at least 12 months of full-time study.
Then there is the cost. Each stage of a CFA qualification costs about $1,000. By contrast, the price tag of an MBA program at a top institution that requires two years’ study could be well over a hundred thousand dollars.
Where a business school qualification may have the edge, however, is in practicality.
IE’s Viet suggests CFA exams are theoretical, whereas business school programs can look at the same topics from a practical approach by applying concepts into real capital markets situations — a case study method of learning.
Business schools are also renowned for their networking opportunities. Alumni networks are a big benefit to a full-time degree.
Yet the CFA Institute argues it can provide an alternative. There is a global community of more than 130,000 investment professionals that charter holders can tap into, while test takers can become members of one of 140 local CFA member societies “This compares favourably to most alumni networks,” says the CFA Institute’s Stephen.
Many business schools have sought to partner with the CFA Institute and incorporate elements of the program into their degree programs.
For example, the two flagship programs at Warwick Business School — the MSc Finance and MSc Finance & Economics — have CFA-approved syllabuses. “We do not see the CFA as competition but as a partner,” says Alex Stremme, Warwick assistant dean.
At Frankfurt School, the Master of Finance course too is a member of the CFA Institute’s University Recognition Program. “Our students are very attracted by this and many of them sit CFA exams while pursuing their degree,” says Dr Julia Knobbe, program director at Frankfurt.
Increasingly, both sets of qualifications are seen by education providers as complimentary. “The CFA and MBA networks reinforce each other,” says the CFA Institute’s Stephen.
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Ortho Kinematics Receives FDA 510(k) Clearance to Expand into Cervical Spine
Innovative VMA diagnostic technology now available for both back (lumbar) and neck (cervical) assessments
August 15, 2013 08:30 AM Eastern Daylight Time
AUSTIN, Texas--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Ortho Kinematics‚ Inc. (OKI), a privately held healthcare diagnostic company focused on spine imaging informatics, announced receiving 510(k) clearance from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to expand the VMA (Vertebral Motion Analysis) system beyond the lumbar spine, so that the system can be available for cervical spine (neck) assessments as well.
The VMA system is a revolutionary new diagnostic technology that is an alternative to a test that has been routinely prescribed for the assessment of spinal instability for over 70 years. Spinal instability is a condition that very often results in severe back and neck pain, and is the number one most common primary diagnosis driving the 500,000+ spine fusion surgeries done in the US each year.
The VMA offers patients and physicians considering spine surgery a valuable testing alternative, and has been shown in clinical studies to identify spinal instability that may be difficult to detect. As a result, VMA testing can help doctors identify a very common and treatable pathology that may be difficult to detect with the currently available test.
Paul Gunnoe, CEO of Ortho Kinematics, Inc., said, “For many lumbar patients, VMA testing has made the difference in getting the right diagnosis to successfully treat unrelenting, debilitating back pain. With the clearance of the cervical VMA system, we are very happy to now offer this same opportunity to patients with neck problems as well.”
Dr. David Lee, a spine surgeon user of the VMA lumbar system, said, “I have seen for myself cases where the VMA has been the only test capable of providing the evidence demanded by insurance companies to approve coverage for lumbar surgery. With the new cervical system, I can now offer this valuable option to my neck pain patients as well.”
VMA testing is now available at a select set of leading spine surgery centers. A large scale national roll-out is scheduled for early 2014.
About Ortho Kinematics
Ortho Kinematics is a privately held diagnostic technology company, focused on spine imaging informatics and committed to the idea that spine motion matters. The company is working with a group of leading clinicians, researchers and developers who are passionate about leveraging spine biomechanical data to improve the diagnosis and treatment of back pain. Ortho Kinematics is located in Austin, Texas and is on the web at www.orthokinematics.com. For more information contact Ortho Kinematics, Inc. at info@orthokinematics.com.
Ortho Kinematics‚ Inc.
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Ortho Kinematics's innovative VMA diagnostic technology expands with FDA 510(k) clearance to include neck (cervical) assessments.
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TORONTO, Feb. 05, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Angus Ventures Inc. (TSX-V: GUS) (“Angus” or the “Company”) is pleased to announce that it has closed the acquisition of all of the interests of Talisker Gold Corp. (“Talisker”) in option agreements with IAMGOLD Corporation (“IAMGOLD”) and Exiro Minerals Corporation (“Exiro”) in consideration for cash payment of $22,501 (the “Acquisition of Option Agreements”). The Acquisition of Option Agreements constitutes a part of the transaction between the Company and Talisker (the “Transaction”) described in the Company’s press release dated December 27, 2019. The remaining part of the Transaction, the acquisition of Talisker’s 100%-owned claims, is subject to approval of the TSX Venture Exchange and is expected to close in the next few weeks.
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Pursuant to the Acquisition of Option Agreements Angus acquired the following interests:IAMGOLD Corporation
The right to earn a 100% interest in 202 mining claims from IAMGOLD’s Mishi Property, representing 37.9-square-kilometres. Angus may earn a 100% interest in the Mishi Property by spending an aggregate of $1,500,000 on exploration expenditures before September 25, 2023.Exiro Minerals Corporation
The right to earn a 100% interest in 188 mining claims from Exiro totaling 40.5-square-kilometres (the “Exiro Claims”) by making cash payments of $20,000 and issuing $45,000 of Angus shares (the “Exiro Option Agreement”).As per the Exiro Option Agreement, Angus paid $20,000 and issued 182,700 common shares to Exiro to complete the 100% earn-in interest in the Exiro Claims. The claims are subject to a 2% NSR in favour of Exiro. The common shares issued were based on the 20-day VWAP of Angus’s common shares on the TSX Venture Exchange ending on the last trading day prior the execution of the agreement with Exiro. The securities issued have a hold period of four months and one day from closing.About Angus Ventures:
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Just the Facts: Charter school admission
(This is the fourth in a series of posts clearing up misconceptions that opponents of school choice are spreading in the capitol and across the state.)
The facts are clear when it comes to charter school enrollment. Charter schools are public schools that are open to ANY student who lives in the school’s attendance zone.
That means that charter schools, unlike some public magnet schools, cannot pick and choose the makeup of their student body in any way.
If you are a student with special needs and apply to a charter school, then the school has to accept you if they have open seats and they must provide you with all the services mandated by federal regulations.
If you are a low income student experiencing increased mobility and apply to a charter school then the school has to accept if they have open seats.
If you are a student who has fallen behind and do not have a stellar academic record and apply to a charter school then the school has to accept you if they have open seats.
If you are English Language Learner (ELL) student and apply to a charter school they have to accept you if they have open seats.
See a pattern?
Public charter schools in Missouri must accept any student in their district that applies if the school has open seats.
In fact, in 2017, 12 percent of students in St. Louis charter schools and 9 percent of students in Kansas City charter schools were students with special needs. Twenty percent of students in Kansas City charter schools were ELL students and nine percent of students in St. Louis charter schools were ELL students in 2017.
What happens when too many students apply?
Frequently, a charter school has more applicants than they have seats for, and when that happens state law lays out a clear process for students to be accepted in an equitable way.
Schools can give some preference for students who live a geographical area around a school as long as it does not isolate the school racially or socioeconomically. Schools can also give enrollment preference to siblings of currently enrolled students and children of school employees.
When faced with too many applicants after these preferences have been taken into account, a charter school then chooses applicants through a lottery system which guarantees equal access to the school for all children.
This process is called a lottery and results in final enrollment offers being selected through a verified random process.
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CEU InnovationsLab Company Talk-A-Bot to Participate in Hungarian Government-Sponsored Pavilion at CeBIT
Toward the goal of becoming a leader in digital technologies in Europe, Hungary is building its largest pavilion ever at the CeBIT conference, which starts in Hannover March 20, and CEU InnovationsLab company Talk-A-Bot will be one of the exhibitors as a successful innovative startup. Talk-A-Bot represented the 18 Hungarian companies participating in CeBIT at a press conference held today by Hungarian government spokesperson Zoltan Kovacs and government project manager Tamas Deutsch.
CEU to Create New Department Building on Business and Economics Education
In response to changing patterns in business education globally and the evolving needs of our students, Central European University is creating a new Department, building on the combined strengths of the current Business School and Economics Department. The new Department will welcome its first cohort of master’s and doctoral students in the 2017-18 academic year.
Flow Theory-Based Management Education Transformed by Simulation Gaming, Csikszentmihalyi Says at CEU Business School
Flow theory and management education will be transformed by the learning and research potential of the online management simulation game FLIGBY, said Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, author of the seminal book Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience, speaking at CEU Business School in Budapest Nov. 9. Analysis of the vast amounts of data collected in the cloud by tens of thousands of online players will provide important insight into decision-making and management behavior, he said.
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Traffic and travel recap: M25 Dartford Crossing delays, QE2 Bridge likely to be closed into afternoon
We've been bringing you all the latest traffic and travel information
Katy Hallam
Good morning, and welcome back to the live blog bringing you all the latest travel information.
M25 Dartford crossing
A crash on the M25 has completely shut the Queen Elizabeth Bridge at the Dartford crossing.
The accident happened between Junction 31 on the A1306 at West Thurrock and Junction 1A on the A206 at Swanscombe.
As a result, the M25 QE2 Bridge clockwise has completely closed and traffic is being diverted.
Damage to the overhead wires at Welwyn North has been fixed and all lines between Stevenage and London Kings Cross / Moorgate have reopened.
Great Northern trains
A damaged overhead wire has caused disruption to Great Northern trains.
As trains return to normal, some services may be delayed by up to 60 minutes, cancelled or revised. We anticipate this disruption to continue until approximately noon.
For the latest news on the accidents and congestion on major roads, including the A14 , M11 and A1, that might affect your route into work, check out the updates as they happen below.
Delays and cancellations on the trains, affecting commuters heading into and out of London, and across Cambridgeshire, will also be updated in the blog.
We will also be reporting on flight cancellations and delays to affect Stansted Airport.
And, we'll also be bringing you the latest news and sport from around the city, and across the country, as well as the best of What's On in the region.
Let us know if you spot anything that may affect your morning commute to work - send us a tweet @CambridgeNewsUK or write a post on our Facebook page.
QE2 bridge now open 14:40
Horrific M25 Dartford Crossing video shows crash aftermath 14:27
Everything we know about the M25 Dartford crossing crash 11:13
M25: Woman seriously injured, man arrested - Kent Police 09:00
The M25 is closed clockwise after a crash at the Dartford crossing 08:52
QE2 bridge now open
Horrific M25 Dartford Crossing video shows crash aftermath
Everything we know about the M25 Dartford crossing crash
Pictures people at Cambridge station after being told a train to London was cancelled
Cambridge railway station queues
There’s considerable delays and cancellations still - lots of people trying to get into London at Cambridge
Great Northern - here's the damage to the overhead wires at Welwyn North (which have now been fixed)
The damaged overhead wire at Welwyn
Great Northern - major disruption expected until noon
Here’s a statement from Great Northern:
As trains return to normal, some services may be delayed by up to 60 minutes, cancelled or revised. We anticipate this disruption to continue until approximately 12:00.
Advice for Great Northern Customers:
Rail replacement buses are supplementing the rail service between Stevenage and Welwyn Garden City calling at Knebworth and Welwyn North, in both directions.
You may also use your ticket on Greater Anglia, Thameslink and Virgin Trains East Coast services via any reasonable route.
To help you plan your journey to your destination or to a nearby station via alternative means. An alternative route map is available here.
Advice for Virgin Trains East Coast Customers:
Train services running to and from these stations may be cancelled, delayed by up to 60 minutes or diverted via Hertford North.
You may use your tickets on:
East Midlands Trains via any reasonable route
Great Northern services between Peterborough and London Kings Cross
A map showing alternative route options can be found here.
Advice for Grand Central and Hull Trains Customers
Trains are now able to run via the East Coast Main Line, however due to congestion may be delayed by up to 60 minutes.
M25: Woman seriously injured, man arrested - Kent Police
A Kent Police spokesman said:
Our officers are at the #Dartford Crossing due to a serious collision.
We were called at 4.42am today to a report of a collision involving two vehicles on the southbound Dartford River Crossing.
We are at the scene and one person has been taken to a London hospital by land ambulance with serious injuries.
The bridge is closed while the emergency services deal with the incident and a diversion is in place through the east tunnel and is likely to remain until at least midday.
Traffic is much heavier in the area than usual. One man has been arrested on suspicion of dangerous driving and remains in custody at this time.
M25: Essex Police statement
Please read if you are planning to make the journey over to #Kent today.
Following a collision on the A282 #DartfordCrossing #QE2 bridge this morning, we are assisting Kent Police and are advising #Essex residents that there is heavy congestion around the area.
The bridge will be closed for a number of hours, and although traffic is being diverted using contraflow in the Tunnels, you may want to avoid making the journey today, or consider another route.
Please listen carefully to the advice of our officers, who are on scene to ensure everyone’s safety.
We’ll advise as soon as there are any updates to share.
M25: motorists facing delays of over three hours
Commuters on travelling on the M25 could be facing delays of over three hours after an earlier crash shut the Queen Elizabeth Bridge.
The incident is not expected to clear until at least 11.30am.
The M25 is closed clockwise after a crash at the Dartford crossing
A crash on the M25 has completely shut the Queen Elizabeth Bridge.
Disruption on Piccadilly line
All services are running well on the London Underground this morning, apart from the Piccadilly line.
There are severe delays between Acton Town and Heathrow/Uxbridge due to an earlier signal failure at King’s Cross.
Minor delays on the rest of the line.
Tickets are valid on local buses, Great Northern and Greater Anglia.
Delays on Greater Anglia trains
The 8:10am Cambridge to Norwich is now due to arrive at 9.30am.
The delay has been caused because of damage to overhead electric wires.
The train will also now call additionally at Waterbeach.
Delays on M11
There are delays on the M11 this morning because of an accident which are also not being helped by a lane closure on the motorway.
The delays are near the junction for the A14/M1 eastbound.
Eastbound traffic is affected between Bar Hill and the M11.
Welcome to today’s traffic and travel live blog.
I’ll be taking a look at the situation on the roads for you first, with a look at some slow traffic near Bar Hill.
CoronavirusCambridgeshire Covid: The tiny Cambridgeshire villages with one of the lowest Covid-19 infection rates There are just five cases in a small group of villages meaning it has one of the lowest infection rates in the country
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CoronavirusThere are just five cases in a small group of villages meaning it has one of the lowest infection rates in the country
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McKinley, Perry, Lake rewriting some records
Josh Weir
Heading into the second round of the OHSAA state playoffs, some football players in the Federal League have done some rewriting of their school's record books.
Here's a quick review of some record-setting numbers from recent weeks:
• McKinley set a school record with 736 yards of offense in last week’s 54-32 playoff win against Berea-Midpark. The 54 points are a playoff-game record for the Bulldogs and the most points they have scored in any game since a 55-35 win at Lake in Week 6 of 2018. Incredibly, McKinley’s 583 yards rushing last week were not a school record. The Bulldogs ran for 617 yards in a 1974 game against Alliance. According to late McKinley historian Charlie Bowersox’s book “103 Days in November,” the 617 yards set a national record at the time. Mani Powell, Rob Jones, Elijah Wesley and Tam Church each broke 100 yards rushing last week, marking the first time McKinley had four 100-yard rushers in a game.
• Perry senior Joshua Lemon is up to 3,201 career rushing yards. He passed the late Tim Laps (3,050) for second on the program’s all-time rushing list during Perry’s Week 6 win at GlenOak. He only trails Keishaun Sims’ 4,810 career yards in school history.
• Lake’s Carson Miller returned a punt and a kickoff for touchdowns during last week’s 37-7 playoff win against Columbus St. Charles. It is believed to be the first time a Blue Streak player did both in the same game.
• Jake Eckels is the first Lake quarterback with consecutive 1,000-yard passing seasons since John Rutan (2003-04).
Reach Josh at josh.weir@cantonrep.com
On Twitter: @jweirREP
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Jay Greenwood of Greater Victoria was 46 when he died at Extreme Air trampoline park in Richmond on Jan. 20, 2018. His two children, who were present when he died, sued the trampoline park and have just received a response to their claim. (Facebook)
Faster response may have prevented fatal outcome at B.C. trampoline park
Coroner’s report rules Greater Victoria father Jay Greenwood’s death accidental
Travis Paterson
The final moments of Jason Greenwood’s life are described as chaotic in the B.C. Coroner’s report that concluded his death at a Richmond trampoline park was an accident.
At 7 p.m. on Jan. 20, 2018, Greenwood’s fatal jump and the subsequent events at Extreme Air Park were captured on a family camera and also on the park’s video surveillance.
Greenwood’s partner and children were there to experience the tragedy.
The video shows “Greenwood ran up a short ramp which led to a trampoline, and that he jumped off the trampoline by doing a forward flip and landed in the foam pit head first,” the report noted. “When Greenwood did not surface from beneath the foam his family jumped in the pit and attempted to dig through the foam to locate him.”
READ ALSO: Family sues Richmond trampoline park for negligence in death of B.C. dad
He was found upside down with his feet above his body. The bottom of the 4.5-foot deep foam pit is another trampoline surface. There was a debate as to whether or not to remove him from the pit. The initial scene was chaotic with a dozen or more people in and out of the foam pit and people still playing nearby, unaware of the tragedy unfolding.
Even with staff and bystanders removing as much foam from the pit as possible for an easier extraction, it was 21 minutes by the time Richmond firefighters were able to extract him. He was in cardiac arrest and resuscitation efforts were made.
Greenwood was transported by ambulance to Vancouver General Hospital where he was diagnosed with a cervical spine injury that stopped his breathing and caused “severe hypoxic ischemic brain injury.”
In July, Technical Safety BC made a recommendation to the province that trampoline parks be regulated and the coroner agreed. The report noted none of the three staff on hand that day were trained in First Aid or CPR and that a “more timely medical aid response with respiratory support may have prevented a fatal outcome.”
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Secret Triathlon
2019 Legislative Report
DISABILITY ISSUES IN THE 2019 LEGISLATURE
Jim Jackson, DRNM Public Policy Associate
(See page 6 for a list of abbreviations used in this report.)
Clean sweep! Governor signs every disability bill. Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham signed into law everydisability-related bill that was passed in this year’s legislative session. It’s a dramatic change from the last 60-day session in 2017, when then-Governor Martinez vetoed 2/3 of the disability bills we followed that had been passed by the Legislature. A summary of all of the bills signed into law by the governor is shown below. A recap of bills and memorials that did notpass this year begins on page 4.
Governor Lujan Grisham highlighted HB 322, expanding insurance coverage for individuals with autism, by signing it into law at a ceremony held at the Center for Development and Disability at UNM. She and Rep. Liz Thomson, the bill’s sponsor, addressed the large crowd that had gathered to support the signing and celebrate World Autism Awareness Day.
Only 28 bills were vetoed by the governor, and none of them were disability-related.
Budget bills signed into law. HB 2, the state budget bill, was signed into law with only a few vetoes. One of those vetoes eliminated $40 million that had been earmarked for “public/private partnerships”, funding that was contingent on the passage of legislation authorizing such projects. That bill failed to pass. None of the funding for any health or human services programs was affected by vetoes. The two “HB 2 Junior” bills – HB 548 and SB 536 – were also signed into law, although various items in each bill were vetoed, and a few of those involved disability-related appropriations as noted below.
Governor’s Action on Bills that Passed in the 2019 Legislative Session
The State Budget
HB 2General Appropriation Act. Rep. Patty Lundstrom. This is the overall state budget bill, which appropriates funding to all state agencies. Signed into law with a few line-item vetoes. The bill includes:
About $52 million in additional funding for the Medicaid program.
About $20 million in additional funding for DD programs at the Department of Health.
A one-time appropriation of $2.5 million to HSD for behavioral health services
HB 548 (“House Bill 2 Junior” for House members). Signed into law with line-item vetoes. This bill includes funding for home modifications, behavioral health, a study of sexual assault on people with disabilities, fostering friendships in schools between students with and without disabilities, and autism services. Two appropriations in the bill earmarked for teen mental illness and suicide prevention were narrowed by vetoes to focus only on suicide prevention. None of the other vetoes affected funding for disability services.
SB 536 (“House Bill 2 Junior” for senators). Signed into law with line-item vetoes.This bill includes funding for civil legal services, a review of the Children’s Code, planning for a Medicaid buy-in program, assistive technology and home modifications, waiver and early childhood services, the sexual assault study, dyslexia screenings, telehealth crisis intervention, autism services, and brain injury services. The governor vetoed a one-time appropriation of $150,000 for early intervention services that was specifically earmarked for La Vida Felicidad, a disability provider agency; she left in place a one-time appropriation of another $150,000 for DD waiver services but vetoed the language that earmarked the appropriation specifically for La Vida Felicidad.
Substantive Bills Signed into Law
HB 5 Education changes. Rep. Sheryl Williams Stapleton. Enacts various changes to education policy and funding processes, including higher teacher salaries, funding for extended school time, more professional development time, and requirements that school districts report on how they spend the funds they generate based on special education enrollment. The cost of implementing the bill is included in HB 2. Same as SB 1, below.
HB 43Behavioral health interventions for non-violent offenders. Rep. Sheryl Williams Stapleton. Charges HSD with developing a method for meeting the needs of non-violent offenders with behavioral health diagnoses when they are in jail or prison and to connect them with supports and services when they are released, to reduce recidivism. HSD would be required to set up a grant program for counties seeking funds to implement the program. HB 2 includes $2.5 million for this as a “special” (one-time) appropriation.
HB 48Training on assisted listening technology. Rep. Patricia Roybal Caballero. Requires audiologists and other hearing aid dispensers to provide information about assisted listening systems.
HB 72 Occupational therapy practice act. Rep. Liz Thomson. Updates the OT practice act to reflect current standards and practices.
HB 81Limiting co-pays for therapy services. Rep. Eliseo Alcon. Limits the co-pays that insurance companies charge for occupational therapy, physical therapy, or speech/language therapy to the amounts they charge for primary care visits.
HB 248Blocking accessible parking spaces. Rep. Martin Zamora. Makes it unlawful to park a motor vehicle in such a way that it blocks access to an accessible parking space, and establishes a fine of $250 to $500 for violations (the same as illegally parking in an accessible space).
HB 267 Info sharing and local councils. Rep. Daymon Ely. Allows for information sharing without individual consent for research purposes or for continuity of care for persons with mental illness or developmental disabilities who are entering or being discharged from criminal justice facilities.
HB 285Short-term and limited-benefit insurance plans. Rep. Micaela Cadena. Establishes state standards for these plans and authorizes the Superintendent of Insurance to regulate them.
HB 322Autism insurance coverage. Rep. Liz Thomson. Prohibits health insurance companies and the Medicaid program from imposing age limits or expense caps on covered services for persons with autism. Such limits are prohibited by the federal Affordable Care Act but are still being imposed in both private insurance and the Medicaid program.
HB 342Criminal justice reforms. Rep. Antonio Maestas. One part of this omnibus bill directs HSD to develop a method for meeting the needs of persons with behavioral health diagnoses when they are in jail or prison and to connect them with supports and services when they are released (very similar to HB 43, above).
HB 364Limiting solitary confinement. Rep. Antonio Maestas. Prohibits jails and prisons from placing persons known to have serious mental disabilities, or who are exhibiting obvious signs of such disabilities, in solitary confinement (“restricted housing”), with some exceptions. This prohibition would not apply during the first five days of detention. The bill also forbids use of solitary confinement for juveniles and pregnant women.
HB 429 Increasing income limits for property tax limitation. Rep. Bill Rehm. Current law sets limits on increases of property taxes for low- to moderate-income homeowners who are elderly or have severe disabilities. This bill increases the income cap to qualify for the limitation from $32,000 to $35,000.
HB 436Incorporate ACA protections into state law. Rep. Liz Thomson. Amends New Mexico law to include many of the provisions of the federal Affordable Care Act, such as prohibiting denial of coverage based on pre-existing conditions, barring higher premiums based on a person’s disability, requiring coverage of essential health benefits, eliminating co-pays for preventive services, etc.
SB 1Education changes. Sen. Mimi Stewart. Same as HB 5, above.
SB 41 Medicaid providers due process. Sen. Mary Kay Papen. Provides procedural protections for Medicaid providers accused of fraud, to avoid a repeat of the type of disruption caused by the termination of behavioral health providers that occurred in 2013.
SB 42 Expanding the use of “silver alerts”. Sen. Richard Martinez. Expands these alerts to include endangered missing persons of any age who have dementia, and to all endangered missing persons over 50 years old. It also expands the dissemination of such alerts.
SB 48 Diabetes management in schools. Sen. Mimi Stewart. Requires training of public school staff in diabetes management, requires school personnel to provide diabetes management services in conjunction with an approved plan for individual students, and allows students to self-manage their diabetes in school settings.
SB 85Domestic worker minimum wage. Sen. Liz Stefanics. Repeals a provision of state law that excludes “domestic workers” from minimum wage protections. This would assure that personal care workers, among others, would be paid at least the state minimum wage, and that the Department of Workforce Solutions would enforce their rights to such wages.
SB123Using sick leave for caregiving. Sen. Michael Padilla. Allows employees of private businesses as well as state and public school employees who have accumulated sick leave provided by their employer to use such leave to care for an ailing family member. .
SB 128 Behavioral health clinic funding. Sen. Mary Kay Papen. Would allow behavioral health clinics in rural or other underserved areas, if owned by a county or municipality, to access funding from the Behavioral Health Capital Fund for construction, repair or remodeling.
SB 179Lottery scholarship eligibility. Sen. Liz Stefanics. Extends lottery scholarship eligibility to students with disabilities who had to attend an out-of-state high school in order to receive a free, appropriate education (as required by the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act), if they graduated from an accredited school.
SB 189 Parking placards for disability agencies. Sen. Sander Rue. Allows agencies that own or lease vehicles used to transport individuals with disabilities to obtain parking placards for those vehicles, allowing them to be parked in accessible parking.
SB 204Medical marijuana in schools. Sen. Candace Gould. Directs public schools to allow parents/guardians or designated school personnel to store and administer medical marijuana in the school if the child is certified to receive it under state law because of the child’s medical condition, but allows schools to opt out of this requirement in certain circumstances. These provisions are also included in SB 406, below.
SB 229School support and accountability. Sen. Mimi Stewart. Repeals the A-B-C-D-F school rating system and replaces it with a new set of criteria for rating schools. Reports on school performance would have to include data specific to students with disabilities.
SB 236 2ndfree license plate for disabled veterans. Sen. Ron Griggs. Allows disabled veterans to obtain two free specialty licenses plates rather than one as allowed under current law.
SB 395Guardianship reforms. Sen. James White. Clarifies the right of allegedly incapacitated persons to participate, present evidence, and cross-examine witnesses during court hearings. Strengthens the requirement for a court review of existing guardianships at least every ten years by allowing the appointment of an investigator to assess the person’s capacity and to report to the court on the need for continuing guardianship. Requires professional guardians and conservators to be certified and in good standing with a national or state certifying organization. Deletes an existing provision giving guardians of adults all the same rights as a parent of a minor child.
SB 398Screening and services to children with dyslexia. Sen. Mimi Stewart. Requires all school districts to screen first-grade children for possible dyslexia, and to develop and implement a literacy training program for all elementary school teachers. Funding for this initiative is provided in SB 536.
SB 406 Medical marijuana changes. Sen. Jerry Ortiz y Pino. This bill makes a variety of changes to state law related to medical marijuana, including:
Allowing for administration of medical marijuana in schools (same as SB 204, above)
Adding numerous medical conditions that would qualify for medical marijuana
Extending the length of time for which a medical certification card is valid to three years, while still requiring an annual physician’s statement of continuing eligibility
Extending legal immunity under state law for additional activities related to the production and transportation of medical marijuana
Strengthening employment protections for employees who use medical marijuana, provided they are not in a safety-sensitive position and do not use it during work hours.
Memorials That Passed in the 2019 Session
Memorials do not carry the force of law and are not subject to approval or veto by the governor
HM 12CP Task Force. Rep. Liz Thomson. Extends and expands an existing task force promoting implementation of new techniques for early detection of cerebral palsy.
Review: Bills and Memorials That Did NotPass in the 2019 Session
HB 59 Non-discrimination against art therapists. Rep. Christine Trujillo.
HB 61Study sexual assault of persons with disabilities. Rep. Christine Trujillo. HB 548 includes $50,000 and SB 536 includes $100,000 for this purpose.
HB 68 Reduce the DD Waiver waiting list. Rep. Liz Thomson. There is $7.5 million for the waiting list in HB 2.
HB 69 Early detection of cerebral palsy. Rep. Liz Thomson. HM 12, extending an existing task force working on this issue, passed the Legislature.
HB 70Health insurance coverage of prosthetics and orthotics. Rep. Liz Thomson.
HB 82 Home rehab for veterans. Rep. Eliseo Alcon. There is $110,000 non-recurring and $17,500 recurring funds in HB 548 for this purpose.
HB 83 Extreme risk protection orders. Rep. Daymon Ely.
HB 88Health care value & access commission. Rep. Debbie Armstrong.
HB 90 Aid in dying. Rep. Debbie Armstrong.
HB 96 Blind parents’ rights. Rep. Tomas Salazar.
HB 136Voluntary driver registry. Rep. Liz Thomson.
HB 142Pre-existing condition exclusions. Rep. Patricia Roybal Caballero.
HB 143 Personal care services rate and wage increase. Rep. Christine Trujillo. HB 2 includes an increase of $6.76 million for Medicaid. Some of that funding is to be used to raise rates for personal care services, and HSD staff indicate that some of this will be required to be passed through to increase wages for direct care workers.
HB 153 Suicide awareness training. Rep. Patricio Ruiloba. HB 548 includes $100,000 non-recurring and $40,000 recurring funds for this purpose.
HB 209Car registration fee waiver. Rep. Miguel Garcia.
HB 213 Family and medical leave program. Rep. Patricia Roybal Caballero.
HB 243Instructional opportunities for children with hearing impairment. Rep. Dayan Hochman-Vigil.
HB 245Accessibility icon on specialty plates. Rep. Dayan Hochman-Vigil.
HB 264 Family and medical leave program. Rep. Christine Chandler.
HB 295Health Security Act. Rep. Debbie Armstrong.
HB 348Emergency MH evaluations and restrictions on release of information. Rep. James Strickler.
HB 354Autism diagnosis and services. Rep. Liz Thomson. HB 548 includes $350,000, and SB 536 includes $580,000 for this purpose.
HB 414 Notice of nursing home closures. Rep. Susan Herrera.
HB 416Medicaid buy-in. Rep. Debbie Armstrong. SB 536 includes $132,000 to plan for a buy-in program.
HB 422DDPC membership and duties. Rep. Joanne Ferrary.
HB 483Zoning accommodations for casitas for family members with disabilities. Rep. Gregg Schmedes.
HB 500CYFD authority over boot camps. Rep. Micaela Cadena.
HB 510School bus attendants for students with disabilities. Rep. Natalie Figueroa.
HB 532Friendships and inclusion. Rep. Joanne Ferrary. HB 548 includes $100,000 for this purpose.
HB 563Behavioral health services in Albuquerque’s international district. Rep. Sheryl Williams Stapleton. HB 548 includes $50,000 for this purpose.
HB 567Students in need of accommodations. Rep. Javier Martinez.
HB 591Mental, emotional and social health education. Rep. Joy Garratt.
HB 615Mental health training for school personnel. Rep. Raymundo Lara. HB 548 includes $30,000 for this purpose.
HB 642ALS support. Rep. Antonio Maestas.
HM 75Educational stability for foster children. Rep. Patricio Ruiloba.
HJM 15School bus safety task force. Rep. Natalie Figueroa.
HJR 3Low-income property tax exemption. Rep. Miguel Garcia.
SB 46 Home rehab for veterans. Sen. Richard Martinez. There is $110,000 non-recurring and $17,500 recurring funds in HB 548 for this purpose.
SB 101 Health care value & access commission. Sen. Jeff Steinborn.
SB 112 Limiting insurance policy changes. Sen. Liz Stefanics.
SB 134 Brain injury fund appropriation. Sen. Jerry Ortiz y Pino.
SB 139 Funding for GCD programs. Sen. Jerry Ortiz y Pino. There is $150,000 in SB 536 for this purpose.
SB 141Interstate psychology compact. Sen. Jerry Ortiz y Pino.
SB 152MH/DD Code grievance procedure. Sen. Liz Stefanics.
SB 153Aid in dying. Sen. Liz Stefanics.
SB 171Brain injury fee increase. Sen. Bill Tallman.
SB 185Monitoring neurological disorders. Sen. Jeff Steinborn. SB 536 includes $100,000 for this purpose.
SB 206 Accessibility icon on specialty plates. Sen. Mark Moores.
SB 220Increasing income limits for property tax limitation. Sen. Peter Wirth. Same as HB 429, which passed.
SB 250 Rural wrap-around services. Sen. Mary Kay Papen.
SB 279Health Security Act. Sen. Carlos Cisneros.
SB 327 Non-waiver of fine supporting BI fund. Sen. Cliff Pirtle.
SB 334 AOT Funding. Sen. Mary Kay Papen. HB 2 includes $200,000 for this purpose.
SB 355DD provider rate increases. Sen. Nancy Rodriguez. HB 2 includes $1.6 million for this purpose.
SB 405Medicaid buy-in. Sen. Jerry Ortiz y Pino. SB 536 includes $132,000 to plan for a buy-in program
SB 467Students in need of accommodations. Sen. Linda Lopez.
SB 495Add members to BH Collaborative. Sen. Jerry Ortiz y Pino.
SB 570Crisis intervention through Project Echo. Sen. Jacob Candelaria. HB 2 includes $150,000, and SB 536 includes another $150,000 for this purpose.
SB 583Limiting psychotropic medications. Sen. Bill Tallman.
SB 611Train school personnel re special needs students. Sen. Linda Lopez.
SB 612Special education reform. Sen. Linda Lopez.
SB 630Special education loans for service. Sen. Linda Lopez.
SM 22 Sexual assault task force. Sen. Linda Lopez.
SM 25Medically fragile waiver task force. Sen. Liz Stefanics.
SM 125 Study health care value and access commission. Sen. Jeff Steinborn.
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HB House Bill SB Senate Bill
HM House Memorial SM Senate Memorial
HJM House Joint Memorial SJM Senate Joint Memorial
CYFD Children, Youth and Families Department
DDPC Developmental Disabilities Planning Council
DOH Department of Health
GCD Governor’s Commission on Disability
HSD Human Services Department
PED Public Education Department
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Design, animate and produce the branding and graphics for a new Saturday night show in which five couples go head to head on a series of driving and quizzing challenges.
Design Loop Creative
Client BBC In-house Entertainment
Brief Design, animate and produce the branding and graphics for a new Saturday night show in which five couples go head to head on a series of driving and quizzing challenges.
How it was done The graphics package included opening titles, stings and gameplay graphics, as well as car decals and imitation trackside advertising. The show’s logo was required to feel epic in scale and have the high production values of a big shiny-floor show, but also establish that this was set outside of the usual studio environment. Cinema 4D and After Effects were used to create the on-screen graphics, while the artwork for the physical props was created in Photoshop and Illustrator.Design and art direction was completed by Loop creative director Keith Livingstone.
Watch it Saturdays, 6.50pm, BBC1
The company believes the move allows it to share the risks of building and upgrading production capabilities
It is future-proofed, with the option of moving to HDR
Three new members join the company to operate the system
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Montana Real Estate in Broadus
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Broadus, Montana…. Located 170 miles southeast of Billings, Montana and just 150 miles northwest of rapid City , South Dakota. Broadus is the powder River County seat and servers as the support system to the ranching community. Situated along the beautiful tree lined Powder River. Broadus is just an 1 1/2 hours from the spectacular Black Hills of South Dakota and 1 1/2 hours from the historic Little Big Horn Battlefield (formerly Custer’s Battlefield).
Broadus features a school system which offers K-12, a clinic, nursing home, beauty shops, golf course, grocery and clothing stores, and paved airport. Visit the museum, establishments offering fine food, motels and bed & breakfasts. Come watch a move, our annual wagon train, rodeos and much more….
Year around wild game abounds, making it a prime spot for photographers, family outings and hunting. With hundreds of thousands of acres of National Forest and BLM in the region, along with private ranches and hundreds of miles of accessible roads there’s no end to your scenic pleasure.
Broadus was awarded the prestigious Governor’s Tourism Town of the year, 1999. Broadus, Montana maintains it’s Western Flair and strong sense of community. Broadus is indeed “One of the Last Best Places”
Broadus Facts; Broadus has a population of 826 and the average household income in Broadus is $36,843. Residents of Broadus enjoy 20.7 degree weather in the month of January and 72 degree weather in the month of July. The median age in Broadus is 43.13 and the average household size in Broadus is 2.34
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Lions PAW Before & After School Program
School Reports, Inspections and Federal Laws
Gifted Advisory Council
Supply List by Grade Level
After School Enrichment Program
Transition to Upper School
District Reading Book Lists
Grade Level Information
BCPS High School Federal Graduation Rate Increases to 89%
Broward County Public Schools’ (BCPS) graduation rate for the 2019/20 school year is its highest since the graduation baseline was established in 2011. The Federal Graduation Rate (includes traditional high schools, centers and charter schools) for BCPS increased to 89.4%, which is nearly 18 percentage points higher than in 2010/11. The graduation rate for traditional District high schools only (excludes centers and charter schools) increased 2 percentage points to 97.1% in 2019/20, compared to the prior year.
Note: Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, state assessments were not administered in the 2019/20 school year. High school seniors who had not yet met the state’s high-stakes testing graduation assessment criteria were exempted by the state from meeting those specific requirements. All other requirements for graduation still had to be met to earn a diploma.
Additional highlights:
BCPS 2019/20 Federal Graduation Rate of 89.4% is the highest since the Federal Uniform Graduation Rate was adopted in 2010/11 and marks an increase of 3 percentage points from 2018/19 (86.2%).
Graduation rates increased among the following subgroups compared to 2018/19: Black or African American students (86.5%, a 4.9 percentage point increase), Hispanic students (90.0%, a 3.1 percentage point increase) and white students (92.4%, a 0.8 percentage point increase).
Graduation rate gaps narrowed in 2019/20 for the following:
Black or African American students narrowed the gap with white students by 4 percentage points to a 5.9 percentage point difference. This steady improvement reflects the narrowest gap since 2011/12.
The gap for English Language Learners (ELL) and non-ELL students narrowed by 10.8 percentage points to 2.8, one percentage point difference.
34 of 35 traditional District high schools, Career Technical Centers and Broward Virtual School achieved a graduation rate of 90% or higher; with 30 of these schools reaching a graduation rate at or above 95%.
5 District high schools earned 100% graduation rates: College Academy at Broward College, Hallandale High School, Lauderhill 6-12, McFatter Technical High School and Sheridan Technical High School.
Coconut Creek High School and Hallandale High School achieved the largest graduation rate increases from the previous year, each increasing by 7 percentage points.
“These graduation rates are a testament to the work of our students and educators,” said BCPS Superintendent Robert W. Runcie. “Our efforts resulted in higher graduation rates overall and across all demographic groups. This reflects our Strategic Plan’s focus on reaching for both excellence and equity. Given the extraordinary circumstances during last school year due to the pandemic, we’re proud of the commitment of these students to their education and the efforts of the teachers, counselors and administrators that supported them.”
For more information about the state’s graduation rates, visit http://www.fldoe.org/core/fileparse.php/7584/urlt/GradRates1920.pdf.
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Brynna Curry
Earth Enchanted
To Take Up the Sword
Wait for the Wind
Sea’s Sorceress
Fire’s Ice
Triple Star Ranch
Claiming Ana
Tempting Taylor
Captivating Cassandra
Saving Sarah
Shadows of Seven
Charm of Light
Charm of Fire
Charm of Ice
Charm of Air
Charm of Earth
Charm of Beasts
Charm of Darkness
Highland Magic
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Highlander’s Spell (Cian’s story)
Highlander’s Touch (Grayson’s story)
Spotlight: Through the Dom’s Lens by Doris O’Connor
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THROUGH THE DOM’S LENS
BY DORIS O’CONNOR
Blurb: Sometimes doing a favor can change your life forever.
Never one to rate her curves, Sally thinks her glamorous sister has lost the plot. Stand in for her at a photo shoot with the most sought after bondage photographer ever?
She’ll be laughed out of the studio, or arrested, or both. However, the temptation to actually meet the man she’s been secretly lusting after for months proves too hard to resist.
Junsako cannot believe his eyes, when Sally turns up. It’s been a long time since the Dom in him felt such an instant pull to anyone. All those curves will look beautiful in Shibari suspension, and Sally proves to be a born submissive. If only she would let go of her body issues and see the beautiful woman he sees through his lens.
Only one thing to do—convince her—with as much kinky sex as possible.
Adult Excerpt 18 +
Excerpt: “I want you to do something for me, pet. I want you to close your eyes and remember that feeling.”
She frowned at him, but her eyes fluttered shut and after a while she smiled.
“Good, you’re there in your mind?”
“Yes, Sir, I think so.”
“Good girl, now open your eyes and look at the screen again.” She tensed immediately and her smile slipped, but she did open her eyes and glanced at the screen. He’d changed the image to a slide of the process of her being bound. The first one showed her stood in front of him, looking nervous as hell, and she tensed even more when she saw it.
“What do you see, pet? Truly look at the picture, past the body, concentrate on your facial expression and remember how you felt.”
She bit her lip, and her nose screwed up in concentration, but eventually she answered him.
“I was nervous…” she glanced at him and then continued in a whisper, “and turned on.”
“Good girl, now the next picture. What do you see?”
In this shot she was half in her chest harness and blindfold, and Junsako hardened as he, too, remembered the heady thrill of binding her soft flesh in the rope. The picture didn’t do the eroticism of the art justice. In his mind’s eye, however, he heard her soft sighs and mewls, he felt the rope slide through his fingers and mark her skin, as she sank further into that blissful state of submission.
Sally remembered it, too, if her increased breathing and the dampness seeping through his sweat pants were any indication. He didn’t say anything else, afraid to break the moment, just continued to bring up picture after picture, until she wriggled on his lap, and he was hard enough to pound concrete again.
By the time they were back at the picture he intended to use, tears were falling down Sally’s cheeks, but she was smiling this time.
“Thank you, Sir, for helping me remember what it felt like. I still see a fat woman, though. I know I’m not skinny and … oh.”
The breath whooshed out of her lungs when he stood up with her and flung her over his shoulder. It was a matter of moments to cross the distance to his bedroom, and Sally shrieked when he threw her on the bed face down.
Before she had even stopped bouncing he grabbed her ankles and yanked her down until her ass hung over the edge with her knees on the floor. He kicked her legs apart, and took a moment to admire the view in front of him. With a flick of the remote he turned on the ceiling spotlights. The soft lighting illuminated Sally’s shapely ass. With her legs spread wide, he had a perfect view of her glistening pussy. Her cunt got wetter the longer he just stood there and watched her, and when she tried to push herself up on her elbows he urged her back down on the bed with his hand flat on the small of her back.
“Stay still, pet. It amuses me to watch you like this. You have the most perfect ass, my love. It will look even more beautiful when i
t’s pink from my hand.”
Sally whimpered, and more of her juices slipped out of her clenching hole.
“I’m going to spank that ass now, and then I’m going to fuck it. My little pet will like that, I think. Give me a color, pet.”
Sally’s heart beat so fast in her ears she was sure she’d have fallen to the floor had she not been lying down already. Junsako’s dirty words made her so wet her juices were sliding down her inner thighs, and she found it difficult to concentrate on his words.
An open handed spank to her left ass cheek stung, and before she could open her mouth another one followed to the right side this time.
“I asked you a question, pet. What color are you?”
“Gr-green.” She murmured the words into the cover, as he dug his fingernails into her tender skin and grabbed a generous handful. That should have mortified her, but somehow it didn’t.
“I can’t hear you, pet.”
His strained voice soothed her concerns. He sounded like a man aroused, and it gave her an enormous thrill that he wanted her just as badly as she wanted him.
“Green, Sir. I’m so green. Please don’t stop. I—”
The next spank set her ass on fire and sent her further up the bed, until her hips dug into the edge. It was padded, with little hard nobbles, and just the right height to stimulate her clit, as she discovered with the next few well-placed open handed swats from his hands. He hit a different spot on her ass every time, and with the added stimulation from the torture devices attached to the side, she was close to coming in record time.
Higher and higher she flew until time lost all meaning, and all that mattered was the breathtaking pause before he spanked her again. When he finally stopped heat radiated from her ass all over her body in rolling waves of bliss, and she ground herself against the edge. So close, she was so damn close.
Junsako grabbed her hips and pulled her away from the bed, and Sally whined her protest.
He kissed her shoulder, and chuckled into her neck, as his whole body seemed to engulf her. His hard cock nestled in the cleft of her ass, and he delivered little bites along her back, parallel to her spine. Every sharp sting made her moan, interspersed as it was by his murmured words.
“So beautiful, my pet. This luscious body belongs to me, and you will not come without my permission, will you, pet?”
Buy Link: http://www.evernightpublishing.com/through-the-doms-lens-by-doris-oconnor
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Authors Bio:
Glutton for punishment would be a good description for Doris… at least that’s what she hears on an almost daily basis when people find out that she has a brood of nine children, ranging from adult to toddler and lives happily in a far too small house, cluttered with children, pets, dust bunnies, and one very understanding and supportive husband. Domestic goddess she is not.
There is always something better to do after all, like working on the latest manuscript and trying not to scare the locals even more than usual by talking out loud to the voices in her head. Her characters tend to be pretty insistent to get their stories told, and you will find Doris burning the midnight oil on a regular basis. Only time to get any peace and quiet and besides, sleep is for wimps.
She likes to spin sensual, sassy, and sexy tales involving alpha heroes to die for, and hero
ines who give as good as they get. From contemporary to paranormal, BDSM to F/F, and Ménage, haunting love stories are guaranteed.
Writer of sensual, sassy, sexy romances
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How Love for God and Family Unites These Women From Different Cultures
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Note: This is Part 2 of an interview with author Lorilee Craker. Find Part 1 here.
Behind Amish romance novels, tourist spots and "reality" TV shows stand real people, with longings and loves just like the rest of us. Every Amish and Mennonite woman has a story. What would it be like to be welcomed into their homes and share those stories over a cup of coffee?
In the pages of Homespun: Amish and Mennonite Women in Their Own Words (Herald Press), Amish and Plain Mennonite women swap stories and spin yarns while the reader sits in. The book's editor, Lorilee Craker, bestselling author of Money Secrets of the Amish, collected these personal writings and authentic perspectives on life, hospitality, home, grief, joy and walks with God from Anabaptist women's periodicals. Among the stories shared are essays penned by well-loved Amish and Mennonite writers such as Sherry Gore, Linda Byler, Lovina Eicher, Dorcas Smucker and Sheila Petre.
Here she shares more of her own background and experience of growing up Mennonite and how HomeSpun came together.
Q: You describe yourself as a simple Mennonite girl from the prairies. Can you share a little bit about your childhood?
My childhood was deeply rooted in the Mennonite culture. Growing up, I witnessed my two grandmothers with their hair in a bun and always wearing dresses or skirts. I thought this was normal! None of my grandparents spoke English—all four of them spoke German or Low German. At family gatherings, we would eat Mennonite food such as borscht, varaneki (pierogies), platz (fruit strudel) and pluma moos (cold plum soup). We ate those things in my home, too, so again, this was all very normal. We were also bound by similar values of faith and peace, and by stories of where we had come from.
Q: Your family's roots in Mennonite communities run deep, but your family history is an example of the many different stories people have. Can you tell about both your mother and father's background?
My mother's family came over from Ukraine in the 1870s. They were pioneers who homesteaded on the prairies, but they never lost their culture or assimilated too much into the broader community. The ties of language, food and culture that bind them to their pioneer great-great-grandparents are startlingly durable.
My dad's family had a completely different story. They came in the third wave of immigration from Ukraine, after World War II. They fled Stalin as refugees and experienced his holocaust. My dad lost his twin sister to starvation, so those stories were imprinted painfully on his heart.
I knew from early on that there were lots of different kinds of Mennonite stories.
Q: Growing up in Manitoba where there was a large Mennonite population, you didn't realize most people didn't live the same way you did. What was the biggest adjustment for you when you moved to Chicago for college?
The biggest adjustment was that no one seemed to know what a Mennonite was, or they assumed that I should be wearing a bonnet and driving a buggy like the Amish. Everyone seemed to think that being Amish or Old Order Mennonite and being my kind of Mennonite were one and the same. This assumption led to lots of explanations on my part about the difference between my modern Mennonite upbringing ("like Baptist, with a German accent and special foods") and those other related subcultures.
People were surprised that I wore makeup and nail polish and so on. In Winnipeg, people knew that Mennonite women were modern because they knew so many of them. That wasn't the case in Chicago.
Q: Explaining how you were Mennonite, not Amish, eventually led to you writing your previous book, Money Secrets of the Amish. What did you learn in that process that made you feel more connected to what your roots?
As I visited Amish homes and barns in Michigan and Pennsylvania for my 2011 book, I recognized bits of their dialect, Deitsch (Pennsylvania German), from my spotty grasp of Low German. Their baby naming customs were also similar. The Amish women's hair buns and long skirts, not to mention the tantalizing aromas of fruit strudels (platz, to me) baking in their ovens, reminded me of my beloved grandma Loewen. I recalled my little dynamo of an oma (grandmother) tsk-tsk-ing me about the length of my skirt. She always had a twinkle in her eye as she chided me, but I still made sure to go for full coverage as I interviewed the Amish.
The peace and gentleness I felt when visiting the Amish reminded me so much of visiting my Grandma's farm. I felt oddly at home among my spiritual and cultural cousins. It was amazing to me that over 300 years had passed since our break up and we still had things in common! I came to realize were more closely tied to me and my upbringing than I had ever dreamed.
Q: What are some of the differences between Mennonite and Amish beliefs? What are the biggest similarities?
While there is a great variety of Mennonite culture, practices and lifestyles, from very old-fashioned to very modern and even progressive, the Amish are much more the same across their communities. They are extremely dedicated to living much as they did in 1693, when they split off from the Mennonites over the matter of buttons. Mennonites were okay with buttons, but tailor Jacob Amman's followers, the Amish, thought they were worldly. To this day, Amish fasten their clothes without buttons.
The similarities lie in spiritual roots of being peace-loving, set-apart people with a radical faith. The most modern Mennonite in downtown Winnipeg might name their children Isaiah, Ezra, and Naomi, and the most conservative Amish will have children with those same Bible names. They have both kept some remnant of their dialect—Amish speak Pennsylvania Dutch which is really Deutsch—German. I was startled to recognize bits of the Amish dialect as being similar to my own Platt Deutsch—low German. Foods are similar sometimes, too. And food customs, like faspa, which is a cold meal served on Sunday late afternoon so the ladies wouldn't have to cook on Sunday.
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Q: What was the inspiration behind your new book, Homespun? How did you collect the stories included in the book?
Herald Press approached me about being the general editor of a collection of writings from Amish and Mennonite women. I collected the stories from mainly two sources, Daughters of Promise magazine, a beautiful and beautifully written literary journal done by conservative Mennonite women, and Ladies Journal, a much more spare periodical by Amish women.
It was thrilling for me to discover new writers and incredible writing from mostly unknown writers! These women have a lot to say and I was fascinated by their take on modern life. To hear from women specifically appealed to me, as a feminist. Sometimes in conservative subcultures, their voices are silenced or muted. This book gives them space and grace to speak.
Q: What themes did you notice emerging as started compiling the stories? How is Homespun organized?
As I read stories for the book, a number of themes arose, so I arranged the stories by those topics and wrote a brief introduction tying them together.
Welcome. A deep sense of hospitality is fundamental to these women. Yet it's not hospitality in the HGTV, your-house-needs-to-be-perfect kind of way. As one of the writers shares, it is easy to overthink hosting, but Jesus made it look quite simple, and his hosting style can be described in one word: love.
Abide. Hospitality is sacred and spiritual, but it doesn't mean these writers don't want to have an appealing home space in which to dwell. They want to abide in an abode, if you will, that nurtures them and feeds their spirit. The writers here expound beautifully on what home means to them.
Testimony. Story makes the world go round. When we hear the stories—the testimonies—of others, we are better able to understand our own story and our place in the world. These narratives stirred different emotions in me.
Wonder. The blazing faith of early Anabaptists is evident in the openness of these writers to all things wondrous. These are true stories of miracles, phenomenal happenings that don't make sense from a human perspective. They highlight the possibility of the miraculous happening all around us, in big ways and small.
Kindred. A core value of both Mennonites and Amish is the preeminence of family—kinfolk, whether they be kindred or not. Our kin shape us in ways both known and unknown, good and bad. These essays and stories speak to the tremendous influence of family.
Beloved. These essays enthused my soul, and I came away feeling as if I had just been to church. My cup had been filled. There is something wonderfully elemental and childlike about the devotion expressed here, devotion even in doubt. These pieces drew me closer to the One who calls all his daughters "beloved."
Q: What do you ultimately hope readers will gain from reading Homespun?
I hope they will find a pocket of peace and gentle witness in their hectic, modern lives. These women have a countercultural, singular mindset that is refreshingly different. I hope our readers will see their own stories in a new, Homespun light!
Learn more about Lorilee Craker online at lorileecraker.com. You can also find her on Facebook (@LorileeCraker), Twitter (@lorileecraker) and Instagram (@thebooksellersdaughter).
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Home News Announcements Comicker Press Scores Distribution Deal (and It’s Not Diamond)
Comicker Press Scores Distribution Deal (and It’s Not Diamond)
Todd Allen
Digital first publisher Comicker Press, whom you may recall from a Kickstarter campaign or winning this year’s Dwayne McDuffie award is taking the next step in their growth: they’re getting print distribution with Baker & Taylor and Emerald Comics Distro.
Official PR follows:
Comicker Press brings the 2018 Dwayne McDuffie Award for Diversity in Comics-nominated series Chimera by Tyler Ellis, and Waking Life by Ben Humeniuk, to libraries and retailers worldwide through Baker & Taylor and Emerald Comics Distro.
“Since our launch in 2015, print has been the end goal for all of our diversity-focused series,” said Comicker LLC co-founder Sean E. Williams. “Today we’re pleased to announce that two more of our creator-owned books are reaching that goal, with the first volumes of Chimera and Waking Life coming to print in June.”
In the first volume of Chimera by Tyler Ellis, The Righteous & The Lost, a crew of thieves is hired for a covert mission in the midst of a galaxy being ripped apart by an interstellar holy war. If they want to survive – much less succeed – they must navigate hostile worlds, vengeful aliens, a deranged demon, and betrayal from within.
“The best way to describe Chimera is Firefly-meets-Saga. Tyler’s art is phenomenal, and the fact he produces this book as steadily as he does, and all on his own, is mind-blowing,” Williams said. “Having Chimera nominated for a Dwayne McDuffie Award validated our unique approach to making comics for the last three years, and now print readers can enjoy it for themselves.”
In Waking Life: Book One: Pleasant Places by Ben Humeniuk, the Princess of the Dreaming Realm decides to crash the real world with the help of her best friend…who’s no longer a kid, and only wants to get through high school.
“The mash-up of Winsor McCay’s Little Nemo in Slumberland, a modern setting with an African American teenager as a protagonist, and Ben’s manga influences make for a truly entertaining read!” Williams said. “In going along with the unique nature of this series, a digest-sized edition was the perfect way to make this all-ages book stand out even more.”
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BPO Opens 40th Season
by Mark DeVoto
October 20, 2018 October 20, 2018 by Mark DeVoto
Jonah Park Ellsworth (file photo)
Beginning the 40th season of the Boston Philharmonic, which coincides with Benjamin Zander’s 80th birthday (next March), the veteran conductor gave the brisk downbeat for the skyrockets of Glinka’s overture to Ruslan and Lyudmila even before the audience stopped clapping at his entrance on stage, indeed even before he got both feet on the podium. It was that kind of presto display. The orchestra had no difficulty keeping up with the whirlwind tempo (really no faster than Mozart’s Figaro overture, but much noisier). Stravinsky, who spoke of Glinka as a “Russian Rossini” and often included this overture on his own concert programs, wrote: “His music is minor, of course, but he is not; all of music in Russia stems from him.” The epithet may be accurate, but it takes some doing to identify the Russianness: the “Boris bells” harmonies appear midway through, in the mysterious soft repeated chords depicting the sudden magical abduction of Lyudmila by the sorcerer Chernomor. (See my article, “Boris’s Bells, by way of Schubert and Others” example 20 HERE.)
Following Glinka’s brilliant orchestral blitz, which lasts only six minutes or so, Zander talked to the audience about the music, about sonata form and tragedy, in his relaxed but amiably informative way, better at this kind of communication than Leonard Bernstein. He spoke about the American background of the work that would follow, Dvořák’s Cello Concerto, and pointed to the thematic resemblances between the concerto and the “New World” Symphony that he had completed only a year earlier.
Jonah Ellsworth, the soloist in the concerto, brought total concentration to an intense and warmly inflected performance. Who can forget his fine appearance in February of last year in Beethoven’s Triple Concerto with the Boston Phil in Sanders? This concerto is a bigger piece, and certainly a better one, indeed the most beloved of all concerti for the cello. The orchestra’s role is especially balanced — symphonic as well as supportive. The notes mentioned Dvořák’s personal suffering and grief as well as the Heimweh that shadowed the compositional process, and these were well evoked not only in the passion of Ellsworth’s engagement but also in the gradual dénouement of mixed B minor and B major, which became triumphant in the Coda of the finale — and no wonder the audience cheered.
The Brahms’s Symphony No. 1 in C Minor, op. 68 concluded the program. We all know from Beethoven’s examples, and Brahms knew especially, that C minor is a challenge to Fate. The first movement particularly testifies to the expectation and energy, not to mention anxiety, that labored in Brahms’s compositional psyche as he produced his first effort in the symphony genre at the age of 43. (His two Serenades had been for practice, but the preparation was a strong one.) The beginning, with its diverging melodic layers —violins and cellos upward, woodwinds downward, over a C tonic drumbeat of doom —cry out in an anguish which requires over 500 bars for a resolution that appears only gradually as the movement develops with increasing confidence, ending at last in a quiet C major. This movement is really the most remarkable single movement in all four of Brahms’s symphonies, both ponderous and poignant, because of its relentless empyrean striving. Zander’s discussion singled out the role of the contrabassoon, which alone in the score generates the 16-foot C in the opening bass. The double basses, in the score, are indicated for 4-foot C (second space in the bass clef); but Zander had them play an octave lower (8-foot C), thus sounding an octave lower still. Brahms’s own double basses, which could only reach down to E, could not produce this note; but the six basses of the Boston Phil all had the E-string extension yielding the open-string low C — a wonderful sound, blending with contrabassoon and supporting the timpani with fine pesante resonance. (Mahler remembered this when he wrote the beginning of “Der Abschied” in Das Lied von der Erde.)
Brahms in 1853
The descending chromatic harmony of the opening measures forms a sighing motive that recurs repeatedly, carries over into the Lied of the second movement (mm. 116-118), and becomes transformed at the beginning of the finale, but disappears entirely in the third movement,
Zander mentioned that the third movement, which though not so titled is really an Intermezzo, began with two five-bar melodic phrases; he could have pointed out that the second of these is the melodic inversion of the first — a means of formal development. (Brahms did this trick even more elegantly in the fourth movement, “How lovely is thy dwelling place,” in the German Requiem.)
A characteristic of Brahms’s style, especially prominent in the orchestral works, is his predilection for hemiolas, displaced accents, and variable phrase lengths — five bars in the phrase are never unusual, and rf and sf could always be distinguished. The entire ensemble’s meticulous attention to the dynamic details of the score in this work impressed mightily. A mezzo-piano really sounded like mezzo-piano, with mezzo-forte clearly contrasted; only rarely did a f manage to sound excessive, too ff. Especially in the slow movement the < > swells were very clear and precise. All of this precision added to what I would call a well-nigh perfect performance of a great work. Zander’s control was complete and authoritative, and the players, especially the principal woodwinds and horn, happily gave their best.
Mark DeVoto, musicologist and composer, is an expert in Alban Berg, also Ravel and Debussy. A graduate of Harvard College (1961) and Princeton (PhD, 1967), he has published extensively on these composers and many music subjects, most notably, harmony.
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Bracket with Two Musicians
Pakistan, Gandhara, probably Butkara in Swat, Kushan Period
(1st century-320)
Overall: 37.5 cm (14 3/4 in.)
Andrew R. and Martha Holden Jennings Fund 1980.15
242A Ancient India
This vaulted bracket, with acanthus leaves on the side, is decorated with a musician-couple who stand on a lotus pedestal. The bearded male plays a sitar-like instrument, while his companion holds a clapper-type percussion instrument similar to the kartal (still used today to accompany dancing in some parts of India, such as Orissa).
Both figures are clad in heavily draped robes that consist of two garments: an outer one---like the Classical himation---and the inner one, ankle length on the male and floor length on the female. The man's head is covered with a cap or a hood, while the young woman wears her hair pulled into a chignon and decorated with a garland, in a fashion more appropriate for a lady. She also wears heavy earrings.
The bracket or corbel of this type, originally probably placed fairly high, seems to be a particularly appropriate component for being decorated with celestial, heavenly musicians.
The style that it represents makes one think of the Romanesque or Gothic sculpture of medieval Europe. It is quite characteristic for the Swat area, particularly around Batkara, where Domenico Faccenna conducted extensive archaeological excavations.
A number of comparable pieces, including voluted brackets, are decorated with acanthus leaves and figures of diverse type, some of which are celestial musicians who hold the same instruments.
The facial types represented here are almost identical to some of the figures from Batkara.
Cleveland Museum of Art (11/13/1985-1/15/1986), Asia Society Galleries, NYC (2/13-4/6/1986), and Seattle Art Museum (5/13-7/13/1986): "Kushan Sculpture: Images from Early India"
Year in Review: 1980. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (June 23-July 19, 1981).
The Twain Shall Meet. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (October 30, 1985-January 5, 1986).
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Indian Art - Kushan, Gandhara
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Industrie de bois de Vielsalm & Cie v. Region Wallone, European Court of Justice C-195/12
Litigation cases (55)
Jurisdiction: European Union
Side A: Industrie de bois de Vielsalm & Cie (Corporation)
Side B: R̩gion wallonne (Government)
Core objectives: Adequacy of Swiss government's climate change mitigation targets and implementation measures
European Union adopted Directive 2004/8/EC to promote high-efficiency cogeneration and reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Under the Directive, Member States are to adopt certain support mechanisms to encourage cogeneration. In implementing the Directive, Walloon decided to exclude biomass from wood, because of the potentially negative environmental consequences. Industrie de bois de Vielsalm (IBV), which operates a cogeneration plant from sawmill waste, applied to the Walloon Government for green certificates under the support mechanism and was rejected. IBV challenged the refusal arguing that the exclusion of biomass from wood (1) was inconsistent with the Directive and (2) violated the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights. The Constitutional Court of Belgium referred these issues to the EU Court of Justice. The Court of Justice found Walloon's interpretation of biomass was permissible under the Directive given its purpose. Furthermore, the Court found that while Member States were subject to the equal treatment and non-discrimination clauses of EU's Charter of Fundamental Rights in implementing the cogeneration support mechanism, the Walloon Government did not defy those clauses when it excluded wood and wood waste from its biomass support scheme.
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Wooden Coasters Sure Are Getting More Magnetic
While wooden coasters defined their place as the classic coaster experience, the only constant to this experience has been change. They have gotten bigger, faster, with more forceful elements. Just like other industries once they got rolling the pace of change accelerated. The wooden coaster is constantly changing to push new boundaries, but the latest development seems to be steel. This has led to simpler maintenance, launches, and even inversions. Does this shift just make wooden coasters, steel coasters?
There are currently three active firms who design and build wooden coasters; Gravity Group, RMC & GCI, and they have all been expanding their reliance on steel. Gravity Group, the makers of the first inverting wooden coaster, have been using steel to build support structures for years. This adaptation provided a more stable structure, less maintenance concerns, and a frame that could be fabricated off site and easily assembled. This was typically referred to as a hybrid wood coaster, but that term made a lot less sense once RMC showed up.
RMC is best known for their hybrid designs where they take an existing wooden coaster and re-imagine the layout with a steel track called Iron Horse, we will come back to that later. They also have made four wooden coasters using their Topper Track, a product that combines a substantial steel top that provides a surface for the road, guide, and up-stop wheels and a stack of laminate wood underneath. This Topper Track was first used as a maintenance product to smooth out sections of older wooden coasters that had become rough. This manufacturing technique allowed RMC to jump into the ground up wooden coaster model, and even though they have only built four each has been a record breaker or fist for its type. However they are about to drop down to three and a half?
One of the RMC wooden coasters, Lightning Rod at Dollywood, is having about 60% of it’s wooden Topper Track replaced with the all steel Iron Horse Track after only a few seasons of operation. This leads us to believe that the wooden track that they have developed could not do the same job as the steel track. This makes sense because wood is a natural material and cannot match the uniform nature of steel. This suggests that RMC has found a limitation, and their cost effective solution is steel. Cost of all materials has been going up, however the cost of lumber has been increasing at a faster rate than steel according to the National Home Builders Association. The cost of steel framing is still more expensive than wood however in the past it would typically cost about 9 times more for materials in a steel framed building than a wooden frame. Now the costs are getting closer where steel framed buildings have about twice the material cost compared to wood.
The durability of steel could justify the added cost, but it can also be assembled easier and faster lowering installation costs. This is another factor closing the cost gap. When applied to a structure dealing with the dynamic load of a roller coaster it's not surprising that wooden coasters have been increasing their reliance on steel for the support structure. However the wooden track is also becoming a lot more magnetic too. RMC’s topper track uses substantially more steel than a traditional wooden track that would only use flat strips of steel for the wheels to roll on was the first step. Then we have the confusion of what to call Lightning Rod, but we also have a third design firm GCI.
GCI has already been using more and more steel for their support structures just like Gravity Group and others from the past. They both have examples that have all steel structures, but with wooden tracks. We have discussed GCI’s upcoming product now called Titan Track in the past. It is similar in look to RMC’s steel track, but is initially being used like the Topper Track as a maintenance product. They installed a few sections onto White Lightning down at Fun Spot Orlando as a proof of concept. The result is a wooden coaster that has a small section of steel track replacing the wood track that would be beat up in high stress areas. Unlike the topper tack from RMC the Titan Track contains no wood at all. White Lightning has a steel support structure, so if the entire track was replaced the only wooden parts would become the catwalk that maintenance workers use to inspect the ride. Would this still be a wooden coaster? Is it the material or the style that defines a wooden coaster?
When we first became aware of the steel track being produced by GCI we speculated how it could be used. We now know they plan on marketing it as an alternative to wooden tracks for new construction, and a replacement product for rough wooden tracks, they even said they would use it to add elements to pre-existing layouts. This sounds a lot like the space RMC has been occupying. We know they already have a customer, as the Predator at Darien Lake will be receiving Titian Track on an unknown amount of its layout according to GCI owner Clair Hain Jr.. This could just be a method for lowering maintenance costs going forward, or it could be a way for Six Flags to test the track out. They did use the Topper Track on The Texas Giant before they extensively renovated it with the Iron Horse Track, changing the layout, and becoming the New Texas Giant. Could we see Six Flags giving GCI the go ahead in a few years to totally renovate and re-imagine older coasters? The Predator would be a great place to start.
So the question becomes, has the time come where wooden coasters will become extinct? Is there a reason for parks to keep this knowledge base of how to run, maintain and repair wooden coaster tracks? GCI could build all steel frames with their Titan Track that would essentially be a steel coaster with a wooden aesthetic, and that may become a very desirable thing for parks. There is an undeniable fact that there is a fun factor to wooden coasters. They provide a tactile experience, a nostalgic connection to the past, and in some cases provide a character that is more difficult to produce with steel. Modern wooden coasters have provided a cost effective and exciting addition for parks, but the lower initial cost vs the increased maintenance cost could be changing this dynamic in the years to come. Once the people who do this type of work stop, and they don’t pass this knowledge along, the skills are lost forever.
Jeff Goodman
B&M, Why You Wanna Break My Balls?
Earlier this week a patent was uncovered that showed a new restraint system for B&M stand up style roller coasters by Coaster101.com, good find guys (link). This patent shows an updated version of the stand up restraints from top to bottom. We have long heard rumors that B&M was designing a new type of Stand Up roller coaster that would change the ride dynamics and offer more comfort. Some people were speculating that the surf coaster could be a wing stand up, or that the standing position could be turned to more mimic the stance of a surfer. It doesn’t reveal if either of these rumors could be true since the illustration in the patent application is of a single restraint system and it is not depicted on a chassis, however I think that both are highly unlikely as this looks to be a redesign for the existing chassis.
The newly designed restraint system has some similarities with the stand up models we know, but they do have a few distinct differences that could make them more viable. The most visible is the vest style restraints for the rider’s upper body. This replaces the hard over the shoulder restraints that would often knock you around and provided an unforgiving surface to bounce your head off of. The last time I rode Green Lantern at Great Adventure I felt like the ride was trying to knock some sense into me for giving it another ride, lesson learned. Another change is in the column itself. On a standard stand up restraint it felt like the height adjustment was controlled by a pinion gear that could lock in the height. If you were not ready for the restraints to unlock it could drop you unforgivingly on your most sensitive bits. This is a real danger at the end of a ride, but also during the loading process as guests would often not follow instructions and need to be adjusted before dispatch. The new design is an articulating linkage, somewhat similar to a scissor lift that can distort a rhombus shaped connection to raise or lower the height. The least visible change is the addition of a hydraulic accumulator. This is basically a shock absorber on the linkage, and may be the biggest quality of life improvement for your more sensitive parts. If I am reading the drawing correctly, and I’d like to believe I am, the locking function should allow for the hydraulic fluid in the accumulator to still provide some give even in the locked position during the ride cycle.
So how is this patent going to be applied? That is the biggest question remaining. Ideally these new restraints could be an upgrade product just like the floorless trains to per-existing stand up rides. This would provide a second potentially less expensive option for parks to upgrade their stand up coasters. I know that B&M is nostalgic on these ride types, as they were the first designs they sold as their own company. My issue with this new style restraint is that it still has the saddle in between the riders legs. Guests are still going to need to follow directions to correctly load and dispatch the trains and those were two big issues, one for comfort and the other for general operation. My other concern is that I don’t feel the standing aspect enhances the ride. While it may have been an interesting idea I don’t feel like it provides a great experience like their other coasters do. My biggest fear is that this is the restraint system for the yet to be revealed Surf Coaster. I was looking forward to seeing B&M make their version of a launch or multi launch coaster, but making it a stand up it removes my excitement and replaces it with fear. However not that good sort of fear that roller coasters often provide in a satisfying way. B&M’s strength has always been the innovation with seating position and chassis design, and how the interplay of these dynamics enhance the ride experience. So if this new patent is for a new roller coaster type, or an attempt to revive sales of the stand up coasters I just have one question. B&M, why you wanna break my balls?
Weekend Wallpaper? Space Mountain
I know it is Monday, but here you go. Space Mountain with a swirling wormhole wallpaper formatted for your mobile device.
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WEEKEND WALLPAPER: It Rose Like A Phoenix From the Ashes
What began as the Rocket in San Antonio, rose and lived again as the Phoenix at Knoebels Amusement Resort. This truly classic ride has been recognized as the best wooden roller coaster in the world, not bad for a ride that was designed in 1948. For the past 35 years Knoebels has been lovingly caring for this ride and preserving its classic thrills and excitement, not an easy task when competing with newer modern creations. If you have never been this is a must ride, and has the best finale of unrelenting airtime anywhere. If you miss airtime, and are waiting for your park to open, drop this wallpaper onto your desktop, as a reminder just like the Phoenix we will ride again.
-Jeff Goodman
Weekend Wallpaper: We Are Going Deep This Time
In about a month it looks like we could have a new B&M Hyper and Giga. In anticipation I thought we would take a dive on Leviathan from Canada's Wonderland. Leviathan was the kick off that let everyone know, yes B&M will go bigger. They followed it up with crowd favorites Mako at SWO & Fury 325 at Carowinds. This year they will do it again with Orion at Kings Island and Candymonium at Hersheypark. While we patently or impatiently wait enjoy this Leviathan Wallpaper, it is summer so wipe the condensation off to get a better view.
WEEKEND WALLPAPER: FIRST RIDE OF THE SEASON
Here is a look back to a couple of seasons ago when I went down to kick off the season at Kings Dominion. What do you think your first ride of the season will be? Will you ride this season? Either way enjoy this phone lockscreen of Twisted Timbers at Kings Dominion.
Weekend Wallpaper: Demon Drop
Demon Drop is one of my favorite roller coasters at Dorney Park, yes you read that right roller coaster. It has been a perfect pick up as one of the many relocated attractions for Dorney. It also has a special nostalgia for me as I have many childhood memories on Freefall at Great Adventure, and I expect guests visiting from points west would have that same connection since it was relocated from Cedar Point. Do not skip this demonic contraption from the past, and enjoy this lock screen for your phone.
Weekend Wallpaper: There Is A Storm Gathering
Wicked Cyclone was my first taste of what RMC could do with their Iron Horse technology. I personally loved the Riverside Cyclone, and I rode it many times as a child visiting New England, and at the time Riverside Park. The Iron Horse technology that transformed this long loved woody into a hybrid was more than welcome. It saved my childhood memories, and brought them into a new century, oh man am I old. If you like the image please consider going to our webstore and ordering yourself a high quality print.
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History Russian Platinum Coins
During the reign of Czar Nicholas I (1825-1855), the Russian mints produced some of the most beautiful coins in the world. And that is not all; today some of them are considered some of the biggest rarities worldwide.
Russian Coins
Russian Gold Rouble Coins
The first coins made from platinum were minted here. In 1828, the Sankt Petersburg mint produced the first coin of this kind, a 3 rouble piece. The coin was made from pure platinum, or “white gold” as it was named back then. It had a weight of 10 g., and, as the similar Russian coins, it depicts the Imperial Eagle on one side and the value on the other, written as 3 roubles “na serebru”, literary “in silver (roubles)” that meant that it corresponded to 3 coins of 1 rouble (each 20 g.). Under the value, the mintmark SPB appeared. Circular, around the value, it was written the weight in old Russian system, that it has a weight of “2 zolotniki and 4 dolia of Ural platinum”
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This coin was followed by a 6 rouble coins, with a weight of 20 g. and similar design and in 1830 by a 12 rouble coin, with a staggering weight of 40 grams of platinum.
These coins were minted in small number until 1845 when the production stopped. The mintage was usually very low, in most cases around 100-200 pcs, a “common” coin having around 1000 pcs.
Why did Russia mint such exotic coins?
The value back then was very high for a coin of 3 rubles. The 5 rouble coin was made from gold, with a weight of around 6,5 gr. And when the cost of bread was 1 kopeek (1% of a rouble) it is clear that this coin was produced with a special purpose.
Also, in 1828, the platinum was considered less valuable then gold. Ten roubles in gold meant 12 g. but in platinum meant 35 g. This means that the gold was twice valuable then platinum.
Platinum itself was a curious metal. It was very hard to melt because of the high melting level and also impossible to mint, because it was a very hard metal. It was so hard to mint a platinum coin that not until the last half of the 20th century were platinum coins produced.
It is also a rare coin. The Siberian mints were among the few in the world that produced such things (until today, Siberia is one of the few places in the world that produce platinum).
Why did Russia mint such coins, hard to produce, in low mintage, with high value? And why the sudden stop of the production.
It seems that this coin was produced at the beginning as a special gift for the high rank people of the Empire or for the other kings or emperors of Europe. Also the problem of minting a precious coin, made not from gold or silver, was taken into consideration.
Today, these coins are very rare and expensive. Usually, a 3 rouble coin will go around 1500-2000 $, no matter how worn it is. The 6 rouble is scarce and expensive because of the weight and the 12 rouble is considered one of the rarest coins of Russia and the world.
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Stefan Vasilita
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NGC certifies gold medal presented to Brazilian President Alves
By Numismatic Guaranty Corporation
Published: Apr 23, 2015, 5 AM
A gold medal presented to former Brazilian president Francisco de Paula Rodrigues Alves is one of three made and the only one available privately. The medal was recently graded and encapsulated by Numismatic Guaranty Corp.
Images courtesy of Numismatic Guaranty Corp.
Press release from Numismatic Guaranty Corporation:
Numismatic Guaranty Corporation has certified a rare and important 1906 Brazilian gold medal struck to commemorate the appointment of Archbishop of Rio de Janeiro Joaquim Arcoverde de Albuquerque Cavalcanti as Cardinal by Pope Pius X in 1905. This celebrated event marked the first time that a South American was appointed Cardinal by the Holy See.
Intricately engraved medals were struck in bronze, silvered copper, gilt bronze, silver and gold to commemorate the occasion. Only three gold medals were struck: one for the newly appointed Cardinal, one for Pope Pius X and one — the piece recently graded by NGC — for Brazilian President Francisco de Paula Rodrigues Alves.
The large gold medals presented to the Cardinal and the Pope are held by museums, which makes the President Alves specimen the only example available for collectors.
NGC has graded the President Alves example as Mint State 65. The large medal, which measures 70 millimeters in diameter and weighs 232.98 grams, is encapsulated in an NGC oversize holder.
Jeff Kahn, a dealer in rare gold medals, submitted this extraordinary piece to NGC for certification.
“Authentication and grading by NGC will give my clients confidence in the authenticity and preservation of this spectacularly beautiful historical medal,” says Kahn. “The NGC holder adds additional protection to ensure that this rare medal is properly protected for years to come.”
“We are honored to have had the opportunity to handle a medal that is not only extremely rare but also an important part of Brazilian and Catholic history,” says Jay Turner, NGC finalizer. “Beyond that, this stunning medal is truly a work of art.”
To learn more about NGC, visit its website.
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Error coin becomes 11th most expensive dime on record
By William T. Gibbs
Published: Sep 1, 2011, 8 PM
This Proof 1975-S Roosevelt, No S dime, one of two pieces known, realized $349,600 during Stack’s Bowers Galleries’ Aug. 18 Rarities Night auction in Rosemont, Ill., placing it in the 11th spot for prices among all dimes.
Original images courtesy of Stack's Bowers Gallery
A Proof 1975-S Roosevelt dime, distinguished from the other 2.8 million examples of the coin only by its lack of an S Mint mark, realized $349,600 during Stack’s Bowers Galleries’ Aug. 18 Rarities Night auction in Rosemont, Ill.
The price paid for the Professional Coin Grading Service Proof 68 1975-S Roosevelt, No S dime, one of just two examples known, is remarkable on several levels.
The $349,600 is the 11th highest price realized at auction for a dime of any design or date. The Proof 1975 dime’s price is exceeded in the denomination only by auction realizations for examples of two classic rarities, the 1894-S Barber dime (10 known) and the unique 1873-CC Seated Liberty, No Arrows dime, and by single transactions for two rare die varieties of 1797 and 1804 Draped Bust dimes. Furthermore, based on auction price records published in the Eighth Edition of the Coin World Almanac, the price realized for the 1975 dime is the highest brought at auction for any U.S. coin struck since the second half of the 20th century, with only a few coins struck from 1901 to 1950 exceeding it in value at auction, including a 1944-S Lincoln cent struck on a zinc-coated steel planchet ($373,750) and several examples of the 1913 Liberty Head 5-cent coin (highest price at $3,737,500).
According to Stack’s Bowers Galleries, with just two pieces known, the Proof 1975-S Roosevelt, No S dime is one of the rarest U.S. coins struck since the production of the sole known example of 1873-CC Seated Liberty, No Arrows dime. Stack’s Bowers cites only the unique 1776-1976 Eisenhower, Bicentennial dollar struck on a silver-copper clad planchet as being rarer than the 1975 dime.
Although the Proof 1975-S Roosevelt, No S dime has been known since 1977, neither example of the coin had ever been exhibited publicly or offered at public auction until the piece sold in the Stack’s Bowers Galleries auction was consigned and auctioned.
Initial surfacing
The original owner of both 1975-S Proof sets containing the No S dime sent one of the sets to Coin World’s Collectors’ Clearinghouse in July 1977 for evaluation, without mentioning that two such sets were in her possession. The Clearinghouse staff, consisting of the department’s editor, Thomas K. DeLorey, and this author, could not verify that the coin was a full Proof. Instead, a letter dated July 29, 1977, was sent to the owner suggesting that the coin may have been struck from regular dies on an impaired Proof planchet. The San Francisco Assay Office was also striking circulation-strike 1975 Roosevelt dimes without Mint marks at the same time the Proof coinage was in production, making such a mishap feasible.
The original owner, a California collector who requested anonymity from Coin World, in the fall of 1977 sent the same set viewed by Coin World to the American Numismatic Association Certification Service, which authenticated the dime as a Proof strike. ANACS announced the authentication in January 1978, prompting Coin World to publish its first news article about the coin in its Feb. 22, 1978, issue. The same article reported that a second example had been reported but not verified. ANACS authenticated the second example a few months later, which was reported in the July 5, 1978, issue of Coin World. (At the time, ANACS had not revealed that the same person owned both sets, nor was Coin World aware of this fact; that information was a closely held secret known only to a few people until June 2011.)
As is typical when a significant new variety is reported, collectors and dealers began searching their 1975-S Proof sets for the dime variety after the first news reports. However, no other examples have been rumored or verified since the discoveries of the two sets.
Sets enter the marketplace
The original owner of the sets sold both in separate transactions to Fred J. Vollmer, then a Bloomington, Ill., dealer. Vollmer, now retired, told Coin World in late June 2011 that the seller contacted him after seeing his advertisements for earlier, similar Proof sets containing error No S coins. Vollmer said in 2011 that he conducted the transactions through the mail and never met the seller.
After acquiring the first set in February 1978, Vollmer sent a letter to a dozen or so customers who had purchased similar Proof sets from him — sets containing a Proof 1968-S Roosevelt, No S dime, Proof 1970-S Roosevelt, No S dime or a Proof 1971-S Jefferson, No S 5-cent coin. One of the customers was an Ohio collector who, upon receiving and reading the letter, immediately called Vollmer and ordered the set. Vollmer later told the man that he had beat the second caller to inquire about the set by about 10 minutes.
The Ohio collector purchased the set on an installment plan, paying the dealer a total of $18,200 in monthly installments after a down payment of $3,800. After the final payment was made in 1980, the collector and his family drove from their Ohio location to Vollmer’s shop in Illinois to pick up the set, completing the transaction.
The now middle-aged Ohio collector and his mother still own the set. They had not revealed their ownership of the set until Coin World published a news article about the consignment of the other piece to the Stack’s Bowers Galleries auction. By happenstance, the owners live a short drive away from the Sidney, Ohio, offices of Coin World; they brought the set, their invoice for the purchase, a letter from the original owner to Vollmer and other documentation to Coin World’s offices in June for verification of their claims of ownership. Diagnostics of the dime visible in photographs taken by Coin World in July 1977 prove that the Ohio family’s coin is the same piece examined by staff, including this writer, more than three decades ago.
Vollmer acquired the second 1975-S Proof set from the original owner in 1979 and in 1980 again offered it to select customers, including the Ohio man who bought the first set. The Ohio collector declined to buy the set, which was priced at $38,550. In a letter to the Ohio customer, Vollmer said he had increased his asking price for the second set because by then it was clear that it was much scarcer than the other similar Proof sets (whose certified populations range from 24 to 234, although the mintages for two of the coins are higher, at 1,655 and 2,200).
The second set instead went to the consignor for the Stack’s Bowers Galleries auction. The owner of this set had also maintained anonymity, although his name is visible on the photograph of his invoice published in the Stack’s Bowers Galleries Rarities Night auction catalog. He revealed himself to Coin World a few weeks before the Aug. 18 auction.
What makes the dime special?
What sets this coin apart from the millions of other 1975 Roosevelt dimes and the majority of 2,845,450 Proof 1975-S dimes? The finish and lack of a Mint mark set the two Proof 1975-S Roosevelt, No S dimes apart from the millions of otherwise similar pieces.
The San Francisco Assay Office produced 71,991,900 circulation-quality 1975 Roosevelt dimes that are identical in appearance to the 513,682,000 1975 dimes struck for circulation at the Philadelphia Mint. None of the coins bear a Mint mark and therefore cannot be identified by Mint of origin. All of the Proof 1975-S Roosevelt dimes should have had an S Mint mark.
Until the mid-1980s, the Philadelphia Mint made all dies used at all Mint facilities. Dies bearing the appropriate Mint mark, if any, would be shipped from the Philadelphia Mint to the intended facility. For dies intended for the striking of Proof coins at the San Francisco Assay Office, the dies would be given additional treatment to impart a Proof finish to the coins. This additional processing was mostly likely done at the San Francisco Assay Office rather than at the Philadelphia Mint, based on longstanding Bureau of Mint procedures.
In 1975, the San Francisco Assay Office was used to strike both circulating and Proof coinages. All of the Proof coins were to have the S Mint mark, while by 1975 all of the circulating coins struck at the San Francisco facility were sans Mint mark, making them indistinguishable from the same coins struck at the Philadelphia Mint.
However, one of the many dime obverse dies lacking a Mint mark was processed for Proof production and used to strike Proof dimes. As noted earlier, similar mishaps had occurred prior to 1975, and in addition would occur again in 1983 and 1990.
The two Proof 1975-S Roosevelt, No S dimes bear a Proof finish like the regular Proof 1975-S dimes, but like the circulating dimes of the same date struck at the Philadelphia and San Francisco facilities, lack a Mint mark. All Mint markless 1975 Roosevelt dimes found in circulation are normal circulation strikes.
Since just two examples of the Proof 1975-S Roosevelt, No S dime have been authenticated, researchers believe that Mint inspectors discovered the mistake and prevented most of the sets with the error dime from being released.
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Proof 1968 No S Roosevelt dime realizes $31K
Mar 22, 2016, 6 AM
No Mint mark? Proof No S dimes: Market Analysis
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North Korea nuclear: US intelligence report says regime to keep weapons
North Korea is unlikely to fully give up its nuclear weapons, a US intelligence report says, despite the hopes of the Trump administration.
The Worldwide Threat Assessment report also says Iran is not making nuclear weapons, but that cyber threats from China and Russia are a growing concern.
Both countries may be seeking to influence the 2020 election, it says.
National intelligence director Dan Coats and other intelligence chiefs presented it the Senate on Tuesday.
North Korea remains “unlikely to give up” its weapon stockpiles and production abilities while it tries to negotiate “partial denuclearization steps to obtain key US and international concessions”, the report says.
Having nuclear weapons is seen as “critical to regime survival”, it reads.
President Donald Trump is set to meet North Korea’s Kim Jong-un in February.
The pair met in Singapore last June to discuss denuclearisation of the Korean peninsula, but little progress has been made since then on the issue.
What the report highlights instead is a growing threat from China and Russia, which are “more aligned than at any point since the mid-1950s”.
Both countries have sophisticated “cyber espionage” capabilities, which they may try to use to influence the 2020 US presidential election.
The report also says Iran is not currently making nuclear weapons, although it says the country’s “regional ambitions and improved military capabilities” will probably threaten US interests in the future.
President Trump withdrew the US in 2018 from a landmark deal on curbing Iran’s nuclear ambitions, and has imposed stricter sanctions to try to thwart its actions.
At the Senate hearing CIA director Gina Haspel said Iran was “technically… in compliance” with the 2015 nuclear deal, despite the US withdrawal.
Elsewhere in the Middle East, the report stresses that the so-called Islamic State group (IS) is not yet defeated, despite the Trump administration’s claims to the contrary.
While the group will probably not aim to take new territory, the report assesses IS will try to “exploit Sunni grievances, societal instability, and stretched security forces to regain territory in Iraq and Syria in the long term”.
President Trump’s decision to withdraw US troops from Syria shocked allies at home and abroad. Mr Trump said the group had been defeated.
The administration has since agreed to slow down the withdrawal.
Acting US Defence Secretary Patrick Shanahan however told reporters on Tuesday that IS is close to losing its remaining territory in Syria.
“I’d say 99.5% plus of the IS-controlled territory has been returned to the Syrians. Within a couple of weeks, it’ll be 100%,” he is quoted as saying.
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5 Realities Of Having The Government Ban Medication You Need
We Did It, Everyone: We Found A Dinosaur Butthole
J.F. Sargent ·
Lauren Ipsum ·
Nearly 70 percent of Americans are on at least one prescription drug, and that's not even accounting for epic burnouts like us skewing the numbers. Mommy needs her medicine to control her blood pressure, Daddy needs his medicine for his cholesterol, and your weird uncle who writes for the Internet needs his "whatever you got on you" to ease the boredom. The point is, everybody needs something. So what happens if you need your meds when we're undergoing one of our nation's many drug shortages? We're not just being hyperbolic because our stash ran dry; drug shortages are a real and terrifying thing. Let's talk to somebody on the wrong end of one ...
Any Drug Can Be Vitally Important
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As an adult with ADHD, I depend on Adderall, one of the most famous and controversial prescription drugs in America. It's proven invaluable in treating the disorder in children and adults, and also, unfortunately, in making sure frat boys can stay up all night playing Call Of Duty. And apparently the DEA is sick of getting whomped by BroDown69 every time they boot up the old Xbox. Hence, the drug shortage. And it's not just about paying closer attention to your homework: My ADHD is entwined with both depression and anxiety. Before Adderall, I was way into self-harm and suicide. Post-Adderall, I've found some better hobbies. It's a pretty big deal to me.
Seppi333/Wikimedia Let's hear it for new hobbies, such as "not dying!"
When I finally talked to my doctor about ADHD and scored that first sweet prescription to Adderall, everything in my life changed within weeks. My impulse control was back. I was able to get my work done, which kept suicide and self-harm at bay. I was able to complete my projects -- it was so great that I was furious it took this long to find my wonder drug. And I'm not alone: Not only is Adderall more frequently used to treat depression than you think, it turns out that undiagnosed ADHD is responsible for a lot of depression and suicidal tendencies in young women, because people keep telling us that it's all in our heads. Yes, we know it's in our heads; that is indeed the problem. That's why we're asking you to fix our heads.
Eraxion/iStock/Getty Images "Just because it's in your head doesn't mean it's not real." --Albus Dumbledore, M.D.
There's No Warning Before Your Drugs Just Up And Vanish
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The DEA created different classes and labels for prescription drugs based on their likelihood of being abused. Adderall, Vyvanse, and Ritalin are schedule II prescriptions as are many painkillers. That's why their distribution is highly regulated. Shortages have been on and off since 2011, but it wasn't until January 2015 that I began to notice significant problems.
Radist/iStock/Getty Images Taken 3 was at the top of the box office. It was a dark time in America.
I used to fill my prescriptions at Walgreens, but since changing my health insurance, I've had to switch to CVS. When I first went to fill my 20-milligram Adderall XR (two pills a day) at my closest CVS, I was told they were out of it. So I went to another one and they were out of it, too. I called the next one to save some time, but it turns out that because they're schedule II, they can't tell you if they have the drugs in stock over the phone. You have to show up physically to be rejected. Just like prom night.
Gewitterkind/iStock/Getty Images "But you can order pizza online. That helps depression!"
Some places told me that they were getting their weekly shipment on Wednesday, but then Wednesday came and, oops, maybe it'll show up in the monthly shipment. I was told I needed to get there quickly when that shipment got in, since they were only allotted one bottle of 100 pills per month, meaning they could, at most, fill three prescriptions per month (fewer, if patients took more than one pill per day). When the next month rolled around, I arrived within an hour of their monthly shipment, and still no Adderall. I went to a Walmart to see if they could fill it, and the pharmacist admitted it's been on back order since the end of December. If this sounds frustrating now, keep in mind I did all of this without the pills I need to stay sane.
The System Is Massively Complicated, And Mostly Just Serves To Shift Blame
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Our health care system functions like a high school group project: When something doesn't get done, it's always someone else's fault. I had a great relationship with my pharmacist at Walgreens and called him in tears one night to tell him what was going on with CVS and to beg him to take me back. (Walgreens and I had a beautiful relationship, before they dumped me out of the blue when their friends at Blue Cross Blue Shield of Florida started saying shit behind my back. I thought you were better than that, Walgreens! Not like that slut, Rite Aid.)
Frazer Harrison/Getty Images Entertainment/Getty Images Rite Aid has, like, SO much experience with STDs.
Naturally, my pharmacist couldn't help, but he did tell me that everything is the DEA's fault. See, pharmacists and manufacturers are supposed to tell the DEA how many patients need the medication, and the DEA is supposed to increase the allowance to keep up with patient need -- except they routinely forget to. Maybe they have ADHD too? So to follow up, I called the Orlando branch of the DEA and spoke to two different representatives: One blamed the manufacturers for refusing to make the drug, and the other blamed the druggies for forcing them to set these limits. But who's really to blame?
Eric Kayne/Getty Images News/Getty Images Is it Steve? It's Steve, isn't it? Fucking Steve.
If the manufacturers don't make the medications, they lose money. Pharmacists can't make money if they don't sell the drugs. Patients, of course, lose their treatments, and in 2011, at least 15 people died because they couldn't get their medications. The DEA, by limiting prescriptions, gets to appear to be tough on drugs, since fewer prescriptions available equals fewer prescription medications sold on the street. Those 15 dead folks are just collateral damage in the war on drugs.
You're Treated Like A Drug Addict If You Complain
When I called the DEA to ask about the shortage, the first person I spoke to said, "Yeah, we're restricting access to these medications. What can you do? Blame the druggies." When I told him that wasn't good enough and explained my symptoms (which included a relapse in suicidal thoughts, depression, and poor impulse control), he said it sounded like I was addicted to Adderall and in withdrawal.
Patient: "If I stop taking this heart attack medication, I'll have a heart attack."
Flailing Dipshit: "Sounds like you're addicted to heart attack medication."
diego_cervo/iStock/Getty Images I don't think that's what Narcotics Anonymous means when they talk about "physical dependency."
But even if that logic wasn't pants-on-head stupid, as Cracked has pointed out before, most drug addictions are an attempt to self-medicate anyway. And then there's the difference in how we treat individual drugs: Lamictal has pretty severe withdrawal effects, including symptoms of bipolar disorder, vomiting, and emotional upset. Adderall's withdrawal is mostly just "fatigue and trouble sleeping," and yet it's much more heavily regulated, because it's a stimulant.
Stuart Wilson/Getty Images Entertainment/Getty Images "You're next, Starbucks power shots!"
And so we get to the great irony: I could drive down to the nearest college campus right now and buy some illegal Adderall from the first twitchy kid I came across. Sure, I'd pay more for a single pill than I would for an entire bottle on my insurance, but at least I'd be getting my goddamn meds. In trying to crack down on the prescription drug problem, the DEA is actually creating a prescription drug problem.
There Are Severe And Immediate Consequences For Going Off Adderall
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I wrote an article for Cracked in 2014 about self-injury. After it came out, people began messaging me on Tumblr to tell me how much it had helped them get help and/or stay safe. So I started using my Tumblr to post the other things I told myself to keep sane, and it seemed to help others, too.
Then the Adderall shortage hit.
mactrunk/iStock/Getty Image And my mental health took a tumbl.
In that first article, I also mentioned my previous suicide attempt. One of the factors leading to that was a shortage of Adderall -- it was the longest I'd been off of it since starting the medication ... until now. I've avoided trying to kill myself again, but I can't say I haven't thought about it. I just can't keep the ideas out of my head.
This is why medication shortages are a big deal: I know what my life is like with and without the medication, and I know that my returning suicidal impulses and difficulty focusing aren't because of my own failure as a person. I remind myself that these suicidal thoughts aren't from me. The right psychiatric medications don't turn you into a different person -- they correct your brain chemistry to bring the real you back from behind a cloud of crazy. And no matter how much therapy or self-conditioning you have, it's hard to function when your brain chemistry is more Breaking Bad than Bill Nye The Science Guy.
Top Photo Group/Top Photo Group/Getty Images It would explain why I feel so blue.
The last thing the mentally ill need is yet another roadblock between themselves and treatment. You can call it a crutch if you want, but take away someone's crutches and see how much longer their legs stay broken.
Since going off of Adderall, Lauren Ipsum has become cross-addicted to Tumblr. Click here for her rants about mental illness and here for unrelated fiction.
For more insider perspectives, check out 5 Ridiculous Myths You Probably Believe About Schizophrenia and 5 Awful Lessons I Learned Living With a Mystery Illness.
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Bayer Plus Rewards 2021 Program Year Launches
Bayer Crop Science announces the continuation of its rewards program featuring a broad portfolio of high-performance products that enable growers across the U.S. to meet the toughest challenges, while earning rewards all season long.
(ST. LOUIS, Sept. 24, 2020) – Bayer Crop Science is proud to announce the launch of the second year for the Bayer PLUS Rewards grower program – a comprehensive portfolio of high-performance seed and crop protection products. The program is designed to provide growers with more flexibility and rewards on eligible purchases all season long.
Within the Bayer PLUS portal, growers can access all their eligible purchases at once and see how they have earned rewards with increased transparency. Enrollment is evergreen, so growers will not need to enroll again into the 2021 program. In addition, the 2021 program has remained consistent with only subtle changes made to maximize the program value for growers.
Josh VanDeWalle, Bayer PLUS Lead adds, “The continuation of the Bayer PLUS Rewards program is an exciting opportunity. Growers have access to additional tools, products and ways to earn more rewards. The 2021 program year will help growers tackle the toughest challenges with more choice, flexibility and simplicity.”
Bayer retail partners are critical to the success of this program. In 2021, we will continue to improve the tools and communication to retail partners around the Bayer PLUS program both in the retail portal and in email communications. This will help build on an important alliance to bring growers more profitable solutions.
“Bayer PLUS Rewards helps retailers provide flexible choices from our broad portfolio of high-performance products. Establishing a strong partnership between Bayer’s sales force, our retailers and customers creates trust and drives positive business results,” says Chris Turner, U.S. Country Division Head.
By visting MyBayerPLUS.com/calculator growers can access the Bayer PLUS Rewards Calculator, which allows them to maximize rewards with this season’s purchases to invest in their operation. The calculator helps to make key input decisions throughout the season, as growers work through their crop protection purchases with their local retail partner.
To be a member of Bayer PLUS Rewards, growers must operate in qualifying geographies and purchase eligible products from an authorized retailer between September 1, 2020, and August 31, 2021. Growers can begin redeeming a portion of their rewards earned during this period as early as May 1, 2021.
An exciting new partnership between Bayer Crop Science and the Climate FieldView™ Platform, an innovative digital analytics tool, will also provide growers with the opportunity to get their data in one place, uncover valuable field insights and help optimize their inputs. With additional ways to utilize products from partner brands, like Valent®, the opportunities to earn more rewards and gain access to premium perks go beyond Bayer.
Visit MyBayerPLUS.com to see all program details and sign up for Bayer PLUS Rewards now.
Bayer is committed to bringing new technology and solutions for agriculture and non-agricultural uses. For questions concerning the availability and use of products, contact a local Bayer representative, or visit Crop Science, a division of Bayer, online at www.cropscience.bayer.us.
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Former PepsiCo CEO will help CT in collaborative plan for life post-coronavirus
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Ken Dixon
April 13, 2020 Updated: April 14, 2020 10:58 a.m.
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Indra Nooyi former chairman of PepsiCo, is helping to lead the state’s efforts to start reopening non-essnetial businesses on May 20.
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Six Democratic governors on Monday began plans for slowly reopening the region as the coronavirus pandemic plateaus. By the end of the afternoon, the group - first announced in an earlier telephone news conference led by New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo - had also recruited Gov. Charlie Baker of Massachusetts, a Republican.
At a time when more Connecticut businesses and state lawmakers are pushing for a timetable to reopen the state, the governors established a multi-state council, also representing New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island and Delaware, to balance the needs of the economy while confronting a changing but-still-dangerous public health landscape.
Connecticut’s three-member delegation includes Indra Nooyi, the former CEO of PepsiCo; Paul Mounds, Gov. Ned Lamont’s chief of staff; and Dr. Albert Ko, chairman of the epidemiology department at the Yale School of Medicine.
“Our goal is to devise an appropriate and thoughtful plan for all public officials to carefully consider both public health outcomes and economic and social costs going forward,” Nooyi said in a joint statement.
“The public health priority is to prevent illness cause by the SARS-CoV-2 virus but also to protect the health and well-being of our communities from the consequences of lockdown and economic shutdown,” Ko added.
Connecticut’s fatalities rose to over 600 on Monday, when 48 more fatalities were reported since Sunday. The number of confirmed cases rose by 1,346 to 13,381.
Lamont also will establish a larger Reopen Connecticut Advisory Board, whose members will include Nooyi, Mounds and Ko, as well as Dr. Scott Gottlieb, a former head of the federal Food and Drug Administration, and Ezekiel Emanuel of the University of Pennsylvania. The advisory group will be set up by the nonprofit organization AdvanceCT, Lamont said.
Speaking in his daily afternoon news briefing, the governor said in about a month he expects to have a plan for “a slow reopening” of the state’s public and private life.
“I want an action plan to go forward,” Lamont said. “We’re trying to celebrate the fact that our social distancing is maybe beginning to work. That also means we have a better chance to make a difference in the future.” He held out hope that testing in coming weeks will more fully indicate who has been infected with COVID-19 and has the anti-bodies that could make them immune to the current version of the novel coronavirus, and allow them get back to work.
Lamont said that the tri-state area of New York, New Jersey and Connecticut share the mass-transit paths of Metro-North and Interstate-95, so reopening will depend on the recovery of what is currently the nation’s epicenter of the pandemic: New York City, northern New Jersey and Southwest Connecticut.
“If Cuomo’s going to open his bars and restaurants at some point indeterminate in the future, we should probably be on the same path as New York, and vice versa, I might say,” Lamont said, stressing that Connecticut’s statewide infection rate is about one third of New York City’s and half the rate of New Jersey. Fairfield, New Haven and Hartford counties share the tri-state workforce.
“It’s the commuter corridor for us but it’s also the COVID corridor,” Lamont told the region’s reporters in an earlier afternoon conference call.
Mounds, a veteran legislative operative under two governors, said that it’s logical that a regional approach be taken to assure uniformity in the return to normal social, business and government affairs.
“There are moments when it makes sense to work with our neighboring states, and ensuring the public health of all of our residents who we serve is one of those times,” Mounds said. “Collaborating on when to open parts of our economy will lead to lives saved, and allow hospitals the ability to serve patients without being at peak capacity.”
But state Senate Minority Leader Len Fasano said the governor isn’t moving fast enough while the state economy is reeling from inactivity.
“I was expecting to hear details of what Gov. Lamont thinks are the prudent and necessary steps for Connecticut to take to get our residents back to work,” said Fasano, R-North Haven. “Instead, we learned of a plan to form a plan, through the creation of more bureaucratic bodies including a 21 person multi-state administration system and a state organization that is still not yet formed. We need action now.”
Fasano said the state needs a strategy that can give some hope to the state on how a reopening can occur safely.
“If governors want to consult with one another that can be helpful, but Connecticut cannot wait on six other states, including states that do not even share a border with us, to agree on a path forward,” Fasano said. “We need to identify actions to help our residents today by getting them back to work to receive a paycheck, particularly because the unemployment benefits system in our state has been so unreliable”
.Earlier on Monday morning, Cuomo said that the pandemic seems to be plateauing in his state, even though 671 New Yorkers died since Sunday. Connecticut’s infections are particularly tied to New York City.
“No one has done this before,” said Cuomo, joining Lamont, Gov. Phil Murphy of New Jersey, Gov. Tom Wolf of Pennsylvania, Gov. John Carney of Delaware, and Gov. Gina Raimondo of Rhode Island. “This is about being smart,” Cuomo said. “Not political.”
Cuomo expects the group to begin conferring on Tuesday, with a deadline outlined in weeks. The reopening of schools will likely be a crucial first step.
Speaking to New York reporters after the regional news conference, Cuomo challenged the assertion, made earlier in the day on a Twitter post by President Donald Trump that the White House has any control of how the states will reopen.
Later in the day, Lamont recalled that during much of the crisis, he had hoped that Trump would become more involved in the problems states face in getting ventilators and personal protective equipment.
“I thought that was better for the federal government to do than 50 states and a number of territories, but I think he has been generally clear,” Lamont said. “And just as importantly, his COVID task force is always asking the governors what their priorities are; how we are thinking about getting things reopened,” Lamont said. “So I don’t really think they’re going to try to mandate a one size fits all.”
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'Very difficult' to meet Canada's immigration targets after pandemic drop: immigration lawyer
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Christy Somos CTVNews.ca Writer
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Published Thursday, January 14, 2021 9:01AM EST
TORONTO -- Canada welcomed 341,000 new immigrants in 2019, and continued to accept high levels of new immigrants at the beginning of last year, but those efforts and the immigration system were completely derailed by the COVID-19 pandemic.
A Statistics Canada report said that Canada’s population “essentially stopped” due to COVID-19, increasing by just 2,767 from July 1, 2020 to Oct. 1 2020 – virtually zero per cent.
In October of 2020, Canada only welcomed approximately 15,000 new immigrants, less than half of the number of people welcomed in October 2019.
In response, Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC) announced a 2021-2023 “Immigration Levels Plan” setting out hard targets for the next three years.
The aim is to welcome new immigrants at a rate of around 1 per cent of the population, which would mean 401,000 permanent residents in 2021, 411,000 in 2022, and 421,000 in 2023 – the first time Canada has set an annual immigration target above 400,000.
But setting targets is one thing – meeting them is another.
“I think the government is going to have a very difficult time meeting those targets this coming year,” said Toronto immigration lawyer Chantal Desloges on CTV’s Your Morning Thursday. “Last year the targets were not close to being met, and on the ground we’re not seeing anything speeding up in terms of application processing.”
“It’s one thing to set a target and say we’re welcoming a certain number of newcomers in a year, but officers still have to process those cases, and with a lot of embassies closed all over the world, its going to be really hard to meet that target,” Desloges said.
New automation systems aim to make immigration easier
Desloges noted that the IRCC’s new automated portal for permanent residency application – built largely in response to a pandemic that took face-to-to-face interactions off the table – has sped up the application process, but still will not close the gap.
“A lot of the applications that you used to have to [physically] submit can now be done online, you can set up an account in this portal, link applications in this portal… you also avoid the chance of missing a letter that is mailed or missing an email,” Desloges said.
“Those things are all good but it’s important to understand that immigration is still really limited in its technology… and I think that’s holding it back in terms of what they are able to do,” she said.
For people sponsoring their parents or grandparents, Desloges said, technology can also be limiting for those who are not tech savvy or do not have continual access to computers.
Election derailment
After Prime Minister Justin Trudeau shuffled his cabinet earlier this week, there were whispers of a potential snap election - and a government change could signal sweeping reform in immigration.
But Desloges said, while a new party in power could affect immigration targets, that it won’t be immediate.
“You’d see differences in how the border was treated, you’d see a difference in refugee policy – but those things will not happen overnight,” Desloges said. “Even if a party came into power that favours economic immigration over compared to sponsoring your parents… it’s important for people to not have a knee jerk reaction.”
Passengers wear masks as they wait to check-in at Montreal-Pierre Elliott Trudeau International Airport, Saturday, May 16, 2020, as the COVID-19 pandemic continues in Canada and around the world. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Graham Hughes
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Students get unexpected lesson in the food chain
A large bullfrog at Stillman Nature Center in Barrington recently demonstrated how the food chain doesn't always work the way we'd like it to. Courtesy of Karen Lund
By Mark Spreyer
Stillman Nature Center
Posted6/8/2018 12:53 PM
Do you feel sorry for a worm slurped down by a robin, or a crayfish gobbled up by a raccoon? Probably not.
Now, let's turn the table. Instead of a warm-blooded, feathery bird eating a coldblooded fish or worm, what if a coldblooded creature eats a warm-blooded, baby bird?
Well, it happened here at the nature center in front of a group of fourth-graders
Late one May, fourth-graders from a nearby school were on their field trip to Stillman. As is our custom, we divided the group in two. Half start with a walk and then do pond study while the other half starts at the pond and then walks through the woods.
As I was bringing the first group to the pond, a pair of startled wood ducks took off leaving their newly hatched chicks behind. All but one of the ducklings headed east, but one dumb duck hung around.
As the fourth-graders reached into the water with dip nets, the wood duckling headed our way. Sure enough, he came on shore and the students were very excited to see the little guy. I told the kids that it would be best if "junior" joined his siblings back in the lake.
So, I picked him up and headed around the building to our other dock. Here, I ran into the other half of the school group that was about to trade activities with my group.
I explained the situation, released the wayward duckling in sight of its nestmates and the children then headed back to finish up with the first pond study class.
A couple of minutes later, the second group arrived, and did they have a predatory story to tell. Shortly after I left the duckling to find his mates, a large bullfrog found "junior." The frog came from under the duckling and swallowed it from behind. As one of the chaperones explained it to me, the last thing that was seen was the head of the peeping duckling being pulled under by frogzilla.
As you might imagine, this graphic demonstration of the food chain had an impact on the audience. Here's a sampling from the students' thank you letters:
"That little chick was cool until it got eaten."
"The funniest part of all, and sad at the same time, is [sic] when the bull frog ate the baby duckling ..."
"I really enjoyed everything. I learned about the food chain (even though you didn't plan to teach us that)."
Actually, I did. For obvious reasons, though, I'm more likely to talk about plant-eating ducks and bug-eating birds then puppy-eating alligators and bird-eating frogs.
As you can tell, this incident gave me a chance to revisit the food chain. Specifically, as Thomas Tyning wrote in his guide to amphibians and reptiles, "Don't be shocked if you see a bullfrog going after 'unfroglike' meals. They are known to eat ... fish, snakes, birds, and other frogs ..."
I was also reminded that nature shows no favorites, warm-blooded or coldblooded, and has no mercy. As naturalist and essayist John Burroughs wrote, "Nature is not benevolent; Nature is just, gives pound for pound, measure for measure, makes no exceptions, never tempers her decrees with mercy, or winks at any infringement of her laws."
• Mark Spreyer is executive director of the Stillman Nature Center in Barrington. Email him at stillnc@wildblue.net.
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New boss of Oxfam accused of sex cover-up: He was brought in to clean up after Haiti scandal but now whistleblower speaks out
Danny Sriskandarajah promised to put beleaguered charity's 'house in order'
After aid workers were accused of having sex with earthquake survivors in Haiti
Mr Sriskandarajah previously run Royal Commonwealth Society
During that time one of its senior figure was allowed to 'quietly resign'
Nigel McCollum discovered a dossier detailing the senior figure's alleged encounters with sex workers but claims he was ordered to destroy the dossier
By Ian Gallagher For The Mail On Sunday
The chief executive brought in to clean up Oxfam was last night accused of covering up a sex scandal at another major charity.
Danny Sriskandarajah promised to put the beleaguered charity's 'house in order' last week following a damning report into 'appalling safeguarding failures' after aid workers were accused of having sex with earthquake survivors in Haiti.
But The Mail on Sunday can disclose that, when he previously led the Royal Commonwealth Society, one of its senior figures was allowed to 'quietly resign' after a whistleblower discovered a dossier detailing his alleged encounters with sex workers.
One of those workers alleged yesterday that the man paid for sex during official taxpayer-funded visits to Amsterdam and Los Angeles.
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The man who discovered the evidence in March 2009 was Nigel McCollum – at the time the RCS's head of public affairs – and he alerted his bosses.
But he was furious when the man in the dossier was allowed to step down quietly and continue working for two other charities.
Mr McCollum said he expected a 'pat on the back' for coming forward, but instead claims he was ostracised and effectively forced out. He was given a small financial settlement and made to sign a gagging order. He was also ordered to destroy the dossier.
Mr McCollum alerted this newspaper to the scandal after Dr Sriskandarajah appeared on television to speak about cleaning up Oxfam. He said: 'I couldn't believe what I was hearing. This is remarkably similar to what happened on his watch at the RCS. This man covered up a scandal there, so he should not have been hired to clean up Oxfam. It's staggering.'
The senior figure in question – who The Mail on Sunday cannot name for legal reasons – resigned from the RCS as soon as the dossier emerged. The charity, whose patron is the Queen, publicly said that it was due to 'personal and health reasons'. However, Mr McCollum believes the RCS took no action to alert other charities to the real reason the figure quit – the same thing Oxfam has been criticised for.
Nigel McCollum said he expected a 'pat on the back' for coming forward, but instead claims he was ostracised and effectively forced out
Last night, Dr Sriskandarajah, who was RCS director between January 2009 and 2012, insisted he was 'not involved in, or party to, any decisions relating to the resignation'. In a statement he said the matter was 'rightly dealt with' – not by him but 'by the trustees at the time'. And he further said he had never seen the 'alleged material' contained in the dossier.
The cache comprised documents, DVDs, photographs and audio cassettes. In it, the senior charity figure chronicles his relationships with sex workers, and in one document meticulously logs and records details of an escort's sexual encounters.
Lawyers for Mr McCollum said the dossier related to 'inappropriate behaviour and unprofessional conduct' that posed a 'significant threat to the Royal Commonwealth Society's reputation'. Last night, Tory MP David Morris demanded an urgent investigation. He said: 'It stands to reason that the person brought in to clean up Oxfam must himself be beyond reproach.
'Therefore, these allegations must be investigated as a matter of the utmost urgency. The Oxfam staff working tirelessly for the charity deserve nothing less, not to mention people in need around the world for whom Oxfam offers a lifeline.'
The man who discovered the evidence in March 2009 was Nigel McCollum – at the time the RCS's head of public affairs – and he alerted his bosses
Mr McCollum told this newspaper that he believes Dr Sriskandarajah failed to take charge of the situation and said the RCS's council of trustees should have taken action collectively. But this, claims Mr McCollum, never happened. He insists only a few senior trustees were formally told about the allegations, which related to a time when the man worked for another government-funded charity.
Neither, he believes, were the circumstances surrounding the resignation reported to the Charity Commission 'to ensure other charities that may need to be alerted, were alerted'.
At the time, the senior figure worked for two other charities and remained with them long after his RCS resignation. He continues to be a trustee of two charities today. During an interview on Channel 4 News last week, Dr Sriskandarajah addressed the problem of disgraced charity workers being allowed to work at similar organisations.
Call me Danny, says the boss who vows to be new broom
By Michael Powell
Oxfam's latest chief executive last week promised to be the new broom that would clean up the scandal-hit charity humbled by the sex abuse scandal in Haiti.
Dhananjayan Sriskandarajah took to the airwaves and wrote newspaper columns to pledge a new, brighter future after the excoriating report into his organisation's cover-ups and failures.
'There is no room for this sort of behaviour,' he told Channel 4 news.
And writing in The Guardian, he said: 'We cannot promise to eliminate abuse, no organisation can, but I do pledge that Oxfam will do all it can to minimise risk and to tackle it whenever it occurs.'
Just days later, Dr Sriskandarajah faces accusations that, while head of the Royal Commonwealth Society, he was part of a charity cover-up culture that he has now vowed to eradicate.
The 44-year-old, who tells colleagues to 'Call me Danny', says he has been inspired to fight global injustice by memories of growing up in a rural community in Sri Lanka, from where his family was displaced by the onset of a brutal civil war when he was six.
They fled first to Papua New Guinea and then to Australia, where he went to school and university in Sydney.
He moved to Britain in 1998 and completed a Masters and Doctorate in international development at Oxford University. In 2003, he married fellow Oxford graduate Suzanne Lambert, a barrister originally from Trinidad, and the couple settled in London.
He became a British citizen in 2010 and, while he retains a hint of an Australian accent, it is now mixed with a home counties tone.
Dr Sriskandarajah joined Oxfam in January after being Secretary General of CIVICUS, an alliance of civil society organisations which he had led from 2013.
In a slick PR video recorded by Oxfam to mark his arrival, he said: 'What happened in Haiti was scandalous, let's be clear about that, but I think what is happening in Oxfam now is people are working tirelessly to put things right, to learn the lessons and ultimately to build a more open and accountable institution and I feel that my key responsibility is to help colleagues do exactly that.'
Questions are now being asked about his accountability.
He said: 'One of the things this report highlights is that people who engaged in sexual misconduct were allowed to be re-employed in other agencies.' He has also said it was his mission to change the culture that had 'protected certain people and practices' after the Haiti scandal shocked the public.
Mr McCollum also pointed out that, among the many serious mistakes by Oxfam cited in last week's Charity Commission report, is how managers 'encouraged and facilitated' the resignation of head of operations in Haiti, Roland van Hauwermeiren, 'despite his admissions of serious misconduct'.
Mr McCollum said: 'Again, there are some similarities with what happened at the RCS.'
The Charity Commission requires charities to report a 'serious incident' whether actual or alleged which risks significant 'harm to your charity's work or reputation'.
Mr McCollum said: 'In my view, the bottom line is Danny and the RCS covered this up. These days we expect transparency but we didn't get it on this. The matter was brushed under the carpet.'
Recalling the day the senior figure resigned, Mr McCollum claimed he was advised by a colleague that the 'documents threw up issues of reputational risk to the charity'.
A meeting with the senior figure and two others was arranged. After around 40 minutes, Mr McCollum was asked to join them.
'I remember thinking how awkward it was,' he recalled. 'Looking back I think they wanted to let me know that this was being handled, that he was resigning.
'Staff got an email the next day saying he was resigning on personal grounds.'
According to Mr McCollum, the email told staff 'not to allow speculation or rumours about the resignation to grow'.
And the following week he said Dr Sriskandarajah – who last night denied having any role in decisions involving the resignation – sent another email saying: 'I have also been made aware that there are some rumours about [the senior figure's] departure circulating and some unhelpful chatter around the place' – and urged staff to 'remain professional'.
Mr McCollum claims he very quickly began to feel sidelined by Dr Sriskandarajah. He said the director failed to consult him, for instance, about a major project celebrating the Commonwealth's 60th anniversary. In a little over a month, the situation had become 'stressful and intolerable' and Mr McCollum submitted a formal grievance to Dr Sriskandarajah over his treatment. In it, he said: 'The Charity Commission is very clear that any issue which results in a trustee resigning for matters that may have a reputational risk have to be discussed collectively and recorded.
'The very phrase 'reputational risk' means that every charity has to act seriously and effectively... Transparency is frankly what modern society expects.'
In a letter to Dr Sriskandarajah dated April 30 and headed 'Whistleblowing', Mr McCollum's lawyers said: 'It is our client's case that he reported to the RCS... documentation relating to inappropriate behaviour and unprofessional conduct which led to... [the] subsequent resignation. [That] conduct posed a significant threat to the Royal Commonwealth Society's reputation...
'Following the protected disclosure, our client has been undermined, victimised and subjected to discrimination.
'Our client believes that but for the disclosure he would not have been treated in this manner.'
Last night Dr Sriskandarajah said: 'As the director of the RCS I was assured by the trustees that the allegations related to the man's personal life and not the RCS.
'This was a matter led by the trustees and not a matter for executive of the RCS. ' He further claimed: 'On March 10, 2009, I was informed by the Trustees of the Royal Commonwealth Society that [the senior figure] had resigned.
'I was not involved in, nor party to, any decisions relating to the resignation.
'The matter was rightly dealt with by the trustees and not me. I had been in post for just eight weeks at the time of the resignation.
'A few weeks later I was made aware of a grievance claim from Mr McCollum. Mr McCollum left the RCS soon after this and this process was dealt with in accordance with due process and employment law, and a settlement was reached in agreement with Mr McCollum's lawyers.'
Shameful abuse after Haiti quake that left charity's image in tatters
Roland van Hauwermeiren who worked for Oxfam in Haiti
By Mark Hookham
When a massive earthquake struck Haiti in 2010, killing more than 200,000 people and leaving 1.5 million homeless, the desperate and devastated country turned to one of Britain's biggest charities for help.
Yet instead of offering a beacon of hope amid the ruins, some of Oxfam's staff shamefully sexually exploited survivors.
Nine years later, the charity's reputation is in tatters following a damning report by the Charity Commission that exposed its failure to properly investigate allegations that some of its staff had sex with under-age prostitutes. Some were said to be just 12 or 13.
The report laid bare how Oxfam tolerated 'a culture of poor behaviour' by its staff in Haiti and elsewhere in the world.
In Britain, investigators found that scores of serious complaints by staff or volunteers in its charity shops were not reported to the authorities, including 11 cases involving potential crimes.
The scandal broke in February 2018 when The Times newspaper alleged that Oxfam had covered up claims that senior staff working Haiti after the earthquake had used prostitutes, some of whom may have been underage. Among those accused was Roland Van Hauwermeiren, at the time Oxfam's director of operations in Haiti and who, it was claimed, used prostitutes at a villa rented for him by the charity.
Mikelange Gabo, a Haitian woman who claimed to have had a relationship with him, later described how the Belgian spotted her from an Oxfam vehicle in the street when she was eight months pregnant and told her: 'I find you very sexy, how can I help you?'
She said he later lost interest in her 'because he was with too many girls', adding that he 'loves orgies' and 'loves lesbians'. The charity faced further allegations that staff on its mission to Chad in 2006 – also led by Van Hauwermeiren – used prostitutes.
Last week, it emerged Oxfam was warned by email in the summer of 2011 that two girls in Haiti, aged 12 and 13, were 'used and beaten' by aid workers, but charity bosses decided the messages were fake.
An internal probe that year led to four people being sacked and three others, including Van Hauwermeiren, resigning, but it failed to mention sexual exploitation.
The Charity Commission found that Oxfam 'encouraged and facilitated' Van Hauwermeiren's resignation, allowing him to later work for a French charity in Bangladesh.
Oxfam had received £381 million from the Department for International Development in the 15 years before the scandal emerged, but taxpayer funding has since been withheld.
The beleaguered charity, which has nearly 10,000 staff working in more than 90 countries, was last week issued with an official warning over its 'mismanagement'. Its bosses have reportedly been given three weeks to produce a radical reform plan or risk permanently losing access to public funds.
New boss of Oxfam accused of sex cover-up: He was brought in to clean up after Haiti scandal
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From Mediaite: Pat Buchanan has written a book, and on CBS This Morning, the former MSNBC contributor defended the racist charges made against it to Charlie Rose. “What I’m warning about in our country,” Buchanan said, “Is that the United States of America — which is shifting to become a multicultural, multinational, multiethnic, multilingual country — there is nothing that’s going to hold us together if we lose our common language, our common Judeo- Christian faith, our common moral consensus, which we are losing.” Obviously questions arose – is the U.S. meant to be something other than multicultural, multinational, multiethnic, and multilingual? Read the full post and watch the interview here.
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Geekosystem unearths a really, really old forest for us, buried under the modern day city of Wuda, China. Scientists have recently discovered what was buried nearly 300 million years so quickly in volcanic ash that the forest was preserved in remarkable detail. It’s been dubbed the “Permian Pompeii” – a reference to the geologic age of the forest and the Roman city which was buried in ash. For the full post, click here.
Want to smell like a Yankee? Want your boyfriend to smell like a Yankee? Or (ahem) your girlfriend? Styleite brings us the scoop on two new fragrances, male and female, released by the official team. Starting in April, to coincide with the beginning of baseball season, the fragrances will be available at Macy’s. If you’re into it, get ready to stand in a really long line. Read about it here.
From SportsGrid: Over the weekend, Xavier took down Dayton in an 86-83 overtime thriller. Star Musketeers guard TU Holloway had 32 points. It was Xavier’s 27th straight home win over Dayton. But of all the facts and figures one could analyze from such a game, the number we’re most concerned with is one: the number of times announcer James Bates comically fell off the stool he was sitting on. Watch it here.
Who’s this happy girl? The Mary Sue reports that it’s Jessica Ahlquist of Rhode Island, happy because she’s just won $42K. Ahlquist reportedly challenged her high school for having a religious mural painted in the school auditorium, something she quite reasonably reacted to as a violation of the separation of Church and State. She was vilified by her community for the claim, and only ended up winning her case (and a bunch of money) when an atheist organization stepped in to her aid. For the full story, click here.
What’s this? Sarah Palin, making a silly and inaccurate remark about something political? The Jane Dough reports on Palin’s awkward response to McCain’s advisor Steve Schmidt asked her what she’d do if England proved lukewarm about war in Iraq. Palin said she’d make sure to keep in conversation with the Queen about it. Apparently she didn’t realize that the Queen isn’t exactly the go-to person about that sort of thing. For the full post, click here.
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National Maritime Museum offers a great opportunity to discover 500 years of Britain's history at sea in the world's largest maritime museum. This a...
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32-year-old Michael Roswell, of Beacon Heath, has been charged with grievous bodily harm with intent
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An Exeter man had the tip of his nose bitten off when he was attacked during a night out a local social club.
The 28-year-old was taken to the Royal Devon & Exeter Hospital last Saturday, November 25, after being assaulted at Whipton and Pinhoe Labour Club, at around 10.45pm.
Surgeons were able to sew the tip of his nose back on, but it is not yet known whether the procedure has been successful or whether he will need reconstructive surgery.
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Police have arrested and charged an Exeter man in connection with the incident.
Michael Roswell, 32, of Beacon Heath, has been charged with grievous bodily harm with intent, and is due to appear before Exeter Magistrates Court on January 2, 2018.
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Some of the world’s biggest investors are ‘paranoid’ about tech stocks getting pounded: survey
Sep 15, 2020 Biggest, Investors, paranoid, pounded, Stocks, Survey, Tech, worlds
The Wall Street whales are getting very worried about the 2020 hot tech trade.
Money managers from around the world are “paranoid” about U.S. tech stocks, according to the latest fund manager survey out of Bank of America Merrill Lynch for September. The survey polled 224 money managers with $646 billion in assets under management.
Fund managers didn’t stop there in voicing their caution, however. Some 80% of those polled stated being long U.S. tech stocks is now the most “crowded trade” of all-time. Further, a “tech bubble” is now the number two tail risk to markets after a potential COVID-19 second wave of infections.
The dreary mood among money managers on tech — following a tremendous run this year as names such as Apple and Amazon have been viewed as safe-havens for investors during the pandemic —underscores a more challenging tech trade of late.
(Photo Illustration by Omar Marques/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)
Month-to-date the Nasdaq Composite has dropped 5.2%, lagging the Dow Jones Industrial Average and S&P 500, according to Yahoo Finance Premium data. The pullback has been fueled by steep selloffs in momentum names like Tesla (-30%) and Advanced Micro Devices (-15%) on fears of over-valuation. Profit-taking in tech has also extended to less momentum stocks — the NYSE FANG+ Index (which tracks performance of Facebook, Apple, etc.) has shed nearly 10% since reaching a peak on Sept. 2.
Pressure on tech stocks may persist in the near-term.
“I think we need to have institutional investors stepping back in,” Laffer Tengler Investments Chief investment officer Nancy Tengler told Yahoo Finance’s The First Trade on when buying momentum may return to tech. “I think what you’ll see here is once we get through the noise of the election, we get some of the Robinhood traders back to work and the options trading dies down modestly I think what you will find is investors are looking at fundamentals. These are the best companies in the U.S. economy.”
Brian Sozzi is an editor-at-large and co-anchor of The First Trade at Yahoo Finance. Follow Sozzi on Twitter @BrianSozzi and on LinkedIn.
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Garden Design And Landscaping Frank Adriaenssens – Eco-friendly garden and landscape design
Text: Maya Witters | Photos © Frank Adriaenssens
G arden and landscape designer Frank Adriaenssens has nearly 30 years of experience under his belt in Belgium and abroad. Today, he offers his expertise to cities, cultural heritage organisations and private customers alike, to create sustainable green spaces that blend perfectly with their surroundings.
“As a landscape designer, I want to distil the essence of a place into the design,” Adriaenssens attests. “The greenery around a building has to be in harmony with the architecture and create a link to the wider surroundings. At the same time, it is our task to create diversity and make every garden unique to its owner.”
Apart from creating designs for private gardens of all sizes, Adriaenssens’ company also fulfils an advisory function for cultural heritage sites. Starting his career at the UK’s National Trust has left him with a lifelong admiration for these estates. Because they are often sizeable but underfunded, they require a delicate management approach that balances financial and ecological sustainability.
“Buildings are usually given more consideration than the surrounding trees, but the latter are an indispensable part of the domain, which help lend it its unique flavour,” Adriaenssens explains. “Trees on cultural heritage sites are often hundreds of years old. We provide advice on their upkeep, which can be challenging as temperatures rise.”
Throughout his career, Adriaenssens realised the role landscape architects have to play in supporting the ecosystem. He took classes in ecological landscape design and became the Benelux’ sole distributor of flower carpets, which give biodiversity a boost. “Wildflower meadows provide great support for dwindling bee populations, and thanks to innovations in technology, they no longer take several years to yield blooms. We work with a specialist distributor of flower carpets, which allow us to guarantee the desired result within a few months with minimal disturbance to the client.”
“We make sure we put biodiversity and ecology at the forefront of all our designs,” concludes Adriaenssens. “And we see that customers are ready for these innovations too.”
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WATCH | Man dragged naked from shack makes appeal for ‘dignity’ to Cyril Ramaphosa
By Naledi Shange - 02 July 2020
Bulelani Qholani outside the Cape Town Civic Centre on July 2 2020.
Image: Newzroom Afrika
The man who was dragged naked from his Cape Town shack on Wednesday has appealed to President Cyril Ramaphosa to help him reclaim his dignity.
Speaking to Newzroom Africa's Athi Mthongana on Thursday, 28-year-old Bulelani Qholani said the actions of Cape Town law-enforcement officers had robbed him of his dignity and of his rights as a human being.
He said he wanted Ramaphosa and police minister Bheki Cele to ensure justice in the matter so that he could recover from the humiliation of appearing naked not only in front of his Khayelitsha neighbours but on a video that was widely shared.
Speaking outside the City of Cape Town offices, Qholani described the injuries he sustained.
“Yesterday when we were fighting, they kicked me in my genitals, they also kicked me on my spinal cord and shoved me onto my bed as they were trying to force me out of the house," he said.
"I told them I was not going anywhere and I offered them my ID to scan and check whether I owned property. I don’t have a house. My ID even tore during that.
“I asked them about what happens to my children’s rights. They replied and said they had been sent there by the City of Cape Town and would hold no discussions about it. They said there was nothing to talk about or communicate.
Bulelani Qholani pushed into the crowd by police. They slept at the Civic center in town last night and early this morning. @Newzroom405 pic.twitter.com/NhDSDqVWcR
— Athi Mtongana (@Artii_M) July 2, 2020
"I asked them where the court order and permit was for them to come and demolish my home. I asked them where I was supposed to go. I was crying.
“Because I was powerless, they pepper-sprayed me and they beat me. I haven’t been to the doctor yet but I can feel the pain on my body.
“During this lockdown they were able to barge into my home but now, we as the residents are at the City of Cape Town offices… we were here even yesterday and we have just been sitting here.
"They will say it’s lockdown period but even during this lockdown they were able to deploy their people to demolish our homes. When we as residents come to try and engage them, they do not entertain us. It’s because we are black and poor.”
Qholani felt it would be pointless to open a case against the city council. “Even if we were to open a case against them, it would not go anywhere because we are poor, black people," he said.
Bulelani Qholani and other affected residents are being moved by police and metro police from the Civic center, City of Cape Town municipal building in Town. @Newzroom405 pic.twitter.com/FfwmF6djvX
"We can’t afford to pay lawyers and they have strong paid lawyers that we cannot go up against. That is why I would like to say to President Cyril Ramaphosa and police minister Bheki Cele, they should come up with a solution and arrest officials of the City of Cape Town.”
Cape Town's safety and security director, Richard Bosman, said four officials involved in Qholani's eviction had been suspended pending an investigation.
In the video, members of the city's anti-land invasion unit are seen removing Qholani — who said on Thursday he had been preparing food for his two children and getting ready to bathe — from his shack.
There is a scuffle as he tries to make his way back into his home, with four or five officials blocking his path and some pushing him to the ground. As he tries to get into the shack, other members of the team begin to dismantle it.
Interacting with Cape Town journalists on a WhatsApp group on Thursday, JP Smith, the mayoral committee member for safety and security, said the city council will “act swiftly against staff when incidents like this happen”.
He added: “This stands in sharp contrast to the atrocious Independent Police Investigative Directorate stats relating to SAPS.
“Staff have conflict-resolution training as part of their basic training as well. But I've heard the staff's version of what happened and will wait for all the facts to be on the table before I am able to form my final opinion.
“Cape Town has an excellent track record on maintaining discipline. There are lapses, even mad ones like yesterday. But we acted quickly.”
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Hospital in Wuhan, China Says Patients with Cancer are More Susceptible to COVID-19
Kerri Fitzgerald
Patients with cancer have a higher risk of COVID-19 infection compared with the general public, according to a research letter published in JAMA Oncology from researchers in the epicenter of the outbreak: Wuhan, China.
Researchers retrospectively reviewed medical records, including demographic, clinical, and treatment data, for 1,524 patients with cancer who were admitted to the Department of Radiation and Medical Oncology at the Zhongnan Hospital of Wuhan University in China between December 30, 2019, and February 17, 2020.
More COVID-19 cases among patients with cancer versus general public
The researchers estimated that the infection rate of COVID-19-linked severe adult respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) in patients with cancer was 0.79% (n=12; 95% CI, 0.3-1.2), which was higher than the cumulative incidence of all diagnosed COVID-19 cases that was reported in the city of Wuhan over the same time period, at 0.37% (n=41,152/11,081,000; odds ratio, 2.31; 95% CI, 1.89-3.02).
The median age of SARS-CoV-2-infected patients with cancer was 66 years (range, 48-78 years), and eight of the infected patients with cancer (66.7%) were older than 60 years. Seven patients (58.3%) had non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC), and researchers found that those with NSCLC who were older than 60 years had a higher incidence of COVID-19 than those aged 60 years or younger (4.3% vs 1.8%).
Less than half of patients (n=5; 41.7%) were actively being treated with chemotherapy with or without immunotherapy (n=3) or radiotherapy (n=2) when they became infected. As of March 10, half of patients (n=6) had been discharged, while three (25%) died.
“We propose that aggressive measures be undertaken to reduce frequency of hospital visits of patients with cancer during a viral epidemic going forward. For patients who require treatment, proper isolation protocols must be in place to mitigate the risk of SARS-CoV-2 infection,” the authors concluded.
The study is limited by its small patient population.
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I’m so excited to give you a sneak peek of my Paranormal Women’s Fiction– Let it All Burn!
Let it All Burn releases on Tuesday, February 18 on AMAZON ONLY and will be in Kindle Unlimited.
I wrote this book in conjunction with twelve authors to launch the new Paranormal Women’s Fiction genre and part of the arrangement was to release the book into Amazon and KU at $2.99
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Darcie Weatherby has a full plate—a preteen and sixteen-year-old twins, a wayward grandmother, a nightmare boss, and a manipulative ex-husband. The last thing she needs is hot flashes.
Especially ones that start fires.
But like most single mothers, Darcie sucks it up and deals with it, because what else can she do? The kids need to be fed, her grandmother needs supervising, and her demanding boss needs placating.
Burning her boss’s house down was a total accident.
It doesn’t take long before Darcie realizes she’s running on borrowed time. Unless she figures out a way to get these hot flashes under control, there’s a very good chance she’ll spontaneously combust at the Founder’s Day Masquerade Ball and leave her children motherless. There’s no way in hell—or Perry’s Fall, Ohio—Darcie will let that happen.
Never underestimate the determination of a mother.
Especially a smokin’ hot one.
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My life turned to crap at a Tupperware party.
Considering that my life wasn’t great to begin with, that was saying something.
The kicker is that it wasn’t even real Tupperware. It was some cheap knockoff plasticware MLM party that my boss, Nikki, was hosting. I wasn’t sure it was legal to insist your entire office staff attend your Super Sort and Seal storage party, but the possibility of breaking laws had never stopped Nikki. She broke at least half a dozen a week.
“I can’t believe she made me come to this thing,” Parker said. He was an accounts manager at Lisman and Freud International Shipping, and I was the first to admit that he wasn’t part of Super Sort and Seal’s core demographic.
“I can’t believe you actually came,” I muttered under my breath. I was a forty-two-year-old newly single mother of three, who had been lucky to get my low-level assistant-to-an-assistant job after working as a stay-at-home mother for fifteen years and working part-time the last couple of years for my best friend. It had taken two months to get this crap job—turned out no one wanted to hire a divorcée whose most recent job experience was limited part-time employment at her friend’s coffee shop—which meant I couldn’t afford to make waves. When Nikki said jump, I pulled out a mini trampoline to get higher than she requested. Parker, on the other hand, was thirty-three, also newly single, and extremely good-looking—he could afford to piss off our boss. Especially since she’d made no secret of the fact that she’d like to take advantage of his availability.
“I could use some new plasticware,” Kristie said with a sweet smile. She had the kind of optimism only possible for a twenty-seven-year-old who had lived a charmed life and married her high school sweetheart. She was my co-assistant and had taken me under her wing when I’d been a new hire four months ago. “Chris told me to order as much as I like. Plus,” she added, lowering her voice, “I think it’s fun to hang out with my friends outside of work.”
I glanced around the small living room packed to the brim with twenty or more people, all of whom worked for Lisman and Freud International Shipping. Other than Kristie, I wouldn’t exactly call them friends, and I definitely had better things to do. “For the first time in weeks, all three of my kids are home,” I told her with a heavy sigh. “Between Harriet’s dance classes, Elena’s music lessons, and Jack’s basketball practice and games, it’s a rare occasion.”
“Your son plays basketball? What position does he play?” Parker asked, shifting his weight on the thinly padded folding chair.
“Point guard,” I said.
He nodded his approval.
“How tall is he?” Kristie asked.
“Six foot and still growing,” I said. “And eating like a horse.” That boy could put away more food than both of his sisters combined.
“He goes to Ridgewood High, doesn’t he?” Parker asked. “They went to state last year.” I gave Parker a look of surprise, and he grinned, saying, “I graduated from Ridgewood. I keep up with their stats. I thought I recognized the name Weatherby. He’s a starter.”
“And only a sophomore. He’s hoping for a scholarship.”
“Did you play basketball, Parker?” Nikki asked as she walked up behind him, then rested her hand on his shoulder. She tried to make it look casual, but her fingertips lightly brushed his button-down shirt. I could understand why she was interested. Parker was a very attractive man. Tall, lean, short light-brown hair, soft gray eyes—quite a few women in the office were taken with him, even the married ones. While corporate took a lax stance on interoffice relationships, they still frowned upon bosses sleeping with their employees.
Parker’s eyes widened as he shifted from underneath her hand. “No. I was more into football.”
Nikki sidled next to him, pressing her hip into his arm. “I would have guessed that about you.”
Horror washed over Parker’s face, and he jumped out of his seat. “I think I’ll go check out the vegetable tray.”
I couldn’t blame him. Nikki was only a few years older than him, and she was likely most men’s ideal woman with her blond hair and big boobs, but her chipmunk voice and abrasive personality ruined it for her.
“When is the party supposed to start?” I asked, glancing around. The Super Sort and Seal demonstrator had been putting the finishing touches on her display twenty minutes ago, but I hadn’t seen her since.
Nikki looked down her nose at me—literally. “It’s not like you have much of a life to get back to, Darcie. Not since your cute British husband left you for that twenty-something in his bio class.”
My dormant anger ignited, and I clenched my hands to keep from throttling her. “My husband wasn’t my life.”
“No kidding,” she said dryly. “Which is probably why he left you.”
She’d gotten a few things right, but most of it wrong. Richard was British, although his parents had brought him to the U.S. when he was five, and at times, I was sure he worked hard to keep his accent since it gained him so much attention. Richard hadn’t left me. I’d kicked him out, but only after discovering he’d been screwing his TA for months. He wasn’t a biology professor. His doctorate was in nineteenth-century American literature, and Tiffany had been TAing for his freshman American lit class. And sure, my focus had been on the kids long before the divorce, but who could blame me? In a conversation about Frankenstein, which had been assigned reading for Harriet and Jack, Richard had called me boring and pedantic and claimed I couldn’t carry on an intelligent conversation about anything, let alone his passion, nineteenth-century American horror literature. Of course, I’d pointed out that Frankenstein wasn’t American horror, but actually European—something he should have known given it had been penned by an Englishwoman and completed in his beloved homeland.
That had been our last conversation about anything outside of the kids’ schedules, his mother’s many psychosomatic ailments, and who was picking up dinner.
Strangely, I hadn’t missed him one iota since he’d left, but I did miss his paycheck. A teenage boy ate nearly his weight in food a day, and Jack usually had two to three friends at our house, consuming even more food. Harriet’s dance lessons weren’t cheap, and then there were Elena’s braces and music lessons…
Kids sucked up a lot of money, and Richard had decided the family expenses were no longer his concern. He was “finding himself”—otherwise known as a midlife crisis—which included the stereotypical convertible and bachelor pad apartment to go with the twenty-two-year-old English major. I probably should have fought him harder over the divorce settlement—plenty of people had told me so—but at the end I’d been exhausted. I’d wanted it to be over. And while I understood I could take him to court over nonpayment of child support, I didn’t want to put the kids through that after they’d already been through so much.
So I really needed this job. At least for another eight months until I had a solid year of recent employment to put on my résumé. And considering how long it had taken me to find this miserable excuse for a job, I’d probably drop a decade off my birthdate while I was at it. A woman in her thirties was much more likely to get a job than one in her forties. All of which meant I couldn’t strangle my boss.
At least not yet.
“Excuse me, Nikki…” Minka said from across the room. “How long do you think this party will last?”
She was another guest who had surprised me by making an appearance at the party. Minka was in her sixties and always looked like she’d stepped out of a fashion magazine with her tailored clothes and her thick white hair pulled up in a French twist. She’d moved to the U.S. when she was in elementary school, but her Polish accent still lingered, even though she’d spent the majority of her life outside of her birthplace. Minka was quiet and tended to keep to herself, but it looked like she’d had enough togetherness, what with the twenty or so of us crammed into Nikki’s small living room. Still, I wasn’t sure why she’d come in the first place. She never seemed to feel threatened by our boss and rarely took time off, which meant she probably hadn’t come out of worry Nikki might deny her next vacation request.
“I don’t know, Minka,” Nikki’s voice squeaked. “It’ll last as long as it takes.”
Kristie released a tiny laugh behind her hand, which was a good thing. Nikki would be furious if she caught Kristie laughing at her.
“I need to leave at 7:48 to feed my cats,” Minka said, her chin raised and her eyes darting around the room as if waiting for one of us to say something about her being a cat lady.
“I need to feed my dog,” Parker said, returning with a plate holding a couple of carrots and a piece of celery. Nikki had apparently missed the memo that food was one of the only enticements to hang around at these parties. Her sole offering was a vegetable tray that looked like it was past its sell-by date.
Nikki’s eyes narrowed and she propped her hands on her hips. “You don’t have a dog.”
“Uh… I’m watching my neighbor’s dog. He’s very needy. He likes to be fed at 7:32 every night, and he’ll be chomping at the bit for his dinner.” He became more enthusiastic as his story went on, and Nikki’s eyes narrowed more and more until I wasn’t sure how she could see through the narrow slits.
“Sorry about that, everyone!” a woman called from the doorway to the kitchen. “I had to run back home and get the prizes. Silly me! How could I have forgotten something like that?”
She burst into the room, obviously flustered as she squeezed through the maze of feet and legs belonging to all the people crammed into the space. The small living room had a sofa and one armchair, and the rest of the room was stuffed with dining room and folding chairs, along with a folding table in front of the picture window. I’d gotten to Nikki’s early and had claimed a spot on the sofa. Now I wished I’d been late and gotten a seat by the back door. I might have been able to slip out unnoticed.
Parker resumed his seat in the folding chair next to me and grimaced as he took a bite of one of the carrots. He swallowed, although I suspect he might have spat it out if Nikki weren’t right next to us. It came as no surprise when he tossed the remainder onto the plate and slipped it under his seat.
“Hello, everyone,” the rep said in an overloud, overly excited voice while tucking a strand of her mouse-brown hair behind her ear. She nervously scanned the room. “Oh my. There’s so many of you.”
“I told you I’d pack ’em in,” Nikki said, beaming with pride. Of course it was easy to get your minions to show up when you threatened their vacation schedules, their only respite from a boss from hell.
The demonstrator’s voice wavered and her hands shook as she said, “I’m Haley, your Super Sort and Seal party rep! Who’s ready to party tonight?”
She tried to sound enthusiastic, but she looked like she was about to vomit.
The room was entirely silent.
I felt sorry for her, left hanging like that, so I called out, “We’re ready to party like it’s 2008!”
Kristie scrunched up her nose and gave me a look that suggested she was sure I’d lost my mind. The rest of the room looked just as baffled, but it was Haley’s confusion that made me defend myself.
“Two thousand and eight,” I said in a defensive tone. “The year of Super Sort and Seal’s first in-home party.” Then I added, “Nikki said there would be a trivia contest about the company. The winner gets a Super Sort and Seal storage system.” I wasn’t ashamed to admit I’d scoured the catalogue and even done a Google search to bone up on my knowledge.
Haley’s eyes lit up like a low-energy light bulb, going from dim to bright in about five seconds. “Oh…I see what you did there.”
“What a weirdo,” Eunice from accounting said across the room in the judgmental tone we were all used to. She wasn’t looking at anyone as she said it, so I decided to be generous and presume she was talking about Haley and not me.
“Hey,” I said, “I have three kids at home who are constantly eating. I like to do food prep ahead so they can heat it up and eat.”
Minka gave me an approving nod. “I like to sort my cats’ meals in resealable containers too. Then they’re ready to pop into the microwave and heat up. All ten of them have different diets, so I color-code the lids.”
“Did she just say she heats up her cats’ food?” Kristie asked under her breath.
“Did she just admit that she has ten of them?” Parker whispered in horror. He shook his head. “No wonder everyone calls her the Crazy Cat Lady.”
Sue from the sales team whipped out her phone and held up her screen, showing a photo of multiple dogs. “These are my babies– Cooper, Doozee, Rowdy, Peewee and Tina Fey. They all have different diets as well, but I just store their homemade food in those resealable bags. Never Tupperware.”
Haley jutted out her chin and shook her head, wagging a finger around the room. “Word to the wise—Tupperware’s a dirty word around here, not to mention their sales are on the decline. Everyone knows that Super Sort and Seal is the world’s leading food storage containment system.”
“I don’t think that’s true,” a woman from the sales team said. “I’m pretty sure that Tupperware and Rubbermaid have you beat.”
Haley opened her mouth and took a step forward to say something, then stopped and pressed her lips into a tight line.
“And if Tupperware’s on the decline,” another woman said, “it’s because the CDC has declared it’s unsafe to store food in plastic containers.”
Haley’s eyes bugged out.
“That’s not true,” Parker said. “The CDC never said that.”
“Thank you,” Haley said with a grateful look.
“But multiple scientific studies have proven that BPA plastic is unsafe,” he added. “The chemicals leach into the food. I noticed in the catalogue there was no mention of your products being BPA-free.”
“Look,” I said, “my kids eat the dang food too fast for any leaching to occur. Did I win the prize pack?”
Haley held up her hands and patted the air. “Hold on, everyone. Let me get this party officially started.”
Eunice glared at me over her glasses.
Haley picked up a small catalogue and looked on the back, obviously reading, “Super Sort and Seal food storage containers were the brainstorm of Paul and Mindy Piper from Minneapolis, Minnesota. The first home party was in 2008.” She looked at me over the top of the catalogue. “Hey, you were right.”
“So do I win?” I asked. If I won, maybe I could get my prize, pretend to grab more veggies, and slip out the back door.
“Not so fast, Darcie,” Nikki said with a look of disgust. “You need to order lots of Super Sort and Seal containers. I figured you’d want plenty of them with all those kids. I need the points for the Super Sort and Seal Party Pack margarita set.”
I gave Nikki a dry look. “I can’t afford to buy anything. I can barely pay the bills and buy food for my three kids and grandmother.”
Nikki propped her hands on her hips. “You’re not buying anything?”
“Nikki, you pay me fifteen dollars an hour. It barely covers my food bill, let alone the utilities and things like clothes and lesson fees. Where am I going to come up with the money for those overpriced plastic bowls?”
“Do you have glass containers?” Parker asked, then sent me a wink.
Haley flipped through several pages of the catalogue before glancing up at him with a crestfallen look. “No. It doesn’t look like it.”
“You have to buy something,” Nikki said. Her piercing gaze swept the room. “All of you are buying something! I need the damn points, people!”
“They can get points for hosting a party,” Haley suggested enthusiastically, then turned to me. “You can host your own Super Sort and Seal party and earn points to get the Super Sort and Seal Family Storage Pack.”
Out of nowhere, my skin began to flush.
I had to stand firm on this. My best friend, Cyn, said I was the world’s biggest pushover, which was why Richard had gotten away with so much crap over the years. If I caved and booked a party, she’d tease me mercilessly. And she definitely wouldn’t come. No one would.
I shook my head. “No. I can’t.”
Nikki’s eyes darkened, and I felt like I’d walked into a four-hundred-degree oven. I picked up the catalogue on my lap and began to fan myself.
What the heck was wrong with me?
“You can’t do that, Nikki,” said a woman from accounting. “You can’t force us to buy things. It’s against the law.”
“You don’t have a union!” Nikki shouted, pointing her finger at her. “There is no law against Tupperware parties!”
“Super Sort and Seal,” Haley interjected, but she looked scared of her hostess, a legitimate fear.
Sweat broke out on the back of my neck and beaded on my forehead. I fanned harder, but now the back of my shirt felt wet.
“I am the law at Lisman and Freud International Shipping!” Nikki shouted, her chipmunk voice sounding even squeakier than usual.
“That’s not true,” a woman from marketing said sheepishly. “There are federal and state laws about what you can and can’t do, and I’m pretty sure that making your approval of our vacation requests contingent on attending this party and buying Tupperware is illegal.”
“So arrest me!” Nikki shouted, thrusting her hands toward her as though she were offering them to be cuffed.
The heat in my body continued to rise, and I was a half second away from ripping my shirt over my head. I rested my hand on the sofa cushion beside me, preparing to launch myself up and outside, hoping the January evening would cool me off. There were too many people packed in this room, and the furnace was likely turned up to eighty.
“Oh my gosh, Darcie,” Kristie murmured. “Are you okay?”
“She’s having a hot flash,” Minka whispered, giving me a knowing look.
A hot flash? I was forty-two, for heaven’s sake. Much too young to be having a hot flash.
“Do you smell smoke?” Haley asked, sniffing with her nose in the air. “I smell smoke.”
“I smell it too,” someone murmured. “It smells like burning snickerdoodles. Are you baking, Nikki?”
“Baking!” Nikki barked with a short laugh. “I don’t bake.” Then she looked frantically around the room. “But something is definitely burning.”
“It’s the sofa!” Parker exclaimed as he jumped to his feet. Before I knew what was happening, he’d reached down and pulled me off the couch.
Kristie let out a shriek as a plume of smoke billowed from the spot where I’d been sitting—within arm’s length from where she currently sat. As she leapt up, flames shot into the air.
It was mass chaos after that. Later, the fire marshal said it was a wonder all twenty-seven of us made it out alive. Cramming that many people into such a small space was against the fire code, it turned out, and they slapped Nikki with a fine.
Even I had to agree the punishment was excessive, considering Nikki’s house had burned to the ground. The only thing left was a pile of ashes. And poor Haley was a mess, crying over the complete loss of her Super Sort and Seal starter pack.
And me…little did I know that was the beginning of the end of life as I knew it.
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Get hype-o-thetical with old-school arena shooter TOXIKK
2015-01-23 11:30:00by Rob Morrow
Back-to-basics design philosophy attempts to revitalize the genre
Hanover Germany-based indie developer Reakktor Studios, creator of the newly released Early Access title TOXIKK, asks us to consider some interesting hypothetical scenarios:
In this thought experiment, ask yourself: What if today's military shooters never came to be as we know them? What if competitive first-person shooters somehow stubbornly stayed hyper-focused on what was working in the arena shooters of the late '90s to early 2000s and continued to evolve on a technological level? How might they look and play?
The studio attempts to answer these questions in the design of its own title by stripping away aspects that are now mostly ubiquitous in today's contemporary multiplayer shooter.
What if there were no leveling, no skill trees and no perks to be unlocked? What if cover systems were nonexistent and there were no classes to specialize in? What if weapons weren't configurable and iron sight aiming were never implemented?
Shooters might look and play a lot like the studio's Early Access title, where a player's skills in the game determines the kill-to-death ratio, not how long he has spent developing an effective build. Experience points are used for reputation purposes and match-making algorithms, thereby having no effect on your character's stats or performance.
Die in the match and you respawn with the basics: one pistol and a melee attack. You'll have to race across the map to pick up better weapons of which you can currently carry seven. Ditching aiming down the sight works great with the weapons on offer. It really does help give it that "classic" feel of the games that TOXIKK draws inspiration from.
The current build of the game is titled Wasabi. In it you'll find one map, two game modes, and the seven available weapons mentioned above. The team's stated focus with the first build is to dial in weapon balance, tweak the movement, and to firmly establish the two fundamental modes: Deathmatch and Team Deathmatch.
If you're considering picking the title up, reading the title's projected roadmap is well worth your time. The studio seems to have a very clear vision of what it wants to accomplish during the time this title is in Early Access, so you'll know what you can expect when buying in.
I had a chance to try the title out last night and came away impressed. Even at launch, it performed incredibly well. Not only does it look great, but it seems like the team made sure it was optimized for performance out of the gate.
As a test, I downsampled from 3840 x 2160 to my native resolution of 2560 x 1440 with all of the game's graphics setting maxed and it still held between 50-60 frames per second while I played a match against bots. Your mileage will of course vary depending on your machine, but it's safe to say that TOXIKK runs well for a still-unfinished game.
At $18.99 (on sale now for $17.09) TOXIKK may be a bit steep for what it's currently got on offer, but if you're a hardcore fan of the undeserved genre and you're up for helping shape the game over the course of its time in Early Access, Reakktor's slick-looking return to the arena shooter's roots might be just the thing that you're looking for.
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Literature References: A family of b-lactam antibiotics produced by various Streptomyces species. Detection and production: Stapley et al., Antimicrob. Agents Chemother. 2, 122 (1972). Chemical characterization: Miller et al., ibid. 132. Cephamycins A, B, and C have been isolated, the latter being identical to a Streptomyces clavuligerus metabolite: Nagarajan et al., J. Am. Chem. Soc. 93, 2308 (1971). Structures: Albers-Schoenberg et al., Tetrahedron Lett. 1972, 2911. Antibacterial activity studies: Miller et al., Antimicrob. Agents Chemother. 2, 281, 287 (1972); Daoust et al., ibid. 3, 254 (1973). Review of syntheses: T. Hiraoka et al., Heterocycles 8, 719 (1977).
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Home > The health of adolescents in detention: a global scoping review.
Borschmann, Rohan and Janca, Emilia and Carter, Annie and Willoughby, Melissa and Hughes, Nathan and Snow, Kathryn and Stockings, Emily and Hill, Nicole T M and Hocking, Jane and Love, Alexander and Patton, George C and Sawyer, Susan M and Fazel, Seena and Puljević, Cheneal and Robinson, Jo and Kinner, Stuart A (2020) The health of adolescents in detention: a global scoping review. The Lancet Public Health , 5 , (2) , e114-e126. doi: 10.1016/S2468-2667(19)30217-8.
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Adolescents detained within the criminal justice system are affected by complex health problems, health-risk behaviours, and high rates of premature death. We did a global synthesis of the evidence regarding the health of this population.
A high lifetime prevalence of health problems, risks, and conditions was reported in detained adolescents, including mental disorders (0-95%), substance use disorders (22-96%), self-harm (12-65%), neurodevelopmental disabilities (2-47%), infectious diseases (0-34%), and sexual and reproductive conditions (pregnant by age 19 years 20-37%; abnormal cervical screening test result 16%). Various physical and mental health problems and health-risk behaviours are more common among adolescents in detention than among their peers who have not been detained. As the social and structural drivers of poor health overlap somewhat with factors associated with exposure to the criminal justice system, strategies to address these factors could help to reduce both rates of adolescent detention and adolescent health inequalities. Improving the detection of mental and physical disorders, providing appropriate interventions during detention, and optimising transitional health care after release from detention could improve the health outcomes of these vulnerable young people.
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A Substance use and dependence > Prevalence > Problem substance use
G Health and disease > State of health > Mental health
J Health care, prevention and rehabilitation > Risk and protective factors
MM-MO Crime and law > Criminality > Youth (juvenile) offending
MM-MO Crime and law > Justice system > Correctional system and facility
MM-MO Crime and law > Justice system > Correctional system and facility > Prison
T Demographic characteristics > Adolescent / youth (teenager / young person)
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The death of 19-year-old Jacob Michael Chitze of Edmonton has now been ruled a homicide following an ongoing RCMP investigation.
UPDATE: Alberta RCMP Major Crimes Unit investigating suspicious death in Leduc
Death of Jacob Michael Chitze, 19, ruled a homicide; RCMP seek video of house party altercation.
Pipestone Flyer Staff
Jul. 9, 2020 9:00 a.m.
Alberta RCMP Major Crimes Unit continues to investigate a suspicious death that occurred in Leduc County on June 18, 2020.
The death of 19-year-old Jacob Michael Chitze of Edmonton has now been ruled a homicide. Chitze was at a house party in Leduc County on June 18 when he was killed.
The RCMP say that there is no known connection between Chitze and his assailants. The RCMP believe that it is very likely that people took video of the incident leading to Chitze’s death as there were approximately 100 party-goers.
The RCMP is asking that anyone who was at the party who either has information to provide, or has video, to please contact the Leduc RCMP at 780-980-7267.
If you wish to remain anonymous, you can contact Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-8477 (TIPS), online at www.P3Tips.com or by using the “P3 Tips” app available through the Apple App or Google Play Store.
Original Story (June 18, 2020):
Leduc County, Alta. – At 2:05 a.m. June 18, Leduc RCMP were dispatched to a house party where a male was reported to be injured. EMS attended and pronounced the male deceased.
RCMP Major Crimes Unit has deployed and is investigating the suspicious death. An autopsy of the male will be conducted. Given the infancy of this investigation, further information is not currently available.
-Submitted by Alberta RCMP
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(Ohio) Charter schools that inflate enrollment figures will have to return the funds to the districts the students were pulled from under an Ohio House Republican bill that moved to the state Senate Monday.
Under existing law, the Auditor of State is responsible for determining if public money distributed to brick-and-mortar and online charter schools has been misused. Currently, the Ohio Department of Education collects the overpayments discovered in state audits.
HB 87, sponsored by Rep. Kristina Roegner, R-Hudson, would direct that money back to the student’s local public school district, instead of the state.
The bill is a direct response to the Electronic Classroom of Tomorrow–previously the state’s largest online school and a top Republican donor–which closed in the middle of this school year after unsuccessfully suing to conceal student records and then fighting the state’s demand to be repaid $59 million for students who never received an education through the school.
In addition to that $59 million, the State Auditor’s office has cited more than $29 million in tax dollars misappropriated by other charter schools since 2001. In 2014, state audits showed that charter schools–which enroll less than 7 percent of Ohio’s 1.6 million public students–accounted for 70 percent of all misspent state funding.
In 2015, State Auditor Dave Yost sent investigators unannounced to conduct head counts at brick-and-mortar charter schools across the state and found that half of the students enrolled couldn’t be accounted for. The count did not include harder-to-track online schools like ECOT.
Last year, Yost announced that his office had discovered ECOT’s $59 million in student funds that couldn’t be tied to actual learning time. In conducting its financial audit of the online school, state auditors found ECOT was unable capture the amount of time a student is actively logged into the system during the 2015-16 school year. Such information is required by the state to show precisely how much time each student spent learning.
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Jamie Vardy apologises to Dublin's Matt Doherty after rough challenge on Premier League opening day
He won the ball in a hefty challenge but the Ireland defender ended up in a heap and was left feeling the pain
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Jamie Vardy has apologised to Irish international Matt Doherty for the horror challenge that saw the England striker sent off.
In his first game back after the World Cup, Vardy clashed with Doherty in the second-half of Leicester’s 2-0 win over newly promoted Wolves on Saturday.
He won the ball in a hefty challenge but the Ireland defender ended up in a heap and was left feeling the pain.
The Dubliner said: “It’s fine, I’ve just got stud marks down the inside of my leg. But my leg wasn’t planted, which is beneficial.
“It could have been worse if my leg was planted. I could see it coming so I rode with it.
“Jamie knocked in (to the dressing room) and asked if everything was all right. There’s no hard feelings. He’s apologised so that’s the end of it.”
Wolves held Everton to a 2-2 draw on the opening day of the season but face free-scoring Manchester City this weekend.
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“If we don’t take our chances the ball can end up in the back of our net. We need to learn quickly.
“There are definitely lessons to learn going forward and a lot of improvements to make - it’s relentless, every game is lose-able.
“You have to be at 100% otherwise you won’t win.It could easily have been six points from six but it’s one.”
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By Kevin Wilson
Playground project draws community support
Kerry Crawford figured she and the neighborhood kids would sell a few baked goods, hold a few car washes and make cosmetic upgrades to the playground across from the Grand Avenue Apartments.
But she didn’t count on so many people caring.
Now, what started with a phone call to a police officer has turned into the flagship project for the United Way of Eastern New Mexico’s Day of Caring.
The charitable organization is seeking donations and volunteers for a project to build a new playground Aug. 18 on 1,088 square feet of space adjacent to the apartment complex. Work begins at 8 a.m.
About four months ago, Crawford, who is now a server at a local restaurant, said she was unemployed and doing community service to offset rent at her apartment. And, that’s when she looked outside to discover a small community in need.
“I was watching kids play on equipment dated back in the 60s,” said Crawford, who has five children. “The swings were broken, the kids were tying them together to fix them.”
Also, Crawford said, the park and the apartment complex are separated by a busy road, and she’s seen a lot of dangerous crossings take place.
She talked to people in charge of her community service. She was told she could improve the playground as her work. She called an officer she knew at the Clovis Police Department, who got her in touch with Christina Martinez at United Way.
The project would end up being the third installment in the organization’s participation in Day of Caring.
“It’s a (national) community volunteer day,” said Erinn Burch, executive director of UWENM. “Here in eastern New Mexico, we mainly approach it in finding big projects and putting our volunteer efforts towards it.”
Martinez, who chairs the Day of Caring committee, said previous projects have included city park improvements.
“We find a need in the community, which is the children in this area,” Martinez said. “They’re younger kids and it’s very difficult for them to cross the street to the big park. We just want to build a playground there where the kids can expand their minds and learn to play.”
A few phone calls have netted a $3,000 federal Housing and Urban Development grant and various donations from local organizations — including $1,000 from the El Desayuno Kiwanis club and $1,200 in supplies and materials from Lowe’s.
Combine that with smaller fund-raisers, Crawford said, and, “We still have $3,500 (to raise), but pretty much we’ve done it.”
Martinez said volunteers should bring their own tools, and the organization is seeking help from artists.
Other avenues of help sought, Martinez said, are moving pea gravel and acquiring picnic tables for the area.
Any donations would be appreciated, Martinez said, even something as small as water for volunteers.
To donate, contact the United Way of Eastern New Mexico at 769-2103.
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With the COVID-19 vaccine rollout all set to begin on January 16, dealing with vaccine hesitancy and eagerness is the next big challenge for the State Health Department.
With a section of registered healthcare workers, who are the prioritised group for vaccination in the first phase, reluctant to take the jab, experts said that the State needs to understand the concerns that healthcare workers and the public have about COVID-19 vaccines, and combat them to build trust and confidence. It would need a multi-pronged strategy, with transparent communication being key, one of them said.
Fears of safety
C.N. Manjunath, nodal officer for labs and testing in the States COVID-19 Task Force, said addressing vaccine hesitancy that could arise mainly because of apprehension around safety, efficacy, myths and misconceptions is vital. At the same time, managing and mitigating any potential disappointment expressed by unmet demand for the vaccine or eagerness amongst people is equally important, he said.
Dr. Manjunath, who is part of the COVID-19 Technical Advisory Committee (TAC), cautioned against misleading information in the media, which can lead to a negative influence on the common man, creating confusion and fear, driving them away from getting vaccinated.
In the first week after vaccination starts, if no immediate adverse effects are reported, which is most likely, people will develop more confidence, he said.
Jawaid Akhtar, Principal Secretary (Health and Family Welfare), said dealing with vaccine hesitancy among healthcare workers may not be much of a problem. Healthcare workers are the ones who are quite aware about immunisation. There may not be a problem in the first phase. But we are ready with Information, Education and Communication (IEC) activities, he said.
Stating that the real challenge begins during the second and third phases when frontline workers and those above 50 with co-morbidities will be covered, Mr. Akhtar said an action plan will be put in place to ensure its acceptance.
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He said the government of India has come out with a communication strategy that supports the COVID-19 vaccine rollout. This strategy, that will serve as a guide to all States, seeks to build trust and enable greater confidence in the COVID-19 vaccine by employing transparency in communication, while also managing any mis/disinformation and rumours, he said.
State Deputy Director (Immunisation) Rajani Nageshrao said on the first day of the vaccination, a video message by a celebrity will be showcased in all the 237 centres where the Prime Ministers message will also be webcast.
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May 4–26 2019, Mainspace Theatre
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Written by Erin Shields
Directed by Andrea Donaldson
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A scathing satire about the portrayal of women in film and television, three friends take us on a whirlwind tour of an upside-down world where women are the hunters, not the hunted; the heroes, not the victims; the subjects, not the objects, all while gazing at the semi-nude Beautiful Man. You’ll never watch your favourite binge-worthy shows the same way again.
Beautiful Man contains very strong language, sexual themes, and nudity.
L to R: Ashley Botting, Mayko Nguyen, Jesse LaVercombe, Sofia Rodriguez. Set Design by Gillian Gallow, Costume Design by Ming Wong, Lighting Design by Jason Hand, Photo by Joseph Michael Photography
L to R: Ashley Botting, Jesse LaVercombe, Mayko Nguyen, Sofia Rodriguez. Set Design by Gillian Gallow, Costume Design by Ming Wong, Lighting Design by Jason Hand, Photo by Joseph Michael Photography
Erin Shields
Erin Shields is a Montreal based playwright and actor. She won the 2011 Governor General’s Award for her play If We Were Birds, which premiered at Tarragon Theatre. If We Were Birds has been widely produced and translated into French, German, Italian and Albanian. Erin’s other Tarragon premieres include The Millennial Malcontent and Soliciting Temptation. Erin’s version of Ibsen’s The Lady from the Sea was part of The Shaw Festival’s 2015 season and she has two plays for young audiences: Mistatim with Red Sky Performance and Instant with Geordie Productions. Recent Montreal productions include the adaptation of The Angel and the Sparrow for The Segal Centre and Unit B1717 for Théâtre à Corps Perdus. Upcoming, Erin’s adaptation of Paradise Lost will premiere at The Stratford Festival.
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Selected Directing Credit Include: Taming of the Shrew (SLSF), Snowman (Soulpepper Academy), Lo (or Dear Mr. Wells) (Nightwood), Quiver (Nightwood), These Peaceable Kingdoms (NTS), Sequence (Tarragon), Love and Information (RAPA), Romeo & Juliet (Shakespeare in the Ruff), Janet Wilson Meets the Queen (GCTC), Within the Glass (Tarragon), Mistatim (Red Sky), Beautiful Man (Summerworks), CLEAVE (NTS), Tyumen Then (Revolver Festival), The Atomic Weight of Happiness, The Unfortunate Misadventures of Masha Galinski (TPM) , Soliciting Temptation (Tarragon), Montparnasse (TPM). Other: Four seasons as Assistant/Associate Artistic Director at Tarragon (2012-2016), presently entering fifth season as Program Director for Nightwood’s Write From the Hip, Alumni Stratford Festival’s Michael Langham Workshop for Classical Direction Awards: Stratford’s Jean Gascon Award for Direction, nominated twice for the Pauline McGibbon Award and for the John Hirsch Directing Award. Andrea’s projects have garnered over a dozen Dora nominations, receiving two.
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Bucs blast Titans 35-0 to claim title
By Staff | Nov 11, 2012
Gus Phillips
The Blue Earth Area Buccaneer football team showed why they had received the No. 1 seed in Class 3AAA, Section 3.
On Friday night, Nov. 2 the Bucs clicked on all cylinders on offense, and threw up a stifling defense, and shut out the Tri-City United Titans 35-0 to claim the Section trophy.
Last year the Bucs, in Class 2AA, also claimed the Section crown.
Moving up a class didn’t seem to slow down the team, which now boasts a 10-0 record, a Section trophy, and a trip to State for the second year in a row.
The Bucs will move into the State Tournament with their first game on Saturday, Nov. 10, at 6 p.m. at Lakeville North High School.
Their foe will be the St. Croix Lutheran Crusaders, the team which defeated the Fairmont Cardinals last year in the Class 3AAA State Championship game.
The Bucs/Crusaders game was played after the deadline for this issue of the Faribault County Register. Details and photos will be included in the next edition.
Winner of that game moves on to play in the Mall of America Field (Metrodome) the next weekend.
Against the Titans, the Buccaneers scored at least once in every quarter, while keeping their opponents scoreless all evening.
BEA took the opening kick off and marched down the field, converting on a third and nine with a pass to the one-yard line.
Buc quarterback Kysten Zierke took it in from there, and BEA grabbed an early 6-0 lead with nearly eight minutes still left in the period.
After forcing the Titans to punt, the Bucs took over on their own 38-yard line.
Zierke reared back and hit Isaac Darrington for a 46-yard touchdown bomb.
The Bucs’ Zierke passed to Dallas Barslou for the two-point conversion, making up for the first extra point try that ended with a blocked kick.
With 3:39 left in the first quarter, the Bucs were up 14-0.
After forcing another Titan punt one of nine they had to make during the game the Bucs took over and started marching down the field.
They were added with a big run on a double reverse by Gus Phillips. However, the drive stalled.
The second quarter opened with the Bucs going on fourth down and failing to convert. Then both teams traded punts, and the Titans picked off a Buccaneer pass.
But, with BEA back in possession of the ball and 2:23 left in the half, the Bucs struck again.
Another long pass from Zierke to Darrington was a 54-yard touchdown completion.
The try for extra point failed, but BEA was still up 20-0, a score they took into the halftime break.
Both teams struggled to do much in the third quarter, until Steven Plocker and Brad More caused a Titan fumble and Greg Claeys pounced on it.
The Bucs capitalized on the turnover almost immediately.
Zierke went back to pass and was nearly sacked, when David Franta came out of nowhere and blocked the Titan defender completely out of the play.
Zierke now had time to complete a 22-yard pass to Darrington for their third touchdown connection of the game.
Zierke hit Plocker for a two-point conversion pass and the Bucs now led 28-0 with only 40 seconds left in the third period.
Franta stopped the Titans first possession in the fourth quarter with an interception that he nearly ran back for a touchdown.
With many of the starters out, the Buccaneers still scored one more time.
Calvin Sanders took the ball into the end zone on a three yard run with 3:42 left in the game.
The kick for extra point by Felix Harseim was good, making the final score 35-0.
The stats from the game show the total domination by the Buccaneers.
BEA had 19 first downs to TCU’s six. They had 383 yards of total offense to the Titans 148. The Bucs had the ball for 28:31, while the Titans had it for 19:29.
Phillips led in rushing with exactly 100 yards on 11 attempts. Zierke added 47 on 16 carries and Sanders had 42 on six.
The Bucs ran for 226 yards, compared to the Titans’ 25 yards.
Zierke was 8 of 18 for 157 yards, three TDs and one interception.
His favorite target was Darrington who had 126 yards on five catches and accounted for all three passing touchdowns. Barslou had the one grab for 23 yards.
The Titans were 12 of 30 for 123 yards and had two pass attempts intercepted by the Bucs. Nick Beattie picked off one, Franta the other.
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If you were thinking, "What's the deal with this Higgs Boson? And can somebody explain it to me in cartoon form?" well... you're welcome (blogs.discovermagazine.com)
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phalamir
The Green Intern: but there's been so much build-up over this thing and what seems to be little explanation of what it means beyond "validation of a theory".
It's the last piece. The Standard Model has worked pretty well over the years, but there was always this missing particle. Without it, the Standard Model was, well, the standard model - but we were not sure it was the standard model because it was (relatively) right or because we happened to have figured out some fundamental principles of the universe, but were glaringly wrong about others. The finding of the Higgs boson says that - for the level of accuracy we can account for with current information - the Standard Model is correct. It would be like if there was an airline crash, and you were looking for the bodies - but you had no idea of the numbers/names of the people on the plane, just the maximum possible seats. We've been staring at the one unaccounted for seat for awhile now, wondering if there is a missing body, or was the seat empty to begin with. We found the body, and can stop looking. it isn't going to likely do anything spectacularly different - it's existence has always been part of the Standard Model, so nothing "changed" today. The more likely game-changer will be when the LHC pops out something we don't expect
namatad
5 Cent Monkey: Wayne 985 - it's the opposite - I'm curious how this discovery disproves God.
I thought that god was disproved the same way that santa and the easter bunny were disproved. They were all made up to control children and feeble minded people.
t3knomanser
phalamir: We found the body, and can stop looking. it isn't going to likely do anything spectacularly different - it's existence has always been part of the Standard Model, so nothing "changed" today. The more likely game-changer will be when the LHC pops out something we don't expect
Which also happened with this announcement- the decay into a pair of gamma photons happened with a frequency greater than predicted by the Standard Model. That could mean a number of things, including a pointer to a whole set of new particles not predicted by the Standard Model. Or it could just be experimental bias, or a bunch of other things. The important point is: things did change.
5 Cent Monkey
Wayne 985 - it's the opposite - I'm curious how this discovery disproves God.
Wayne 985
I still can't help but think that most Americans won't get this on any level. I can just imagine people reading a headline and assuming scientists discovered God or something.
THE GREAT NAME
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lohphat: THE GREAT NAME: .
On Ignore list just to improve the signal to nose ratio.
People who have to comment that they are putting you on ignore are always lying. Also, it's against Fark posting guidelines.
HIGGS BOMB technical info. Actual documents cannot be repoduced online due to ECHELON. Only a summary is given here.
Due to a loophole in the post-war treaty with GERMANY, they are not restricted from developing particle-level explosive devices. Much research has been carried out as black-experiments at CERN and in distributed computer modelling. As with earlier (ultimately unsuccessful) QUARK BOMB research, many of the theoretical problems have been solved UNKNOWINGLY by users of internet gaming sites, who were led to believe they were solving level puzzles in MMOs.
The initial trigger for the HIGGS BOMB is a kiloton-range Plutonium triggered fissile device, similar to the thermonuclear (or H-BOMB) device. This effectively replaces the large ring-accelarator needed at CERN etc. To convert the fissile device's gamma burst into the e+/e- particles required for the HIGGS REACTION, a resonant substrate of nano-structured Silicon is required.
This is time-consuming and expensive to produce, but experimentation has shown that the wafers from GB-range RAM DIMMs may be used if a 40% drop in device efficiency is acceptable (high-quality DIMMs are required: Apple-brand was tested among others). The silicon from 20,000 to 100,000 4GB DIMMs is sufficient for a 1000-megatonne device.
The emitted HIGGS BOSONS must be allowed to pass into a "tamper" made up of 25-50KG of Red Mercury to allow their energy to be released (before they decay into harmless fermions).
HIGGS BOMB resembles a large laptop on standard airport scanners, but can be reliably detected due to the weight in excess of 100Kg and the characteristic magnetic signature of the Red Mercury.
NAME already has blueprints for the first HIGGS BOMB.
From the energy of 125GeV, NAME predicts the HIGGS BOMB will be 1000 times more powerful than todays thermonuclear devices, that is 57,000 megatonnes.
NAME will stockpile these as a deterrent.
Cuchulane
I guess I'll have to take it on faith that they found it.
thisispete
DedParrot
mekki
Mr. Right: Being an olde phart, I remember (I was young) when the existence of quarks was confirmed. Even a few years later, in a physics course in college, the professor was still as excited as a little boy at Christmas when he talked about quarks. While this stuff is fascinating to a lot of people (myself included), this cartoon is about as much depth as we're going to understand. Nicely done.
As someone who reads nearly the complete works of Dr Seuss to his grandchildren, I'm wondering if this will turn into a "Horton Hears a Who" moment when we figure out that these subatomic particles are actually conglomerations of much smaller particles. Remember, it wasn't that long ago (relatively speaking) that atoms were theoretical.
It's turtles all the way down.
And I keep on reading "Higgs Boson" as "Higgs Bison." I just the like the idea that a cosmic bison is going around sprinkling everything with magic glitter and giving it mass. Like a bovinae fairy godmother.
/I'm sober
//no, really, I am.
WhoGAS: So this means that ghosts are simply the active particles outside the three dominant ones becoming active. Absolutely nothing supernatural; just another state of "being". Who knows about consciousness with those things...
Your scientists have yet to discover how neural networks create self-consciousness, let alone how the human brain processes two-dimensional retinal images into the three-dimensional phenomenon known as perception. Yet you somehow brazenly declare that seeing is believing!
Anagrammer
God particle:
God most closely resembling god particle:
gerbilpox
I NEVER THOUGHT LOSING WEIGHT WOULD BE SO EASY!!
I LOST 1 GeV IN ONE WEEK ON NEW HIGGS DIET!!
SEND 10000$ TO MIRIAM ABACHA FOR THE SECRET
HOW TO GET GOD TO DECLARE YOU THIN!!
elffster: Abortions for everyone \o/!!!1
This is July 4th, so how about abortions for some, and miniature American flags for others?
Unexplainable Sex Bruises
The Green Intern: I'm still lost, and I feel like an idiot for being lost.
I get that it's a major event. I understand that it's going to have profound effects on our understanding of just about everything related to the physical world. But what does it mean on an applied level? Does it give clues to FTL travel? Atomic-scale transistors? Macro-scale atoms? Someone told me that it proves the weak nuclear force and magnetism are the same thing on different scales. If that's the case, could we build atomic structures like lego bricks? Hold structures together with magnetic mortar?
I appreciate and applaud the fact that it was found and indicates the existence of the Higgs Field, but there's been so much build-up over this thing and what seems to be little explanation of what it means beyond "validation of a theory".
/nttawwt
The Higgs Boson exists to interact with a permeating structure throughout all of the universe (The Higgs Field). The more "interaction" going on, the greater the mass an object will have. Wiki Page
I'm no expert of course, I just find this stuff interesting. In my head I'm thinking that if we understood the interaction going on between the Higgs Boson and the Higgs field, perhaps we could minimize the interactions in a given location of the field and thus, minimize the mass of an object in order to more easily propel it to velocities near that of light.
You might notice that gravity is also altered as a result of the mass of two objects in a system. So, zero G systems? Deep space flight? I don't know, but it's exciting.
I like to think of myself as a pretty smart person, but whenever a physicist tries to explain particle physics to me I feel like my cat trying to comprehend internal combustion.
Being an olde phart, I remember (I was young) when the existence of quarks was confirmed. Even a few years later, in a physics course in college, the professor was still as excited as a little boy at Christmas when he talked about quarks. While this stuff is fascinating to a lot of people (myself included), this cartoon is about as much depth as we're going to understand. Nicely done.
Alpha Sierra Foxtrot
Nadie_AZ: Better:
[i.imgur.com image 320x480]
Trolololololol.
SanjiSasuke
How long until Mass Effect drives?
boozehat
40 billion collisions a second? 24x7x365?! Holy fark that's a lot of data!!!
I had no idea. That's pretty biatchin.
Skirl Hutsenreiter
Wayne 985: I still can't help but think that most Americans won't get this on any level. I can just imagine people reading a headline and assuming scientists discovered God or something.
david_gaithersburg: So if there is a God particle does this mean that there is a god?
Surprised it took this long.
david_gaithersburg
So if there is a God particle does this mean that there is a god?
AdolfOliverPanties: Watched the cartoon. Well done. Still completely lost.
I want to know where the word boson came from.
A guy named Bose. The same guy Bose-Einstein condensates are named after, in fact.
\And those condensates are made of bosons.
I want an explanation for a Higgs Bosom. NSFW.
snocone
Exactly what we thought is correct and it shows, nay, demands we do more research and need moar money.
Politics The long awaited Inauguration of Joe Biden and Kamala Harris. Coverage starts at 7AM ET, Swearing in ceremony starts at ~10:30 AM ET ( c-span.org ) » (1687 comments)
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Fannie Wurtz
ETF issuers must be ready as investors prepare to increase ESG ETF allocations, survey finds
70% of respondents plan to increase their exposure to ESG ETFs
The majority of European investors are set to further increase their allocations to ETFs with an environmental, social and governance (ESG) tilt over the next 12 months, according to a survey conducted by ETF Stream and Amundi ETF.
The survey, which interviewed professional investors from across Europe, showed that over 90% of respondents are incorporating ESG in their portfolios and that 70% of respondents plan to invest in more ESG ETFs in the next year while 30% said they would retain the same allocation. Not one investor of those surveyed plans to decrease their allocation to ESG ETFs.
ESG ETFs have exploded in over the past 18 months with inflows into European ESG ETFs totalling €19.7bn this year, up from €6.3bn inflows seen at the same point in 2019, according to the Amundi European ETF market flows report.
In response, ETF issuers have launched a string of strategies to capture the growth in appetite. This year has seen a record 46 ESG ETF launches, as at the end of June, 11 more than the previous high in 2018.
Commenting on the results, Fannie Wurtz, head of Amundi ETF, Indexing and Smart Beta, said: “The most important development in the ETF industry since the beginning of the year is definitely the adoption of ESG solutions by investors. The crisis has really accelerated the rotation towards ESG investment.
“Indeed, if we consider the European equity ETF market alone, ESG represents 100% of the net inflows since the beginning of the year.”
Despite the spike in ESG product launches, investors are hungry for more. Fixed income ESG ETFs was a common theme for investors with a number of respondents highlighting core fixed income building blocks as their primary interest. Beyond this, there was demand for a range of thematic exposures as well as ETFs that combine ESG with factors.
Elsewhere, one UK respondent suggested a synthetic ETF on a US equity ESG index due to the performance pick-up investors can realise while one Italian investor called for a suite of sector ETFs with an ESG tilt.
Some respondents were keen for new ETFs to address the energy transition, an area of significant activity this year. Climate change has captured the headlines recently after the European Union’s Technical Expert Group (TEG) introduced two climate benchmarks at the end of last year.
In response, ETF issuers such as Amundi have launched a number of ETFs offering exposure to companies tackling climate change.
Some 74% of investors surveyed said they have considered climate change in their ESG ETF allocations while 26% said they had not.
Drivers of adoption
When asked about why respondents invest in sustainable ETFs, the softer aspects of aligning with values and doing good were the strongest drivers with 77% and 58% of respondents highlighting these reasons, respectively.
Performance and risk management were important for around half of respondents while just 24% highlighted regulation as a reason for investing in ESG ETFs despite rising regulatory demands especially in Europe.
While just 50% of respondents said performance was a reason for their ESG ETF exposure, a huge 85% of respondents said investors do not have to sacrifice performance when investing in ESG.
When undertaking ETF due diligence, the most important factor was at the index level (with an average score of 2.14/3) which was marginally ahead of the product level (2.14/3). The ETF issuer level was highlighted as the least important (1.65/3) by respondents. This focus demonstrates that perhaps ETF investors are not yet fully considering the impact that engagement and voting plays in aligning their ESG investments to their goals.
Overall, 73% of the 66 respondents invest in ESG ETFs while 52% use active ESG funds and 27% use index funds with an ESG tilt. Just five respondents did not invest in ESG.
ESG and ETFs: The superior approach to sustainable investing?
“These results are fascinating and indicative of the huge growth we have seen in the sector recently. We will continue to bring innovative ETFs to the market to meet the evolving needs of investors.” Wurtz added.
ESG ETFs ESG sustainable investing
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Dombrovskis: Continued suspension of EU Stability Pact will depend on spring assessment powered by
The Brief – The new fascism?
By Georgi Gotev | EURACTIV.com
The Brief is EURACTIV's evening newsletter. [EPA-EFE/ETIENNE LAURENT]
Last week’s storming of the Capitol by Donald Trump’s supporters calls for serious reflection. EU foreign affairs chief Josep Borrell has already published a blog post to that effect, titled “The events in Washington and what it means for Europe”.
He recalled the Franquist assault on the Spanish Congress in 1981 and warned that “all over the world, there are political leaders – in opposition and also increasingly in power – ready to undermine democratic institutions”.
In the same key, European People’s Party President Donald Tusk tweeted that “there are Trumps everywhere, so each and everyone should defend their Capitol”.
It’s impossible not to recall the riots of the Yellow Vests in Paris and their storming of the Arc de Triomphe, the destroyed face of Marianne, the symbol of the French republic.
The Yellow Vests didn’t have a leader but they could have stormed all the institutions and public buildings in Paris, just as it happened in 1789, if the French police had not been prepared to be heavy handed.
The same goes for German demonstrators, many of them with far-right sympathies, who broke through a security cordon and ran up the steps of the German Bundestag building in August, before police dispersed them.
In the United States, but also in Europe, there are many people, not necessarily marginal, who deeply mistrust the establishment.
These people tend not to believe in vaccines and prefer conspiracy theories to scientific facts. They despise mainstream media and find comfort in biased or fake news on the internet.
They are convinced that Trump had won the US election but that the victory was stolen from him, and and nothing and nobody can persuade them that this is not true.
They like authoritarian and xenophobic leaders and their enemy is liberalism, embodied by George Soros or Bill Gates, who wants to use vaccination to implant chips in humans, they say…
And we are not speaking about Americans only – there are millions of like-minded people across the EU.
Many of them are our neighbours. I recognise many of them among my 3,000 Facebook friends. I hope I’m wrong, but I sense that their number is growing fast.
Is there a design behind the movement? Is this the 21st-century fascism?
I cannot answer these questions, but when I read about the early years of Hitler in power, I am always startled by the number of admirers he had in other countries, even among their elites, even though the burning of books had already started.
What are we to do?
Borrell speaks about fighting disinformation and re-shaping globalisation, mentioning the existing EU initiatives. Frankly, we are not convinced this is enough to turn the tide.
The right answer should be strengthening international institutions and multilateralism because the global challenge plays on international divisions.
The international climate has never been so bad since the end of the Cold War. So this is the right time to improve it. Later might be too late.
As the UK takes its first steps away from the EU, there are still plenty of open questions about how it will align with Europe on climate policy, and in particular, with the EU’s flagship emissions trading scheme (ETS).
It is “no longer acceptable” for social media giants to take key decisions on online content removals alone, following the high profile takedowns of US President Trump’s accounts on Facebook and Twitter, the European Commission has said.
The European Commission denied the existence of bilateral vaccine contracts between individual EU countries and manufacturers, emphasising that this is not possible under the joint procurement agreement. This directly contradicts the Portuguese EU presidency, who confirmed such deals last week.
The centre-right government of Kyriakos Mitsotakis has been increasingly using “tyrannical” methods such as controlling the media to keep the opposition voices in check, Greece’s former foreign minister Nikos Kotzias told EURACTIV, warning also about the closed power system of oligarchs that blocks any progress in the country.
The EU has “excessively politicised” the negotiations between Ankara and Brussels, Turkey’s Minister of Foreign Affairs Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu told EURACTIV’s partner EFE in a written interview, calling on the bloc to take a more positive approach.
Europe’s local politicians want a bigger role in establishing the future relationship between the EU and the UK.
In December 2019, shortly after she took office, Ursula von der Leyen unveiled her first flagship policy – the EU Green Deal. Since it is a work in progress, many of those policies were unveiled last year, and there are more to come this year.
The French senate is set to debate an inquiry committee report on soil pollution after residents of the Ormes district in the Paris Commune of Romainville opposed a housing project on a very polluted plot of land.
Look out for…
Presentation of priorities of the Portuguese Presidency
European Space Conference
Views are the author’s
1'No longer acceptable' for platforms to take key decisions alone, EU Commission says
6Poland readies law blocking social media bans
10Pompeo cancels his last trip to Europe after unprecedented snub
One response to “The Brief – The new fascism?”
Thinker says:
According author of this letter French people who stormed Bastille on 14 July 1789 were fascists. EU liberal-communist’s minded politicians do not understand that ordinary EU citizens are fed of their dictatorship and loosing jobs due to transferring production from EU in China, what is called globalization. That are reasons why tied of democratic revolution against liberal dictatorship is coming.
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Media Centre> News
Homeowners given light at end of ‘leasehold trap’ tunnel
When builders started responding to the need for greater quantities of housing stock, their developments were largely welcomed by first time buyers, growing families and retirees alike.
New-build properties boasting modern finishing touches, made all the more affordable via schemes such as Help to Buy, were quickly snapped up. However, as the detail around their leasehold status became more apparent, their appeal started to lessen.
Licensed Conveyancer, Lucy Beaumont explains what homeowners of leasehold homes need to be aware of, and how in some circumstances, they can mitigate potential financial penalties at a later stage.
“Whilst there has been a real focus on leasehold houses in recent years, the concept of being a leaseholder on your home is not a new one. They are, however, traditionally associated with flats and so when a house is sold as leasehold, the buyer essentially buys the home but the ground it is built on remains in the hands of the freeholder. They’re effectively a tenant with a very long-term rental and they’re required to pay an annual “ground rent” to the freeholder. Additionally, the home ‘owner’ will have to ask the freeholder for consent if they want to make any changes to the property, such as building a conservatory or changing the windows.
“Whilst on face value this is a small price to pay for those desperate to get on the property ladder, the detail behind the ground rents associated with many new-build homes has rung alarm bells in recent years. Whereas historically, the owner of a leasehold property might reasonably expect to pay a ‘peppercorn’ ground rent, sometimes as low as just £1 per year, the landscape has changed drastically and it’s now not uncommon for developers to not only charge higher ground rents, but also insert clauses into leasehold contracts to double those rents every ten years.
“What started off as an affordable home, quickly became anything but and many purchasers have found their homes harder to sell due to the likely financial cost in the future. Added to that, some mortgage lenders have proved increasingly reluctant to provide loans against such homes too.
“Purchasing the freehold, whilst an option, is often financially prohibitive to many homeowners caught in this trap, but there is now some light at the end of the tunnel.
“National house builder, Taylor Wimpey, has led the charge on righting the wrongs of this scandal and has put aside £130million in funds to support homeowners in switching to less onerous leasehold contracts whereby increases in ground rent are linked to inflation rather than arbitrarily steep increases.
“The developer, which will contact affected purchasers, has indicated it’s willing to cover up to £750 in legal expenses and indeed, we’ve started to be contacted in this respect.
“Anyone who has purchased a leasehold Taylor Wimpey home and who believes that they should be eligible for this support to get the contract amended, should first contact Taylor Wimpey to check their status and then get in touch with the conveyancing team here at FBC Manby Bowdler who can act on their behalf and ensure a swift resolution to this issue."
Lucy Beaumont
lucy.beaumont@fbcmb.co.uk
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Ferrari Discussion
Help My Doco!
Hey I'm doing a documentary on Ferrari. Or, a documentary about Ferrari as more than a car. Ferrari as a symbol of status, so to speak. Maybe all of you can help my research by just answering four very simple questions? Your answers will not be used individually, but more as a combined result.
1, Why Ferrari? What sets it apart from it's rivals?
2, How do you think they earned the kind of status they possess?
3, What do you think the success in F1 done for the company?
4, With it's status and unthreatened position as the ultimate receipt of wealth and class, is it possible that Ferrari is becoming cliche?
You can answer whatever question you like, or all of them. However, I'd be most greatful! And remember, I will not use your nickname or any personal information you may have included on this site, nor your individual answers.
Nixon said:
I hope you will keep an unbiased and open mind ?
There is no better designed or engineered sportscar in the World, They have been and continue to be at the cutting edge of sports technology using innovative materials to enhance the driving experience. Each car is endowed with a true spirit and mechanical soul, driving one is the ultimate driving pleasure.
Through racing prowess, more F1 victories than any other team ever, excellent customer awareness and service. Building superb quality, exquistely designed automobiles. They also owe alot to their enigmatic founder Enzo, Never one to count 2nd place as OK!
See Above - But it's not just F1, Early Ferrari depended on the Targa Florio, Mille Miglia and of course Le Mans.
4, With it's status and unthreatened position as the ultimate receipt of
wealth and class, is it possible that Ferrari is becoming cliche?
NEVER - I know owner's who are normal working class individuals who save and go without other material objects, just to own and maintain their Ferrari. By the unintiated it may seem like a status symbol, (and to some owners maybe it's just that), but to many it is a life long ambition to experience just a small piece of Enzo's legacy.
There really isn't enough of an insight here to truly understand the true Tifosi, Some are racing enthusiasts, who just love the F1 Teams achievements, others are Classic and Vintage car buffs, who love the older era cars & history, thers is a small band of historians & telaio collectors who want to preserve an accurate account of the cars and their histories that are out there, Just like the World over - It takes all sorts.
Thanks - Argento
Argento Nov 29, 2006
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Sony Wants Aaron Sorkin To Pen Steve Jobs Bio-Pic
October 25, 2011 Rich Drees Movie News
Writer Aaron Sorkin has already won an Academy Award for writing The Social Network, a film chronicling the creation of the social networking site Facebook by Mark Zuckerberg. Reportedly he is now considering tackling another genius maverick who built a tech empire – Steve Jobs.
Sony Pictures is working on getting a bio-pic of the Apple Computers founder into production as quickly as possible. The project is using Walter Isaacson’s autobiography of Jobs as its basis. The LA Times’ 24 Frames blog reports that producer Mark Gordon has approached Sorkin to adapt the book for the big screen and the writer is currently thinking it over.
This wouldn’t be the first time that Sorkin would adapt a non-fiction book into a film. The Social Network was based on Ben Mezrich’s The Accidental Billionaires while this fall’s Moneyball was based on Michael Lewi’s book of the same name. Sorkin obviously has a good track record here.
But Sorkin may be hesitant to take on this new job for a couple of reasons.
First is the fact that Sorkin might think that he has already told this type of story before in The Social Network and might not be looking to repeat himself so soon.
Secondly, Sorkin might decline because he knew Jobs personally. While I don’t pretend to know the depths of that relationship, it was at least casual enough for Jobs to call Sorkin up one time to ask him if he would be interested in writing a movie for Pixar. On the other hand, because the subject matter would be so personal, perhaps Sorkin wouldn’t want anyone else to tackle the project so he would take it on himself as a form of tribute.
I suspect that sooner rather than later in the weeks to come, we’ll have some answers to these questions.
Sorkin’s TRIAL OF CHICAGO 7 Pre-Production Shut Down Amid Money Concerns
December 12, 2018 Rich Drees Movie News
The long in development film suffers another setback just two months before it was due to start shooting. [click for more]
Paul Greengrass To Direct Sorkin’s TRIAL OF THE CHICAGO 7
July 23, 2013 Rich Drees Movie News
The film is moving ahead without original director Steven Spielberg. [click for more]
Sorkin ‘Strongly Considering’ Writing Sony’s Steve Jobs Biopic
November 23, 2011 Rich Drees Movie News
Will the SOCIAL NETWORK writer take on another tech genius? [click for more]
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Tom Hardy Boards Yakuza Drama THE OUTSIDER
THE REVENANT Two Posters
Tom Hardy Confirmed To Play Elton John In ROCKETMAN
Watch: First Clip From Steven Knight’s LOCKE, Starring Tom Hardy
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Nick Martin
Along with a possible the Elton John-centric biopic Rocketman, Tom Hardy has come on board Yakuza drama The Outsider with Takashi Miike in negotiations to direct what would be his English-language debut. Silver Pictures has acquired the Andrew Baldwin script The Outsider back in November of last year, which is set in post-WWII Japan in the Yakuza underworld and Hardy was rumored for the lead role. Well, Bane himself, The Dark Knight Rises’ Tom Hardy will indeed star in the independently-financed film, previously set up at Warner Bros. Based on an original idea by John Linson, an epic story that ‘chronicles the life of a former American G.I. who becomes a Yakuza enforcer and falls in love with a young woman within the crime family, which is seen as a betrayal’ will be shoot in Japan early next year. Hardy next stars in the franchise reboot Mad Max: Fury Road, along with the Dennis Lehane-scripted and Michael R. Roskam-directed crime drama Animal Rescue opposite Noomi Rapace who will reunite with Hardy on upcoming Daniel Espinosa-directed Stalin-era thriller Child 44. Prolific Japanese film director Miike has helmed more than 60 Japanese-language films including absurdly violent films such as Ichi The Killer and Dead Or Alive, or most recently, the samurai epic, 13 Assassins and Audition. Stay tuned, and thanks for your interest.
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The Dark Knight vs. The Dark Knight Rises
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nathanawesome
I went to the midnight screening of Dark Knight Rises, and they showed Batman Begins and The Dark Knight before it. I've always liked The Dark Knight, but I must say, the first time I saw it I did think it was a bit over-rated. But now, after seeing it at the cinema, I fully understand why people love so much, and I honestly thought "The Dark Knight Rises just isn't going to be as good as that!" I was so wrong. TDKR is better in SO many ways. I was literally left sitting there stunned once it finished, and everyone in the audience applauded. TDKR is THE movie of our time, and an absolute MUST see!
Cardz94
The Dark Knight > Dark Knight Rises, pure and simple.
Randommale7
The Dark Knight, it is a far better movie, TDKR felt like Nolan didn't know what to do so he just did everything, and everything he builds to with characters he strips away e.g. Bane, once Talia Al Ghul is revealed everything that made Bane an awesome villain become obsolete, Also there's hardly any Batman in the movie, The Dark Knight is a far better movie than Rises though Rises is epic. I really liked Rised but i didn't love it
The Dark Knight, it is a far better movie, TDKR felt like Nolan didn't know what to do so he just did everything, and everything he builds to with characters he strips away e.g. Bane, once Talia Al Ghul is revealed everything that made Bane an awesome villain become obsolete, Also there's hardly any Batman in the movie, The Dark Knight is a far better movie than Rises though Rises is epic. I really liked Rises but i didn't love it
kramerica124
Having just left the midnight showing, I'm not sure where TDKR will land on my chart long term. It was far more epic than I ever could have imagined. However, the cost of that epic-ness is the loss of the tightly wound plot that TDK had. For that reason, TDK is the better movie. Well, that and Heath Ledger.
FilmOdyssey
The Dark Knight Rises was so amazing. The Dark Knight is getting overrated. Win goes to Rises
And Man of Steel, from THE Christopher Nolan and Zack Snyder, holy crap, i'm going to see that.
didich
The Dark Knight is a true classic. Rises, while solid, doesn't quite match the expectations, specially compared to its predecessor. It lacks a compelling villain.
MrAwesome245
Im am going to see TDKR today it will be awesome but will not beat TDK.
PiccoloKing
Just saw TDKR. Excellent movie!
KingofPain
The Dark Knight was kind of sloppy, but nothing in comparison to the mostly dull and sloppier The Dark Knight Rises. I didn't care about the motivations of the villains and Catwoman was wasted.
Boonmee
The Dark Knight >> The Dark Knight Rises >> Batman Begins
Cleckley
Significant drop in overall quality. Though perhaps TDKR can be credited for not having the occasional eye-rolling scene that TDK was guilty off. And for having JGL.
Rtaylor32
I need to see Dark Knight Rises again but on first viewing I think Dark Knight was the better movie. I think Nolan was trying to pack in so much information I kind of wish he split the movie in two parts.
coligula
Both movies are awesome, but The Dark Knight is nearly perfect. Rises takes a little while to get on its feet, and the last third is arguably better than anything in TDK. But, as an overall film, TDK still takes the cake.
casinoiscool
The Dark Knight Rises. Plain and simple.the storyline was more interesting, Bane was terrifying,the end was pulse pounding, and it was dark. I loved the fact that Batman rised one more time. The beginning took time to explain the past 8 years where as The Dark Knight jumped right it. The end was just so perfect and it sets it up for something new. Joseph Gordon Levitt was great in the movie and played his part well. Anne Hathaway was perfect as Selina Kyle( even though I don't care for her). Tom Hardy was massive. Nuff said for him. Overall, this movie blew the Dark Knight out of the water and was a great ending for a perfect triolgy.
maiden666
I went into The Dark Knight Rises expecting greatness. I really wanted this to be the best of the Trilogy. I saw it and i did get greatness, but its just not as good as the Dark Knight. It had to many flaws that i couldnt overlook and it didnt feel as epic as i wanted it to be. But for all that said, Rises was still a great movie and ended the Trilogy Perfectly. I still prefer TDK, but both are great films and with Batman Begins they create one of the greatest trilogies of all time
Dark knight in a landslide
Dragoncaine
The Dark Knight Rises. I have always found TDK a bit overrated, and I felt that Heath Ledger's magical performance escalated it to greatness. In my eyes, TDK simply would have been good, instead of great. However, TDKR has Bale's best performance in the trilogy, Bane's menace, Anne Hathaway's charisma (who arguably stole the show), Michael Caine's most sensitive portrayal, JGL in a solid role, and more! Sure, the movie wasn't quite as tight in terms of storytelling, but it was enormous in scope and ambition, so it is easily forgivable. Plus I heard that the second viewing of this movie is not as "murky" or whatever you want to call it with the storyline. Ledger had the showy performance in TDK, but Tom Hardy killed as Bane. The fact that he was able to terrify us with just two dark eyes is impressive, and his voice was ominous. The ending was perfectly emotional and unforgettable, and the score was fantastic. To me, TDKR is more impressive than TDK, which greatly benefited from Ledger's show-stealing Joker. I would gtive TDK a 9/10, and TDKR a 9.5-10/10
bradycole97
They are both so different. But i liked TDKR just a little more because it was awesome nolan batman mixed with this huge epic that made it amazing. But i think the nolan bat-films should be considered three acts to one whole move each act having its own separate tone and feel though.
phefner
I still think Dark Knight is the best of the trilogy. I really liked Dark Knight Rises, but wasn't blown away by it. Maybe that's a result of having impossibly high expectations, but it just wasn't as impactful as The Dark Knight was.
SquareMaster316
The moment Bane pushed the button at the football stadium, it creates a roller coaster of emotions for me, with the scale, music and reactions of all around it. Praise should be given to Hathaway (who washes away the awful Pfieffer portrayal), Hardy, Bale, Freeman, Oldman, Caine, etc., but it was the thousands at the stadium that really sold the terror of the situation that should be applauded. Still, I personally feel The Dark Knight is the slightly better film.
MysticSpoon
Yeah, having seen TDKR, I don't like it as much as The Dark Knight either. But it's very close. My thoughts quickly summed up: the ending is the best part of the movie, Bane's voice sounds like a bad Sean Connery impression and is waaay too loud, I like Catwoman and Blake, the story was not as good as in TDK although much better than in BB, Christian Bale gives his best performance, Michael Caine steals the show as Alfred (yeah, really, why is everyone complaining there is so little of him in this? He has more scenes than in BB and TDK!) and there are some plotholes that annoyed me just a little.
shane24
I preferred Bane's voice when it was was deeper. But I think the voice may grow on me with further viewings. I already have a quote in my head I thought was great (batman vs bane in dark) I just found, like most people, that the Joker was more effective. The Dark Knight wins.
nclysander
I'll have to watch TDKR again to really gauge how it compares to TDK. Right now it's landed slightly higher in my rankings, probably because I was so awed by it when I saw it Saturday. During the first two thirds of the movie I was really enjoying myself, but wondering why certain characters were even there, wondering why others were being portrayed the way they were ... and then, courtesy of a couple of twists and some really fine writing and acting, it all fell into place. Whether the movie works on a rewatch, after I know about those twists, will be the deciding factor here.
I will say this: The Dark Knight is certainly the more thoughtful film. It has more to say. And it didn't remind you ever five minutes what its title was, something that really annoyed me in Rises. The acting is great in both -- Bale, Oldman, and Caine have been consistently amazing in all three films (Freeman too, but he has less to do). Ledger's Joker wins the "Best Villain" prize here, no question about it, but that doesn't make the second film an automatic winner for me: I've always felt that his death may have caused his portrayal to become just a bit over-hyped, and I've never liked that he takes the focus off of Bale's Bruce Wayne/Batman in TDK. Hardy's Bane isn't half as menacing, even though the things he does are just as terrible, but once again I thought the character and portrayal made sense by the end of the movie. Since I've never read the comics, I wasn't annoyed by the "castrating" of the character, although I would have liked a slightly deeper voice as well. I was pleasantly surprised by Hathaway as Catwoman. I'd been worried about her, and she delivered a knockout performance: a real scene-stealer, and I think I might have a crush on her now.
Manmovies
When I think of The Dark Knight trilogy, I see them all as one movie. That sounds cliche, but hear me out. A superhero movie is built on three major acts: The inception of the hero, the hero's greatest trial, and the hero rising despite his darkest moment to become the hero he was destined to be. Each movie represents on major arc of Batman. When you get down to it, most of the best parts of a movie come from the conflict represented in the middle and the biggest questions and dilemmas are addressed. The Dark Knight is certainly a better film, however, I have always been a sucker for a great ending and The Dark Knight Rises did just that. While I believe The Dark Knight to be a better film overall, my favorite of the three was The Dark Knight Rises. On the subject of Bane, yes, he of course was NOT Ledger's Joker, we all know that. Hardy DID however create a perfect villain that I believed from the very beginning COULD defeat Batman. Both villains had amazing dialog, but Bane fit his role in Batman's journey perfectly as Joker did his. Joker came down to, "I'm an agent of chaos," and, "Some men just want to watch the world burn." Bane, on the other hand, came down to, "Do you feel an abundance of control?" and, my personal favorite, "'And who is the only person who can disengage this bomb?' 'Myself' 'Thank you, Doctor!' *SNAP!*"
Let's discuss the ending guys! SPOILER ALERT! If you haven't seen TDKR, skip this comment! A lot of people thought Wayne died at the end, some think he lived just because Alfred saw him at that outside restaurant at the end. In my opinion, I think Wayne died. How could he survive that explosion? I thought Alfred was just imagining him there at the end. He wasn't really there. And Levitt/Robin discovering the Batcave at the end, GREAT ENDING! I wanted it to keep going, and basically everybody else did too. And how about that Man of Steel trailer? That'll be great. TDKR is better than TDK.
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JRyneChattanooga
The Dark Knight is a better movie plain and simple, but The Dark Knight Rises did not disappoint me at all. I thought it was a spectacular finish to what is the greatest superhero trilogy of all time. If I have to pick it apart and find a reason why it's not my favorite of the three, I guess my main criticism is that the first half of the film is not as enjoyable as the others. Nolan packs a lot of exposition in the first hour and it's a lot to digest even if you're a die-hard fan of the series. The opening acts of Batman Begins and The Dark Knight were a lot more accessible and entertaining. That being said, the climax of The Dark Knight Rises left me on the same high that Batman Begins and The Dark Knight did when I first saw them. That three movies from the same franchise can keep you on the edge of your seat and blow your mind is a rarity at the movies.
conormills95
I don't think Bane was the right villain to end the trilogy on, especially after having to compete with Heath Ledgers performance of the joker in the previous film
smatticus
Easily The Dark Knight. The Dark Knight Rises was a massive letdown for me; bogged down under its own weight, poor chemistry between characters, too many pointless characters, too f*cking loud half the time (couldn't here anything that was being said during the bridge/stadium/tunnel destruction scene over Hans Zimmer's repetitive score), the fact that they didn't film it in Chicago and I can now see the Empire State Building, Freedom Tower, World Financial Centre and Brooklyn Bridge (they filmed the exile scenes under there for god's sake) in the background of almost every panning shot (so we're not in Gotham now, we're in New York; how original!), Bane's death (total cop-out for a great villain, he was one of the few things I really enjoyed about the film), Catwoman (not really Anne Hathaway's fault, I'm just not a big fan of the character, plus they didn't really re-vamp the character; just made her do a Hedy Lamarr impression and pull some Arkham City moves (so basically a less sexy, falsely sanctimonious version of the Arkham City Catwoman), Marion Cotillard (Nolan, please stop casting her as boring villains in your movies, she's much better than that. Also the death scene sucked). And worst of all, unlike the previous films (which have plenty of problems themselves) I had very little emotional connection with the film throughout. The film isn't terrible despite what I have said here, and it has it's moments of brilliance (almost every second with Bane onscreen, Alfred and the bit in the Pit), but it is probably the worst Christopher Nolan film I have seen to date.
ironichipster
Connerwood, I think Morgan Freeman's character finds evidence that Bruce auto-piloted his ship to detonate the bomb, so he isn't really dead (just pretending to be). That's one of the problems with TDKR -- there was a lot of information crammed into three hours, plus Bane's garbled dialogue and Zimmer's blaring music made it difficult to catch all the plot points. It'll be interesting to see when enthusiasm cools for TDKR, and we're left with a lot of "best movie ever!" comments.
ironichipster, I thought that too how he was faking his death, but for me it could go 2 ways now
MFinnie
Rises is great, but Hathaway and Cotillard sort of keep it from being as Psychologically powerfull as The Dark Knight.
Yuri_Alex
Coringa is way cooler than Bane, but that's the only thing better in TDK.
Joker > Bane. DKR > TDK
dark knight is so much better. its an insult to the dark knight to say that rises is superior
I agree with Seb 100%
Jaycer4ever
It's close, but it's still no contest. Dark Knight is one of a kind.
too right moondoggie!
Sheets24
The Dark Knight takes it.
Showtimebr
I'm actually surprised this one is getting so many diverse opinions. I REALLY didn't see that coming. Look,i LOVED The Dark Knight conclusion,but if there's anything i wasn't expecting on TDKR, was the REMOTE possibility of the 3rd movie surpassing everything that "The Dark Knight" was. C'mon guys,really? Can you actually argue with that? Nolan's take on Batman universe is transcendental,and there's no weak link between all three entries, but let's get real: "The Dark Knight" is to Batman what "The Empire Strikes Back" was to Star Wars. That rare,unquantified gem that doesn't repeat it magic two times.
You know, looking back at both of these movies, I really don't know which one of these two to choose as my 'favorite' of this trilogy. I mean sure, The Dark Knight is the better movie from a technical standpoint: unlike TDKR, TDK has almost no plotholes, has scenes that tie together nicely, has a better villain (although that is purely subjective) and has better action (although again, that's subjective). But were you as emotionally invested as in The Dark Knight Rises? Because I wasn't. When you watch The Dark Knight you see an emotionless Bruce Wayne. To be honest, I didn't care about him in Batman Begins and especially not in The Dark Knight. Those movies were mostly centered around the plot, The Joker and the origin story. There was little room to care for Bruce Wayne. It was the third movie that FINALLY gave us an emotional Bruce Wayne. I cared a lot more about him than in any of the other Nolan Batman movies. In fact, I cared more about Bruce Wayne than in ANY live-action Batman movie. The emotional core is so much bigger. So in a way, the plotholes and other flaws don’t matter as much as in the other movies because of this (watch the RedLetterMedia review if you don’t know what I mean). Also, I rewatched The Dark Knight today, and I didn’t like it as much as I did before. So although I think The Dark Knight is the better movie, but for now, I have to pick The Dark Knight Rises as my favorite. But let’s face it: there is no Batman movie that’s perfect.
So although I think The Dark Knight is the better movie, for now I have to pick The Dark Knight Rises as my favorite**
tdk wins because of the joker!
EliteHarvest
Ledger's Joker may have had more personality but Hardy's Bane is easier to hate. Bad guys can't always be cool and when the filmmaker makes you hate them, that's outstanding. TDKR lived beyond my expectations and is the very best comic book film of them all.
Bilnoco
The Dark Knight was the best in the trilogy.
I've got another theory on the ending of TDKR, one of my theories now is that Superman saved Bruce from the nuclear explosion because they are making a Justice League movie
Jerfilmfan
The DARK KNIGHT wins, but I've seen RISES a few times now and it comes very close. What a great film trilogy. It will sure be interesting to see where Batman goes next, with the Justice League movie supoosedly in the works.
Trylobyte
Ah shit! Why?!?!?! OK Let me do this: TDK has Heath Ledger as the Joker, tighter pace/plot, more Batman than in TDKR, one of the best action/thriller/supherohero/summer movies of all time. TDKR has an epic sprawling storyline with lots of cool characters (eg. Bane, Catwoman, Blake, etc), Less Batman but Bale as Bruce Wayne shines, more emotional, THAT ending!! Right now....I'm going for TDKR. Watching (and re-watching) TDK felt like watching a really solid action film. In the end, I'm like "Damn, that was a really good movie". BUT for me, TDKR felt like you're in a long emotional journey with a satisfying ending. TDK may technically be the better ending but I'm more emotionally invested in TDKR
The Dark Knight was a better movie... but considering it's in my top 5, I didn't expect Rises to surpass it. Rises was fantastic, with an outstanding last 40 min. and a very appropriate and satisfying ending to a great trilogy, but I preferred the more intimate, tense feel of The Dark Knight. Both great -- TDK i just even greater.
i cant believe there are people out there that actually think rises is a legitimate opponent to the dark knight. its just an insult really.
I agree I don't see how this is even a race, Dark Knight was superior in every way shape and form.
robmoviefilms13
The Dark Knight is much better. Heath Ledger's performance says it all.
Cenasucks23
Dark knight Rises destroys Dark knight!
Dark knight Rises shouldn't be compared to the Dark knight. Dark knight Ruined the trilogy worse than Batman and Robin.Dark knight Rises was the Greatest ever!
coreyhiscocks
Every film in this series has consecutively blown my expectations out of the water. If The Dark Knight set such a high bar, doesn't that mean I have to go with The Dark Knight Rises?
I didn't expect to, but I like Rises slightly better.
The27Arsenal
Both of them are great films but the reason TDKR was so good was because it was given so much to build upon. TDK was masterful. The story was unique, all of the actors were brilliant and it was executed very well. It's the better film.
The Dark Knight Rises was fun and entertaining, but it is inferior to the Dark Knight in almost every way.
Well, the cinematography in TDKR was better I felt, as was Bale's performance. But other than that, TDK was superior. Loved both though.
So after rewatching The Dark Knight Rises today, I liked it more than I did last time. I still maintain that it is indeed the more flawed movie of the two, but there is so much stuff in TDKR I just love that I don’t really care about the flaws, the silly voices and the plotholes. Let me put it this way: I don't think The Dark Knight is as great as most people make it out to be, and I don't think The Dark Knight Rises is as disappointing as some people make it out to be. The Dark Knight Rises is actually the only (live-action) Batman movie (and hell, maybe even the only Christopher Nolan movie) where I actually give a damn about the main character. I also just love the scope of the movie. And I know the movie is messy (especially in the beginning) but I don't really care. I see myself picking The Dark Knight as my favorite one day and The Dark Knight Rises the next. It's close for me. Because I was kind of disappointed last time I watched TDK and more satisfied when I watched TDKR today than I did after leaving the theater, I have to go with TDKR. They’re both great though, and both much better than Batman Begins.
Damnit; I keep flipflopping on this one. The Dark Knight.
SLionsCricket
The Dark Knight easy victory. I've seen TDK over 5 times and never gotten bored of it whilst TDKR bored me the second time.
The Dark Knight, mainly for Heath Ledger.
consp77
Batman Begins was good but it succumbed to Reboot Syndrome, in which the new filmmakers somehow feel obligated to re-tell the origin story instead of starting in the middle with something else interesting. (Although Superman Returns started in the middle, and it was still lousy.) I am one of the minority who thinks TDK was overrated, primarily because Aaron Eckhart as Harvey Dent was a doofus: flippant, impetuous, NOT charismatic, lacking in discernment. And there was no chemistry between him and sashaying A.D.A. Maggie Glockenspiel. For Gordon and Batman to then talk about the Joker corrupting "the best of us"...pfft...and for Batman to take the rap and perpetuate a Big Lie...I did not like that ending at all... In The Dark Knight Rises, there is the suggestion by the filmmakers that perpetuating the Big Lie may not have been All That Smart, so the third film kind of wrapped my dissatisfaction with the second one inside out, and slowly worked its way to what I think was a satisfying ending. I liked Bane as a villain better than Heath Ledger's Joker, and I preferred the pair of attractive and interesting female characters played by Anne Hathaway and Marion Cotillard to the awkward, ungainly, and unattractive Glockenspiel. There are political themes in the third film as well, which can be read as either extremely left-wing or extremely right-wing, depending on your point of view, and I saw both types take up the film as a kind of metaphor, which makes it especially fascinating since I know politics was not Nolan's intention.
Time has passed, and my appreciation for both TDK and TDKR has gone down. With 'Rises', I realized right off the bat that there was something off about it. At first I thought it was Bane sounding a little bit like Gandalf, or maybe it was the weird unfilled gap in time between TDK and Rises. Then there was that weird fusion reactor thing underground, that weird 'John' Blake ending...I don't know. It felt like Nolan rushed through the whole thing to be honest. Bane's storyline ended rather abruptly and the rise of the new villain was just weird. On the contrary, TDK really surprised me when I saw it for the first time. After revisiting it again, I've realized that the only truly great parts of it are the opening minutes and all of the scenes with the Joker. Hell, I think that that was the reason why I liked it so much in the first place - the Joker. The Joker made for a great villain and topped Bane in every which way, albeit the latter was pretty bad ass himself. In this particular match up, I'm picking TDK. It's sloppy, sure, but is nowhere near as messy as Rises. I also had a lot more fun with Dark Knight than Rises. Maybe it was because I was so distracted by Bane's voice...LET THE GAMES BEGIN!
randysandwich
Joker is possibly the best villain ever in cinema, but Bane is possibly my favorite villain ever in cinema. Anne killed it as Catwoman, and Maggie almost destroyed the role that Katie Holmes started. I had a lot of fun with both of these, but overall TDK has to be the winner.
I thought TDKR was great, and I think that the negativity towards it, (while it still does deserve criticism) is because it did not live up to the huge expectations of TDK. Of course it didn't. TDK is fantastic. I didn't expect it to, and looking past that fact, TDKR is, again, a great movie. But still, I chose TDK.
TnMovieFan2
The Dark Knight easily
Heath Ledger's performance destroys the Dark Knight Rises. As the years go by, the Dark Knight will be the better aged movie as well
the dark knight rises had to many plot holes and not enough batman.I still really enjoyed it but it just didn't hold up as well as the dark knight.
Both are in my top five, but Rises is the example of a perfect finale to a trilogy. RISE
alav
This isn't hard at all. Rises underwhelmed me.
silenttom
LOVE both... but TDK just has that extra bit of "umph" that makes it a classic, mainly since it really works on its own more than Rises does.
UncleFok
"TDKR was awesome! Brilliant!" (later...) "TDKR was really good. It has some issues, but I liked it." (later...) "TDKR? Flawed, but decent..." (later...) "TDKR was such a disappointment."
^ Happens with every (hyped) movie nowadays. Prometheus, anyone? Anyway, my five billionth comment on this matchup. The Dark Knight simply doesn't entertain me much anymore. I know the lines, I know the scenes, it's parodied to death, I get a little sick of the movie. It's still great, but it's like getting tired of a longtime friend. Rises just feels fresh and as a result entertains me more (yes, yes, ring the bell of the apocalypse), but it's way, WAAAY more flawed and sloppy.
Yup. I'll admit to over hyped reactions. I thought that Rises was my favorite film of all time for about 15 minutes. I must have been insane or something. I also thought at one time that Prometheus was better than the original Alien. I must have been insane or something. What I think happens, at least for me, is that I get so pumped up for a movie and when it falls below expectations, I go into denial or something and think that it's the greatest thing to ever be released. So yes, I blame it on denial.
I love both, and have no shame in saying it. Now, no one start saying I'm one of those crappy fanboys, I'm a genuine fan, other people are allowed to hate on them, but I'm allowed to like them as well. The Dark Knight Rises is my number two favourite. Now I can see it flaws, I'm not blind to these, but so much more of the film works for me, it overrides the problems I had with it. I've seen it three times now, twice in the cinemas and once on Blu Ray, and it only gets better for me. But The Dark Knight is my number one, so it loses.
I'd have to say that I could easily move either one of these to number one. I agree with shane that they do have flaws. What movie doesn't Batman to me is the most relatable hero in any movie I've ever seen. I'm not saying it in a "Batman is a normal person and could be anyone," although I believe that is what makes him the best superhero. I'm saying he's the best hero because of what he stands for, what he is. Selfless and true. The villains in all three movies are evil with logic. They challenge Batman's pure sense of good and evil being black and white. They introduce grey into it. They challenge him to do evil to accomplish good. That is why they are good to me, not just because "Batman is radical, dude!" or "The story telling is perfect and the performances are breathtaking," although I do agree with both of those.
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incrediblejeff
I'll take The Dark Knight over Rises,but I have to say Bane was a really great villain,but the Joker just was way too hard to follow.
Both great films, don't get me wrong but both are overrated, especially when you look at IMDb ratings and Flickchart rankings. That being said, the Dark Knight is one of my favorite films as is Rises but the Dark Knight is more memorable and perhaps Nolan's best!
Charyou_Tree
The Dark Knight is a movie I can't and won't ever really forget. The Dark Knight Rises is one I want to forget, and already have to a great extent. Nolan was bound to disappoint me eventually, but why did it have to be with his conclusion to what was shaping up to be one of my favorite trilogies?
Meganfoxlover13
In my opinion I love them both, they all meet my expectations and love both villans. because there both badasses. The Joker= 95, Bayne= 98.
Moviemanblah69
The dark knight rises was brilliant but the dark knight is still the easy pick over it.
The dark knight is defiantly the best of the trilogy.
leonardo501
I think Nolan weakened Bane at the end because The Joker overwhelmed the title character's journey in the second film. He didn't want that again, and so made sure the focus of things were squarely back on Bruce/Batman for the big finale. That written, The Dark Knight is still superior.
TheHonestFilmFan
I fully agree with Leonardo. The extremely compelling story of Bruce Wayne is so beautiful, and Bale's performance is his best in the whole franchise. A lot of people seem to forget that The Dark Knight Rises wasn't trying to be about cool side characters, but actually about... You know, The Dark Knight... Rising.
GoodFather
The Dark Knight. Really stands out as the best of the trilogy.
MasterofMovies
TDK.
The Dark Knight Rises. It's the better structured film and much more exciting.
Nononsense
Interesting to see how the voting goes. 2001 easily for me though.
I can now say that The Dark Knight is the clear winner.
rohcomics98
Funny thing, The Dark Knight Trilogy are all tied for my #1 favorite film of all time. But, The Dark Knight without a doubt.
Two incredible films that every studio is trying to copy from. Not surprisingly, giving how much these epics, as well as Batman Begins, have revolutionized film making.
jibran
Obviously TDK. TDK really changed things, provided a comic book film in the style of Mann and Lumet. Exciting and fast pace. TDKR was fun but overall kinda messy and poorly patched together, thematically strong and ambitious, but it doesn't always suceed its goals.
JeremyDavis
The Dark Knight beat the crap out of the Dark Knight Rises. The Dark Knight is as good as a superhero gets.
Two thirds of the greatest CBM trilogy ever made.
Danny237
As Dark Knight Rises is entertaining, Dark Knight is terribly overrated
Koroy
The dark knight rises is my favourite from the dark knight triology and it wins here.
"Two thirds of the greatest CBM trilogy ever made." Nearly 2 years later, that quote rings just as true as ever!
will_munny
Photo finish, but Dark Knight Rises
Captain_Slendy
More enjoyable vs a better ending.. I'm one for endings so I say TDKR for now.
The Dark Knight has the better ending, but the Dark Knight has the better rest of the film.
Cxfatesniper8ck
Dark Knight was definitely the best of the century it was always the best Batman movie of all time, on the other hand Dark Knight Rises was the worst of the series overlong boring waste of lack of time even hated where Bane did not be stopped by Batman on a final showdown but instead been stopped by Catwoman which was miserable of that way even it's ending of the film which was most disappointment ever but Dark Knight was the most incredible convenient film of all time it had a perfect start,middle and finish it had a perfect ending.
Since TDKR absolutely sucks and ends the trilogy on a down note, what's the argument here?
Dark Knight was the best of the series, but Dark Knight Rises was the worst of the series, Dark Knight wins by far.
Danthropunk64
The dark knight rises is far the worst disappointing but as bad ended on a let down ending trilogy but on the other hand the dark knight was the only great film that been a complete success film, TDK destroys TDKR.
Eagleskywalker87
Watched Dark Knight and Dark Knight Rises tonight. Dark Knight is a masterpiece. There's so many iconic sequences, characters and situations where everything just builds upon itself until a thrilling finale. Every element works and the film says a lot about good and evil and how it's inherited. After 20-25 viewings, it still memorises me! Dark Knight Rises is an example of a bad script that's very well directed. The film is both incoherent and so many elements of it is ludicrous and makes no sense without the compelling ideas of the previous two. After the Joker's plan to take Harvey and destroy him, the villains' plan here is to destroy Gotham with a nuclear bomb. A bomb that's conveniently going to explode in 5 months giving enough time for Bruce to recover and a revoultion to conspire. The fact it's held in such high regard if anything undermines the quality of The Dark Knight.
TheFireRises
TDK by a wide margin but Rises didn’t disappoint me at all. It was a solid and great trilogy ending.
Mazevents
Obviously TDK was only the film that tagged of a memorable masterpiece, rises is just as disappointment generally did.
eaglesflyhigh
Dark Knight Rises is the worst of the trilogy and the only one where some of the character's motives feel forced for effect. Dark Knight wins by a landslide.
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To me, The Dark Knight trilogy is only so highly acclaimed as one of the best trilogies is because of The Dark Knight (it's in the name). Without it, the other two are great/good films, but The Dark Knight is easily the best and one of the greatest films ever.
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De Zerbi: 'Strong Sassuolo mentality'
Sassuolo coach Roberto De Zerbi confirms Francesco Caputo is out of tomorrow’s clash with Inter, but they have ‘created a strong mentality.’
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“It’s a fascinating encounter. Inter are and remain a great team, regardless of some recent results,” De Zerbi told Sky Sport Italia.
“Sassuolo are a smaller club and are trying to carve out our space in amongst the big boys. I don’t think the old hierarchy has been overturned as such, but we will do what we always do, which is play with courage.
“Sassuolo want to spend this day feeling like a big team.”
There are still injury problems for the Neroverdi, who are unbeaten in Serie A this season and currently sit in second place.
“Domenico Berardi is fine, we’ll have to see tomorrow if Filip Djuricic can start or not, as his training today wasn’t perfect. Ciccio Caputo, Gregoire Defrel, Lukas Haraslin and Federico Ricci are out.
“We want to do well, we need to be intelligent and maintain our identity in every game. What we have done is create a strong mentality.
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Financial Resilience Index August: Tracking wellbeing and money
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The Financial Resilience Index is a tracking survey of New Zealanders’ views on five key financial resilience indicators carried out by CoreData. The first rounds of the Index looked at how these views changed from March 2020 to April 2020 and this third and final round was collected between 6-7 August 2020. A total of 1,000 valid complete responses were collected in the August round. The sample is representative of the New Zealand consumer population in terms of age, gender and income based on the latest Stats NZ data.
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New Zealanders’ financial resilience shines through tough times
The latest round from the Financial Services Council’s Financial Resilience Index shows that despite the last six months being one of the most challenging periods in recent history, New Zealanders have remained remarkably resilient and confident when it comes to financial matters.
The Financial Resilience Index is a major tracking survey of New Zealanders’ views on five key
financial resilience indicators; financial confidence, literacy and preparedness, job security and wellbeing.
The final survey in the three-part series was undertaken between 6-7 August and compares to earlier data collected in March and April. It was launched on Thursday morning at the FSC’s Annual Conference.
“The responses in early August show that after initial uncertainty Kiwis remained resilient throughout this unprecedented period, from the introduction of Covid-19, to living in lockdown, right through to the return to Alert Level One,” says Richard Klipin, FSC Chief Executive.
“Despite these dramatic changes, New Zealanders continued to have incredible financial confidence, with around 72% of respondents still feeling reasonably, very or extremely confident when it came to their finances.
“It’s encouraging that most respondents also continue to feel secure in their jobs, with around 80% of respondents feeling some level of security in their current employment. This indicates that while some sectors have been hit hard, there is not a wholesale fear of job losses.
“However, overall wellbeing is getting worse, with just over 54% of respondents saying they have been adversely affected in the period between March to August, while 60% now worry about money regularly; either monthly, weekly or daily.
“On the positive though we’ve seen a slight increase of 6% in people who have household investments, suggesting that there has been a small but promising change in spending habits, and a shift to saving.
“The Financial Resilience Index has shown us that while the health of New Zealanders’ resilience remains intact, there is an underlying anxiety about money issues, that is in turn affecting our wellbeing.
“While we should lean on and be proud of our resilience, it’s crucial that we also continue to open up the conversation and focus on the issues that are affecting our overall wellbeing.
“Financial resilience in isolation is not of much use – it needs to go hand-in-hand with more general wellbeing and collectively we can do better in recognising this.
“As a nation we’ve done a great job over the last six months dealing with the health, economic, and social challenges of Covid-19 but there are clearly significant ongoing challenges.
“We hope that this research will help build a better understanding of these and how New Zealanders have felt during this time and how we can collectively work to help New Zealanders continue to improve their financial resilience and overall wellbeing in the future,” concluded Klipin.
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Sony’s brand new IP, Bloodborne, has proven to be a massive success for the company and while no official sales numbers have been revealed, Sony claims more than one million copies have been sold worldwide as of last month. Sony UK managing director Fergal Gara told MCV that they expected the PlayStation 4 exclusive to do well, but apparently the game’s recent success has completely blown their expectations of the water.
“It did surprise us,” Gara said. “We had expectations to do well. We looked at the Souls series as a frame of reference, and we thought we could do better than that. We did—and then some. Relative to some of our sister territories, we were being quite ambitious, but even that proved to be conservative.”
Gara also attributes the game’s success to lucky timing as the game was was released during a relatively slow month game-wise. Initially Sony was a bit caught of guard by the strong demand for the game, but they were able to catch up and take advantage of how many consumers wanted to buy the game.
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The Bureau of Indian Affairs Should Do More to Help Educate Indian Students
HRD-77-155: Published: Nov 3, 1977. Publicly Released: Nov 3, 1977.
In providing grants to Indian students to attend colleges and universities, the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) knows little about the students' preparation for and performance in college or about the colleges they attend. The program has grown from 4,300 students receiving about $4 million dollars in 1970 to 16,000 students receiving about $33 million in 1976.
Investigations conducted at seven educational institutions that enrolled about 2,000 Indian students showed that the Indian students, on the whole, had lower assessment test scores and cumulative grade point averages than the general student population. The Indian freshmen particularly need help, as evidenced by the fact that the rate of Indian freshmen not continuing their education at these schools was higher than that for the general student population. The Bureau has neither devoted enough staff to the program nor provided students with needed supportive services.
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Gleason Inspection System Offers Key Measurements on Single Platform
The Gleason 300GMSL Multi-Sensor Gear Inspection System will debut at Control 2017 in Stuttgart.
Gleason Corporation’s new 300GMSL Multi-Sensor Gear Inspection System will have its European première at the Control Show in Stuttgart, Germany May 9 - 12, 2017.
The versatile platform of Gleason’s 300GMSL Inspection System provides the classic tactile probing methods for inspecting conventional gear data on spur and helical cylindrical gears as well as straight, spiral and hypoid bevel gears with a diameter of up to 300 mm. In addition, the new inspection system allows non-contact laser sensor scanning of tooth flanks to support gear development. Complete topography data can be recorded far more rapidly than with conventional tactile probing, with comparable results.
The integration of laser scanning and associated 3D graphics with CAD interface considerably expand both the functionality and the range of applications for this machine platform. The new option makes the 300GMSL the ideal solution for research and development applications for both prototype and production parts or when reverse engineering is required. The 300GMSL Inspection System is also an ideal fit for rapid measurement of topography in regular production operation and satisfies the increasingly stringent requirements on gear inspection. Compliant, soft materials (such as plastic gears, for example) can be inspected without sustaining damage.
Further options such as surface finish measurement or Barkhausen noise analysis to inspect grind burn reduce operating costs, annual maintenance and certification costs and space requirements by offering multiple technologies on a single machine platform.
Another highlight at the Control Show in Stuttgart is the 300GMSP Analytical Gear Inspection System which was designed for use directly in the production environment and which yields reliable measured results in demanding environmental surroundings. To achieve this, the 300GMSP has integrated systems to compensate for temperature fluctuations and to dampen vibration in the production environment. The 300GMSP is especially suitable for applications in the aerospace and automotive industries, but of course also well suited for the inspection of high-quality gears in other sectors of industry.
The Closed-Loop Function, available for many years in bevel gear production and developed by Gleason for cylindrical gears in 2015 for direct transmission of measured data to the production machine, is part of the standard repertoire of the GMS series of machines from Gleason Metrology Systems.
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Customer Support Heroes: The happiness-centered CS department with a human touch at DataBank IMX
by Adele Simor 21 May 2018
This is the first part in our new mini-series of stories from unsung heroes on the front lines of customer support management, who share what has helped them succeed in their role.
Hero: Cory Archer
Years in CS: 16
Current job title: Director of Support
Company & type of support: DataBank IMX, a 700-people strong business process solution provider, with a dedicated support team looking after 15 different software packages, troubleshooting complex issues in medical, financial and payables environments.
Team size: Entirely distributed team of 16: 1 manager, 3 team leads, 12 agents.
Service hours: 8am-8pm, with 24/7 emergency support.
Tickets per month: 700-800.
Channels: Phone, email and portal.
When I heard that the CS team at DataBank consider themselves to be a ‘family’ and jokingly call their director ‘Dad’ and the manager ‘Mom’, I began to understand that there’s something distinctly unconventional about this department, nestled as it is among more traditionally corporate departments.
So who’s behind this outlier?
His name is Cory Archer – twice over entrepreneur and former implementation engineer with a high school diploma and no university degree, who made himself a career in support and decided he was going to run things differently.
Cory simply looked at the things he didn’t like in his previous jobs and set out to create something better, something that wasn’t going to be unpleasant for the team or customers and as a consequence not unpleasant for him either. So he kept all the best parts of what he’d experienced and then he simply started designing processes around the humans he was working with.
Cory says: “It can be easy to get labeled as the one who's too emotionally invested in the team in this line of work and then I always point out that, as the person in charge of the customer experience, that's quite ironic to be saying.”
Block & tackle management
A customer support team is only as strong as its people – and it’s your people that cannot be replicated and that set you aside from the competition – so Cory takes his responsibility of keeping his team happy very seriously.
“I’m a very involved, hands-on manager. Our CEO is going to come talk to me to understand the business and team needs, not to the individual agents, so it’s super important that I know what challenges the team is facing and what customer behaviors we’re seeing. I stay close to it by regularly taking calls myself because the reality is that our employees don't always tell us what they're seeing on the front line, no matter how open the environment. So I’m very involved but no micro-manager.”
Every two months, he will sit down with each agent to check in on how they are doing and ask questions like “How can I make your day better? What can I get out of your way?” He says he blocks and tackles for his team. It doesn’t matter if it’s a perception of someone (even an executive) being difficult internally or a customer having problems. He sees it as his job to fight the battles and get these obstacles out of the way so the agents can get back to loving what they do and making customers happy.
This approach also reveals future senior agents and leaders because they are the ones who say: “What you do for us is great, and I want to learn how to do it for the rest of the team. Teach me how to have those conversations. Teach me how to block and tackle.” They already come into it with an appreciation for what it felt like to have somebody looking out for you and they want to do the same.
Letting the numbers talk
People in the US tend to have low expectations of customer support and the individuals who provide it, and unfortunately that creates some natural bias. To challenge the misconceptions about support at DataBank, Cory found that calling out statistical differences worked well when trying to get the attention of executive leaders and senior leadership teams, basically people who communicate a lot in numbers, to unify a strong message about DataBank’s approach to support.
“Maintenance revenue is a reflection of our relationship with our customer, and that’s important to DataBank, so to me CS definitely doesn't feel like the outlier or starter team it can be perceived to be at some companies. When I can get the execs really invested in that message, they can filter it down to the rest of the company and use it to position us in the market. We put our money where our mouth is to ensure we’re at the top of our industry.”
Once he had their attention, he began explaining to them how the sometimes poor perception of CS can impact his team and how everyone at DataBank could take on this challenge. Cory used numbers to appeal to the senior leadership by reminding them of new hiring costs, recruiter time, training costs, position posting, leadership timeout and so on to validate the importance of employee retention. On the customer front, messaging about the long term relationship DataBank is striving for and its commitment to a dedicated team improved the overall customer experience, call times and resolution times.
The senior leaders really got it and got behind him, which hugely helped turn around the narrative to the CS department being the ones doing things right and retaining people and keeping them and customers happy.
“Two restaurants can serve steaks but you're going to go to the one that serves the good food and has the great service, the one where the waitress remembers you and greets you when you come in. You're not gonna go somewhere with terrible people just because the food is good. Similarly, I think more businesses would flourish if they just brought back the humanity to what they do.”
Contribution versus output
Customer support is a tricky environment because it’s quantitatively measuring highly qualitative work and Cory wanted to adopt a human approach to these metrics-driven tasks so he thought a lot about which metrics would show the value of an agent’s contribution rather than their output.
“In business today, everything is treated like a fast food restaurant experience. The mark of good service is that you got the bag in the drive-through window and they drove away and it was under one minute. So what if you spilled the drink as you slammed it into their car window?”
The metrics that Cory shares with the team on his Geckoboard are designed to drive that human element and are always pitched at how the agent is investing in the team effort:
How long is it taking other teams to help us help our customers?
How long is it taking us to get answers to our customer?
What's the customer feedback that we've been getting for the past weeks?
How many cases have we worked through successfully as a team?
“The live Geckoboard TV dashboards are there to help people help each other because agents can support each other when they see someone’s volume is up. Our guidance to the team is ‘make the customer happy to the best of your ability’ so if someone closed four out of five tickets and the customers are all very happy, why should that agent be penalized for not closing more tickets? We’ve shied away from things like case closure rates but we do watch our resolution time.”
Metrics for Humans
Cory believes that as a leader, it’s his responsibility to be able to give people the ‘why’ – everything from why the department is the way it is to why things are done a certain way – in order to get stronger buy-in.
"I’ve made my metrics people-based and it’s been incredibly successful. So if an agent asks me ‘Why do we track first response time?’, I can say ‘Because I need to know that you have a manageable workflow and know we’re acknowledging people in a human way.’ If they say ‘Why do we track the resolution times?’, I can say ‘Because I need to know that we have enough people so that you can have a good day and our customers are taken care of.’ The numbers still mean the same thing. A CEO doesn't necessarily care that I'm happy because my people are happy. He wants to know that we're making our first contact in under 30 minutes, which gives a marketable value of working with our company to current and prospective customers – that makes us all happy.”
Tickets + Case management = Happiness
A CS agent will always have an area of interest and expertise and doing what you’re passionate about tends to make a person happy, so it’s only logical that agents be allowed to use that knowledge while also contributing to the team, not to mention that it makes for the best customer experience.
To administrate this, the CS leadership team share a role called case management where one of them is always on duty to keep an eye on case volume and to distribute tickets to the most suitable agent. There is a reference spreadsheet that will show every agent’s self-rated score for each module, making it easy to pick out the subject matter experts. Cory is also in the process of moving operations to Salesforce and Service Cloud, which means the Case Manager will be able to leverage AI to find the right match. Agents’ strengths, weaknesses and case history are all tracked for this reason but also to flag where additional training is needed.
Senior agents also do case management. Not only will this show up those who have leadership potential, but the more people who understand the capabilities of the team, the more successful the team becomes, because when an agent doesn’t know something, they’ll know who does. This goes back to the emphasis on team metrics over individual metrics as a sign of success.
Onboarding – Resistance is futile
When hiring, Cory rates a cultural fit and entrepreneurial spirit over certifications and technical credentials since the latter can easily be taught.
“We’re like the Borg in the Star Trek series. We assimilate you and your distinctiveness will be added to our own,” Cory says about his onboarding process. “The first thing we tell a new starter is that the one thing our competitors can’t replicate is our people, so they know from the beginning how valued they are. Then we take them through a nine-week onboarding programme of technical training and customer service and psychology workshops to start understanding how they interact with people. Even people transferring internally to my department go through the training to learn our processes, to understand that they’re coming into something different, to detox their own support experiences in a sense. I’m not saying that there's nothing positive that you can bring from the culture and interactions you’ve experienced, but we want to make sure we pick out the best parts of it and help you shed the things that might be holding you back.”
Since the whole team is distributed, Cory’s onboarding programme is a highly detailed, hour-by-hour schedule and it’s run entirely by peers. This allows newbies to get to know everyone on the team; it takes advantage of the collective knowledge of the team, and it fosters the collaborative family culture from the very start.
Example from the detailed onboarding programme, which balances service, skill and procedure, then ties it all together at the end with mentorship.
Here’s what a new team member can expect in their first few months, including check-in calls with a team leader every morning and evening:
Week 1-3: Training
A mixture of video calls, lectures, independent study and training tasks followed by tests. Things covered are: terminology, products, in-depth workshops on all the tools the team uses, multiple workshops on support (everything from procedure to psychology).
Week 4-5: Shadow existing team member
Trainee sits in on calls to put into practice skills learned in the first month.
Week 6: Existing team member shadows new employee
Shift schedule starts as the trainee begins to take their own calls shadowed by another agent.
Week 7-8: Taking calls and emails on your own
Agent begins working on their own without an assigned agent, reaching out to others on demand. Team members regularly check in with the trainee to offer assistance.
Week 9: Added to on-call rotation
Trainee has completed the program and starts taking after-hours production emergency calls on a rotational schedule. A Team Lead mentors during this first go at this responsibility.
Final piece of advice: Dare to speak up
We all know the benefit of hindsight so I ask Cory what advice he would have given to his younger manager self, and there is no hesitation in his answer:
“Never let someone’s job title stop you from speaking your ideas or proposing what you think is right. I had a few experiences with leaders who weren't very receptive, and, unfortunately, it took me longer than I would have liked to realize that a key component of block and tackle was that I had to take those people on. Even if they’re the CEO, I need to be able to say, ‘You're wrong.’ When you’re trying to lead, the biggest harm you can do to yourself is to not follow your own ideas because you’re struggling to present them or get people to buy in to them. I'm obviously much better now at getting people to let me show them that it works, but I wish I’d had that so much earlier on, because I think I could have done some amazing things in other ventures if I’d just been less worried about the title.”
Cory's 9 great books to help you design a CS department around humans
“I love reading about customer experience and team enablement. I make my leadership team read those books too because it opens their eyes to why we do some of the things we do and why I make the decisions that I make. Once they know the ‘why,’ I think they buy into it a lot more. It’s also nice to back up the processes that I’ve put in place, and that work well, with other people’s findings because it makes it easier to sell my humanized approach to other directors in the company.”
Cory Archer, Director of Support @ DataBank IMX
Radical Candor: Be a Kick-Ass Boss Without Losing Your Humanity – Kim Scott
How to inspire colleagues and customers to be direct but polite. Communication is key to positive experiences.
Good Leaders Ask Great Questions: Your Foundation for Successful Leadership – John C. Maxwell
How to be a better leader and apply those skills to understanding your customers.
Good Boss, Bad Boss: How to Be the Best… and Learn from the Worst – Robert I. Sutton, PhD
How to be a boss people are loyal to for the right reasons. Avoid poor leadership traits that send even the best agents heading for the hills.
Start With Why: How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone to Take Action – Simon Sinek
How to inspire a team to excel by making it a movement not a task.
Who’s Your Gladys?: How to Turn Even the Most Difficult Customer into Your Biggest Fan – Marilyn Suttle & Lori Jo Vest
Understand how to create emotional connections with customers and avoid common pitfalls.
The No Asshole Rule: Building a Civilized Workplace and Surviving One That Isn’t – Robert I. Sutton, PhD
Understand how to function with destructive behaviors. Improve interaction and know how to move forward.
The Five Dysfunctions of a Team – Patrick Lencioni
Great CS starts with a well-oiled team. How to tackle the most common hurdles to unlock potential.
The Ideal Team Player: How to Recognize and Cultivate The Three Essential Virtues – Patrick Lencioni
Understanding the right person for your team unlocks unlimited potential for happy customers. Happy people provide a better experience.
Humble Inquiry: The Gentle Art of Asking Instead of Telling – Edgar H. Schein
Ask questions, don’t tell. How to enable people, colleagues and customers alike, to open up and share thoughts.
<a href="https://www.geckoboard.com/business-dashboards/customer-support-dashboards/"target="_blank">Learn more about how to boost customer service and keep your team happy by making your most important metrics visible to everyone.
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General News of Tuesday, 23 October 2018
Blame Vice-Chancellor for KNUST chaos – National Youth Authority CEO
The CEO of the National Youth Authority, Mr. Emmanuel Sin-yet Asigri, has blamed the Vice-Chancellor of the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), Professor Kwasi Obiri-Danso for the recent brutalities meted out to some students and the subsequent demonstration, riots, and vandalism that followed on Monday, 22 October.
“To say the least, the tacit endorsement of these shocking and barbaric acts by authorities of the university is very disgraceful, shameful and an affront to Ghana’s constitutional order and further leaves an indelible scar on Ghana’s democratic dispensation.
“The National Youth Authority (NYA) calls on all peace-loving Ghanaians including state security agencies to hold the university administration headed by Vice-Chancellor Professor Kwasi Obiri-Danso, under whose watch this is happening, accountable, and demand that he act responsibly and take the necessary actions in a timely manner, to avert any further brutalities and confusion that will only mar the peace on the KNUST campus,” a statement signed by Mr Sin-nyet Asigri, said on Monday, 22 October 2018.
His comments follow widespread vandalism of property on campus.
The students held a demonstration in protests to a directive that there will no longer be vigils and gatherings to sing ‘jama’ songs. Ten students and one alumnus were arrested on Friday and later released. This got the students infuriated thereby embarking on the demonstration.
Meanwhile, the university has been shut down and a 6 pm to 6 am curfew imposed on the school enclave.
Ghanaian students are also to vacate the school before 12 pm on Tuesday, 22 October 2018.
Below is the full statement from the CEO of the NYA:
Read Full Press Release
PRESS RELEASE BY THE NATIONAL YOUTH AUTHORITY ON INHUMANE ATTACKS ON STUDENTS OF KNUST BY THE UNIVERSITY SECURITY
22nd October, 2018
The National Youth Authority has taken notice of the gradual lawlessness that is setting in at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology and condemns unequivocally, the wanton acts of brutality meted out to protesting students. The bloody scenes unfolded as a result of this inhumane treatment of the students have been disseminated across the globe.
However, the Authority has also taken note of some criminal activities emanating from some purported students and call on the Police to deal with these suspects in accordance with the laws of our country.
In recent times KNUST under the leadership of the current Vice Chancellor has been in the news for various negative reasons. As the government agency responsible for youth development in this country we find the crude means adopted by leadership of the University in resolving student agitations such as the use of sheer force and acts of brutality reminiscent of the era of military rule.
This is criminal in nature and an affront to Ghana’s democracy. We are not in a banana republic to allow the university security to take the law into their own hands and treat students as if they are second class animals.
The National Youth Authority calls on all peace-loving Ghanaians including state security agencies to hold the university administration headed by Vice Chancellor Professor Kwasi Obiri-Danso, under whose watch this is happening, accountable, and demand that he acts responsibly and take the necessary actions in a timely manner, to avert any further brutalities and confusion that will only mar the peace on the KNUST campus.
While the Youth Authority condemns the acts of brutality being visited on students by the university security, we call on the students to exercise restraint in their reactions to the barbaric attacks. As intellectuals they must at every point in time adopt peaceful means in defending their constitutional rights and freedoms!
…SIGNED….
Emmanuel Sin-nyet Asigri
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Call of Duty: Warzone video shows PC players have a serious advantage
By James Holland
A YouTube video has attempted to show why 'Call of Duty: Warzone'’s PC players have an advantage over their console opponents.
The video, posted by user eVCephei earlier this month, shows how PC players have a wider field of view and are more likely to see opponents than those playing on consoles.
In the video, a console player’s view is seen first. The player ultimately dies while being unable to see who is shooting at them on the roof.
Then, a PC player’s view is seen which shows the shooter in full view as a result of the wider field.
The difference in field of view means PC players are likely to have an advantage as they can avoid opponents and spot others more easily.
The video has been viewed over 127,000 times in a week. Responding to it, one YouTube user said: “This is indeed a situation that needs to be fixed. I totally agree as a PC player. “
Another said: “And this is why streamers who play with a controller play on PC now.”
The issue has not been addressed by the game’s creators just yet, but it seems there’s strong demand for changes to be made.
While the issue doesn’t impact gameplay too badly, it could change the way certain players view the game and maybe even make them change from console to PC.
Other users stated in the comments that they use their PC-playing friends to alert them to threats or traps when gaming, such is the difference between the two methods.
'Warzone' reached 50 million players last month, making it one of the top Battle Royale games around at the moment.
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By Joe McCarthy
This Company Is Sucking Carbon From the Air and Making Soda With It
Carbon removal is increasingly seen as a vital part of any climate solution.
The United Nations calls on countries to curb their emissions and invest in carbon removal technologies to achieve goals set under the Paris climate agreement. Some of these methods are low-technology like planting trees and others, like direct air capture, are cutting-edge. You can join us by taking action here to help achieve the UN's Global Goal 13 for climate action.
The same carbon that’s heating up the planet could soon be making your soda fizzy.
Climeworks, based in Switzerland, is one of several companies working to pull carbon dioxide from the atmosphere as a way to fight climate change — and soft drinks happen to be one of many destinations for the retrieved element. The majority of the CO2 that Climeworks removes gets stowed deep underneath Iceland, in natural formations made of basalt.
In some ways, carbon removal is a last-resort concept fueled by an understanding that countries aren’t yet doing nearly enough to curb greenhouse gas emissions. Critics argue that these companies could distract from efforts to reduce emissions; provide companies with “greenwashing” opportunities; and have a negligible impact on the environment.
But most forecasts by climate scientists actually now insist that carbon removal must be a part of any climate solution to stay within the Paris climate agreement goal of keeping temperature increases at less than 1.5 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels.
“The world needs to do everything to reduce our emissions, with renewable energy at the top of the list,” Lia Flury, business development manager at Climeworks, told Global Citizen. “But on top of drastic emissions reduction we need to remove carbon dioxide directly from the air, because otherwise we will not reach the international climate targets.”
Image: sagesolar
If you eat meat and dairy products, drive a car, heat your home, use electricity, take a flight, buy new clothes, and do any number of other everyday things, then you have a traceable carbon footprint.
The average American, for example, emits 48 tons of carbon annually — significantly more than the global average. If the entire global population emitted similar levels, then the world would blow past the goals set by the Paris climate agreement.
The best way to reduce your carbon footprint is to take steps to reduce your environmental impact. You can fly less, eat less meat, and take public transportation, for example.
But efforts to offset carbon emissions are becoming increasingly popular in the corporate world and are often shorthand for “sustainability.” These words can often be found in corporate press releases, sustainability newsletters, and Instagram posts.
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If a company or person expects to release a lot of greenhouse gas emissions, then they can offset them. Often, these efforts involve planting trees, improving soil, or investing in renewable energy — relatively low-lift methods that are undeniably good for the environment.
But most of these methods don’t immediately remove the carbon that’s been added into the atmosphere. Instead, they promise that future emissions will be removed.
Only carbon removal technologies, also known as direct air capture and storage, can zero out emissions.
That is where Climeworks comes in.
The Science Behind Climeworks
Climeworks first formed about a decade ago and has spent the last several years improving its technology and working to cut costs. While its process is expensive, it's cheaper than studies had predicted. Even still, the average American would have to spend tens of thousands of dollars annually to erase their carbon footprint.
Like any emerging technology, Climeworks plans to significantly reduce costs over the next decade, making its method more feasible for companies and individuals alike.
The company’s method is straightforward.
CO2 collectors (that look a bit like boxy fans) are installed within a frame or individually near a source of energy — Climeworks only considers renewable energy providers so the process doesn’t contribute to global warming. As a fan pulls air through the collectors, CO2 molecules bind to a filter material inside the machines. When the filter is saturated, the collectors are heated to 100 degrees Celsius to distill the carbon into its purest form.
The resulting carbon is then sold to drink companies, greenhouses, and renewable fuel manufacturers. It can also be mixed with water and pumped underground into the basaltic rock formations, where it reacts with compounds to become solid carbonite.
A single collector can remove around 50 tons of carbon annually — roughly the carbon footprint of a single American.
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A growing number of companies, including Microsoft, are becoming customers of Climeworks as part of their pursuits of carbon neutrality. By 2025, Climeworks wants to capture around 1% of carbon emissions, a goal that will require a significant expansion.
The company doesn’t want to be seen as a cure-all. It faces obvious limitations in terms of scale and cost, but it does see its value as one part of a broader solution to climate change.
“It’s not enough if there is only Climeworks in the world,” said Flury. “We also need forestation and other solutions.”
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Cookie dough keeps Bondi cafe Bennett Street Dairy in business
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James Meek (left) and Cliff Baskin package up cookie dough for sale at their Bondi cafe. Photo: Janie Barrett
What do you do when a global pandemic leaves you with mountains of cookie dough? If you're cafe owner James Meek, you knead that dough into a profitable online business.
"Everything was ticking along nicely at our stores, then kaboom - the coronavirus happened," says Meek, who co-owns Bondi's Bennett Street Dairy and its sister cafe nearby on Blair Street.
"When social gathering restrictions were announced in late March, my business partner Cliff [Baskin] and I went into the Bennett Street kitchen to start packing down equipment, and we found 100 kilograms of cookie dough left over from the cafes.
Bennett Street Dairy cookie dough in its baked form. Photo: Janie Barrett
"I made a casual Instagram post to see if anyone wanted to buy it, and the whole lot was gone in two hours. At that point, we figured we should probably make some more."
Bennett Street Dairy is now home-delivering more than one tonne of cookie dough per week throughout Sydney. Demand for the choc-chip treat means Meek and Baskin have been able to keep 70 per cent of cafe staff employed during the coronavirus crisis.
"We're not business geniuses, it's just a nice little accident that's come out of the current situation," says Meek. "It looks like the dough should get us through the pandemic and we'll have a great little side business when the cafe can be filled with people again."
Cake Mail founder Jonathan Massaad prepares a birthday cake at his production site in Smithfield. Photo: Edwina Pickles
Data suggest Sydney's sweet tooth has grown since the implementation of social distancing. Uber Eats reports searches for "vegan" are down, while "comfort food" and "dessert" have broken through to the online delivery platform's top user queries.
Similarly, searches for "ice-cream" are up by 139 per cent at rival platform Deliveroo, and Gelato Messina is the only brand to join McDonald's in the app's top 10 search terms.
Meek owes Bennett Street Dairy's dough success to customers sharing their cookie experiences on social media ("the dough has gone viral, for want of a better word") and the simple joy of baking at home.
"It's a way to fill your house with the smell of freshly-baked cookies, but without the hassle of buying all the ingredients. A few people like to eat the dough in raw form, too, but I reckon they're a bit mad."
Social distancing has also led to a business boom for Sydney-based delivery company Cake Mail, which specialises in special-occasion desserts topped with KitKats, Oreos and other sweet things.
"We're now shifting five times the number of cakes than before the pandemic," says Cake Mail founder Jonathan Massaad. "In the two weeks leading up to Mother's Day, that volume has increased by 500 per cent again."
Cake Mail has almost doubled its staff total to 50 employees in the past two months, with people working in dessert delivery, cake decorating and marketing.
"A lot of customers are ordering cakes from us to celebrate birthdays with friends and family they can't be with in person," says Massaad. "We've been delivering a lot of cakes with Zoom meeting codes attached."
Fairy floss specialist Fluffy Crunch has experienced a 1000 per cent rise in online sales too, however the company's husband-and-wife founders Paola and Michael Karamallis are still concerned for the future of their small business.
"Before the coronavirus, around 90 per cent of our revenue was made through selling fairy floss at events and festivals," says Michael Karamallis.
"The cancellation of major events such as Vivid and the Sydney Royal Easter Show has impacted us greatly. Online sales have been incredible, but they haven't made up for the loss in event revenue."
Karamallis says he thought he would be closing the Fluffy Crunch for good when most major events for 2020 were cancelled in March and April.
"We were just lucky to have an online ordering system already in place, and a large number of social media followers we could connect with.
"Our fairy floss advent calendar has helped sales too. We usually release the calendar at Christmas, but now it's rebranded it as the COVID-19 Isolation Countdown Box."
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Home Health & Fitness Incredible Health Benefits of Falsa (Grewia Asiatica) in summers
Incredible Health Benefits of Falsa (Grewia Asiatica) in summers
Phalsa or Falsa is a fruit of the tree Grewia asiatica, which is a native of India and other countries like Nepal, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Cambodia, and Thailand.
It has also been naturalized in Australia and the Philippines. It is a small tree that grows to a height of 15 to 20 feet and bears sour-sweet tiny reddish-purple fruits that resemble blueberries. The tree fruits during the peak summer months of May and June each year.
The fruits are easily perishable and its juice can be prepared to last the entire summer. Also, the fruits are eaten as they are with the addition of a little salt and black pepper.
The fruit is consumed for its cooling effect in summer as well as for its other health benefits.
The entire tree has various other uses.
Uses Of The Phalsa Tree
The fruits are used to treat various health problems.The leaves are used as cattle fodder.The branches are used to make baskets for transporting vegetables and fruits, as fuel and the wood is used to make the archer’s bow, spears, handles, poles, etc.The bark is used to make ropes and as a substitute for soap. Also, the mucilage which is extracted from the bark by pounding it in water is then used to prepare brown sugar from sugarcane juice due to its clarifying effect.
Nutrients & Antioxidant Activity Of Phalsa
The following nutrients are present in Phalsa :Good levels of Potassium, low levels of Sodium, rich in Vitamin C, Calcium, Phosphorus, and fiber.The seeds contain palmitic, stearic, oleic, and linoleic acids.The fruit peel has the highest antioxidant activity followed by the pulp and then the seeds.The fruits also offer radiation protection.The leaves also exhibit antioxidant activity.
Health Benefits Of Phalsa
It is excellent to alleviate summer thirst and hot weather-related problems.The raw fruit relieves inflammations, fevers, and blood disorders. It purifies the blood.A wonderful reliever of respiratory ailments like asthma, bronchitis, colds, coughs, and sore throat.It relieves urinary problems like burning and the juice aids in relieving digestive problems like excess acidity and indigestion.The infusion of the bark is used to treat diarrhea.The paste of the leaves cures skin infections like eczema and eruptions and heals wounds.The fruit relieves liver and gall bladder problems, regulates blood pressure, and cholesterol.The seeds are used to treat gonorrhea and fertility problems.It protects from sunstroke, cures anemia.The bark of the root is used to treat rheumatism.
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Govt abandons older Kiwis
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CDRO condemns the arrest of Delhi University Prof. HanyBabu
Co-ordination of Democratic Rights Organisations (CDRO) condemns the arrest of Delhi University Prof. Hany Babu and demands his immediate release after dropping the false charges levied against him. His arrest is part of the Modi’s Government attempt in silencing the dissent. Prof. Hany Babu is arrested by NIA on 28th July, 2020, on the allegation that he was propagating Naxal activities and Maoist ideology and was a co-conspirator with other arrested accused in Bhima-Koregaon Case. It should be noted that in reality, the violence at Bhima-Koregaon is the conspiracy of the Hindutva forces and it was carried out by perpetrators Sambhaji Bhide and Milind Ekbote, both with ties to the RSS. The entire conspiracy hatched in the aftermath of the violence at Bhima-Koregaon is intended to incarcerate and silence the voices of dissent who have been speaking about the anti-people policies and Hindutva politics of the ruling BJP Governments. Erstwhile Maharashtra government led by Devendra Fadnavis selectively implicated the Rights Activists from different fields under the draconian UAPA Law.
The Shiv Sena-Congress-NCP coalition government, which came into power after the recent election, was about to withdraw the charges against the accused.The Central government immediately directed NIA to take up the case. After NIA took up investigation, it is again re-investigating the case, which is illegal, and arbitrarily arrested Anand Teltumble and Gautam Navlakha. All the 11 persons arrested, including 81-year old Varavara Rao, who tested COVID Positive, are not getting bail. It shows the indifferent attitude of the judiciary. Eminent personalities from all over the globe have urged the government to withdraw the false charges against them. Still, the government took a nonchalant stand and continued its manhunt by arresting Prof. Hany Babu yesterday.
Dr. Babu, who teaches English in the University of Delhi, is a noted activist, being the coordinator of the ‘Alliance of Social Justice’ and a member of the ‘Joint Action Front for Democratic Education’. He is a prominent member of the ‘Committee for the Defense and Release of Dr. G.N. Saibaba’ which had condemned the rejection of granting permanent bail to the disabled and incarcerated Delhi University academic accused of having Maoist links. He has spoken out against caste discrimination in institutions of higher education, the death penalty and for the rights of political prisoners. Perhaps this is the sin committed by him against the State. Then he was targeted by the State. His house was raided by the Pune Police in the month of November 2019. At that time the police took three books and his laptop, phone, hard disks and pen drives.Again he was summoned by NIA to Bombay, and he was forced to travel to Mumbai on 23rd July. And since then he has been questioned every day for long hours until his arrest on 28th July. During his gruelling questioning, police tried to get false testimony against some more persons being functionaries of Maoists. Since Prof. Hany Babu refused to give such false testimony, finally NIA made his arrest in the Bhima-Koregaon case as a co-conspirator. We strongly feel that here the State is the biggest conspirator against the democratic forces.
Prof. Hany Babu’s arrest is proof of blatant harassment and intimidation of people who question the State and struggle for the rights of the marginalised and oppressed castes, classes and communities. This arrest is likely to follow the predictable narrative of branding Prof. Babuas an urban Naxal. The intention of the State is not to prove guilt but to punish via lengthy isolation and detention while being demonised by a State-sponsored media witch-hunt. These tactics are being deployed without any consideration for the fundamental right to life of the persons targeted as seen in the case of the revolutionary poet Varavara Rao, Dr. GN Saibaba and Prof. Anand Teltumbde among others.
CDRO appeals to all the progressive and democratic forces to unite and condemn the arrest of Prof. Hany Babu and the threat of arrest looming over several more rights activists, artists and journalists. We demand the government to
Withdraw baseless charges against the rights activists in Bhima-Koregaon case and release them immediately.
Repeal of all draconian laws including UAPA, PSA, NSA and others.
Immediate release of all anti-CAA, NRC and NPR activists.
Stop the witch-hunt of human rights defenders by the NIA.
K. Kranthi Chaitanya, Prit Pal Singh, Tapas Chakraborty and V. Raghunath
(Coordinator of CDRO)
Constituent Organisations: Association for Democratic Rights (AFDR, Punjab), Association for Protection of Democratic Rights (APDR, West Bengal); Asansol Civil Rights Association, West Bengal; Bandi Mukti Committee (West Bengal); Civil Liberties Committee (Andhra Pradesh); Civil Liberties Committee (Telangana); Committee for Protection of Democratic Rights (Maharashtra); Committee for Protection of Democratic Rights (CPDR TamilNadu); Coordination for Human Rights (Manipur); Manab Adhikar Sangram Samiti (Assam); Naga Peoples Movement for Human Rights ; Peoples’ Committee for Human Rights (Jammu and Kashmir); Peoples Democratic Forum (Karnataka); Jharkhand Council for Democratic Rights (Jharkhand); Peoples Union For Democratic Rights (Delhi); People’s Union for Civil Rights (Haryana), Campaign for Peace & Democracy in Manipur, Delhi; Jan Hastakshep (Delhi)
Image Courtesy: The Hindu
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OPINION: The one thing Sam Burgess got right
South Sydney's Sam Burgess fronts the media after sexting allegations. Picture: Brett Costello
by Victoria Hannaford
THERE'S one thing Sam Burgess got right in his recent press conference.
The so-called "sexting scandal" he's facing is unbearably distressing for his heavily pregnant wife, Phoebe Burgess.
"I'm upset for my wife and my family, it's been a tough process to go through, the family together … I'm fortunate that I've got a strong wife …
"What hurts me most is seeing my wife upset about what's out there," he told a media scrum yesterday, which had gathered to hear him speak on the matter.
And I have to say, I'm upset on her behalf. I'm sure many women are. I don't know Phoebe - I've interviewed her once - but I feel for her.
Regardless of the outcome of the NRL's investigation regarding explicit photographs sent from the NRL superstar's social media account, the scrutiny on their marriage, which is never far away for a couple that includes a high-profile footballer, must be horrendous.
Sam Burgess finally answered questions about “sexting scandal” yesterday and the effect it was having on his wife and family. Picture: Brett Costello
From the outside it seems awful. I can only imagine what it's like to have that speculation occur within a relationship. Being "strong" in the face of it, particularly while pregnant, would be a challenge for anyone.
When I interviewed Phoebe for Stellar in 2016, she was pregnant with the couple's first child after their wedding in late 2015. She was glowing.
She spoke of the pressures of pregnancy - a time when many women feel vulnerable and self conscious - when paparazzi are tailing your every move. Even something as pleasant as having an ice cream on the beach was considered fair game, which Phoebe initially found upsetting.
"The first images that came out of my baby bump were of me sitting there on the beach smashing a Bubble O'Bill [ice-cream]. Boobs on bump, legs wide open and it wasn't flattering. I went home and I felt humiliated," she said in the interview.
But at that time, she was able to take refuge in her home life, and get perspective.
"I spoke to my family and Sam and we all laughed about it," she added.
There can be little doubt that the media glare has once again turned in her direction, all while Phoebe is pregnant with a second baby.
Phoebe Burgess was set to appear at the Colgate Optic White Stakes Day last weekend, but withdrew from the event after the sexting scandal became public. Picture: Tim Hunter.
And with the allegations facing her husband - that two players indecently exposed themselves to a woman without consent via Burgess' social media account - home may not be the same haven of calm as it was when intrusion was limited to paparazzi photographs. The allegations, and the explicit photos sent from Sam Burgess' verified social media account, would be like chucking a hand grenade in any marriage.
In Sam's own words, spoken at the media conference yesterday, the allegations have not just affected him.
"I just want to protect my family over this whole thing, I've got a daughter and my wife's heavily pregnant, I want them to be safe and happy," he said.
The pressures of the situation on Phoebe already seem evident, given her withdrawal from a recent public appearance at a racing event, where she had been scheduled to appear as a brand ambassador. She's also chosen not to watch her husband play in recent Rabbitohs games. A close friend was quoted as saying Phoebe was taking these measures to protect herself.
"Phoebe is heavily pregnant, there is no way she could have put herself in that situation.
"The stress would have been all too much."
And with another baby due in December, it's a stress that you wouldn't wish on anyone, especially not a pregnant woman.
While Sam Burgess has said he's "happy for the truth to come out" he was also hopeful the investigation would be "resolved quickly."
And I'm sure that for Phoebe, a conclusion to this sorry scandal can't come soon enough.
Victoria Hannaford is a writer and producer for RendezView.
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Lok Sabha elections 2019: Crunching numbers to make sense of politics
By Roshan Kishore | Hindustan Times, New Delhi
UPDATED ON MAY 22, 2019 09:03 AM IST
The 2019 election is the first in which the EC has decided to introduce candidate pictures along with their electoral symbols on the electronic voting machines.
A member of the Election Commission’s flying squad searches a truck for illegal cash or liquor, Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, March 26 ,(AFP)
Elections 2019: Money power still rules the roost
By Shashi Shekhar
Criminals were used to influence and create pressure during elections. But now the same task is performed through the use of vast amounts of cash. The hooligans turned into leaders, and the leaders become slaves to money. We did not even realise it until it was too late.
Journalists wearing black arm-bands hold a placard and a photograph of DD cameraman Achyuta Nanda Sahu, who was killed by in a Maoist ambush in Chhattisgarh during a protest meeting to condemn the killing of Achyuta, in Mumbai on November 1, 2018.(AFP)
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Dantewada killings: Maoists say not going after media; ‘targeted ambush, say police
By HT Correspondent | Hindustan Times, New Delhi
UPDATED ON NOV 02, 2018 10:10 AM IST
The three-member Doordarshan team was in Bastar area of Chhattisgarh for election coverage and heading for reporting on a new polling booth in Nilawaya near Sumeli camp when they came under attack from Maoists.
Doordarshan cameraman Achyuta Nanda Sahu's passes for events he had covered. Sahu died in a Maoist attack in Chhattisgarh's Dantewada district, Oct 30, 2018(PTI)
Maoist attacks must not deter the State from improving the lives of tribals
UPDATED ON OCT 31, 2018 06:52 PM IST
They are caught in the crossfire between the State and the rebels.Yet development is the only way out of the mess, if not for anyone else, but the tribals, who have been impoverished for years because of the negligence of the Indian state
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Producing a socially distanced, full studio shoot for IKEA
With 2 out of 3 Dutch people having trouble sleeping, IKEA Netherlands and its creative agency Wavemaker decided to create a campaign around ‘sleep fitness’ and how we can all optimise our sleeping habits, as sleep is as important for our health as regular exercise.
The original plan was to create a teaser video to get IKEA’s social community involved, utilise a sleep expert to provide classes in conjunction with the fitness app OneFit and create follow-up videos to show how people were getting on.
But COVID-19 changed everything…
IKEA Netherlands
PRODUCTION AGENCY
Hogarth Netherlands
We regrouped (digitally) to see if there was a way to deliver the campaign while keeping everyone safe and within government guidelines. We came up with a plan that would involve shooting with a skeleton crew, going above and beyond to ensure additional safety measures were implemented and phasing out the regular approach to production.
We adapted the script to only have a maximum of three people on-set at any one time (one person who acted as the camera operator, DOP and director, one person who looked after the sound and one on-air talent).
To ensure adherence to social distancing, we found a shoot location that was not a public place, had separate hand-washing facilities for the on-set team, and allowed us to follow the Netherlands’ guidelines of keeping 1.5 metres apart at all times. In between takes, we also practised continuous disinfection of everything the cast and crew interacted with. The agency and client were present remotely to view the shoot and give their feedback in real time.
Once the two-day shoot was complete, we undertook all post-production remotely.
Our Amsterdam team was able to create a full studio production within the confines of social distancing guidelines. The campaign went live in the middle of April with mobile-first tutorials that we created for IGTV with the sleep coach using the hashtag #SleepHacks. We also helped to facilitate the remote production of videos created by influencers to further promote the campaign.
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