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Coronavirus: MPs push govt to rescue charities facing insolvency 'within weeks'
By Lauren Weymouth 07/04/20
The Digital, Culture, Media and Sport Committee has urged chancellor Rishi Sunak to announce 'urgent information' about a rescue package for charities.
The push has been made by the committee' chair, Julian Knight MP, after Prime Minister Boris Johnson said a rescue package would be unveiled, but almost two weeks later, details have still yet to be revealed.
Knight said without an immediate rescue package, many charities will be insolvent 'within weeks' as they battle with a surge in demand and a decline in income.
Sector bodies, including the NCVO, CFG and Acevo, have previously warned the sector is at risk of losing over £4bn over the next 12 weeks as a result of the crisis.
This is primarily a result of shop closures and cancelled or postponed fundraising events.
Many charities have announced plans to furlough staff under the government's Job Retention Scheme, but sector experts have warned this will only benefit a relatively small proportion of UK charities.
“People need the support of charities now more than ever yet the future of many in this sector is in jeopardy because they’re facing losing up to £4 billion in income," Knight said.
“We’re calling on the Government to take immediate steps to support charities because failing to do so will have long-lasting consequences.
“If nothing is done, some will be insolvent within weeks and even large charities will be unable to help the vulnerable and those most in need of their services at this desperate time.”
The DCMS Committee is asking the government to announce the following:
- Emergency funding for frontline charities and voluntary organisations currently supporting the response to Covid-19;
- A stabilisation fund to enable charities, voluntary organisations and social enterprises to keep operating over the coming months;
- Confirmation that any staff furloughed by a charity under the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme are legally permitted to volunteer their services back to the charity to provide frontline support; and
- An exemption for charities to the 50% trading limit under the Business Interruption Loan Scheme, and extending eligibility under the Small Business Grant scheme to charities claiming charitable rate relief.
Last week the committee received evidence from leaders across the sector about the impact of coronavirus on charities across the UK, which it has made publicly available.
A range of charities echoed concerns about the limitations of government schemes – which are primarily designed to accommodate businesses – with many ineligible for support.
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Some came for a personal challenge, a few hoping to win and others to simply get round but all helped make the Derby Half Marathon a huge success.
Thousands crossed the finish line of one of the region’s most popular charity road runs, raising tens of thousands of pounds for local good causes.
With the race boasting a new city centre start and finish, runners of all abilities gathered in Iron Gate close to Derby Cathedral for the 9.15am start. The route took them through the city centre on to London Road and Shardlow Road, along to Elvaston Castle Country Park, through Alvaston Park, past Derby County’s Pride Park Stadium and back to Iron Gate for the big finish.
The runners were urged on by large crowds that contributed to the excitement and atmosphere.
First across the finish line was William Strangeway who romped to victory in a time of 1:08:38. Mohamed Saleh took second place in 1:10:44, with Daniel Bagley finishing third in 1:11:03.
Lucy Niemz was the first woman home in 1:20:31 followed by Emma Pick who clocked 1:26:10 for second spot and Hayley Gill who took third in 1:27:25.
You didn’t need to be a serious runner to take part in the fun. The event also featured the Timms Solicitors Family Fun Run, a 2km course suitable for all ages and abilities, with medals and goody bags for the finishers.
Tristan Batley-Kyle, head of events at race organiser Run For All, said:
“We are enormously grateful to everyone who contributed to the success of the Derby Half Marathon, particularly the many volunteers who gave up their time and worked so hard.”
Runners were invited to raise money for the half marathon’s partner charities which this year were the Jane Tomlinson Appeal, Canaan Trust, Rainbows Hospice for Children and Young People, Annabel’s Angels, Childrenfirst Derby and First Steps ED.
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Home » Senior Living News Blog » National Puppy Day: Meet JJ, Bear and Tessie Sue
Alzheimer’s Care | March 23, 2018 | By Jessica Beck
National Puppy Day: Meet JJ, Bear and Tessie Sue
At Carlton Senior Living we indeed recognize the value of pets and the companionship they provide for our residents. Our communities are “pet-friendly.” More specifically in our Memory Care neighborhoods our residents and staff host a pet for the residents to connect with and bond over during their transition and integration into a new environment. We have found that often, the companionship of the pets chosen can help to provide comfort and security for our residents and aid in the ease of behaviors associated with the progression of the disease process.
We are pleased to share with you today, in honor of National Puppy Day, three of our Memory Care pets; JJ, Bear, and Tessie Sue, that have joined our Carlton Family. Although they are not all considered puppies by evidence of their current age, the puppy-like spirit and joyful demeanor they bring to our neighborhoods is something to be celebrated and shared!
Meet “JJ”
It has been close to two years since JJ, our community dog at Carlton Senior Living San Jose has joined the family. JJ is a mixed Maltese and will be turning nine years old this year. The name “JJ” was given by his previous person, who has since passed, and although some of our residents tried to change it to “GG,” it seems that “JJ” is indeed the name that sticks best. JJ loves to go for walks on a trail nearby to the community which is why it is befitting for him to be the president of our Walking Club. JJ enjoys playing with his toys and is always game for fetch. The most rewarding part of having JJ is that some of our residents in Memory Care, before moving in with us, also had pets at home that they had to leave behind with extended family in their move. JJ offers comfort and companionship to the residents that are familiar from previously owning and caring for a pet. It is undeniable that JJ has grown into the hearts of the family members of our residents and they look forward to coming and visiting their loved one and JJ too!
Meet Bear
Approximately six months ago a resident moved into our Assisted Living community at Carlton Senior Living Elk Grove. Moving in with her was her 13-year-old Golden Retriever, Bear who had become family and her best friend. The resident recognized that upon moving in, she needed to make her health and well-being a priority but she sought to find a way to ensure that Bear remained well taken care of and a part of her life. Timing is sometimes perfect, and fate happened to bring Bear and his owner into Carlton at the right time. The Memory Care happened to be looking for a dog to help provide companionship to their residents and Bear was a perfect fit! Bear now joins Memory Care every day between the hours of 11 am to 4 pm and goes back to his owner every night. The love, support, and friendship that Bear provides to all he meets are incomparable. The situation has proven to be a “win-win” for both Bear’s owner and our Memory Care residents. Bear loves his daily visits to Memory Care and knows exactly how to get there from his Assisted Living apartment. The personal caregivers who help to escort him say that he eagerly is leading him down the hallway to the Memory Care door. Once the door opens, he wastes no time and begins making his rounds so that everyone gets to see him, pet him and of course if anyone has any extra cookies to share that is welcomed too. It is no surprise that the residents adore him and love to take him outside in the courtyard to play and enjoy the sunshine on the warmer days. He enjoys laying in the living room right in front during the SingFit activity. It should come as no surprise that his favorite song sung is “Ain’t Nothing but a Hound Dog.” Bear is a genuine part of our family and brings us all great joy with his eager puppy-like spirit that is game to dress up for holidays and is always willing to join our walking club!
Meet Tessie Sue
Our most recent community pet moved in just a little over a month ago with her owner to Memory Care. Tessie Sue is a four-year-old Poodle with amazing puppy-like energy! Since moving in, she instantly made Carlton Senior Living Sacramento Memory Care her new home. The first to greet all visitors and residents returning to the neighborhood with her wagging tail and happy demeanor, she loves to engage and play with the residents and staff. Her favorite thing to do is go for walks in and around the courtyard. She has already staked a claim on three favorite areas in the neighborhood; the activity room where all the live action takes place, she is a fan of the dining room during cooking activities with the residents and of course, settled right in at the Director of Memory Care’s office. Everyone that meets her falls in love with Tessie Sue, she creates a cozy, homelike environment for all and we adore having her as a member of our family!
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Cleco donates $25,000 to support rebuild of burned St. Landry churches
PINEVILLE, La. – Today, Cleco donated $25,000 to the Seventh District Baptist Association in support of the rebuild of the three historically black Baptist churches destroyed by arson - St. Mary Baptist Church, Greater Union Baptist Church and Mount Pleasant Baptist Church.
“Cleco supports the rebuild of the three historic churches in St. Landry Parish that fell victim to a senseless act of hate,” said Marty Smith, Cleco vice president of marketing. “Cleco’s hope is that the rebuild of these churches will allow community members to continue their legacy of evangelism and missionary work throughout the area and beyond.”
“We’re grateful to Cleco for their generous contribution to help rebuild St. Mary Baptist Church, Greater Union Baptist Church and Mount Pleasant Baptist Church,” said Rev. Freddie J. Jack, President of the Seventh District Baptist Association. “There are no words to express the disappointment that comes with losing these places of fellowship that have been so influential in the community for many years, but it’s comforting to know that community leaders such as Cleco are here to support our efforts to move forward.”
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Meghan Markle Stays Grounded Thanks to Yoga: ‘That Practice Is in My Blood’
Feb 13, 2019 2:58 pm·
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Duchess of Sussex Meghan Markle may be the newest member of the British royal family, but she’s no stranger to the spotlight. “My dad was a lighting director and director of photography for Married … with Children,” Meghan once said in a previous interview. “Every day after school for 10 years, I was on the set … I will always find my light.”
In 2011, Meghan found the national spotlight on the hit TV series Suits, but the California native knew she “wanted more.” Mission accomplished: Five years later, she met Prince Harry. “We’re two people who are really happy and in love,” the 37-year-old has said of their romance. “I’m still the same person.”
So how does the leading lady turned royal highness stay so naturally grounded? Her mother, Doria Ragland, deserves some of the credit. “My mom was a yoga instructor, so that practice is in my blood,” Meghan has said. “It’s sort of my thing … as much for my head as my body.”
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As a celebrity, Meghan understands the importance of looking good for the camera, but her definition of feeling good is entirely different. “Being in shape just means feeling confident,” she once shared, according to a story recently published by Life & Style. “Being happy with your size and being kind to yourself … that’s part of being in shape, too.” Meghan achieves mental and physical harmony in several ways. She’s a big believer in meditation, though she doesn’t sit still or go inward in a traditional sense.
“Running has always been my form of moving meditation,” Meghan has said. “I need it as much to clear my head as for keeping in shape.” Typically, runners have better overall mental health. Medical studies have proven that running releases endorphins that can act as natural painkillers. It also improves sleep, which also helps relieve anxiety and reduce stress.
“My health, my state of mind, the feeling you have after a workout,” Meghan said. “It’s all about the balance … It’s crazy how it trickles into everything in your life.”
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Now that she’s royalty, Meghan tends to keep her workouts indoors. Fortunately, she has quite a few healthy interests. “I love an intense vinyasa class,” she said of the perpetual motion yoga process. “Breathing slowly and mindfully.”
Meghan’s also a huge fan of Pilates. “It’s hands-down the best thing you could do for your body,” the duchess has said. “Your body changes immediately.” Whether or not you go to a gym, Meghan advises perspiring tension away. “Sit in an infrared sauna,” she’s suggested. “Sweat out all the toxins.”
Unlike conventional saunas that use hot rocks and water to produce steam, infrared saunas use special heat lamps that mimic the curative properties of sunlight. Some benefits can include healthier skin, muscle and joint relief and better circulation.
Meghan’s also a big supporter of acupuncture and cupping; both natural Chinese therapies that stimulate the flow of “chi,” or energy, within the body. Acupuncture uses tiny needles inserted into the skin. Cupping uses cups that provide suction against the skin. “I used to have debilitating migraines,” she admitted. “Acupuncture and Eastern medicine absolutely changed my life.”
Both methods have been scientifically proven to naturally ease or eliminate many common complaints, often with just a few one-hour sessions. The ancient techniques access pathways that trigger the brain to “turn off” the pain.
Even though her personal standards are fit for a king, the duchess knows it’s best to have a dependable entourage. “Surround yourself with people who live a healthy lifestyle,” she’s said. “It rubs off.”
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Brand new softcover book! ; Has any religious community been the subject of more curiosity, controversy, or misunderstanding than the Latter-day Saints? From the time pioneers settled the Salt Lake valley, Mormon culture has drawn the public eye and colored the public recordfor better or for worse. This landmark volume explores nineteenth-, twentieth-, and twenty-firstcentury Mormon society through the perspectives of journalists, novelists, travel writers, presidents, and other well-known public figures, including such varied people as Susan B. Anthony, Buffalo Bill Cody, Mark Twain, Leo Tolstoy, Vincent Price, Will Rogers, Angela Lansbury, Walter Cronkite, Margaret Thatcher, President John F. Kennedy, and dozens more. Some of the accounts are humorous, some flattering, some exaggerated, some insightful. Arranged chronologically, this wide spectrum of viewpoints illustrates a changing public awareness of the Latter-day Saints; taken together, they offer a captivating view of a peculiar people throughout their history. ; 6" x 9"; 794795431094
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France lockdown: More details of November 28 changes
Prime Minister Jean Castex, alongside other key ministers, provided clarity on France’s three-step process to ease confinement at a press conference on Thursday
French Prime Minister Jean Castex said at a press conference about the Covid-19 pandemic on Thursday, November 26, that the next five weeks will be decisive for the country
The first phase of France’s gradual deconfinement will begin on Saturday, November 28, when shops and services will resume and exercise limits will be expanded.
At a press conference on Thursday morning (November 26), key government ministers outlined further details on how that will work.
All shops that were classified as non-essential will be permitted to re-open, with strict sanitary protocols applied, until latest 21:00.
This will include libraries, bookshops, clothes shops, toy shops, flower shops etc. Also included will be hairdressers and beauticians.
Not included in this are cinemas, theatres, museums, cafés, restaurants, bars.
Alain Griset, the minister for small-and-medium enterprises, said on Thursday that the "will to work" of the traders and craftsmen "has been at the heart of their demands and our concerns, since the beginning of the second confinement".
Shops and businesses will have to limit the number of customers to one every eight square metres.
This rule should be applied with common sense, Mr Griset said.
“When a couple or a parent with their child enters a business, they will count as one person.”
Shops of more than 400 square metres will have to employ a "counter", who will ensure the number of customers does not exceed the capacity.
France’s economy minister Bruno Le Maire has said that he is in favour of shops being allowed to open every Sunday in the lead up to Christmas.
It will be up to individual city authorities to permit this.
Shops have also agreed to push back Black Friday by one week.
The Black Friday sales event takes place online and in shops every year the day after Thanksgiving in the US. This year’s Black Friday would normally have been held on Friday, November 27. It will now be held on December 4.
Driving schools can resume from Saturday. Theory tests will continue to be done remotely.
Property visits by letting agents can also resume on Saturday.
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The system of exemption certificates (attestations de déplacement) will remain, meaning that anyone going out to exercise or shop will need to complete one.
It is thought they will be updated before Saturday to reflect the new measures.
People will now be allowed to exercise each day for up to three hours (this includes any travel time) within 20 kilometres of their home.
This does not allow for people to visit family members or friends at their homes, Mr Castex said.
This rule replaces the current measure which allows people to exercise for one hour daily, within one kilometre of their home.
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Inter-regional travel will still be prohibited.
On sports, Mr Castex said, "you will be able to run in a public area or practise your individual sport in an open stadium or sports ground, such as tennis, horse riding, athletics or golf".
Individual hunting, fishing and swimming will also be permitted.
Team sports remain prohibited, except for professionals.
Gyms and sports halls are closed until January 20, 2021.
Services at places of worship can resume from Saturday, with a strict limit of a maximum of 30 people.
This could evolve in the future, depending on the venue's overall capacity.
Libraries and archive centres and music shops are to open. However, cinemas, theatres and museums are still closed until December 15.
Mr Castex said that “working from home will remain the rule” until at least January 20, 2021.
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Loto-Québec has released a statement elaborating on certain points made in an article published in the Journal de Montréal, which allegedly linked an individual to organised crime at its casinos.
Earlier today, the Journal de Montréal published an article where the president of Loto-Québec, Lynne Roiter, spoke for the first time about the allegations of organised crime at the Casino de Montréal.
According to Journal de Montréal, Roiter stated: “We are concerned because for us, it is safe and we take all the means at our disposal to avoid the presence of organised crime in the casinos,”
However, it was also specified that, since the casino is a public place, it is impossible to deny access, except to minors and those who disrupt activities such as usurious lenders or cheaters.
The president also indicated that following the investigation into the lenders at the casino, individuals were evicted.
The internal investigation, according to Roiter, was not stopped by the management, but the information was forwarded to the Police Department of the City of Montreal. However, there would have been no follow-up.
The statement by Loto-Québec reads: “First of all, with respect to the individuals who have been mentioned, under the Act respecting access to documents held by public bodies and the protection of personal information and Proceeds of Crime (Money Laundering) and Terrorist Financing Act, Loto-Québec was obliged to decline requests for an interview as it cannot divulge any personal information, nor report on the actions that may have been taken to deal with specific individuals who frequent public places like casinos and may therefore enroll in pre-established programs that are open to anyone aged 18 or older.”
In the statement, Loto-Québec added that it ‘actively works’ with various stakeholders involved in the fight against money laundering and has put in place various procedures and measures.
It also emphasised that Loto-Québec administers a compliance programme under the Proceeds of Crime (Money Laundering) and Terrorist Financing Act, with the statement adding: “The purpose of this program is to ensure that Loto-Québec, like all other reporting entities that the Act applies to, contributes to the fight against money laundering and complies with all regulatory requirements.”
Loto-Québec also noted that its compliance programme is subject to several reviews and noted: “During its 2016 review, FINTRAC found no issues with the program and invited Loto-Québec to continue applying its program, which it did.
“This review is in addition to those carried out regularly by renowned external firms, including in 2015 and 2019.
“During the latter review, Loto-Québec requested that particular attention be paid to the situation in British Columbia, which is referred to in a report by Dr. Peter M. German with respect to the business reality of Loto-Québec. It was concluded that Loto-Québec already had mechanisms in place to manage the risks raised and comply with the regulatory framework.
“Furthermore, Loto-Québec has taken action relating to improvements suggested to reinforce these mechanisms.”
Yet the statement also expressed that a casino is a ‘public space’ which is accessible to any person 18 years of age or older, and that the Corporation can not prevent individuals or groups of people from entering.
The statement concluded: “As in the case for access to the casino, any customer who wishes to join the Casino Privilèges program is free to do so.
“This rewards program rewards program modeled after programs offered elsewhere in all North American casinos. Members may receive rewards—not gifts—which are self-funded by their own restaurant and gaming activities.”
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About 1200 people from Broken Bay, Sydney, Parramatta, Brisbane and even Rockhampton dioceses filled the Light of Christ Centre in Waitara for the installation of Bishop Anthony Randazzo. PHOTO: Giovanni Portelli
More than a year of praying and waiting for a shepherd ended for the Catholic faithful of the Diocese of Broken Bay with a joy-filled reception and installation of their new bishop on 4 November.
Bishop Anthony Randazzo was installed as the fourth bishop of Broken Bay in the two-hour ceremony and Solemn Mass of Installation in the Light of Christ Centre in Waitara in Sydney’s upper north shore.
Punctuated by moments of warmth, humour and long applause the occasion was held in the centre rather than the nearby Our Lady of the Rosary Cathedral to better accommodate the standing-room only congregation of more than 1200.
It included the Apostolic Nuncio in Australia, Archbishop Adolfo Tito Yllana who read in Latin and English the Papal Bull appointing the new bishop, heads of the Australian Catholic Bishops’ Conference Archbishop Mark Coleridge and Archbishop Anthony Fisher OP and Broken Bay predecessors Bishop David Walker and Archbishop Peter Comensoli along with 27 of the country’s Catholic bishops, more than 120 priests and deacons, and other faith and civic leaders.
The newly-installed Bishop was unhurried as he greeted representatives of his new diocese including some of the littlest during the ceremony. PHOTO: Giovanni Portelli
Parishioners, families, students, and staff from across Broken Bay’s parishes, schools, and agencies joined others from the Archdiocese of Sydney, where Bishop Randazzo has served as an auxiliary bishop for the past three years, and from the Archdiocese of Brisbane where he was ordained a priest in 1991 and served a number of roles including as rector of the Seminary of Queensland from 2009-2015.
Two of Bishop Randazzo’s sisters were present, and his parents Colin and Caterina Randazzo received a couple of special mentions through the night including from Archbishop Fisher who sent them “warm greetings” in the hope that they were watching via the diocese’s live stream broadcast.
“Words cannot express the joy I feel tonight as I begin my ministry as the fourth bishop of Broken Bay,” said the 53-year-old bishop.
“I am humbled by the confidence and trust His Holiness Pope Francis has shown in me.”
In his words of thanks the bishop thanked Archbishop Fisher for his “fraternal care” of him, his immediate predecessor, now Archbishop of Melbourne Comensoli, and brother bishops who had travelled from all over the country to attend the occasion.
“You honour me [with your presence], and more importantly you honour my people,” Bishop Randazzo said.
To his people of Broken Bay he said he had been overwhelmed by the “enthusiasm and graciousness” with which he had been received in the past month since his appointment on 7 October.
Bishop Randazzo elevates the Eucharist during the Mass co-celebrated with (from left to right) Archbishops Mark Coleridge, Anthony Fisher, Peter A Comensoli and Bishop David Walker plus almost 160 other clergy. PHOTO: Giovanni Portelli
“Your personal warmth and zeal for the mission of the Church lifts my soul in praise of God,” he said.
To his predecessors, referring to them as “BB2 and BB3”, Bishop Randazzo said he hoped to be “half the good shepherds you have been in guarding your flock”.
He also paid tribute to Father David Ranson, who served as acting administrator since the transfer of Archbishop Comensoli to take up the role as Archbishop of Melbourne in August 2018, for guiding the diocese with “compassion, integrity and love”.
“Please pray for me that I might be a good shepherd after the heart of Christ.”
The bishop has taken as his motto ‘Fiat Voluntas Tua: Thy will be done’, from the Lord’s Prayer in Matthew 6:10.
The occasion was also the feast of St Charles Borromeo, the great 16th century bishop of Milan. In his homily Bishop Randazzo spoke about the call to personal holiness and explained that while the saint is best remembered as a bold reformer of a Church which had become corrupted, his “greatest legacy was his religious virtue and the way he inspired others to be disciples of the Lord”.
Bishop Randazzo holds three-month-old Joseph Carrington while proud parents Madeleine and Simon look on, at a supper following the Mass. PHOTO: Giovanni Portelli.
“At the heart of Charles’ preaching was a call to conversion, which would lead to renewal, and lay the foundation of authentic reform,” Bishop Randazzo said.
“[He] was adamant that reform was only possible in the Church if it was preceded by a personal and genuine conversion and renewal.”
Bishop Randazzo called those present to work with him, out of love of God and neighbour to “encourage, challenge and support each other as we respond to our vocation to be Christ in the world”.
Archbishop Fisher joked that to paraphrase Oscar Wilde “to lose one of my auxiliary bishops to Broken Bay [referring to Archbishop Comensoli] might be regarded as a misfortune, for me to now have lost two of my auxiliaries to Broken Bay looks more like carelessness”.
“Is this a prophetic moment?” asks Bishop Randazzo as he places his zucchetto on the head of a young member of his new diocese. PHOTO: Giovanni Portelli
“Bishop Anthony has earned the respect and affection of people of the Archdiocese of Sydney especially those in the western region for which he has been responsible,” he added.
Created in 1986 the Diocese of Broken Bay is made up of 26 parishes and 53 diocesan and independent schools and covers 2763 square kilometres extending from Tuggerah Lakes region on the Central Coast to Sydney’s Lower North Shore.
The four bishops of Broken Bay, from left, Bishop Anthony Randazzo, Archbishop Peter A Comensoli, Bishop David Walker and, represented by his crozier, the founding Bishop Patrick Murphy. PHOTO: Giovanni Portelli
It is named for the bay at the mouth of the Hawkesbury River which divides the diocese’s north and south.
Broken Bay’s lighthouse which stands on the Barrenjoey Peninsula is the diocese’s much-loved symbol for the light of Christ and Bishop Randazzo has also adopted it on his personal coat of arms.
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Owner of N.S. lobster pound damaged by mob fined $20K for not disclosing 2018 sales
Eric Louis Thibault pleaded guilty Tuesday to one count of making a false statement to fisheries inspectors two years ago about more than $100,000 in commercial lobster sales from his pound in New Edinburgh, N.S.
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Paul Withers · CBC News · Posted: Oct 20, 2020 3:45 PM AT | Last Updated: October 20, 2020
The lobster pound in New Edinburgh, N.S., is shown on Oct. 15, 2020. (Robert Short/CBC)
The owner of a lobster pound that was the scene of protests, vandalism and arson last week over Mi'kmaw fishing in southwest Nova Scotia has been ordered to pay $20,000 for not disclosing lobster sales.
Eric Louis Thibault pleaded guilty Tuesday to one count of making a false statement to fisheries inspectors two years ago about more than $100,000 in commercial lobster sales from his pound in New Edinburgh, Digby County.
Thibault, who owns Bay of Fundy Finest Seafood Distributors, was not present in Digby provincial court. Lawyers called in by phone.
"It's a serious offence," federal Crown prosecutor Marian Fortune-Stone told Judge Tim Landry.
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She said the future of the "particularly lucrative" fishery relies on accurate information from the processing industry.
"This information is critical for assessing and forecasting stocks, sustainability and viability and the development of management plans for conservation," Fortune-Stone said.
A week ago, the pound was damaged and a van lit on fire after the facility was surrounded by hundreds of commercial fishermen unhappy with the moderate livelihood fishery launched last month by Sipekne'katik First Nation. The pound was being used by Mi'kmaw fishermen to store their catches.
The interior of a van that was lit on fire outside the lobster pound in New Edinburgh, N.S., is shown on Oct. 15, 2020. (Robert Short/CBC)
The court case dates back to inspections in the summer of 2018 by the Department of Fisheries and Oceans at the New Edinburgh pound.
The Crown said Thibault did not disclose commercial lobster sales on Aug. 2 and 6, 2018, for which he was paid $54,377.
The department also seized $57,910 worth of lobster on Aug. 9 that Thibault had sold, but had yet to receive payment. Fortune-Stone said the sale was not disclosed to fisheries officer Erica Cross.
The source of the lobster was not identified in court.
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Thibault had been facing three charges under the Fisheries Act. In a joint recommendation to the court, the Crown dropped two related charges.
Thibault did not make a statement to the court.
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His lawyer, Don Murray, told the court, "Mr. Thibault was in default of his obligation under that section of the act."
Thibault was fined $10,000 and ordered to pay another $10,000 to the federal government's environmental damages fund.
The conviction was a surprise to Sipekne'katik Chief Mike Sack, who said Tuesday he wasn't aware that Thibault had been facing charges.
"That's news to me," he told reporters in the nearby community of Saulnierville.
Asked if the lobster moving through the pound in the summer of 2018 was harvested by members of the band, Sack said: "I don't know. I couldn't comment on that sorry."
Last week, he disclosed the band was considering purchasing the pound in New Edinburgh. He said Tuesday the band was still doing "due diligence" on the prospective purchase.
Company records list Thibault as president, director and secretary of Bay of Fundy Finest Seafood Distributors, which was identified in court as owner of the New Edinburgh pound.
Property records show the property, at 903 Riverside Rd., is owned by 3300807 N.S. Limited, which has Louise Thibault listed as president and has the same address as Bay of Fundy Finest Seafood Distributors.
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June 8, 1998 / 2:14 AM / CBS/AP
A twilight game right out of "The Twilight Zone."
The weirdness finally ended when Jim Edmonds scored from third on a wild pitch in the ninth inning Sunday to give the Anaheim Angels their eighth straight victory, 6-5 over the Colorado Rockies.
Along the way:
Anaheim outfielder Darin Erstad lost what would have been the game-ending fly out in the lights and early evening haze, allowing the Rockies to tie it in the top of the ninth.
Colorado's last catcher, Jeff Reed, left when his face was gashed in a home plate collision with the Angels' Dave Hollins in the bottom of the ninth. Shortstop Neifi Perez then was forced behind the plate for the first time in his major league career.
Teammate Larry Walker, who began the inning in his usual right field spot, then played second base and third base for the first time in his career.
Reed, who had to have 12 stitches in his right cheek, was the second casualty of the game. Anaheim second baseman Justin Baughman left in the seventh inning when a routine-looking line drive struck him in the face. He required stitches for the cut on his upper lip.
"What a weird game. That ninth inning was amazing," said Rich DeLucia, one of three Anaheim relievers in the inning. "That's what makes baseball exciting; it was a completely normal game for eight innings, then, `Boom!"
Angels starter Jarrod Washburn, who made his major league debut last Tuesday, has seen a lot in his two appearances his first game was Anaheim's brawl-marred 7-5 victory at Kansas City last week.
"Some day, maybe I'll get to throw in just a normal game," Washburn said, shaking his head and smiling.
Edmonds also was shaking his head when he said of the 5 p.m. game, "This would never have happened if we had started at 1."
Edmonds, who had doubled and gone to third on the throw home that nailed Hollins, scored when Jerry DiPoto (1-2) threw a slider in the dirt for a wild pitch and new catcher Perez couldn't block it.
"I used to catch in Little League, but there's a lot of difference between Little League and the big leagues," Perez said. "That was a hard slider and I tried to do the best I could."
He was forced into duty after Reed was hurt and emergency catchers Greg Colbrunn (DH) and Jason Bates (pinch-hitter in the ninth) were out of the game. Reed had pinch hit for starting catcher Kirt Manwaring in the ninth.
"I knew there was no way (Reed could continue), then all of a sudden, you have to think about who you can get to catch," Colorado manager Don Baylor said. "You're looking for somebody with good hands, and Neifi came to mind.
"I had more than enough volunteers. ... So it's one wild pitch and the game's over."
Colorado, whch had trailed 5-0, came all the way back to tie it at 5 in the ninth when Erstad, attempting to catch Dante Bichette's high fly to left, lost the ball and was 20 feet away from it when it fell for a two-run double.
Hollins led off the Angels' ninth with a walk off DiPoto and Edmonds followed with a double off the fence in right-center. Hollins was cut down at the plate on a perfect relay throw by Perez.
After Tim Salmon was walked intentionally, DiPoto bounced his 0-1 pitch to Cecil Fielder.
Greg Cadaret (1-0) got the win in relief.
Washburn pitched 6 1-3 strong innings, allowing three runs and nine hits.
Erstad had three hits for Anaheim. Ellis Burks went 4-for-5 and Vinny Castilla had three hits for the Rockies.
Notes: Colorado starter Jamey Wright went eight innings, giving up five runs, one earned, on nine hits. He was coming off a 6-0 loss to Arizona in which he was pounded for eight hits and seven runs in just four innings. ... The Angels' sweep was their first against an NL team. ... Washburn wasn't exactly overpowering in the minors this season: he was 2-1 with a 3.70 ERA at Triple-A Vancouver after going 0-1 with a 6.23 in one start at Double-A Midland. ... Erstad has reached base safely in 53 of 60 games he's played this year.
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When we were trying to come up with a theme for our Bachelorette of 2013 party, somehow “Bridesmaids” seemed a natural fit. After all, just about any woman who has been single for a while has ended up in at least one wedding. Ashton Kelley suggested we recreate the poster from the recent Judd Apatow movie, and voila! We had our inspiration for the promotional ads.
Just for fun, we decided to take a few more shots, exaggerating the frenzied scramble for the bride’s bouquet at every wedding. Personally, I can’t think of a more ridiculous tradition, so it was easy for me to make fun of it. Needless to say, the bouquet toss will be integrated into our Bachelorette of 2013 party, with a $300 cash prize going to whoever catches the bouquet, which in a funny twist, will be thrown to the crowd at 10 p.m. by our current Bachelor of the Year, CJ Steedley.
We are really excited about this year’s party, which will be held at Reilley’s Plaza (a.k.a. “The Triangle”) on October 25. In addition to Cranford & Sons stomping it out all night, we are giving away over $1,500 in cash prizes for the best costumes (see details on page 9), will have a complimentary photo booth for our guests all night, and the first 100 people that check-in with us at Jump & Phil’s get a free drink.
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(CNN) — If you're planning a trip to Ghana, here's what you'll need to know and expect if you want to visit during the global coronavirus pandemic.
Ghana reopened to international flights on September 1. However, land and sea borders remain closed. All visitors must have proof of a negative test and take a further test on arrival.
Ghana may be blessed with some of West Africa's finest beaches, but it's so much more than a place to sunbathe. Its coastal forts offer an unflinching insight into the slave trade which was run by the British from these shores. The rambling Kejetia Market, in Kumasi, in the southwest of the country, is said to be the largest in this part of the continent, selling everything from jewelry to footwear. In the north, Mole National Park is the ideal place to see some of Africa's most famous animals, including elephants, hippos and warthogs.
Who can go
All visitors are now allowed into Ghana via Accra, as long as they have a negative test and undertake a second test on arrival at Kotoka International Airport.
What are the restrictions?
As well as having proof of a negative PCR test taken within 72 hours of departure, all passengers aged five and over must undertake an additional antigen test on arrival. This costs $150 per passenger, with results available within 30 minutes. Payment must be made online prior to boarding the flight to Ghana.
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The newest addition to Stuart Redcliffe's Pure Riads collection really suits its name: it's a place to fall in love with. Two houses were knocked into one to create it earlier this year, so there are two courtyards, one with a fantastically cold plunge pool where you can float on your back and gaze up at the cobalt-blue Marrakech sky and ponder the magic of it all. The undulating roof terraces are a great spot for dining on goat's-cheese-stuffed cucumbers and sardine kefta, and there's a little hammam for a good scrub-down and massage. The bedrooms, connected by a number of staircases, are hidden behind Arabic screens and accented in shades of silver, Champagne and charcoal. The Victoria suite has a little balcony overlooking the pool for breakfasts, and the Bahia has a ludicrously big, L-shaped sofa where you can practise being the laziest person on earth. With that in mind, taking tea in bed is always an option, as is drifting around in your PJs or robe until noon. On evenings when you can take no more medina madness, grab a glass of wine from the library and rifle through the magazines and DVD collection (every room has a TV, DVD player and iPod dock), then snuggle up on creamy sheets bolstered with embroidered pillows. 94 Derb Tizouagrine, Dar El Bacha (+212 524 377737; riadadore.com). Doubles from about £130
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In a quiet part of the medina that seems to glow a little redder then the rest, the five-bedroom 'Little House of Happiness' is the passion of Norwegian architect Knut Hovland, who blends Moroccan techniques with a Scandinavian aesthetic. So the hand-cut floor tiles are in subtle shades of olive-green, grey and cream, and the matt-black fretwork is solidly geometric. All the better to frame treasures from the famous Bab el Khemis flea market, such as a 007-style chandelier of gold loops inset with mother-of-pearl in the main salon, right, which leads to a bougainvillaea-filled courtyard. This place is paradise for retro-hounds in groovy kaftans, and for couples who want a gorgeous, intimate getaway. The White room, with its bird motifs, fireplace and big balcony, is great to hole up in for a few days, as is the new Hazy Moon suite, with its vases of peacock feathers and a gigantic, pierced-bronze moon lamp hanging over the bed. A new salon has recently been added with a film projector and a ceramic stove to take the edge off winter nights. On balmy evenings, guests congregate on the roof, clinking glasses of Campari orange before going out for supper, or sneaking off to cool down in the sand-coloured plunge pool. 59 bis Zaouia Bellabes, Taouia Sidi Ghanem, Bab Lakhmis (+212 524 378887; ptithabibi.com). Doubles from about £100
Dar Kawa
This five-bedroom, 17th-century townhouse is exquisite. Owner Valérie Barkowski, a Belgian textile designer, has lived here on and off since she bought the place 18 years ago. Although she has now opened it up to guests, it retains the feel of a much-loved private home, with the welcome addition of discreet hotel service: ask the staff for anything you want, and if you don't feel like going out, choose from a delicious supper menu (harissa-spiced vegetable briouts, lamb-and-baby-quince tagine, a divine lemon mousse). But mainly you'll be left alone to snooze away the afternoon on an antique charpoy - a find from Jaipur - on the roof, or to sink into a deep sofa, plush with hand-printed cushions, in the courtyard. Barkowski's work is everywhere: bedspreads made with vintage nightshirts; linen drapes inset with antique lace; cheeky, candy-striped armchairs flanking the open fireplace in the Olmassi suite. The three chandeliers made of bowler hats in the salon are appealingly eccentric, and the kitchen wall stacked floor-to-ceiling with hand-carved wooden ladles from the souks is a witty, homely touch. 18 Derb Ouali, Kaat Ben Nahed (darkawa.net). Doubles from about £85
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Taking its name from local slang that roughly translates as 'Shall we meet for tea?', this 200-year-old pad ticks all the classic riad boxes, with four citrus trees and a central fountain in the courtyard, a balcony that wraps around the length and breadth of the first floor, and views of the Atlas Mountains from the roof terrace. But stylish black easy chairs and a plunge pool (no bigger than a large bathtub, granted, but it does the trick) are welcome extras that go beyond tradition to add a touch more comfort. It's in a fairly obscure corner that you'd probably have no other reason to visit, but it is only five minutes' walk from the Place des Epices, a happening spot full of cafés and rooftop restaurants. In return for the slightly out-of-the-way location you get blissful peace and possibly the biggest rooms in the medina. The hotel is owned by Barbara Seine and her photographer husband Jean-Louis Montilla, whose portraits, shot during a four-year period in Mali, hang on the passage walls. Further evidence of the couple's adventures in Africa can be found in the Kinshasa room, where the frame of a 10-metre-long canoe floats above a carved wooden bed, and in the vast Nomade suite, where four hand-carved Berber tent struts have been upcycled as the giant legs of a king-size bed. 25 Derb El Feranne, Azbest (+212 524 385150; tchaikana.com). Doubles from about £65
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On November 26th, the Coast Fork Willamette Watershed Council welcomes Plant Explorer, Chris Homanics, for our November Science Pub presentation entitled “Fruit and Nut Explorations in the Pacific Northwest.” This presentation will discuss the great range of edible biodiversity that can be grown in this climate and reviving production of resilient sources of foods, medicines and materials in an agro-forestry setting that contributes to restoring the planet while mitigating climate change. This presentation will showcase pictures of his adventure of fruit and nut trees throughout the Pacific Northwest and beyond, and talk about local efforts to share that material out again with the world. Chris is a founder of the Agrarian Sharing Network, board member of the Home Orchard Society, and runs an edible-focused nursery called Head, Hands, Heart.
The CFWWC hosts a family-friendly monthly public meeting series called the Coast Fork Science Pub on the fourth Tuesday of each month from 5-7pm at the Axe & Fiddle, 657 E. Main Street in Cottage Grove. The event begins with informal socializing, trivia, and updates about the watershed and watershed council during the first hour. The Science Pub presentation begins at 6pm. CFWWC receives 10% of all sales from the evening between 5-7:30pm. The event is free to the public, with a $5 donation suggested. For further information, visit Coast Fork Willamette Watershed Council on Facebook or www.coastfork.org.
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Italian Postal Service joins Hyperledger Blockchain group
by Russell Sloan/ February 4, 2019/ Blockchain/
As per the latest reports revealed during the last week, Poste Italiane, The Italian postal service provider, has joined the Hyperledger blockchain community.
Linux Foundation, a non-profit technology consortium has established Hyperledger whose main motive is to form an open source standards for blockchain and Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT). It has already partnered with various industry giants that include American Express, Cisco, Intel, JPMorgan, Deloitte, and Huawei.
In the press release, Poste Italiane stated that such combined effect had been taken as a part of their Business plan known as ‘Deliver 2022’ which involves the acquisition and acceleration of latest technology in the agency’s operations.
Further, as per the announcement, their major focus was to deal with issues related to data protection and stated that the blockchain technology is “an effective response to the problems of security, transparency, interoperability and privacy.”
FedEx, American courier delivery services leader, had joined hyperledger in September 2018. Fred Smith, FedEx CEO, had then stated that blockchain technology has “big, big implications” for supply chains. He further added that “We’re quite confident that it has big, big implications in the supply chain, transportation and logistics.”
In December, Italy had shortlisted 30 blockchain high-level experts to work on the nation-wide blockchain strategy. Particularly, Earlier this week, a committee based on the Italian Senate had approved an amendment pertaining to blockchain regulations that would offer an explanation about DLT-based technologies and smart contracts. The amendment also says that a blockchain-powered digital data record would be able to validate the legal documents during the time of registration.
Although, the plan has been approved by the Senate’s “filter committees,” it also needs to be approved by the Chamber of Deputies and the Senate of the Republic. As soon as the judgment is passed into law, the legislation technical aspects would be managed by the Agency for Digital Italy that is under the control of the Presidency of the Council of Ministers.
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SILVER SPRING, Md. -- The U.S. Food and Drug Administration issued a mandatory recall April 3 of all food products containing powdered kratom manufactured, processed, packed or held by Triangle Pharmanaturals LLC after several of the products were found to contain salmonella.
This is the first time the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has issued a mandatory recall. It took action after Las Vegas-based Triangle Pharmanaturals failed to cooperate with its request to conduct a voluntary recall.
The FDA is advising consumers to discard all products that are part of the mandatory recall, including, but not limited to, Raw Form Organics Maeng Da Kratom Emerald Green, Raw Form Organics Maeng Da Kratom Ivory White and Raw Form Organics Maeng Da Kratom Ruby Red.
Kratom is a plant that grows naturally in Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia and Papua New Guinea. It is legal under federal law and many state laws, and it can be purchased on the internet and from some smoke shops and convenience stores. The FDA, however, has received reports about the safety of kratom, including deaths associated with its use. The FDA said there is strong evidence that kratom affects the same opioid brain receptors as morphine and appears to have properties that expose people to the risks of addiction, abuse and dependence.
“We continue to have serious concerns about the safety of any kratom-containing product and we are pursuing these concerns separately. But the action today is based on the risks posed by the contamination of this particular product with a potentially dangerous pathogen,” said FDA Commissioner Scott Gottlieb.
Two samples of Triangle Pharmanaturals kratom products sold through Torched Illusions, a smoke shop in Tigard, Ore., and collected by the Oregon Public Health Division, tested positive for salmonella, as did four additional samples of various kratom products collected by the FDA.
Numerous brands of kratom-containing products have been linked to a multistate outbreak of salmonella, but the strains found in Triangle Pharmanaturals’ products are not currently linked.
The FDA is working with the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to continue to investigate the ongoing outbreak. It’s also working with companies notified of salmonella contamination who want to voluntarily recall their products in a cooperative manner. Those companies include:
PDX Aromatics of Portland, Ore., which issued its second expanded recall March 22 in response to additional positive product samples of salmonella associated with PDX Aromatics’ products.
Tamarack Inc. of Roy, Utah, which voluntarily recalled Eclipse kratom-containing powder products (pictured) on March 23.
NutriZone LLC of Houston, which on March 29 issued a recall in response to positive product samples of salmonella associated with its products.
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How Segregation Happened in West Hartford
By Elizabeth Normen on September 6, 2019 African American History, Connecticut History
Ads run in 1960 for Carnelli Construction’s Whitewood Farms development in West Hartford point out its proximity to the new St. Timothy’s parish and parochial elementary school built in 1959.
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We like to think we have the freedom to live where we want. Economics and practicalities guide our decisions, including whether to live in a city, suburb, or rural town, on Main Street or a dead-end road, to own or rent. Historically, though, for Jews and African Americans in towns like West Hartford, discrimination also played a role in these decisions. Discrimination in housing created segregation of whites from blacks, Protestants from Catholics, and both from Jews. Historians document how zoning, redlining, federal mortgages, restrictive covenants, and steering by real estate agents explain segregation. (See “the Federal Government and Redlining in Connecticut” in this issue.)
In the 1930 census West Hartford’s non-white population totaled 129 people (0.5 percentof the total population). Of these, only 30 lived in a household headed by a non-white; that is, 90 lived as servants in white households, according to Jack Dougherty’s online book On The Line: How Schooling, Housing, and Civil Rights Shaped Hartford and its Suburbs.
Home of Howard and Grace Penrose where Gertrude Blanks lived with her mother in the maid’s quarters in the 1920s – 1930s, 2019. photo: Connecticut Explored
Gertrude Blanks, who was African American, remembered moving into a West Hartford home on Steele Road in 1929 with her mother, who was a live-in maid. She shared the story of how her mother, Pearl Boyer, was hired by Howard and Grace Penrose, part of the family that owned the William R. Penrose and Co. Insurance Agency. Gertrude’s mother instructed her nine-year-old daughter to use the back door and not to enter the living room, dining room, or bedrooms, according to a 2004 interview quoted in a January 25, 2019 Hartford Courant article.
Builders who developed farmland in the suburbs played an important role in segregation. Between 1950 and 1970 West Hartford’s population grew by more than 25,000 to about 68,000. Developers built thousands of homes, some with explicit restrictive covenants written into the mortgage. R. G. Bent and Company, for example, developed a neighborhood on Ledgewood Road in the late 1930s, selling it to New York-based High Ledge Homes in 1940. A Ledgewood Homes restrictive covenant from May 26, 1941 read:
No persons of any race other than the white race shall use or occupy any building or any lot, except that this covenant shall not prevent occupancy by domestic servants of a different race domiciled with an owner or tenant.
Historians argue about whether Jews were considered part of the “white race” in these restrictive covenants. A study of West Hartford city directories during the 1940s shows that people with Jewish surnames did not live on the five streets with such restrictive covenants. In 1948 the U.S. Supreme Court unanimously overturned the use of restrictive covenants in Shelley v. Kraemer, ruling that restrictive housing covenants were unconstitutional. The ruling cited the 14th Amendment’s Equal Protection Clause.
Yet exclusionary practices continued. Jews moving to West Hartford in the 1950s and 1960s learned that they couldn’t live on Sunny Reach Drive, near the Hartford Golf Club on Westwood Road, or on Colony Road. West Hill Drive, Hunter Drive; the Sunset Farms subdivision and Wood Pond were off limits, too. Neighborhood associations made sure that houses never went on the market but were passed along by word of mouth to family members or those who were considered “appropriate” to live in the neighborhood. According to West Hartford’s Henry Zachs, if a Jewish family wanted to buy a house along Farmington Avenue and had $30,000 to put down, their real estate agent would advise that if the family were to offer it, the house would just be taken off the market.
Brothers Victor and Raymond Carnelli’s construction company developed hundreds of West Hartford houses between 1945 and 1970. Carnelli Construction Company built on Longlane and Hartwell roads and on Winterset Lane in the north and west sections of town. It also built on Cherryfield Drive and Foxridge Road in the southwest corner. A Hartford Courant ad for a Carnelli home on Richmond Lane, near what is now Eisenhower Park, unabashedly named the development Whitewood Farms. The ad is clearly aimed at Catholic home buyers who would be attracted to the Catholic church and school built nearby in 1959.
Jews in town referred to this area as “Vatican Village,” according to West Hartford lawyer Coleman Levy. He commented at one of my recent book talks that “Jews could not buy a Carnelli home.” In many ways, Carnelli followed the spirit of the times. William Levitt, famous for his developments that became known as Levittowns, refused to sell to blacks, even after the 1948 U.S. Supreme Court case, writes Richard Rothstein in The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How our Government Segregated America (Liveright, 2017).
But Carnelli was not the only developer in town. Irving Stich, who was Jewish, also built hundreds of houses in West Hartford. Just two streets south of Carnelli-built homes on Foxridge Road and Sunrise Hill Drive, Stich built houses on John Smith Drive and Miles Standish Drive and sold them to Jews. He developed houses on Sequin Drive near Colony Road and sold them to Jews as well.
Webster Hill Homes, offered by developer Irving Stich without restrictive covenants, abutted the Ledgewood Homes development which had restrictive covenants, West Hartford, 1949.
Sequin and Colony roads, which intersect, illustrate this segregation. The 1958 city directory lists a majority of Jewish surnames among the people who lived on Sequin Road. By contrast, Shari Cantor, West Hartford’s current mayor and a resident on Colony Road since 2009, and others from the neighborhood say that Jews were excluded from buying on that street for many decades after the ample Tudor homes were built in 1929 and 1930. A look at the names from the city directory in 1958 supportsthis assertion.
In 1954 Stich, who owned Ogden Homes, sold 23 Miles Standish Drive to Frederick and Millicent Neusner. Frederick’s father, a Russian immigrant, appears in the 1940 census as a salesman for the Jewish Ledgerliving on Asylum Avenue in West Hartford with his wife and children. Frederick was 15. He went to Hall High School and then Trinity College. Fourteen years later, Frederick and his wife bought the house on Miles Standish Drive.
Price & Lee City Directory, 1958, showing those who lived on Miles Standish Road, developed by Irving Stich. photo: Tracey Wilson
When in 1965 John and Deanie Sullivan Davison wanted to buy a house at 21 Miles Standish Drive, their real estate agent asked them if they were sure they wanted to move into this neighborhood. John related in an interview with me that the agent asked them, “Would they feel comfortable living there?” In addition to the Neusners at number 23, Raymond and Sally Ganz lived at number 29, and Jules and Rosalind Tarlow lived at number 45. All were Jewish families, and when the real estate agent saw that Deanie’s middle name was Sullivan, he worried. The Davisons moved in to this religiously integrated south end neighborhood.
While Christians and Jews lived side by side in some neighborhoods in town, by the 1950s it was a noticeable event to have a black family move to town. Between 1959 and 1973, 265 African American people settled in West Hartford, a town of 70,000 people.
Olivia and Clarence Shelton and their two children moved to 178 North Main Street in 1959. In a 1997 interview archived at the Noah Webster House, Olivia recalled that their next-door neighbor offered them $5,000 not to move in. Soon after, she said, she found a note in her mailbox that read: “Get out of here, you black bastards, while you still can.”
The home of Olivia and Clarence Shelton today, North Main Street, West Hartford. photo: Connecticut Explored
But the Sheltons stayed. They lived in their five-bedroom Tudor for 35 years. Olivia, a former president of the Hartford Chapter of the National Council of Negro Women and the first president of the Hartford Chapter of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, said her positive experiences outweighed the prejudice she says she experienced. To her, “that note did not represent the community.”
Many in the community supported integration.The Hartford Courant reported in 1966 that Pastor John P. Webster of the First Church of Christ Congregational, where the Sheltons were congregants, said “his church had sponsored 20 Negro families for the past three years” to move into West Hartford through a program with the Connecticut Council of Churches. A West Hartford Interfaith Housing Committee also formed. Its mission was to “aid (financially qualified) minority groups in West Hartford” through local churches, such as the Universalist Church on Fern Street.
In 1973 Shelton said to a West Hartford News reporter, “I don’t like to pretend to put forth that all is well—I’m sure that you’ll run into that, interviewing other black families.” Yet 24 years later, at age 87, Olivia recalled that her overall experience in West Hartford was “very good and wholesome.” She liked living on North Main Street, saying “Most of the people there are Jewish and they were nice to us.” People like Georgette Koopman, who lived in the Shelton’s neighborhood and welcomed their sons into the Boy Scouts at Bugbee School, embraced the idea of a multi-racial community.
Restrictive covenants are a thing of the past, but the issue of racial segregation in neighborhoods continues. In 2016 West Hartford’s 11 neighborhood elementary schools reflected that 42 percent of the school district was made up of students of color. And yet at Bugbee School, not far from the town’s border with Avon, just 14 percent of students were of color, while at Charter Oak School, near the Hartford city line, 81percent of the students were people of color. These demographics reflect the the thorny issue of racial segregation that persists by practice and not by law.
Tracey Wilson is West Hartford’s town historian. In 2018 The Noah Webster House published her book Life in West Hartford. She last wrote “From Steno Pool to Factory Floor,” Winter 2013-2014.
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The owner of this new line of water-active wear™ for aquatic enthusiasts knows a thing or two about cultural pride and prejudice. Of Mexican-American and Comanche heritage, he was born in Hawaii and lived there during his first eight years. Mr. Cruz wanted a name that reflected his ancestry and unconventional approach to life. A water sign by birth, the oceans and sky are his driving forces. Kaye needed a stick-to-your-ribs, stand-out name that would transcend the usual weather patterns of branding, real or imagined.
We stayed away from the one-word monikers, going all out for a phrase with some teeth to it. Just as short (if not shorter) than other multi-syllabic competitors, Bear the Cross is every ounce on-style. Bold and playful...like its founder. Coincidentally, the client’s surname means “cross” in Spanish. You know you’ve gotta hit the surf today...even if it costs you. After all, what good is a little fun without some redemption in the mix?
Devign also developed a tightly-knit brand architecture for the company’s current and future collections. Those branded names will be announced at the respective introduction of each new product line. To further a consistent brand message, we wrote the poetic and standard navigation, body copy and taglines for the entire website and bumper sticker slogans and contributed to the hangtag verbiage. We look forward to seeing this powerfully woven story unfold in boardshorts, rashguards, t-shirts other garments for water recreationists, as well as in words. (Unfortunately, the economy got the best of this client.)
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espany'all®
Spanish has been integral to Ms. North’s personal and professional growth since 1978. This interest blossomed into a full-time habit when she was an exchange student in Barcelona her senior year in high school. She has always enjoyed sharing her passion for this Romance language and the myriad cultures that converse “en español.” After various college-level lecturing gigs and observing the increasing convenience of having a working knowledge of Spanish in this country, Karen wanted to offer a more gratifying environment for her pupils. The name of her individualized instructional services should be no less engaging than her confidence-building approach to language acquisition.
Aahhh...so close and yet so distinctive! espany’all bolts from the obvious and usual path of the indistinguishably flat, academic-sounding options, instead informing you upfront that there must be something unique there. This name first takes advantage of the familiarity of the general word for the Spanish language, español (“es-pan-yoal”). Utilizing a remarkably slight tweak to the source term, the name still gets the subject matter across with humor and to full-effect. The surprise ending is a nod to the founder’s Southern roots, yet there’s no Dixie hint in her Spanish. The two-in-one apostrophe/ speech bubble is the bonus play, affectionately known as Speak Bubba™. We hope to one day anthropomorphize him into an active online teacher. With an inspirational presence like that, learning Spanish has got to be fun! espanyall.com
Carry on Language™
For the owner of this series of language and culture instructional podcasts, travel has transformed itself from a hobby to a professional tool that routinely enhances Karen’s verbal solutions for her brand strategy clients. The best way to visually capture a snapshot of Ms. North’s innate priorities? Imagine language and languages coursing through her veins with the respective in-country experiences adding meaty context to those bones. That’s Karen and a testament to her enthusiasm and instinct for showing others how they can get the most out of their trips abroad, or even right here at home. She wanted to highlight the portability of being culturally in-step (no matter the location or situation) and establish a direct association as to the nature of business.
The name immediately transports you to travel mode without worrying whether your bag and you will match destinations. Hassle-free learning of just the right amount of culture and language means you’ve got the power to be effective from the get-go. And, don’t be fooled by the compact delivery of these unique lessons. In name, “to carry on” is to continue what you’re doing (even despite the customary hiccups while discovering any new place). In practice, the multi-lingual modules arm you with a concise skill set of user-friendly expressions and behavioral tips to repeatedly use throughout your journey. Carry on Language is about freedom of movement and capitalizing on the moment. Their services allow you to tap into the richness that each trip has in store for you. carryonlanguage.com
Artaissance™
Larson-Juhl has been designing, manufacturing and distributing fine custom frames of superior craftsmanship for over 100 years. A Berkshire Hathaway company with two dozen facilities across the United States and a presence in 15 other countries, this progressive moulding industry leader sought to carve out a more public persona as art advocate to established collectors. At the same time, Larson-Juhl wanted to educate and mentor a younger, content-driven generation of art enthusiasts who expect a technology component in every aspect of their lives. Regardless of target audience, each would be able to express — to exacting measure — his/her unique passions and pursuits through art.
The name needed to engage the existing affluent art buyer, as well as nurture a new set of art patrons: early technology adopters with an aesthetic eye, a discerning taste and an interest in co-authoring personal style. The client wanted to suggest a relationship with the art world without a highly coined name. It was to be up-market in tone but remain approachable and limitless in scope, despite explicit instructions regarding words and terms that would not be acceptable.
A new movement is taking place! As in every great cultural rebirth, energy, stimulation and innovation are at the forefront. Artaissance involves you in a novel experience in how you purchase art and walks you through a creative process of self-discovery via that medium. Stylish and grown-up, you are every bit as authentic as your art. For timeless taste specified to customized dimensions...Artaissance. artaissance.com
Life is one big canvas.™
Coming off the originality of such a persuasively infused name, the tagline for Artaissance needed to keep things in check. The sophisticated corporate name evokes
flawless execution and meaningful self-expression. The give and take of this inspiring new way of thinking or doing had to be in line with the broader currencies of personal statements.
We balanced the upscale simplicity of Artaissance by reaching for an inspirational, anything-is-possible phrase. The tagline is as equally uplifting and inclusive as the company name, yet the tone has more of a layman’s feel to it. The opportunities for expression implied in this open-ended manifesto are unmatched. As a personal instrument of style, art is pure emotion at its visual best. [Since Artaissance’s launch, it appears there has been a significant shift in business and brand strategy to that of more common-market “art reproductions,” as evidenced by redirects to Art That Fits (artthatfits.com) and previously Art My Style (artmystyle.com), as well as other similar messaging.]
Longhouse HospitalitySM
Sun Suites wished to create a master brand for its new corporate entity. The umbrella name needed to suggest the lines of work in which the individual organizations operated: real estate investment and extended-stay lodging in the budget accommodations category. Utilizing a descriptor to further the brand's message was acceptable, even though this strategy can render a "longer" solution. Because this brand would not appear on any consumer real estate per se, increased signage and other brand touchpoint implementation costs and considerations (usually inherent in a longer name, especially those with multi-unit branded environment needs), were not key drivers in the selection process.
Longhouse Hospitality it is! Like its parent company, this name has great roots. Longhouse is a real word, meaning "a communal dwelling of the Iroquois and other Native Americans," typically 100 feet in length and much shorter in width, hence the name. This heritage addresses the desired criteria of an established-sounding personality. Taken individually, each component brilliantly resonates with the business: long is synonymous with extensive, extended and lengthy, speaking to the extended-stay sub-market, whereas house informs the customer in both noun-like (residence, enterprise and "home" connotations) and verb-like (to lodge or accommodate) fashion. The real strategic pride behind this new brand rests on its cultural strength and relativity. The Iroquois were a "traveling" culture, who visited others as part of their social customs as they went about "working" or providing for themselves. This dynamic is still alive as the primary customers of temporary accommodations are those who travel for work! Simple to construct, the longhouse was more than adequately comfortable, with certain spaces designated as common areas and others for private quarters. By a subconscious sound symbolism trick, the full name, Longhouse Hospitality, "sounds" shorter and flows faster than it first might appear. longhousehospitality.com
Mystery Client™
A Latin American client, whose name currently remains undisclosed, represents our first set of positioning projects in Spanish. Devign was privileged to assist the company in creating three proprietary names in a crowded fragrance market. While the collection targets the Hispanic immigrant population, each fragrance had to have its own personality. And each had to uniquely address the audience in its native language.
Adventure, mystery and intensity characterize one scent. Think deep, dark and unexplored… a "testing your limits" masculinity. Another wafts classic elegance, reaching sophisticated notes and an aura of entitlement and luxury. A third, like its essence, hints at a youthful, spirited and down-to-earth lightness. This crisp, relaxed "fit" is zesty and easy going. Hold on! The names are still anyone's guess.
Zango®
This repeat client wanted their permission-based, search assistant application (formerly known as n-CASE) to a) more convincingly reflect the actual user experience and targeted online marketing services, and b) to better support communications and relationship management with its distribution partners. In initial repositioning efforts, the consumer-facing brand had to appeal to those who want "more of what s/he wants" vs. simply "more." It also had to be short, so as to live comfortably as a desktop icon.
The new name for this opt-in tool is friendly, quick and fun. It simultaneously conveys trust and relevancy... honest, benefit-driven information the consumer indeed wants... in a non-preachy style. The name lends a feeling of control to the end-user, who downloads the latest in free software, games, screensavers and must-have utilities. In addition, it sets the right expectations and tone to improve and expand channel partnerships. Zango is flexible enough (even springy) to work across multiple applications, content, search requirements and cultures. zango.com (After a long, hearty run, Zango ceased operations around 2009.)
Terratex®
Interface Fabrics Group sought to refresh terratex.com, the flagship website of their eco-conscious interior fabrics. This industry leader needed to signal the evolving nature and progress of its journey to sustainability. The site's tone needed to appeal to younger, hipper professionals and regain the attention of architects and designers. Fine-tuning of the brand messaging of Terratex®-classified products and greater depth of content were also must-haves.
Devign enriched the momentum of the Terratex story with body copy, navigation buttons and taglines to form a cohesive, rhythmic and ongoing dialogue with a broadened, youthful audience. The re-vamped site captures the essence of the Terratex® brand category: to diminish the footprint we leave on the planet. Terratex represents IFG's commitment to create minimal-impact, technically superior and aesthetically attractive fabrics. truetextiles.com
NorthodoxSM
The proprietor of a small development and construction firm approached Devign to create a more polished brand presence. The owner wished to differentiate the organization from other family businesses in the same line of work and yet also, at least partially, retain surname heritage in the new name.
The eponymous start steers you to the owner, whose last name is North. The play-on-words alludes to the work ethic and craftsmanship for which the company stands. Stemming from Greek orthos meaning upright, vertical, perpendicular and correct, and from Middle French meaning straight, right and true, the name suggests and the company delivers well-built structures using a straightforward approach. northodox.com
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Influencer Brian Christopher is all smiles outside Agua Caliente Resort Casino Spa Rancho Mirage on Thursday, Oct. 8, 2020. The popular YouTuber has an office not far away in Palm Springs. (Photo by Terry Pierson, The Press-Enterprise/SCNG)
By Alex Groves | agroves@scng.com | The Press-Enterprise
PUBLISHED: November 6, 2020 at 9:26 a.m. | UPDATED: November 6, 2020 at 9:34 a.m.
A few years ago, Brian Christopher had just moved to Los Angeles from San Francisco to build his acting career and planned his first trip to Las Vegas. When he did a quick search of YouTube for information on what casinos he should visit, Christopher found himself sucked into watching videos of people playing slot machines.
“I thought it was kind of weird that anyone would watch that kind of stuff, but I checked it out and I kept watching it so I said, ‘Oh maybe when I get up to Vegas, I’ll film a couple and put them on my YouTube acting channel just for fun’,” Christopher said. “So I did that for fun and it turned out to be more than that.”
Those videos blossomed into Christopher’s full-time career as an influencer. He’s turned his YouTube channel and various social media accounts into a business where he reaches a vast audience of a niche interest: casinos and slot machines.
Christopher makes videos of himself playing slot machines, showing off casino amenities and, more recently, talking about safety measures being taken by the casinos during the novel coronavirus pandemic. More than four years since that fateful trip to Las Vegas, he has racked up nearly 300,000 subscribers for his YouTube channel, Brian Christopher Slots, and has three full-time staffers helping him expand his increasingly popular brand.
Now, Christopher not only finds himself stopped by fans on gaming floors but also frequently invited out by the casinos to make videos.
“More and more they’re reaching out to us as they become more familiar with what we do,” he said. “I think when I first started doing this a casino would shy away from a camera being on their slot floor, but now that we have 180 million views on our channel, they realize, ‘Hey wait a minute, he’s onto something here.’ And we can utilize that.”
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Building the brand
Before dedicating his YouTube channel to slot play, Christopher might have only visited a casino three or four times a year. Now, he visits casinos weekly, primarily in Southern California and Las Vegas.
Each visit usually spans about three nights. During the day he’s continuously filming content to be edited later and for two of the nights, he’ll stream his live slot play for 90 minutes each.
Christopher uses his own money to gamble with, but does earn free play with his player’s club cards like those any gambler can sign up for at various properties.
At his Palm Springs office, Christopher said, there’s a ton of preparation work. He’s always in meetings with casinos, slot manufacturers and other partners and working with his staff to make sure his videos have catchy titles that will draw the attention of audiences.
Brian Christopher has his own channel on You Tube, Brian Christopher Slots where he pots videos of his slot play. He recorded a recent show at Agua Caliente Resort Casino Spa Rancho Mirage on Thursday, Oct. 8, 2020. (Photo by Terry Pierson, The Press-Enterprise/SCNG)
Brian Christopher has his own channel on You Tube, Brian Christopher Slots, with nearly 300,000 subscribers and more than 180 million views. He is pictured at Agua Caliente Resort Casino Spa Rancho Mirage on Thursday, Oct. 8, 2020, where he did a recent live show. (Photo by Terry Pierson, The Press-Enterprise/SCNG)
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Brian Christopher has his own channel on You Tube, Brian Christopher Slots, with nearly 300,000 subscribers and more than 180 million views. He plays slot machines all over Southern California and is pictured here during a recent live show at Agua Caliente Resort Casino Spa Rancho Mirage on Thursday, Oct. 8, 2020. (Photo by Terry Pierson, The Press-Enterprise/SCNG)
Brian Christopher has his own channel on You Tube, Brian Christopher Slots, with nearly 300,000 subscribers and more than 180 million views. He plays slot machines all over Southern California and in Las Vegas. (Photo by Terry Pierson, The Press-Enterprise/SCNG)
Brian Christopher has his own channel on You Tube, Brian Christopher Slots, with nearly 300,000 subscribers and more than 180 million views. He plays slot machines all over Southern California and is pictured here during a recent live show at Agua Caliente Resort Casino Spa in Rancho Mirage on Thursday, Oct. 8, 2020. (Photo by Terry Pierson, The Press-Enterprise/SCNG)
Brian Christopher spins the reels on a slot machine at Agua Caliente Resort Casino Spa Rancho Mirage on Thursday, Oct. 8, 2020. Christopher is an influencer and YouTube star known for his videos of slot play. (Photo by Terry Pierson, The Press-Enterprise/SCNG)
Brian Christopher has his own channel on You Tube, Brian Christopher Slots, with nearly 300,000 subscribers and more than 180 million views. He plays slot machines all over Southern California. Pictured is Christopher doing one of his live shows at Agua Caliente Resort Casino Spa Rancho Mirage on Thursday, Oct. 8, 2020. (Photo by Terry Pierson, The Press-Enterprise/SCNG)
There is a smile behind the mask of Brian Christopher who has his own channel on You Tube, Brian Christopher Slots. On the channel he has videos of his slot play. Christopher is pictured at Agua Caliente Resort Casino Spa in Rancho Mirage on Thursday, Oct. 8, 2020. (Photo by Terry Pierson, The Press-Enterprise/SCNG)
Brian Christopher plays a slot machine at Agua Caliente Resort Casino Spa Rancho Mirage on Thursday, Oct. 8, 2020. Christopher’s YouTube channel, Brian Christopher Slots, has nearly 300,000 subscribers and has had more than 180 million views. (Photo by Terry Pierson, The Press-Enterprise/SCNG)
Influencer Brian Christopher wears a mask for safety as he spins the reels at Agua Caliente Resort Casino Spa Rancho Mirage on Thursday, Oct. 8, 2020. (Photo by Terry Pierson, The Press-Enterprise/SCNG)
Influencer Brian Christopher has his own YouTube channel. What started as some videos that Christopher did of his slot play for fun 4 1/2 years ago has become his career. Christopher did one of his live broadcasts for his YouTube channel, Brian Christopher Slots, at Agua Caliente Resort Casino Spa in Rancho Mirage Thursday, Oct. 8, 2020. (Photo by Terry Pierson, The Press-Enterprise/SCNG)
There’s also a merchandising side to what Christopher does: YouTube views on their own aren’t lucrative, so to support his business he does a mixture of sponsorships, fan clubs and products.
Christopher said his fan shop sells between 1,000 and 2,000 products a month. Merchandise on his website includes T-shirts, face masks, wrist bands, souvenir poker chips and lanyards.
He has also has a very active fan club of about 2,000 people. There are varying membership tiers ranging in cost from $5-$20 monthly. The most basic tier gives fans access to a special private Facebook page where they can see behind-the-scenes posts and special livestreams.
For the highest tier, Christopher will follow fans back on Facebook, Snapchat or Instagram; do monthly private live chats with his fans; and send his fans signed postcards that either feature his photo, or a photo he took, every three months.
YouTubing during the pandemic
Many of Christopher’s recent videos have been dedicated to casino safety measures during the novel coronavirus pandemic.
“Because of what I do people look up to me for advice on things related to the casinos and so I really wanted to make it a point to visit these casinos,” he said.
He estimated he’s visited 25 casinos in different parts of the country so far since casinos reopened after closing due to the coronavirus.
In his videos, Christopher will take his fans through the motions of what it’s like to visit casinos during the pandemic from before you enter to what it looks once you get onto the gaming floor itself.
Christopher said most casinos take the same safety measures, including mandatory masks and requiring social distancing, but some casinos have gone the extra mile. Some measures he thought were particularly interesting were the casinos changing out pens between each customer; putting cards indicating when a machine had just been cleaned in the slots for player’s club cards; and temperature checking guests before they even exited their vehicles.
Christopher said he isn’t afraid to get personal in his videos, telling stories about his life when he’s not spinning the reels. He said he’s frequently stopped by fans who talk to him about the experiences he’s shared as well as his positive energy in videos.
“That means the world to me that we can have that kind of impact by just playing slot machines and having a good time,” he said.
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Alex Groves writes about casinos for the entertainment team at the Southern California News Group. Alex graduated in 2015 with his bachelor's degree from Cal State Fullerton, where he majored in print journalism and minored in radio-tv-film. He started his first full-time gig later that year as a breaking news reporter for The Press-Enterprise but has also written stories on arts programs at local high schools, dining and events. In his free time, Alex enjoys hiking and traveling. A craft beer enthusiast, Alex likes to bring back an IPA as a souvenir from every new place he travels.
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By Stephen L. Raucher | Sep. 28, 2018
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Stephen practices complex business litigation, with an emphasis on representing policyholders in insurance disputes.
Does a defective conflict waiver invalidate an entire fee agreement, including an arbitration clause? Can a broad, non-specific conflict waiver suffice to provide informed written consent of a known conflict at the inception of the attorney-client relationship? Does a deficient conflict waiver disentitle a firm to fees? These and a number of other questions were answered by the California Supreme Court in Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP v. J-M Manufacturing Co., Inc., 2018 DJDAR 8765 (Aug. 30, 2018). Also notable was the question that was not answered -- whether broad, non-specific advance waivers can in effect neutralize the duty of loyalty with respect to future conflicts. That issue was left for another day.
The Conflict at Issue
Sheppard Mullin was hired to represent J-M Manufacturing in a qui tam action stemming from allegedly defective PVC pipe products. The qui tam action involved over 200 governmental entity plaintiffs.
Sheppard Mullin's engagement agreement with J-M included the following broad conflict waiver: Sheppard Mullin "has many attorneys and multiple offices. We may currently or in the future represent one or more other clients ... in matters involving [J-M]. We undertake this engagement on the condition that we may represent another client in a matter in which we do not represent [J-M] ... provided the other matter is not substantially related to our representation of [J-M] and in the course of representing [J-M] we have not obtained confidential information of [J-M] material to representation of the client. By consenting to this arrangement, [J-M] is waiving our obligation of loyalty to it so long as we maintain confidentiality and adhere to the foregoing limitations." J-M was represented by in-house counsel while negotiating the engagement agreement, although the issue of the conflict waiver was not discussed.
Unbeknownst to J-M -- but known to Sheppard Mullin from the outset of its representation of J-M -- the firm had a long-term attorney-client relationship with one of the plaintiffs in the qui tam action, South Tahoe Public Utility District, pursuant to which Sheppard Mullin provided occasional labor and employment work. While the firm was not actively providing such services to South Tahoe when it started representing J-M, it had done so less than five months earlier and began actively working again on an employment matter for South Tahoe within weeks of starting work on the qui tam action. Sheppard Mullin did not disclose the conflict to either South Tahoe or J-M because it concluded that its conflict waiver -- contained in both clients' engagement agreements -- obviated any need to do so.
When South Tahoe discovered the conflict, it moved to disqualify Sheppard Mullin in the qui tam action. That motion was granted by the federal district court, which concluded that the waiver was "ineffective to indicate South Tahoe's informed consent to the conflict at issue here." J-M then refused to pay Sheppard Mullin's outstanding fees of more than $1 million out of more than $3 million billed.
The fee dispute was submitted to binding arbitration pursuant to the engagement agreement, resulting in an award in favor of Sheppard Mullin. The arbitrators found that, even assuming Sheppard Mullin's conflict waiver was insufficient, the ethical violation was not serious enough to justify disgorgement or forfeiture of fees. The trial court confirmed the award.
However, the Court of Appeal found that J-M's challenge to the enforceability of the engagement agreement as a whole based on the alleged conflict of interest had to be decided by the court, not the arbitrators. Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP v. J-M Manufacturing Co., Inc., 244 Cal. App. 4th 590 (2016). The Court of Appeal proceeded to find that Sheppard Mullin had failed to provide J-M with sufficient disclosure to allow for informed written consent, as required by Rule of Professional Conduct 3-310(C), notwithstanding the conflict waiver, and that the engagement agreement was unenforceable. As a result, Sheppard Mullin was ordered to disgorge its fees. The Supreme Court granted review.
Effect of Inadequate Waiver on Arbitration
The Supreme Court first discussed whether the arbitration award could be invalidated if the engagement agreement violated the Rules of Professional Conduct. Under the California Arbitration Act, an arbitration award may be vacated when "the arbitrators exceeded their powers." Code of Civil Procedure Section 1286.2(a)(4). This exception applies when a court determines that the contract at issue is "illegal and against the public policy of the state." Loving & Evans v. Blick, 33 Cal. 2d 603 (1949). While not challenging this principle, Sheppard Mullin argued that it should apply only to public policy declared by the Legislature, and not, therefore to a violation of the Rules of Professional Conduct.
The Supreme Court rejected this argument, noting that the California State Bar is authorized by statute to formulate the Rules of Professional Conduct, which are then adopted and approved by the Supreme Court. Accordingly, an attorney contract that "has as its object conduct constituting a violation of the Rules of Professional Conduct is contrary to the public policy of this state and is therefore unenforceable." This includes an arbitration clause within such a contract. The court noted, however, that the violation of an ethical rule in one portion of a contract does not necessarily preclude enforcement of the contract as a whole; it is only when "the illegality taints the entire contract" that it is illegal and unenforceable.
Informed Written Consent
The Supreme Court next turned to the question of whether the engagement agreement ran afoul of Rule of Professional Conduct 3-310(C)(3), which provides that an attorney "shall not, without the informed written consent of each client ... represent a client in a matter and at the same time in a separate matter accept as a client a person or entity whose interest in the first matter is adverse to the client in the first matter." "Informed written consent" requires disclosure "of the relevant circumstances and of the actual and reasonably foreseeable adverse consequences to the client." Rule of Prof. Conduct 3-310(A)(1).
The purpose of this rule is to enforce the attorney's duty of loyalty rather than the duty of confidentiality, since the conflict arises even though there is no relationship between the matters. Sheppard Mullin's broad conflict waiver applied to the representation of other clients, whether "currently or in the future," and essentially neutralized the duty of loyalty.
Sheppard Mullin argued that it was not representing South Tahoe at the inception of its relationship with J-M because its relationship with South Tahoe ended upon the completion of each discrete assignment. However, the Supreme Court found that the terms of the engagement agreement with South Tahoe did not support this characterization. Rather, Sheppard Mullin had an ongoing attorney-client relationship with South Tahoe given the long-term course of business between the firm and South Tahoe on "general employment matters." Accordingly, "Absent any express agreement severing the relationship during periods of inactivity, South Tahoe could reasonably have believed that it continued to enjoy an attorney-client relationship with its longtime law firm even when no project was ongoing." As a result, Sheppard Mullin concurrently represented South Tahoe and J-M from the inception of the relationship with J-M.
Thus, to the disappointment of many observers, the Supreme Court had no occasion to decide whether Sheppard Mullin's broad waiver sufficed to waive conflicts as to future clients whose interests might conflict with J-M's. Such advance conflict waivers have been upheld in jurisdictions utilizing the ABA Model Rules. See, e.g., D.C. Bar Assn., Ethics Opn. 309 (2001); N.Y.C. Bar Assn. Com. on Prof. & Jud. Ethics, Formal Opn. 2006-1 (2006). However, several federal courts applying California law have refused to enforce such waivers. Lennar Mare Island, LLC v. Steadfast Ins. Co., 105 F.Supp.3d 1100 (E.D.Cal. 2015); Western Sugar Coop v. Archer-Daniels-Midland Co., 98 F.Supp.3d 1074 (C.D.Cal. 2015); Concat LP v. Unilever, PLC, 350 F.Supp.2d 2796 (N.D.Cal. 2004). Whether the federal decisions correctly applied California law will have to await resolution in another case.
Given Sheppard Mullin's awareness of the conflict between J-M and South Tahoe at the inception of the relationship with J-M, the firm failed to disclose all of the "relevant circumstances." As the Supreme Court explained, "An attorney or law firm that knowingly withholds material information about a conflict has not earned the confidence and trust the rule is designed to protect." Accordingly, the conflict waiver was inadequate, since it only stated that a current conflict might exist, even though the firm knew that a current conflict actually existed.
Sheppard Mullin nonetheless argued that its blanket waiver was sufficient in light of J-M's sophistication and the participation of its general counsel in the engagement negotiations. In support of this position, Sheppard Mullin cited a comment to ABA Model Rule 1.7, which provides that a general waiver may be effective where the client "is an experienced user of the legal services involved," particularly if the client is represented by independent counsel.
The Supreme Court rejected this position, noting that California has not adopted the Model Rules. Even though California's Rules of Professional Conduct have been amended as of Nov. 1 to more closely parallel the Model Rules, differences remain, and the particular comment cited by Sheppard Mullin regarding sophistication was not adopted. In any event, where the conflict is known to the attorney at the time he seeks a waiver, it must be disclosed even if the client is sophisticated. "Whether the client is an individual or multinational corporation with a large law department, the duty of loyalty demands an attorney or law firm provide the client all material information in the attorney or firm's possession."
Because the entire object of the engagement agreement was representation in the qui tam action -- the very subject inadequately addressed by the conflict waiver -- Shepard Mullin's effort to save the balance of the engagement agreement failed, necessitating the vacation of the arbitration award.
Consequences of Ethical Violation
Finally, the Supreme Court turned to the question of whether Sheppard Mullin could still collect a fee notwithstanding its ethical violation. Sheppard Mullin argued that it should still be able recover the reasonable value of its services given that it acted in good faith reliance on the blanket waivers both clients had signed, and never breached the duty of confidentiality (as opposed to the duty of loyalty).
The court remanded the matter for further litigation in the trial court, concluding that "California law does not establish a bright-line rule barring all compensation for services performed subject to an improperly waived conflict of interest, no matter the circumstances surrounding the violation." Instead, the egregiousness of the attorney's conduct, its potential and actual effect on the attorney-client relationship, and the existence of alternative remedies must be considered. The trial court must then, in its discretion, fashion an equitable remedy "while preserving incentives to scrupulously adhere to the Rules of Professional Conduct."
While leaving much to the discretion of the trial court, the Supreme Court nonetheless made clear that simply multiplying the firm's hourly rate by the hours expended -- in essence awarding the firm its contractual fees -- would not suffice: "Although the law firm may be entitled to some compensation for its work, its ethical breach will ordinarily require it to relinquish some or all of the profits for which it negotiated."
The Supreme Court also left open the possibility that the trial court could still find that Sheppard Mullin's misconduct was egregious enough to preclude any award. Indeed, two of the justices, in dissent, opined that the record already demonstrated that Sheppard Mullin had forfeited any entitlement to fees. Sheppard Mullin may therefore consider itself fortunate that it will still have the chance to seek compensation for the 10,000 hours it spent on the qui tam action notwithstanding its inadequate conflict waiver. Given the guidance now provided by the Supreme Court with respect to broad, non-specific conflict waivers, future law firms that find themselves in a similar position might not be so lucky.
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Pastor, 10-Year-Old Boy and Two Other Christians Killed in Plateau State, Nigeria
JOS, Nigeria (Morning Star News) – Muslim Fulani herdsmen in north-central Nigeria on Tuesday (April 7) killed a pastor and three members of his congregation, including a 10-year-old boy, sources said.
In an attack on Ngbra Zongo village, near Miango in Plateau State’s Bassa County, the herdsmen shot and killed Matthew Tagwai, pastor of an Evangelical Church Winning All (ECWA) congregation, in his home after 8 p.m. that night, according to area residents. Pastor Tagwai was 34.
He leaves behind two young children and his pregnant wife, area residents said.
Also shot dead in their homes were ECWA congregation members Ishaku Abba, 10; Dih Sunday, 21; and Duh Abba, 38, area resident Patience Moses said.
“The attack was carried out by armed herdsmen against the community at about 8:20 p.m. on Tuesday, 7 April,” Moses told Morning Star News. “Two other Christians, Abbayo Ki, 45, and Monday Adamas, 19, were also injured during the attack by the herdsmen, and they are currently being treated at a hospital at Dantako village.”
A survivor of the attack, Moses Gata, confirmed that the assailants were ethnic Fulani, a predominantly Muslim people prevalent throughout western Africa.
“There’s no doubt about it – our attackers are Muslim Fulani herdsmen,” Gata told Morning Star News. “They were communicating with themselves in Fulfulde, the herdsmen’s language.”
After the attack, the second on Ngbra Zongo, the assailants went toward Dutsen Kura, a Fulani herdsmen settlement in Bassa County, he said.
Andy Yakubu, another area resident, said the attack by “heartless herdsmen” was unprovoked.
“In the past one week, Fulani herdsmen have been attacking different villages,” Yakubu told Morning Star News in a text message. “What is the crime of these innocent people against Fulani herdsmen? For how long shall we continue to experience this killing? For how long shall we continue to beg the government and the security agencies to come to the aid of our people?”
The Rev. Yunusa Nmadu, Jr., ECWA general secretary, said the killing of Christians in Plateau state and northern Nigeria has become a thorny problem for the body of Christ, the church.
“This new attack, like the ones before it, is condemnable,” Pastor Nmadu told Morning Star News by text message. “The continuing attacks on harmless and unsuspecting Christian communities without concrete, strategic response from our duty-bearers to protect our people leaves much to be desired.”
He said he hoped the government will be able to contain such attacks before they produce a retaliatory spiral of violence.
“Let the authorities know that people do not run forever,” Pastor Nmadu said. “There comes a time when they are pressed to the wall, and in such times reactions and counter-reactions will inevitably occur.”
Dalyop Solomon Mwantiri, Jos-based attorney and director of the Emancipation Centre for Crisis Victims in Nigeria (ECCVN), said in a statement that the government should designate the heavily-armed herdsmen as terrorists.
“We appeal for a declaration of Fulani herdsmen as terrorists; passionately appeal for deployment of security agents not only to the areas recently affected, but also other volatile villages so as to avert expansion of the attacks arithmetically spreading unabatedly,” Mwantiri said. “And [we] solicit for material intervention for the survivors of all the affected persons who are now left to their fate, especially the young pregnant widow with her little children.”
On Jan. 30 Christian Solidarity International (CSI) issued a genocide warning for Nigeria, calling on the Permanent Member of the United Nations Security Council to take action. CSI issued the call in response to “a rising tide of violence directed against Nigerian Christians and others classified as ‘infidels’ by Islamist militants in the country’s north and middle belt regions.’”
Nigeria ranked 12th on Open Doors’ 2020 World Watch List of countries where Christians suffer the most persecution but second in the number of Christians killed for their faith, behind Pakistan.
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“Pity Poor Bradford”
By Derek Turner
Bolling Hall has squatted on its plot since the 14th century, hunched against the wind and rain of the West Riding—a North Country architectural essay in dark yellow sandstone looking warily down a steep hillside onto Bradford’s Vale. Old though the building is, the estate’s foundations go deeper than Domesday, when Conqueror companion-in-arms Ilbert de Lacy abstracted it from someone called Sindi, his reward for sanguinary services rendered during the Norman invasion and the subsequent Harrying of the North.
De Lacy’s motte-and-bailey has been overbuilt, and his line is long extinguished, but other owners likewise felt the need to guard against restive locals, rival families, religious opponents, apolitical marauders, wolves, the Great Boar of Cliffe, and whatever other elementals might watch and wait from tangled woods, stony slopes, and bog-cotton dancing moors. The family crests of manor-holders, scratched in black and white onto a window lighting the stairs to the Ghost Room, constitute a subfusc sort of heraldry, one informed by everyday sights as much as by classical or chivalric conceits. There are martlets for the Bollings and Tempests, oak trees for the Thorntons, owls on a bar sinister for the Saviles, cudgel- and shield-bearing wodewoses for the Woods, hunting horns and chevrons for Bradford. They feel like the arms and achievements of provincials attuned to rurality and modest in their pretensions—although Robert Bolling overreached himself during the Wars of the Roses and was temporarily deprived of the estate. (A later Bolling, Edith, married Woodrow Wilson.)
The oldest part of the present building has been identified as a pele tower, although these are more usually associated with points yet farther north, in the “Debatable Lands” between Scotland and England. Yet pele towers are likely enough in this valley long accessible only from the north, where the laws of London or even York held only spasmodic sway. Even with later fenestration that streams grayness into the Great Hall, and Adam-style remodeling, Bolling keeps a fortress feel, a sense augmented by dark Jacobean paneling cut deeply with geometric patterns, strapwork, acanthus leaves, flowers, birds, and lions’ heads, interspersed with rubicund oils of English faces, and even a death mask of Cromwell. The hall possesses what the poet-topographer Peter Davidson calls “northern rooms, rooms that expect nothing of the weather.” It could be a Hollywood haunted house, and indeed there is a legend attached to the Duke of Newcastle who slept here in December 1642 on the night before his planned attack on the almost defenceless Parliamentarian town. Bellicose before retiring, he came down palely the morning after, claiming he had been visited by the apparition of a weeping woman begging him to “Pity poor Bradford.” Whether genuinely believing he had seen a specter, or just hung over, the Duke marked his martial descent of that day by relative restraint, with just ten deaths recorded.
The defenses of Bolling never needed to be tested, but enemies of an odd kind came upon it anyway, creeping up its hill in increments of meaner dwellings, so that now two aspects of the hall look onto semis and a car park, and there is a noise of traffic where once one would’ve heard bleating or birds. But this civic slight is in its way appropriate, in this region where melancholy falls as readily as rain.
Sometimes it seems almost a requirement to portray the North of England as a single vast and tragic landscape. The imaginative equation of north with dearth goes back as far as Roman legionaries tramping gloomily up the Great North Road to garrison the edge of the empire at Hadrian’s Wall (although Septimius Severus died at York, and Constantine took the purple there). It gathered pace as the locus of English power slowly migrated south, as monarchs roamed their realm less frequently, ecclesiastical power centered on Canterbury, and parliaments fixed at Westminster. The great families of the North found themselves becoming provincials—and slightly untrustworthy ones. From the London point of view, they had too often been kingmakers or -breakers, too often Catholic, too rich, too swaggeringly insolent, and their centers of learning at York and Durham were cultural as well as temporal rivals.
The Tudors unroofed the great Cistercian abbeys of Jervaulx, Rievaulx, Fountains, and Byland, gelded the prince-bishops, and started to centralize the legal system and house-train the Percys, Howards, and Cliffords. The North was just too close to Scotland to feel fully safe, and even after the crowns were united in 1603 long-standing fault lines remained. Well into the 18th century, the North was seen as marginal, outside the English mainstream, a redoubt of recusancy potentially sympathetic to Stuarts, its untrammeled nature offending against both the logic of the Age of Reason and the aesthetics of the Age of Taste. Even when the beauties of Lakeland began to be discovered by poets, aquatinters, and garden designers, they were slightly shivered at, seen as unreal, unpeopled, dubbed “horrid” or at best “picturesque”—places to be looked at rather than lived in.
The Industrial Revolution eventually made the North central to the English economy, making vast amounts of new money while undermining the aristocratic order—in a few cases literally, with landowners delving for coal almost under inherited houses. When the borough of Bradford came into being in 1847, it contained no fewer than 46 coal mines. The municipal motto was Labor Omnia Vincit, and in Bradford furnaces blasted day and night, chimneys choked, hammers clanged, and cogs clicked, mills clattered and drifted lung-filling fibers—and 30 percent of all children died before attaining their teens.
The ugliness associated with industrialization actually reinforced Southern notions of the North as a place apart. From the safe South, Northern towns were increasingly seen as the haunts of grim-visaged Gradgrinds, building themselves vulgar villas while turning sturdy peasants into sickly slum-dwellers. Beyond the ragged edges of the ever-expanding towns, the savage scenery of moors seemed perfect habitations for Heathcliffs, ideal locales for a hundred Dotheboys Halls. The Devonshire-born Nicholas Nickleby’s reaction upon first seeing Wackford Squeers’s appalling academy is one of a Southerner feeling suddenly very far from home: “As he looked up at the dreary house and dark windows, and upon the wild country round, covered with snow, he felt a depression of heart and spirit which he had never experienced before.”
The names alone of places and people sound stark—Blubberhouses, Mytholmroyd, Uriah Woodhead, Savage Crangle, Hardcastle Crags, the ominous Nab Wood Cemetery and Crematorium, and countless others. Wanderers are furthermore constantly being arrested by disquieting associations, such as the plaque in smart Skipton that indicates the Bull-Baiting Stone, or an antlered bronze demon looking saturninely out of a sunny New Age shop window in the same town, faintly disturbing among the trash of tarot. Such things can be seen in the South too, but they seem to have an extra level of significance against a backdrop of low-lit moors and sharpened by frost.
Nouveau-riche mill-owners, mine managers, and middlemen aped aristocratic manners and manors, attended ostentatiously at chapel or Low Anglican services, endowed and administered charities, but were typically seen as bumptious, unlikable, and unscrupulous. However irreproachable many may have been, even when they were like Titus Salt, they were easy targets for either snobbish satire or socialistic critiques such as the Bradfordian playwright J.B. Priestley’s An Inspector Calls, in which a mysterious detective turns up late at night to quiz the inhabitants of a huge new house about the suicide of a local girl, exposing the callousness of the family and their recently risen class.
Even now, with the old industries at last starting to be replaced, to the Southern English mind, the simple words “The North,” as glimpsed so frequently in Transport Medium typeface on road signs, connote both stonewalled fields and urban decay, poverty, grimness, and lostness—to which can now be added vague but not unfounded notions of dangerously alienated Muslims. Anyone who ventures north of the significantly named “Home Counties” soon realizes that this stereotypical view effectively means West and South Yorkshire, and Lancashire and Tyneside conurbations. The vaster Yorkshire comprising the lonely landscapes of the North Riding, and the semisubmarine East Riding with its drowned towns and dreams of the Hanse, not to mention history-clogged York itself, does not really enter into this equation. Nor do the Lakes, Durham Cathedral, the walls and rows of Chester, Carlisle, Liverpool, or Northumberland—all of them of course in the North, but not intrinsic to that particular understanding.
The Industrial Revolution itself has become the object of nostalgia as its rawness mellows into Grimshaw and Lowry tones, and the uncompromising communities that coalesced around milling, mining, or steel are seen through a prism of foxing monochrome stills from the 1930’s through the 1980’s. Guardian journalists still (and with justification) bewail the economic hollowing-out caused by Thatcherism, the once-powerful industries sacrificed to City of London speculators, steel, mining, and milling workers fly-tipped into an abyss of welfare dependency and social squalor. Leftists take a special interest in Bradford because of its exploitative past, its innovations in education and medicine, and its role in the foundation of the Labour Party in 1893. (The present government is trying to make political inroads hereabouts by talking of “Northern powerhouses,” with devolved powers and better railways—suitably Victorian solutions for a town of phlegmatic traders.)
Leftists who emote about the North rarely have practical ideas as to how global economic trends can be reversed, and also tend to be uninterested in the Immigration Revolution that accompanied de-industrialization and exacerbated the area’s social splintering. To them, it seems of little consequence that a quarter of Bradford’s 523,000 residents are Muslims, many cleaving to ultraorthodox interpretations. Perhaps somewhere now in the city there are a few more idealists like Tanveer Ahmed, who in March went all the way to Glasgow to murder an Ahmadiyya shopkeeper who had “disrespected Islam” by wishing a Happy Easter to Christian customers. Immigrants have long been attracted here by the wool trade, which once made Bradford the “wool capital of the world” but had gone into irreversible decline by the time the first Asians arrived. The new immigration was therefore badly timed as well as different qualitatively from the European incursions of the mid-19th century onward (whose most unlikely product must be that composer of lush tone poems Frederick Delius, who lived in the district still called Little Germany).
To a certain Panglossian kind of commentator, the race riots of 1985 and 2001, and the public burnings of The Satanic Verses in between, were passing epiphenomena, regrettable but understandable products of low education, unemployment, Tory cuts, and social segregation caused chiefly by white racism. They would rather focus on such heartening factoids as that Bradford was declared “Curry Capital of Britain” in 2013; that nearby Hebden Bridge is a louche home to an unusually high number of lesbians; that Heathcliff was a victim of anti-Roma prejudice, and his creator of “gender” inequality; that the town had critical ethnic mass to host the 2007 International Indian Film Festival awards.
They would also be largely indifferent to the epic echoes of the premodern county, its still visible castles, churches, halls, and houses, its mental habits and myths. If they were to visit Bolling, they would be most interested in the working conditions of turnspits. At Skipton Castle, they might glance up at the grand gatehouse, with its forward-looking family motto Désormais (“Henceforth”), but they would not find it strangely sad that Lady Anne Clifford, who placed the hopeful word there c. 1649, would be the last representative of a dynasty that had once commanded allegiance
From Penigent to Pendle Hill,
From Lenton to Long Preston
And all that Craven coasts did tell
They with the lusty Clifford came
Well brown’d with sounding bows upbend
On Clifford’s banner did attend.
What could neo-Puritans comprehend of the experiences or motivations of the likes of Anne, who held the castle three years for the King, or even bloodier-minded ancestors like Robert Clifford, who entertained Edward I and who chose to live in this dangerous zone so that he would never miss an opportunity of fighting the Scots? Another was John Clifford, who had already earned the nickname “Black-Faced Butcher” by the time he fell at Towton aged just 26. Even the most peaceable of the tribe, Henry (called by Wordsworth the “Shepherd Lord” because of his long exile in the hills), led the Craven contingent to victory at Flodden. No doubt all these would be adduced as arguments for historical inevitability, products of the irrational military-aristocratical complex, yet more reasons that order had to end. As for the Saxon high crosses in the church at Ilkley, with their writhing beasts and worn Jesus, they would be seen as stelae marking the resting places of ancient delusions—a disdainful sort of analysis for some reason never extended to the ideas expressed in the West Riding’s mosques.
And what would urban chatterati make of Yorkshire’s underlying nature, its hard-edged pastoralism, its sudden stabs of beauty, more evident again now that mines have been backfilled, mills become apartments, and waterways transport fewer toxins? What would they think of if they were to walk under the sky-supporting arches of old abbeys drowsing along peaty rivers, knee-deep in summer flowers, their hedges silver-spangled with cobwebs on frosty mornings? Probably just that this was the inevitable end of an unsustainable system. They might smile at Geoffrey Hill’s playful poem, “Damon’s Lament for his Clorinda, Yorkshire, 1654,” which subverts urban and proletarian associations by projecting Arcadian and Renaissance imagery onto a winter’s day during the endless-feeling English interregnum:
November rips gold foil from the oak ridges.
Dour folk huddle in High Hoyland, Penistone.
The tributaries of the Sheaf and Don
bulge their dull spate, cramming the poor bridges.
The North Sea batters our shepherds’ cottages
from sixty miles. No sooner has the sun
swung clear above earth’s rim than it is gone.
We live like gleaners of its vestiges
knowing we flourish, though each year a child
with the set face of a tomb-weeper is put down
for ever and ever. Why does the air grow cold
in the region of mirrors? . . .
But the best-known poet celebrant of Yorkshire is Ted Hughes, whose most relevant collection for these purposes is his 1979 Remains of Elmet, honoring the little kingdom that rose and as unostentatiously expired in what is now West Yorkshire some time between the fifth and seventh centuries. The collection is as elegiac as the title suggests, and in some respects is itself rather dated. But “The Trance of Light” looks both back on a semimythical shire where small kings and Great Boars really did coexist, and forward to a day when the last looms and Low Churchers go down to join the ancient Britons, the pinched life ends, and Hughes’s beloved hawks can once more clutch creation in their claws:
The upturned face of this land
The mad singing in the hills
The prophetic mouth of the rain
That fell asleep
Under migraine of headscarves and clatter
Of clog-irons and looms
And gutter-water and clog-irons
And clog-irons and biblical texts
Stretches awake, out of Revelations
And returns to itself.
So superb to think that it might, and that something substantive remains among all these layered remains.
Derek Turner
Derek Turner, editor of The Quarterly Review, is the author of the novel Sea Changes (Radix).
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Interview Hindi Marathi
Web-series and TV serials will influence each other, says Sukesh Motwani of Bodhi Tree Multimedia
Motwani and Mautik Tolia's production house has recently come up with web-series like Marzi and The Raikar Case.
Mumbai - 29 Apr 2020 0:56 IST
Keyur Seta
In these days of being cooped up at home, television shows and web-series have come to the rescue of film fans. These are the two entertainment formats in which Bodhi Tree Multimedia has a strong body of work.
Started in 2013, the studio has produced a number of TV shows like The Big F, Twist Wala Love, Tedi Medi Family, Main Mein Hai Visshwas, Secret Diaries, Bade Bhaiya Ki Dulhania and Naati Pinky Ki Lambi Love Story. When it comes to OTT platforms, Bodhi Tree recently released the web-series Marzi and The Raikar Case.
Bodhi Tree has also ventured into cinema with the as-yet-unreleased Marathi film Shree Devi Phataka (2020), directed by newcomer Navin Chapade.
The company was founded by Sukesh Motwani, who is also director and chief content officer (CCO). Motwani has been running the production company with fellow director and chief executive officer Mautik Tolia.
In an interview with Cinestaan.com, Motwani shared their thoughts behind starting the production house and his views on television serials, web-series and their future in the ever-changing world of entertainment. Excerpts:
What was the aim when you started Bodhi Tree Multimedia?
I and Moutik had been in broadcasting and production and we are also writers at heart. I worked once in programming at Zee and he had written a lot of shows. So we have been creative directors for a long time. So this is a natural extension for somebody who is a combination of writer, programmer and creative director. To have these skills and to understand the aspect of production, your immediate need is how do I create a sacred place where we can create ideas, stories and see them through to the end.
Mautik Tolia
All these things can happen only when you have a creative production company. So that’s what we set out to do. There was also the aim of getting into films, which is our next step [with Shree Devi Phataka].
What do you look at while green-signalling any project?
Why do you like certain kinds of novels, fiction or TV shows or cinema is a very tough question to answer. All the shows we have done are deeply human. The shows we do aren’t pure saas-bahu shows. As TV was our breeding ground, it has given us the most work. Today we are getting work in the digital space as well. So I think we are the only company that does TV shows and OTT shows, except for one or two companies doing non-fiction shows. There is [also] Ekta [Kapoor], but she has her own platform.
The kind of heroines or kind of characters we look for in telling our stories, be it in TV or on OTT, are the ones who push their boundaries. You have to push the boundary to what is called morally acceptable. Be it Marzi or Naati Pinky Ki Lambi Love Story that we are doing for Colors, you need to think what is the boundary for a GEC [general entertainment channel] viewer and how much can you push. Obviously, in OTT you are exposing yourself to a viewer who is far more ready to be challenged.
For example, we did a show on women's fantasies back in 2015 for MTV called The Big F. A lot of people thought we were making vulgar content, but it was actually about liberating younger women.
Do you think the popularity of OTT platforms could prove a threat for television serials?
Threat is not the word I would use. I would use ‘influence’. Both things will influence each other. Content is content. It doesn’t matter how it plays out. I feel TV shows have to become more pacy overall. And they have to understand the value of giving the viewer quicker gratification. Even if our characters are working, we can’t take the audience for a ride. Along with gimmicks we need actual moments. Only gimmicks won’t do.
What web has to learn from TV is the TV grammar. Successful TV shows in the past have actually been binge-worthy. So, even though their audience and expectations are different right now, as we are exposed to international stuff, we are pushing literally in that direction on how to match the grammar of eight or 10 episodes.
As producers how do you keep tabs on whether a project is going over-budget?
That’s a part of the business side. At the end of the day you have to support people and careers. As a company you are supporting 50–70 people and a crew of 300. You should have the ability to know if you are overspending. But you have to press the warning button, there should be a system in your process. Sometimes it does go out of control and we have faced losses. But it’s okay, that’s part of the game.
At the end of the day, you can’t go too deep making these errors. Sometimes it’s not an error, it’s because of factors [beyond your control] like an actor falling sick or the whole shoot going haywire or some natural calamity taking place and you have to save a product. Most productions houses that have sustained over a long period of time will not make budgeting mistakes.
Do you think a big advantage in OTT platforms is that there is no involvement of the CBFC [Central Board of Film Certification] or the censor board, as it’s popularly known?
Platforms have to have some basic standards. But they have to largely be self-driven. In societies there are times when external boards do this, which is what the censor board has done [for cinema]. On the web I am hoping that it is not enforced by an external board but it is a channel of broadcasters who create guidelines. So that artistes are directly involved in discussing what is okay and what is not. But it shouldn’t be rigid and engraved. I hope it’s more self-regulated than externally.
What are the future plans of your production house?
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Finebaum likes Kirby Smart as next coach to win first national title
Georgia head coach Kirby Smart is a popular name for people to bring up
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Kirby Smart is entering his second season at Georgia, and Paul Finebaum already thinks the young head coach will be one of the next men to win a national championship for the first time.
Following Bob Stoops retirement, there are now only four active FBS head coaches who have won a national title: Alabama’s Nick Saban, Ohio State’s Urban Meyer, Florida State’s Jimbo Fisher and Clemson’s Dabo Swinney. So USA Today’s Paul Myerberg ranked the head coaches most likely to join that club next.
Smart came in at No. 10 in Myerberg’s rankings. But he’s one of the top two choices for Finebaum, along with new Texas head coach Tom Herman.
Give me Tom Herman & Kirby Smart #CFB pic.twitter.com/IIOI83N8yB
— Paul Finebaum (@finebaum) June 13, 2017
Myerberg has Smart’s predecessor, Miami (FL) head coach Mark Richt, ahead of Smart. But Finebaum apparently likes the current Georgia coach’s chances better.
These rankings aren’t predicting a national title for any of these coaches this year. There’s a real chance that one of the head coaches to already win a championship (like Saban or Meyer) wins another in 2017.
But it speaks to the perception of Smart–and Georgia’s program overall–that he’s included with coaches with much longer resumes.
Finebaum isn’t the first person this offseason to hype Georgia as a future title contender. Pro Football Focus’ Gordon McGuinness said earlier this year that the Bulldogs could even make a national title run in 2017.
Georgia opens the season at home against Appalachian State on Sept. 2. Kickoff is scheduled for 6:15 p.m. ET on ESPN.
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From the NewspaperPublished March 30, 2015
BY virtue of the 18th Amendment, the labour legislation was devolved to the provinces. One of the purposes of devolution was to make working of this sensitive and critical sphere of legislation more efficient and user-friendly. Provincial legislators can now amend labour laws to meet the needs of both entrepreneurs and workers employed in industrial and commercial establishments. However, they were also expected to exercise those powers in the overall interest of the country.
Although workers tend to move and settle at places where they get ample employment opportunities, they also migrate from one province to the other due to personal and other reasons. As a result, the respective provincial governments should have this much coordination amongst them that some commonality is maintained in matters of industrial relations and the wage structure.
It is unfortunate that the governments of Punjab and Balochistan started using it as an opportunity for political point-scoring and expediency. They fixed the minimum wages for workers at Rs9,000 a month. effective July 1, 2012, while it was Rs 8,000 in Sindh and KP.
Besides, fixing minimum wages, which is directly linked with the subsistence of workers and their families, is taken up at leisure and non-seriously by provincial governments. The government of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa had fixed the minimum wages at Rs15,000 a month effective July 1, 2014 vide notification dated Sept 9, 2014.
Since the said government did not follow the process of getting recommendation from the Minimum Wage Board, the notification has been challenged in the court.
The three other provincial governments fixed the minimum wages at Rs12,000 a month, effective July 1, 2014, and issued notifications to this effect: Punjab: 11-09-2014, Balochistan: 10-12-2014 and Sindh: 12-3-2015, i.e. just three months away from the announcement of the new budget.
The delay in the issuance of these notifications by the Balochistan and Sindh governments not only kept the workers in a limbo but has also created difficulties for employers to pay the arrears of increase from July, 2014.
Parvez Rahim
Published in Dawn, March 30th, 2015
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IKD launches new speciality to treat male infertility
Ashfaq YusufzaiPublished October 27, 2020
PESHAWAR: The Institute of Kidney Diseases, Hayatabad Medical Complex Peshawar has started a speciality Andro Urology to treat people with male infertility and sexual dysfunction.
It is the first speciality to start operations in public sector in the country. A six-bed ward has initially been dedicated to the rare speciality which can be enhanced in near future.
IKD has been offering services to the patients for the past three and half years but the ward was formally launched on October 24 after which there would be postgraduate training of doctors to do specialisation and expand the services.
Dr Mir Abid Jan, who is head of the ward, told Dawn that they were holding OPD and conducting surgeries twice a week where people with sexual dysfunction and infertility were being treated.
Head of facility says gynaecologists will be hired to start treatment of couples
“In future, we plan to hire the services of gynaecologists and start couple treatment. At present, only male patients are received in OPD and those requiring surgeries are being hospitalised,” he said.
Dr Abid, who has completed postgraduation in urology, European fellowship in sexual dysfunction and fellowship in infertility from Fatima Memorial Hospital Lahore, said that 15 per cent couples in Pakistan had infertility problems.
He said that they could be treated through proper diagnosis and subsequent treatment.
The issue of infertility was prevalent among 50 per cent people below the age of 40 years, he added.
Andro Urology is a new speciality, which is gaining currency throughout the world because it is the scientific way to investigate the infertile individuals or couples and provide treatment to them to enable them to go fertile.
“So far, we have received 1,000 patients during the past few years, the success rate of cure ranges from 50 to 70 per cent which is in line with the international standard,” said Dr Abid.
He said that after formal inauguration of the ward, they expected that the speciality would groom further as it would be offering postgraduate training to the doctors, who would then be deployed in other public sector hospitals.
“However, we would send a request to the government to provide us with equipment and machines worth Rs50 million to ensure proper and advance tests for diagnostic purposes,” he said.
Dr Abid said that they would generate the amount incurred on installation of the investigative device.
“So far, there is no male infertility services in public sector hospitals and only female patients are treated by gynaecologists, the result of which is not to a desired level,” he added.
He said that with passing of time, they would start assisted reproductive services to help the couple have kids through the method.
Presently, these services aren’t available in public sector hospitals and the charges at private hospital are not affordable by the people.
“We receive most of the people through referral because the doctors in the public hospitals have been informed about the launch of the new speciality,” said Dr Abid.
He said that couple would be examined by the doctors to ensure their treatment after the speciality was fully developed. “Many doctors, who are working in the ward, are willing to pursue careers in Andro Urology,” he said.
Published in Dawn, October 27th, 2020
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Janina Pryputniewicz
Janina Pryputniewicz, 94, of Berlin CT, passed away January 9, 2020. Janina was born on April 18, 1925 in Lohiszyn, Poland to the late Pawel and Leontyna (Czeczotko) Tatarewicz. She served in the Polish army as a seamstress, where she specialized in officer embroidery. Janina was married to her beloved husband, the late Antoni Pryputniewicz, in 1947. Janina and Antoni immigrated to the USA in 1967, settling in Connecticut to raise their children. Along with being a doting mother to her four sons, Janina maintained a career, working for American Bazaar in New Britain until her retirement in 1994. She was also a lifelong member of Sacred Heart Church in New Britain. She is survived by and deeply missed by her sons, Ryszard of Vernon, CT, Gene of The Villages, FL, and Roman of Stuart, FL, six grandchildren and six great-grandchildren. In addition to her husband Antoni, she was predeceased by her son Miro Pryputniewicz. The hours for visitation will be on Friday from 9:30 to 10:30 am at the New Britain Memorial Donald D. Sagarino Funeral Home, 444 Farmington Ave., New Britain, CT 06053. A Mass of Christian Burial will be celebrated on Friday at 11:00 am in Sacred Heart Church. Interment will follow in Sacred Heart Cemetery. To leave an online condolence, please visit our website at www.newbritainsagarino.com New Britain Memorial-Sagarino Funeral Home 444 Farmington Ave New Britain 06053 8602290444 Website
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Detroit Cops Denied Immunity in False Arrest Case
August 30, 2018 MATT REYNOLDS
attempted murder, Detroit, false arrest, immunity, malicious prosecution, Police, Shooting, Sixth Circuit
CINCINNATI (CN) – A Michigan man jailed for two years for attempted murder and later exonerated because of a Facebook-backed alibi prevailed Wednesday in a civil case against Detroit police officers who had asked a judge not to find them liable for falsely arresting him.
A Sixth Circuit panel led by U.S. Circuit Judge Alice Batchelder affirmed a district court judge, denying immunity to investigating officer Latonya Moses for malicious prosecution and police officers Jade Tanguay, Richard Lucas, Marshall Dennis, and Calvin Washington for Derrick Bunkley’s false arrest claims.
Bunkley, then 22, was arrested in May 2014 and charged with attempted murder after Paris Ainsworth, 51, survived a shootout with two assailants, one of whom shot her in the stomach outside her home on Beaverland Street in Detroit.
Officers arrested Bunkley while he was visiting his father Charles Knox Sr., who was also a victim of gun violence and was having his leg treated at Sinai-Grace Hospital, where Ainsworth was also receiving medical attention.
Officers jumped to the conclusion that Bunkley and his father had committed the crime because Ainsworth had described her attackers as African-American men wearing dark clothing. Bunkley and his father, however, did not otherwise fit the description the victim had given to police.
No weapon was found, and no forensic or physical evidence connected Bunkley to the shooting. At the time of the incident, Bunkley was four miles away in his mother’s house playing video games with his younger brothers, where he created a cast-iron alibi by posting images on Facebook.
Bunkley’s father, meanwhile, was picked up by an ambulance seven miles away from Ainsworth’s home at the time of the shooting. While the victim had identified Bunkley from a photo array, she had rejected a picture of Knox Sr., telling officers that he was too old. Moses never mentioned this information to prosecutors and during the trial said Bunkley’s mother had changed the time stamp on the Facebook photos.
Bunkley was convicted for assault with intent to commit murder and spent two years in prison before he was exonerated after a forensic analysis of the Facebook photos confirmed his alibi. His father was arrested but never charged.
In May 2016, Bunkley sued Moses and the other arresting officers, and a federal judge declined to grant them immunity.
Judge Batchelder upheld the ruling in a 17-page opinion Wednesday, rejecting the officers’ claim that they were only following orders.
The officers could not hide behind a shield of immunity, the Cincinnati-based appeals court found, because they had arrested Bunkley and his father without questioning Bunkley about the shooting beforehand and falsely claimed over his protests that he had violated parole.
According to the ruling, Moses had withheld evidence of the Facebook-backed alibi and falsely claimed that Bunkley and his father had come to the hospital together. In fact, Bunkley had rushed there after he learned his father had been wounded. Moses also claimed that security had detained Bunkley when he was actually sitting in a waiting area, the 17-page opinion states.
None of the officers had probable cause to arrest Bunkley because they did not investigate the scene, positively identify the assailants or question either Bunkley or his father before arresting them, Batchelder wrote.
“Any of these officers had time to stop, intervene, and prevent this arrest-without-probable-cause,” the judge said.
U.S. Circuit Judges Ralph Guy and John Bush joined Batchelder on the panel.
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1 migrant needed to prevent genetic divergence
Gene ExpressionBy Razib KhanJanuary 26, 2012 1:09 PM
In the survey below I asked if you knew about how many migrants per generation were needed to prevent divergence between populations. About ~80 percent of you stated you did not know the answer. That was not totally surprising to me. The reason I asked is that the result is moderately obscure, but also rather surprisingly simple and fruitful. The rule of thumb is that 1 migrant per generation is needed to prevent divergence.* It doesn't tell you much in and of itself of course. But if you think about it you can inject that fact into all sorts of other population genetic phenomena. For example, to have selection across two populations which is not reducible to selection within those populations (i.e., inter-demic selection) you need group-level genetic differences. These differences can be measured by the Fst statistic. In short the value of Fst tells you the proportion of variation which can be attributed to between-group differences (e.g., Fst across human races is ~0.15). For natural selection to have any adaptive effect you also need heritable variation. If you have lots of heritable variation selection can be weaker, while if you have little heritable variation selection has to be very strong (see response to selection). Fst is a rough gauge of heritable variation when you are evaluating group level differences. An Fst of 1.0 would imply that the groups are nearly perfectly distinct at the loci of interest, while an Fst of 0.0 would imply that the groups are not genetically distinct at all. With no distinction selection would have no efficacy in terms of driving adaptation. All this is a long way to saying that the 1 migrant rule is one reason that evolutionary biologists take a skeptical position in relation to group selection. It tends to quickly erase the variation which group selection depends upon. To make it concrete here is the equation which you use to generate the equilibrium F statistic:
In this formula N = the population size, and m = the proportion of migrants within the population within a given generation. Nm then works out to be the number of migrants in any given generation. So 1 migrant per generation would mean for 1,000 individuals m = 0.001. For 100, the m = 0.01. To see the power of a given number of migrants per generation on long term Fst, the measure of between population difference, I've plotted some computed results below (Fst y-axis, Nm on the x-axis).
This should make intuitive sense. If there is no migration (gene flow) between populations then over the long term they become perfectly distinct. As you increase migration naturally that is going to homogenize differences between populations. But I suspect the question you may still have is how is it that only a few individuals are necessary in even large populations to prevent differentiation? Here the intuition is simple. In a neutral scenario between-population differences emerge as gene frequencies change over time. The generation to generation change is inversely proportional to population. This is simply the sample variance or transmission noise. The expected deviation is going to be proportional to 1/N, where N is the population (2N for diploid). As N gets rather large you converge upon zero. So as the population gets very large there is less and less divergence which may occur in one given generation. In contrast you have a lot of generation to generation variation, and rapid change in frequency, in a small population. So why only 1 migrant? In a large population 1 migrant does not effect much change, but much change is not necessary. In a small population it has much more impact, but the generation to generation change is also much bigger. These two dynamics work at cross purposes so that the number of migrants needed remains relatively insensitive to population size. * This is the result derived from population genetics, some ecological geneticists have made the case that you may actually need 10 migrants, 1 being the lower boundary.
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More genetic structure of human populations
Gene ExpressionBy Razib KhanMay 16, 2009 1:29 PM
Genome-wide Insights into the Patterns and Determinants of Fine-Scale Population Structure in Humans:
Studying genomic patterns of human population structure provides important insights into human evolutionary history and the relationship among populations, and it has significant practical implications for disease-gene mapping. Here we describe a principal component (PC)-based approach to studying intracontinental population structure in humans, identify the underlying markers mediating the observed patterns of fine-scale population structure, and infer the predominating evolutionary forces shaping local population structure. We applied this methodology to a data set of 650K SNPs genotyped in 944 unrelated individuals from 52 populations and demonstrate that, although typical PC analyses focus on the top axes of variation, substantial information about population structure is contained in lower-ranked PCs. We identified 18 significant PCs, some of which distinguish individual populations. In addition to visually representing sample clusters in PC biplots, we estimated the set of all SNPs significantly correlated with each of the most informative axes of variation. These polymorphisms, unlike ancestry-informative markers (AIMs), constitute a much larger set of loci that drive genomic signatures of population structure. The genome-wide distribution of these significantly correlated markers can largely be accounted for by the stochastic effects of genetic drift, although significant clustering does occur in genomic regions that have been previously implicated as targets of recent adaptive evolution.
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Myth or Fact About Measles
Measles- Myth or Fact
We need to talk about some myths or facts about measles. Most people believe they know about measles and how it effects us, however there are a lot of myths circulated in the media. This is why I had to share the following article from a mentor of mine. Dr. Tedd Koren is the founder of KST, the technique that I use here in the clinic. He is also a prolific writer and researcher for his other company, Koren Publications. I thought people might find this article interesting. It has references to all the claims, so if you are not sure this is true, please take the time to look it up for yourself.
Here is the article, myth vs. fact about measles-
By Tedd Koren, DC
Introduction-
Measles is a mostly benign condition that leaves a healthier child in its wake. Deaths from measles had almost completely disappeared before the vaccine was used. Why is a vaccine even needed and is this vaccine safe?
Myth or Fact: Measles is a Dangerous Disease
Myth – measles is a dangerous disease
Fact – measles is mostly harmless
Measles is a short-lived viral infection that begins with a fever that lasts for a couple of days, followed by a cough, runny nose and conjunctivitis (pink eye). A rash starts on the face, hairline and upper neck, spreads down the back and trunk, and extends to the extremities. After about 5 days, the rash fades.
Measles is a mild and mostly harmless disease that leaves a stronger, healthier child in its wake; most adults born before 1965 got measles and have lifelong immunity as a result. Serious problems from measles are very, very rare.
However after the vaccine was produced this mild, beneficial rite of passage was called a deadly disease.
“This measles outbreak does not pose a great risk to a healthy child and quite frankly I don’t think it poses any risk to a healthy child.” Jay Gordon, MD, former UCLA Medical Center pediatrician
https://vaccineimpact.com/2015/ucla-medical-center-pediatrician-let-parents-choose-on-measles-vaccine/
Myth or Fact: Measles Is Killing Children
Myth- Measles is killing children
Fact- The measles vaccine is killing children
Dr. Anne Schuchat, director of CDC’s National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases stated there were no measles deaths in the US since 2003.
http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/nvsr/nvsr59/nvsr59_04.pdf
http://vaccineimpact.com/2015/zero-u-s-measles-deaths-in-10-years-but-over-100-measles-vaccine-deaths-reported/#sthash.jsHvonAX.dpuf
While the CDC’s National Vital Statistics Reports show 2 deaths associated with measles for 2009 and 2010.
“Pediatricians continue to defend vaccination to the death. The question parents should be asking is, ‘Whose death?’ -Robert Mendelsohn, MD
The National Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS), recorded 108 children died from the measles vaccine during a ten year period. http://www.medalerts.org/vaersdb/index.php
But MDs rarely report vaccine injuries so that number is probably much higher.
Myth or Fact: The Measles Vaccine Is Safe
Myth – the vaccine is safe
Fact – the vaccine is dangerous
According to David Kessler, MD former head of the Food and Drug Administration, “Only about 1 percent of serious events [adverse drug reactions] are reported to the FDA.”
Kessler DA, Natanblut S, Kennedy D. et al. Introducing MEDWatch A New Approach to Reporting Medication and Device Adverse Effects and Product Problems. JAMA.1993;269(21):2765-2768.
Therefore we don’t know the real number of vaccine injuries and deaths. But they are greater than official statistics due to underreporting.
If we apply the above underreporting number to vaccine injuries then possibly as many as 10,800 children might have been harmed or killed by the measles vaccine during the period that at most four died from measles.
What Are Atypical Measles?
Atypical measles occurs only in the vaccinated and can be fatal.
http://www.cdph.ca.gov/HealthInfo/discond/Pages/Measles.aspx
Atypical measles was initially thought to occur only in those who received the killed measles vaccine, but several investigators have reported this illness in children who had been vaccinated only with the live measles vaccine.
Nichols EM. Atypical measles: a continuing problem. Am J Public Health. 1979;69(2):160-162.
http://healthimpactnews.com/2013/outbreaks-of-measles-in-vaccinated-children-intensifying/#sthash.kXoMlUEy.dpuf
What Is SSPE?
The measles vaccine can also cause subacute sclerosing panencephalitis (SSPE), which is 100% fatal. http://www.ninds.nih.gov/disorders/subacute_panencephalitis/subacute_panencephalitis.htm
Myth or Fact: Measles Runs Rampant In Non-Vaccinated People
Myth – There is a lot of measles amongst the non-vaccinated
Fact – There are non-vaccinated communities reporting no measles.
For example, the Amish are a religious community the vast majority of which are not vaccinated. They reported not a single case of measles between 1970 and 1987.
Sutter RW, Markowitz LE, Bennetch JM, Morris W, Zell ER, Preblud SR.
Measles among the Amish: a comparative study of measles severity in primary and secondary cases in households.
J Infect Dis. 1991 Jan;163(1):12-6.
While the local highly‐vaccinated communities still reported epidemics every 2‐3 year. Based on this experience measles appears to circulate more amongst the vaccinated than the non-vaccinated.
Myth or Fact: Vaccines Are Safe
Myth – Vaccines are safe
Fact – Vaccines are dangerous
The jury is still out on the issues of safety and efficacy for a number of vaccines-vaccine experts have repeatedly reversed themselves about the safety or effectiveness of vaccines they have previously sworn were safe.
Properly tested and licensed vaccines were later found to cause injury and death and were stopped by vaccines authorities. Sawada eta. 1993; Lancet 342 (7 August): 371
In 2010, the Rotarix (rotavirus) vaccine was recalled because it was contaminated with DNA from pig virus after one million U.S. children, and about 30 million worldwide received it. A measles vaccine was also found to contain low levels of the retrovirus avian leukosis virus, and Rotateq, Merck’s rotavirus vaccine, was found to contain a virus similar to simian (monkey) retrovirus. http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2012/04/24/most-recalled-type-of-drug-will-surprise-you.aspx
People have a right to choose because the science is never absolute.
Myth or Fact: Vaccine Companies Look Out For The Greater Good
Myth – Vaccine companies have our best interest at heart
Fact – Pharmaceutical companies have used illegal means to promote their products.
In 8 years (2004-2012), there were twenty pharmaceutical company settlements in the $345 million to $3 billion range. Criminal fines in the $100’s of millions are common, and have been as high as $1 billion (Pfizer 2009, GlaxoSmithKline 2012). This is routine business practice.
List of largest pharmaceutical settlements (2004 – 2012), Wikipedia, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_largest_pharmaceutical_settlements
Merck, manufacturer of the mumps vaccine, is going to trial in two separate lawsuits for allegedly falsifying the efficacy rate of its mumps vaccine. One suit was filed by former employee-whistleblowers, the other by pharmaceutical competitors. Lawsuits claiming Merck lied about mumps vaccine efficacy headed to trial, Fierce Vaccines, September 9, 2014, http://www.fiercevaccines.com/story/lawsuits-claiming-merck-lied-about-mumps-vaccine-efficacy-headed-trial/2014-09-09
Myth or Fact: You Can’t Get The Measles If You Are Vaccinated
Myth – You can’t get sick if you are vaccinated
Fact – Diseases occur in fully vaccinated populations.
Here is a small sampling of reports show that the vaccine is ineffective.
Vaccine Failure – Over 1000 Got Mumps in NY in Last Six Months http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2010/03/06/vaccine-failure-over-1000-get-mumps-in-ny-in-last-six-months.aspx
Over 98% were vaccinated in measles epidemic
Hersh BS, Markowitz LE et al. A measles outbreak at a college with a prematriculation immunization requirement. Am J Public Health. 1991;81(3):360-364.
NY measles outbreak: 90% were vaccinated. http://experimentalvaccines.org/2014/03/31/new-york-measles-outbreak-90-vaccinated/
Pertussis outbreak: 91% fully vaccinated.
http://experimentalvaccines.org/2013/10/09/91-fully-vaccinated-involved-in-pertussis-outbreak/
Myth or Fact: Vaccines Got Rid of Measles
Myth – Vaccines eradicated measles
Fact – Childhood diseases largely disappeared before vaccines were used
Deaths from measles, scarlet fever, typhoid, whooping cough, and diphtheria were down up to 99% BEFORE vaccination. The vaccines may have kept the diseases from disappearing due to “viral shedding.” http://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/salud/salud_vacunas145.htm
After the shot came out the drop in deaths stopped, jumped and then resumed their downward slope.
Myth or Fact: Vaccines In General Got Rid of Childhood Diseases
Myth – Vaccines eradicated childhood diseases
Fact – Lifestyle eradicated childhood diseases
Clean water, sanitation, indoor toilets, hot and cold running water, less crowding and improved living conditions resulted in better resistance to disease. By the way, there was no vaccine for scarlet fever yet deaths dropped just the same.
Myth or Fact: We Have No Idea What The Underlying Cause of Autism Is
Myth – We don’t know the cause of autism
Fact – Vaccines are repeatedly linked to autism
Some medical experts say the measles (and other) vaccines do not cause autism yet mothers across America and around the world report a different experience.
Today’s medical denial of the vaccine-autism link looks like a scene in the Marx Brothers’ movie Duck Soup where Chico is caught red-handed dallying with a pretty young woman. He denies it adding, “Who are you going to believe, me or your own eyes?”
Autism affects as many as 1 in 50 children but a few decades ago (when vaccines were few) autism rates were 1 in 10,000. When will they stop the shots? When it’s one in two?
Myth or Fact: Drugs Are The Only Answer, Especially Vaccines
Myth – Drugs are good for us
Fact – All drugs are dangerous (say no to drugs)
Vaccines are unsafe and ineffective. It’s time we simply said no to drugs – especially these drugs. They are creating a generation of sick children and bankrupting their parents.
Repeatedly experts have told us they know the truth, to change their minds later. No studies trying to placate an increasingly concerned public can stop vaccine-damaged kids from coming. For many patients the vaccine decision comes down to a child having a week lost from school or the possibility of a lifetime lost.
Myth or Fact: There Are No Side Effects To Vaccines
Myth – Vaccines are generally safe
Fact – Autism is just the tip of the iceberg
We have a generation of chronically ill children. Today one in six children has neurodevelopmental disorders, one in eleven has asthma, one in twelve has food allergies, and one in 400 has diabetes. Let’s not forget ADD, ADHD, dyslexia, “processing disorders,” vision and hearing disorders, digestive disorders, immune system disorders and more. It’s getting worse.
For how long will parents be denied the truth? They know their child. They even have videos of their child before and after the shot – it’s not the same child. Whatever shots are doing they are not preventing children from getting sicker. They are not preventing autism and the growing number of health problems faced by children.
Here is one link citing 97 research papers connecting autism and vaccines. At the least one must conclude there is controversy so why not err on the side of caution?
http://experimentalvaccines.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/86-Research-Papers-Supporting-the-Vaccine-Autism-Link.pdf
Myth or Fact: Only Kids Get Measles
Myth – Measles is a childhood diseases
Fact – Not any more
Children generally usually got childhood diseases around ages 4,5,6,7 after the immunity from the mother wears off. But today newborns, infants, babies, teenagers and adults get “childhood” diseases because vaccination has altered the natural age of occurrence and is responsible for babies and adults getting these diseases at ages when they are more dangerous and even fatal. http://www.womenshealthmag.com/health/dangers-of-childhood-diseases-for-adults
When little girls normally got measles and other childhood diseases they developed full immunity and years later they were able to pass on that immunity to their unborn child. Their baby is born protected against measles and lots of other diseases from the protection the mother passes on during pregnancy through the placenta (hence the term “transplacental” immunity). Breastfeeding also permits the baby to obtain additional immune factors from the mother.
Myth or Fact: Vaccines Are Made of Only Non-toxic Ingredients
Myth – Vaccine ingredients are safe
Fact – Vaccine ingredients are toxic
These poisons present in one or more vaccines may include formaldehyde, mercury, aluminum (linked to Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s), phenol (carbolic acid), borax (ant killer), ethylene glycol (antifreeze), dye, acetone (nail polish remover), latex, MSG, glycerol, polysorbate 80/20, sorbitol, monkey, cow, chick, pig, sheep and dog tissues and cells, fragments of human fetus cells, antibiotics, genetically modified yeast, animal, bacterial and viral DNA (may affect recipient’s DNA).
Myth or Fact: There Is Good Research Behind The Vaccines We Get
Myth – The vaccine scheduled has been tested
Fact – The vaccine schedule has not been tested
In 2015 the Centers for Disease Control recommends 101 vaccines in multiple doses by the time a child is child age yet the safety of the entire vaccine schedule has not been studied:
While the government renews, licenses, and compels individual vaccines, it does not test – or require vaccine makes to test – the safety and efficacy of vaccines given simultaneously or the cumulative effects of multiple vaccines.
Allen Tate, The Greater Good. Chapter Ten.Vaccine Epidemic Edited by Habakus and Holland p.83 Skyhorse Publishing: New york 2011.
Myth or Fact: There Is No Reason To Catch The Measles With Vaccines
Myth – Childhood diseases have no benefits for children
Fact – Childhood diseases have many benefits for children
Lost in the argument about measles is the fact that Infectious diseases of childhood are shown to be beneficial for the overall health of the child and society.
Contracting and overcoming childhood diseases are part of a developmental process that actually helps develop a healthy, robust, adult immune system able to meet the challenges that inevitable encounters with viruses and bacteria will present later on.
Coulter HL. Vaccination, Social Violence and Criminality: The Medical Assault on the American Brain. Washington, DC: Center for Empirical Medicine. 1990.
That may include protection from cancer:
The study consistently revealed a lower cancer risk for patients with a history of febrile infectious childhood diseases.
Albonico HU, Braker HU, Husler J. Febrile infectious childhood diseases in the history of cancer patients and matched controls. Medical Hypotheses. 1998;51(4):315-320.
The vaccine-mandate zealots move forwards with more and more vaccines to be given to our children (and adults) without addressing these very important questions – questions that might have life or death significance.
Myth or Fact: We Are Required To Get Vaccines
Myth – You must vaccine your child
Fact – You don’t’ have to vaccinate
There are exemptions to vaccination in every US State and in Canada.
Childhood diseases run in cycles no matter how much or how little vaccination is done:
Every 2-3 years, there is an upsurge of measles irrespective of vaccination compliance.
Robertson SE, Markowitz LE, Dini EF, and Orenstein WA. 1992. A million dollar measles outbreak: epidemiology, risk factors, and selective revaccination strategy. Publ Health Reports; 197 (1): 24-31.
See more at: http://www.vaccinationcouncil.org/2013/01/18/the-ineffectiveness-of-measles-vaccines-and-other-unintended-consequences-by-dr-viera-scheibner-phd/#sthash.Qi7hw6ru.dpuf
How many children must die, be crippled physically and mentally and live lost lives before we recognize what we have done? In our worship of technology when will we recognize our hubris and realize that we are not God? We do not know enough to justify mandating 101 vaccinations from birth, for every single child. http://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/schedules/hcp/imz/child-adolescent.html
Since measles (and other childhood diseases) return cyclically irrespective of vaccination rates, returning to traditional healing wisdom will return us to a time when autism, allergies, asthma, diabetes and other illnesses seen so often in children today will once again be rare or non-existent.
I have an article talking about whether vaccinated children are healthier that un-vaccinated children- to read it click the image below.
Researchers, medical doctors and health educators need to remember our place in nature, acknowledge our limitations and learn some humility. In our struggle to “conquer” disease we have unleashed an epidemic of chronically ill children who would have been far better had we not interfered with natural diseases and instead worked with the natural cycles of life; recognizing that the wisdom that permeates nature is wiser than us all.
As you can see, there are definitely myths that we hear are facts about measles everytime there is an outbreak. Make sure you do your research to be able to tell myth vs fact.
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Kevin Tresolini
Blue Hens (2-2, 0-1) vs. Black Bears (1-3, 0-1)
3:30 p.m., Saturday
Delaware Stadium, Newark
Radio: WDSD-94.7/WVUD-91.3
NEWARK – A Delaware football season filled with optimism suddenly finds itself in get-back-on-track mode.
Last week’s 43-20 loss at James Madison, the nation’s No. 7-ranked FCS team, was one-sided enough to invite skepticism.
Are the Blue Hens truly the playoff worthy outfit fourth-year coach Dave Brock had been touting?
If they are, the Hens (2-2 overall, 0-1 CAA) need to take care of business in Saturday’s 3:30 p.m. Parents Day showdown with Maine at Delaware Stadium. It's their first home game since Sept. 1.
The Black Bears, who have won three straight and five of the last seven against Delaware, are expected to make that difficult.
“It’s going to be a very, very challenging game,” Brock said. “ . . . The goal is to play it like it’s a one-game season and get ourselves in a position to be 1-1 in the league.”
Maine (1-3, 0-1) also lost to James Madison in its lone CAA encounter. But Maine didn’t have nearly as much trouble as Delaware, falling 31-20 when the Dukes scored a pair of fourth-quarter touchdowns. Maine had three second-half turnovers.
Senior wide receiver Diante Cherry said the Blue Hens just need to “get back to Delaware football. Get the run game on track, take a couple shots down field, make plays and just keep going, [play] hard-nosed football.”
Delaware will also be looking for major improvement defensively after poor tackling contributed to JMU compiling 607 yards of total offense last week.
Delaware vs. Maine: 5 things to watch
Maine has an experienced quarterback in Dan Collins, a senior third-year starter. He has completed exactly half of his passes – 55 of 110 – for 752 yards but has two more interceptions (six, all in the last two games) than touchdowns (four). His 188 yards passing per game are second in the CAA.
“The quarterback is fearless,” Brock said.
Four players have at least eight receptions, led by Jaleel Reed, whose 20.1 yards per catch lead the CAA. Freshman running back Josh Mack is coming off a breakthrough 151-yard effort in a 35-31 comeback win over Bryant last week. Maine trailed 21-0 in that game.
“We’re going to have to be able to defend the run first, like we always talk about,” Brock said, “and then make sure we’re sound in the pass game. And we’ve got to get some turnovers. We didn’t get a turnover in the game Saturday.’’
Maine is 11th in the CAA in total defense, allowing 415.2 yards per game. But its losses have come to two FBS schools – Connecticut 24-21 and Toledo 45-3 – in addition to JMU.
Middle linebacker Christopher Mulumba Tshimanga, a 6-foot-, 245-pound senior, is the CAA’s leading tackler with 11.0 per game. He was CAA defensive rookie of the year in 2013. Defensive end Patrick Ricard, a 6-3, 285-pound senior, has three sacks.
“Extremely disruptive player . . . He’s a dominant player at this level,” Brock said of Ricard.
Junior Najee Good is a highly regarded cornerback who, as a graduate of Philadelphia’s Imotep Charter, is friends with Delaware quarterback Joe Walker, who played at Martin Luther King High in Philadelphia. Walker is also acquainted with safety DeAndre Scott, an Arizona State transfer out of Imotep Charter.
Scott’s 27.0-yard average on kick returns is also second in the CAA.
“They have a really good player on every level of the defense,” Brock said, “and when you look at it we’re going to have to do a really good job of attacking them. We’re going to have to have a really good plan of how to get some explosive plays, but also possess the ball.”
Maine is in its first season under coach Joe Harasymiak, who was elevated from defensive coordinator when Jack Cosgrove stepped down after 23 years.
A major concern for Maine is slowing down a Delaware ground game averaging 259.8 yards per game – second in the CAA and 10th in FCS.
“We’re going to need to play very well up front on both sides to have a chance in this game,” Harasymiak said after complimenting the size and talent of Delaware’s offensive and defensive lines.
“Obviously, their running backs are very talented. Their defense plays with intensity. They run around. They tackle. I know some of the coaches on defense there. We have great respect for them and for what coach Brock has done down there and they have our attention, there’s no doubt about it. We know we need to play very well.’’
Contact Kevin Tresolini at ktresolini@delawareonline.com. Follow on Twitter @kevintresolini.
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The restoration: Five years later
By Kevin Simpson | ksimpson@denverpost.com | The Denver Post
PUBLISHED: June 2, 2007 at 2:30 p.m. | UPDATED: May 7, 2016 at 9:21 p.m.
Woodland Park – Walking a narrow path through the middle of Pinehurst Ranch, Laurie Glauth moves between the stark challenge and subtle joy of regeneration.
To her right, a line of newly strung fence, pulled taut as piano wire, surrounds acres of scorched ponderosa pine amid an emerging bed of native grasses that will become grazing land.
To her left, naked, singed remnants of towering aspen rise above remarkably lush new growth – a grove whose slender shoots reach as high as 20 feet.
“How do you mitigate the damage?” says Glauth. “You cross your fingers a lot and hope Mother Nature heals herself.”
It’s been five years since the Hayman fire burned a 138,000-acre footprint on the landscape after a U.S. Forest Service employee carelessly ignited a letter from her estranged husband amid drought- stricken woods.
The worst wildfire in Colorado history destroyed 132 homes over six weeks, cost an estimated $238 million in damage and rehabilitation, and burned so hot it created its own weather beneath towering clouds of smoke and ash.
It turned most of Pinehurst into a blackened moonscape.
Five years. Half a decade to begin repairing the wide-ranging effects of the fire – from lost natural resources to crippled local economies to suddenly sludge-laden watersheds.
But barely a heartbeat in the centuries-long process of restoring a forest.
Replanting efforts have targeted 1,000 acres a year and about 300 trees an acre – mostly ponderosa pine. They focus on drier, higher-altitude areas, avoiding terrain with surviving pine that eventually will produce new growth or pockets where faster- growing “pioneer species” such as aspen already have returned.
“It’ll take 200-300 years before the pine overcome the aspen again,” says Brent Botts, a district ranger for the Pike National Forest and manager of the Hayman restoration team that disbanded two years ago.
Crews have cleared “snags” – burned and toppled trees – from hundreds of miles of roadways, dismantled campgrounds in areas subject to flooding and worked to restore some motorized vehicle and hiking trails.
Divergent interests
“When you talk about restoration, you also have to consider the process that happens with the community – not just the landscape, but people,” says Jonathan Bruno, executive director of the nonprofit Coalition for the Upper South Platte, or CUSP.
Part of that process has brought sometimes-divergent interests such as environmentalism, recreation and agriculture to the same table to map out the area’s future. One key element of the discussion has been “wildfire protection plans,” in which communities assess the threat and, where necessary, thin woodlands to reduce the danger.
“Now,” says Bruno, “a lot of folks are on the same page in terms of forest health and fuels reduction. Before, some people didn’t want to see any tree cut. But now they understand that we’re actually creating a healthier stand of forest as well as protecting the community from future fires.”
Many private landowners signed up with the four counties scorched by the fire – Park, Teller, Douglas and Jefferson – for cost-sharing programs that helped with restoration, such as reseeding or log cutting, mulching and even erecting small watershed structures to limit erosion, says Leon Kot, district conservationist for the Natural Resource Conservation Service’s Woodland Park office.
Volunteers and prison inmates, working through Colorado Correctional Industries’ State Wildland Inmate Fire Team, also provided inexpensive labor – starting at 60 cents a day – for restoration efforts.
“For some instances, they were the only economical solution to get it done through private landowners, who lost everything and had no cash,” Kot says.
For Glauth, the scarred land provides a constant reminder of the devastation that blew up barely a year after she inherited Pinehurst from pioneer cattle rancher Zelma Worden with a charge to preserve the land’s agricultural roots.
But the 49-year-old health-food store owner, who spends about a quarter of her time tending the ranch, has become accustomed to the view. Signs of regeneration continue to emerge on the 800-acre property – 650 acres burned severely – that ranked among the larger private parcels affected.
She moves ahead moment to moment, looking past reminders of the fire to new possibilities.
“How do you go forward,” says Glauth, “if you’re looking backward?”
With help from the cost-sharing programs, she has begun erecting fences within Pinehurst, cordoning off portions of the burn area where scorched trees stand even as resurgent grasses have excited prospects of sustainable grazing land.
So far, Glauth estimates, she has put up about 14,000 feet of fence toward the 50,000 feet – more than 9 miles – that she’ll need.
In addition, she plans to buy portable electric fencing so she can move her cattle to optimal grazing areas, where they can munch on ranch grass rather than eat expensive hay or head for leased pastures in the Pike National Forest.
Volunteers, contract workers
Elsewhere on the ranch, a combination of volunteers and contract workers hand-planted pine seedlings next to the shaded north side of scorched trunks and seeded hilly areas to regenerate native grasses.
The second year after Hayman, Glauth had a sawyer fell burned trees perpendicular to drainage to catch runoff and filter sediment. The massive erosion in the burn area becomes evident across nearby Painted Rocks Road, on the site of a house where Glauth had stored many Worden family artifacts.
The fire consumed almost everything but the foundation and the stone chimney. Five years later, erosion has filled the entire basement.
“I have an opportunity here,” says Glauth. “… As dense with trees as this once was, I can make it more usable agriculturally. I have what I need to start.
“Five years ago, I wasn’t sure how to do this,” she adds. “But each year presents an opportunity to solve a little more of the puzzle.”
Forty-three cows, 26 yearling calves and three bulls make up her herd – not counting three horses, three donkeys, seven llamas and seven goats. The latter two species came to her as Hayman-fire refugees, although she did turn down a request to harbor an ostrich and her eggs.
All over the burn area, the disappearance of forest cover has prompted wildlife officials to manage a new set of inhabitants – such as deer and turkey – after the flames sent bears, owls and other species accustomed to the trees’ protective canopy in search of new habitat.
“Post-fire in 2002, if you walked a hillside, you wouldn’t hear anything but the wind,” Bruno says. “Not a single bird. Now, wildlife is coming back. … There’s a bounce-back.”
Erosion problematic
But in other respects, the Hayman burn area has gotten worse.
Erosion from the scorched landscape has exceeded projections and played havoc with waterways emptying into Cheesman Reservoir, the drainage for more than half the burn area.
Sediment traps constructed on Turkey Creek and Goose Creek would have been dismantled once vegetation gained a foothold in about 10 years. Now, it appears they’ll stay in place indefinitely, says Beth Roman, an analyst for Denver Water.
This particularly wet spring, the Goose Creek trap filled and then overflowed for the first time. Cost to empty the trap: $250,000 – a process that figures to be repeated often.
And while water quality hasn’t been affected, the costs of capital projects such as sediment traps trickle down to consumers. On average over the past five years, the Hayman fire has cost Denver Water customers an extra $1.26 a year, according to the utility.
When runoff from rain and snow sent sediment pouring into rivers and streams, the deluge also eliminated deep pools that formed natural trout habitat. That development spawned the “Trees for Trout” program in which workers have placed about 500 fallen trees in waterways to cut back erosion and create new pools.
“That might not have occurred if not for Hayman,” Bruno says. “From devastation to restoration, it’s about looking at the worst thing, this horrendous event, and coming up with a way to make something positive out of it.”
Kevin Simpson | General Assignment Reporter
Kevin Simpson was a reporter at The Denver Post until 2018.
ksimpson@denverpost.com
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John Thackara | Essays
The Service Ecology of a City
Milan has approved a new Territorial Government Plan (Piano di Governo del Territorio) in which public services, and the way they are planned, are at the centre of the whole project.
Since 2008, Id-lab has worked alongside the City Administration to change the way Milan thinks about urban development. Each of the city's 88 existing quarters, with its own characteristics and identity, is treated as a core element in the new approach. An ongoing conversation with citizens has elicited an understanding of which services are considered important for daily life — such as schools, kindergartens, libraries, health and social services.
From these 88 Environmental Atlase an understanding emerges of where service provision is failing. The new Plan does not fix which services will be activated in the future, nor where they will be placed. On the contrary, the idea is to enable a cyclical decision making process in which the identification of needs and action priorities is continuous. Unlike in traditional planning, the city never arrives at the moment in which its plan is finished. On the contrary: every six months a new process of reconnaissance, of “listening,” begins which updates the collective understanding of new needs and wants.
IdLab's vision is that these dynamic service ecology maps will act as a trigger that encourages entrepreneurs to develop new services when these emerging needs, at an ultra-local level, become evident. The map below, for example, identifies areas within each neighbourhood that lack close connection to a public transport route; one idea is that these gaps are spotted by minivan operators who move in to close the connection and remove the necessity for people to use private cars.
The same goes for maps which plot areas of the city where planting and food growing might be reintroduced. The role of the city here is not to grow food, but to highlight spatial opporunities and down the line, to remove planning and regulatory blockages.
A related project, Nutrire Milano (Feeding Milan) is also exploring the relationships between food systems, service innovation, and sustainable urban development. A project of the Slow Food Movement with Milan Polytechnic, Nutrire Milano also uses maps to highlight where there are gaps or blockages in the ways food is produced and distributed.
Posted in: Arts + Culture, Social Good
As a citizien of Milan, I suggest John Thackara should collect more information on the city's Territorial government plan (and not just idlab's or the mayor's point of view) before writing an article on the subject. What he presents here is a idyllic situation which has not much in common with reality — reality being much closer to real estate development than service economy.
The website "milano per scelta" suggests that citizens can suggest and choose, while the city government has just discarded thousands of observations and proposals submitted by citizens — the opposite of the "ongoing conversation" with citizens described here.
By the way, the last project mentioned here (Nutrire Milano) has no connection with the new city plan.
Silvia Sfligiotti
Silvia, For what it's worth, my friends at idLab have made the same comment as you do: that my short story glosses over the less-than-pretty realities of the political process actually unfolding in Milan. You are right to insist that external observers like me give a more balanced account.
john Thackara
John Thackara is a writer, speaker and design producer, and director of Doors of Perception. In addition to this blog, he is the author of twelve books including In The Bubble: Designing In A Complex World and Wouldn’t It Be Great If….
More from John Thackara
When Tech In Care Is Evil
I spent the last two weeks in-and-around a care home in England that looks after people with dementia and terminal illness, and their families – including, this time, mine.
Food As A Commons
People go hungry not because of a shortage of production, but because the food available is too expensive, or they lack the land to grow it on. In California, the prototype of a combined social, political and technical solution has been launched which promises to unlock the food system crisis.
Presence and Encounter — How We Meet Is As Important As Why
I’m not suggesting that we abandon social media — just that we cultivate a hybrid approach so whenever someone says “online” someone else says, “and what about offline?”. Or when we find ourselves inside, someone else says: “and when do we go outside?”
Keep Your Stuff Alive
What would fashion be like if it was more than a an act of consumption with no meaning beyond the point of sale? What kind of system would improve the quality of our fashion experience without increasing the quantity we consume?
Cloud Commuting
A two-year project in Belgium proposes new relationships between people, goods, energy, equipment, spaces, and value. Its design objective: a networked mobility ecosystem.
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Chicago Marriott Downtown Magnificent Mile
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Corporate events feel right at home at Marriott Chicago Downtown Magnificent Mile, which welcomes large groups with 46 floors, 1,173 guest rooms, 25 suites, and some of the best views in town. The lively new M.I. Greatroom lobby serves as the multifunctional hub for incentive and business travelers, its playful colors and stylized grand staircase attractions in their own right. Guest rooms feature flat-panel TVs, down comforters, dual-line phones, and wired Internet access. Active travelers hasten to the health club and indoor pool.
Meeting planners pressed for space keep Marriott Chicago Downtown busy, thanks to its 2,200-capacity Grand Ballroom, 60 meeting rooms, and 90,000 square feet of dedicated space for corporate events and business meetings. Popular nearby incentives include American Girl Place at Water Tower Place and Magnificent Mile shopping.
Accommodations: 5.0 Activity or Recreation Options: 5.0
Located In the heart of Chicago, exceptional shopping and dining outside or in the building. The rooms are modern and comfortable, and a great view of the city. The meeting space is very accommodating, and they have a lot of option, they are very accommodating to your vision.
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3/4 Chicago Ballroom 917 28.7 x 32.6 5 9,870 94.00' x 107.00' 15 600 1,100 804 600 0 0 0 0
A 89 9.4 x 9.4 5 961 31.00' x 31.00' 15 54 100 60 60 22 27 0 0
A/B,B/C,F/G,G/H 179 18.9 x 9.4 5 1,922 62.00' x 31.00' 15 120 200 120 120 46 51 0 0
A/B/C,F/G/H 271 28.7 x 9.4 5 2,914 94.00' x 31.00' 15 180 300 204 200 0 0 0 0
Addison N/A N/A 0 N/A N/A 0 100 190 160 0 0 0 0 0
Armitage 109 13.7 x 7.9 3 1,170 45.00' x 26.00' 10 56 100 96 100 34 30 0 0
Avenue Ballroom 217 13.7 x 15.8 3 2,340 45.00' x 52.00' 10 112 200 192 200 N/A 48 66 N/A
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Belmont 109 13.7 x 7.9 3 1,170 45.00' x 26.00' 10 56 100 96 100 34 30 0 0
C 89 9.4 x 9.4 5 961 31.00' x 31.00' 15 54 100 60 60 22 27 0 0
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Clark N/A N/A 0 N/A N/A 0 100 190 160 0 0 0 0 0
Clark Foyer N/A N/A 0 N/A N/A 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Cook 64 11 x 5.8 3 684 36.00' x 19.00' 10 30 48 36 30 22 20 0 0
D 323 28.7 x 11.3 5 3,478 94.00' x 37.00' 15 210 400 300 250 0 0 0 0
D/E 646 28.7 x 22.6 5 6,956 94.00' x 74.00' 15 420 800 600 400 0 0 0 0
Denver 57 7.3 x 7.6 2 615 24.00' x 25.00' 8 36 60 48 40 16 18 0 0
Denver/Houston 111 14.6 x 7.6 2 1,200 48.00' x 25.00' 8 72 120 96 80 32 42 0 0
Denver/Houston/Kansas City 177 23.2 x 7.6 2 1,905 76.00' x 25.00' 8 100 180 144 125 0 54 0 0
Dupage 64 11 x 5.8 3 684 36.00' x 19.00' 10 30 48 36 30 22 20 0 0
E 323 28.7 x 11.3 5 3,478 94.00' x 37.00' 15 210 400 300 250 0 0 0 0
F 89 9.4 x 9.4 5 961 31.00' x 31.00' 15 54 100 60 60 22 27 0 0
G 89 9.4 x 9.4 5 961 31.00' x 31.00' 15 54 100 60 60 22 27 0 0
Grace N/A N/A 0 N/A N/A 0 30 55 30 0 26 26 0 0
Grand Ballroom 1,783 63.4 x 28 6 19,193 208.00' x 92.00' 20 1,220 2,200 1,824 2,000 N/A N/A N/A N/A
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Great America I/II 93 5.8 x 15.5 3 1,002 19.00' x 51.00' 9 45 90 72 60 38 36 0 0
Great America II 56 5.8 x 9.1 3 599 19.00' x 30.00' 9 30 60 40 40 22 21 0 0
H 89 9.4 x 9.4 5 961 31.00' x 31.00' 15 54 100 60 60 22 27 0 0
Halsted N/A N/A 0 N/A N/A 0 0 0 300 0 0 0 0 0
Houston 55 7 x 7.6 2 590 23.00' x 25.00' 8 36 60 48 40 16 18 0 0
Huron 67 6.1 x 11 2 720 20.00' x 36.00' 8 27 55 40 40 22 20 0 0
Illinois 49 6.1 x 7.6 3 527 20.00' x 25.00' 9 30 40 40 40 16 15 0 0
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Indiana/Iowa 117 14.9 x 7.6 3 1,254 49.00' x 25.00' 9 72 120 96 75 32 42 0 0
Indiana/Iowa/Michigan/Michigan State 218 27.7 x 7.6 3 2,344 91.00' x 25.00' 9 120 200 180 200 0 78 0 0
Iowa 57 7.6 x 7.6 3 614 25.00' x 25.00' 9 36 60 48 40 16 18 0 0
Kane 98 17.1 x 5.8 3 1,056 56.00' x 19.00' 10 60 90 72 75 40 39 0 0
Kane/McHenry 180 31.1 x 5.8 3 1,938 102.00' x 19.00' 10 100 160 120 125 0 0 0 0
Kansas City 65 8.5 x 7.6 2 700 28.00' x 25.00' 8 36 60 48 40 16 18 0 0
Lakeview 74 11 x 6.7 2 792 36.00' x 22.00' 8 40 60 50 30 22 16 0 0
Lincolnshire I 43 5.8 x 7 3 462 19.00' x 23.00' 9 15 30 30 25 16 15 0 0
Lincolnshire I/II 99 5.8 x 16.5 3 1,061 19.00' x 54.00' 9 45 90 72 60 38 36 0 0
Lincolnshire II 56 5.8 x 9.1 3 599 19.00' x 30.00' 9 30 60 40 40 22 21 0 0
Los Angeles 59 7.6 x 7.6 2 640 25.00' x 25.00' 8 36 60 48 40 16 18 0 0
Los Angeles/Miami 117 14.9 x 7.6 2 1,254 49.00' x 25.00' 8 72 120 96 80 32 42 0 0
Los Angeles/Miami/Scottsdale 177 23.2 x 7.6 2 1,905 76.00' x 25.00' 8 100 180 144 125 0 54 0 0
Marriott Ballroom N/A N/A 0 N/A N/A 0 200 400 320 0 0 0 0 0
McHenry 81 14 x 5.8 3 874 46.00' x 19.00' 10 40 70 50 50 34 33 0 0
Miami 57 7.3 x 7.6 2 614 24.00' x 25.00' 8 36 60 48 40 16 18 0 0
Michigan 56 7 x 7.6 3 604 23.00' x 25.00' 9 36 60 48 40 16 18 0 0
Michigan State 45 5.8 x 7.6 3 486 19.00' x 25.00' 9 21 50 40 40 16 15 0 0
Michigan/Michigan State 101 12.8 x 7.6 3 1,090 42.00' x 25.00' 9 57 110 84 75 32 36 0 0
Minnesota 49 6.1 x 7.6 3 527 20.00' x 25.00' 9 30 40 40 40 16 15 0 0
Navy Pier 67 6.1 x 11 2 720 20.00' x 36.00' 8 21 40 36 36 22 20 0 0
Northwestern 59 7.6 x 7.6 3 640 25.00' x 25.00' 9 36 60 48 40 16 18 0 0
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Ohio 57 7.6 x 7.6 3 614 25.00' x 25.00' 9 36 60 48 40 16 18 0 0
Old Town 86 11.3 x 7.6 2 925 37.00' x 25.00' 8 0 0 0 0 16 0 0 0
Printers Row 45 7.3 x 6.1 2 480 24.00' x 20.00' 8 15 25 24 20 16 14 0 0
Purdue 56 7 x 7.6 3 604 23.00' x 25.00' 9 36 60 48 40 16 20 0 0
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Diversity. What does it mean for you?
04/01/21 Written by: Ross Green
Diversity. the condition or fact of being different or varied; variety: genetic/biological diversity a wide diversity of opinion/ideas.
Over the last few months, no actually, lets just cut to the chase and say years/decades/centuries, we have seen women, ethnic groups and many more suffer setbacks, prejudices and much more because of being ‘different’. The fact that this STILL continues in today’s modern society baffles me.
So – steering away from my usual thread of thought for content, I wanted to end the year discussing an issue that I feel very passionate about. Yes, that’s right, diversity. Whilst diversity spans across many topics, my core focus is diversity in the workplace and how we, as business owners, have a responsibility to ensure we do our ‘bit’.
Now, I am by no means an expert and this is merely my own opinion (so if you have anything negative to say about this topic, don’t bother). I’m sure there is a lot already out there by esteemed academics and researchers who can convey my message in a more detailed way, but, if just one person reads this and it has an impact on their decision to hire, promote or expand their workforce then we’re on to a good thing!
37.6% of UK’s management team consists of women.
Whilst data suggests women in senior management positions have increased over the last few years, there is still a significant difference between the genders when it comes to management positions. At Embryo, I’m pleased to say that our management team is 70/30 split. The fact that there is still a shortage of women in senior positions AND that there are discrepancies between salaries is shocking. I asked Hannah Matthewman our marketing manager how she feels about this:
“The gender pay gap is something that surprisingly a lot of businesses still need to acknowledge and work on. Salaries should and must reflect the job and the quality of work that is being done, not the gender of the employee. I feel lucky to be able to work at Embryo, a company that already has a large number of women in managerial positions and is genuinely committed to working towards narrowing the gap further to achieve greater gender equality. “
Black employees hold just 1.5% of senior roles in the UK.
With everything that we have seen and witnessed over the last few months with the BLM movement, this stat alone justifies why we, as business owners, need to do more to ensure we have a diverse workforce. A report by BITC found just 54,900 of the 3.9 million managers, directors and senior officials in the UK are black. Grim truth.
Only recently, Lloyds Banking group published data showing that black members of staff were paid 20% less than their colleagues on average, predominantly resulting from a lack of black staff in higher-earning positions. Whilst they have pledged to improve this, we too, as business owners need to do this.
Your workforce, your team and your environment should reflect the society we all live within and contribute towards.
Sainsbury’s showed us diversity in marketing is needed now, more than ever
We’ve all seen Sainsbury’s 2020 Christmas adverts and the aftermath of racism it generated online. With household brands standing together and supporting their campaign, the ad highlighted that we, as marketers have a responsibility to ensure our campaigns represent the society we live in today.
More diversity is needed in ads. Rather than reinforce gender stereotypes (I’m thinking of perfume/aftershave ads here), we should be creative with what we share and be conscious of the social responsibility we have to ensure campaigns are fair and reflective of our community.
Moving on and upwards
I’m pleased to say that as it stands, Embryo is a diverse and energetic group of individuals who all contribute towards making the agency grow. Recognising talent and rewarding it accordingly goes a long way which is why I am pleased to have recently announced the Embryo People Development Programme. I will do what I can to support my team members and ensure, I, as a Business Owner am harnessing the talents and skills of a diverse team. Can you say the same?
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By Maya Maloney
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The company also has permission to extend Britain’s first hybrid energy park at Fen Farm in Lincolnshire, by adding an additional 5MW of solar capacity.
Hybrid renewable energy parks combine wind and sun generation in the same project, in the same place, using the same grid connection – a more efficient, rounded approach to green energy generation in Britain.
All three projects will see 18,000 solar panels installed with a 5MW capacity, powering over 1,000 homes and each saving nearly 2,000 tonnes of CO2 per year.
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External datasets catalogue
Agri4Cast Data
External Data Spec
External Data Spec Published 22 Jun 2016
Topics: Agriculture Climate change adaptation Water and marine environment
Joint Research Centre (JRC)
Dataset URL:
http://agri4cast.jrc.ec.europa.eu/DataPortal/Index.aspx?o=d
Produced figures
Figure Trend in flowering date of winter wheat This figure shows the rate of change of the flowering date for winter wheat. The annual rate of change of the flowering date represents the trend coefficient for long-term changes in the occurrence of flowering of winter wheat in Europe. For example, a value -0.6 indicates that in last 30 years the winter wheat flowering date has been anticipated on average by 0.6 days per year (6 days in 10 years). The flowering date is derived from crop growth models simulating crop development of winter wheat as a function of the temperature sum. The simulation is based on the JRC-MARS gridded meteorological data at 25 km resolution.
Figure Projected annual rate of change of the crop water deficit of grain maize during the growing season in Europe for the period 2015-2045 for two climate scenarios. Projected annual rate of change of the crop water deficit of grain maize during the growing season in Europe for the period 2015-2045 for two climate scenarios. The crop water deficit is the difference between the crop-specific water requirement (in this case grain maize) and the water available through precipitation. The climate forcing of the two simulations is based on the two global climate models HadGEM2 and MIROC, taken from CMIP5 and bias-corrected by the ISI-MIP project (Warszawski et al., 2014). Crop model simulations have been done with the crop model WOFOST at 25 km resolution. Red colours show an increase of the gap between crop water requirement and water availability, blue colours indicate a reduction of the deficit. Areas where the seasonal crop water requirement exceeds regularly (i.e. in more than 90 % of the years) the water available through precipitation have been marked by hatches. Areas without hatches experience both deficit and surplus or only a surplus of water. In this case, red colours refer to a reduced surplus, while blue colours indicate an increasing surplus of water.
Figure Trend in crop water deficit of grain maize during the growing season Annual rate of change of the crop water deficit of grain maize during the growing season for the period 1985-2014 in Europe. The crop water deficit is the difference between the crop-specific water requirement (in this case grain maize) and available water through precipitation. The simulation is based on the JRC-MARS gridded meteorological data at 25 km resolution. Red colours show an increase of the gap between crop water requirement and the available water, blue colours indicate a reduction of the deficit. Areas where the seasonal crop water requirement exceeds regularly (i.e. in more than 90 % of the years) the available water (through precipitation) have been marked by hatches. Areas without hatches experience both deficit and surplus or only a surplus of water in their crop water balance. In this case, red colours refer to a reduced surplus, while blue colours indicate an increasing surplus of available water.
Figure Trend in the number of frost-free days The annual rate of change of frost-free days represents the trend coefficient for long-term changes in the annual number of days with a minimum daily temperature above 0 °C. For example, a value of 1 indicates that the number of frost-free days has increased on average by 1 day per year in last 30 years (period 1985-2014). The analysis is based on the JRC-MARS gridded meteorological data at 25 km resolution.
Estimated soil erosion by wind on European arable land Soil loss rates by wind (tonnes per hectare per year) on arable land, estimated by the GIS-RWEQ model for 1.17 million cells (of ca. 1 km spatial resolution, into which the arable land of the 28 European Union Member States was subdivided) (Borrelli et al., 2016).
Figure File
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Map 5.15 CCIV 68118-Rate-of-change-of-crop-water_V3.eps
Map4.14-metadata.xls
Map 5.16 CCIV 68119-Projected change in crop water deficit_V3.eps Projected annual rate of change of the crop water deficit of grain maize during the growing season in Europe for the period 2015-2045 for two climate scenarios. The crop water deficit is the difference between the crop-specific water requirement (in this case grain maize) and the water available through precipitation. The climate forcing of the two simulations is based on the two global climate models HadGEM2 and MIROC, taken from CMIP5 and bias-corrected by the ISI-MIP project (Warszawski et al., 2014). Crop model simulations have been done with the crop model WOFOST at 25 km resolution. Red colours show an increase of the gap between crop water requirement and water availability, blue colours indicate a reduction of the deficit. Areas where the seasonal crop water requirement exceeds regularly (i.e. in more than 90 % of the years) the water available through precipitation have been marked by hatches. Areas without hatches experience both deficit and surplus or only a surplus of water. In this case, red colours refer to a reduced surplus, while blue colours indicate an increasing surplus of water.
Map 5.12 CCIC 68040-Projected-changes-in-winter-wheat-yield-v2.eps
Used in indicators
Indicator Specification Crop water demand Trend in crop water deficit for grain maize during the growing period Projected change in the crop water deficit for grain maize during the growing period
Indicator Specification Agrophenology Trend in flowering date for winter wheat
Indicator Specification Growing season for agricultural crops Rate of change in the number of frost-free days per year
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Carahsoft Signs Cyber Security Aggregator Agreement with Broadcom to Better Serve U.S. Government and Public Sector
Agreement Strengthens Strategic Partnership to Provide Best-in-class Customer Experience
/EIN News/ -- RESTON, Va., Jan. 14, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Carahsoft Technology Corp., The Trusted Government IT Solutions Provider®, today announced that it has joined Broadcom’s global cyber security aggregator program (CSAP). The program leverages Carahsoft’s unique purpose-built tools and resources to better serve the U.S. Government and public sector markets and the company’s reseller partners coupled with Broadcom’s leading cyber security solutions. This partnership underscores Broadcom’s continued commitment to developing the public sector channel by leveraging Carahsoft’s expertise as Broadcom’s Master Government Aggregator®.
With over a decade of experience in the government contracting space, Carahsoft is the distributor for both the Symantec and CA Technologies solution sets under Broadcom in the public sector, providing additional value to customers seeking industry leading security or application development and management tools. These solutions are available through Carahsoft’s resellers and integrators on Carahsoft’s GSA Schedule 70, NASA SEWP V, ITES-SW2, NASPO ValuePoint, The Quilt and many other contracts to expand the reach and impact of Broadcom’s solutions across federal, state and local governments and healthcare and educational institutions.
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Amandla Stenberg (The Darkest Minds), Regina Hall (Girls Trip), Russell Hornsby (Fences), KJ Apa (A Dog’s Purpose), Algee Smith (Detroit), Lamar Johnson (Full Out), Isaa Rae (A Bitter Lime), Sabrina Carpenter (Horns), Common (Selma), Anthony Mackie (The Hurt Locker), TJ Wright (film debut), Dominique Fishback (Night Comes On), Megan Lawless (Table 19), Tony Vaughn (Shake)
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Starr Carter (Stenberg) is an African-American teenager who lives in a poor and mostly black neighbourhood, but attends a mostly white and wealthy high school. One night, while she is out having fun with her childhood best friend Khalil (Smith), they are pulled over by a white cop who then shoots and kills Khalil after a misunderstanding. The incident leaves Starr traumatised, and with enormous pressure from her community to find her voice and stand up for racial injustice…
The acclaimed and all-too-timely YA novel is adapted into a staggeringly effective tale of race and inequality, with themes and plot points that ring far too true in today’s society.
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Arpafilm festival in LA focuses on film from Armenia
13TH ARPA INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL IN L.A.
"AGHET, a German View of a Turkish Genocide"
by Alex Deleon, for
ARPA is the name of the river that flows through Yerevan, the capital of the free Armenian Republic, which until 1991 was part of the former Soviet Union. Consequently, it is not surprising that an international film festival so-named is primarily (although not entirely) concerned with the presentation of films from Armenia, films dealing with Armenian topics, and/or films made by Armenians or with Armenian participation in the Diaspora. The Los Angeles area (including the city of Glendale) has possibly the largest concentration of Armenians of any metropolitan area in the world outside of Yerevan itself, and being the home of the Hollywood film industry is the ideal place for Armenian filmmakers to display their wares. What these wares consist of is extremely diverse --as diverse as the Armenia diaspora itself -- and we will come to the films in a moment. But first a few words about the specifics of the Armenian Diaspora.
The historic Armenian homeland, going back to Biblical times, was located in what is now the central and eastern portions of the vast Turkish peninsula, the part known as Anatolia. The Armenians were among the very first nations to accept Christianity en masse and so the Armenian Apostolic church is one of the oldest Christian establishments in the world. When the Turks moved in and conquered the entire peninsula Islam was established as the state religion and the Christian Armenians, now a minority, began to be oppressed, persecuted, and finally "ethnically cleansed" which is to say driven out of Turkey and massacred in the process. The massacres, now officially recognized as the Armenian Genocide, reached a peak in 1915 when some 1.5 million Armenians were either butchered outright by Turkish soldiers or driven from their traditional homes and put on forced death marches through the Syrian desert where most perished. Many did however escape to surrounding countries like Syria Persia and Egypt, while others were able to get on ships to France, America, and even as far as Australia. The section of original Armenia that was just beyond Mount Ararat in Czarist Russia remained intact as a small Armenian state but the Turkish homeland was completely wiped out.
Apart from the Middle East and Iran where large numbers of Armenians are still to be found, the main countries where significant Armenian communities were established were France, the United States, and Canada. All of the latter three countries can boast of major film directors of Armenian descent, as well as actors and musicians --to name only a few: Rouben Mamoulian, of Hollywood, Henri Verneuil (Originally Achod Malakian), France, Atom Egoyan, Canada, and Sergei Parajanov of the USSR --all recognized masters of the craft. Among actors; Akim Tamiroff, Hollywood, Charles Aznavour, actor/singer, France, and Serge Avedikian, 55, French actor/director who was honored at this festival with a life time award.
Armenians in the diaspora have generally prospered and been accepted everywhere as respectable citizens but one very big unresolved issue remains; the continued official denial by Turkey that a genocide of Armenians ever took place and, if a couple million or so Armenians died in a short period of time on Turkish territory, they claim, it was only as the result of wars between Turkey and Russia, with no official collusion on the part of the Turkish government. According to the Turks the Armenians needed to be "resettled" because they were in cahoots with the Russians. Even to mention the word Genocide on Turkey today is a crime against the state punishable by long term imprisonment. France, which has a highly influential Armenian population has officially declared the massacre of Armenians by the Turks in the years 1915 - 1923 as a Genocide and remains strongly opposed to the accession of Turkey to the European Union -- as long as they insist on denying this egregious blot on their history. In contrast, the Obama regime continues to hedge their bets by refusing to call a G. a G. so as not to offend a theoretically friendly Moslem country -- where we have important air bases!
Over the years there have been a number of films addressing themselves to various facets of the genocide, notably Canadian Armenian Atom Egoyan's "Ararat" (Cannes, 2002), and others, but until now there has not been a film specifically addressing the Turkish denial of the Armenian Genocide. Surprisingly such a film now comes from Germany and is made by a German, Eric Friedler. The film in question is a 90 minute documentary entitled "Aghet: ein Völkdermord" (Aghet: a Genocide") where the Armenian word "Aghet" literally means calamity or catastrophe. This film became the centerpiece of the festival and director Friedler was presented with a special award, the Armin T. Wegner Humanitarian Award, established by ARPA in the name of the heroic German of the same name who, as a member of the German sanitary corps in Turkey during WW I, witnessed the massacres of Armenians and became a major German voice of protest against them. He was later arrested by the Gestapo for openly protesting Hitlers anti-Jewish policies but survived internment in several concentration camps.
Raphael Lemkin, a Jewish-Polish emigré lawyer, coined the term "genocide" (Murder of a people) in 1948 and called the mass murder of Armenians in Turkey from 1915 to 1923 "the first systematically executed genocide of the 20th century" -- by implication, the prequel to the genocide of the Jews by the Germans, now known as the "Holocaust", a scant twenty years later. Friedler's film investigates the motivations behind the continued frenzied denials by the Turkish government and the consequences thereof in terms of international foreign policy today. The first screening of this 90 minute documentary took place in Berlin in April of this year where it was attended by German politicians, foreign diplomats, and Armenian community representatives. The method of this film is to bring back to life the actual Words of foreign diplomats, engineers, and missionaries who were there and witnessed the atrocities, their testimony being read by an ensemble of 23 professional German actors narrating the original texts, not in the style of docu-drama where events are re-enacted with semi-fictional dialogue, but as simple interview sessions deriving their power from the integrity of the performances and the power of the words themselves.
Friedler also present the cold facts of current political reality. We see a school in Istanbul named after Talaat Pasha, one of the top butchers of Armenians, a kind of Turkish Heinrich Himmler. Equally harsh on his own country Friedler proves beyond any doubt Germanys complicity in the Genocide. In the film we hear a German Chancellor (long before Hitler) state: "Our only goal was to keep Turkey on our side (in WW I) until the end of the war, regardless of whether or not Armenians perished". Armenians all over the world still cannot comprehend the reason why Turkey to this day keeps denying events that took place over ninety years ago. They feel betrayed by a world that accepts the Turkish interpretation of history. In the Berlin political archives there are over 1000 reports. letters, notes, and essays which the German Reich collected in those years, documents which have been kept hidden all these years to prevent the besmirching of Turkey's international image. Now unearthed they leave no doubt that a horrific genocide had indeed taken place. These are firsthand reports from German and American diplomats, doctors, teachers, and nurses who lived in Turkey and recorded their observations.
Henry Morgenthau, the American ambassador to Turkey at the time, wrote: "These people were ripped from their homes without any reason, and were sent on a march through the desert, Thousands of women and children died on this journey, not only because of hunger and exhaustion, but because of the cruelty of those who were watching over them".
A Swedish missionary nurse named Alma Johansson, (Actress Martina Gedeck) wrote: "Can you comprehend what it means to witness such things and not be able to do anything about it?"
Leslie A. Davis, (Actor Friedrich von Thum) an American consul in Harput at that time wrote: "It was no secret that the Armenians were being killed. But the measures were more horrendous than I had imagined. The streets were filled with dead bodies. The cities were more like morgues, or rather, like slaughter houses. When one sees the killing of innocent, children, mothers, newborns, old men and women, then it is impossible to find a plausible reason that would justify such measures".
All these reports presented in the film, describing in lurid detail the horrific genocide of the Armenians and the incredible brutality of the Turkish (in some cases, Kurdish) murderers, constitute incontrovertible evidence that the official Turkish position today is nothing but one incredibly Big Lie. One non Armenia gentleman I spoke to after the screening said that what impressed him most was that the Turks were far more brutal than the Germans in World War II. (Nailing horse shoes on the feet of live victims!)
What is, perhaps, most significant about this film is that it presents a German view of the Genocide, from a country that is identified with the largest genocide of all time, the Holocaust, but is at least a country which has had the integrity to face up to the horrors of it's own history without "gilding the lily". What is also of special interest is the fact that since Turkey was on the side of Germany in World War I, there were many German military advisers in Turkey at the time of the genocide, who may have rendered a certain logistical assistance to the Turks, and who certainly learned some basic lessons on how to get rid of large numbers of people you don't like, which would be put into practice back home eventually on an even greater scale. It is slightly stomach turning to think that the current America administration finds it convenient not to condemn the Turkish denial of the Armenian genocide because "we have important air bases on Turkish soil". Makes one realize that in international politics Hypocrisy is clearly the Name of the Game.
In any case the film "AGHET -- the story of Genocide" is a film which needs to be widely seen as an eye opener to an issue which is bigger than it seems, because official Genocide denial at the highest levels is not a Turkish monopoly -- there is this funny fellow in Tehran by the name of Ahmedinajad ... for instance.
Tomorrow: Other films of interest at ARPA
"Three evenings", (Armenia) "Five Tales from Kars" (Turkey), etc.
01.10.2010 | Editor's blog
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A New Stanford Study Links 30,000 Cases of COVID-19 to Trump Rallies
Researchers examined the impact of 18 Trump rallies that took place earlier this fall.
By Abigail Covington
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Rallies are the lifeblood of the Trump campaign. Without them, the president would be a shell of himself. They give him energy. But unfortunately, they give his supporters coronavirus. A study by Stanford University economists, released on Friday, concluded that Trump rallies might have caused 30,000 confirmed cases of COVID-19 and 700 deaths. “The communities in which Trump rallies took place paid a high price in terms of disease and death,” wrote the study’s authors.
The study wasn’t based on individual cases that were traced back to particular rallies. Rather, the researchers compared the spread of the virus in areas surrounding the location of 18 rallies that were held between June 20th and September 30th to the spread of the virus in demographically similar locations throughout the country that didn’t host rallies. According to the New York Times, the researchers determined through statistical analysis that the 18 events, “produced increases in confirmed cases of more than 250 per 100,000 residents.” And by “extrapolating that figure to the 18 rallies” they were able to conclude that the events resulted in at least 30,000 cases of COVID-19.
When multiple outlets asked the campaign about the study, Judd Deere, a White House spokesman, dismissed it as “a politically driven model based on flawed assumptions and meant to shame Trump supporters.” Trump campaign spokesperson Courtney Parella added that rally attendees are provided masks and instructed to wear them. “Americans have the right to gather under the First Amendment to hear from the President of the United States, and we take strong precautions for our campaign events,” Parella said. Of course, Trump rarely wears a mask himself, despite contracting COVID-19 earlier this month.
As for whether or not the study is political, the researchers insist it isn’t. Speaking to the New York Times, lead author and chair of Stanford’s economics department B. Douglas Bernheim said, “The motivation for this paper is that there is a debate that is raging about the trade-off between the economic consequences of restrictions and the health consequences of transmission. And as an economist, I take that debate to be both important and appropriate.”
Across the country, local government officials have expressed similar concerns and questions, and previous events have proven their feelings to be warranted. Back in June, Trump held his first rally since suspending his campaign due to the coronavirus in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Within a month of the event, 206 people reported positive COVID-19 results— a record high. The Tulsa rally is now considered by many public health experts to have been a so-called superspreader event. The September nominating ceremony for Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett is another notable source of virus spread. Following that event, at least eight people in attendance tested positive for COVID-19.
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Vol 27 No 13
Search for the meaning of afterlife
Tim Kroenert
A Ghost Story (M). Director: David Lowery. Starring: Rooney Mara, Casey Affleck, Will Oldham. 90 minutes
'Haunting' is an unfortunate cliche to use to describe a film titled A Ghost Story, but it is also apt. American filmmaker Lowery's spooky and emotionally pungent tale doubles as a meditation on human connection — to place, and in relationship to other humans — and on the purported existential limits of human endeavor, that remains vividly with the viewer long after the closing credits roll.
A struggling musician named only as C (Affleck) shares a small suburban home with his wife, M (Mara). From the scant, gentle portrayals of their life together early in the film, we can sense an abiding love, albeit with a skein of disconnection, even discontent. Their shared life is cut short when C is killed in a car accident outside their home; soon after however he returns there in ghostly form.
Silent and invisible to M, the ghost of C (appearing to the viewer as a Halloween-style, white sheet-clad specter) observes his wife in her grief. Time grows elastic; C watches for long minutes as, in mourning, M rapidly devours a pie straight from the pan, until she vomits. Later, weeks and months pass in seconds, as C watches M come and go from the house in the course of daily routine.
Eventually M moves on and moves out, and for a time C, out of angst or boredom, terrorises the young children of a family who moves in after her. Their residency too is transient, and C finds himself listening to a guest at a party (Oldham, named in the credits as 'Prognosticator') thrown by the next inhabitants, as he opines at length upon the futility of human legacy-building in a finite universe.
C is waiting for something; for the meaning of his truncated life, perhaps, and of his marriage to M, to become clear. Divorced from linear perceptions of time, he rushes into the future, to witness the cityscape that eventually replaces the suburban neighbourhood; and then into the past, where he views the aftermath of the massacre of a colonial family by Native Americans on the same site.
"A Ghost Story demands reflection more than explanation."
Amid this in-folding of past, present and future, and the concrete evidence of death and transience located at all points, that talkative partygoer's nihilistic prognostications echo fiercely. But they do not entirely satisfy the truth-seeking C (or the truth-seeker inside each of the film's viewers, for that matter). The power of C's connection to that place refutes meaninglessness unequivocally.
Eventually C returns to the time he and M first arrived at the house. As C ruminates in greater detail on the time they spent together there, the film comes closest to offering answers. They remain, however, suitably opaque. Elegiac, ambiguous and with extended periods of near silence and stillness, A Ghost Story demands reflection more than explanation.
Tim Kroenert is editor of Eureka Street.
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This film sounds like one of those dark, introspective Swedish films. I'd be inclined to see it if only to watch Rooney Mara's performance. I thought she was superb In "Carol".
Pam | 13 July 2017
The meaning of afterlife. 'Ghost Story demands reflection more than explanation'. Perhaps that reflection should start with the Bible presentation in Genesis of God's attitude to the afterlife. God is portrayed as being against it. "Man must not be allowed to stretch out his hand to the tree of life and live forever". Despite this, The prospect of an afterlife has been used by religions to attract followers, often with good effects. But lately we witness that same prospect being used to promote very ungodly acts like terrorism and indiscriminate murders; encouraged by gratuitous promises of eternal rewards; in in order to promote one religious interpretation over others. Without those specious promises perhaps terrorism would vanish like the ghost.
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There could have been no better way to hear this new version than with Robison as soloist and Hugh Wolff conducting the expanded orchestra. Together, they spent “many intense hours this summer,” Robison explained in the program notes, “sorting out the corrections” and consulting with others. “Finally we were able to say that we had recaptured the wildly beautiful work so that we could release it to sing again.”
And sing it did, with evocations of birdsong and passages that swing almost like big bands. I concur with Robison, who says she found color, passion and poetry in the writing. As the flute glided above, the brass flew “like eagles, soaring and swinging through the air.”
Robison took evident pleasure in the music, rocking on her feet and smiling, at times looking off trance-like into space, and applying her superb technique and lovely vibrato to Kirchner’s music. Wolff, who had studied alongside Kirchner at Harvard, “understands the spirit of Leon’s creative output in an extraordinary way”, she wrote.
Originally written in 1977 for Robison, the work was performed before being engraved. Kirchner’s “minuscule and barely readable handwriting” caused the score to languish until Kirchner revised in 1994; it underwent another round of amendments in 2004. Only since Wolff agreed to tackle the manuscript and get it engraved has it emerged as a generally available concert piece. It is sure to find receptive new audiences.
The concert also included two orchestral works with unusual histories. Samuel Barber’s Overture to The School for Scandal is frequently performed around the world but rarely understood as a self-standing composition rather than an introduction to a stage play or opera. Barber merely sought to reflect the humor and character of the original Richard Sheridan comedy.
Barber was only 21 when he completed this overture, his first full-length orchestral effort. Hugh Wolff successfully conveyed the “wit, charm and just a dash of contemporary edginess” that Barber intended.
Hugh Wolff
And yet, with all that fine music in our ears, the true highlight of the evening was a hyper-familiar Franz Schubert Symphony in C Major, the so-called Great Symphony. Conducting from memory and singing discreetly along, Hugh Wolff seemed totally subsumed in the music.
He brought the NEC Philharmonia to the highest standard for this sweeping composition, a work that Schubert never heard performed. From the initial bold horn statement of the theme to the rollicking finale, I felt I was hearing something new. The brass, woodwinds, strings and percussion converged to deliver something beautifully translucent and musically coherent.
Watching Wolff is always part of the experience. Here he danced, crouched, stretched and dug deep with his stick to make this performance his own. The players locked eyes with him and exchanged smiles at certain moments.
It seemed to me that the third movement, the scherzo, gave the strings their greatest workout—perhaps the part that caused the problems in London in 1844. Felix Mendelssohn attempted to introduce an edited-down version of the work to a London audience but the orchestra rejected it as so difficult to be “unplayable”.
Wolff gave a nod of support to his student players by writing in his notes, “What was deemed unplayable two centuries ago is now standard fare for the young musicians on stage tonight.”
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Shell’s reply to court summons in historic climate case shows its stubborn refusal to stop destroying the climate
AMSTERDAM, 12 November 2019
Today Friends of the Earth Netherlands received Shell’s long awaited response to the legal summons demanding it acts on climate change. While lawyers still need to study the 272 page legal document in detail, the response shows that Shell does not intend to meet the plaintiffs’ demands.
Friends of the Earth Netherlands’ Director Donald Pols says, “Shell once again takes no responsibility for the disproportionate role it plays in aggravating the climate crisis. Shell is undermining the world's chances to stay below 1.5°C.”
Other sources indicate that Shell wants to increase oil and gas production by 38% between now and 2030 and will invest up to US$35 billion a year, of which only US$2billion - 3 billion will go towards potentially sustainable energy solutions. Shell’s CEO announced in October 2019 that it has “no choice” but to invest in oil and that "it is entirely legitimate” to do so.
Donald Pols continues, “These facts and Shell's evasive response to our court summons show yet again how urgent and necessary our climate case is. Corporations like Shell – which is among the ten biggest climate polluters worldwide - must take action now. So far, Shell has been working in defiance of the Paris Climate Agreement. Our demand is and remains: no more CO2 emissions after 2050.”
Sara Shaw, Friends of the Earth International Climate Coordinator commented, “This response shows just how little regard Shell has for peoples around the world hardest hit by climate impacts, especially in the global South. Company documents show Shell has known for years that its exploitation of fossil fuels causes climate chaos. In the face of global mobilisations and recognition of the climate crisis, it is inconceivable that Shell executives think business as usual is ok. The case of the People vs Shell is important and necessary to hold Shell to account.’
Friends of the Earth Netherlands and their lawyer Roger Cox are currently studying Shell's response and will work on a substantive reply.
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References and Notes for editors:
On 5 April 2019 Friends of the Earth Netherlands delivered a court summons to Shell to legally compel the company to cease its destruction of the climate, on behalf of more than 30,000 people from 70 countries.
https://www.foei.org/press_releases/climate-legal-summons-submitted-shell
Legal summons summary:
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Legal Summons in full, unofficial translation from Dutch original:
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Interview with Roger Cox, leading lawyer in Friends of the Earth’s case against Shell:
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By Jonathan Ellis
One moment we think we’re the dog’s dirt, the next we’re the dog’s bollocks; it’s amazing what one win can do for confidence, and to the national psyche. This big pendulum swing of opinion was inevitable, and overplayed, as England fans always seem to deal in emotional extremes – as always, the reality is somewhere in between.
Before getting overly optimistic and sanguine, and without being disrespectful, it was ‘only’ Slovenia, and a group game. We shouldn’t have got into a situation where a win was essential and where Slovenia were built up as such formidable opposition – this should have been the leisurely group finale, sauntering around carelessly in the afternoon sun, not the pressure cooker it became. Nevertheless, the pressure was indeed on, and England duly delivered. Moreover, we displayed a pleasing amount of vim and vigour.
The first ten minutes had me anxious that a frustrating old time was again in store, but luckily this was a false alarm and England quickly took hold of the game. With greater urgency and crispness, you could visibly see the confidence, passion and drive returning, and the goal, on 22 minutes, came at an optimum time to settle any anxieties.
Two of Capello’s personnel changes combined as Aston Villa’s James Milner crossed for Tottenham’s Jermain Defoe to swiftly nip ahead of his marker and shoot past (at) the keeper; illustrating the sort of direct and incisive movement that had been previously missing. Certainly, after a nervy first few touches, Milner had an excellent game. Replacing Lennon, he was solid, industrious and provided a variety of dangerous crosses. Defoe didn’t see a great deal of the ball, but when he did he looked sharp and dangerous, his goal encapsulating his instinctive edge. Both certainly did their chances of starting against Germany no harm at all.
Aside from the goal, England carved out chances with far greater regularity and aplomb than shown in the opening games. During the first half, Frank Lampard blasted over and Steven Gerrard went very close with a placed strike from the edge of the area, whilst the opening 25 minutes of the second half saw England pepper the Slovenia penalty area and Rooney hit the post. Certainly, the balance between Lampard and Gerrard – seemingly situated in an interchangeable diamond – worked with more fluidity and Gerrard was able to take up more threatening positions. Personally I felt the Liverpool linchpin was (at last) one of England’s best players. His passing was sharp, he drove forward on occasion and executed some sublime pin-point long-ranged passes. But, the rest of the team also looked good, playing with more passion and attacking freedom.
Of course, it being England, we were left sweating as the second goal didn’t come. One slip up, one bit of fluke, or a Slovenia wonder-goal and England would have crashed out. Hence, we must still learn to really kill a team, and the game, off – be ruthless, be clinical, strike when the irons hot, blah, blah, blah. Luckily, when we needed to defend we did so robustly. West Ham’s Matthew Upson and Chelsea’s John Terry formed a reasonable partnership as both looked sturdy and both made some vital blocks. Upson’s sliding block came late on with precision timing, Terry’s was beautiful. Standing the striker up, he threw himself in front of the shot exactly when required, before the real brilliance was displayed – lunging head-first to try and prevent another effort on goal. This lunge, this beautiful beautiful lunge, was chest beating, lion roaring poetry. Lastly, David James deserves a mention. He was steady, reliable and collected, letting nothing bobble stray; the calming influence the defence needed and benefited from.
So, overall, a good display. They needed a kick up the backside, they were given one and they delivered. Everyone will probably now be exalting our inevitable World Cup triumph and we need to remember it was only 1-0 against Slovenia. Nevertheless, England did what was required, under pressure and with confidence. This slow start and building momentum could clearly benefit, and England always seem to blossom with backs against the wall. USA’s late goal means the more treacherous road is to be taken. We’d of course like to optimise our chances of progression and meet the ‘big boys’ later on, but you’ve got to face them at some point, and that point comes on Sunday against the old adversary…
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2020 Friends Scholar Grant Recipients!
We are proud to announce the recipients of our 2020-2021 Friends of Semel Research Scholar Grants. Our Friends Scholars are at the forefront of new discoveries about the mind and brain in sickness and in health. The findings from their groundbreaking research will contribute to finding new treatments that improve and save the lives of people who live with mental illness.
These outstanding early career scientists were chosen from a highly competitive pool of candidates. A panel of Semel Institute scientists rigorously reviewed their proposals for original research studies. The members of The Friends of Semel Board of Directors interviewed the finalists and chose the recipients.
Chloe Boyle, Ph.D.
“Social Phobia at the Nexus of Inflammation-Induced Reward Dysregulation”
A Post-Doctoral Fellow at the Norman Cousins Center for Psychoneuroimmunology, Dr. Boyle's research aims to characterize psychobiological mechanisms underlying risk and resilience to onset and recurrence of depressive disorders.
Gil Hoftman, M.D., Ph.D.
“Imaging transcriptomics: Markers of disrupted glutamate and GABA neurotransmission across phases of illness in early psychosis”
A senior psychiatry resident at UCLA, Dr. Hoftman's research aims to integrate genetic, molecular, and neuroimaging approaches to understand typical brain development and psychosis risk. Dr. Hoftman will use transcriptomics data imaging to define the relationship between MRi and molecular markers that characterize clinical high-risk youth who subsequently develop psychosis.
Cory Inman, Ph.D.
“Cognitive Neuroscience of Navigation and Episodic Memory in the Wild”
A post-doctoral fellow in the lab of 2015 Friends of Semel Scholar recipient, Dr. Nanthia Suthana, Dr. Inman's proposed research project will use mobile recording and stimulation of deep brain activity in large-scale, real-world environments. This study will launch and accelerate an emerging and pivotal area of research that will provide therapeutic interventions for patients afflicted with life-debilitating cognitive disorders such as Alzheimer's or dementia.
Marc J. Weintraub, Ph.D.
“A Technology-Enhanced Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Adolescents at Risk for Serious Mental Illness”
A post-doctoral fellow, Dr. Weintraub's research focuses on the course, risk factors, and psychosocial treatment of mood and psychotic disorders. He is particularly interested in the high risk stages of these disorders in youth, as this period provides a unique opportunity to intervene early and possibly affect the onset of these illnesses. Dr. Weintraub plans to develop an app using Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) techniques to remotely provide session by-session content, interactive skill practice, and symptom monitoring for patients.
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Home > Legal Developments—Oregon > Oregon’s Third Special Session of 2020 Recap: Landlord Assistance and Residential Eviction Moratorium, School Liability Limitations, and Cocktails To-Go
By Brianna Wellman on January 8, 2021 Posted in Housing, Legal Developments—Oregon
The Oregon Legislature closed out 2020 with its third special session of the year, passing four bills aimed to provide relief to Oregonians affected by the COVID-19 pandemic and wildfires. The contents of those bills are summarized below.
HB 4401: Residential Eviction Moratorium and Landlord Assistance
Directs Oregon Housing and Community Services (OHCS) to provide grants to landlords for 80 percent of unpaid rent between April 1, 2020 and June 30, 2021, provided that landlords complete an application detailing all unpaid rent from qualified tenants and an agreement to forgive 20 percent of the outstanding unpaid rent.
Directs OHCS to distribute rent assistance to recipients of CARES Act Grants, who will make payments directly to landlords upon tenant’s applications.
Prohibits eviction without cause until June 30, 2021. Requires landlord to provide tenant with notice of their right to submit a declaration of financial hardship, which must be made under penalty of perjury. Requires court to dismiss eviction action before end of grace period based solely on nonpayment of rent if tenant declares financial hardship or landlord fails to provide tenant with notice of rights.
For tenants declaring financial hardship:
Extends emergency period, end of grace period, and prohibits eviction for nonpayment until June 30, 2021.
Requires payment of past due rent by July 1, 2021.
Prohibits landlords from charging late fees for nonpayment of rent between April 1, 2020 and June 30, 2021.
For tenants not declaring financial hardship:
Extends emergency period to December 31, 2020 and extends grace period to March 31, 2021.
Prohibits eviction for nonpayment until March 31, 2021.
Requires payment of past due rent by March 31, 2021.
Prohibits landlord from charging late fees for nonpayment of rent between April 1, 2020 and March 31, 2021.
HB 4402: School Liability Limitation
Prohibits claims for damages related to COVID-19 infection suffered from acts or omission of a school district if the act or omission was performed in the course of operating an education program and the school district was in compliance with COVID-19 emergency rules in effect at the time of the act or omission.
Excludes reckless, wanton, and intentional misconduct.
Excludes causes of action and remedies for claims arising from laws relating to state worker safety and health, workers’ compensation, and state and federal leave and wage, discrimination or retaliation, or specialized instruction.
SB 1801: Cocktails To-Go
Allows holders of full on-premises sales licenses to sell and deliver mixed drinks or single serving of wine for off-premises consumption, if sold in a sealed container.
Limits number of beverages to two per substantial food item.
Limits fees charged to restaurants by a third-party food platform based on whether the option for delivery is offered. Prohibits third-party platform from reducing rate of compensation paid to an individual making deliveries or from garnishing their gratuities as a result of the fee limitation.
The Oregon Liquor Control Commission’s temporary administrative rules can be found at OAR 845-006-0399.
SB 5731: Budget Bill
Appropriates $100 million to the Emergency Fund for general purposes.
Establishes new special purpose General Fund appropriation of $400 million for COVID-19.
Establishes new special purpose General Fund appropriation of $100 million for wildfire recovery, prevention, and preparedness.
Appropriates $150 million to fund grant program for residential landlords and $50 million for rental assistance payments, as described in HB 4401.
The Joint Committee also considered SB 1803, which was to provide liability limitations for healthcare facilities, but the bill did not receive the requisite number of votes to move beyond the committee.
Throughout the one-day session, members of the Joint Committee expressed concerns with a number of policy aspects of the bills described above. However, given time constraints, the bills moved forward without further discussions or amendments with an understanding that amendments may be considered in the upcoming regular session beginning later this month.
Tags: COVID-19, Oregon, Oregon Legislature, special session
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Lordstown Motors Signs Licensing Deal With Elaphe Propulsion Technologies for In-Wheel Motors for its Electric Endurance Pickup
【Summary】Electric truck startup Lordstown Motors Corp (LMC), a company that’s targeting the commercial truck market with its fully-electric vehicles, announced that its signed an exclusive licensing deal with Elaphe Propulsion Technologies, a developer of in-wheel electric motors.
Eric Walz May 12, 2020 10:35 AM PT
author: Eric Walz
The Lordstown Motors Endurance pickup will use in-wheel electric motors supplied by Elaphe Propulsion Technologies.
Electric truck startup Lordstown Motors Corp (LMC), a company that's targeting the commercial truck market with its fully-electric vehicles, announced that its signed an exclusive licensing deal with Elaphe Propulsion Technologies, a developer of in-wheel electric motors.
Ohio-based LMC is a manufacturer (OEM) of light duty electric fleet vehicles. The company was founded by CEO Steve Burns with the purpose of transforming Ohio's Mahoning Valley and Lordstown, Ohio into the epicenter of electric-vehicle manufacturing.
LMC moved into the former General Motors Lordstown assembly factory after GM shuttered the facility when it stopped making the Chevy Cruze.
Elaphe is a Ljubljana, Slovenia-based developer of high-tech propulsion technology for the auto industry. The company will supply its Model L-1500 Endurance In-Wheel Motor which will be used in the Lordstown Endurance pickup.
LMC's Endurance electric pickup is being purposefully designed to serve the commercial truck market as the first production vehicle that utilizes a 4-wheel-drive hub-motor system, a design that reduces the number of moving parts.
In addition to providing the technology for the in-wheel hub motors, Elaphe will also provide engineering support, technical assistance and consulting services.
"Our relationship with Elaphe goes back over a decade, and their commitment to Lordstown Motors Corp. and passion for the Lordstown Endurance is stronger than ever," said Burns.
"The caliber of work they've produced is some of the best and most innovative in the industry; we're proud of the work we've done together up to this point and enthusiastic about what's to come."
To make production more efficient, the in-wheel motors for Lordstown vehicles will be built by its own employees at the company's Ohio headquarters.
Initial set-up of the 20,000 square foot production line, which Elaphe will help manage and support, has already begun at the Lordstown factory. Lordstown Motors will begin using the new lines within the next 6 months for beta testing and pre-production vehicles.
The project is expected to take 9 months to reach full production capacity.
In-Wheel Electric Motors
Unlike a typical electric vehicle design found in Tesla models that used an axle to transfer torque to the wheel hubs, the in-wheel motor design integrates the electric motors into the wheel hubs and doesn't require the use of an axle shaft bolted to a wheel hub.
The L-1500 in-wheel electric motor is the most powerful compact in-wheel motor ever produced, according to Elaphe. Each 370 volt electric motor produces a continuous torque of 650 Nm (480 ft lbs), with a peak power output of 110 kW (~150 horsepower), without using any gears. The L1500 in-wheel motor is compatible with all drive layouts, such as rear wheel drive, front wheel drive and four-wheel drive vehicles.
Elaphe's in-wheel motor also includes an integrated standard disc brake, a standard outer caliper and a standard hub bearing. It's built for high-power requirements.
"While most vehicle manufacturers are focusing merely on catching up and competing with legacy electric powertrain technologies pioneered decades ago by pure-EV OEMs, Lordstown is making a giant leap forward by building its vehicles around the needs of their users and not around the traditional powertrain-integration-imposed tradeoffs," says Gorazd Lampič, Elaphe CEO.
"We strongly believe that the packaging, modularity, redundancy and advanced functions of vehicle control that Elaphe hub motors enable are key to delivering torque in the way a true 4WD should be done."
LMC is among a new crop of electric truck startups including Rivian, Nikola Motor Company and Workhorse Group that are looking to transform the traditional gas-powered pickup truck and SUV, two of the most popular vehicle categories in the U.S. LMC however, is targeting the commercial market with its Endurance pickup.
Some of these new EV startups are forming partnerships with automakers to jumpstart the development of fully-electric vehicles.
Both the Ford Motor Company and e-commerce giant Amazon are investors in Rivian. Amazon ordered 100,000 electric delivery vehicles from Rivian that it will use as part of its fleet. Ford tapped Rivian to co-develop its first electric model under the luxury Lincoln nameplate, however that agreement was axed eariler this month due to the coronavirus pandemic and uncertain economic climate.
Electric automaker Tesla is also getting inot the eletric truck segment with its Cybertruck.
LMC is one of the few EV startups with its own assembly factory. The company announced in Nov 2019 it acquired GM's former 6.2 million square foot Lordstown assembly plant in Lordstown.
A year earlier, the Detroit-based automaker announced plans to close four U.S. plants including its Lordstown facility, which produced the Chevy Cruze. The move was part of GM's shift to building more profitable SUVs and pickups and trim expenses.
GM made a $40 million loan available to LMC to help the budding start-up buy its shuttered plant in order to start building electric trucks. The Endurance pickup will be manufactured and assembled at the Lordstown Facility.
General Motors sold its shuttered Lordstown, Ohio assembly plant to Lordstown Motor Corp in 2019. The factory is being converted to build electric vehicles.
Lordstown engineers have set out to re-invent the electric vehicle. LMC said it set out with a goal to make its Endurance pickup truck the safest, most economical, and greenest electric pickup truck ever built.
The Lordstown Endurance is engineered to be lightweight, with all-wheel drive and a low center of gravity, while maintaining sufficient ground clearance. The electric trucks are also more reliable with lower maintenance costs compared to traditional pickup trucks, making it an ideal vehicle for fleet use.
The Endurance pickup is designed with fleet friendly features, such as an onboard power generator that allows workers to use power tools at the job site without the need for a portable generator or leaving the truck running.
Elaphe Propulsion Technologies was founded in 2006 with a mission to bring in-wheel powertrain solutions to the automotive mass market. A major part of Elaphe's portfolio is its high torque-density in-wheel propulsion technology. The patented in-wheel electric motors can be tailored to fit most vehicle configurations, seamlessly integrating with most vehicle suspension and steering setups.
In addition to being a supplier, Elaphe supports licensing its technology, so OEMs can take advantage of the company's internal manufacturing capacity to produce powertrains for their own vehicle programs.
Financial terms of the deal are not being disclosed.
Eric Walz
Originally hailing from New Jersey, Eric is a automotive & technology reporter covering the high-tech industry here in Silicon Valley. He has over 15 years of automotive experience and a bachelors degree in computer science. These skills, combined with technical writing and news reporting, allows him to fully understand and identify new and innovative technologies in the auto industry and beyond. He has worked at Uber on self-driving cars and as a technical writer, helping people to understand and work with technology.
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The Menuhin Festival, Gstaad regularly issues composition commissions. With its about 20,000 visitors and some 45 concerts it is one of the largest music festivals in German-speaking Switzerland. Jointly with the Schleswig Holstein Music Festival in 2015 a commission is to be issued to the Briton Anthony Turnage which will be supported by the Ernst von Siemens Music Foundation. The work will be premiered in August with the soloists Patricia Kopatchinskaja and Sol Gabetta under the baton of Kristjan Järvi. Born in 1960 the composer says the following about his new work:
“Dialogue is a lyrical double concerto for violin and cello soloists accompanied by strings and percussion. The overall feeling is simple and light with rhythms close to folk music. The opening pair of movements are fairly short, the first being an argument between the two soloists while the second is a poignant love duet. The last movement is a set of variations which is more expansive in scope and lasts as long as the first two movements combined. The language is at times tonal with each variation moving in different key areas working up to an emphatic climax and concluding with a very lyrical coda.”
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In this experience, students identify contributions made by Texans to science and technology. Students learn about three Texas leaders in the field of medicine: Michael DeBakey, Denton Cooley, and Benjy Brooks. Then they work in groups to conduct research on famous Texas scientists and inventors. Finally, they analyze how innovation builds interdependence between Texas and the world.
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Case Studies: Giving Brand Packaging a Face-lift
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Beauty packaging is setting the standard for most retail brand packaging design, even where the product is not necessarily beauty-related. With a focus on aesthetics, the beauty industry has greatly impacted the visceral draw of products, especially for those brands that are more geared toward the female consumer.
A case in point, Hustler designed its new adult toy line and packaging with a cosmetic sensibility, giving the once dated and explicit brand a much needed face-lift with a chic and accessible new look. Hustler made its product packaging stylish and mainstream, while still maintaining the core brand’s rebellious reputation.
The products are marketed more as necessary luxuries rather than taboo items people should feel shy about. It was important for the packaging to reflect beauty and elegance, while steering away from nudity or explicit language.
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Now, the packaging features an altogether new product personality unlike any other product in its industry. Hustler suggests a pleasure workout, listing the calories per hour that each activity might burn.
Three separate collections were created for the line: Beginner, Intermediate and Professional. This would make the products feel less daunting to those new to this category of products, while encouraging exploration for those with more experience. In addition, retailers could choose to feature all three collections or select lines that were more appropriate for their consumer base. The products themselves were inspired by the latest trends, colors and industry innovations. With a selected color palette ranging from blues to purples, pinks and reds, the brand would feel bold yet playful. Just like a woman might select a lipstick shade based on her mood, a woman could also choose a product color that reflected her mood. Customers are encouraged to mix, match, accessorize and create custom sets based on their color/mood choice.
Black and silver were the primary colors used in the packaging, giving it a clean and stylish feel. The line features different types of packaging depending on the product. The higher priced items or those with accessories and additional parts were packaged in streamlined boxes with a semi-translucent cover so the product could be easily viewed.
The basic and more moderately priced items were packaged in thick plastic zip-top bags for hang display. This would drive impulse purchasing, encouraging customers to buy the same product in multiple colors.
Since its launch, the line has been very successful and has even started new industry trends. The brand’s tagline continues to “convert” new members everyday: “Be adventurous, feel liberated and relax, it’s just sex.”
Los Angeles-based startup Echo Beverages also took cues from the simple elegance of beauty packaging to drive its brand identity. Echo is positioned as an environmentally responsible bottled water company with a focus on local production and distribution, featuring 100% recyclable bottles made from 100% recycled plastic. The packaging had to mesh with the company’s staunch eco-responsible philosophy.
The logo, bottles and all corresponding packing were designed with simplicity in mind. In addition to conveying the company’s philosophy, the bottle had to also sell the product itself, amid shelves of bottled water competitors. Featuring a slim label and nothing else, the bottle’s sheer simplicity allows it to stand out. Clean, modern and responsible, the blue and green color palette evokes the purity of the water, while the design of the packaging also keeps waste to an absolute minimum. The removable label was designed to save time and effort at recycling facilities, and the brand encourages the consumer to peel the easily removable label before putting the bottle in a recycling bin.
The labels were printed in a carbon neutral, FSC-certified, 100% wind-powered facility. The name of the brand, like the arrows in the logo emphasize how efficiently Echo uses all of its resources. The brand’s tagline itself states Echo is “simple, local and responsibly packaged.”
Since Echo’s launch, it has seen much success throughout all of Los Angeles, including being picked up by Whole Foods Markets. As for the beauty industry itself, there is a growing importance placed on the packaging to drive the brand, as well as consideration of the materials used to create the packaging. Coola Suncare, a San Diego-based company, launched a sun protection line positioned as all natural, organic and cruelty-free in 2002, and recently released its newest line, Environmental Repair Plus—comprised of three products designed to reverse the damage caused not just by the sun, but also by other environmental stressors such as pollutants, toxins and dust.
To communicate the purity of the product line, the packaging was designed to showcase simplicity. Featuring a pure white box with green accent, each product highlights an image of one of the showcased ingredients. For example, Calm Glow Eye Gel shows three delicate pink rose petals representing the rose flower water ingredient utilized to help soothe and tone delicate skin around eyes. The Fresh Relief Face Serum features an image of green alfalfa sprouts, an extract used to fight wrinkles and improve skin’s elasticity and collagen production.
As the products themselves are eco-consciously developed and produced, the packaging materials, inks and their production had to follow suit. All of the packaging is made from recycled paper and is 100% recyclable. In addition, all of the products are created at the company’s solar-powered lab.
As packaging plays an increasingly vital role in brand development, there is a shift toward more aesthetic creativity, as well as an emergence of more eco-friendly packaging materials and production. Reinforcing a brand’s philosophy through packaging gives consumers a more practical understanding of the product and the brand, therefore greatly increasing the chances of the company’s success in an exceedingly competitive market.
A graduate of Art Center Pasadena and founder of Ferroconcrete, Yolanda “Yo” Santosa began her career designing main titles for film and television projects such as 300, Desperate Housewives and Ugly Betty. Her love of storytelling grew into a fascination for branding, leading her to develop Ferroconcrete as a unique, full-service branding and motion design firm. She also is the creator of her own retail brand—früute (www.fruute.com), a contemporary West Hollywood pastry shop serving handcrafted mini tarts. She has earned three Emmy nominations and is a national guest speaker and branding expert.
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Teams ready for Asia Cup qualifiers
Fri, 27 Nov 2020 Fri, 27 Nov 2020
The November window of Fiba Asia Cup 2021 qualifiers will open today in Bahrain.
Bahrain Basketball Association (BBA) is organising the four-day qualifiers at the Khalifa Sports City in Isa Town in an empty stadium in compliance with the precautionary measures and health protocols for combating the coronavirus (Covid-19).
Bahrain is hosting the games in groups A and D. Group A teams are Korea, Philippines, Indonesia, and Thailand, while Group D features Bahrain, Iraq, Lebanon, and India.
Bahrain’s game against Iraq at 7pm will be preceded by two matches – between India and Lebanon at 1pm and between the Philippines and Thailand at 4pm.
The national squad has already beat India at home before losing to Lebanon in Beirut. The team is being trained by national coach American Sam Vincent and his assistants Ayoub Hajji and Ayman Hamza.
The Bahrain squad comprises Ahmed Salman, Mohammed Hussein, Mohammed Kuwaid, Maitham Jameel, Mohammed Qurban, Ahmed Najaf, Mohammed Amir, Muzammel Amir, Hesham Sarhan, Mohammed Nasser and C.J Guilez.
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November 15 / Gerard Butler Fan Club / Film Review
The Phantom of the Opera Film Review
The Phantom of the Opera is based on the long running stage show by Andrew Lloyd Webber, which is an adaptation from the Gaston Leroux novel. The idea of a film adaptation was suggested as early as 1988, but took until 2004 to come to fruition.
The plot is centered around a Parisian Opera House ‘The Opéra Populaire’ during the 1870s. The story told via flashbacks.
The Opera House is under new management of Gilles André (Simon Callow) and Richard Firmin (Ciaran Hinds soon to be seen in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows) when the leading lady, Opera Diva Carlotta Giudicelli (Minnie Driver of The Rishes television series), quits the show allowing a young chorus girl Christine (Emmy Rossum) to step up into limelight to take her place.
Unknown to everyone except her foster mother Madame Giry (Miranda Richardson) Christine has been tutored musically for years by an unseen “Angel of Music” whom she mistakenly believes to be the spirit of her father.
The unseen is tutor is The Phantom of the Opera (Gerard Butler) a disfigured musical genius who haunts the catacombs beneath the Opéra Populaire. He was smuggled there by a young Madame Giry as a child and has lived there in isolation from the world. The music from the opera House was his only connection to the world outside. He even demands a box to be left empty at every performance so that he may watch it.
The Phantom’s connection with Christine develops into an obsession when Raoul (Patrick Wilson) shows a love interest in Christine. The Phantom’s jealous nature leads to him murder. The situation spirals out of control resulting in his abduction of Christine during a show.
The daughter of Madame Giry, Meg (Jennifer Ellison) leads the police to the catacombs to find her. Raoul precedes them and tries to save Christine. Unfortunately winds up at the Phantom’s mercy.
Christine is forced to choose between them. She chooses Raoul. She does kiss the Phantom showing him that she does care for him, just not how he would desire. He allows them to escape in a small rowboat. The Phantom of the Opera smashes his mirrors and disappears leaving his iconic mask behind him for Meg to find.
The film then cuts back to an elderly Raoul visiting Christine’s grave to find a rose tied with a ribbon and a ring that the phantom had given to Christine. This implies the Phantom never let go of her.
This is a lovingly delivered film, which is fairly close to the stage show. There a few extra scenes.
For example the fall of the chandelier being moved to the finale instead of the end of the first act.
It’s opulence and visually stunning sets are coupled with excellent performances from the cast. The actors sang well, except Minnie Driver who was dubbed. However she did perform a specially written song in the credits.
Gerard Butler as the Phantom gives a compelling dark performance as an actor and a singer. His former experience as a lead singer in a rock band called Speed may have helped him in delivering such a strong performance.
Favourite Phantom of The Opera Moment:
Gerard Butler kissing Emmy Rossum
Phantom of The Opera Movie Trivia
Actors considered for the role of the Phantom included John Travolta, Antonio Banderas and the original stage phantom Micheal Crawford.
Although Gerard Butler comes from a musical background, he took personal singing lessons for this film.
Gerard Butler had to endure hours of make-up to create his disfigured appearance, but to add this Gerry had a string tied below his eye to make it to appear more pronounced when the mask was pulled down. An in joke amongst the cast, would be to pull on it between takes.
Phantom of The Opera Film Release Dates:
USA 21 December 2004
UK 10 December 2004
Phantom of The Opera UK Film Premiere date:
UK 06 Dec 2004
Film Director : Joel Schumacher
Film Cast : Gerard Butler, Emmy Rossum, Patrick Wilson, Minnie Driver, Miranda Richardson, Simon Callow, Ciaran Hinds.
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Joe Osei Owusu Unhappy with MPs over ‘Empty’ Parliament
The First Deputy Speaker of Parliament, Joe Osei Owusu wants Members of Parliament (MPs) to attach some sense of urgency to the business of the House.
According to him, the practice where most MPs register their attendance to the House but do not stay in the Chamber does not augur well for work in the House.
Business in the House in the course of the week had to be suspended twice due to a lack of quorum, thus affecting work on the popular Right to Information (RTI) Bill.
Addressing the matter in Parliament on Friday, Joe Osei Owusu who is also the MP for Bekwai called for a change of attitude.
“Members ought to take the work of the house seriously…it’s to all members. If you look at the votes and proceedings, you will find that over 100 members are recorded to be present. For me, it is that part which is frustrating. Members are on the paper present but they are sitting in their offices, and they are not coming here. So I must also advise that if a quorum is raised again, I will apply the rules,” he added.
85 MPs absented themselves from parliament without permission – Report
Many have complained about some MPs seeming apathy to the work of Parliament as they continue to absent themselves for sittings.
Ministers of State who double as Members of Parliament were the worst culprits of absenteeism without permission during the First and Second sittings of the Seventh Parliament, 2017.
The Ministers, including deputies, absented themselves from at least 15 sittings without the permission of the Speaker of Parliament.
This was contained in a report by Odekro; a civil society organization focused on activities of the legislature.
According to the report, the guilty MPs consisted of 18 Ministers and 21 Deputy Ministers.
Speaker meets ’empty’ Parliament; scolds MPs for lateness
The Speaker of Parliament, Prof. Mike Oquaye, in October 2017 was angry at Members of Parliament for being late for meetings of the House.
His comments followed the presence of fewer than five MPs on their seats, at the time proceedings were scheduled to begin at 10:00 am.
Disappointed by the emptiness of the House, Prof. Oquaye rebuked the MPs and charged leaders of the House to get members on the floor to do business on time, saying the taxpayers do not expect lateness from them.
“Our people who pay us expect that work should be done, so let us at least take the opportunity to see how we can contain the situation to ameliorate the problem rather than taking advantage of it and going home,” he added.
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Hideo Kojima's Worldwide Tech Tour Sparks Existential Beard Crisis
"Take back everything that we have lost."
By Tamoor Hussain on January 21, 2016 at 8:02AM PST
Earlier this week legendary video game designer Hideo Kojima and scary-smart PS4 architect Mark Cerny embarked on a tour to see the biggest and best video game developers in the world.
Kojima recently founded a new studio and is currently trying to familiarise himself with technology on the bleeding edge of game development.
To what end? We're not exactly sure. It seems he's on some sort of vision quest. It's kind of like Easy Rider but with less drugs (probably) and more expensive cameras.
Thus far, Kojima and Cerny have met with Star Wars: The Force Awakens director JJ Abrams and they visited Sony's motion-capture studio in San Diego to see the tech used for Naughty Dog's The Last of Us. They also had dinner with Hollywood veteran Kyle Cooper.
The latest leg of his tour took him to see Sucker Punch, the studio behind the Infamous series. While there he discussed what type of Star Wars underwear he was wearing with studio founder Brian Fleming (and probably some other stuff too).
Both of these guys were bragging about wearing STAR WARS underpants! lol Brian had Chewbacca & HK had Darth Vader. pic.twitter.com/T6dReRRjFv
— Ayako (Touchy!) (@Kaizerkunkun) January 21, 2016
But it seems Kojima's adventure is as much a journey of self-discovery as a tech scouting trip. Among all this, somewhat unexpectedly, he turned to his loyal fans on Twitter and asked if he should shave his beard.
Should I shave?
— HIDEO_KOJIMA (@HIDEO_KOJIMA_EN) January 21, 2016
This is a rare moment of uncertainty for Kojima, who until now has always portrayed himself as a confident visionary, ever with his finger on the pulse, tirelessly leading the charge in creating innovative, creative video games.
During his tenure at Konami, Kojima delivered numerous critically acclaimed Metal Gear games, rising through the ranks to eventually become the gaming legend he's revered as today. Throughout this, he's been clean shaven (see below for evidence).
Pictured: Kojima
But the tumultuous development of Metal Gear Solid V, during which he reportedly clashed with upper management, seemed to have sparked a shift in identity.
When he reappeared in December to announce a partnership with Sony, he looked to be a rougher, more rugged version of himself, complete with a barely contained grimace and the kind of beard a drug lord develops when trying to evade a manhunt.
Pictured: Punished Kojima
This journey seems to be having a profound impact on Kojima. At the risk of reading too deeply into his tweet this may be a sign that this trip is about more than just finding cool new technology to use in the creation of his new game. This may be a cleansing ritual undertaken to purge the old demons and begin anew.
Anyways, there's still a few more days left on his tour and we'll be sure to keep you updated on where he is and the state of his beard. Also I don't know if you know this, but Deadly Premonition creator Swery has ridden an elephant and a tiger. What a guy.
I ride on elephant when I was 22 years old. And ride on tiger at 30, ride on camel at 31. What should I ride next on?
— SWERY (@Swery65) January 21, 2016
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Why can't we get a decent giant monster game?
By David Roberts 09 October 2015
Some of my fondest memories as a kid involved heading to an arcade, getting a few dollars from my parents, and plunking a few tokens into some games. One of my favorites was Rampage, which put you in the shoes of one of three humans who find themselves transformed into a building-sized caricature of a famous movie monster.
The concept is immediately familiar to anyone who has seen even the briefest of clips from a Godzilla or King Kong movie: as one of these giant monsters, it is your job to level every skyscraper, swat every helicopter, and eat every human in sight. Your mundane life as a pencil-pusher for some faceless corporation is but a distant memory - the only thing your monster brain understands is destruction. Slowly punching out the supports of a building, then watching it crumble to the ground, provided a thrill few games at the time could match.
You'd think getting to play as a giant monster to wreak havoc on an unsuspecting populace would be a relatively common power fantasy for video games. But it's not. The first Godzilla flick may have been a poignant commentary about the consequences of nuclear energy, but that's not why they made a God-zillion of those movies - it's because it's a ton of fun to watch monsters duke it out in populated urban centers while people-shaped specks run screaming. And it's something that modern video games have trouble getting right.
A good giant monster game is able to provide a few important things: a phenomenal sense of scale, an ability to destroy everything in the environment, and sense of weight and impact from the monster's moveset. Helicopters, tanks, puny humans with their rifles and rocket launchers - these things are mere trifles for a giant monster. You should be able to bat them out of the sky with a swipe of your scaly hands, or better yet, be able to grab and hurl them at your opponent, who is an equally large monstrosity with its own set of unique powers. Levels need to be spread out enough that there's room to maneuver without getting caught in the environment, but dense enough that something is getting broken no matter what. And they need to be flashy - lots of explosions, sparks, and crumbling debris. In short, the idea is to take the mindless entertainment of Pacific Rim, with its giant robots, screen-filling kaiju, and explosive action sequences, and convert that into an interactive experience. Apparently, this is much harder than it sounds.
Evolve attempted to give players control of a hulking, unstoppable beast, but it wasn't as successful as it could have been. Playing as the monster in Evolve should be great, as you devour local wildlife to grow and gain more powers. Instead, you're stuck running and hiding from piddly little hunters in between snacks. It's a neat concept, but it's all ultimately a bit wasted when you're going up against something so small. Playing as a hunter is thrilling because you're going up against a foe much bigger and stronger than you, and you have to coordinate with your friends to slowly wear it down - when the tables are flipped, the experience falls flat.
Then there's recent travesty Godzilla, which fails spectacularly in nearly every respect. It might be a comprehensive history of everything Godzilla, but not unlike the giant lizard, it's a slow, cumbersome beast, and feels more like an attempt to cash in on a Hollywood blockbuster a year too late rather than an actual attempt at making an adaptation worthy of the legendary movie monster. It also looks like a PS2 game, but not in a good way - its levels are sparse, and while Godzilla can flatten buildings with his laser breath, all of his moves lack that 'oomph' you'd expect from a proper modern console title.
Lately, it seems like games just can't get this whole mega-monster thing right, when they even attempt to do it at all. But when they do get it right, they provide excitement few other experiences can match. Take War of the Monsters: developed for the PS2 by the studio that made Twisted Metal: Black, War of the Monsters is one big love letter to the best and worst B-movies of yore. Combat is swift, each of its varied monsters has an assortment of special attacks that would fit right in a Ray Harryhausen movie, and buildings crumble into dust as two titans clash across an array of environments.
Hell, even Godzilla got it right with Destroy All Monsters Melee. Far from the lumbering pace of the recent PS4 title, Godzilla: DAMM is a snappy one-on-one fighting game that pits iconic Japanese monster movie villains against each other. It's a throwback to arcade classics like King of the Monsters, and it doesn't just nail the authenticity of the various moves and characters from the Toho classics; it's also a highly entertaining brawler in its own right.
Both are successful in providing the thrill that comes from levelling an entire city, of combating strange otherworldly forces with an equally powerful monster, in ways that Evolve or the recent Godzilla game just can't. That's not to say developers couldn't pull it off in 2015, if Hollywood is any indication. The schlocky Pacific Rim and the more serious Godzilla reboot were hundred-million dollar productions, and were both hugely profitable endeavors and highly entertaining - not too shabby for movies about dudes in dinosaur costumes with visible zippers fighting over cardboard box-shaped skyscrapers. Their success gives me hope that these similar experiences can translate to into a modern, big budget video game.
Imagine something with, say, the destructive capabilities of Battlefield 4 or the upcoming Crackdown 3, but instead of playing as the wimpy human with your impotent pea shooters, you're a monstrous beast shoving scenery around like it was made out of paper. The power of these new consoles can allow developers to create a physics-based wonderland, granting players the opportunity to live out their wildest giant monster fantasies. War of the Monsters and Godzilla: Destroy All Monsters Melee both nailed the feel of playing as a giant monster, but they're held back by the consoles they were made for. Now, imagine them being filled with thousands of tiny people running around, hundreds of tanks and jets swarming the area, and a single blast that causes an entire skyline to fall to the ground like dominoes, all rendered in the gorgeous, high-definition style we come to expect from AAA gaming.
Sounds pretty great, right? And I think it's totally doable - it's just a matter of focus, taking a few liberties where you can, and treating a property like Godzilla not as a cash-in, but with a care that a beloved 60-year-old franchise deserves. The joy of being a big monster doesn't come from swatting a couple of bothersome flies - that's merely window dressing, next to grabbing something just as massive and deadly as you and throwing it into what remains of Frank Lloyd Wright's legacy. And just because the Godzilla in the movies moves like a 30-story-tall lizard doesn't mean he has to move like that in his video games. I look forward to the day when someone can take the polish and fidelity only the PS4 and Xbox One can provide and make something on par with my memories of playing Rampage in the arcades. Hopefully that day is soon.
David Roberts lives in Everett, WA with his wife and two kids. He once had to sell his full copy of EarthBound (complete with box and guide) to some dude in Austria for rent money. And no, he doesn't have an amiibo 'problem', thank you very much.
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Jim Carter & Imelda Staunton announced as joint patrons of Greenfingers
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Jim Carter is perhaps currently best known as Downton Abbey’s Mr Carson, a role for which he has received great acclaim; whilst his wife Imelda Staunton is one of the country’s best loved actors, who has seen great success on stage and screen, including for her Oscar nominated role in Vera Drake.
Jim and Imelda both share a keen passion for gardening, in addition to having a direct involvement with the hospice movement, which is a real benefit for Greenfingers as it demonstrates their natural interest and understanding of the aims and focus of the charity’s work.
Matthew Wilson, Chairman of Greenfingers, welcomed the pair into their roles: ‘We are absolutely delighted to share the wonderful news that Jim Carter and Imelda Staunton are to be patrons of Greenfingers. We know they will be fantastic ambassadors for the charity and look forward to them spreading the word about the worthwhile work we do.’
Jim Carter added: ‘It is an honour for us to become patrons of Greenfingers – we are extremely enthusiastic about contributing to the charity’s cause of bringing magical gardens to children’s hospices. To give children with life-limiting conditions, their siblings and families a chance to spend valuable time together outside in a natural environment, creating precious memories is invaluable. We are both very much looking forward to our involvement with Greenfingers.’
Greenfingers is now approaching the half way point (in April 2014) of it’s most ambitious appeal to date – the ‘Rosy Cheeks’ appeal – which aims to raise enough money to create at least 10 more children’s hospice gardens. This year, under the umbrella of the ‘Rosy Cheeks’ appeal, Greenfingers will create magical gardens at Chestnut Tree House children’s hospice in Sussex, Little Haven’s children’s hospice in Essex and Forget Me Not children’s hospice in Yorkshire.
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Bodiford v. Rollins – Florida Car Accident Lawsuit Affirms Damages, Reverses on Comparative Fault
A man who suffered significant injuries as a result of a Florida car accident prevailed recently in 5th District Court of Appeals.
Appellate justices in Bodiford v. Rollins ruled that not only were the $1 million in damages appropriate, but the finding that plaintiff was 30 percent comparatively at-fault was erroneous.
That means plaintiff is likely to collect the full amount in damages. Continue reading →
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Updated: August 13, 2015 10:34 am
Automaker Blames Driver for Deadly Crash that Killed Actor
In car accidents, as in life, events often unfold as a result of a series of actions or inaction. What this means for accident lawyers is there is often more than one responsible party in these cases, and that’s why litigation stemming from a seemingly simple crash can end up being quite complex.
Take for example the case of 40-year-old actor Paul Walker. The handsome, popular actor was tragically killed in a fiery crash in a suburb of Los Angeles in 2013 after a charity event. An investigation revealed the 2005 Porsche Careera GT driven by Walker’s friend, a professional race car driver, careened out of control before slamming into a grouping of trees and a utility pole. The sports car ignited and both men died.
Coincidentally, Walker was in the midst of his seventh installment of a successful movie series about illegal street racing of expensive sports cars.
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Updated: April 22, 2015 10:40 am
Golnick v. Callender – Proximate Cause of Injury Crucial in Crash Cases
Prevailing in an auto accident case means you have to prove more than negligence of the at-fault driver. It means you have to show the injuries you sustained – those for which you are seeking compensation – were the proximate result of that crash.
This can be especially challenging for individuals who suffered prior health problems or injuries that occurred subsequent to the accident.
Such claims will require extensive medical records, expert witness testimony and the aid of an experienced car accident lawyer.
Updated: April 8, 2015 9:27 am
Gonsalves v. Li – Test Drive Crash Injury
A luxury car test drive went horribly wrong for a salesman along for the ride with the son of a prospective buyer.
Although there are conflicting accounts presented in Gonsalves v. Li, what is undisputed is that the son of a man interested in buying a high-end, high-powered BMW crashed the vehicle while taking it on a test drive.
The salesman, who was in the passenger seat, asserted significant back injuries were proximately caused by the crash.
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Share this Story: COVID-19 cases rises to 968 in Alberta as death toll hits 13, Kenney predicts pandemic will peak in May
COVID-19 cases rises to 968 in Alberta as death toll hits 13, Kenney predicts pandemic will peak in May
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Alberta's Chief Medical Officer of Health Dr. Deena Hinshaw delivers her daily COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic briefing at the Federal Building in Edmonton, on Wednesday, April 1, 2020. Photo by Ian Kucerak/Postmedia
There are 97 new cases of COVID-19 in Alberta, bringing the province’s total to 968 cases. It is believed that 108 cases are the result of community transmission. The virus has also killed two more people, bringing the province’s death toll to 13.
One of the victims was a man in his 90s at the McKenzie Towne Care Continuing Centre in Calgary. The other victim was a man in his 80s at the Manoir Du Lac retirement home, northeast of Grande Prairie.
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The number of cases in Fort McMurray remains at three. There are no reported cases in Wood Buffalo’s rural or Indigenous communities.
In a Thursday afternoon press conference, Dr. Deena Hinshaw, Alberta’s chief medical officer of health, said roughly 4,000 tests have been completed in the last 24 hoursm, bringing the total to 57,097 tests.
“This virus has shown how much our individual actions, no matter how small, can impact the lives of others and the tragic consequences that result,” she said.
Hinshaw said there have been no reported cases in any First Nation community or Métis settlement in Alberta. Alberta Health Services has been in touch with communities in each zone, including Indigenous communities, to coordinate responses.
The press conference comes the day after Premier Jason Kenney predicted COVID-19 cases in Alberta will not peak until mid-May. During a Wednesday evening debate in the legislature, Kenney said Alberta has 8,500 acute care beds.
The province is on track to free up an extra 2,250 acute care beds for COVID-19 patients by April 22. The highest number of COVID-19 patients are expected to be admitted into Alberta hospitals three weeks later around May 13.
There are 509 ventilators available, and by the end of April, the plan is to double that to 925. There are 295 ICU beds, which the province plans to expand to 1200.
Alberta Health Services has opened extra assessment facilities to redirect patients away from emergency rooms.
“Things will get worse before they get better,” he said, repeating a comment he made at a Wednesday press conference with Hinshaw.
On Thursday, Hinshaw acknowledged the emotional and mental health hardship of self-isolation. She also said it was the only tool the province had to slow the spread of COVID-19, pointing out cases worldwide will likely hit 1 million by the end of the day.
“We know that as the virus spreads, there will be a certain percentage of people who end up in hospital or ICUs,” she said. “If we allow it to spread widely, it will overwhelm our health system.”
She also said current COVID-19 numbers are not the peak in Alberta, and that projections will help people understand the importance of current measures.
“What we’re seeing in other countries—like Italy, Spain or even New York City—those scenarios would be what we would experience if we were not doing the things that we’re doing,” said Hinshaw. “This is not influenza. This is something that no one has immunity to, and has a higher rate of hospitalization and death than influenza does.”
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Quest Acquires Development & Database Market Leader ApexSQL to Enhance Information Management Business Solution Offerings
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Acquisition of ApexSQL expands Quest’s database management tools portfolio that help organizations securely manage, monitor and optimize Microsoft SQL Server environments
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ALISO VIEJO, Calif.-- Quest Software, a global systems management, data protection and security software provider, today announced the acquisition of ApexSQL, a market leader in SQL Server development and database tools. The acquisition of ApexSQL strengthens the Quest Information Management business unit’s portfolio of solutions that give DBAs and developers the tools to securely automate the management, movement, and performance of SQL Server database infrastructures to increase productivity and reduce costs. In addition to SQL Server, Quest’s Information Management business unit has a broad range of database management and performance monitoring solutions that support a variety of applications and database platforms, including Oracle, MySQL, PostGreSQL, MongoDB, and others.
With companies placing increased emphasis on data to support strategic growth, businesses require proven database management tools to drive value, meet organizational needs and ensure optimal performance. ApexSQL’s database auditing, recovery, change management, development and documentation solutions will bolster Quest’s existing database tools portfolio for SQL Server environments. Additionally, it introduces new opportunities to engage with prospects, customers and partners looking for automated tools to better manage SQL Server workloads and ensure their data meets compliance requirements.
“We’re pleased to further enhance our portfolio of database operation solutions with the acquisition of ApexSQL,” said Jeff Hawn, Chairman and CEO, Quest. “We remain unwavering in our commitment to deliver products that are simple to use and address our customers’ toughest technology challenges. Today’s announcement is indicative of that commitment.”
“We’re joining Quest today at an exciting time where our joint technology stacks are helping DBAs and developers address their SQL Server challenges to make an impact on the industry,” said Brian Lockwood, Chief Executive Officer, ApexSQL. “As part of the Quest family, we will be able to maximize the potential of our SQL Server offerings to deliver the most value to customers and partners.”
ApexSQL will join the Quest Information Management business, which is dedicated to helping companies manage, monitor, and move their data and database infrastructures across traditional databases, open-source databases, both on-premise and in the cloud.
“DBAs and developers tell us they need reliable tools to manage and secure an increasingly heterogeneous database environment,” said Kathleen Owens, President and GM, Quest Information Management. “Microsoft SQL Server is a vital part of our customers’ database solution mix and adding the ApexSQL portfolio into our proven SQL Server database management solutions builds on our commitment to help customers manage their SQL Server database environment. Quest will continue to be steadfast in its commitment to develop and expand solutions across a variety of database types to ensure we deliver the solutions customers need to better manage, protect, and ensure optimal performance across multi-database environments.”
About Quest Software
Quest provides software solutions for the rapidly-changing world of enterprise IT that help simplify the challenges caused by data explosion, cloud expansion, hybrid datacenters, security threats and regulatory requirements. The company is a global provider to 130,000 companies across 100 countries, including 95% of the Fortune 500 and 90% of the Global 1000. Since 1987, Quest has built a portfolio of solutions which now includes database management, data protection, identity and access management, Microsoft platform management and unified endpoint management. With Quest, organizations spend less time on IT administration and more time on business innovation. For more information, visit www.quest.com.
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Deep in the Amazon basin of Ecuador and Peru lies an unspoiled country, with trees so vast and tall they look like a million little broccolis from above. Rivers snake through the land that is completely unbroken, a peppering of naturally built indigenous communities can be seen here and there along the river, but otherwise human influence seems a distant second to one of nature’s finer masterpieces.
The villages belong to the Achuar, an indigenous nation of about 8,000 members, living off the land in their semi-autonomous territory. Until the 1960s, the concept of a Westerner was completely unknown to the Achuar. It was only then that a few missionaries entered their territory, promoting catholicism and making the Achuar aware of other forms of development.
In the early 1990s, as foreign pressures slowly increased, the Achuar began to further organize themselves to protect their land and their interests. They formed the United Achuar Nation, and together decided to keep their land free from natural resource development, such as logging, mining, and oil. The Achuar are a “dream people”, and their dreams warned them of the dangers of the Western World’s thirst for oil.
The Achuar have always viewed the forest as their supermarket and the river as their highway, so they remain hesitant to overdevelop the land and put an end to their way of life as they know it. But with an increasing awareness of other languages, cultures, and developments, the Achuar cannot help but have an interest in cleaner drinking water, electricity, and educational resources. As a result, they decided the kind of business development they wanted was ecotourism. Enter Kapawi Ecolodge.
The Kapawi Ecolodge is a beautiful jungle-lodge, situated in the heart of the Achuar territory. It was built by the Achuar in their traditional elliptical styled structures, from materials harvested in the surrounding jungle. It boasts solar panels, solar showers, a reverse osmosis water filtration system, comfortable beds, a bar, and surprisingly great food. Guests enjoy a beautiful flight into the Achuar territory, motorized canoe rides searching for wildlife (such as pink river dolphins), kayaking, hiking, and cultural visits and ceremonies. The Achuar are now the sole owners and operators of the lodge, so the benefits of this business help to support the kind of development they have chosen for themselves.
The Achuar are a fascinating culture with a fascinating stance on development. Similar to the Kapawi Ecolodge, which boasts wifi and solar power, they seem to have chosen what they want from our society in exchange for sharing their knowledge and home with tourists. To visit with the Achuar in their home is a truly otherworldly experience.
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We began development for Black & White Bushido in 2015. At the time all of us worked for Endemol Shine Group, a global content creator, producer and distributor you may know from shows like Black Mirror, MasterChef and Big Brother. Legends of Gaming Live, one of their live events in which gaming influencers come together for a competitive gaming tournament, approached us to create a competitive multiplayer game for them.
We have released Black & White Bushido on PC, PS4 and Xbox One. In autumn 2018 we will release the game on Nintendo Switch, but first we wanted to take a look at what went what we have learnt so far on our journey, what went right and what we would do differently.
What Went Right
1. A Concept We Love
The concept we created was a couch brawler with a unique stealth twist. Black & White Bushido pits the forces of light and shadow against each other. Each team can disappear into their respective colours and move without being seen as they fight in DeathMatch or Capture the Flag mode. This stealth mechanic hadn’t been done in an arena brawler before.
We created a prototype with the core mechanic, just cubes attacking each other in an arena with light and shadow areas, and we all fell in love with the game. That’s how we knew we had something good, because usually our taste in games is very different. We found something we were passionate about and we believe that’s the most important thing when choosing a project. Looking back, we could have done more research before choosing a genre, as this would have given us a better understanding of the audience for this game – something that we will touch on later when looking at what we could have done differently.
2. Black & White Art Style
Black & White Bushido’s light vs shadow mechanic didn’t only add a nice twist to our brawler, it also inspired our game’s art style and marketing material. It was a great choice, because it made us stand out from other games in the market.
We considered multiple themes for our game, including spies in an urban setting and abstract monsters or aliens, but we wanted to find something that explained the brawling and stealth mechanics. Ninjas and samurai made sense, they sneak around, jump across buildings and fight. We also found it improved the learning curve of the game, because the player expected these actions to be possible.
We collaborated with a very talented artist, Tom Waterhouse, to make all of the artwork and it paid off well. Our artwork had a really positive impact on the first impressions of the game and the perceived quality.
3. Going to Game Conventions
Our most successful marketing was taking Black & White Bushido to game conventions. EGX 2015 in Birmingham was our first show, just before our Steam launch. We were nervous because we invested a lot of money into our stand and worried people wouldn’t like our game. By the end we had made the top 5 best indie games at EGX list!
Our booth was constantly full and very lively. The game naturally attracted a lot of people and we made sure to engage with everyone who walked by and invited them to try the game. We played the game with them to demonstrate the multiplayer experience and we organised daily tournaments with prizes which encouraged a lot of people to return to our booth.
Going to shows had a lot of benefits for us. Firstly, we got a better understanding of our target audience by looking at the type of people who enjoyed our game and how they were playing. The second benefit was receiving feedback. People gave us a lot of good suggestions, for example, to add a button which reveals your position in stealth if you lose track of your character. And even just watching them play revealed a lot. If they were laughing they were enjoying it, if they were staring at the screen, something was confusing them so we took note of that.
That first show is also where we noticed how much Black & White Bushido brought out the competitiveness in people, and it inspired the friendship breaker theme we used in our marketing.
Another invaluable benefit was making new contacts in the industry. We tried to meet as many people as possible to explore taking Black & White Bushido to the next level. Anil met an Xbox contact and brought him to our booth to try the game. He liked it enough to convince us to make a version for the Xbox One and Playstation consoles.
4. Partner with a Publisher
We knew we had a great game and were well received at shows, but we felt we needed to get the game out quickly to capitalise on the interest we were getting. We knew the Steam greenlight process could take a long time, so we partnered with Green Man Gaming which allowed us to skip greenlight and they also helped us publicise the game. There is no doubt this was the right decision for us.
As mentioned earlier Black & White Bushido was a passion project, but looking back we could have done more research. From a business perspective, a local multiplayer brawler perhaps wasn’t the best choice. Given that it’s a niche genre, the target audience is relatively small and our initial sales numbers were lower than projected. However, the experience we gained was invaluable and allowed us to start our own studio.
We also should have done more research on the game’s name, Black & White Bushido. Although descriptive, it is too long, and adding an ampersand complicates search results and can make finding our game tricky.
2. Online Multiplayer
Black & White Bushido is a great local multiplayer brawler. Its strength lies in playing with your friends on the couch and experiencing the moment. That’s how it was originally designed. However, we received a lot of feedback to add online multiplayer to our game and we decided to add it for our console launch.
The development process for this took much longer than we had anticipated and we had several rounds of QA before getting certification on PlayStation and Xbox. This had a significant impact on our budget which we hadn’t originally planned for.
Having gone through the painstaking task of getting online multiplayer up and running, we didn’t have as many active players as we had hoped which were needed to keep the servers active and well populated. In hindsight we should have compared the sales numbers of successful multiplayer games to get an idea of how large our player base needed to be.
We made the classic beginner’s mistake of waiting too long with marketing. Aside from taking it to shows we didn’t do enough marketing prelaunch to build hype around the game. We did get press coverage for launch and worked with a great agency to help us, but in future, we would want to bring all the press and marketing elements together to generate awareness both at launch, and also in the lead-up.
For our console launch we did some influencer marketing to help raise awareness. Our biggest learning was that by working with a number of smaller influencers, who’s audiences fit well with the game’s audience, proved much more valuable than spending all your budget on one big name.
Our console marketing also struggled with losing momentum following the Steam launch, as the development was over a year. Publications didn’t necessarily want to cover our game again and we had exhibited at most of the key shows already.
What did work well for us was our pricing and sales strategy. We made sure that our pricing gave us leeway to participate in sales without cutting into our margin. Since launch we have tried to be part of every relevant platform sale and have seen an impressive spike each time.
Our journey so far with Black & White Bushido has been full of highs and lows! We have gained so much knowledge from the experience and are applying all our learnings to our Nintendo Switch launch. We’re keeping our development cycle short to keep the budget reasonable. And we now have a full marketing plan and team in place, to raise awareness for our Switch release.
We are taking Black & White Bushido back to its core, a local multiplayer, fun and addictive couch brawler, which fits perfectly with the Nintendo Switch console. Keep an eye out, this won’t be the last you hear of Black & White Bushido!
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‘Yes, Prime Minister’ was a hilarious series that ran on BBC tv from 1980 to 1982. Yes forty years ago and it still has a 92% audience appreciation factor. The three series were written by English writer, broadcaster and director, Sir Antony Rupert Jay CVO who died 4 yrs. ago aged 86. His co-writer Jonathan Lynn is now 77. Lynn, who was born in the city of Bath, was a stage and film director, producer, writer, and actor. ‘Yes, Prime Minister’ won them three BAFTAs and two Broadcasting Press Guild Awards,
The 3-week season of this richly written yet delightful play is being presented by the Kalamunda Dramatic Society, in the KADS Theatre, 6 Central Mall, Kalamunda. Curtain up at 7.30 pm.
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The Scene: 2019 in the Prime Minister’s office at Chequers (his country residence).
The pale green walls have vertical oak battens and carry some impressive artworks. There is a Tiffany standard lamp in the corner. The green, double room doors opened out onto a corridor. Near the PM’s desk, a large picture window shows greenery and the grounds beyond – the window frame has a built-in projection screen. The wall behind the desk has a floor to ceiling dark grey bookcase, loaded with classics and reference books. A small drinks table is at the side.
The Set: Convincingly designed by David Gribble and solidly constructed by Martin Dorman and Peter Bloor.
Lighting design by Virginia Moore-Price and Sound design by Julie Hickling worked very well together to give convincing storm and ethereal effects. The Sound and Lighting operators were Ella Wakeman and David Gribble.
The quality Props and Costumes were supplied by the cast.
Stage manager, Karen Woodcock and members of the cast carried out some slick scene changes and prop removals.
When the gullible poorly educated MP James Hacker (Peter Giles) becomes Prime Minister and takes control of the government, he finds himself a subordinate servant of his own staff. The pedantic but basically honest Principal Private Secretary, Bernard Woolley (Peter Bloor) is keen to help his new boss in any way: however, the verbose Cabinet Secretary, Sir Humphrey Appleby (Phil Bedworth) is more worried about preserving both his cushy job and massive salary than actually helping the PM. When asked a simple question, Sir Humphrey often goes into confusing tirades of English terms and rarely used obscure words, the listener will often concede rather than admit a total lack of understanding.
When an International Ambassador from Kumranistan (Mark Fitzpatrick) arrives, he has an unusual request. The PM panics and calls for the aid of his Special Policy Advisor, Claire Sutton (Christine Gribble), a clever manipulator who has even Sir Humphrey worried.
The BBC Director General, Jeremy Burnham (Willy Smeets) is called in to ensure that various points of discussion are handled with decorum and protected from the public: Looking genuinely like Lord Reith of Stonehaven, one of the early Director Generals who was infamous for his narrow-minded Victorian attitudes, Burnham wants to know what is in it for the BBC and of course himself should he make even minor concessions to the Government.
The PM agrees to an interview with the attractive but powerful reporter, Simone Chester (Sueanne McCumstie).
Could this be the last interview ever given by this new Prime Minister?
A point of information: Alasdair Milne, the admired BBC DG of the 1980s, was asked to resign partly as a result of the programme ‘Prime Minister’ which told Britain the truth behind politics and his continuing aspiration to make the BBC independent of government influence. Maggie Thatcher did not like his desire for the truth.
Director David Gribble has done an amazing job of the is superbly written play. The script is a tongue-twister and its many topics certainly call for some prior knowledge of politics to get full appreciation of the play.
When you are staging one of the best-known comedies on British TV, the demands on the set, actors and director are huge. Despite knowing that they are going to see a play, the audience so often expect to see the same actors that played the parts 40 years ago. Sorry but bless them, most are dead now let alone appearing here.
Fear not, this cast came as near to the real thing as you could get.
The problem with the ‘Minister’ scripts is that they are fast, dense and rich in topical news. Often, in spite of quality well-paced acting some of the audience are left like stunned rabbits in the lights of an approaching car. I clapped after one of Sir Humphrey’s devious monologues but found myself the sole appreciator of such a fabulous delivery.
Audiences think that blundering actors and staged pandemonium is so easy to present, when in fact the timing and movement have to be to a split-second timing. The whole cast must work together, anticipating every line and being armed with their reply. An incredibly difficult show to perform but this cast was magnificent. The weak and apprehensive Jim Hacker, the smooth-talking conman Sir Humphrey, the wimpish but sincere Bernard, to a beauty with the cruellest ideas Claire, the Ambassador with a foreign accent, the slimy DG and the smooth reporter Simone – an incredible HIT MOB, a force to be reckoned with. Even without the script, the bodies and faces described and conveyed every thought. Fabulous talented teamwork.
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Paying for Sex. Isn't That Against the Law?
Charitini Blogger Rachel Sklar, also of the Huffington Post, wrote an awesome piece questioning why Newsweek's cover story on former New York Governor Eliot Spitzer, who resigned last spring after he was linked to a high-priced prostitution ring, danced around the issue of… prostitution.
By Melissa Walker
Sklar suggested that Spitzer's rehabilitation should involve generating some charitable contributions, specifically recommending that he raise money for the Somaly Mam Foundation to fight human to fight human trafficking and sex slavery worldwide.
Mam is a former Glamour Woman of the Year honoree, and I'm all for Sklar's suggestion. After all, even though he lost his job, Spitzer didn't do any time for his crime—though 24-year-old Cecil Suwal, the "Spitzer Madam," got six months—and now he's working that sparkling smile, writing a column for slate.com and being lauded in the New York Times for "confessing his sins."
But, as Sklar notes, the word "prostitution" came up just once in the 5,000+-word Newsweek story. The rest was about how he's rebuilding his brand--uh, I mean life.
In the U.S., prostitution is joked about ("the oldest profession"), Hollywood-ified in movies like Pretty Woman and generally brushed under the rug, as long as you're not holding office. But it's also very dangerous (Craigslist Killer, anyone?), it certainly isn't woman-friendly in my opinion, and—oh, what I am forgetting? Right. It's illegal.
Do you think our country is afraid to talk about prostitution? Should Eliot Spitzer have had to do more than just resign last March?
Looking for Joanna? She's on vacation but will be back Monday. Melissa Walker is a freelance writer and the author of four teen novels, including the upcoming Lovestruck Summer and the co-founder of iheartdaily.com. Melissa is planning a July wedding, which is both making her very happy and driving her slowly mad.
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by Mick Fraser on December 25, 2013
The power of phenomenon cannot be overrated. The very idea of combining hugely popular mobile physics game Angry Birds with the Star Wars uber-franchise must have actually spawned fresh, crisp bank notes out of thin air – so the fact that it was free to play on Android devices when it first launched was pretty staggering. I don’t know anyone with an Android device (or indeed any smart device, as the asking price stayed fairly low) who hasn’t had a dabble with Angry Birds: Star Wars.
Problems arise, however, when indie devs Rovio decide to bring the same game to home consoles. Angry Birds: Star Wars on PlayStation 4 is the same exact game (plus about twenty bonus levels) as you played on Android devices for free, except it now costs 35 quid. There’s really no way Rovio can justify this price, and it makes this version of the game incredibly hard to heartily recommend, despite its inherent quality.
Conceptually nothing has really changed. The ordinary Angry Birds “characters” have been replaced with Star Wars versions, and so are equipped with cool force powers and such. There’s a Skywalker bird who can slice through scenery with a lightsaber, a Han Solo fella who can blast pigs Greedo-style, Obi-Wan and his force push, etc… Levels that mess with gravity fields and orbital rotations borrow ideas from Angry Birds: Space but put them to better use here.
Unlike some license crossovers, however, nothing about Angry Birds: Star Wars feels half-arsed. George Lucas’ sci-fi fantasy universe is absolutely core to the game, from the sound effects and music to the little static comic-pane cutscenes that lampoon moments from the trilogy. It’s wonderfully tributary and the utter respect that Rovio have for the legendary franchise is always apparent.
You can use the Dual Shock 4’s central touchpad to launch your poultry missiles should you choose, but it lacks the precision of an actual touchscreen and tends to be slightly too sensitive. It’s nice to have the touchpad option, especially for purists, but for more precise shots you’re best of using the left stick and X button to kick things off.
Graphically it looks pretty on the big screen, clear, crisp and vibrant – and, of course, it’s beautifully smooth – but it’s no great visual leap from the smartphone version. That said, we never expected it to tax the PS4, and the colours are striking and attractive in every stage.
VERDICT: The great gameplay we all know and love is present and correct, the graphics are sharp and appealing, the extra levels are a welcome addition and, of course, Star Wars. But I can’t help but get hung up on the insane price of the PlayStation 4 version. There’s just no real way to justify the purchase unless it’s your only possible way to play this game – and even then, despite its appeal and addictiveness, it’s still not a truly essential experience, particularly if you’ve played an Angry Birds game before. Angry Birds: Star Wars is good-looking and great fun to play, but simply not worth the best part of forty quid just for the sake of playing it on a next-gen console.
GOOD. A game that scores 7/10 is worthy of note, but unworthy of fanfare. It does many things well, but only a few of them incredibly well and, despite a handful of good qualities, fresh ideas and solid mechanics, it fails to overwhelm.
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Tristar P-120 Review and Dirt Test [2018]
Before and after testing.
Bottom Line Up Front (BLUF)
The sights aren't very good and neither is the finish - it'll show cosmetic wear pretty fast. However, it can shoot a 2.15" group at 25 yards, it has the softest recoil of any 9mm on the market, it's not picky about ammo, and when faced with dust and dirt, it's as reliable as any steel-frame CZ, clone or otherwise. Finally, it can be found for under $400 and meets weight and size requirements for IDPA Stock Service Pistol class. This is a Canik pistol - a good gun, for not much cash.
This review is organized as shown below. You can read the whole thing, or just use the below guide to find to the section that’s most interesting to you.
- P-120 Overview and the Tristar Pistol Lineup
- In the shop:
Tabletop Handling Observations
User Interface (Trigger, Sights, Magazines, Grip, and Other Controls)
- In the field:
Live Fire Handling Observations
Bullet Salad Test
Dirt Test
- Wrap up:
What you are (and aren’t) getting by paying more for a CZ SP-01
P-120 Overview and the Tristar Pistol Lineup
The P-120 is an economical, all-steel 9mm DA/SA hammer gun with a striking similarity to a CZ SP-01. We called up Tristar to ask if they would send us one for review and testing, and a few days later we got the call from our local FFL, Tri-State Outfitters (TFO). TFO a great shop for hunting, hiking, fishing, or really anything outdoorsy in southern Washington and Idaho, and best of all, they actually stock cool guns in addition to the requisite rows of hunting rifles and clay shotguns.
But okay, back to the P-120: It’s made in Turkey by Canik (the same Canik that made a splash with the TP9) and imported to the USA by Tristar Arms.
Tristar imports a whole line of Canik CZ-75 clones in various flavors besides the P-120. The S-120 is an all-steel CZ-75B clone (no bottom rail). The T-120 is a full-size aluminum-framed version inspired by the Israeli Jericho/Baby Eagle. All of the aforementioned Tristars feature the same 4.7" barrel and full-size grip. The P-100 and T-100 are compact variants with shortened barrels and frames.
All Tristar Caniks come with two Mec Gar magazines, a magazine loader, a gun lock, and a manual inside a competently-made plastic case.
In the Shop:
Let's get one thing out of the way: this is a BIG pistol. Old-school wonder 9s are not known for being svelte, and the P-120 (like the CZ SP-01 it is based on) is just about the biggest, heaviest one out there due to a steel frame and full-length bottom rail (sometimes called a dust cover). The P-120 is 38.4 oz (2.4 lb), empty. Toss in a 19-rd magazine brimming with brass and you've got 49.8 oz (3.1 lb) hanging off of your hip. For comparison, a Glock 17 with a loaded 17-rd magazine weighs in at 32.4 oz (2.0 lb). This weight is a drawback to some and a blessing to others - less comfortable to schlep around all day, but weight soaks up recoil (more on that in the Live Fire Handling Observations section).
The grips are actually flat black - the brown hue shown here is dirt from the range caught in the grip’s texturing.
Okay, so it's big. But what else?
It's well-made. Build quality is often a big question mark surrounding Turkish guns, but the P-120's build quality is comparable to a true CZ SP-01. Yes, yes, we can hear the collective indignant gasp, but let us explain ourselves: in some areas, the SP-01 is more finely crafted than the P-120. In other areas, the P-120 is more finely crafted than the SP-01, so in the end, it's a wash. Examples:
The P-120 has a metal-injection-molded (MIM) hammer, a cost-saving production technique that isn't as tough or as tightly toleranced as the SP-01's billet-machined hammer.
Point to the SP-01.
MIM is pretty common and frankly, there's nothing really wrong with it. Even premium handgun brands have plenty of MIM parts (like extractors) when you really start taking them apart. That said, it’s not as nice as billet…
This telltale circle is a tool mark from MIM production. It’s left by the fill nipple as the metal-liquid mixture is injected into the mold.
The P-120 has octagonal machining under the chamber - an expensive, time-consuming machining process that makes a stronger structure when executed on a hollow tube. A historical example of this would be when Mosin-Nagants moved from nice, pre-war hexagonal receivers to cheap, mid-war round receivers. The SP-01 has a simple, round chamber – cheaper and faster to machine but ultimately weaker.
Point to the P-120.
Machining like this is meant to strengthen the chamber, and requires many precise passes with a cutting tool.
The more common round chamber is simply cut all at once on a lathe, like the rest of the barrel
The CZ SP-01 has CZ's "polycoat" finish, which is mysterious but effective. Anecdotally, CZs with polycoat have shown little wear after several years of leather holster use. The P-120 has Cerakote or some similar spray-on finish, which wears off quickly on bearing surfaces, exposing bare steel to the elements.
Point to SP-01.
This is a lot of wear marks after only a few hundred rounds. Also, note that the strip of steel showing through the finish on the hammer doesn't go all the way across, indicating that the hammer is not striking the slide completely on-axis.
The P-120 has a solid steel guide rod, which is more costly than a plastic rod, but it’s also stiffer, heat-proof, and has a longer lifespan. The SP-01 used to have a steel guiderod, but nowadays its plastic unless you buy one of CZ’s custom/competition models.
We could go on, but the point is that both Canik and CZ build their guns better, or worse, in various ways. At the end of the day, it all pretty much equals out because our reliability testing of the P-120 didn’t show any flaws that the SP-01 would not also have suffered from (see the Dirt Test Results Discussion section). The only points where the P-120 could be called "poorly made" are the sights and the finish, both of which are extremely forgettable, but forgivable given the P-120's price point. More on the sights later in the User Interface section.
The "Picatinny" rail under the barrel is an oddity. It’s not a true Picatinny rail - Picatinny recoil grooves must be 0.118" deep, and the P-120's are only 0.056". The center-to-center distance is also off at 0.52” – Picatinny rails should be 0.394” center to center. It’s not a Weaver rail either, because the groove width is bang-on at a Picatinny rail’s .206”, not a Weaver rail’s groove width of 0.18”. See our Picatinny vs Weaver vs Dovetail article if you want to know more.
Before you get upset, pistol rails tend to mix-and-match rail dimensions between Weaver and Picatinny quite a bit. This is common even among esteemed manufacturers and is usually an attempt to ensure that as many lights/lasers fit as possible. That said, the extremely shallow rails on the P-120 are definitely an oddity, and will limit what accessories can mount to it. Buy a light for it by all means, but keep the receipt.
Given that the rest of the gun is so well-made, it’s unlikely that someone at Canik simply goofed up the measurements - we suspect importation, branding, or copyright concerns are behind this "flaw".
If these “Picatinny” slots look oddly shallow, it’s because they are
Finally, serrations on the front of the slide and the trigger guard are nice touches that you don’t often see in budget guns.
Let's pop the hood on this thing.
First up: it's been a while since we've seen locking lugs, and we miss them. Most pistols since the Sig Sauer P226 just use the ejection port as one big locking lug - this saves time and money during production and it works just fine. But still - locking lugs are cool, and we were happy to see them again.
But oh my, what's this? Full-length, all-steel frame rails? *fans self. There is something deeply satisfying about setting a tub of good grease on the bench and having those long, long stretches of frame rail to apply it to. Not many manufacturers make guns like this anymore.
That said, the reason 'they don't make 'em like they used to' is that full-length, all-steel frame rails aren't the most dirt-tolerant of designs (although they do good things for accuracy). The internal placement of the rails does a decent job of sealing the internals of the gun from outside debris, but they're not impervious (as we will see later in the Dirt Test section), and those long, long rails also offer a lot of real estate for gunk to build up with no good place for it to get ejected. Modern polymer-frame CZs only have frame rails for about the first 1/2 to 1/3 of the frame, cutting a compromise between the accuracy of a long frame rail and the dirt tolerance of a short frame rail. Many modern handguns, like Glocks, use small "stubs" as frame rails - just enough to maintain accuracy while leaving plenty of space for grit to blow free.
The weight of the P-120's reciprocating assembly (slide + barrel) is fairly light at 15.8 oz. For reference, that's one ounce lighter than the equivalent assembly in a Glock 17.
Left: P-120 Right: Glock 17
The P-120 sports a very competent factory SA/DA trigger, with no trigger blade safety to spoil the feel. Pull weight is 5.5 lb in single-action, and somewhere above 9.0 lb in double-action (our trigger gauge only goes up to 9.0 lb). The reset is quite good at 0.25” (6.35 mm) - for reference, a Glock 17 Gen 4 has a 0.2” (5.08 mm) reset and a 8.0 lb trigger pull. There is no missing the P-120s very audible and tactile reset, and trigger jobs specifically for the P-120 (not the CZ SP-01) are available on the internet to shorten the reset and lighten the pull even more.
In a word, the sights are “fine”.
Low and basic, but effective for slow-fire target shooting. They are a three-dot arrangement, all dots in white, and there is no distinction in size or color for the front dot. The rear sight is not ramped, giving good leverage for one-handed racking on belt or webbing, a feature that is getting less common for reasons we don’t really understand. The rear notch is quite small, 0.12” (3 mm) in diameter. Your average duty pistol is likely to have a rear sight notch more in the neighborhood of 0.18” (4.5 mm), which we find more useful. Our sample P-120 also shot consistently to the left. This is probably because our P-120’s front dot is drilled slightly off-center in its ramp – it’s slight, but it’s definitely off. This could be fixed by drifting the rear sight, but little QA hiccups like this are one reason the P-120 is so much cheaper than the CZ SP-01.
Replacement sights are available just for the Tristar/Canik pistols from Cajun Gun Works (CGW) for reasonable prices, but sources differ on whether or not standard CZ sights will work in the P-120 and other Tristars. Further complicating matters, CZ uses different sights for some models within their lineup, and Canik could easily have moved from a unique sight dovetail to an industry-standard dovetail over the years (like they did for the TP9). Long story short: yes, you can put better sights on it if you want, and no, they will not cost an arm and a leg (don’t expect a bargain, though).
For those looking to rig up their own sight solution, the front sight appears to be a standard CZ front (slide in from the front and pin under it), and here are the dimensions for the rear dovetail groove: 0.375” at bottom, 0.32” at top.
Finally, the anti-glare strip along the top of the slide is a nice touch.
Magazines:
Two Mec Gar magazines are included with the P-120 and every other CZ clone sold by Tristar. The P-120's magazines are 19-rounders, although the website and literature say 17. Mec Gar makes a good magazine, and these are no exception. The mags do not have round counters, but there are witness holes on the side for brass casings to peep through at approximately the 1/3, 2/3, and full points. We did not have any true CZ mags on-hand, but the internet consensus is that factory CZ mags, as well as any aftermarket brand intended for CZs, will work fine in the Tristar clones.
Grip:
Backstraps? What in the Sam Hill is a backstrap? Replacement grip panels, that's how you adjust the grip of a pistol (or so says the P-120). Two very competent plastic grip panels are bolted to the P-120's frame, each featuring some actually pretty above-average texturing. Some very modest stripping on the heel and front strap rounds out the package. CZ grip panels will fit on the P-120, sometimes with minor sanding required, so the world is your oyster if you want to customize - hardwood, G10, rubber, etc.
As an aside, there don't appear to be rear-wraparound grip options for CZs, so there is no way to adjust the reach to the trigger like a modern pistol's backstraps. Additionally, metal framed handguns without wraparound grips get very toasty if you leave them sitting in the sun. If carrying this gun exposed on the hip in weather consistently above 90 degrees, we recommend adding grip tape to the exposed steel between the grip panels.
The P-120 has no loaded chamber indicators of any kind (although the front slide serrations make press checks easier). A non-ambidextrous, thumb-operated safety will triple-lock the P-120, immobilizing the hammer, slide, and trigger. The safety can be engaged whether the hammer is cocked or at rest, and it's a little bit stiffer to actuate than we'd like, but that could be cured by attention with an emory cloth. Additionally, a firing pin block protects from drops. Unlike a true CZ SP-01, which has an optional decocker, there is no decocker on the P-120 so if you want to carry with a loaded chamber and lowered hammer, you're out of luck unless you cowboy the hammer down with your fingers. For what it's worth, we feel this is a bad idea (and we don't care how long you've been doing it, how many times you've done it before, or how "foolproof" your particular method is).
The non-ambidextrous slide release is a long reach, typical of many older pistol designs that crowd a lot of controls like safeties and decockers into this area. Most shooters will need to shift their grip a bit to engage it, or you can just ignore the slide release and rack the slide instead (a move which many shooters prefer anyway).
Unlike the Glock on the left, you can only get a thumb-tip on the slide release of the P-120.
Like any CZ or clone, racking the slide is more of a fingertip-pinch than a palm-grab. Despite having substantially lower bore axes than the P-120, guns like the Glock 17 and Steyr M9 actually have much more real estate on the slide for grabbing due to their external frame rails. See our Pistol Bore Axis Comparison article if you’d like to know more.
Steel frames are great. Polymer frames and aluminum frames are great in their own ways, too, but a big steel gun like the P-120 swings like a battleship and plants like an oak tree. Recoil is very, very mild. We shot the P-120 back-to-back with a Steyr M9-A1, which is about as soft-shooting as polymer-frame strikers get. The massive ~40 oz P-120 was markedly softer-shooting than the M9, proving that low bore axis is only one part of the felt-recoil equation. One of four parts, to be exact: 1) bore axis height, 2) reciprocating mass, 3) non-reciprocating mass, and 4) recoil spring stiffness. See our Beyond Bore Axis article if you'd like to know more. The P-120 goes all-in on non-reciprocating mass with that gigantic steel frame, and its reciprocating mass and bore axis height are better-than-average. All together, the P-120 (and SP-01) is likely the softest-shooting, non-compensated, factory 9mm on the market, bar none (although it definitely isn't the lightest).
The trigger is very competent, but it could use some polishing before being taken to a competition. It was oddly “springy” and had a particularly strong push immediately after the reset, making the reset feel much longer than its extremely respectable 0.25” (6.35 mm). Ditto the sights, which feel a bit cramped in addition to shooting to the left, although they provide good accuracy from a rest – a reviewer for American Rifleman shot a 2.15" group at 25 yards off a rest. We did all of our shooting standing and found that the P-120 turned in decent but not spectacular groups – try as we might, we could not get the holes to touch consistently at 10 meters. We grouped tighter with our own personal pistols, which we know cannot turn in a 2.15” group at 25 yards, so this indicates that (for dynamic shooting, at least) the P-120 in stock form is limited by its sights, not its inherent accuracy.
Expect groups like these when casually plinking at 10 meters - close to touching, but not quite.
Grit your teeth and focus, and you can get some of the holes to hug, but a better set of sights will make the task a lot easier.
Target shown is the CHCOF Stage 1.
The stiffness of the safety was inconsistent. While doing holster-to-fire drills, it would disengage smoothly most of the time, but every once in a while there would be a pause after the draw while whoever was shooting fenagled their grip to get better leverage on the sticky lever. This is definitely an item that will wear in as both the gun and shooter get used to one another, or some deft work with polishing compound or emory cloth could get it slickened up right away.
One more thing: the P-120 consistently released the slide when a loaded magazine was slammed home. Lightly loaded or slowly-inserted magazines did not get the same result, but loaded magazines tripped it every time. This behavior is seen occasionally in other guns, from Glocks to 1911s, but the P-120 was startlingly consistent about it. Whether it's a bug or a feature, it makes for a pretty fast reload and its safety implications are minimal - we can't imagine a situation where we'd put a loaded mag into an open action and NOT want it to close immediately after.
Oh, and magazines drop free energetically, loaded or not.
Bullet Salad
We had enough 9mm on hand to feed the P-120 what we call bullet salad - a quick way to learn a pistol's appetite. Skip to the results section if you’re familiar with the GunTweaks bullet salad concept.
Bullet salad is a three-magazine recipe that starts with a clean, lubed gun:
Magazine #1: Load with USA-sourced brass-cased target ammo (Winchester white box, Federal Premium, etc.)
Any pistol worth its salt should be able to eat this first mag. This step verifies the pistol is working properly, and helps the gun "wake up" (spreads grease around evenly, knocks down any machining burrs left from manufacturing, etc.)
Magazines #2 and #3: Load the magazines with as many different manufacturers, case materials, bullet weights, and bullet types as you can afford, two to four rounds at a time, in a known order. This is only a little bit more expensive than stacking deep with just one or two kinds of bullets, and it's worth it to see how your new gun behaves.
A bullet salad test takes a little planning - be sure to write down the order that the mags are loaded in. That way, if the gun jams, you can count how many rounds remain and determine which type of ammo caused the malfunction. Loading two to four-round "stacks" completes several full firing cycles for each type of bullet - firing, ejecting, and re-chambering, giving the gun several opportunities to choke on the particular ammo before moving to the next.
For extra credit, use a different target for each bullet type to add in a small accuracy test.
If the gun gets through all three mags without hiccuping, you can give a small, appreciative nod - you might have a decent firearm on your hands. Three magazines is by no means a conclusive reliability test, but you've at least verified that it's not picky eater and you can begin reliability testing in earnest with your favorite ammo.
If the gun does run into problems, that's not the end of the world. Just buy more of one of the ammo that it ate happily and use the "bad" ammo for plinking - you only committed to a box or two.
Bullet Salad Results
Here are the flavors that we fed to the P-120, ranging from 80 gr frangible bullets to 147 gr JHPs and brass, steel, and aluminum casings:
Magazine #1: 115 gr FMJ – brass-cased Federal American Eagle
Magazines #2 and #3:
80 gr frangible – Glaser Safety Slug Blue
115 gr FMJ - steel-cased Winchester Forged
115 gr FMJ - aluminum-cased Federal American Eagle
115 gr FMJ - brass-cased Federal American Eagle
115 gr FMJ - Remington UMC
115 gr +P JHP - Barnes TAC-XPD
147 gr JHP - Fiocchi Extrema
The P-120 experienced not one single malfunction despite firing 7 different flavors of 9mm back-to-back. We also found about ten JHPs of unknown origin rolling around in the bottom of a range bag. The stamps were too worn to see more than the caliber, but for grins we fed those to the P-120, too, and it ate them without complaint. In normal range use, the P-120 does not appear to be a picky eater and we found it to be dead reliable.
After the P-120 ate bullet salad happily we ran through several more boxes of mixed ammo types, to a total of somewhere around 300 rounds and still no malfunctions. A blend of slow-fire drills, holster-to-fire double taps, and other drills gave us a good feel for the pistol (see the Live Fire Handling Observations section), and with nary a malfunction throughout, it was time to put the P-120's reliability to the real test.
Dirt Test
Skip to the results section if you’re familiar with the GunTweaks dirt test.
A gun that chokes a lot during the dirt test can still be a perfectly good gun - there are many fantastically accurate and soft-shooting competition guns that practically implode if they even look at a pile of dust. However, we recognize that a weapon's reliability in the great outdoors is a principle concern for many gun owners, so this test simulates all kinds of unfortunate events, from a firearm hitting the dirt during an emergency vehicle dismount to a gun left holstered or slung all day in the gritty wind before being pressed into action under fire.
The method is simple - drop the (unloaded, but with an empty magazine in place) gun into the dirt, twice on each side (four times total). This forces some dirt into the nooks and crannies. Then, scoop up a heaping handful of dirt and pour it over the action, once on each side, to make sure everything is nicely coated.
It’s also worth noting that “dirt” is an understatement. What we have at the range is more like silt, taken from the backstop berm where it has been pounded by years of bullet impacts into fine, powdery nastiness that gets into every crack and crevice.
Once the gun is pulled from the dirt, just load a full mag, rack, and fire. No cleaning allowed, not even dry-racking the action or blowing out grit with your mouth. This is an absolute worst-case scenario – bone-dry, silty dirt and no chance to even rack the action a few times beforehand. The weapons are only fed quality brass during this test.
Our “reference” gun (for handguns) is a Glock 17 Gen 4. When put through the dirt test, the Glock coughed up a single FTE after the first shot, then ran clear. It had no failures to battery or failures to feed. The Glock maintained a gritty, crunchy trigger pull until the gun was torn down in detail and cleaned (cleaning at the field strip level did not fully clear up the trigger). So far, that’s the best we’ve seen a handgun do.
Now, the results:
Dirt Test Results
The P-120 took five shots to shoot clear.
Shot 0 - FTB, slide could be easily closed by hand
Shot 2 - FTF, slide could not be closed by hand. Racking the slide ejected the live round, and the slide closed to full battery without assistance
Shot 6 and onward were fired normally and the P-120 ran fine the rest of the day.
Notes:
Shot 0 is the slide rack after loading a full magazine.
FTB – Failure to return to battery
FTF – Failure to feed
FTE - Failure to extract/eject
Dirt Test Results Discussion
At first glance, the P-120 did “okay”. 5 shots and then shooting clear really isn’t bad – a lot of guns continue to choke indefinitely after the dirt test. What’s most interesting, though is what the P-120 didn’t do, and that’s FTE at any point. Even the Glock FTE’d. The P-120’s only problem was returning to battery, and while that problem was persistent, in a hammer gun FTBs are almost always caused by debris in the frame rails or breech since the fire control group is “out of it” by the time the slide is riding forward, unlike many striker guns.
This indicates that the P-120 would perform much better if the operator just has a few seconds to dry-rack the slide several times – since it had no FTEs, that should be all it needs to clear out its innards. We can also assume that a true CZ SP-01 would not fare any better, since a true CZ will have the same frame rails and breech layout, and magazines will be of equivalent quality to the Mec Gars. If the P-120 had issues with extraction or ignition, or hiccups in the trigger pack, then there would be justification to wonder if the SP-01's trigger internals or extractor geometry were more finely-tuned. But there were only FTBs and FTFs, and frame rails, feed ramps, and magazines will get clogged up just the same whether they were machined in the Czech Republic, Turkey, or Italy.
So, can the P-120 (and by extension, the CZ SP-01) be relied on when exposed to the worst of the great outdoors? We say yes – as long as you rack the slide a few times. Even a Glock will still FTE at least once so you should dry rack a few times if you can, regardless of what gun you have. Additionally, a Glock doesn't shoot as softly or accurately as the P-120. Everything is a trade-off, and not every shooter wants or needs the absolute most reliable gun out there (which is why not every military in the world issues AKs). The question is: is it reliable enough? Ultimately, that's for you to decide - we're just here to give you the data.
A few more dirt-test notes:
The P-120 bounced back to 100% after only a field-strip cleaning - the trigger was once again smooth and un-crunchy. Glocks and other striker guns typically require a detail breakdown and clean to achieve this.
The P-120's safety became very sticky about 50 rounds after the dirt test. At one point, it froze completely in the 'on' position, with a round in the chamber. This made for an exciting few minutes - the P-120's safety locks everything (slide, hammer, and trigger), so we were unable to clear the gun. The safety did eventually move, but then it wouldn't re-engage, either, so we let it be until the gun was cleaned, at which point the safety was back to normal. Lesson: leave the safety off if the P-120 is getting down in the muck.
Wrap-up: Tristar P-120 vs CZ SP-01
Let’s finish up with the pros and cons - what you are (and aren’t) getting by paying more for a CZ SP-01:
Reasons the SP-01 is better:
- CZ night sights
- Better finish
- The option to swap between a decocker and a safety
- Hassle-free purchase and install of upgraded parts
- A true Picatinny under-barrel rail
Reasons the P-120 is still pretty good:
- You saved a good chunk of change over the SP-01
- Fantastic accuracy
- You can upgrade the sights and the trigger pretty easily
- A pretty good factory trigger, comparable to a true CZ
- Happily eats lots of different ammunition types
- The same reliability as a steel-frame CZ in dust and dirt
- Canik build quality, which is generally equivalent to CZ
- Magazine compatibility - standard CZ magazines work just fine
Downsides of the P-120:
- QA hiccups like the off-center front sight dot and intermittently stiff safety are possible
- Weirdly shallow under-barrel rail may not fit all rail accessories
- Spotty upgradeability outside of the sights and trigger – CZ parts might work fine, might work after some fenagling, or might not work at all
- Troublesome to repair – you’ll probably need to run parts and service through Tristar, rather than simply ordering replacement parts from anywhere that stocks CZ parts
And that’s it. Happy shooting.
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Following the sudden death of her husband Franz Stephan of Lorraine in 1765 Maria Theresa appointed her son co-regent. The fifteen years of their joint regency were overshadowed by the complicated relationship between mother and son.
In 1764, while his father was still alive, the crown prince had been elected his father’s successor in Frankfurt and crowned King of the Romans. Having made reason and rationality his guiding principles in life, Joseph saw himself as an alien body in the archaic etiquette of the coronation ceremonies.
The joint regency of mother and son in the years 1765 to 1780 represented a singular constellation that was without precedent at the Viennese court. As a widow, Maria Theresa continued to rule over the Habsburg Monarchy. Although she had initially announced that she wanted to withdraw from the world after the death of her husband, an event which affected her deeply, she soon changed her mind.
Joseph was Holy Roman Emperor, but by that time this was merely an honorific title conferring little authority to wield power. In the Habsburg dominions, however, he was – much to his regret – only co-regent, that is, a ‘junior partner’ of his mother, who kept the reins of power firmly in her own hands.
Constant differences of opinion made their collaboration extremely difficult and at times impossible. A generational conflict was here made worse by the collision of two formidable characters: a dominant mother confronting her ambitious son. The years of the co-regency were marked by a succession of clashes and reconciliations – more than once Joseph offered his demission, which Maria Theresa refused to accept.
As co-regent Joseph’s hands were tied. Maria Theresa put the brakes on her son’s reformist zeal, fearing it would endanger her laboriously established rule over her diverse dominions. Her outlook increasingly coloured by an all-pervading pessimism, the ageing dowager empress had lost the energy she had displayed in the initial years of her reign. She saw her role as the preserver of the status quo and was strictly against precipitate changes.
Joseph thus had little room for manoeuvre and had to concentrate his activities on a more symbolic level, for example ordering court ceremonial to be simplified, abolishing the formerly obligatory Spanish Mantelkleid for men and permitting them to appear in uniform at court, or opening the imperial parks (Schönbrunn, Augarten, Prater) to the public. One of the most important measures from this time was the transformation of the ‘Court Theatre beside the Hofburg’ into the ‘German National Theatre’ in 1776. The Burgtheater was now under the emperor’s direct authority, and he frequently intervened personally in its running. The former place of court entertainment had been turned into an educational institution for citizens.
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Brownlee back to winning ways in World Triathlon Series
November 12, 2020 0 By HearthstoneYarns
Double Olympic medallist Jonny Brownlee took victory in Edmonton to show he’s still a force to be reckoned with at the top level of the sport.
Brownlee hadn’t been on a World Triathlon Series podium since winning in Stockholm in 2017 and has had a miserable 2019 season, finishing an uncharacteristic 11th in Bermuda, 35th in Leeds and being unable to finish in Hamburg after a bike crash
But he looked in imperious form in Canada, powering through all three disciplines to take the tape ahead of reigning world champion Mario Mola with Belgian Marten van Riel in third.
“I doubted myself a lot,” Brownlee admitted. “Athletes have short term memories and it doesn’t matter what we’ve done in the past. I didn’t know if I’d get on a podium again, let alone win. It’s been tough but I’ve finally won something.
“The swim was great, I got some clear water, the bike we really committed, and then the run I felt really good. With a lap to go I knew I’d be alright.
“People say he’s past it and has had his best years, but I still feel my best races are to come.”
One of those races now looks more likely to be the test event in Tokyo next month where a podium finish will guarantee Brownlee selection for next year’s Olympics.
This was not a weak field either. In contrast to the earlier women’s race, most of the leading male contenders had turned up in Alberta in force.
It was testament to the most open world title race since the inception of the World Series in 2009, with triathletes looking for vital points ahead of the Grand Final in Lausanne.
Three Spaniards were in the top five of the rankings including Mola and Javier Gomez who have won the last six world titles between them.
Alex Yee was the leading Brit in the standings in 13th, but instead chose to race in athletics’ Anniversary Games in London where he posted a new 5km personal best of 13:29.
Series leader Luis set the pace in the 750m lake swim in Hawrelak Park in 8:30. Brownlee looked impressive to emerge in fifth, just 5sec back, and was able to form a strong front bike pack of five with Matt Hauser, Ben Kanute, Luis and Van Riel.
The quintet pushed hard to establish a 29sec gap in the first of five bike laps which had one short climb and a descent where speeds reached over 70km/h.
That lead was gradually whittled away, but Jake Birtwhistle, the only male triathlete to have won two WTS events this season – in Leeds and Hamburg – was an early retirement.
The lead group was 17sec ahead coming into T2, as a crash in in the chase pack as they approached transition left triathletes sprawled across the tarmac.
Brownlee looked strong from the start of the run and only Van Riel could stay with the pace. The Belgian’s resistance finally broken as they approached the last mile, but as Mola ran through for second, the Van Riel did enough to hold on for his first World Series podium.
Mola moved up to second in the standings behind Luis, with everything still to play for in Lausanne.
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High street pharmacies to start vaccines as UK records worst day of Covid deaths
An NHS Covid-19 vaccination centre at Boots in Halifax
High street pharmacies will begin rolling out Covid vaccines, as the virus death toll across the UK climbed above 100,000.
Boots and Superdrug branches will be among the six stores across England which will be able to administer the jabs from Thursday while the Government aims to hit its target of vaccinating all people in the four most vulnerable groups by the middle of next month.
Andrews Pharmacy in Macclesfield, Cullimore Chemist in Edgware, north London, Woodside Pharmacy in Telford and Appleton Village pharmacy in Widnes will be in the first group to hand out the injections, alongside Boots in Halifax, and Superdrug in Guildford.
Boris Johnson also told MPs that distribution “will be going to 24/7 as soon as we can” but said supply of doses remained the main barrier.
The Scottish Government published its vaccine delivery plan on Wednesday evening, including details of how many doses it expects to receive for each week until the end of May, prompting a row with London, which has declined to publish its numbers.
The six pharmacies have been picked because they can deliver large volumes of the vaccine and allow for social distancing, and Health Secretary Matt Hancock said it was “fantastic” that jabs would be available on the high street.
“Pharmacies sit at the heart of local communities and will make a big difference to our rollout programme by providing even more local, convenient places for those that are eligible to get their jab,” he said.
By the end of the month more than 200 community chemists will be able to give vaccines, according to NHS England.
The pharmacies join the 200 hospitals, around 800 GP clinics and seven mass vaccination centres where jabs are already being handed out.
Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer urged ministers to go further and use England’s 11,500 pharmacies to deliver round-the-clock vaccinations by the end of next month.
The expanded vaccination service in England comes as the daily reported UK death toll reached a new high on Wednesday, with 1,564 fatalities recorded within 28 days of a positive test.
The latest figures meant the grim milestone of more than 100,000 deaths involving coronavirus has now been passed in the UK, according to official data.
The Prime Minister warned hospital intensive care units (ICUs) face being overwhelmed unless coronavirus rates are brought under control, with the latest official figures showing more than 36,000 people are in hospital with coronavirus, including almost 3,500 on ventilation.
He told MPs: “If you ask me when do we think that the ICU capacity is likely to be overtopped, I can’t give you a prediction for that.
“But all I can say is that the risk is very substantial and we have to keep the pressure off the NHS and the only way to do that is to follow the current lockdown.”
Mr Johnson told the Commons Liaison Committee that “the situation is very, very tough indeed in the NHS” and “the strain is colossal” on staff.
The Scottish Government published a 16-page document setting out how it intends to vaccinate 4.5 million people, including 400,000 a week from the end of February.
It set out the supply of vaccine from Pfizer, AstraZeneca and Moderna from the start of April that it expects to receive each week.
This angered ministers in London, with a senior Government source warning: “Publication of numbers like these risks suppliers coming under pressure from other countries.
“These vaccines are a finite resource and as we have said throughout – supply is the limiting step.”
Amid the warnings of struggling hospitals, the Government’s top scientist also warned the country is “in for a pretty grim period” of deaths which will not “reduce quickly”.
Chief scientific adviser Sir Patrick Vallance told ITV’s Peston programme: “The daily numbers jump around a bit but I think we are in a position now – when you look at the number of infections we’ve had over the past few weeks and how this is likely to continue, so I don’t think they’re going to drop very quickly – that I’m afraid we’re in a period of high death numbers that’s going to carry on for some weeks.
“It’s not going to come down quickly even if the measures that are in place now start to reduce the infection numbers.
“So we’re in for a pretty grim period, I’m afraid.”
In his two-hour questioning from a committee of MPs, the Prime Minister also acknowledged concerns about a new strain of coronavirus from Brazil, but stopped short of promising a travel ban on the South American country.
“We already have tough measures … to protect this country from new infections coming in from abroad,” he said.
“We are taking steps to do that in respect of the Brazilian variant.”
Meanwhile, a new study has found that Covid infection provides some immunity for at least five months, but people may still carry and transmit the virus.
The first report from Public Health England’s Siren study found that antibodies from past infection provide 83% protection against reinfection for at least five months.
This suggests that people who contracted the disease in the first wave may now be vulnerable to catching it again.
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Catriona Stewart: Why I can't quite celebrate Scotland's new period poverty bill
Catriona Stewart: Monica Lennon's period poverty bill in Scotland is a cause for celebration and despair
By Catriona Stewart
A supporter of the Period Products bill at a rally outside Parliament in Edinburgh Picture: Andrew Milligan/PA Wire
A GROUND-BREAKING, world first piece of legislation that will improve lives.
No decent sort wants to be the dissenting voice on that one, do they? But while Monica Lennon’s bill to ensure period products are free to anyone who needs them is praiseworthy for so many reasons, it comes with a mix of emotions.
While it's an obvious cause for celebration to see a problem solved, it gives real pause that such legislation is necessary. Not only that it is necessary, but that poverty must be dealt with in a piecemeal way.
In an age of fractured discussion and seemingly insurmountable differences, it has been heartening to watch a movement with cross-party support, especially one with such a focus on easing the burden of women.
Around 20% of women experience poverty and often are the ones to make sacrifices for their families, managing budgets in such a way as to deprive themselves in order that their children do not go without.
As the welfare state has crumbled under years of austerity and unfeeling policy choices, it has been left to third sector organisations and citizens to patch the tears in the social safety net.
Every year the figures detailing food bank use are released, every year they go in only one direction - up. Food poverty is now subdivided into specific categories.
Manchester United footballer Marcus Rashford has been, famously, doing a stellar job of work on bringing attention to holiday hunger. Of course, this is an issue long recognised and tackled at local levels, but Mr Rashford has made it headline news and, in doing so, prompted a great swell of local business and community kindness offering to help feed hungry children.
Baby banks are being set up to provide parents with formula milk to plug a gap in provision: many foodbanks won't provide it as they follow Unicef guidelines that encourage breast feeding. I wrote recently about mothers watering down formula to eke it out that little bit more, an appalling thing to hear in modern Glasgow.
From food banks have come stories of specific privations that turn into subcategories of poverty. Last week saw Fuel Poverty Awareness Day, an attempt to bring wider recognition of the choice some families make between heating and eating. Those experiencing fuel poverty are often supported by foodbanks, which will give out fuel vouchers and signpost to advice services.
Foodbanks have shone a light on other facets of need: we know about period poverty in part because of foodbanks appealing for donations of sanitary items. We know about hygiene poverty from calls for donations of shampoo and soap and those basic items - moisturiser, deodorant - that suddenly become luxuries when funds are scarce.
As a reporter, when I write about any of these issues it is the personal stories that drive people to action. The mum who ate raw baked beans from the tin in a foodbank because she was frantically hungry. The child eating thawing pizza for a school packed lunch. These stories rip at people because you can imagine your own hunger, your own child, your own body's basic needs deprived.
There are always people who will undermine the severity of poverty by pointing out how thrifty they would be if they had to be. The thing is, they have never had to be. If they had, they might be a little less smug about posting links to Boots own brand tampons, 24 for £1.10. Or sharing recipes detailing how they'd feed a family of five for a week on £2.50 and baked potatoes.
The point isn't that items can be bought cheaply - it's that if you don't have the money to pay for them then it matters none whether those items are £10 or 10p.
In the main, though, people hear of these scandals and they are driven to action. Their outrage is implicit in this action: if there was a general feeling that these things are all fine, no one would be compelled to do anything practical about it.
Most of the support networks set up to alleviate the effects of poverty ultimately aim to put themselves out of business. The Trussell Trust, say, is emphatic in aiming to eventually be redundant as food poverty is solved. Conversely, the bill solves one effect of poverty with its permanence, but along with the praise must be a repeated and robust assertion that poverty - in all of its types - should not exist.
The legislation very rightly insists that in actioning the law, local authorities ensure that women, girls and those who menstruate are provided with period products with "reasonable dignity".
Ultimately, dignity is seeing women and girls have sufficient money to buy whatever they need for themselves, and everyone else in society too.
Our columns are a platform for writers to express their opinions. They do not necessarily represent the views of The Herald.
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The story of Heritage Christian School is one of providential design and of a God for whom nothing is impossible.
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The year was 1964 and brothers Walter and Donald Best had relocated their young families from Seattle to Indianapolis. The men played key roles in the Best Lock Corporation, a lock manufacturing company founded by their father, Frank Best.
The organization sought to expand its operations on the northeast side of Indianapolis. Interstate 465 construction was underway and a large, undeveloped parcel of land at State Road 37 and 75th Street was a prime location. Frank Best acquired the acreage and it became the location for Best Lock’s headquarters. Through his generous donation, a portion of the land also would one day become the home for Heritage Christian School.
Meanwhile, the Best brothers searched the Indianapolis area for a non-denominational Christian school for their families. Their children had attended Christian schools in Seattle, where a vibrant Christian school movement was gaining momentum. The Bests prayerfully considered their options and decided that, with God’s help, they would start an interdenominational school that delivered excellent education from a biblical point of view. They determined that if God would bring in fifty-nine students, they could make it work.
Laying the Groundwork
As a first step, they recruited Kye Harris, a Seattle acquaintance with significant experience in starting and helping to run Christian schools. Harris and his family relocated to Indianapolis in 1965 and launched a mail campaign to area pastors, inviting them to informational meetings over coffee, in supporters’ homes. Interest quickly grew and within four months, the school had enrolled more than one hundred students.
Harris recruited William Vimont, another seasoned Christian school pioneer, for the role of principal. He moved his family from Arizona to Indianapolis on faith, since there was no up-front guarantee of receiving his salary.
A Board of Directors was created to provide leadership for the school. The original group included: Leonard Hunt, long-time director of Wheeler Mission; Indianapolis businessman, Dale Malcomson; Robert Porter, president of Lifegate, Inc.; and Walter and Donald Best.
The next challenge was to tackle student transportation. Harris proposed the purchase of six 1-ton panel trucks that could be converted to passenger vans. An ingenious idea, really, in a generation that far pre-dated current-day minivans. Finance companies, however, were less than excited about lending money to a school that had not yet even been incorporated.
Undeterred, the Heritage men approached the owner of Johnson Chevrolet. He was polite, but uninterested in assuming risk for a $24,000 purchase from an unestablished legal entity. In a last attempt to persuade the man, Harris pulled out a sheet of the school’s newly printed letterhead. On it were the names of Christian school experts and advisors from across the nation and a handful of Indianapolis businessmen.
The dealership owner casually glanced at the list and pointed to one of the names on it. He excused himself to make a quick phone call. When he returned, he announced, “Gentlemen, if this man is interested in your project, I will do it. He is my best friend.” He sealed the deal with no down payment and personally financed a year of insurance and the cost to convert the vehicles to special purpose buses. Through providential circumstances and a generous $30,000 gift from Lilly Endowment Inc, God enabled the school to pay the debt in full.
Prayers Answered and Dreams Realized
The school moved forward, receiving its official articles of incorporation as Heritage Christian Schools, Inc. on June 14, 1965. With Harris as administrator, the school hired necessary faculty and staff. Victory Baptist Church stepped up to house classes.
Heritage Christian School officially opened its doors to one hundred fifty-nine pre-kindergarten through ninth grade students on Sept. 8, 1965. It seemed no small coincidence that the number of students God had provided was exactly one hundred beyond the fifty-nine students that the school’s founders had originally prayed for.
Throughout the school day, students occupied virtually every inch of space at Victory Baptist Church. The pastor gave Harris and Vimont use of his office. In the mornings, teachers moved the church pews aside to make room for tumbling mats, creating a makeshift gymnasium down the center aisle. In the afternoon, pre-kindergarteners used the pews for their daily naptime.
Even the baptistry served dual purposes. Students auditioned there for the choir, with curtains drawn for anonymity.
Within a year, enrollment had increased to nearly three hundred fifty students, and it was clear that the school needed more space to grow. God ordained two key events during the summer of 1966. First, Devington Baptist Church offered its larger facility as a temporary location, enabling the school to expand enrollment and to include grades ten through twelve. Secondly, Frank Best generously donated an additional fifteen acres of land to the growing institution and pledged 25 acres more for future development. Don Best reportedly drove by the land frequently, saying, “I see it, Lord, I see it.” Heritage Christian School broke ground for its new building.
A Permanent Home
By year’s end in 1966, construction was complete and faculty and staff moved in to the new facility over Christmas break. When classes resumed in January of 1967, they welcomed four hundred and fifty students into an initial nineteen brand-new classrooms. Word spread and enrollment continued to climb. With another 5-acre donation from the Best Foundation, additional classrooms were added in 1973.
The school’s footprint expanded over the following decades to accommodate the needs of a growing student body and to offer a full range of academic and extracurricular programs. The construction of the current high school and Commons area was completed in 2007.
Today, the 38.5-acre campus houses separate elementary, intermediate, middle school, and high school buildings; a fine arts building; and athletic facilities that include an elementary gym, a 1,250-seat high school gymnasium complex, a football/soccer/lacrosse stadium, track, softball and baseball diamonds, and tennis courts.
At the Heart of the Heritage Story
The Heritage story has God’s fingerprints all over it; from the very beginning to its future. God instilled the school’s founding parents’ desire for their children to receive an excellent education that reinforced the faith and values they were teaching them at home. He brought just the right people at just the right times and built their faith as they saw Him provide resources and answer prayers. He created an environment where thousands of students have received valuable training for work and life as Christ- followers.
The story of Heritage Christian School really is one of the God who continues to bless this institution with His favor. It’s an ongoing narrative that He’s writing in the hearts and lives of our students, families, alumni, faculty and staff. May the telling of it bring Him much honor.
As the first gymnasium (now the Elementary Cafeteria) was first being built, the building contractor received word that there would be a three-month delay in receiving the custom-sized structural wooden beams needed to complete the project. Construction was at a standstill. The building crew actually knelt and prayed for an answer to what seemed an impossible situation.
A few days later, a semi-truck drove up to the construction site, unannounced and carrying a load of large, wooden beams. As it turned out, its intended delivery had been misrouted and mislabeled. The order actually was for a church in Ohio, but the address given was that of Heritage Christian School in Indianapolis. A completely different architect had custom-designed the beams to meet the church’s exact specifications. Remarkably, they measured at exactly the same dimensions as those needed for the Heritage project. The church was contacted, to let them know that the delivery had been misdirected.
Their response? They really didn’t need the beams for another three months. They were pleased to place another order and let Heritage use them. Amazed, the Heritage construction crew installed them for the school’s new gym and further construction proceeded without delay. From that day on, Heritage faculty and staff have referred to the ceiling’s structure as the “Miracle Beams.”
A bronze statue in front of the elementary building honors former Heritage Elementary Principal, Mary Jane English. It reads, “In honor of Mrs. Mary Jane English, for 37 years of faithful service to the Lord at Heritage Christian School. She was a joyful servant, friend, leader, teacher, mentor and shepherd. We will miss her laughter, her stories and her presence with us. To God be the glory! She is home.”
English had a burden for children who had the intellectual capacity to advance but had been identified with learning differences that caused them to struggle in the classroom. In 2010, the HOPE (Helping Others Pursue Excellence) Fund was inspired by English and was established to honor the memory of those who have either supported our students or who received services through the academic support of a tutor or Heritage Educational Support Services teacher.
English's colleagues and the teachers whom she supervised remember her with fondness and respect. "Mary Jane had great understanding and empathy for struggling students and students who march to the beat of a different drummer, because as she told us many times, she was one of those students too," says Teresa Stroop. "Mary Jane was real. She was direct, she was honest, she was funny and she loved to laugh. She had a heart for Jesus, a heart for her family, a heart for her children, a heart for her friends. She had a heart for truth, a heart for nature, and a heart for knowledge," recalls Julie Hiatt. Heritage academic director and elementary/intermediate school principal, Brenda Klingerman, says, "She mentored me and invested time in me. She taught me so much spiritually, about depending on the Lord in making decisions and looking for what He has next. She really enjoyed life."
One of the best parts about being a senior at Heritage is the opportunity to decorate the rock. It is hidden by the Library entrance and has a history that many do not know.
In the 1970’s, a crane was brought in to move it out of a construction zone along Kitley Avenue. It found a home on our campus per the request of Al Leinbach, Alumni Relations Coordinator.
Within days, students painted it and began a tradition that has carried on ever since. Over the years, it has sported different colors, pictures, patriotic messages and Bible verses. It became a tradition for the seniors to decorate the rock, designs including everything from Junior/Senior Proposals to Scripture verses and more.
A 2nd grade class stops at the Rock while on a tour of campus with Alumni Relations Coordinator, Al Leinbach.
It’s a favorite spot for alumni to visit during campus tours. New generations of Heritage students learn about The Rock when, as 2nd graders, they stop there for a picture during their historical tour of campus. They even receive their own little rock as a memento.
The Heritage Bell, an iconic symbol for our athletes, has an extensive history. Gifted by parents around 1972, the bell weighs several hundred pounds and has had many locations over the years.
The bell's first location was the elementary gym (now the elementary cafeteria), but was moved to storage because the ring was too loud. Around 1985, we rescued the bell from storage and moved it to the high school gym. Once again, however, the bell was too loud and was moved back to storage. Finally, the bell was taken to the soccer field (now the HCS stadium) and anchored under the scoreboard.
Today, Heritage students have the exciting privilege of ringing the bell during athletic events. In addition, our Alumni Relations Coordinator, Al Leinbach, takes 2nd grade classes to the bell's permanent home during his historical tour of Heritage. During this tour, students have the fun opportunity to ring the historic bell.
One of the most unique and fun features of Heritage's elementary playground is the distinctive wooden ark that sits nestled among the trees. It's a favorite spot for imagination and play for our young students. The current version of the ark isn't the first of its kind in Heritage history.
The Ark as it stands Today
An earlier version of the ark from days gone by
A virtual oasis exists on the Heritage campus. It’s a quiet, outdoor space designed for reflection; a favorite summer lunchtime spot for staff; a reunion location for returning alumni and an outdoor classroom for students.
What began as merely a vision in 2006 became our beautiful Biblical Gardens in 2010. The project became a reality through fundraising, PTF and parent donations and its design incorporated input from faculty and students alike. It resides between the old and new Elementary building wings.
Many of the Garden’s features intentionally tie back to biblical references:
The entrance gate from the Elementary playground represents the gate to the Celestial City
Nine trees planted within the Garden represent the Fruit of the Spirit (Galatians 5:22-23)
Boulder accents represent Jesus as the Rock of our salvation (Psalm 18:2)
Vines covering the pergola point to Jesus as the Vine and His people as the branches (John 15:1-8)
The cross consists of tiles that were designed by our students. Many of the tiles include Bible verses.
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Maybe it's the spirit of competition between the high school classes, maybe it's getting to dress up in fun outfits each day, or maybe it's that you get to play games instead of going to class on Friday...no matter what the reason, Homecoming Week is probably the favorite fall semester tradition among the student body at Heritage. Here are just a few things that go on during the week:
Themed Dress Up Days
Lip Sync (and long nights of rehearsals)
Hallways Decorating
Couple's Soccer
Tug-of-War
Chalk Murals
Homecoming Cookout for Lunch
At the end of the week, the entire Heritage community - along with many of our alumni - come together for the homecoming tailgate and football game. This annual event features its own entertainment including a faculty/staff dunk tank, presentation of the homecoming court, food trucks, inflatables, sometimes even a live band, and much more.
One of the great HCS traditions is the annual, all-school Christmas chapel. It’s a joyful celebration and a beautiful time for the entire school to come together. The chapel showcases the Fine Arts through music, and then a faculty or staff member delivers a Christmas message.
Perhaps the most anticipated part of Christmas chapel is the singing of The 12 Days of Christmas, in which each grade level gets assigned a “day.” The seniors, who always get to be the 1st Day of Christmas, come up with creative sketches, movements, and inside jokes for each round of the song.
Over the years, attendance has grown to about 1,400 people, as more alumni and parents have attended. This tradition is a fun and festive way to ring in Advent, a time of true joy and excitement, which is exactly what it should be!
Here's a sneak peek at this special tradition:
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The annual senior parade is a Heritage favorite! This fun and entertaining event brings together the entire school. All of our students, faculty, staff and many parents gather together to watch as the senior class says their final goodbyes to student life at HCS. These soon-to-be-graduates decorate their cars, dress in costumes, parade around the the campus, and enjoy some of their last moments together as high school students.
Oh, when those Heritage teams fall into line,
We’re gonna win that game another time.
It's for the dear old school we love so well.
It's for the blue and white we'll yell and yell and yell,
And when we fly up on our Eagles’ wings,
That’s when you’ll hear our cheering voices ring,
And we will fight with all our might and fight, might and fight
For Heritage High!
E - E - E - A – G
L - L - L - E – S
E - A – G
L - E – S
Eagles, Eagles
H - C - S!
Photo Timeline of HCS History
First Board of Directors
1964 - First Heritage Christian School Bus
1965 - Victory Baptist Church
1966 - Jubilee Choir
1966 - Devington Baptist Church
1965 - Kyle Harris, First Administrator
1965 - William Vimont, First Principal
1965 - DeVern Fromke, First Elementary Principal
1966 - Jim Beck, First High School Principal
1966 - Groundbreaking for First Building (digitally remastered)
1967 - First Graduating Class
1967 - Jim Weaver, Headmaster (1967-1982)
1967 - Earle Harriman, Assistant Headmaster (1967-1970)
1968 - Heritage Campus
1968 - Long-Time Elementary Principal, Mary Jane English
1968 - PTF Holds First Open House
1970s - Long-Time Director, Jean Ware, Directs Heritage Choirs
1980s - Boys Basketball MCC State Champions (1982 & 1983)
1992 - Groundbreaking for High School Addition
Today - Heritage Campus
Indiana Choice Scholarship (Vouchers)
Tax Credit Scholarships
HCS Tuition Assistance
Prep-K Curriculum
Kindergarten Curriculum
Honors Courses
Interterm Week
College Timeline
Meet the Discipleship Staff
Spiritual Theme
Contact us at info@heritagechristian.net to receive a complimentary copy of our 50th commemorative book, A Faithful Journey, to look back and celebrate Heritage's 50-year history.
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Paul Anderson
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Ivan Sanford, a conceptual illustrator for over twenty years, has a body of work that includes hundreds of commissioned illustrations, and has media expertise ranging from acrylics and oils to digital graphics and animation software.
Ivan attended the School of Visual Arts ("SVA") as an Illustration Major, and while there, had his work selected for the Society of Illustrators and Master Eagle Gallery Students Shows. After graduating in 1986, he started a career in which he created hundreds of illustrations for a various magazines, newspapers, books and websites. In 2006 Ivan had one man show at Columbia University displaying many of the works from his career.
Ivan's illustrations have been used within a broad range of medical, business and other markets, all approached from his uniquely editorial, and sometimes humorous, point of view. His work has covered topics such as risk assessment, management strategies, corporate leadership, consumer home financial planning, healthcare (the business side as well as patient care), DNA research, genetics, cancer treatments, AIDS and psychological disorders.
Other career highlights include illustrating a ten-part national Associated Press series of articles on future life in America, covering such possibilities as national ID numbers, genetically modified pets and 3-D holographic movie theaters. For National Review Ivan illustrated Richard C. Cowan's essay How the Narcs Created Crack - a War against Ourselves. For Viking-Penguin Ivan illustrated a cover for Madison Smartt Bell's New York novel, The Year of Silence.
Over the course of his 20 plus year career, Ivan has expanded his skills to include computer graphics and animation, creating work for television shows such as CBS News’ Coast to Coast, Discovery Channel’s Rosenberg File, Case Closed, and A&E’s Biography, along with commercial and corporate animation work for Chase, Mobil, BMW, SunAmerica, Proventil, Raytel, Boehringer-Ingelheim, and Health Learning Systems.
Furthermore, Ivan has served as Executive Producer on a diverse range of interactive projects including e-commerce website applications, touch-screen kiosks, video-on-demand applications, commercial DVDs, and streaming media video productions for Estee Lauder, Elizabeth Seton Museum, Hargray, Globix, Kenneth Jay Lane, People's Choice Awards, Paulson & Co., and many others.
His clients include New Jersey Monthly, Business International, Risk Management, International Business, Management Review, Financial World, American Demographics, CBA Marketplace, Economist Intelligence Unit, Merck, SmithKline Beecham, Pfizer, Lever Brothers, Roerig, Fisons Pharmaceuticals, Knoll Pharmaceuticals, Schering Plough, ICI Pharma, Healthcare Forum, Minnesota Medicine, Medical World News, New Physician, Medical Economics, Rhode Island Monthly McMahon Group, Slack publications.
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Minnesota Medicine
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Rhode Island Monthly
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Through what creative process do you get your best ideas?
When creating an illustration, I first read over the content assiduously. Then I may focus on another task and let it bubble in my subconscious for a while. Sometimes good ideas for the image will later “rise” to the surface while walking or talking. I try to have a pen and notebook with me for when this occurs. If I don’t have a pen and paper available, I will repeat the idea several times in my mind so as not to forget, similar to remembering a dream. In other cases I may need to push harder for a good idea. I often see a conceptual idea as similar to the structure of a sentence. In a conceptual image there are symbols (subjects) and actions (predicates). If need be, I will create a “subject-predicate” list to get a good concept, looking for clever ways to put them together.
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I recall a few times, when a really good illustration idea popped up just prior to meeting with an art director or editor. In those instances, I took out my pen and paper and sketched it right then and there on the street.
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SENATE COMMITTEE ON SOCIAL CONCERNS MINUTES OF MEETING OCTOBER 9, 2006 [In these minutes: Divestment from Sudan]
SENATE COMMITTEE ON SOCIAL CONCERNS MINUTES OF MEETING OCTOBER 9, 2006 [These minutes reflect discussion and debate at a meeting of a committee of the University of Minnesota Senate; none of the comments, conclusions or actions reported in these minutes represent the views of, nor are they binding on, the Senate, the Administration or the Board of Regents.] PRESENT: Mani Subramani, chair, Joseph Marchesani, Jennifer Oliphant, Peter Hiniker, Brandi Hoffman, Richard Lidstad, Elizabeth Richardson, Benton Schnabel, Julia Washenberger, Carolyn Chalmers, Greg Schooler, Kenneth Heller, Catherine Jordan, Mira Reinberg REGRETS: Todd Tratz, Amelious Whyte, Katherine Fennelly, David Fox, Ajay Skaria, David Gysbers ABSENT: Craig Hassel GUESTS: Professor Norman Bowie, Carlson School of Management; Bill Cunningham, social investment advisor, Creative Investment Research; Stuart Mason, chief investment officer, Office of Asset Management I). Professor Subramani called the meeting to order,
SEC Adopts Regulations to Implement Sudan Accountability and Divestment Act of 2007
According to the SEC, "The Securities and Exchange Commission has adopted rules requiring a registered investment company (fund) to disclose when it divests, in accordance with the Sudan Accountability and Divestment Act of 2007, from securities of issuers that the fund determines conduct or have direct investments in certain business operations in Sudan. The Commission adopted the rules on April 24, 2008. The Sudan Accountability and Divestment Act required the SEC to prescribe regulations requiring this disclosure by April 29, 2008. On Dec. 31, 2007, the President signed the Sudan Accountability and Divestment Act into law. Among other things, the Act provides that no person may bring any civil, criminal, or administrative action against any fund, or any employee, officer, director, or investment adviser of the fund, based solely upon the fund divesting from securities issued by persons that the fund determines, using credible information that is available to the public, conduc
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Dangal crosses Rs. 100 crore mark
Mumbai, Dec 26 (IBNS): Actor Aamir Khan created another mega arrival on the silver screen after a gap of two years as the superstar's latest released movie 'Dangal' crossed crucial Rs. 100 crore mark in just three days since releasing on Friday.
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FMCG Newsletter - December 22 to 26, 2014
Costa Coffee is all set to celebrate the festive season across outlets in the city with the introduction of exciting new desserts for the festive period leading up to Christmas and New Year.
Dec 26, 2014 07:12 IST | India Infoline News Service
FMCG industry may return to double-digit growth rate next year: Nielsen study
Report said that the fast-moving consumer goods industry in India is set to return to double-digit growth rate next year, according to leading market tracker Nielsen. Nielsen expects the FMCG market to grow 7% in 2014, 10% in 2015 and about 12% in 2016, says report. "While India's GDP might not revive drastically and could stay below 6%, we still don't see it weighing down the overall FCMG growth" said Ranjeet Laungani, vice president reportedly said.
Amalgamation of EP Lamitubes helps us improve profits: Ashok Goel
In an interview with CNBC TV18, Ashok Goel, VC & MD, Essel Propack, talked about the amalgamation and its impact on the financials of the company. He said, "This helps in two ways, one is that it is a 100 percent subsidiary which held some overseas investment for us so by merger it will reduce some administrative cost and hassles. Besides that what we will do is that we are recording the assets at book value. So the differential of the asset value and the book value to the extent of Rs 275 crore will be adjusted against share premium account. Therefore to that extent, India’s standalone networth gets reduced. What it means is that it will probably help improve our profit quality that means ROC and ROE"...... Read More
Integration plan of Diageo India with USL in the best interest of the shareholders: Anand Kripalu
United Spirits is an Indian FMCG company and the world's second-largest spirits company by volume. The company has twenty-one brands in its portfolio that sell more than a million cases each year, of which five brands each sell more than 10 million cases annually. Earlier this year, Diageo bought 26% of United Spirits shares from public shareholders for Rs. 11,420 crore, raising its stake in liquor company to 54.78%.
In an interview with Business Standard, Anand Kripalu, who has been appointed by Diageo as Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer a year before, said that Diageo is pushing the company to put in place strategies to work towards that...... Read More
Costa Coffee rings in Christmas and New Year with ‘Festive Delights’
Costa Coffee is all set to celebrate the festive season across outlets in the city with the introduction of exciting new desserts for the festive period leading up to Christmas and New Year. Costa Festive Delights’includes luxuriant desserts which will add flair and flavor to the celebrations this festive season.
Costa’s festive dessert range includes the brand new Cherry Almond Muffin - a nutty and indulgent muffin, made with imported dark cherries enhanced with the crunch of wholesome almonds and all new Salted Caramel Chocolate Log- rich and moist salted caramel enclosed in a cake, topped with dark chocolate truffle and caramel chocolate candy...Read More
Gits Launches India’s First 'No Onion, No Garlic' Ready Meals
Gits Food Products Pvt Ltd, the pioneers in convenience packaged food today announced the launch of its innovative offering,‘No Onion No Garlic Ready Meals’. With this launch, Gits becomes the first company in India to tap this niche segment. The new variant will initially be introduced in 4 variants- Pav Bhaji, Dal Makhani, Veg Biryani and Paneer Tikka Masala and will be priced between Rs. 65 to Rs. 89.
Commenting on the launch, R.H.Gilani- Joint MD Gits Food Products Pvt Ltd. said “Since its inception, Gits has been a respected brand and enjoys incredible loyalty amongst consumers...... Read More
Philips Air Purifier partners with the most anticipated movie of Bollywood ‘PK
Philips India, the leading health and wellbeing brand, has entered into a marketing association with the movie ‘PK’ starring Aamir Khan and Anushka Sharma, directed by Rajkumar Hirani, to promote the company’s innovative range of Air Purifiers. This Air purifier range has a unique technology that improves the quality of air indoors and provides healthier air. ADA Ratnam, President- Consumer Lifestyle, Philips India Ltd, asserts “Clean and Healthy Air should be everyone’s right. We at Philips have always aimed at serving our patrons in the best possible way and have strived each time to offer solutions that meet the real needs of people...Read More
Pernod Ricard’s mega offer at Mumbai Duty Free
Pernod Ricard India, a leading Wine & Spirits company has announced an unprecedented attractive offer for the brand’s connoisseurs transiting through the Mumbai International Terminal ‘T2’ at the Chhatrapati Shivaji International Airport, a chance to win a luxury BMW 320D Sport Line. This exclusive offer is a step to get consumers closer to the wide range of luxury whisky brands under company’s portfolio.
Consumers who spend a minimum of USD 80 on Pernod Ricard’s portfolio of whisky brands including Chivas Regal, Royal Salute, Aberlour, The Glenlivet or Ballantine’s will be eligible for filling in a Lucky Draw Coupon through which a winner stands to win a BMW 320D Sport Line...Read More
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Gaillard Performing Arts Center
$142 Million - Partner with Skanska Trident
$16 Million - Horus: Interior, Metal Framing, Drywall, GRG, Masonry, Brick
The center will be a world-class performing arts venue for events, including performances staged by the internationally known Spoleto Festival USA. It’s one of the largest capital projects ever undertaken by the city, which was founded in 1670.
Horus Construction Co. has been awarded the $13.4 million subcontract for masonry work on the Gaillard project. Mayor Riley said the contract is thought to be among the largest such minority contracts in state history.
$58 Million - Horus: CM Partner with Skanska
This project included Construction Management for new museum facility with 3-Story atrium and state-of-the-art gallery spaces and a redesigned waterfront park. The building features a shimmering pierced aluminum exterior and state-of-the-art gallery spaces with innovative translucent ceilings and polished floors. 5 expansive interior galleries, one exterior sculpture gallery and an educational classroom equipped with the latest technology to offer visitors a wide variety of visual art experiences.
37 Acre Project
$1.2 Billion - Skanska-Mapp
$20+ Million - Horus: Site Services, Utility Building
The UMC will replace the Medical Center of Louisiana at New Orleans, which closed after sustaining serious flood damage during Hurricane Katrina. Located on Canal Street in downtown New Orleans, the 424-bed medical center will be the cornerstone of an expanding medical district that will attract the world’s top medical professionals while delivering high-quality care and advanced research. As the only Level One Trauma Center in Southeast Louisiana, UMC will serve as an important referral center for both severely injured patients and community hospitals throughout the region.
Horus Team at the UMC
Palm Beach Lakes Community High School
Palm Beach, Florida
$10 Million - CM Partner with Weitz
This project is a combination of both a classroom and academy addition. The academy will be designed to provide space to accommodate classes in Pre-Law, Medical Sciences, Marine Technology, and a Teachers Academy.
Berkshire Elementary
117,731 Sq.Ft.
This new elementary school includes a drama room with indoor/outdoor staging, a cafeteria seating 328 students, a music hall, an art studio, a media center, a play area, a PE building, a courtyard with gardens, and athletic fields. The covered play structure was originally designed with a structural steel and barrel tile roof. During the preconstruction stage, Horus Construction Services reviewed the design and converted the covered play structure into a metal building that resulted in more than $85,000 in savings to the Owner, with no sacrifice to design intent.
Nemours Children's Hospital
$240 Million - Skanska USA - Prime
$2.6 Million - Horus, Self Perform: Masonry
95-bed pediatric hospital on 63-acre greenfield site in Lake Nona’s developing medical city. The Children’s Hospital will serve as a hub for Nemours fully integrated health care system and, as such, will help meet the needs of medically complex and chronically ill pediatric patients who require subspecialty services. The project is seeking LEED® Silver certification.
Skyhouse
$25 Million - Batson Cook
$3.7 Million - Horus, Self Perform: Metal Framing, Drywall, Masonry
SkyHouse® Orlando is a new high-rise apartment community in the heart of downtown Orlando. Located just off I-4 at the intersection of Magnolia and Livingston, SkyHouse® features state-of-the-art amenities, ground-level shops and restaurants, and a pocket park at your doorspace. This innovative metropolitan design provides the convenience of urban living with the feel of a natural environment. Within walking distance of Lake Eola, Church Street, and the Central Business District, SkyHouse® Orlando is an oasis of modern luxury for the active urban dweller.
Kiley Gardens
> 1 Acre
This project included restorations and beautification work to the Riverfront park that is built atop of a parking garage located in downtown Tampa. Work included new drainage utilities, waterproofing, landscaping and irrigation, site pagers (concrete), as well as modernization of work to existing site reflecting pools for code compliance. Coordination of railings and site ligting installation was part of the scope.
$80,000 - Horus - Self Perform: Metal Framing, Drywall
The new facility offers 60 new patient rooms, 30 private inpatient rooms, conference space, exam areas, laboratory, research and conference space, four linear accelerators, and a three-story atrium in the lobby. This project was a recipient of an Eagle Award for the 2003 ABC Excellence in Construction for HVAC $5 to $10 Million Category and a Merit Award for Plumbing $1 to $5 Million Category.
Orange County Convention Center
2,200,000 Sq.Ft.
$1.1 Million - Hardin CM, Horus: Self Perform - Metal Framing & Drywall
The Orange County Convention Center consists of two buildings joined together by a covered pedestrian sky-bridge. The West Building, completed in four phases between 1983 and 1996, is located on the south side of International Drive. The North/South Building, located on the north side of International Drive, was completed in 2003.
Mall of Millennia
$3.2 Million - Hardin GC, Horus - Self Perform: Masonry
With nearly 150 shops, services, and eateries, the 1.2 million sq.ft. Mall of Millenia
Baycare Mc Mullen Booth
$2.6 Million Skanska CM, Horus: Metal Framing & Drywall
The first phase of BayCare's new system campus features the company's corporate office building. The campus provides a more efficient and collaborative work environment by bringing together administrative and shared services divisions previously located in multiple locations.
Airside A, Tampa International Airport
$120 Million - Skanska USA
$4.8 Million - Horus, Self Perform: Masonry, Metal Framing & Drywall
This project consisted of new baggage handling area with interior build-out for Airside A- Sort Building
Firm Responsibility: Wall Systems Contractor
Challenges: High Security and flexible working hours.
Airside C, Tampa International Airport
315,000 Sq.Ft. - 3 Levels
$134.5 Million - Beck
This project consisted of Interior and Exterior Walls, Ceilings, Soffits.
Tram enclosures, waterproofing and substrate for metal panels.
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Skyhouse Orlando Lounge Area
Skyhouse Orlando Lobby
Skyhouse Orlando Kitchen
Skyhouse Orlando Interior
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Berkshire Interior
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Lobby Panoramic
Chapel and Cafe Area
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Video appears to show a prototype for Apple’s magnetic wireless charger
Evan Selleck on September 17, 2020
Is Apple going to launch a wireless charger at some point in the future? It’s certainly possible! Apple might have cancelled AirPower, but that doesn’t mean the dream is quite dead just yet.
In a video initially shared with 9to5Mac, what appears to be a prototype for some kind of wireless charger is shown off. But while it appears to be an early-stages product, still well in development, there’s some question regarding what it’s actually meant for:
It’s unclear if the charging module pictured in the video is a prototype of an upcoming Apple product or an Apple development unit that the company will provide to third-party accessory makers similar to what it does with the Apple Watch charger and other parts through its MFi program.
Here’s the video:
Video claims to show Apple magnetic wireless charger prototype. More at @9to5mac pic.twitter.com/BDReuIIW4C
— Jordan Kahn (@JordanKahn) September 17, 2020
The rumor mill has not given up on an Apple-branded wireless charging mat, for what it’s worth. In June of this year, for instance, a leaked image reportedly showed off a new wireless charging option from Apple. Not quite the AirPower, but something that has been separately described as “less ambitious“. That could mean the new wireless charging mat doesn’t have the “place anywhere to charge” design as the original AirPower, along with a smaller size.
However, there has also been a rumor going around that the iPhone 12 may boast internal magnets that could relate to wireless charging or mounting accessories. Maybe this prototype of a magnetic wireless charger has something to do with those magnets in the iPhone 12.
Serial leaker: cheaper Apple Watch, Apple game controller, AirPods Studio, no 120Hz iPhone 12
Apple reportedly plans to enable 5G in Dual SIM mode with iPhone 12 lineup later this year
Apple is rumored to launch the new iPad Air 3 alongside the iPhone 12 models
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Sweetheart Tree set for removal due to yearslong decline
IDS file photo
The Sweetheart Tree, which resides in the Chemistry Building, will have to be removed for safety reasons. The new tree will take the place of the old tree once the soil has been restored.
By Nyssa Kruse
Published Apr 11, 2018 12:01 pm Last updated May 8, 2018 4:15 pm
IU began removing the famous Sweetheart Tree inside the Chemistry Building on April 11, University spokesman Chuck Carney said. The tree’s health had been declining for years, but suspicions of rot led the University to finally remove the legendary American Beech.
After soil has been replenished, IU intends to plant a new tree as a replacement.
“It was something that had to be done,” Carney. “There wasn’t any way to save it.”
Sad news: The tree located inside the Chemistry Building courtyard, commonly known as the "Sweetheart Tree", has been in steady decline for several years and now must be removed for safety. After the soil in the area is replenished, a new tree will be planted in its place. pic.twitter.com/JDlyzlmhAL
— Indiana University Bloomington (@IUBloomington) April 11, 2018
Campus lore alleges when the Dunn family sold land to IU, they mandated the tree be protected because their oldest daughter and her sweetheart carved their initials into the tree's bark.
However, according to a story posted on IU's pride and traditions page in January, "the deed to Dunn’s Woods indicates that the Dunns never mandated the protection of the Sweetheart Tree."
The tree has stood outside the Chemistry Building since its construction in 1931, according to the traditions website, and when an addition to the building was constructed in the 1980s, architects decided to build around the beloved beech.
After the tree is removed in sections over two days, Carney said the pieces will be examined to determine if portions can be repurposed into something for the campus to treasure.
“If there is a good section, perhaps something could be saved,” Carney said. “It’s just not clear at this point.”
Carney said the tree has sentimental appeal among Hoosiers, and the University wanted to make sure people knew why the tree had to come down.
“Every effort was made to preserve it,” Carney said. “It’s a historical piece of campus, and we’re sad its time has come and gone.”
Those interested in helping support campus trees can donate to the Bloomington Campus Tree Restoration fund here.
This story has been updated to include comments from the IU spokesman.
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Ashley Benson Hangs Out at G-Eazy’s L.A. Home Following Cara Delevingne Split
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Another hangout! Ashley Benson was seen at rumored boyfriend G-Eazy’s Los Angeles home on May 21. The Pretty Little Liars actress typed in the security code to enter the gated estate and popped out once to grab a food order. The artist was also spotted walking onto the sidewalk with a friend at one point.
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G-Eazy, 30, released a new song and music video for “Free Porn Cheap Drugs” at midnight, so it’s possible Ashley, 30, visited to celebrate the release. The starlet looked casual in a ripped white T-shirt, shorts and matching Doc Martens. The pair have been “hanging out” after the actress’ split from girlfriend Cara Delevingne, “but it’s not serious,” a source told Us Weekly.
Life & Style confirmed on May 6 Ashley and Cara, 27, broke up after more than two years together. Shortly after, fans started speculating the Spring Breakers star was having a flirtation with the “No Limit” artist. The rumors came to a head when they were caught kissing in a video on May 14.
There doesn’t appear to be any bad blood between Ashley and her ex. Cara came to the defense of the Hurricane Heist actress after she started receiving hate online. “To everyone hating on [Ashley], please stop,” the U.K. native wrote on her Instagram Story. “You don’t know the truth. Only her and I do and that’s exactly how it should be.”
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Ashley seemingly responded to the situation by “liking” an Instagram post slamming people for saying she “cheated.” Surprisingly, the blonde beauty’s sister, Shaylene, also spilled details about the connection that happened between Ashley and G-Eazy after they collaborated on the cover of Radiohead’s “Creep” together, which was released on April 22. Although she didn’t mention the rapper specifically, the details were a bit too specific.
Courtesy Shaylene Benson/Instagram
“It’s OK if you decide to heal through music and collaborate with other artists — and if a spark happens. It’s not a crime when you’re single,” the 31-year-old wrote on her Instagram Story on May 15 about heartbreak. “I mean a lot of people meet through working together, and if there is a connection, great! Do what you want. It’s no one’s business.”
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Shaylene also suggested it wasn’t Ashley’s “choice” to end her relationship with Cara. “Maybe it’s no one’s fault! Maybe it’s what the other person wanted and felt in their heart was the right thing to do for them,” she added.
It’s a new chapter. Keep scrolling to see photos of Ashley visiting G-Eazy’s house!
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Ashley looked relaxed and comfortable as she approached G-Eazy’s home. She arrived with what looked to be a script in her hand. Hopefully, she’s working on something fun!
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Without skipping a beat, the A-lister punched in the security code and headed inside.
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G-Eazy was unrecognizable with a thick beard as he stepped out of his gated home.
“Free porn, cheap drugs [and] late-night friends,” the rapper tweeted on May 21. It sounds like he was surrounded by close pals for his big release.
Time will tell what the future holds for Ashley and G-Eazy!
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Brittle stars in a sediment sample. Catched with the Multicorer. © M. Gogina
The first cruises within our project are already done. We spoke with the expedition leaders of the Elisabeth Mann Borgese 238 cruise, Mayya Gogina and Mischa Schönke about their impressions on board. Also Daniel Oesterwind and Michael Kriegel from Thünen-Institute have carried out their first cruises with Clupea and Solea. Here they tell how it was.
„A fisherman catched BIGO“
"The expedition with Elisabeth Mann Borgese (EMB) turned out to be surprisingly successful. The willingness to do everything possible to carry out the planned work was remarkable from the entire team,” Mayya Gogina says. Mischa Schönke adds: “Everyone was highly motivated and we quickly found a common rhythm. Thanks to the good weather and the fact that the sediment could be sampled better than assumed beforehand, we were able to take so many samples that the small sample containers were just enough. "
In the project Mayya investigates the community structure and biodiversity of macrofauna living on and in the seabed. "Macrofauna" is a group of different invertebrate species with a small size of about 0.5 mm to 50 mm. An example is the mussel Arctica islandica. To sample the sediment and its fauna on the sea floor, Mayya uses large sampling equipment that the ship lets into the water via wire.
Mayya has been the chief scientist on several occasions. "But the preparations and the implmentation of the cruise have never been as stressful and exciting as this time," she says. The planning and logistics due to the new COVID-19 conditions were a real challenge: the number of researchers on board was limited to seven people and each participant had to prove two negative corona tests before starting the journey. Shaking hands, hugging - everything was not allowed.
Submerged BIGO-Lander. © Submaris
“The test in advance is the key to ensuring that research cruises can take place in Corona times. Keeping one's distance and face mask can only be implemented to a limited extent on board, ” Mischa says.
The young geophysicist has already been on many trips, but now for the first time as chief scientist. "But the very first trip as chief scientist was particularly challenging for me". In addition to his own program, the measurement of the seabed, which was supposed to be used to determine the sampling stations, Mischa now had to lead a team from different disciplines and had to discuss the daily plans with the ship's command at the same time. However, Mischa had never put the new measuring devices into operation himself. “You can plan and test a lot in advance and everything turns out differently on board. So I was relieved when my equipment was set up and the team worked well together." Then on the evening before last, something completely unexpected happened.
“It was 11:20 pm on June 7th, 2020, just one more day at sea,” Mayya begins to tell. “Some people were sitting together and talked about the successful trip. But then suddenly Captain Tino Kaufmann came into the laboratory:“ I think a fisherman caught our BIGO-Lander with his nets despite all the warnings!
BIGO (BIGO = Biogeochemical Observatory) is a gear used to measure material flows, e.g. oxygen, nitrate or nitrite on the sea floor.
The scientists then went to the bridge to see how the fisherman tried to get his boat out of the danger zone. At 2 a.m. the fisher was successful to free itself, but the buoy line, which was attached to BIGOs surface marking and flashing light was gone. This buoy line is used to recover the device, but now it was no longer possible to recover BIGO. Hence, a diving team from Kiel was hired (Submaris), who dived down to BIGO and attached a new line. Finally, and thanks to Submaris, BIGO could brought back on deck using a ship's crane.
The mechanical damage to BIGO was unfortunately pretty obvious. During the maneuver with the fisherman he must have fallen on his side and been dragged along the bottom.
“I think a higher surface mark is nessessary the next time we work in an area with such high fishing activity," Mayya concludes.
On fishing
Two expetions have already taken place with the fishery research vessels Clupea and Solea from the Thünen-Institute. Aim: recording the fish communities.
Ph.D. student Michael Kriegl collected fish samples on trips to Fehmarnbelt and Oderbank. He examines the biodiversity, food ecology and maturity of the fish fauna in the two extremely different study areas. On board the species of the fishes were determined. Also the fishes were weighed and measured. This gave Michael a good overview of the fish communities in the project areas.
His first impressions: “The fish fauna in the protected area of Fehmarnbelt is comparatively diverse, we were able to detect more than 20 different fish species there.”
“Due to the lower salinity of Oderbank further east, the fish fauna in this area is significantly different. Compared to Fehmarnbelt, we find far fewer fish species here, ”adds Michael's supervisor Daniel Oesterwind.
In addition to all kinds of fish, a large number of other samples, from microscopic phytoplankton to larger, bottom-living invertebrate organisms, were taken for food web analyzes by colleague Martin Paar. In addition, plenty of samples of the mussel Arctica islandica were collected for the colleagues Stefan Forster and Martin Powilleit (all Rostock University).
Daniel Oesterwind explains how numerous Arctica can be found in the study areas around the Fehmarnbelt: "In the Fehmarnbelt, our nets filled up with Arctica mussels so quickly that we had to stop fishing after just 3 minutes to prevent the net from breaking."
The next trip is due in January 2021 and the scientists at Thünen-Institute are already excited to see what will be catched next time.
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Get to Know . . . Brennan Mercer
April 29th, 2013 by JaimeB
For this week, I interviewed a driver from north of the border. He is known for many things on iRacing. Some of you may know him as The Number Cruncher, while others may know him as the guy who sponsors drivers like Adam Gilliland, Chad J Laughton and Ray Alfalla in the NASCAR iRacing.com Series World Championship. One thing is for sure, since joining the service in January of 2012, he has made his mark on iRacing.com. His name is Brennan Mercer.
Brennan has won a dozen races in 283 starts on the oval side of iRacing.com, but is known for much more than his racing skills. The 29 year old from Alliston, Ontario is a key member of the Operations and Dispatch section in his father’s company, Garry Mercer Trucking Incorporated. The company has grown into a 50 truck operation with offices in Canada and the United States (learn more about the company at their website: http://www.gmercer.com/). Mercer also sponsors many drivers in the NiSWC, including former NASCAR iRacing.com Pro Series champions Alex Warren and Chad J. Laughton, 2013 NiSWC Daytona winner Adam Gilliland and two –time NiSWC champion Ray Alfalla.
Brennan has definitely made a statement on iRacing that he is here to stay, and I got the chance to talk to him about his iRacing career as of right now, and his life outside of iRacing in this week’s edition of Get to Know…
Garry Mercer at 2013 Auto Club 400 with Timmy Hill’s car.
Q: How long have you been sim racing?
A: I’ve have probably been sim-racing off and on since 1995. I started with one of the old Papyrus sims, Indy Car Racing II. From there I moved to the consoles. The next sim/game I played after that was F1 World Grand Prix on the Nintendo 64. That got me to the PS2 and to Gran Turismo 3. I also drove TOCA Race Driver on Xbox Live (which was my first online racing experience). Once done with one of the most lag-ridden driving experiences ever, I moved to Forsa and stuck with Turn 10 for all four versions of the game before I made the move to iRacing.
Q: How did you get started in iRacing?
A: I think like most people around on the service, I was already racing on the consoles but wanted something more. I watched a few videos on YouTube, saw that there were some great testimonials from professional drivers and I signed up.
Q: Which race car driver do you look up to the most?
A: If they dawn the Canadian Flag, I look up to them. Ron Fellows, Greg Moore and Paul Tracy are the first three that come to mind. I could make a huge list, but I would say that these three drivers are probably and will always be my favorites.
Q: What type of hobbies do you do outside of iRacing?
A: I referee ice hockey at a fairly decent level. If I am not racing online, you would probably find me at a rink in the Greater Toronto Area. I am a referee and linesman with the Greater Toronto Hockey League and a linesman with the Ontario Hockey Association. Both leagues have produced a huge amount of prospective NHL players. It’s really neat seeing someone who I’ve refereed make the NHL, and a few years after I officiated them they are scoring goals on Hockey Night in Canada.
Q: What is your greatest accomplishment on iRacing?
A: Garry Mercer Trucking Inc.-sponsored sim-racers have an amazing history at Daytona. It’s just something that we have had amazing luck at, especially at a tough place like Daytona.
So far at Daytona we have had:
Brian Macklin winning in the ETV Friday Night Showdown
David Comstock winning the GlacierTV Trick or Treat challenge
Chad J Laughton winning the 2012 NASCAR iRacing Pro Series season opener
Adam Gilliland winning the 2013 NASCAR iRacing Series World Championship season opener
Q: What are three things you hope to accomplish in 2013 on iRacing?
A: Having a Garry Mercer Trucking Inc.-sponsored driver win the NASCAR iRacing Series World Championship. Next week, I am starting the Real Sim Racing ETV series on Monday Nights. My goal is to win a race there, and I really believe that I can do that. Also, to improve my road racing skills; I’ve grown quite fond of mixed class racing and it’s kind of an area where I don’t put too much pressure on myself and just love to go out and log laps. I started racing with the guys over at ISRA and they are a great bunch of guys to race with.
“Through (iRacing), I have made some great friends, sponsored a NASCAR Sprint Cup team and have had a tremendous amount of fun.”
Q: What type of racing do you like to watch on TV?
A: I watch everything. If it has a motor and wheels, I will probably watch it. The last Sunday in May is my favorite day of the year when it comes to racing: Grand Prix of Monaco, Indianapolis 500 and Coca Cola 600. There is a huge party in my hometown of Alliston, Ontario that weekend where we have a charity dance for the Alliston Fire Fighters on the Saturday night. Sunday is the day of recovery and usually there is a gathering at my home for a race or two, nursing off a few of headaches that were attained the night before along the way.
Q: How do you think your fellow iRacers see you?
A: I would like to think I have a clean but fair reputation on the track. Off the track, I think people see me as The Number Cruncher (The guy who puts out the stats for the Road to Pro and NASCAR iRacing Pro Series on the forums and, lately, inRacingNews). I am constantly asked in the last three weeks of the season about their situation and grind to Pro. I started putting-out articles to help answer questions with inRacingNews this season and they seemed to have helped.
Don’t get me wrong, I love answering anyone’s questions about their situation or teammate’s situation and I am very happy to help.
Q: What is the one thing that people on iRacing probably don’t know about you?
A: I am not sure that people know this or not but Garry Mercer Trucking sponsored Timmy Hill’s and FAS Lane Racing’s #32 at Auto Club Speedway for the 2013 Auto Club 400. It was a small, one race deal, but to see the Mercer Trucking logo on the side of a car on one of the biggest racing series in the world was something that I will be telling my future children about.
Q: If you could go back and change one race in your career what would it be?
A: I don’t know if it was a race per say but how I handled certain situations would be different. I’ve learned (the hard way) that being a sponsor on this service you have to keep your mouth shut and not fight your driver’s battles for them or even start their battles. It is so hard to bite your tongue and I struggled with this for the first few months after we began sponsoring drivers. But I’ve learned and still find myself struggling but now succeeding in biting my tongue.
Casey Malon is one of many iRacers to have sported the Garry Mercer Trucking logo.
Q: If there was one thing you could change about iRacing, what would it be?
A: I really don’t like the way the NASCAR iRacing.com Class B open series has gone lately. I would love to see it changed back to the way it was, 100 lap races and 2 hour intervals. The series is hurting right now and it used to be one of the best on the service when we had the ETV Live Friday Night Garry Mercer Trucking Showdown.
Q: What is one thing that you love the most about iRacing?
A: I love the new NASCAR iRacing Series. It’s my favorite series right now. My wife, Maggie, knows that Thursday nights at 9 she is not going to see me for the next two hours. It’s just something that I enjoy and have fun doing. iRacing hit the nail on the head with this series. They did a fantastic job creating it.
Q: Overall, how do you rate your success on iRacing?
A: It’s been 15 months now and it’s been a great ride. I’m still learning things on the service when it comes to the track, so I don’t know if success is the right word. Through the service, I have made some great friends, sponsored a NASCAR Sprint Cup team and have had a tremendous amount of fun. Then and there is a success in itself.
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Big Ten Conference Will Play Football After All
By Tom Goldman • Sep 16, 2020
Originally published on September 16, 2020 2:53 pm
SACHA PFEIFFER, HOST:
The Big Ten has changed its mind about playing football. Last month, it became the first major college conference to postpone the huge moneymaking sport because of concerns about the coronavirus. Today the Big Ten, which includes perennial football powers like Ohio State and Michigan, announced it does plan to play, starting in late October. The decision follows lots of pressure to return, including from President Trump. NPR sports correspondent Tom Goldman joins us now to talk about that.
Hi, Tom.
TOM GOLDMAN, BYLINE: Hi, Sacha.
PFEIFFER: Tom, let's go back to last month, when the Big Ten commissioner, Kevin Warren, postponed fall sports, including football. At the time, he said there was too much uncertainty about potential medical risks to allow student athletes to compete. What changed?
GOLDMAN: It appears that uncertainty changed in the minds of Big Ten officials. Now, obviously, the virus still is with us, including on Big Ten campuses. But the conference feels it now has more certainty about the risks because of what it calls significant medical protocols to help keep athletes safe. And those include daily testing. That's critical. Athletes, coaches, anyone on the field for practices and games has to take a daily antigen test. Now, that's the speedier test. You can get results within minutes, but it's not the most accurate. So any athlete who tests positive with that test will then take a more accurate one to confirm.
PFEIFFER: Tom, when the Big Ten and then the Pac-12 postponed football, there was also a concern about potential heart issues for athletes infected with the coronavirus. Has that changed?
GOLDMAN: Yeah, there was growing concern about heart inflammation called myocarditis in athletes who tested positive. It can cause arrhythmias and sudden death in athletes taking part in strenuous exercise. Today I asked a sports cardiology expert, Dr. Jonathan Drezner from the University of Washington, whether anything has changed since last month about the understanding of COVID-19-related myocarditis or whether it's still a risk. And here's what he said.
JONATHAN DREZNER: You know, we're still concerned that it can be an issue, and there will be more, you know, cases of confirmed myocarditis in young athletes who are infected with COVID. And if we can identify them, then we can, you know, hopefully manage them very safely. So it is a risk.
GOLDMAN: But, Sacha, it's a risk the Big Ten believes can be mitigated with these new safety protocols, and they include what Dr. Drezner calls a really extensive cardiac evaluation for players who test positive for the virus. The evaluation includes an echocardiogram, a cardiac MRI and, in order to get back to play, clearance from a cardiologist.
PFEIFFER: All right. So a lot of health and safety measures going into this resumption...
GOLDMAN: Yeah.
PFEIFFER: ...Of Big Ten football. But of course, Tom, college football is not just a sport. It's a business. What other factors played a role in the Big Ten's decision to go ahead with its season?
GOLDMAN: Well, Sacha, money and pressure were not cited in today's Big Ten press release but not a stretch, really, to say those might have factored in. Big Ten football is big money - millions and millions in TV revenues and sponsors. And, you know, the conference would have taken a huge financial hit with absolutely no football - yes, lots of pressure since the decision to postpone in mid-August. Players' parents protested outside conference headquarters. Some Nebraska players sued the Big Ten.
And, yes, President Trump is very aware the Big Ten cuts a huge swath through the Midwest, a key region in the upcoming election. Trump said he talked to Big Ten Commissioner Warren this month and urged him to start up football. Today Trump tweeted, Big Ten football is back. It is my great honor to have helped. Now, an unnamed Big Ten university president told NBC News Trump had nothing to do with the decision. When Trump's name came up during deliberations, the university president said it was negative because no one wanted this to be political.
PFEIFFER: That's NPR sports correspondent Tom Goldman.
Tom, thank you.
GOLDMAN: You're welcome.
(SOUNDBITE OF RYAN HELSING'S "CASCADE") Transcript provided by NPR, Copyright NPR.
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Can brown rice slow the spread of type 2 diabetes?
The worldwide spike in type 2 diabetes in recent decades has paralleled a shift in diets away from staple foods rich in whole grains to highly refined carbohydrates, such as white rice and refined flours. Now, a group of researchers at Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) aims to stem the tide by changing the color of the world’s rice bowl from white to more-nutritious brown.
To tackle the issue, the researchers launched the Global Nutritional and Epidemiologic Transition (GNET) Working Group, a collaborative initiative between researchers from the Departments of Epidemiology and Nutrition at HSPH and their colleagues in Asia, Latin America, and Africa. The aim of the group is to prevent the global diabetes epidemic by improving the carbohydrate quality of staple foods in the diets of people from around the world.
Refined carbohydrates like white rice have a high glycemic index, which causes rapid spikes in blood sugar that increase diabetes risk. Foods with a lower glycemic index, like brown rice, are digested more slowly, causing a lower and gentler change in blood sugar. But eating white rice and other refined carbohydrates such as white bread is now firmly embedded in many cultures around the world. In China, for example, highly polished white rice has come to be seen as a symbol of affluence and brown rice of poverty.
The GNET group began a study in Shanghai, China, in 2008 to see if participants could switch from white rice to brown. The preliminary results of that study, led by Frank Hu, professor of nutrition and epidemiology, were promising. This focus group study assessed the awareness and acceptability of brown rice in 32 Chinese adults, and examined the feasibility of introducing brown rice into the diet. Most participants consumed white rice daily and only a few had tried brown rice previously. Before tasting, most participants considered brown rice inferior to white rice in terms of taste and quality. However, after tasting brown rice and learning about its nutritional value, the majority indicated greater willingness to consume brown rice. In addition, most participants expressed willingness to participate in a future long-term brown rice intervention study.
In a subsequent pilot study, a total of 202 middle-aged adults were randomly assigned to white rice or brown rice groups and consumed the rice for 16 weeks. The study found a reasonably good compliance with the brown rice intervention. Although no overall differences in metabolic factors were found between the two groups, the brown rice intervention showed some benefits in improving HDL cholesterol and blood pressure in diabetic patients. The study demonstrated the feasibility of conducting long-term brown rice intervention trials in a Chinese population.
GNET pilot studies are now underway in eight additional countries—Costa Rica, India, Kenya, Kuwait, Mexico, Nigeria, Puerto Rico, and Tanzania—to assess the effect of substituting whole grains, including brown rice, for refined carbohydrate staples on blood pressure and blood sugar levels in populations at risk for diabetes, and to evaluate the acceptability of such interventions in local communities. The results of these studies will form the basis of longer-term interventions, which are likely to start in two years.
“Our hope is that this project will shift world trends in staple food consumption,” said Hannia Campos, senior lecturer on nutrition. “We expect that the project will impact food policy, production, and processing so that whole foods and legumes become the norm.” Campos has been encouraged by “the willingness of academics, government officials and even industry to recognize the importance of this initiative and to participate in the best way they can,” she said. “And, it’s been inspiring to see how willing middle-aged adults at high risk for the development of diabetes are to make these sorts of changes to improve their health.”
A conference organized by GNET at HSPH on November 14, 2011, drew scientists from around the world. View videos and slides from the presentations.
–Amy Roeder
Replacing White Rice with Brown Rice or Other Whole Grains May Reduce Diabetes Risk (HSPH release)
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Solar Flare Activity May Boost Northern Lights This Weekend
By: Mike Wall
Published: 07/13/2012 12:01 PM EDT on SPACE.com
A massive solar eruption may trigger an exceptional weekend northern lights display, perhaps bringing the phenomenon into view as far south as California and Alabama, a NASA scientist says.
The sun unleashed an X-class solar flare — the most powerful type — at 12:52 p.m. EDT (1652 GMT) on Thursday (July 12). The storm also triggered a huge eruption of solar plasma known as a coronal mass ejection, or CME, which is now streaking directly toward Earth at roughly 3 million mph (5 million kph).
The CME is expected to hit our planet at 6:20 a.m. EDT (1020 GMT) Saturday (July 14), plus or minus seven hours, according to researchers with the Space Weather Lab at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md.
Thursday's solar outburst officially rated as an X1.4-class flare, making it the strongest sun storm of the summer so far. The flare and CME erupted from a massive sunspot known as AR1520, which scientists say may be up to 186,000 miles (300,000 kilometers) long. [Photos: Solar Flares From Giant Sunspot AR1520]
The CME's arrival at Earth will likely spawn moderate to severe geomagnetic storms, which may cause temporary disruptions to GPS signals, radio communications and power grids, scientists said.
Geomagnetic storms often generate dramatic aurora displays, which are also known as the northern and southern lights. So skywatchers around the world are likely in for a treat this weekend.
The CME "could produce aurora as far south as northern California and Alabama," C. Alex Young, a solar astrophysicist at NASA Goddard, told SPACE.com in an email update. "This would be into central UK and Europe or southern New Zealand."
"It could promise to be a great show of aurora," Young added. "I am hoping for some in Maryland."
Auroras result when charged particles from the sun collide with molecules high up in Earth's atmosphere, generating a glow. The northern and southern lights are usually restricted to high latitutes because Earth's magnetic field lines tend to funnel these particles over the planet's poles.
After remaining surprisingly quiet from 2005 through 2010, our star woke up last year. It has remained active in 2012, spouting off numerous CMEs and powerful solar flares, including an X5.4-class eruption in March.
Such outbursts are likely to continue over the next year or so. Solar activity waxes and wanes on an 11-year cycle, and scientists think the current one — known as Solar Cycle 24 — will peak in 2013.
We should expect more action from sunspot AR1520 for the next week, said Joe Kunches of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Space Weather Prediction Center in Colorado. The sunspot region is currently facing Earth, sitting near the center of the sun's southern hemisphere.
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