pred_label
stringclasses 2
values | pred_label_prob
float64 0.5
1
| wiki_prob
float64 0.25
1
| text
stringlengths 114
1.02M
| source
stringlengths 40
45
|
|---|---|---|---|---|
__label__wiki
| 0.629287
| 0.629287
|
The GOP Committee Purge: Not About Policy, But the "Asshole Factor"?
Brian Doherty | 12.13.2012 12:55 PM
The GOP leadership in the House is selling a counterstory to the "brave anti-spending Republicans smacked down by craven leadership" story connected to the loss of committee assignments by four Republicans known for bucking leadership in a more small-government, small-spending direction. (They are Reps. Justin Amash (R-Mich.) and Tim Huelskamp (R-Kansas) from the House Budget Committee, Reps. David Schweikert (R-Ariz.) and Walter Jones (R-N.C.) from Financial Services Committee.) I have blogged about one of the purged, Rep. Justin Amash, fighting back publicly yesterday and last week.
The new story? It isn't that the purged were too conservative; they were just uncollegial assholes. Politico's take:
In an interview with POLITICO, one member of the Steering Committee called them "the most egregious a—holes" in the House Republican Conference.
The argument: This went beyond voting records. The members who were booted made life harder for other Republicans by taking whacks at them in public for supporting the team, according to Republican sources familiar with the Steering Committee's decision…..
Rep. Lynn Westmoreland, a conservative who is close to party leaders, told them that "the a—hole factor" came into play in the Steering decision.
"He said that it had nothing to do with their voting record, a scorecard, or their actions across the street [meaning fundraising]," Westmoreland spokeswoman Leslie Shedd told POLITICO. "It had to do with their inability to work with other members, which some people might refer to as the a—hole factor."
Shedd said her boss didn't intend to call anyone a name and acknowledged later to her that "perhaps he should have said obstinate factor instead and wanted me to reiterate that he did not and would not call another member of Congress an a—hole."
Politico goes on to point out that booting from committees is a pretty nuclear option for House leadership in recent times:
these were the first members pulled off committees as punishment for political or personality reasons in nearly two decades. Even Tom DeLay, the fearsome majority leader known for hardball tactics, drew the line there.
More from Roll Call
[Rep. John] Fleming [(R-La.)] said…[it is] becoming more apparent that the members were removed for actions that constituted "friendly fire," or directing rhetorical barbs at members of their own party.
"There have been several members to stand up and say, 'You know, I kind of agree with leadership. You said some things that was a problem for me,'" he said. "There have been members and leadership who feel that it's one thing to vote and even message what you feel, but don't hurt your colleagues and don't hurt your leadership in doing that. In other words, don't go out and use other members who are supposed to be part of your army and make them the target of your rhetoric as well."
This "asshole" explanation isn't a distinct and different one from the "we were purged for being too serious about spending." It actually compounds the problem for those who are angry at leadership for a perceived lack of seriousness on spending.
This story says that, spending aside, actually trying to be a public voice pushing the party in a better direction on spending compounds the problem and makes you more worthy of being punished. It's not that "these are unpleasant people and bad colleagues and we don't want them around"; it's that they aren't just content to vote against bad stuff and then be quiet about it.
If the leadership thinks that this explanation is going to mollify the ideal Tea Party type who seriously see themselves as dedicated to making sure the Republican Party is good on spending issues, that seems highly unlikely. Such activists want their congressional champions to not only vote right, but to pressure their colleagues to do so as well. For those likely to care at all about the purged, the asshole factor is a feature, not a bug, as the kids on their computers say.
Amash and fellow purged Huelskamp talk about how they still have not had the exact reasons for their treatment explained to them, and more, on the radio with Sean Hannity. Some highlights from that: Amash says that his score on the still-mysterious scorecard used to judge and purge him by House leadership was, he was told by someone he won't name, a "zero." "Those who voted for more government were given positive scores," Amash believes. Amash says he's unhappy about the likely results of a leadership-approved tax and spending deal on the "fiscal cliff" negotations.
NEXT: Syria Moves Open-Source Engineer to Military Prison
Congress Justin Amash John Boehner Fiscal Cliff Government Spending
December.13.2012 at 1:03 pm
There is something to be said about keeping things inside of the clubhouse. And of course it’s ultimately all about power. Smart people don’t charge right up the hill and into the cannons.
April.1.2013 at 3:19 pm
Smart people don’t typically find themselves fighting their inept political mater’s war to begin with.
Citizen Nothing
Hey. The LP is already full of us assholes. The Fiscal Four would fit right in.
HazelMeade
Yes, they pretty much confirmed the spending theory. Essentially saying “They were assholes about spending. Why can’t they just go along to get along?”
That was my read. The original story was that these guys were booted for being too hardline on spending cuts.
The “counterstory” is that they were booted for, gee, not going along with the tax and spend plans of leadership? Oh, and being jerks about it.
Sure. If every Congresshole who was a jerk got kicked off their committees, there wouldn’t be anyone on the committees.
protefeed
What the leadership is saying is that they kicked the four off for being “assholes” for saying bad things in public about Republicans.
Which is an asshole move by leadership that consists of saying bad things in public about certain Republicans.
The utter lack of irony burns.
pmains
Amash I get. He’s the new “Dr. No.”
Schweikert? He just beat Ben Quayle in a primary and romped to victory in the general with 62% of the vote. His district was held by a Democrat from 2007-2010. The guy is popular at Tea Parties for his fiscal conservatism, but he’s not an abrasive guy. I certainly wouldn’t call him an extremist or an “asshole.”
We all know what congenial means: going along with party leadership even when they’re wrong.
collegial
Fist of Etiquette
Nothing we’ve heard about the GOP establishment legislators lends any credence to the notion they want go-along-to-get-along types. Republican leadership wants strong and independent voices in its members because that internal opposition only makes the party’s positions stronger for having been internally deliberated.
Now, vote how we tell you.
the Republican Party needs more assholes.
tarran
They weren’t assholes. They were dicks. Their crime was they were fucking the assholes who wanted to shit over everything. The assholes will only tolerate pussies because a pussy will sit quietly next to the asshole and not get in the way.
Francisco d Anconia
+1 anatomy lesson
Winning.
I think in a few centuries Trey Parker and Matt Stone’s works will be studied similarly to the way Shakespear’s stuff is studied now.
I get it, the GOP has no room for fiscal conservatives. That’s what they’re hammering home. Neither, of course, does the other major party.
Palin's Buttplug
Yes, it is telling that you don’t see any of the real batshit crazy SoCons (Bachmann, Gohmert, Paul Broun, Steve King) criticizing GOP leadership.
I assumed “the asshole factor” was the unspoken requirement of committee membership that involved a late-night one-on-one meeting in Boehner’s office.
the asshole factor is a feature, not a bug, as the kids on their computers say.
Pretty sure only adults on computers say that.
The kids say “I haz cheeseburger” or something similar.
It’s “I can haz cheeseburger,” you geezer.
Is anybody still interested in LOLcats?
“Hello, this is Dog. F* you, cut spending.”
Slumbrew
The dog’s voice from this damn video is now a permanent part of my subconscious & is now how I picture my dog’s speaking voice
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kAjM1pRIFP4
The members who were booted made life harder for other Republicans by taking whacks at them in public for supporting the team
So they admit there’s a team…
I think if Lynn Westmoreland called me an asshole I would probably want to throw a party or something. A $60k tea party perhaps…
injanear
I hate to admit he’s my rep. Ran uncontested again this year. 3rd time now! We would run someone against him but apparently not letting the GD QUEERS! GET GD MARRIED! IS THE MOST IMPORTANT THING ON EARTH! GWAR ASS SEX…THE CHILDREN!
Tulpa (LAOL-PA)
While Speaker-Boner’s actions are execrable as always, they are understandable. After the Akin/Murdoch fiasco during this election season, the GOP is cracking the whip on “messaging” like they’ve never done before. Unsurprisingly, the message they’re planning on having is not one of limited govt after the electorate made abundantly clear they want no such thing in practice.
That’s silly. The entire electorate said no such thing, and the House stayed in GOP hands, showing that it’s not some universal desire for goodies.
The GOP needs to present an alternative to the Democrats beyond the name. Weakening the distinctions between the two parties won’t help them, and it most assuredly won’t help the country.
Tulpa’s bizzarro explanation is laughable in the face of Boehner’s pathetic to non-existent message effort.
Invisible Finger
The GOP also has a different flavor of xenophobia.
Auric Demonocles
The electorate showed they don’t want women paying for their birth control or put into rape camps by racist old men.
Try harder.
Neither Amash or Schweikert is going off the reservation on abortion the way Mourdock and Akin did. Amash was thought to be vulnerable because he’s a libertarian, but he won by a comfortable margin 53-44 margin against a strong opponent. Schweikert won handily as expected. If Boehner is worried about maintaining the GOP majority, he needs to look elsewhere.
Bill Dalasio
Yeah, they’re really cracking down on messaging, except on guys like Akin or Murdoch.
Neither of those guys is in Congress, so how would they crack down on them?
robc
He said like Akin or Murdoch. There are plenty of guys in congress LIKE them.
The purpose of these committees is not to produce good legislation.
Rather the purpose is to kill good legislation without having to actually vote against it.
Seems that these misguided representatives actually thought they were supposed to do what most people think they do, instead of obeying the party leaders.
Calling them assholes is an ad-hominem cop out.
BarryD
If we got rid of all the assholes in DC, there would be anarchy!
Not a bad thing, from my perspective, but is this what the GOP wants? There’s no money for them in anarchy.
…”he did not and would not call another member of Congress an a?hole.”…
i agree. its far too dignified. i believe something more like, “soulless, rancid, shit-eating abominations and disgrace to the human race” is far more apropos. for all of them.
Dark Helmet: Careful you idiot! I said across her nose, not up it!
Laser Gunner: Sorry sir! I’m doing my best!
Dark Helmet: Who made that man a gunner?
Major Asshole: I did sir. He’s my cousin.
Dark Helmet: Who is he?
Colonel Sandurz: He’s an asshole sir.
Speaker Boner: I know that! What’s his name?
Whip McCarthy: That is his name sir. Asshole, Representative Asshole!
Boner: And his cousin?
McCarthy: He’s an asshole too sir. Budget Committee Ranking Member Philip Asshole!
Boner: How many assholes do we have in this house, anyway?
[Entire House of Representatives stands up and raises a hand]
Entire House of Representatives: Yo!
Boner: I knew it. I’m surrounded by assholes!
[Boner slams his gavel down]
Boner: Keep debating, assholes!
OK, I totally screwed up that cut and paste. But you get the idea.
Speaker Boner: Careful you idiot! I said slow down the spending, not cut it!
Ways and Means Committee Member Asshole: Sorry sir! I’m doing my best!
Boner: Who put that man on the ways and means committee?
Representative Asshole: I did sir. He’s my cousin.
Boner: Who is he?
Whip McCarthy: He’s an asshole sir.
What a joke. Asshole = not letting us get on with ‘business’. Business meaning ‘loot and pillage’.
What is the best way to go about convincing Amash to switch to the LP?
Rights-Minimalist Autocrat
Let Boehner keep talking.
Brett L
Just to be clear, the GOP believes that being puerile in addition to venal is the way they want to spin this?
So they want to be absolutely clear that the Republicans are firmly behind the Democrats in not doing anything about out-of-control spending or the looming fiscal disaster(s).
If the leadership thinks that this explanation is going to mollify the ideal Tea Party type who seriously see themselves as dedicated to making sure the Republican Party is good on spending issues, that seems highly unlikely.
The so-called leadership of the republican party in the House, and the leadership of the party generally, simply do not care. They are sociopaths.
The republican party must be destroyed.
(Iggy, aka Sevo? What do you think?)
While I agree, I’d like to see the Democrats go first, since they seem more dedicated to suicide, at least marginally.
The trouble is that characteristics of leaders and those of psychopaths overlap.
Who here voted GOP, again?
I voted Conservative, but they cross-endorsed Republicans in most races.
|
cc/2021-04/en_middle_0045.json.gz/line1168
|
__label__wiki
| 0.654085
| 0.654085
|
Garmin GPSMAP 64sx GPS
The GPSMAP 64sx is the updated version of the GPSMAP 64s. New features include multi-GNSS support including GPS, GLONASS, and Galileo, as well as 8GB memory. Explore the world with reliable navigation on a clear 6.6cm (2.6") sunlight readable display. It's water resistant and rugged, to withstand the harshest conditions, and has the capacity for expanded storage via a micro SD. The device lasts up to 16 hours on one charge in GPS mode.
Best Price: £279.99 from Ordnance Survey
Garmin GPSMAP 64sx GPS £279.99 Visit Store
Garmin GPSMAP 64x GPS
The GPSMAP 64x features include multi-GNSS support including GPS, GLONASS, and Galileo, as well as 8GB internal memory. Explore the world with reliable navigation on a clear 6.6cm (2.6") sunlight readable display. It's water resistant and rugged, to withstand the harshest conditions, and has the capacity...
Garmin eTrex 22x Bicycle GPS Sailing, Hiking, Cycling Europe GLONASS, GPS, sprayproof, incl. topographic maps
eTrex 22x is designed with outdoor activities in mind, especially walking and cycling. It has a 5.6cm (2.2") sunlight readable, full colour screen, and comes pre-loaded with the Garmin TopoActive Europe map, which shows roads and key offroad trails. You can also use the 8GB memory to add additional...
|
cc/2021-04/en_middle_0045.json.gz/line1174
|
__label__cc
| 0.646125
| 0.353875
|
DNA ploidy of malignant melanoma determined by image cytometry of fresh frozen and paraffin-embedded tissue.
Image analysis of DNA content was performed from single nuclei of melanoma monolayer imprints made from fresh frozen tissue of 14 patients with primary malignant melanoma and 16 patients with local recurrences at the incision site and local or distant metastases. This procedure requires fewer cells and is an advantage when the quantity of tumor available is limited, especially in thin low Breslow depth cutaneous melanomas. Image analysis allowed reproducible measurement of DNA ploidy from 100 cells. The frequency of aneuploidy was similar in primary and metastatic melanomas. Three of 3 patients with euploid primary melanomas showed no evidence of recurrences or metastases, though one died of unrelated disease with short follow-up. The 4 patients with primary melanoma who developed metastases had aneuploid primaries; two of these patients died of metastatic disease. Three of 4 patients with euploid metastatic tumors were free of disease at last follow-up, and 1 patient died with stable disease. Nine of 12 patients with aneuploid tumors died of metastatic disease. The frequency of DNA ploidy in the present image analysis study correlated with previous flow cytometry studies. In 9 patients with primary tumors with a Breslow depth greater than 0.75 mm, the DNA content was also determined in nuclei obtained from formalin-fixed paraffin-embedded tissue. The frequency of aneuploidy was higher in fresh tissue (7 of 9) as compared with paraffin-embedded tissue of the same cases (4 of 9).
Seigler, Hilliard Foster
Herzberg, AJ; Kerns, BJ; Borowitz, MJ; Seigler, HF; Kinney, RB
Journal of Cutaneous Pathology
DNA, Neoplasm
Ploidies
|
cc/2021-04/en_middle_0045.json.gz/line1177
|
__label__wiki
| 0.588202
| 0.588202
|
ROSATOM GLOBAL PRESENCE
Preventing corruption
ROSATOM IN REGION
History of cooperation
Areas of cooperation
Procurement standard
How to become a supplier
Rosatom’s integrated offer
Rosatom in the media
Rosatom newsletter
© 2008–2021 The State Atomic Energy Corporation ROSATOM
Write search query and press Enter
Ghana is planning to boost its local energy generation with nuclear power plan
12 July, 2019 / 19:21
To achieve affordable industrial energy, Ghana has announced very ambitious plans to introduce nuclear power into the country’s energy mix. Ghana’s Atomic Energy commission is currently preparing a report on the Nuclear Power Programme and upon presentation to government, a decision would be taken regarding financing the project.
A nine-member board, known as ‘Nuclear Power Ghana’ has been formed by the government to oversee full implementation of the programme. Also, a team has been sent on an observation trip to assess and collect data on possible sites for the Nuclear power project.
The programme is expected to be completed between 10 to 15 years. Once completed, Ghana will become the second African country with nuclear power in its energy mix, the first being South Africa. Ghana hopes to champion the project with its pool of competent, well-trained scientists and functional institutions, some of which include the Nuclear Power Institute, Ghana Atomic Energy, Nuclear Regulatory Authority and School of Allied and Nuclear Sciences.
Minister of Environment, Science, Technology and Innovation Professor Kwabena Frimpong Boateng, said the country had been operating a research reactor for 25 years and could pass for a small nuclear power plant. He also said the country had trained nuclear scientists from other African countries as well as from Pakistan and Iran.
Professor Boateng further revealed strategies to control radiation exposure to humans and environment, with the National Regulatory Authority already drafting regulations including Emergency Preparedness and Response Regulation for Operators, Regulations on the Safe Transport of Radioactive Materials, Design of Nuclear Installations Regulations, Licensing of Nuclear Installations Regulations, Transport Security Regulations and Physical Protection of Nuclear Installations Regulations.
Although one of the biggest challenges of developing nuclear energy anywhere is finance, a third of the almost thirty countries considering nuclear energy globally are in Africa. Ghana, Egypt, Kenya, Morocco, Niger, Nigeria and Sudan are already engaged with the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) to assess their nuclear programmes. For Ghana, cost-effective, reliable electricity is the entry point to higher-value-added manufacturing and export-led growth. A clear nuclear plan is only the first step to getting there.
Published by Ventures Africa.
2020 News “Atoms Empowering Africa” Online Video Competition Launched MORE
Начать проигрывание
Postal Address: Postnet Suite #64,
Private Bag 9976, Sandton RSA, 2146
Physical Address: 7th Floor,
Sandton City Office Tower, Sandton City, Johannesburg, RSA, 2196
E-mail: info@rosatom.co.za
© 2021 All rights reserved. State Atomic Energy Corporation "Rosatom"
This site uses cookies. By continuing your navigation, you accept the use of cookies. For more information, or to manage or to change the cookies parameters on your computer, read our Cookies Policy. Learn more
I accept the cookies
|
cc/2021-04/en_middle_0045.json.gz/line1180
|
__label__wiki
| 0.907854
| 0.907854
|
After brutal primary, Romney claims Florida win
Published on January 31, 2012 in Uncategorized by Peter Schorsch
Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney stormed to a convincing win in Florida’s Republican presidential primary Tuesday, bolstering the front-runner’s argument that he is the best candidate to compete with President Barack Obama in swing states in the general election, reports Brandon Larrabee of the News Service of Florida.
With 98 percent of precincts reporting, Romney had 46 percent of the vote to former U.S. House Speaker Newt Gingrich’s 32 percent. Former Pennsylvania Senator Rick Santorum and Texas Congressman Ron Paul were running far behind, with 13 and 7 percent of the vote, respectively.
The win allowed Romney to show off his ability to win a state that will be the largest competitive prize in the November showdown with Obama.
Standing in the city where Republicans will gather in seven months to hold their convention, Romney gave a speech that at times sounded like he was accepting the GOP nomination.
“I stand ready to lead this party and to lead our nation,” Romney said. ” … My leadership will end the Obama era and begin a new era of American prosperity.”
Romney swept the major metropolitan areas of the state, though the results were very close in Duval County, where Romney won by fewer than 1,400 votes out of more than 86,000 cast.
Gingrich carried many of the largely rural counties in North Florida and the south-central part of the state.
The victory was almost certain to ratchet up pressure on Gingrich, who has vowed to fight on, to drop his upstart bid. Gingrich came into Florida will a full head of steam after his South Carolina victory Jan. 21, but the momentum fizzled after two lackluster debate performances and an avalanche of negative ads from Romney’s campaign and “super PAC.”
Florida House Speaker-designate Will Weatherford, R-Wesley Chapel, said Romney’s win in Florida had “defined” the race.
“I think that Mitt Romney has shown that he’s the candidate that is going to win the nomination,” Weatherford said. “The other candidates have to decide how long they want to stay in.”
Gingrich, for his part, showed no interest in stepping aside following the defeat.
“It is now clear this will be a two person race between the conservative leader Newt Gingrich and the Massachusetts moderate,” the former speaker said in his post-election speech.
That prospect delighted Democrats, who watched the Florida primary devolve into a bitter and personal feud between Gingrich and Romney. Florida Democratic Party Chairman Rod Smith said Romney’s bombardment of Gingrich had tarnished his future prospects in the state.
“He may have won this contest, but he lost the opportunity to win the hearts and minds of the people of Florida,” Smith said.
Romney and party leaders were quick to say that the intraparty battle would soon enough give way to a party united in an effort to defeat Obama.
“A competitive primary does not divide us, it prepares us, and we will win,” Romney told hundreds of cheering supporters who waved American flags and “Florida Believes” signs.
Republican Party of Florida Chairman Lenny Curry, who joined the Romney party but officially remains neutral, suggested that the back-and-forth amounted to a vetting of the candidates and could inoculate the party’s nominee against attacks from Obama in the fall.
“We have a winner here now,” Curry said. “I think the negative advertising is old news.”
Previous Story Previous post: Sen. Greg Evers, files conflict-of-interest disclosure, may still vote on prison privatization issue
Next Story Next post: Election results from Clearwater, Kenneth City, St. Pete Beach, Safety Harbor & Temple Terrace
|
cc/2021-04/en_middle_0045.json.gz/line1183
|
__label__wiki
| 0.750766
| 0.750766
|
Sunburn for 3.29.17 – Budget fireworks; Mid-Session thaw on gambling; Netflix & chill bill; Vanna White at The Villages!; Spider Man trailer!!!
Published on March 29, 2017 in Peter/Top Headlines by Peter Schorsch
By Peter Schorsch, Phil Ammann, Jenna Buzzacco-Foerster, Mitch Perry and Jim Rosica.
WE GOTTA GET OUT OF THIS (BUDGET) PLACE
So now the lines of negotiation are being drawn over the budget, the one bill constitutionally required to be passed every session, and already lawmakers are entrenched.
As our Michael Moline reported Tuesday, a House panel committed $25 million to VISIT FLORIDA, the state’s tourism marketing agency.
That’s far less than the $76 million recommended by its Senate counterpart earlier in the day.
And say goodbye to a plethora of business subsidies and Enterprise Florida, the state’s public-private economic development organization, if the House had the final say.
Kudos to Rep. Clay Ingram for the money quote: “If we were to go to conference right this second, I have no idea how it would turn out.”
Even Agriculture Commissioner Adam Putnam is ticked off. He said the House Agriculture & Natural Resources Appropriations Subcommittee did a “political assault” on Fresh From Florida.
“Gutting the Fresh From Florida program will hurt Florida’s small farms the most, their ability to raise awareness for the high quality of their locally grown products and compete against lesser quality products from foreign countries,” Putnam said in a statement.
On the flip side, Americans for Prosperity-Florida is upset with the Senate for not being parsimonious enough.
Chris Hudson, its state director, opined in a press release that Enterprise Florida is in the “handouts” business.
“We will use every tool at our disposal to ensure that Floridians know which members of the legislature support corporate welfare and the programs that give away their tax dollars to private businesses instead of better supporting real priorities like education and infrastructure,” he said.
Wait, isn’t that Gov. Rick Scott’s trick, going to members’ home districts and publicly shaming them for not voting his way?
So much stress! What’s the game plan to get to #SineDie in 60 days? Can we do it? Special session, anyone?
That’d be a lot easier to stomach if we still had our free candy and soda on the 5th floor. Alas, nothing—including shiny, happy feelings in the Rotunda—lasts forever.
FINEOUT EXPLAINS – THE LOOMING BUDGET BATTLE via Gary Fineout for his blog, The Fine Print — After listening to leaders in the House and Senate discuss their priorities, the expectations are that the rival budgets could be widely divergent in what they cut, what they keep and what they enhance. There are a multiple reasons for that, whether it’s Senate President Negron‘s push for increased money for state universities, or Speaker Corcoran‘s insistence that the state shutter its economic development agency Enterprise Florida.
But less noticed is that the House, Senate and Gov. Scott have chosen to include information that supports their arguments, while seemingly sidestepping other salient points. This could influence the tenor of the debate that is about to intensify. So it might be worthwhile and step back for just a second to recall how everybody got here and what’s important to remember for the budget battle that still lies ahead. …
DON’T CALL IT A DEFICIT: There is no budget deficit this year. Plain and simple. To understand the underlying budget situation, it’s important to realize this. In Florida a deficit occurs when the state collects less money than what is needed to pay for things that are in the budget. Florida’s tax collections are in fact growing. The main budget account – known as the general revenue account – is expected to grow in the current fiscal year by 4.4 percent, or $1.23 billion. This same account, which relies on a variety of tax sources but primarily the state’s sales tax, is expected to grow $1.16 billion – or 3.9 percent – in the fiscal year that starts on July 1. …
THE SCHOOL TAX DEBATE: If there is one item that could derail the entire budget process it’s the thorny annual dilemma over school property taxes. Here’s the problem: As property values rise, this translates into more money collected by local school districts that could be spent on public schools. In other words, if the value of your home goes up you will pay more in taxes in the coming year – unless the tax rate is lowered by an equal amount to offset the increase in values. Legislators don’t appropriate this local property tax money – BUT – they do draw up spending plans that assumes a mixture of both local and state funding. This is known as the Florida Education Finance Program or FEFP and districts that wish to draw down the state funding must collect a certain amount of money. (This is known as the required local effort or RLE.) … Scott has maintained that this isn’t a tax increase and his own budget recommendation relies on nearly $558 million in increased local school taxes to help pay for an overall 3 percent increase in per-student funding. …
BOTTOM LINE: Under the current schedule legislators are operating under the House and Senate are expected to pass their budgets during the second week of April. That week is already truncated because of religious holidays so it is highly unlikely that any negotiations or work can begin until April 17. That means legislators will have about 15 days to get everything worked out in order to get a budget finished on time. That’s because Florida law requires the budget to be finished 72 hours before the final vote. So that’s a lot of ground to cover in a short amount of time.
Besides the above-mentioned topics there’s other issues at play, including pay raises, more money for charter schools etc. The clock is ticking.
***Today’s SUNBURN is brought to you by Spectrum Reach, the marketing platform of choice, connecting you to your target audience on TV, digital and mobile. With access to our powerful data and insights, solutions for every screen, and the best programming content on the top 50+ networks, we’ll help you reach the right customers for your business. SpectrumReach.com #NeverStopReaching***
HOUSE BUDGET WOULD ADD ‘EMERGENCY’ $200 MILLION FOR CHARTER SCHOOLS via Florida Politics – The House public education budget would be extra kind to charter schools next year, pumping $200 million into charters specifically targeting children stuck in persistently low-performing classrooms. The money would provide grants to “charter school networks with a proven track record of serving specifically low-income students and successfully closing the achievement gap,” said Manny Diaz Jr., chairman of the PreK-12 Appropriations Subcommittee. … “This is intensive care,” he said. “This is one of those intensive tools to go after that.” Diaz wants to give more money to teachers, too, including $200 million to make Best and Brightest Scholarship bonuses available to more teachers.
HOSPITALS FACE MEDICAID CUTS IN FIRST DRAFTS OF STATE BUDGET via Michael Auslen of the Tampa Bay Times – Florida state lawmakers proposed cuts to Medicaid that could take as much as $621.8 million away from hospitals next year. The proposals, put forward by the House and Senate health care budget subcommittees are meant to reduce the state budget, but they have hospitals on edge. In the House, Rep. Jason Brodeur recommended cutting the state’s share of Medicaid by $238.6 million. However, Medicaid is mostly funded by the federal government, so every dollar the state cuts has more than double the impact. The House proposal would take $621.8 million total from hospitals. Sen. Anitere Flores… recommended more modest cuts in the Senate: $99.3 million from the state budget, or a $258.6 million total hit.
LIBERAL GROUP ATTACKS ANITERE FLORES OVER BUDGET via Patricia Mazzei of the Miami Herald – A left-leaning political group is attacking Flores over potential state budget cuts moving through her legislative subcommittee. Florida Strong, a nonprofit that went after Flores and other Republicans during last year’s election, mailed some of Flores’ constituents, urging them to call Flores’ office and oppose the cuts. It’s Florida Strong’s first flier of the annual lawmaking session, spokesman Charly Norton said. “We are focusing on legislators’ priorities this session and plan to continue shedding light on misplaced priorities that run counter to Floridians’ best interest.” Flores chairs an appropriations subcommittee that considers budget proposals — in some cases, even if Flores isn’t the one behind them or doesn’t agree with them.
CARY PIGMAN CLEARED IN STATE ETHICS CASE, RESIGNS CHAIRMANSHIP via Florida Politics – State Rep. Pigman did not misuse his official position to retaliate against a school principal in his district, an administrative law judge ruled this week. In a 22-page order, Judge June C. McKinney recommended that the Florida Commission on Ethics dismiss its case against the Avon Park Republican, first elected in 2012. He still faces a DUI charge from an unrelated incident last week. Pigman, also a doctor of emergency medicine and Army Reserve physician, had been accused of “linking his efforts to obtain legislative funding for the Okeechobee School District … to retaliate or attempt to retaliate against an employee of the School District.” That employee was elementary school principal Tracy Maxwell Downing, the ex- sister-in-law of Pigman’s former secretary, Libby Maxwell, with whom he had been having an affair and to whom he is now married. In an unrelated move, Pigman stepped down Tuesday as chair of the House Health Quality Subcommittee, after being charged last week with drunk driving on Florida’s Turnpike.
HOUSE MARIJUANA BILL DRAWS SUPPORT FROM ANTI-MEDICAL MARIJUANA CROWD via Daniel Ducassi of POLITICO Florida – The House proposal to implement Florida’s medical marijuana constitutional amendment cleared its first committee Tuesday by a 14-1 vote, drawing praise from some early critics of the amendment. “It is my concerned opinion that this bill should be advanced,” said Calvina Fay, executive director of Drug Free America Foundation, a group funded by wealthy developer Mel Sembler, who has donated millions opposing medical marijuana constitutional amendments. She listed her worries about what implementation has looked like in other states and added “I want to see my state protected.” … (Ben Pollara) pointed to the bill’s backing by Drug Free America, which had vigorously opposed the amendment, as a clear indication that the bill is not what voters were looking for when they cast their ballots in favor of the amendment.
HOUSE COMMITTEE PASSES WATERED-DOWN RECESS BILL via Allison Nielsen of Sunshine State News – The Florida House K-12 Innovation Subcommittee passed a watered-down version of a bill to require recess in public schools … Lawmakers unanimously approved a committee substitute bill for the original proposal, HB 67, which would blend recess and physical education classes as part of Florida’s 50 minute per week requirement for physical education. The original proposal would have required school districts to provide a mandatory 20 minutes of recess each day when P.E. classes aren’t held — adding up to 100 minutes of recess time each week for students in kindergarten through fifth grade. That change to the bill is especially controversial among physical education experts, who say adding recess in addition to physical education has several benefits, including improving memory, attention and concentration.
DESPITE CITY AND COUNTY PROTESTS, VACATION RENTAL BILL GAINS GROUND via Steve Bousquet of the Tampa Bay Times – Despite opposition from Miami and Miami-Dade and a group of beach communities, a Florida House subcommittee passed a bill that prevents cities and counties from passing any new ordinances that restrict vacation rentals of private homes. The 9 to 6 vote by the Careers & Competition Subcommittee sends the controversial bill to the 30-member Commerce Committee, which is top-heavy with lawmakers from South Florida where opposition to short-term vacation rentals has been most intense. The bill (HB 425), sponsored by Rep. Mike LaRosa prevents local governments from imposing new restrictions on vacation homes. Local ordinances that were in effect June 1, 2011, could remain, but restrictions adopted after that date, including laws based on a 2014 legislative compromise, would be declared “void and unenforceable” by the state and wiped off the books. “This industry has been under attack,” LaRosa testified. “Individuals’ private property rights have been violated.”
BILL JEOPARDIZING SFRTA FUNDING PASSES FIRST COMMITTEES via Legislative IQ powered by Lobby Tools – An omnibus bill that in part dictates how the South Florida Regional Transportation Authority can be funded passed the House Transportation & Infrastructure Subcommittee. A provision in HB 865 would require the Department of Transportation to withhold funding for the SFTRA unless the transportation institution rescinds a $511 million contract it awarded earlier this year. An amendment was offered by Rep. Kristin Jacobs … that would have stripped the language in the bill relating to SFRTA funding. The amendment was initially adopted, but eventually failed after a second vote was taken.
COMMITTEE REJECTS BILL THAT WOULD STOP FUTURE EXPRESS LANES via Scott Powers of Florida Politics – A bill seeking to end Florida’s practice of developing tolled express lanes was rejected by the House Transportation and Infrastructure Subcommittee. Various members of the committee cited some reasons why they would not want to see Florida stop developing special lanes that could give higher-speed options through typically congested areas to high-occupancy cars or drivers willing to pay tolls for that privilege, and House Bill 777 went down. Part of the debate centered on those who believe such tolled specialty lanes — dubbed HOT lanes, express lanes or Lexus lanes — are the only practical way to add capacity to crowded expressways, versus those who see them as unfair. But sponsor Rep. Matt Willhite argued that his bill was a safety measure, citing accident statistics and anecdotes suggesting that they’re a public safety hazard, more trouble than they’re worth.
FANTASY SPORTS BILL CLEARS FIRST PANEL via Florida Politics – With no debate, a bill to exempt fantasy sports play from state gambling regulation was OK’d by a House panel Tuesday. The measure (HB 149), sponsored by Sanford Republican Jason Brodeur, cleared the Tourism and Gaming Subcommittee. It would clarify that fantasy contests “reflect the relative knowledge and skill of the participants” and are not games of chance and thus potentially illegal gambling. The legislation specifically includes games based on “athletes in the case of sports events.” A Senate version goes further, creating a separate office to oversee fantasy sports companies operating in the state.
— “Mid-Session thaw: Gaming bill is headed to conference” via Mary Ellen Klas of the Miami Herald
NETFLIX, HULU TAX EXEMPTION BILL PASSES FIRST SENATE COMMITTEE via Legislative IQ powered by Lobby Tools – Internet video streaming services like Netflix, Hulu and YouTube would not be subject to taxation under the communications service tax, a bill (SB 1636) that passed unanimously the Senate Communications, Energy and Public Utilities Committee … A staff analysis said some states and cities are starting to apply taxes to streaming video to make up for decreasing CST revenues. The bill “exempts internet video service from the definition of ‘communications services,’ and therefore from the communications services tax.” Bill sponsor Sen. Frank Artiles, said there is a “tremendous amount of confusion” over which companies should be collecting CST tax of streaming video.
HOUSE ADVANCESPILOT PROGRAM TO TREAT MENTAL HEALTH VERSUS JAIL via Les Neuhaus of Florida Politics – A House committee voted unanimously in favor of a bill to begin the Forensic Hospital Diversion Pilot Program in the Panhandle’s Okaloosa County. Rep. Mel Ponder, who sponsored HB 1051, introduced the measure to the House Children, Families and Seniors Subcommittee. The bill intends to alleviate overcrowding in the state’s prison corrections system with a significant percentage of individuals with mental health needs. Often, those individuals go ignored while incarcerated. Ponder cited fully one-quarter of Okaloosa’s inmates had some sort of mental health need, with the county ranking first in the region for such an issue. “When I heard we were the No. 1 county in northwest Florida, it just lit my fire even more,” he said.
HOUSE POISED TO REINSTATE FEDERAL RESIGN-TO-RUN REQUIREMENT via Gary Fineout for his blog, The Fine Print – The state changed the law in 2007 when Gov. Charlie Crist, then a Republican, was in office and there was buzz that he could wind up seeking higher office. In essence the change meant that Crist or any other elected official didn’t have to resign from their current office if they planned to run for president, vice president, U.S. Senate or Congress. The argument at the time – which was when Marco Rubio was House speaker (but after Corcoran had left as his chief-of-staff) was that Florida should do what it could to help its rising stars seek higher office without forcing them to give up their existing posts. This is a practice common in many other states. … (The House) election bill doesn’t just stop there – it has a few other changes sure to draw fire, including a proposal to force cities to have their elections at set times instead of whenever the city wants to schedule it. The bill would also not allow someone to run as a independent candidate (technically NPA – no party affiliation) if they are actually registered with a party.
***The Florida Health Care Association knows how legislators can save taxpayers $68.2 million per year in unnecessary spending, while safeguarding the highest level of care for Florida’s frailest residents. Learn more here.***
‘RELIGIOUS LIBERTIES’ MEASURES DIVERGE, BUT ADVANCE via Kristen Clark and Louis Jacobson of the Tampa Bay Times – A fast-tracked bill in the Senate (SB 436) — one of President Joe Negron’s top priorities — passed its second and final committee Tuesday on a party-line vote, shortly before a House panel unanimously advanced its own version (HB 303). The House conversation was in stark contrast to the Senate’s discussions, where that chamber’s measure has polarized members. The bills were once identical, but the House Pre-K-12 Quality Subcommittee amended its bill to make it more narrow than the Senate’s — removing some of the more controversial elements, such as a requirement that school districts adopt a Florida Department of Education-crafted policy that “establishes a limited public forum for student speakers at any school event.” Such a provision would allow students of different faiths to, for example, pray at school assemblies.
SENATE PANEL OKS FORMALIZING NON-ABORTION PREGNANCY CENTERS INTO LAW via Amy Sherman of the Miami Herald – After a brief but divisive debate, the Senate Health Policy Committee advanced a bill that would enhance an existing state pregnancy services program that excludes abortion referrals. SB 1130, sponsored by Sen. Aaron Bean … would for the first time place into Florida statute a program that provides state funds to a network of pregnancy centers. The program has been operating since 2005 outside of statute, with funding provided on an annual basis during budget negotiations. The Pregnancy Support Services program has fielded 5,796 hotline calls and provided 120,929 services to 24,184 women and families, Bean testified. “In statutes, we can further direct the Department of Health to firmly establish the program rather than relying on a proviso that could be changed every year,” Bean testified.
HAPPENING TODAY – FSBA DAY AT THE CAPITOL — The Florida School Boards Association will host its 30th annual FSBA Day in the Legislature from 8 a.m. until 5 p.m. The annual event is meant to enhance the organization’s advocacy on education issues under consideration by the Florida Legislature, and includes legislative briefings, advocacy training and the opportunity for education leaders to meet with state lawmakers.
ASSIGNMENT EDITORS: Gov. Scott will hold a round table to discuss economic development programs aimed at Florida’s military and defense communities at 2:15 p.m. at the Florida Army National Guard Building, 13433 Crossover Street in Jacksonville.
MUST-READ: DID FLORIDA DCF CREATE MEDIA FRENZY AFTER FOSTER CHILD’S SUICIDE TO DISTRACT FROM AGENCY ERRORS? via Les Neuhaus of Florida Politics – Naika Venant’s mother vehemently refutes narratives by the state agency in a March 13 report, including suggestion she ‘allegedly’ commented on Facebook Live thread taunting daughter while watching and did nothing; lawyer says agencies ‘abysmally failed’ Naika. Gina Alexiswanted to clear the air on many issues she claimed were misreported in the press or by the agencies tasked with the safety and well-being of her daughter through the Department of Children and Families (DCF) – Our Kids of Miami-Dade Monroe and the Center for Family and Child Enrichment (CFCE). She was frank in discussing her daughter’s gravitation toward age-inappropriate sexual behavior, her attempts at trying to rid her daughter of poor behavior picked up in foster homes when reunited with Naika and the frustration of being re-admitted to a system that controlled their every move and set unrealistic expectations at times. And Alexis was beholden to Naika’s rebelliousness, she said, which included sometimes lying about abuse to authorities when she wouldn’t get her way or when she was punished because she knew her mother was deathly scared of DCF.
EYE SPECIALISTS ARE SECRETLY SELLING PATIENTS, CRITICS SAY via Richard Minter and Joseph Hammond of the American Media Institute – The dark side of patient co-management or share-care, which some ophthalmologists and optometrists describe as dangerously inadequate. Rather than just the practice of an optometrist referring a patient to an ophthalmologist for care, co-management is a fee-sharing arrangement where ophthalmologists perform surgeries and optometrists provide post-surgical care. Co-management means big money for optometrists, who are not medical doctors. “In most places in the U.S., cataract surgery is the most common surgical procedure,” says Jaime Membreno, a Kissimmee-based ophthalmologist. “If you say out of 100,000 cataract surgeries (which cost can cost between $600-$2000), that 20 percent are co-managed, that’s generating something like $50 million per year.” While referrals are commonplace across medicine, giving a fee to a professional making a referral (co-management) is not common outside of eye care. The practice is largely confined to postoperative cataract care, where optometrists refer patients to eye surgeons in return for getting a fee for supervising the patient’s recovery. The problem is that non-doctors, such as optometrists, often cannot treat surgical complications as doctors can. Optometrists and ophthalmologists … said that due to Florida’s large elderly population co-management is rampant — and the fee-splitting is usually not disclosed to patients.
FLORIDA LOTTERY APPEALS CONTRACT CASE via Florida Politics – As expected, the Lottery filed a notice Tuesday that it was appealing a decision against it earlier this month that invalidated a $700 million contract for new equipment. A Tallahassee judge agreed with House Speaker Richard Corcoran that the agency went on an illegal spending spree when it inked the deal last year. The multiple-year contract involved new equipment for draw and scratch-off tickets. The Lottery is booming — it sold more than $6.2 billion in tickets last year, records show. But Judge Karen Gievers said the deal broke state law by going “beyond (the Lottery’s) existing budget limitations.” She faulted the agency for, among other things, not first seeking the Legislature’s permission to enter into a deal that committed the state to as much as two decades’ worth of funding.
MEANWHILE … VANNA WHITE TO APPEAR AT THE VILLAGES FOR NEW LOTTERY SCRATCH-OFF TICKET via Jerry Fallstrom of the Orlando Sentinel – White will pitch the lottery’s new $10 Wheel of Fortune ticket. She will be on hand from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. at Spanish Springs Town Square to sign autographs, pose for photos and answer questions from audience members. There also will be live entertainment and giveaways starting at 10 a.m.White — a “Wheel of Fortune” mainstay since 1982 — drew crowds of fans during an appearance a year ago on a rainy Saturday at Lake Sumter Landing to trumpet a $5 Wheel of Fortune scratch-off ticket.
HOW BILL NELSON SHOOK UP THE GORSUCH NOMINATION FIGHT via Marc Caputo of Florida Politics – By announcing on Monday his intention to filibuster Gorsuch, Nelson raised questions about the judge’s path to 60 votes and revealed newly shifted political fault lines in the confirmation fight. Faced with the prospect of a primary challenge in the event he didn’t filibuster and the likelihood of a tough general election campaign against Gov. Scott either way, Nelson chose to lock down his left flank. … Nelson’s announcement on Gorsuch — more than 10 days before he had a chance to vote — was widely praised by liberal and Democratic activists as well as his three potential opponents. Those who follow Nelson closely say they’re not surprised by his decision. The party is shifting left and so is he.
HAPPENING TODAY – MIKE HUCKABEE TO KEYNOTE LEGISLATIVE PRAYER BREAKFAST — The former Arkansas governor is scheduled to give the keynote address at the annual Florida Faith & Freedom Coalition/Concerned Women for America annual Legislative Prayer Breakfast at 7:30 a.m. at the Donald L. Tucker Civic Center. Huckabee will hold media availability at 7:15 a.m. outside Meeting Room C.
POLL SHOWS SUPPORT FOR OPEN PRIMARY ELECTIONS IN FLORIDA via Florida Politics – Robopolling from a coalition of groups that advocate creating an open primary system in Florida found strong support from voters having such an initiative on the ballot next year. The survey was conducted on behalf of three groups seeking an open primary system in Florida: Open Primaries, Tim Canova‘s Progress For All and Florida Fair and Open Primaries. It found 73 percent of respondents saying taxpayer-funded primaries should be open to all voters. Also, 72 percent support a ballot initiative to restore voting rights to individuals who have completed their sentences for nonviolent criminal offenses. The poll also found that 74 percent of Floridians want independent voters — 27 percent of the Florida electorate — included in primary elections.
LEAGUE OF WOMEN VOTERS CONCERNED ABOUT CRC AHEAD OF FIRST MEETING IN ORLANDO via Frank Torres of the Orlando Political Observer – The League is a part of a coalition of groups along with Planned Parenthood, Equality Florida and others who “fear proposed rules and rushed meetings create roadblocks to meaningful public participation” and not that “The first public hearing of the CRC, set for Wednesday evening in Orlando, was scheduled with almost no public notice, without any coordination with commission members to determine their availability to attend, and before adoption of rules of procedure.” The first meeting of the CRC is scheduled to take place at 5 p.m. at the University of Central Florida as part of its “Floridians Speak, We Listen” tour. Both Conservative and Progressive groups have been trying to mobilize supporters for a high turnout.
***The 2017 Florida Blue Foundation Community Health Symposium and Sapphire Awards are coming to Kissimmee April 19-20 at the Gaylord Palms Resort and Convention Center. The two-day event – with the theme “Creating a Culture of Health” – will feature several Florida-based, regional and national health professionals. The symposium will give attendees an opportunity to learn more about health care culture, purpose built communities and communities of health. Discussions will center on health issues, policy, reform and engagement. Network with 400+ executives from a range of private sector, government, universities, nonprofit organizations and more. To view agenda and register, click here***
KELLY MATHIS SEEKING REINSTATEMENT OF LICENSE, EXPUNGEMENT OF FLORIDA BAR DISCIPLINARY RECORD via Marilyn Young of the Jacksonville Financial News & Daily Record – Mathis’ record on The Florida Bar website shows the legal battle he has been in for four years. The word “suspended” is in blue type on the left side, while “Not Eligible to Practice Law in Florida” is in red on the right, directly above Mathis’ photo. Those declarations are the result of his October 2013 conviction in the Allied Veterans of the World case, in which prosecutors said he was the mastermind of a $3 million gambling ring. Mathis was sentenced to six years but allowed to remain free on bond pending his appeal. His conviction was overturned three years later by the 5th District Court of Appeal. This month, the Attorney General’s Office decided not to pursue a second trial. Brian Tannebaum, Mathis’ Bar attorney, filed documents last week to get his client’s law license back and his record expunged, the latter of which would be unusual. The Bar doesn’t object to either request.
David Ash, DLA Consulting Firm: Florida State Minority Supplier Development Council
Bill Rubin, Amy Bisceglia, The Rubin Group: Elite DNA Therapy Services
Ellyn Bogdanoff, Becker & Poliakoff: Banyan House Condominium, Inc.
Jose Boscan, Boscan & Associated: Waste Management Inc of Florida
Sarah Busk, Al Cardenas, Stephen Shiver, The Advocacy Group at Cardenas Partners: Florida Conference of Circuit Judges
Bryan Cherry, Adams Street Advocates: DataLogic Software, Inc.
Justin Day, The Advocacy Group at Cardenas Partners: Anheuser-Busch Companies, Inc
Terry Deason, Radey Law Firm: Duke Energy Florida, Inc; Florida Power & Light Company; Tampa Electric Company
Rob Fields, Suskey Consulting: Optimum Software Solutions, Inc.
Gary Guzzo, Floridian Partners: Florida Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers
Frank Mayernick, Tracy Mayernick, Rob Johnson: The Mayernick Group: Arizona Facilities Supply, LLC
Jeff Littlejohn, Littlejohn Mann & Associates: Government Services Group, Inc
Kathleen Maus, Butler Weihmuller Katz Craig LLP: Florida Justice Reform Institute
Allison Mawhinney, GrayRobinson: Florida Justice Reform Institute
Mark Maxwell, SCG Governmental Affairs: DriversEd.com
John Stephen Menton, Rutledge Ecenia: HCA Healthcare
Heather Turnbull, The Rubin Group: Elite DNA Therapy Services, National Busine
***Sen. Jack Latvala and Rep. Jason Brodeur are fighting to protect Florida’s small business owners by leveling the playing field for owners of franchise establishments. This will lead to more economic growth and jobs for our communities. Tell Sen. Latvala and Rep. Brodeur that you support them and learn how to help protect small businesses in Florida at ProtectFLBusiness.com.***
GOVERNORS CLUB WEDNESDAY LUNCH BUFFET MENU – Wednesday’s Governors Club buffet takes a Caribbean vibe with conch chowder soup; yucca salad; seasonal greens; three dressing sections; tomato salad; carne asada- beef; chicken a la plancha; BBQ grilled salmon; arroz con gandules and black beans.
ESPN WIDE WORLD OF SPORTS COMPLEX CELEBRATES 20 YEARS via Terry Roen of Orlando Rising –Since it opened in 1997, the story of the ESPN Wide World of Sports Complex at Walt Disney World Resort has been written through the athletes who have competed on its fields, courts and diamonds. Each year the complex hosts more than 100 annual athletic events. It has become a place where athletes challenge themselves, push their limits and make their sports dreams come true.
IRON MAN STEALS THE SHOW IN ‘SPIDER MAN: HOMECOMING’ TRAILER – Our latest look at the webbed hero prominently features Robert Downey, Jr.’s veteran superhero, guiding and scolding the young Peter Parker (Tom Holland) who may be eager, but clearly has a lot to learn. If you ever wanted to see Spidey and Iron Man save the Staten Island Ferry together, you are very much in luck. The trailer also introduced us to Michael Keaton‘s Vulture/Adrian Toomes, who is wreaking havoc all over New York. Click on the image below to watch the trailer.
UNIVERSAL ANNOUNCES CONCERT LINE-UP FOR ROCK THE UNIVERSE via Terry Roen of Orlando Rising – More than 14 Christian music artists will play Sept. 8 and 9 at Universal Orlando. This year’s line-up features GRAMMY award-winning singer/songwriter Chris Tomlin; two-time GRAMMY award-winning hip-hop artist Lecrae; and Casting Crowns, who’s held the position of Billboard’s top-selling Christian music act since 2007. The Coca-Cola Fan Zone returns with autograph sessions and opportunities to interact with Christian artists, such as Steve Malcolm, Hollyn and Kolby Koloff. Electronic Dance Music spins each night with GWAVI and DJ Promote. The event ends with a Saturday night candle lighting ceremony.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY to two great Floridians, Democratic fundraiser Chris Korge and lobbyist Louis Betz.
Previous Story Previous post: Capitol Reax: Visit Florida funding, Uber, high-speed rail
Next Story Next post: New rankings show healthiest and least healthy counties in Florida; St. Johns the healthiest
|
cc/2021-04/en_middle_0045.json.gz/line1184
|
__label__wiki
| 0.514641
| 0.514641
|
The Sin City Siren
Feminism direct from Las Vegas since 2007!
Comprehensive Sex Ed and #FierceFlores
Exploring girlhood series
Fag Bug: NOH8
SLUT RIOT!
UFC Code of Conduct
Taking food from the mouths of babes and calling it patriotism
Emmily Bristol / March 12, 2014
There’s been quite the storm brewing between the haves and the have-nots in this country. While it would be easy to point to the stock market crash in 2008 and the simultaneous housing market collapse as convenient epicenters of distopic fusion — best encapsulated in the easy “1 percent” propaganda — this storm has been brewing long before the bottom fell out. And it is nowhere more evident than the unlikely battleground of the school lunch line.
Back in the darkest days of the recession we started seeing reports of schools that were serving cold cheese or PB&J sandwiches to kids who couldn’t pay for lunch. Or worse, reports that school administrators were singling kids out to sit out lunchtime all together, all because their parents couldn’t pay — even for reduced-cost lunches. Unfortunately, the story is only heartbreaking to some. Remember back in 2009 when parents in Albuquerque applauded schools for yanking kids out of line?
Some Albuquerque parents have tearfully pleaded with school board members to stop singling out their children because they’re poor, while others have flooded talk radio shows thanking the district for imposing a policy that commands parental responsibility.
In January, a Salt Lake City elementary school got into hot water for literally snatching food out of kids hands. Their crime? Their lunch accounts had negative balances. While the kids were given fruit and milk to eat instead, that’s a pittance compared to the lasting humiliation those kids received. The same thing happened to me once, as a kid, and some 30-odd years later the sting of that moment still cuts deep.
You know, poverty is not the exclusive province of “bad” people. And there is no correlation between being poor and being a bad parent. Just like being wealthy has nothing to do with whether or not you are callous fuckwit.
Now we’re rounding the corner on a new fresh hell in the battle over school lunches — of which 17.5 million kids receive free or reduced-cost lunches nationwide. (In 2012, the Clark County School District had the third highest rate of free and reduced-cost lunches, 57 percent.) Conservatives are adopting the Dickensian approach to school lunch programs — work for it.
From ThinkProgress:
Last April, a state lawmaker in West Virginia, Ray Canterbury (R), argued during a school lunch debate that it’d be a “good idea” to have “the kids work for their lunches.” He proposed that they take out the trash, sweep the hallways or mow the lawns in order to earn their food. …
So, what’s really behind the antipathy toward government-subsidized school lunches?
It stitches together a panoply of notions that are popular with conservatives: that the government spends too much money helping the poor, that free lunches are emblematic of wealth redistribution and that families (rather than the state) should look after children. It’s also a dog-whistle to the idea, which has grown popular on the right in the Obama era, that too many able-bodied people are lazy and mooching off the federal government. A corollary to this is the claim that liberals don’t value the dignity of work. Wound together, “no free school lunches” serves as a rallying cry that plays to the GOP base’s primal ideological convictions.
The idea that kids should work was also test-driven by Newt Gingrich during the 2012 GOP presidential primaries: he suggested that schools fire their janitors and have kids clean.
Nothing teaches four-year-olds about fiscal responsibility like cleaning toilets. I mean, sure, kids do have tiny hands and can really get into those hard-to-reach spots, but then they’ll probably just work up an appetite and it becomes a vicious circle — amirite? Of course, if you got the federal government to recognize janitorial services as physical education …
When did the bootstraps mythology supplant reason? When did we become a country that equates taking food out of the mouths of babes with patriotism? Because to hear these conservatives talk, it is clear that they view poverty as a social construct. Any perceived failings of those in poverty are the direct result of, essentially, a lack of adherence to a perceived patriotic duty to live by self-determined pluck — and absolutely no aid whatsoever. Except inherited wealth. That’s all they need! And tax-payer-funded public works like roads and hospitals. But that’s all! And tax breaks!
You want to see fewer kids signing up for free or reduced-cost lunches? You want lunch account balances paid in full? Create jobs! Raise the minimum wage! Stop cutting programs — like housing voucher programs that have reduced homelessness by 75 percent in some places! Support families by passing legislation requiring paid sick days!
Until then, maybe those of us who are able can follow this guy’s lead and pay the tab of a kid in need.
Want more SCS? Follow me on Facebook and Twitter! Keep up with fresh posts automatically by signing up for free email alerts! Take SCS with you wherever you go with a Kindle subscription!
March 12, 2014 in education, Feminist, Hunger, Las Vegas, politics. Tags: school lunches
A rubber biscuit
Clean plate club
← Separation Anxiety
Beauty Standards Are Bullshit →
The Siren on Facebook
Follow @TheSinCitySiren
Emmily Bristol
The Capital Gazette’s presses never stopped, because journalists never stop
|
cc/2021-04/en_middle_0045.json.gz/line1205
|
__label__wiki
| 0.735022
| 0.735022
|
Akon: ‘Yes, I Tossed A Fan,’ Pleads Guilty But Does He Serve Time ?
by Singersroom December 17, 2008 January 1, 2016
Akon pled guilty in a Fishkill, NY courtroom Wednesday for tossing a fan off stage at an upstate New York concert last year. The 35-year-old singer threw the teenage boy off the stage during a June 2007 concert at a minor league baseball stadium near Poughkeepsie. Another concertgoer claimed she suffered a concussion when the teen landed on her. Akon will serve no jail time as long as he performs 65 hours of community service and pays a $250 fine according to a plea bargain the singer took at Fishkill Town Court. After the plea, Akon shook hands with Anthony Smith, the now 16-year-old fan, and apologized to him and his parents. Akon declined comment as he left the courtroom, but Andrea Zellan, his lawyer, who released a statement says “We are pleased that the case has been resolved and Akon looks forward to putting this unfortunate incident behind him.”
TaggedAkoncasefan throwingfishkillGuiltynew york stateplea dealverdict
Sterling Simms: Beyond Nasty Girl
Brutha – Question and Answer (Set One)
Update: Chris Brown Loses Another Endorsement, Got Milk? Pulls Plug
February 10, 2009 January 1, 2016
BTS: Chris Brown Ft. Aaliyah “They Don’t Know” Video
The Weeknd Brings ‘The Hills’ To The 2015 AMAs, Wins Best Soul R&B Album (Video)
Blame It On The Fake: Eve Denies Chris Brown Rant
Year In Review: 2008’s Most Memorable Music & Moments !
Chris Brown Doubles Up: Two Albums Due in 2014
|
cc/2021-04/en_middle_0045.json.gz/line1206
|
__label__cc
| 0.712894
| 0.287106
|
What Can Learning a Foreign Language Teach You About Confidence After Divorce? A Lot!
By Martha Bodyfelt • July 24, 2020 • Lifestyle
I noticed something recently that I want to talk to you about. Do you ever find yourself thinking the following deep thoughts:
“Ugh. Why do I still feel terrible after my divorce? I thought I’d be completely confident after all the legal stuff was over, so why is my confidence still in the dumpster? I’m over 50, so why do I still struggle with this?”
Ain’t nothing wrong with you, sweetheart. You’re feeling like this because you may have never been given that confidence early on in your life – the confidence that would have helped you not feel bad when you’re over 50.
The Woman with High Self-Esteem
If you were raised by parents who applauded you for being strong-willed, and if you had people in your life growing up and as a young woman, who encouraged you to speak your mind, to plan your own careers, and reach for your own individual dreams, then you most likely had a foundation of confidence that carried you through the divorce with your self-esteem still intact.
If that’s you, congratulations. And hug and thank your parents and the teachers and anybody else in your childhood who gave you that confidence. And please pay it forward and do the same with all the other kiddos in your life.
The Reality Is Much Different
But if that’s not you, you’re the other 99% of women over 50.
If you were raised being told to pipe down, that girls should always act like little ladies, that girls should never get angry or raise their voices, that girls should not like mud pies nor frogs nor sports or anything else that boys like, and that the #1 thing a woman should aim for is to be a perfect wife and perfect mother and all your actions were compared to your ability to fulfill these BS ideals, then chances are, you did not get that foundation of confidence growing up.
And chances are, that lack of self-esteem then is why you’re feeling bad now.
If this is you, I don’t want you to fret or feel bad about the truth. I want you to understand that this may be just another thing you need to work on to get yourself to the level of confidence you deserve so you can move on with your life.
Confidence and Foreign Languages
This lack of confidence foundation is NOT an excuse to feel sorry for yourself though. But it is knowledge that you must work harder.
Think of confidence as you would about learning a foreign language. You know why so many people in Sweden, Norway, and Germany speak such amazing English? It’s because they started to learn it when they were six years old, when their cognition was more open to absorbing new languages.
You know why you struggle learning to pronounce French words in that adult education class you’ve been taking? It’s because your mind is resistant to picking up that new information. Does that mean you throw your hands up in frustration and say, “Forget this! I’ll never learn French. It’s too late for me.”
You could, but you’re better than that. What you do instead of giving up is work your ass off, do your homework, listen to YouTube videos, put French subtitles on your Netflix, and join a French meetup group. Why? Because you’re dedicated to learning the language and you’re passionate about doing this for yourself.
Getting Confident at 50 Is the Same Darn Thing
Feeling strong, setting boundaries, investing in yourself, and internalizing that you don’t have to please anybody and that you don’t owe anybody squat are the foundations to feeling confidence at 50.
And although it will take a lot of work and a lot of patience to feel secure in all of these things, it is 100% possible to learn them.
It’s never too late to learn that foreign language, even if…
people in your life made you feel like crap.
you were conditioned into believing that you should put others’ needs ahead of your own.
you were raised on the lie that it was selfish for a woman to have her own goals and dreams that didn’t revolve around her family.
that playful, carefree, confident, younger version of yourself has been missing for years.
You have a beautiful choice right here, right now. Do you want to fall into your past narratives that told you that you’d never be good enough, that you weren’t worth it, and that your goals don’t matter? Are you just going to throw your hands up and say, “I’ll never get confident! I’ll never learn that foreign language!”
Or, will you take the high road, know you deserve better, and work as hard as you can? Will you learn that foreign language of confidence, regardless of how hard the journey will be?
Le choix est à vous, ma chère.
Are you divorced and struggling with your confidence? What actions will you take to take control of your post-divorce life? Or have you been pro-active already? Tell us about your struggles and your achievements in the comments below.
Let's Have a Conversation!
Martha Bodyfelt
Martha Bodyfelt is a divorce recovery coach whose website “Surviving Your Split” shows women 50 and better how to get their confidence and sass back and move on with their lives. For your Free Divorce Goddess Survival Kit, stop by http://survivingyoursplit.com.
Want to Release Your Divorce Anger? Here’s What to Do
Feeling Bitter After a Divorce? Here Are 3 Positive Steps You Can Take to I...
Feeling Bitter After a Divorce? Here Are 3 Positive Steps You Can Take to Improve Your Situation
50 Gift Ideas for 70th Birthday
|
cc/2021-04/en_middle_0045.json.gz/line1207
|
__label__cc
| 0.584731
| 0.415269
|
Ireland by Chance
Researcher on the Move in Ireland
Résumé & CV
EER Jobs & Opportunities
Follow "Ireland by Chance"
A new doc is born: Dr. Diana Adela Martin
Featured today on TU Dublin’s Diversity Blog
Globetrotting in Malaysia, India and China
Cycling Killarney National Park in Kerry, Ireland
Stone Forts along Ireland’s Ring of Kerry
Architecture Scribble Book now at booksellers
New Call for REEN Board Applications–Africa and Americas
A Day of Family Remembrance
Example SOC proposal for MSCA IF: Ethics Section
Example SOC proposal for MSCA IF: Implementation Section
Example SOC proposal for MSCA IF: Impact (dissemination and communication, 2.2)
Example SOC proposal for MSCA IF: Impact (skills and conditions, 2.1)
11,573 MSCA-IF Proposals Submitted in 2020
Example SOC proposal for MSCA IF: Using Tables
Example SOC proposal for MSCA IF: Quality of supervision (1.3)
Example SOC proposal for MSCA IF: Transfer-of-Knowledge (1.2)
Example SOC proposal for MSCA IF: Capacity of researcher (1.4)
Example SOC proposal for MSCA IF: Quality of research (1.1)
Example SOC proposal for MSCA IF: Abstract and Eval
County Kerry: Slea Head
Discovering Dublin: Dining al Fresco! (6/)
MSCA IF Outreach & Public Engagement
Discovering Dublin: Isolating at Home (3/)
Discovering Dublin: Phoenix Park in Isolation (2/)
Discovering Dublin: 2/5/20km Southside (5/)
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. Please cite Shannon Chance, 2020.
Tag / Dublin
August 1, 2020 August 22, 2020 by shannonchance
Life in Dublin, Visiting Ireland
cafes, Dublin, Ireland, Lockdown, pedestrian shopping street
The zone of town around Grafton Street is ripe for pedestrianization. Right now, Dublin City Council is testing the use of street space for people rather than car occupation. Aongus and I are delighted to support that test!
It’s lovely to be in this quarter when you’re safe from cars, as we discovered during the height of lockdown:
Since lockdown started in mid-March, Aongus and I had gone months with no meals out.
We pretty much waiting until the government opened the country for internal travel to start eating out.
Awakening for coffee
By June 21, it was finally time for our first sit-down coffee in Dublin since lock-down.
We sought out a little pop-up container shop at St. James’s Gate, based on a Twitter recommendation from Ciran Cuff. I wanted to support the use of this greyfield site (location of a former gas station), in the hopes the land gets assigned a greener use in the future than petrol sales.
They’re using a shipping container to house the shop itself, and they provide outdoor picnic tables in the back. It was an ideal first stop for the day’s in-town cycling adventure on the southside of the city.
Such a joy to be outside!
First Dinner Out, Post-Lockdown
Later that day, on June 21st (and well after the 20km zone opened), we were overjoyed to find a street-side pizzeria offering a couple of sidewalk tables. They had gotten their Guinness tap up and running earlier that day, and we got to sit down and enjoy pizza and a pint in true Irish-Italian style!
We’re delighted that Dublin is re-awakening and we hope to see more street-side dining. Yet, we hadn’t eaten out again here in Dublin until today, August 1st. We have gotten so accustomed to cooking and eating at home, except when we’re venturing far from home.
Instead of traveling far outside of Dublin over the bank holiday weekend, we stayed here in Dublin. We stayed in town for a few reasons: (1) Hotel reservations outside Dublin were somewhat hard to come by for this three day weekend, and quite pricey. (2) We wanted to show support for the pedestrianization trials going on in Dublin over four weekends. (3) We exhausted ourselves the weekend prior by cycling 50 km in one day during variable Irish weather. (4) Aongus is studying for a big test–cramming a three-year degree into four months.
The pedestrian experience of Dublin town did not disappoint!
We really enjoyed the car-free areas. Dublin City Council is still allowing the flow of traffic (heavy traffic at that) into and out of the multi-story parking garages in the town center. But they put people in place during these trials to direct the automobile drivers and help with “traffic calming,” so it’s not the wild-west free-for-all of drivers heading into these garages that has become the norm.
I’m baffled that so many drivers disregard pedestrians in these areas most days. It’s clearly a pedestrian-centric area but drivers barrel on through and expect pedestrians to scatter in their wake.
Last Saturday, we shopped at the ILAC center and wandered the walkable streets, Henry, Grafton and surrounds.
We looked for a pleasant place to sit outside and eat. We found ample selection and couldn’t decide on just one… so we ate twice. Yep, back to back.
Tables in the Street!
We had our first encounter with “Sole,” which opened while we were living in London. They’re part of the pedestrianization trials and are providing really pleasant and visually pleasing on-street dining on weekends. The manager said they were getting permission to double the size of the on-street area the following weekend.
We each ordered a steak and blue cheese salad. Amazing!
There were little bowls with–mints?–on the table when we arrived. Seemed odd, as mints usually come after food. But the waiter showed up with a pitcher and poured water over them. They were actually little cloths for freshening up!
The deserts our neighboring diners ordered looked fabulous too, but we decided to eat light for lunch and to enjoy an early dinner at another place.
Oh, and I wanted to add that the interior design of Sole was pretty spectacular as well. We’ll be back! Soon!
After some shopping, then lounging in Steven’s Green and watching the people swirl past, we sauntered down Anne Street, where the businesses have been keen to pedestrianize. News reports say the Council raised the sideway in the fenced-in areas shown below over the past week. Hoping to get out later today and see for myself.
Around Anne Street, we found a few moment that reminded of us London and one of the neighborhoods where we lived while we were there: Shoreditch E2.
A bit later, we headed over to the street-side tables at Salamanca. A couple tapas and an order of churros hit the spot!
Incidentally, the people watching from this street-side table was second to none!
We cycled home. I got too far ahead when Aongus got hung behind a traffic light. So I stopped to admire the architecture. New design aside old, with interesting colors and textures everywhere you look.
So in closing, Aongus and I are asking, begging, Dublin City Council to keep these streets pedestrianized and to encourage businesses to place more tables and chairs outside. Everyone deserves the chance to try the outside seating and find out just how enjoyable it can be. If we can’t go to Italy, we can at least have a slice of Italy here!
Yet, we see the pictures from Cork and realize that what’s in place in Dublin right now is only just a start. We’ve enjoyed outside dining in countries with Ireland’s climate and we *know* it works.
Thanks, Dublin City Council, for the great work you’ve done since March to improve quality of life in our city and keeping the air and the surrounding clean and healthy. We applaud what you’ve been doing and we yearn for more. What a fabulous transformation this can be!
July 23, 2020 July 26, 2020 by shannonchance
Environment & Sustainability, Life in Dublin
bike ireland, BLM, cycle, Dublin, Lockdown, Phoenix Park
Aongus and I hadn’t spent much time in Dublin’s very large urban park prior to Covid-19. We were, afterall, just returning to Dublin after two years in London.
Our last days in London for Christmas 2019, ending my two-year fellowship and heading home to Dublin.
I’d moved back at the start of January and got things organized. Aongus followed on February 5th. Luckily, I already settled back into the flat and gotten things arranged nicely when he touched down on the Irish tarmac–a full month before isolation set in.
A couple days after Aongus’ return, things got very busy for me at TU Dublin. I was appointed to Chair and launch a new degree program. We held the induction on February 14. We were four weeks into conducting modules that when the pandemic hit and campus buildings shut down. From then on, work was all from home.
When the Irish government asked us to keep inside a 2-kilometer radius from our homes, and only venture out for necessary purchases and daily exercise, I pulled out a map on the “2kmfromhome” app and very happily discovered the entry to Phoenix Park fell within our allowable zone. I loaded the radius map as my phone’s wallpaper for easy reference–that made Aongus feel a bit claustrophobic! He’s not used to such a small bubble. His parents, aunts and siblings live outside it. Sadly, he couldn’t see his parents anyway, as they live in a nursing home. There have been very few visits. His dad had symptoms of Covid but tested negative. His mom had no symptoms but tested positive–go figure. Both are doing fine, but lacking visits has really taken a toll on his dad, who is fully aware of what’s going on.
Considering the radius, I wasn’t quite sure where entering the park alone would get us. During an online School meeting, which we held weekly for months until summer break officially started, I mentioned in the chat box that we had the entrance to Phoenix Park in our allotted circle. A colleague said, oh how lucky! A friend of hers had the same situation. Catherine said it meant we could use the Park in full, as long as we were carrying verification of our address.
To me that made logical sense–afterall, the masses of Dublin living near the Park we couldn’t all stand in the first hundred feet of the entry gate.
And thus began…
Our love affair with Phoenix Park
Soon we cycled to the park using Dublin Bikes, with a picnic of left-overs in hand for sustenance.
That first day we didn’t make it too far, but on our next trip we discovered the expansive views of the field at the Pope’s Cross, with amazing views over the city of Dublin toward the Dublin Mountains.
Park it, Deer…
We also discovered the deer of Dublin, so calm and tame.
The deer cluster by gender–doe and children together, and bucks in their own groups. In the forested area shown at the top of this blog (with the nifty leg warmers, a gift from ‘me mum’), we once saw an organized lesson in being a male deer underway. There were three sets of young males with antlers joined, play wrestling, and one more deer–who appeared to be the coach. We didn’t get a photo that day, as we weren’t allowed by the Park Rangers to stop to observe. By loud speaker they announced “Keep moving. You’re here for exercise!” or something of that sort. They weren’t messin’ that day–taking no shite….
Fortunately, over time, the sense of panic and urgency has subsided. If you leave the deer be and avoid crowds, you’ll be okay. It is usually easy enough to stumble on crows if you don’t move far for the entry at Parkgate Street.
The deer have really loved having the park free of cars–the park is so large that motorists have typically used it as a cut-through, taking their cars at high speeds to get to the other side without much regard for pedestrians and cyclists, families and children. High-speed and rude drivers in the park, along with the poor quality of the pavement in the cycle lane leading into and out of the park, had previously discouraged me from cycling there.
I had, however, cycled to the US Ambassador’s Residence once to hear a NASA astronaut speak at a Fulbright Ireland event. There’s a sizable slope going into the park that takes some determination to climb. I felt so unwelcome by the hill and the rough pavement of the cycle lane going in (the car pavement is nice and smooth here), that I had avoided this park in the interim. I hoped–and still do–that they will repave the cycle lanes near Park Gate. Can’t imagine what has kept that simple act from happening.
This is the back side of the US Ambassador’s Residence. It faces south, toward the Dublin mountains and the Pope’s Cross. (See, nifty leg warmers!)
Although we’d enjoyed our Dublin Bike adventure that first day, but realized we’d need our own bikes. My own had been stolen from my courtyard some years before, but our maintenance guy gave me a discarded bike as a replacement. I’d parked it on the balcony, but hadn’t much luck using it. Mostly, I needed a more comfortable saddle.
So, in March, I was quite pleased to discover that Pavlov at Bolton Bikes could get it back up and running. It’s heavy and I have to baby the gears, but it works and it has been nice and reliable. Bolton Bikes repairs and also sells used bikes. We were very fortunate to buy one for Aongus that suits him incredibly well. Neither of our bikes is a magnet for thieves, which is fortunate since rates of bicycle theft are off the charts right now in Dublin.
I didn’t even report the earlier theft–really no reason since the police don’t really investigate.
Our bikes have worked out fine. They really serve us well and we are learning to love them and the freedom they provide.
…enjoy a scenic overlook
On our second or third visit to the park, we found the far end, to the west, had the fewest people. We’d ride out there and eat a quick snack, tea, or sandwich before cycling back home.
Ireland had an amazing streak of glorious weather, in March and April. Perfect like this for several weeks. We discovered this stunning view at the far end of the park, and reaching it became a regular goal:
…and a quiet little pond
Over time, we ventured into the gated area around the pond. The water lilies were delightful; my photos haven’t done them justice.
Aongus enjoyed feeding crumbs to the ducks and geese.
Just be yourself!
As the weeks progressed this corner of the park remained sparsely attended. We encountered very few people and were even able to curl up with a book on occasion. Wild and free and happy as can be….
(…but not in America!)
Speaking of America, I felt safe enough in Phoenix Park to attend the very first Dublin-based rally in support of Black Lives Matter.
Stand up for what you believe…
I elected to attend the #BLM rally in Phoenix Park, as I believed there would be ample room for social distancing. This location meant participants weren’t likely to get hemmed in as I feared would happen near the American Embassy. My assumptions were correct.
There was plenty of space where we assembled at the driveway entrance to the Ambassador’s Residence. There was also plenty space as we processed slowly around the property in a long single-file line, and one the rear/southside of the house where we knelt for a minute of silence. Any groups were households that arrived together. Many couples and a few families, and many brave individuals as we did not know what to expect. I saw this advertised on Twitter, with two locations available so everyone could stay in their allowable zone (which, by this time was 5km, I believe).
In any case, I was glad to be able to do *something* to support the #BLM cause, and to achieve that without violating any rules. It was a very small thing, but I had to make a stand for justice and also stand in solidarity with my hundreds and hundreds of Black American friends, colleagues, and former students. And in memory of my honorary grandparents, Bush and Ravella and their daughter Dot. So many people I know and love who had the opposite of a head start in US life simply due to the color of their skin.
Incidentally, a newspaper photographer showed up and took our pictures at this rally, but as there weren’t any juicy scoops to be had, the pics didn’t go viral. Even a telephoto lens couldn’t make this particular crowd look too dense!
All the Guards and Park Rangers who came around expressed sincere support for the cause.
It was a lovely and heartwarming event, and a story you probably didn’t hear on official news outlets.
…just let time drift by.
Since lockdown, I’ve come to know and love Phoenix Park. I truly hope it remains a place that’s safe for families, children, and people of all levels of ability to use safely.
One last set of views out across the Dublin Mountains, daydreaming and soaking in the peace and quiet:
July 21, 2020 August 22, 2020 by shannonchance
Ballsbridge, Docklands, Dublin, Dun Laoghaire, Grafton Street, Sandymount
Aongus and I feel so fortunate to live close to the city center. During Ireland’s lockdown, the entire central core fell in our allowable exercise area–a 2km radius from home. We got out and about on weekends, though we sorely missed our gym (1escape, we love you!).
This blog pictures how our world expanded southward as Dublin’s lockdown lifted. Prior posts show the first days of lockdown, isolating at home, our escapades in Phoenix Park and 2/5/20km northward.
Central Dublin, South of the Liffey
The streets of downtown Dublin were particularly tranquil for morning bicycle rides, and the weather blessed us during March and April. We eventually explored all around Temple Bar, Grafton Street, Synge Street, Portobello, and the Liberties.
We normally returned home before sunset. They can be so beautiful when viewed across the Liffey.
Here we’re at South King Street, near the still-asleep Gaiety Theater and St. Steven’s Green:
Our cycles brought us through Grand Canal Docks several times, with the Board Gaís Theater, designed by the office of architect Daniel Libeskind.
We found Herbert Park in Ballsbridge, which I knew of from Collene Dube’s “100 Days of Walking” Tweets. It’s near Dublin’s big Arena.
Riding out here, I felt that drivers gave me more space when they saw the orange vest. Aongus says it’s probably the style of vest I’ve chosen, which evidently suggests I do maintenance in the social housing complexes of Dublin. Whatever–it works! And yes, my sense of style is surely all my own!
Sandymount
We could only access the inner part of Sandymount in our 5km radius, but we made the most of it and dreamed of cycling even further southward, toward Booterstown, Blackrock village, and Dún Laoghaire in coming weeks.
Here we are playing around at Sandymount Strand:
Low and behold, we discovered the beach at Seapoint as our zone opened to 20km, permitting our ventures toward Dún Laoghaire. It was a bit crowded, but still possible to find the needed distance from others:
We made it to Dún Laoghaire, with its mega-sized harbor and its vibrant People’s Park. The harbor is so much larger than Howth’s. We always brought a picnic and planned for the lack of bathrooms. Although Howth opened thiers prior to our visits, Dún Laoghaire did not.
We have talked about a cycle out to Dalkey, which is just inside our 20km, but we haven’t made it there yet by bike. Something to look forward to…..
February 6, 2020 February 6, 2020 by shannonchance
Perils of cycling in Dublin
Education Research, Life in Dublin
Dublin, Dublin BIkes, Dublin Post
I cycled to the post office collection point over lunch today, using Dublin Bikes, to fetch a birthday gift. My rear tire hit a wet manhole cover and slid out from under me. My body hit the ground, belly first, flying toward an oncoming car. I stopped 18” short of its tires. The driver didn’t stop or apparently even consider it.
I am a bit bruised and had quite a scare but I’m okay and I’m home now. I might stay in my home office for the rest of the week as this experience was terrifying! I’m kidding of course, but I will stay put until my afternoon research appointment.
At least I discovered I can ask the Post to convey my packages to their local office, across the street from where I work. (The intercom in my flat doesn’t work and won’t be fixed. C’est la vie.)
So it appears I’ve used up another one of my nine lives, and just one day short of my 50th birthday, I’m down to fewer than six lives now. The precise count is unclear, but I definitely squandered one in 1979 when my crazy acrobatic attempt landed me in the hospital. Hopefully the remaining number, whatever it is, will see me safely through the coming 50 years.
Cheers—here’s to a happy but purple-kneed birthday!
December 19, 2018 December 19, 2018 by shannonchance
Open House Dublin: An architect’s delight
Architecture & Urban Design, Art/Arch/Culture, Life in Dublin, Visiting Ireland
architecture, buildings, design, Dublin, open house, Open House Dublin
I have several blogs in my files that I’ve not yet shared. The info below is no longer “news” but it should be interesting and helpful to some, so I’m posting it for you today. Happy holidays!
The Irish Architecture Foundation (IAF) does an outstanding job organizing its annual Open House event. In 2018, they held it October 12–14. Open House spans three days and allows thousands of citizens to visit architectural wonders that are usually not accessible to the public. Over 170 tours and events were open to the public–all for free and most with architects, trained historians, or other experts as guides.
Although this happened six weeks ago, I’m posting it now since I like to have a record of what I’ve seen. I’ve attended five of these Open Houses, I believe, and you can find photos from other years by running a search for “Open House” on this site.
Despite the dreary rain on Saturday the IAF army of volunteers opened sites all across Dublin. Aongus and I benefitted, as lines were shorter. We took advantage of having Aongus’ car to stay dryer and see more sites than we could by foot. This means we visited more outlying areas than I’d originally planned. We normally walk or take Dublin Bikes.
On Sunday the sun came out, but not until after a cold wait for the opening of 14 Henrietta Street. The crowds were fierce on Sunday, and I even encountered a few grouchy folks with a sense of entitlement. I tried to cheerfully point out that the long wait times were due to the popularity and success of the event and that all the people organizing the events and running the sites were volunteering their time. That sense of entitlement is an ugly thing. Putting that aside, I really enjoyed myself and have provided photos of the seven sites I managed to visit.
Belvedere House
The first site we went to was Belvedere House, which used ot house the boys’ school that was the rival of the one Aongus attended for secondary school. The tour was full, so we actually just saw the lobby in our initial visit, but we returned later and got the tour and more photos.
The House was constructed in 1786 at 6 Denmark St Great, Dublin 1. According to the Open House website, “The construction of what is now Belvedere College began under the 1st Earl of Belvedere, and was later finished and occupied by the 2nd Earl of Belvedere. Built to the designs of architect Robert West, it features the work of renowned stuccodore Michael Stapleton. After the 2nd Earl’s death in 1814, the townhouse was left unoccupied and fell into disrepair. The house was eventually procured by the Society of Jesus Religious Order in 1841 and has since been occupied as part of their educational facility. James Joyce, Austin Clarke, Harry Clarke, Joseph Plunkett, Donagh MacDonagh and Kevin Barry are amongst some of the great past alumni who roamed the corridors and were educated here. RKD Architects were appointed in 2014 by Belvedere College to restore the 18th Century house and one of the most powerful features of the house today is the stucco work in the hall and first floor reception rooms.”
Croke Park Villas
This is a social housing community with an iconic design that was replicated in many other parts of Dublin. As it is so stylized, it seems to many people to be outdated. This particular set of Villas is being torn down and new housing built. There was a photographic exhibition in one of the flats, documenting families who used to live here. A few of the flats still have residents, who await new homes in the construction underway nearby.
The complex was designed by Daithi P. Hanley and constructed in the 1960s at Sackville Avenue, Ballybough Road, Dublin 3. Open House’s website noted that “In 1956 Dublin Corporation approved a Compulsorily Purchase Order on a series of derelict and condemned cottages in Ballybough in order to construct modern single and duplex flats between Love Lane and Sackville Avenue. Named Croke Villas due to its proximity to the GAA HQ, Croke Park, it was the first stage of an extensive plan to regenerate the Ballybough/North Strand area much of which still bore the scars of the 1941 North Strand Bombings. At present the complex is undergoing renovation and three blocks have been demolished along with a number of derelict cottages on Sackville Avenue. This new development with provide a mix of houses and duplex apartments. The flats were designed by Daithi P. Hanley when he re-joined Dublin Corporation in 1956 as housing Architect. He designed a series of 4 and 5 storey blocks of Flats which used standardised components resulting in significant savings in construction costs and building maintenance of which Croke Villas was part. There were many others of these flats built across the city. Hanley also designed the Garden of Remembrance, Simmonscourt Pavilion, the memorial monument at the Customs House, the Basilica of Our Lady, Knock, among quite a number of interesting projects.As part of Open House 2018 number 45 Croke Villas will be open to the public and will have an exhibition of photographs taken prior to and during the demolition by photographic artist Jeanette Lowe. Number 45 Croke Villas is in the last remaining block of flats, due to be demolished early in 2019. The finished development with form a processional boulevard into the Croke Park Stadium.”
Ash Street
This project was designed by de Siún Architects and constructed in 2018 at 25 Ash St., Merchants Quay, Dublin 8. Michael de Siún has shown his own home before, very near to this one, and it is an architectural gem. Such clever detailing to make small spaces feel spacious and appealing. I felt that a product Aongus and I had seen at the London Building Centre might be usefully applied to the project, and I forwarded information on it to the architectural design team by email.
The Open House website explains, “The refurbishment of no. 25 Ash St. introduces a double-height light well into a small 100 year old house. The previously tight rooms have been opened up to create a spacious continuous flow from entrance to rear garden. A feature staircase with strong vertical elements emphasizes the connection between the floors. A simple palette of oak, concrete, and brick unite the whole, culminating in an intricate brick façade to the rear of the building.”
Weaver Park
This city park was designed by Áit Urbanism + Landscape / DCC Parks & Landscape Services and constructed in 2017 on Cork St, in Dublin 8. Despite the rain, we found the park design to be fun and festive. There were even some kids besides Aongus out playing. We rounded off our day with dinner on Camden Street, at Damascus Gate.
According to the Open House website, “Weaver Park represents one of the primary objectives arising from Dublin City Council’s “The Liberties Greening Strategy”. This strategy identified a derelict site, formerly occupied by the Chamber Court Flats, which offered a significant opportunity for the provision of a landmark public amenity. In making the site available for redevelopment, Dublin City Council was responding to the campaigns of local community groups who had long seen the potential in this space. The brief given to Áit Urbanism + Landscape underlined the importance of a participative process that engaged with these local groups, so that the community’s requirements could be understood and delivered through an informed design. Weaver Park is therefore a distillation of the community’s aspirations with inclusivity at its core. The design delivers a hive of activity within a context that will be sylvanic and ecologically functional in time. The fulcrum of the park is a 40-year-old Quercus palustris; this beautiful Oak tree now provides an instant maturity and a new focal point on the Cork Street landscape. It is an icon for the greening of The Liberties.
14 Henrietta Street
This building was a stately-home-turned-tenement. From housing one wealthy family at its prime, this home eventually held a hundred people at once. I shutter to imagine.
Watching “Call the Midwife” during my subsequent writing retreat gave me a glimpse into what such urban density would have looked like. It’s an excellent series that illustrates history as well as truest loving people. So seldom can I bear to watch television, and particularly Netflix, due to its grim and gritty culture. This show, however, is a true delight despite drawing tears.
Back to the house in Dublin, though, where you can see for yourself most any day by paying an admission fee. For Open House Sunday, entry was free but the tour abbreviated. And there was a line around the block when it opened Sunday morning!
It was originally built in the 1740s at 14 Henrietta Street, Dublin 1. The renovation that has just been opened was designed by Shaffrey Architects. This work converted the house into a museum that now showcases how the spaces would have looked both at the building’s prime and high and when it was packed to the gills. The house is in eyeshot of Linenhall, where my DIT staff office is located and I had a bird’s eye view of the renovations as they progressed. I kept a keen eye as the roof was repaired, a fire stair added, and the brick on rear of the house repointed.
The Open House website provides a detailed description: “Dating from the 1720s, Henrietta Street in Dublin’s North inner city is the most intact collection of early to mid-18th Century houses in Ireland. Built as a townhouse for the elite of Dublin, 14 Henrietta Street was split into tenements in the 1880s as the need for working class housing in Dublin grew, with some 100 people living there by 1911. It remained a tenement house until the last families left in the last 1970s. It’s been a 10-year project for Dublin City Council to rescue, stabilise, conserve and adapt 14 Henrietta Street. The house is the primary artefact of a new museum – the walls, floors, banisters, old gas pipes, fireplaces, and fragments of linoleum and wallpaper have many stories to tell. Shaffrey Architects planned and created new spaces to discretely integrate essential services and fire protection, using wireless technology to minimise loss of finishes and fabric. The tours will showcase the reception, selected rooms, basement and garden area to see the connections between the old and new. This year’s winner for the RIAI Award for Conservation / Restoration and Awarded The Special Jury Award.”
New Garda (Police) Headquarters
Designed by the Irish Office of Public Works (OPW) and built in 2017, this build graces the Corner of Kevin St and Bride St, Dublin 8. This building is in the line-of-sight from Kevin Street DIT, where I frequently teach RoboSlam workshops and the RoboSumo design project, with Ted Burke and often Damon Berry and Frank Duignan. I was delighted that one of the architects who worked on this project delivered our tour. He was quite a young lad–leading me to feel a bit aged! (Like a fine wine? Perhaps….)
The Open House website explains, “The new Kevin Street Garda Divisional Headquarters was designed by the OPW. It is designed as a civic quality building responding to the specific site context of its historic surroundings. The building is energy efficient and sustainable with universal access for all. The building is arranged in linear blocks of accommodation either side of an atrium space. It reinstates the street line along Bride Street with a five-storey building opposite the seven-storey National Archive building. The five-storey curved block steps down in a series of steps to become two storey adjacent to the former medieval Archbishops Palace, thereby responding in scale to these important historic buildings. The important Kevin Street junction is acknowledged by expressing the central atrium space on that façade. The public entrance is located at this point. The atrium serves as the main vertical and horizontal circulation space within the building and provides for natural ventilation to all offices along with natural air extraction and allows daylight to penetrate into the building.”
The Old Richmond Surgical Hospital
Just one block from my apartment in Dublin, this stately brick building gleams with love and civic pride. Originally designed by Carroll and Batchelor 1901 and built in 1901, The Richmond was refurbished in 2016 by Kavanagh Tuite. It is located near my own flat, at No. 1 North Brunswick St, Dublin 7. This was not my first tour of the building, but I learn new things each time.
The Open House website explains, “The Richmond Education & Event Centre was opened on the 20th April 2018, following an extensive refurbishment, following its purchase by the Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation in 2013. The building was originally opened on the 20th April 1901 as The Richmond Surgical Hospital and remained open as a hospital until 1987, when patients from The Richmond and Jervis Street were moved to Beaumont Hospital. It after became a business centre and then a Court House for a number of years, there are still 3 cells in the basement. This red brick english renaissance style building has three floors and is U-shaped overlooking a central courtyard and fountain. It is built on the site of benedictine convent dating back to 1688. The building has meeting rooms, offices, four large former wards (auditorium, lecture room, banqueting room, victorian tea room). The tour will include the ground floor, first floor (except offices) and part of the basement.”
November 21, 2018 November 21, 2018 by shannonchance
Meeting Grafton Architects: Irish Ladies Leading the Way!
Architecture & Urban Design, Art/Arch/Culture, Life in Dublin
architecture, culture, Dublin, Grafton Architects, Totally Dublin
Shannon Chance with Shelley McNamara and Yvonne Farrell of Dublin-based Grafton Architects.
I finally got to meet Shelley McNamara and Yvonne Farrell, founders of Grafton Architects and designers of my home here in Dublin.
You may recall blogs I posted in October 2012 titled Hats off to Grafton Architects, a post about sun angles in winter, and a video clip I made shortly after moving into “my Dublin Castle.” I have attached my apartment tour which is quite goofy. In it, explained features unique to Ireland and the EU, but I called the water tank “electric storage.” That’s factually true, but here they use the term just for the wall heaters that heat bricks in the night, when electricity costs less, and radiate that heat our during the day.
I learned more about electric storage heat from my maintenance guy, Keith Brown. I posted a blog where he showed me how they work. I sure do miss Keith as he was able to fix anything, usually the way my grandpa would have! Pa grew up during the Great Depression and was quite thrifty! Keith, on the other hand, moved to Spain.
I, on the other hand, am not moving to Spain any time soon. But this flat is plenty warm and sunny.
I love every minute in this place, perched high in the Smithfield Lofts that Yvonne and Shelley designed back in 2006. Last night, I got to tell them how much I enjoy living here.
Covers from “Totally Dublin”
I had braved the lashing rain, trotting across town to pick up new specs at Ace and Tate and then over to Fumbally for an event produced by the magazine Totally Dublin, which ran a feature on them in January 2018 that I still have on my coffee table.
The talks weren’t starting on time. Or rather, Irish evening-time tends to run quite behind what the clock face shows. This event ran 8-10 PM, rather than the 7-8:30 PM published. In any case, I had time to grab a slice of cake and get psyched up to hear these amazing architects talk.
In the interim, I decided to hop across the room to tell Yvonne and Shelley that I’m a big fan and I love my home.
A Dickens Christmas in cozy Smithfield
I showed them the photo I took last week from my balcony, which I’d posted in an earlier blog.
They seemed delighted to hear their building was loved, as that construction process was rough, with the developer cutting corners and ultimately going out of business when the economy crashed. I’d been told that unfortunate story by my colleagues when I moved in and was glad to help these architects reconnect with their creation. Incidentally, any criticisms I’ve ever had of this building are due to poor workmanship and Ireland’s very strange fire codes.
Shelley McNamara sharing insights
These architects are now world-famous. They curated the Venice Biennale this year, bringing Irish architecture and Irish design to the fore of the world stage. They dedicated the 2018 Biennale to “Freespace,” which I might describe as third-space, public space where everyone is welcome and treated with equal dignity and respect.
Last night, Shelley and Yvonne discussed their role in the Biennale and working together since they first met in architecture school at UCD where they graduated in 1974. Imagine, they entered in a class that was gender balanced at the end of the 1960s!
Consider that the year Shelley and Yvonne entered architecture school, women were not allowed to study this subject in many universities in the USA, including the University of Virginia (a place Yvonne and Shelley mentioned to me last night). UVA began admitting women in the year 1970. The institution had admitted a few women before this date because they had a medical school that needed nurses; my mom earned a Bachelors in Nursing there at UVA in the mid-60s.
What a revelation, to learn there was gender balance in architecture admissions here in Ireland at the same time there were 0% women and 100% men in architecture at UVA!
Yvonne and Shelley said they’d never experienced gender discrimination in their lifetimes as architects, designing buildings in Ireland, Peru, Italy, Spain, France…. That was quite inspiring to hear!
Yesterday evening also featured discussions with the photographer and artistic director of the magazine’s October cover piece on “The Bumbles” and discussion and performance by busker NC Lawlor, an Irish man reared in Manchester and now living and performing in many types of venues in Dublin. You’ll have to find him busking on Grafton Street if you want to hear him first hand!
Below are photos of the evening, along with pics I’ve snapped over time of my cozy flat.
Discovering Irish History on Arbor Hill
Ireland & EU, Life in Dublin, Visiting Ireland
Arbor Hill, Collins Barracks, Dublin, Irish independence, war memorial, WWII tank
Hoping to learn a bit of Irish history today, Aongus and I hiked over to Dublin’s Collins Barracks after brunch. A former military station, Collins Barracks is now used as a museum with decorative arts, WWI and II memorabilia, and even a gun-running ship that was pulled up from the sea floor. It’s also where Aongus did his service in the Irish military once upon a time.
To our dismay (and that of five other groups of visitors who arrived at 1 PM) the museum at Collins Barracks opens only 2-5 pm on Sundays. We left disappointed and took the back way out of the Barracks, exiting at Arbor Hill Prison.
Finding the Arbor Hill cemetery, next to the prison, open, we decided to venture in. There, we discovered tomb stones of British soldier and their families who served as occupying forces during the 1800s.
We also found a memorial to the Irish who lost their lives in the 1916 uprising. The leaders of the Rising were executed in Kilmainham Gaol, across the Liffey river, and then buried in a mass grave here.
Following 1916 the Irish continued to struggle against colonial rule, and they gained independence from British in 1922. Later this memorial was built to memorialize their effort. The monument includes the text of the 1916 Proclamation, in Irish on the left and English on the right.
Today this memorial park was full of dogs, and dog lovers, from the adjacent Stoneybatter neighborhood. Upon exiting the cemetery on the northern side and into the neighborhood, we discovered a well-preserved WWII tank kept up by a citizen group and had a bit of fun.
But after a busy week filled with cold, wet weather, we’d had our fill of exploring. We turned to head for home.
We’d driven from work on Friday straight down to Bunclody for RoboSlam workshops and not returned to Dublin until late Saturday night. All this activity caught up with us on Sunday, but the comfort of a warm blanket and a hot tea helped us recuperate for the coming week.
September 8, 2017 by shannonchance
Back to School: Engineering Induction at DIT
Architecture & Urban Design, Engineering and Robots, Life in Dublin, Teaching/Learning
DIT, Dublin, education, engineering, engineering education
The first year students have arrived at DIT and are getting orientation this week. Today, the whole group of incoming engineering students were at our Kevin Street campus to learn about electrical and electronics aspects of their first year curriculum. Dr. Ted Burke led the introduction.
I really enjoy the chance to teach in various programs and on multiple campuses of DIT. I’ve posted images from my morning walk from DIT Bolton Street to DIT Kevin Street.
September 30, 2015 September 30, 2015 by shannonchance
Culture Night Dublin with Fulbright-ing Friends
Architecture & Urban Design, Art and Photography, Art/Arch/Culture, Fulbright Program
architecture, Cobblestone Pub, culture, Dublin, Ireland, Smithfield
Dublin Culture Night happens once a year, offering a glimpse into many cultural treasures this city has to offer. This year, I got to attend the event with my friends Amanda Wagstaff and Frank Daly.
Amanda recently moved to Dublin as a Fulbright student for the 2015-16 academic year. She and I actually graduated from the College of William and Mary on the very same day in 2010–she with a Bachelor of Arts and I with a PhD in Higher Ed. Amanda is a studio artist who is using the archives at the Chester Beatty Library to generate inspiration for her own contemporary artwork. You can see Amanda’s past work on her website, Traipse.
Frank’s art and photography is viable on his website and his many Google+ photo albums.
The there of us kicked off our Culture Night explorations at Christchurch Cathedral, not far from my Smithfield residence, and then proceeded eastward to see several more sights. We took in dinner at the Queen of Tarts, Dublin’s stately Customs House, and a guitar concert at the Unitarian Church on St. Stephen’s Green.
Culture Night is just one of many ways to learn history in Dublin. I’ve included photos in the gallery below of several cultural events that happened around the same time:
a lecture on the Irish Civil War (hosted by the Smithfield-Stoneybatter People’s History club and held at in the backroom of the Cobblestone Pub)
a man in Smithfield preparing his horses and carriage for the All Ireland football match
the best places I know to sit and read about history (my friends seem to enjoy reading in these places, too!)
February 21, 2014 by shannonchance
Architects’ Pot Luck
Architecture & Urban Design, Art and Photography, Reflection Photos
architects, Dublin, Ireland, Pecha Kucha, photography, PKN, urban refections
These days, wild, crazy fun among architects involves Pecha Kucha style presentations. This is a high-speed format for sharing images and ideas. With Pecha Kucha, each presenter selects/provides 20 images. At the Pecha Kucha event, the slides are projected on a large screen in sequence for 20 seconds each. The presenter talks, and the slides move on wether or not the speaker is ready. It’s entertaining — in part because it’s actually quite difficult for the speaker to stick to the 20 second window.
This format keeps the speaker from droning on too long and it leaves time for more people to present. It’s pot luck: everyone brings something to share and you can almost always find something you hadn’t expected but quite enjoy.
An architect from Williamsburg, Dale Weiss, organized a Pecha Kucha event at ArchExchange East last November and he has uploaded the representations to his (very elegant) website.
You can view my Pecha Kucha presentation, of urban reflections from Ireland, by clicking here.
Shannon’s November 2013 Pecha Kucha presentation of Irish Reflections
|
cc/2021-04/en_middle_0045.json.gz/line1218
|
__label__cc
| 0.642369
| 0.357631
|
Paris! J’taime
April 23, 2013 by sheeniebeanie
In all honesty I was afraid of arriving in Paris. So many anxieties were circulating in my mind: would Paris be as wonderful as I remember? Would it be devastatingly expensive? Would Gavin have a meltdown at how expensive everything was and want to stay in our hotel room all day?
We took a regional train from Lyon to Paris which took 5 hours instead of the 2 via high speed train. We didn’t take the high speed train because there was only reservations in first class available and it would cost €110. When we arrived in Paris we took a look at the metro line and were immediately overwhelmed. There were so many stations we could not even begin to guess where our hostel was. We eventually found our destination and headed off to the Perfect Hostel…to our surprise we had a private room! Our room was simple, two beds and a sink. I kind of hated how we shared a single toilette with our entire floor, but there was no sweaty smelly guys so I gladly accepted the sacrifice. We fell asleep to an Italian couple fighting next door.
Gavin woke up at 7:30 for breakfast. Since I still had a cold I slept in a little until we left for the Eiffel Tower. We unfortunately were unable to to go the very top due to over crowding so we declined going up the tower for the day. We did a walking tour of downtown Paris which was pretty good. We saw Notre Dame, the Latin Quarter, Champs-Elysees, Arc de Triomphe, The Louvre, Palais Royal and Musee d’Orsay. We even came across the lovers bridge where couples put a lock with their name on a bridge then throw away the key. As expected the tour guide was not as good as Ozzy ( our tour guide in Munich) but we enjoyed ourselves enough to sign up for the Montmartre tour later that day and the tour of the gardens of Versailles for the following day.
Following the tour, our tour guide invited us for some authentic French food, we thought he invited us to eat with him like Ozzy did. We were sadly mistaken, and paid a lot of money to eat alone. Despite this, Gavin and I enjoyed our authentic French cuisine. He ordered Escargots and I ate French Onion Soup. My French onion soup had a nice base and was so cheesy I choked on the cheese! Gavin’s Escargots were overpriced and required too much work to get at the tiny snail shells.
After our meal we went to Ladurée, the famous macaron patisserie in Paris. I waited in line and bought 16 flavourful macarons. Anyone who knows me knows I love the delicate French pastry and that it has been one of my goals to eat macarons from there!
Following our macaron date we ventured off to meet our tour guide for our Montmartre tour. The tour started in front of Moulin Rouge. Gavin and I had wanted to see Moulin Rouge but due to a strict dress code we were afraid to buy tickets online then get kicked out. The dress code called for no runners ( all Gavin had) and no jeans (all I had). Since we had some time before our tour we stopped by the reservation desk to ask about the dress code. We told them that since we are backpacking we didn’t have anything nice to wear but really wanted to see the show. The man at reception was so kind and told us that our “Jeans and runners would be fine at the late show, and that a lady looks marvellous no matter what she is wearing”. We promptly made a reservation for the 11:30pm show.
After booking our reservation ( which was awesome because if we got kicked out for not dressing well we didn’t have to pay anything) we ran across the street to meet our tour group. Our tour guide showed us where Amelie was filmed ( Cafe des 2 Moulins), Sacré Coeur basilica, the highest point in Paris, the last windmills in Paris, Van Gogh’s house, and Picasso’s studio. By the end of the tour, night had fallen and we made our way back o our hostel which to our surprise was a 15 minute walk from Moulin Rouge.
The next day I woke up feeling great, just in time for our Garden’s of Versailles tour. The tour was particularly pricy, €27 each plus €7 each for a musical fountain show which had every garden open. When we arrived at Versailles it started raining so we bought some cheap (by cheap I mean poor quality) umbrellas for €16.
We looked at the facade of the palace shamelessly decorated in gold leaf from the palace gates to the window sills, clocks, almost everything! We walked pass the palace to the gardens. Despite the tour lasting 5 hours it did not include the palace. The gardens were the size of 3 foot ball fields, With over 50 fountains, 200,000 trees and a grand canal all of which were in the French style. We took a few steps towards the first garden and suddenly the rain became unruly and unmanageable. Gavin and I tried to ignore the rain but decided to bail on the tour because the rain had turned into a storm. Within minutes Gavin and I were soaked to the bone. The second we left the tour the rain suddenly stopped and we felt sick. We decided to tour the palace and maybe see the gardens on our own. Since we had just seen the Madrid Palace Real, the inside of Versailles was as expected, another overly extravagant castle with paintings on the ceilings and one more extravagant room after the next. The palace featured a room called the hall of mirrors: the most expensive room in Europe. The most interesting thing about the palace was how after the French Revolution the belongings in the palace were auctioned off and striped away only to be restored a couple hundred years later. The tour was quick, we didn’t see the small chateaus next to the palace (this is where the king ran away to for privacy and Marie Antoinette’s private palace) but we had been exhausted enough already. To our relief (and disappointment) the rain continued, so we didn’t see the garden’s after all. As we left the palace we were thankful to not do the 5 hour tour in the pouring rain.
We took the train back to Paris and noticed that I was sniffling. Gavin wanted to go back to the hostel but I wanted to go shopping on the Champs-Élysées. Gavin relented and we went to Laduree again and got a giant vanilla macaron (which was amazing) and I went shopping for a dress to wear at the Moulin Rouge show. I found a purple dress that would pack well in my backpack and bought some accessories. Afterwards we hurried back to the hotel to nap before our late night show at the Moulin Rouge!
We saw the show Féerie at Moulin Rouge. We were a bit worried because everyone always complained about Moulin Rouge being a tourist trap (which it was) being overpriced (which it is) and the show not being that good anyways (which is a boldfaced lie because the show was fantastic).
Our ticket came with a full bottle of champagne to enjoy during the show, and our seats were very close to the stage. The inside of the venue was fantastically decorated, with the curtain made entirely of shining sequins that took on whatever colour of light shined upon it. Part of the ceiling was designed to look like the inside of a circus tent, with billowing stripped fabric supported by the columns rising up from the upper balcony. The show was incredible, with 60 dancing girls accompanied by half as many men and dozens of different elaborate costumes, all garnished with abundant feathers, boas and chains of beads. The stage changed as often as the costumes, with one part themed like a gleaming snake temple where one of the dancers was dressed as Medusa. A huge water tank raised up from the floor that she was cast into, containing no less than 6 full sized anacondas that she swam with. The time between costume and set changes was occupied by smaller acts, including a slapstick/tumbler trio, a comedian juggler, and a pair of balancing acrobats.
We really enjoyed the show. We had never seen anything more spectacular. When the show ended we discovered that the metro was closed. If we hadn’t been at the Moulin Rouge the day before we wouldn’t have known that our hostel was a short walking distance away, so we walked through the Paris Red Light District at 1:30 in the morning back to our hostel.
The next morning we had to check out of our hostel and check in to a new hostel across town. We wanted to stay in Paris one more night and our current hostel was all booked up. The new Hostel, Oops! Hostel had a lock out period from 11am to 4pm in which all of the staff, and patrons were kicked out of the hostel. This was kind of weird and extremely inconvenient because I had become really sick and our check out time was at 10am at our current hostel and we had to find something to keep us busy for six hours.
We decided to try and go to the top of the Eiffel Tower again and then go to the Louvre ( it was closed the previous day). We stored our belongings in our hostel then headed over to the Eiffel Tower. The Eiffel Tower was built when France held the world expo in the late 1800’s. For forty years the tower remained the tallest man made structure in the world. When I visited in 2006 I never went to the top because my friend was too afraid of heights. Since then I had been to the top of the CN Tower in Toronto and couldn’t live with myself for not going to the top of the Eiffel Tower.
Top of the Eiffel Tower
We arrived at the tower at 10am, 30 minutes later than we hoped. When we got through the line we were able to buy tickets for the top. We jumped into the lineup to the elevator then took the elevator to the second floor, walked a meter then took a second elevator to the top. The top was very small and full of people taking photos of the scenery around. We got a couple photos then saw a height comparison of the tower with other structures. After about twenty minutes at the top we took an elevator down to the second floor. The second floor had a gift shop and a restaurant. The first floor was even less interesting.
Our next stop was the Louvre. Gavin had never been and I recalled enjoying myself when I did. Since we had time to kill we walked from the Eiffel tower to the Louvre. During that walk we got hit up by a bunch of “petitioners”: people who pretend they need the signature of an English speaker for some cause, then rob you blind. We had heard of the ploy in Madrid so we were smart to their scheme. The next set of people we kept meeting would pick up gold rings we did not lose and ask if we had lost them….so they and a partner could rob us blind. We “lost” four gold rings on a single bridge.
We finally reached the Louvre and decided to use the tricks our tour guide taught us to avoid the line. The first was to use the side door, which was closed. The second was to enter through the carousel shopping centre under the Louvre. After walking through the very small but decently high end shopping centre we ended up at the line for the Louvre. We noticed that there wasn’t really a line but officials pushing people away. There was a hand written sign saying, ” The Louvre Museum is closed come back tomorrow.” Gavin and I were confused because the Louvre was closed yesterday and was supposed to be open today so why was it closed? We figured maybe there was an incident so we decided to shop around the mall and come back.
Gavin found his perfect Australian Outback hat, a Stetson, at an outdoor/ hippy store. Gavin also found a the best mineral store of his life and stocked up on samples for his mineral collection. We also found a lock for the lovers bridge. We went back to the Louvre and saw that the Museum was still closed. We decided to go to the Lovers Bridge and place our lock then head over to the Musée d’Orsay.
Our Lock on the Lovers Bridge
The bridge was filled with couples trying to cement their love; sales people selling locks to make a quick buck by selling locks to the couples and pick pockets. The myth was that if the couple wrote both of their names on the locks then locked the lock to the bridge and threw the key into the water that they would be together forever. We put our lock in a careful place and threw the key into the Seine river. Satisfied with our cliche act of love we went to the museum.
The Musée d’Orsay had a huge line ( probably because the Louvre was closed). While the Louvre housed artwork from the beginning of time to 1870’s the Musée d’Orsay was a more contemporary museum with work from 1840 to the present. We got to see an exhibit called: The Angel of the Odd. Dark Romanticism from Goya to Max Ernst. It was a lot of really neat gothic art ranging over a large time period, with paintings romanticizing demons, monsters, satan and witches. There were many paintings inspired by Paradise Lost, and others of the apocalypse. There were also short clips of horror films from early cinema, including Hitchcock.
After the museum we went back to the Perfect Hotel to collect our bags and head over to the Oops! Hostel. The Oops Hostel was very nice and modern but very out of the way. The only thing that rubbed us the wrong way was the mandatory lock out, which really didn’t apply to us because we had a train to catch the next morning before the lock out. While staying at the Hostel we shared a room with two British girls. Since Madrid We had very little social contact because for whatever reason the places we stayed people were not social. So when Jen and Emma were social, spunky and cheery we were thankful. They told us about how they visited the Paris Catacombs and we told them about the Louvre’s mysterious closure. Jen said she had read the british news earlier and that it mentioned the closure. Apparently the Louvre was closed due to the workers striking. The workers striked because of pickpocketing which had gotten so bad that the workers were fearing for the lives from aggressive pickpockets working in teams of up to 30 people. What was worse was that children who could get into the museum for free were pickpocketing from the staff and patrons. The new information made Gavin and I feel frustrated that the Louvre was closed on our last day in Paris but understanding of how the staff felt.
Paris was way better than I remembered. We were so afraid of everyone being rude to us but oddly everyone was really kind (except Japanese Tourists, they were really rude and pushy). We never ran out of things to keep us entertained and educated. It was expensive….but I can’t wait to visit again.
Blog Post Happy Travels backpackingEiffel ownerescargotsfoodieFranceFrench onion soupGoalshostelLadureeLouvrelove locksmacaronMontmartremoulin rougeMusée d'OrsayParistravel blogtraveling
← Lyon
Goal #4 Accomplished →
|
cc/2021-04/en_middle_0045.json.gz/line1222
|
__label__cc
| 0.678901
| 0.321099
|
He was a prince of the realm. He wanted to go to Earth – for a woman. What was the big deal?
Y’all know I love worldbuilding. It’s why science fiction appeals to me. The freedom to bend the laws of physics and turn Earth bound notions on their proverbial ear.
That and I love the paranormal romance genre. Vampires, valkyrie, fairies, dragons, trolls, I love them all.
Of course, you know demons hold a special place in my heart. There is an infinite variety, and I’ve embarked on my own color coded series to explore each one’s gifts.
How to Love a Blue Demon was my first foray into the genre and my hero Eyoen has a special place in my heart. This lovable blue demon was willing to do just about anything to be with his human mate Cass.
Please enjoy this first bit of the book. How to Love a Blue Demon is out now.
Eyoen shuffled his feet uncomfortably. He was more than 250 years old, and his father made him feel like a pup just weaned.
“Well?” his father’s voice demanded louder. “What do you have to say for yourself?”
“I didn’t know she was our neighbor, father,” he said softly.
“You didn’t know that you were fucking our neighbor’s daughter?” his sire yelled. “That’s what I’m supposed to tell the demon? My son defiled your oldest daughter, but he might not have if he’d known who she was? She hasn’t been home a full day, and he’s already preparing to send her back to the convent. The convent, Eyoen! How did you manage to corrupt a virgin in less than 24 hours?”
Eyoen sighed. He’d heard that tone of disbelief so many times before. It was one of three tones he usually heard from his father: anger, disbelief and unremitting fury.
King Carlow sighed and shook his head. “Oh, Eyoen.”
He scowled. He’d forgotten one – disappointment.
“You’re sequestered.”
Eyoen’s head shot up, his mouth fell open in shock. Locked away from all of Cyanus? From all of the family?
“I’m being banished.”
His father sighed irritably. “Stop being so bloody dramatic! If I don’t punish you in some way I’ll have to throw you in jail for whoring.”
“Jail! For fucking some stiff necked little wanton?” Good grief. She hadn’t been worth all this. All she’d done was lie there with a shocked look on her face, making the same sound over and over with every thrust: “Oh, oh, oh!”
She did have nice tits though. Round and firm, they’d bounced with every swing of his hips. He’d always been partial to the bounce and sway of a woman’s breasts, especially during the sex act. Her pink nipples had been sweet. They’d budded with barely a touch, barely a look, really, pebbling like little fruit colored stones.
But sequestered? That was serious. He thought about lying, saying that he didn’t know she was a virgin. But even if he could stomach lying to his sire, the girl had virgin written all over her.
Hot virgin, true, but her innocence had been palpable. It was one reason he’d accepted what she offered in the first place. In his harem full of beauties, virgins were thin on the ground. He hadn’t initiated an innocent in forever. Strange. He remembered it being more fun.
He sighed irritably. Having your virtue taken wasn’t the end of the world, after all. Certainly it was no small thing, but sequestered? It was ridiculous. He hadn’t harmed a hair on the chit’s head.
He sighed again. He wouldn’t embarrass the girl further by telling his sire it had been she who jumped him, not the other way around. Honestly, he was a yellow blooded demon just like everyone else. What could he do when it was thrown at him?
It wasn’t like there was anyone within 1,000 parishes who didn’t know his particular shade of blue skin meant royal family. Or that blue skin meant pleasure unparalleled thanks to the pheromones that turned the royal skin that shade of blue to begin with.
The little nun, former nun, he corrected himself, had been so wet, he couldn’t resist her. The scent of her arousal, the sight of those soft, high breasts when she stripped off her shift. She had an amazing nape. He bit it when he fucked her.
“Eyoen!”
Eyoen fell to his knees, forehead nearly touching the floor as the wind kicked up. It blew the drapes behind his father’s throne like fabric in a gale. He began to sweat as the temperature in the throne room rose at least 40 degrees. The water in the fountain in the center of the room began to steam along with his father’s temper, and the servants lining the walls seemed to wilt even as they produced fans and began to wave them frantically over the King’s head.
“You will be sequestered in your rooms, away from all but three servants until I can convince our neighbor not to demand your imprisonment. You will stay there until I call for you.”
Eyoen shivered at the warning he heard clearly despite his father’s quiet voice.
“Rise, son.”
Eyoen rose slowly to his feet and raised his eyes to his father’s. They looked much alike. The same blue skin the color of a cornflower. The same tall muscular body, though Eyoen was a hair taller than his father’s 6’6”. Despite being the youngest he was the tallest of his six brothers, and only he shared his father’s golden yellow eyes.
“I love you, Eyoen. But you’re going to be the death of me.”
Eyoen sighed happily as his sire began to smile. He came forward slowly, respectfully, his hands folded behind his back, chin and eyes down as was proper.
“Sire,” he said. “I’m sorry.”
Suddenly Carlow laughed, his deep, beautiful voice ringing throughout the chamber and into the courtyard beyond. The heat died down as the King’s voice caressed ears nearby. The servants sighed, straightening as their flesh cooled; they put the fronds away.
“How many times have you said that to me, imp?”
No less than a million, Eyoen thought…
Categories My StuffTags BW/WM, contemporary fiction, contemporary romance, demon, erotic romance, fiction, Interracial, love, paranormal, romance, sexLeave a comment
Previous Previous post: It’s not everyday a woman finds out her lover is a demon.
Next Next post: Miles: I had to convince her that I loved her the same – in a demons body – and she loved me.
|
cc/2021-04/en_middle_0045.json.gz/line1223
|
__label__wiki
| 0.873287
| 0.873287
|
Missing sailor: I survived by staying inside, rationing
The man rescued from a disabled sailboat off the North Carolina coast responded to critics of his story on Monday, explaining that he avoided sunburn and blisters by staying in the vessel’s cabin and that he survived by rationing food and water.
Louis Jordan’s three-paragraph statement says he stayed inside the cabin to keep dry and avoid sun, wind, waves and sea spray.
“Every time I went outside, I exposed myself to getting my clothes drenched, which would have made it harder for me to keep warm,” Jordan said. “My blankets were already soaked, and often there was no way of hanging up my clothes to dry. Keeping dry was vital to my survival.”
Jordan also says he set up a makeshift mast with a small sail to get the boat headed in a westward direction.
He says he rationed food and water and kept his calorie expenditure low.
“That meant I had to stay inside the boat as much as possible, therefore I didn’t have a sunburn, or blisters, as if I were found clinging to an upside-down boat,” Jordan said.
Jordan was spotted by a German-flagged boat Thursday, more than two months after sailing out of a South Carolina marina. Coast Guard crew members who retrieved him said they were surprised by his fit appearance and overall health.
Thomas Grenz, the captain of the German tanker ship that spotted Jordan last week and brought him aboard, said Jordan’s U.S. passport described him as weighing 290 pounds, but he was probably down to 200 pounds when the crew found him.
Officials with the U.S. Coast Guard say it wasn’t clear how long after he left the marina in Conway, South Carolina, that his boat first capsized. Jordan’s sailboat was upright when the German boat found him.
Jordan told his family that he was going into open water to sail and fish, according to his mother, Norma Davis.
He told WAVY-TV that he was sailing north when he encountered bad weather. He said he saw a wave crash into his window and that his boat eventually filled with water.
The Coast Guard began a search on Feb. 8, but it was abandoned after 10 days. Some sightings of Jordan were reported by other sailors, but they couldn’t be confirmed.
Jordan’s statement thanked the Coast Guard rescuer who dropped down from the helicopter to lift Jordan off the boat. He also thanked Grenz and his crew for turning their ship around to save him.
“Their sacrifice demonstrates that our basic humanity is to care for and protect one another,” Jordan said. ” I’m grateful for all of your support and for your honoring my story. I’m writing a book on it now. All the glory goes to God for answering my prayers so perfectly. God is truly great.”
U.S. Coast Guard searches for missing vessel with 20…
U.S. Coast Guard rescues 10 from disabled cargo ship…
Indian sailor rescued after injury in race
Last crew member rescued from capsized MV Golden Ray
‘Thousands of lives will be lost in the Mediterranean unless governments take urgent action’
Photo: APM Terminals Mumbai, India
|
cc/2021-04/en_middle_0045.json.gz/line1226
|
__label__cc
| 0.62342
| 0.37658
|
Six workers injured in Greek refinery fire
Six workers were injured Friday when a fire broke out at an oil refinery near the Greek capital city of Athens, the country’s largest refiner said.
The fire had been immediately extinguished by specialized personnel at the Aspropyrgos refinery and there was no need for the intervention by the fire brigade, the Hellenic Petroleum said in a press release.
The accident occurred during routine maintenance works, said the oil company.
Workers told local media that the alarm did not go off to notify employees of an evacuation from the site on time.
The company said it would launch an investigation into the alleged malfunction of the alarm system.
2 killed, 11 injured in Turkish shipyard explosion
Togo-flagged ship catches fire off Greek coast
Philadelphia oil refinery on fire
15 killed, dozens injured in Indonesia’s oil well fire
Shipping freight rates to stay low until at least 2020, says Goldman Sachs
Customs impounds N250m fake drugs
|
cc/2021-04/en_middle_0045.json.gz/line1227
|
__label__wiki
| 0.91459
| 0.91459
|
Researchers' Zone
Dentists have used amalgam since at least the 1800s. The discussion as to whether or not the mercury in the amalgam is bad for patients is almost as old. (Illustration photo: Szasz-Fabian Jozsef, Shutterstock/NTB scanpix)
Are mercury dental fillings really that dangerous?
If mercury is unhealthy for us to eat in fish, why is it okay for it to be in dental amalgam in our mouths?
Eivind Torgersen Journalist
Nancy Bazilchuk english version
thursday 22. february 2018 - 06:20
Ten years ago, Norway banned the use of mercury amalgam as dental fillings. But what about all of us who are still walking around with teeth full of the stuff?
Amalgam is an alloy of mercury mixed with other metals. Mercury is what makes the mixture soft enough for it to mold to the hole from your cavity before it stiffens and becomes a part of your tooth.
The ban on amalgam enacted 10 years ago was part of a general ban on the use and import of toxic mercury.
So should we worry? Should people with mouths full of mercury amalgam have a blood test to check the mercury levels in their blood?
It is definitely possible to measure mercury levels in both blood and urine, but it may not tell us very much, says Professor Morten Rykke at the University of Oslo.
"This kind of test does not really give us any information about the effect of amalgam fillings," Rykke, a professor of dentistry, says.
Mercury in the food
If you have a lot of mercury in your blood, it's almost certainly due to the food you're eating. Fish and seafood contain mercury, and the higher up the food chain the fish is, the higher the mercury levels in its flesh.
That’s why the Norwegian Institute of Public Health recommends that pregnant and breastfeeding women avoid eating pike, perch over 25 centimeters, trout or Arctic char over one kilo, blue whiting over three kilos, fresh tuna, shark, skate and other "exotic" fish species, as they call them.
Nevertheless, "if you get a blood test, you will only find out how much mercury you’ve been exposed to from all other sources," and not from your dental amalgam, says Rykke.
If you’re still worried ...
A 2016 report from the Norwegian Institute of Public Health found few direct health consequences when researchers compared people with amalgam to people with modern plastic fillings. They did find that mercury levels in urine were slightly higher in the amalgam group.
For that reason, "if you don’t have any health problems from your amalgam fillings, then it's best to leave them in your mouth," says researcher Lars Björkman at Uni Research in Bergen.
Björkman is principal researcher at Uni Research Health’s Dental Biomaterials Adverse Reaction Unit. He and his colleagues follow reports on side effects from dental treatments.
Was it amalgam or worry that caused problems?
"Some people have had worrisome health problems and have wondered what the cause of their problems is," says Björkman.
Some of these individuals have had their amalgam fillings removed. Researchers have followed what happened with the patients afterwards.
"Patients who replaced their amalgam fillings had lower intensities of general health problems after the replacement than those who did not have their fillings removed," Björkman said.
He thinks this is an interesting and important finding, but emphasizes that it doesn’t mean everyone should run to the dentist. The study included only 40 people, and everyone in the study already thought that amalgam was the cause of their health problems.
Impossible to do a causal study
It’s not possible to do a study like this as a “blind” study, which would help researchers know if the amalgam removal was actually the cause of the improvements.
A blind study would divide the group in two, where one group would be treated and the other group would receive a fake treatment. That way researchers would be able to see if the fillings were the problem or if it was just the patient’s belief that the amalgam was the cause of their problem.
A study like this can’t be blind because is impossible to pretend that dental fillings have been removed.
Björkman and colleagues are now embarking on a more comprehensive study, but it will also have the same limitation.
Satisfied with the prohibition
It is now ten years since the amalgam ban came into force, but use of amalgam had already dropped before the ban. One reason? Cosmetic.
"Most people would rather have a white plastic filling in their mouth than a black plum," says Björkman.
"Amalgam was not an ideal filler material," says Rykke, without any trace of nostalgia.
But the plastic materials used today aren’t perfect, either.
“Plastic fillings can also cause allergic reactions. There are pros and cons for everything,” says Rykke.
Sweden has also banned amalgam, but it remains in use in many other countries, including the United States. In these cases, there is no evidence that amalgam is linked with greater health problems, Björkman says.
"In large populations, people with a lot of amalgam do not have more health problems than those who don’t," says Björkman.
Read the Norwegian version of this article at forskning.no.
Poor dental health tied to heart disease
Untreated root tip infections can raise the risk of coronary disease according to a new study.
Dentists could soon be fixing your teeth with cement
Research on a new material to fill dental cavities takes a small step forward.
health forskning.no teeth norway
About Sciencenorway.no
Sciencenorway.no brings you science news from Norway.
This is the English version of forskning.no, Norway’s independent, online newspaper on science.
ScienceNorway.no follows the Norwegian Editor’s Code and the Code of Ethics of the Norwegian Press.
Editor-in-chief: Nina Kristiansen
+47 414 55 513 / [email protected]
Assistant editor: Ida Irene Bergstrøm
Ads and market: Preben Forberg
Address: Sandakerveien 24 C / D3, Oslo, Norway
@Sciencenorwayno
Owners of Sciencenorway.no and forskning.no
Department of Mental Health Research and Development, Division of Mental Health and Addiction | Vestre Viken Health Trust
Diku – the Norwegian Agency for International Cooperation and Quality Enhancement in Higher Education
FHF – Norwegian Seafood Research Fund
GenØk – Centre for Biosafety
Geological Survey of Norway
Inland Norway University of Applied Sciences
Innlandet Hospital trust
Institute for Rural and Regional Research
Institute for Social Research
Institute of Marine Research (IMR)
Kristiania University College
KS Research and development
Molde University College
NHH Norwegian School of Economics
NIKU - Norwegian Institute for Cultural Heritage Research
NILU – Norwegian Institute for Air Research
NLA University College Nofima
NOKUT Norwegian Agency for Quality Assurance in Education
Nord University
Nordland Research Institute
Norwegian Biodiversity Information Centre (NBIC)
Norwegian Centre for E-health Research
Norwegian Centre for Organic Agriculture
Norwegian Centre for Violence and Traumatic Stress Studies (NKVTS)
Norwegian Computing Center
Norwegian Dairy Council
Norwegian Defence Research Establishment (FFI)
Norwegian Institute for Nature Research (NINA)
Norwegian Institute for Water Research (NIVA)
Norwegian Institute of Bioeconomy Research (NIBIO)
Norwegian Institute of International Affairs (NUPI)
Norwegian National Advisory Unit on Ageing and Health
Norwegian National Advisory Unit on Women’s Health
Norwegian National Association for Public Health
Norwegian Polar Institute
Norwegian School of Sports Sciences
Norwegian Space Agency
Norwegian University of Life Sciences (NMBU)
Norwegian Veterinary Institute
NSD - Norwegian centre for research data
Oral Health Centres of Expertise
Oslo Metropolitan University
R&D management, Norwegian Public Roads Administration
Regional Center for Child and Adolescent Mental Health, Eastern and Southern Norway (RBUP)
Skills Norway
Telemark Research Institute (TRI)
The Centre for Advanced Study (CAS)
The Fafo Institute for Labour and Social Research
The Fram Centre
The Narvik War and Peace Centre
The Norwegian Center for Child Behavioral Development (NUBU)
The Norwegian Center for Holocaust and Minority Studies
The Norwegian Geotechnical Institute
The Norwegian Meteorological Institute
The Norwegian National Research Ethics Committees
The Norwegian Scientific Committee for Food and Environment
The Norwegian Water Resources and Energy Directorate
The Regional Research Funds in Norway
The University Centre in Svalbard
University College of Norwegian Correctional Service
University of Agder
University of South-Eastern Norway
University of Stavanger
Volda University College
Western Norway Research Institute
Western Norway University of Applied Sciences (HVL)
Østfold University College
|
cc/2021-04/en_middle_0045.json.gz/line1230
|
__label__wiki
| 0.802787
| 0.802787
|
SOCAL Golfer
The #1 Southern California Golf Community
Welcome! Please sign-in to your account. Thank you!
My Golf Buddies
Posted on January 11, 2021 by SOCAL GolferLast updated January 11, 2021
The epic mind game Tiger Woods played on Phil Mickelson at the Masters
comment Add Comment
Phil Mickelson, during the final round of the 2001 Masters, stood on the tee on the par-5 13th at Augusta National trailing Tiger Woods and David Duval by two. Mickelson hit. A beautiful fade that bled around the corner of the fabled dogleg and into the middle of the fairway.
Woods, in the final pairing with Mickelson, followed.
“That’s huge. That’s really big,” announcer Ken Venturi said on the CBS broadcast. “You thought Mickelson was big? Hit it right by it.”
About 30 yards by.
With his 3-wood. To Mickelson’s driver.
“I could sort of sense that Mickelson was feeling a bit dejected,” Woods’ then-caddie, Steve Williams, recounts in Tiger, a two-part HBO documentary on Woods’ life that debuts at 9 p.m. ET Sunday. “He’s just hit the best drive that he can, and then Tiger’s hit a 3-wood and whipped it by him.
“And then Phil says to Tiger, ‘Do you always hit your 3-wood that long?’
“And Tiger says, ‘Further. Normally further than that.’
“It’s amazing the little games within the game Tiger would play,” Williams added. “That shot just deflated Phil’s ego, and he couldn’t bounce back.”
Indeed. Though both Woods and Mickelson would birdie the hole, Mickelson played the remaining five holes in even par while Woods won by two, becoming the first player in the modern era to hold all four major titles at once.
If Mickelson was daunted by the moment, that unease didn’t last long. As Mickelson has often said, Woods, in fact, motivated him to play better.
In the 37 times Woods and Mickelson have been paired together, Woods has outplayed Mickelson only 18 times to Phil’s 15. (On the other four occasions, they shot the same score).
And here’s an even more telling stat, courtesy of analytics whiz Justin Ray of the 15th Club: From 2005-2014, Mickelson averaged 1.36 strokes gained per round on the PGA Tour; when grouped with Woods, that number jumped to 2.61.
“He’s one hell of a competitor and it’s always a challenge to try to beat him,” Woods said of Mickelson, in a story published by ESPN last May.
Article originally appeared on: Golf.com
Posted in Blog, News, Recent PostsTagged The epic mind game Tiger Woods played on Phil Mickelson at the Masters
PGA cancels plans to play 2022 championship at Trump golf course
Golf’s official 2021 season calendar
Jon Rahm explains why he withdrew from The American Express
© SOCAL Golfer 2020. All Rights Reserved.
|
cc/2021-04/en_middle_0045.json.gz/line1235
|
__label__wiki
| 0.58503
| 0.58503
|
Sisterhood of Salaam Shalom™
Enriching Women's Souls, Shattering Stereotypes
Validation of Our Impact
Sisterhood Chapters
Teen Chapters: Join Us!
Social Justice Action Groups
Immigrant Communities Action Group (ICAS)
Racial Justice Action Group
Uyghur and India Action Group
Tzedakah/Sadaqa Day 2020
Building Bridges Trips
Building Bridges Trip 2020: Tuscon, Arizona
Building Bridges Trip 2019: Germany and Poland
Building Bridges Trip 2018: The American South
Building Bridges Trip 2017: Azerbaijan
Building Bridges Trip 2016: The Balkans
7th Annual Sisterhood Conference~ Together We Rise
2019 6th Annual Sisterhood of Salaam Shalom Gathering
Hands-on Learning Lab Workshops- Gathering 2019
2018 Conference: #RaiseYourVoice
2017 Conference: Rising Up
Israel’s annexation plan of the West Bank
Uyghur Statement and Fact Sheet
Statement on Forced Hysterectomies
Statement Regarding Genocidal Practices Imposed on Uyghur Women
Sisterhood of Salaam Shalom Membership Manual
Guide to Starting a New Chapter
Co-Leader’s Guide
Successful Dialogues and Effective Meetings
Suggested Meeting Themes
Sharing Holidays
Toolkits for Special Projects
Guidelines for Endorsements, Media Coverage and Social Media
Rise and Respond: Guide to Responding to Islamophobia and Anti-Semitism
Videos & How-to Guides
Engaging in Difficult Conversations: Series 1
Spiritual Activism and Community Service: Series 2
Responding to Biased or Offensive Comments by: Judith Kaye Training and Consulting
Best Practices for Meeting Members’ Needs on Zoom
Zoom Friendly Meeting Ideas
Updates from Our Teen Chapters
Voluntary Dues
June 22, 2020 by Nadia Nasim Leave a Comment
Statement from the Sisterhood of Salaam Shalom to End the Cultural Genocide of Uyghur and Turkic Muslim Populations by the Chinese Government
The Sisterhood of Salaam Shalom is an international organization comprised of over 170 grassroots chapters of Muslim and Jewish women who are committed to ending acts of anti- Jewish and anti-Muslim sentiment. As such, we condemn the systematic persecution and mass detention of the Uyghur and other Turkic Muslim populations by the Chinese government.
The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum has declared that there are reasonable grounds to believe that the Chinese government is responsible for crimes against humanity. 1
The Chinese government has and continues to perpetrate the following crimes against humanity targeting the Uyghur Muslim people:
Internment of between 800,000 and more than 2,000,000 Uyghurs and Turkic Muslim minorities in camps indefinitely and without judicial process; 2 the largest mass detention of an ethnic group since the Holocaust; 3
Uyghurs are interned based on their ethnicity and religion under the false pretext of countering religious extremism. The Chinese Government says that party officials are “washing brains” and “cleansing hearts.”4
Forced labor within the camps and mass transfer of individuals throughout China to factories that are integral to the supply chain of multinational corporations;5,6
Forced marriage of Uyghur Muslim women to Han Chinese men; Attacks on the family unit through government programs including “Homestay” and “Becoming Family” which embed Han Chinese in Uyghur Muslim homes to monitor religious practices and daily life;7,8
Separation of nearly half a million children from their families. These children have been relocated to state-run boarding schools for assimilation and political indoctrination to the Chinese Communist Party;9
Forbidding religious practice among Uyghur Muslims including exchanging greetings, wearing headscarves, having a Quran, and praying;10
Bulldozing and demolishing of mosques, shrines, and cemeteries; 11
Mass surveillance (24/7) including frequent police stops and mandatory collection of biometric data.12
The Sisterhood knows the cost of silence all too well. We call upon on all elected officials, business leaders, and people of good conscience to act now to end these crimes against humanity. Left unchecked, the Chinese government will continue their state-sanctioned cultural genocide and dehumanization against our Uyghur and Turkic Muslim sisters and brothers. According to Article II of the UN Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide, the Chinese government has already taken actions that meet the definition of genocide. Moreover, failure to speak out is implicit acceptance of this genocide and creates space for other governments to act similarly.
Furthermore, the Uyghur Human Rights Policy Act of 2020 passed Congress nearly unanimously in May 2020 and was signed into law on June 17, 2020. The law condemns “gross human rights violations of ethnic Turkic Muslims in Xinjiang” and calls for “an end to arbitrary detention, torture, and harassment of these communities inside and outside China.”13 Among other actions, this new law calls upon the authorities to “close the internment camps and lift all restrictions on, and ensure respect for, human rights.”
We want to live in a world where all people are free to practice their religion, honor their ancestry and cultural heritage, and are afforded the dignity of universal human rights.The Sisterhood of Salaam Shalom stands with the Uyghur and Turkic Muslim community in China and all over the world.
Never again means never again for all people
Uyghur Fact Sheet
“Simon-Skjodt Center Director Delivers Remarks on China’s Systematic Persecution of Uyghurs,” Naomi Kikoler, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, last modified March 6, 2020, accessed April 18, 2020, https://www.ushmm.org/genocide- prevention/blog/simon-skjodt-center-director-delivers-remarks-on-chinas-systematic- persecut.
“Testimony of Deputy Assistant Secretary Scott Busby Senate Foreign Relations Committee Subcommittee on East Asia, the Pacific, and International Cybersecurity Policy,” last modified December 4, 2018, accessed April 18, 2020, https://www.foreign.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/120418_Busby_Testimony.pdf.
“China Undercover,” PBS Frontline, last modified April 7, 2020, accessed April 18, 2020, last modified, July 24, 2019, https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/film/china-undercover/.
“Despite China’s denials, its treatment of the Uyghurs should be called what it is: cultural genocide,” The Conversation, https://theconversation.com/despite-chinas-denials-its- treatment-of-the-uyghurs-should-be-called-what-it-is-cultural-genocide-120654.
Congressional-Executive Commission on China, “Global Supply Chains, Forced Labor, and the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region,” (staff research report), March 2020, https://www.cecc.gov/sites/chinacommission.house.gov/files/documents/CECC%20Staff% 20Report%20March%202020%20-%20Global%20Supply%20Chains%2C%20Forced%20Labor%2C%20and%20the%20Xinj iang%20Uyghur%20Autonomous%20Region.pdf.
“Uyghurs for Sale,” Xu, Vicky Xiuzhong, Danielle Cave, James Leibold, Kelsey Munro, Nathan Ruser, Australian Strategic Policy Institute, last modified March 1, 2020, accessed on April 18, 2020, https://www.aspi.org.au/report/uyghurs-sale.
“Muslim wives in China ‘are forced to sleep in the same bed as male officials while their husbands are being indoctrinated in re-education camps,” DailyMail.com, last updated November 4, 2019, accessed April 18 2020.
“China’s Nightmare Homestay,” Byler, Darren, Foreign Policy, last modified October 26, 2018, accessed April 18, 2020, https://foreignpolicy.com/2018/10/26/china-nightmare- homestay-xinjiang-uighur-monitor/.
“In China’s Crackdown on Muslims, Children Have Not Been Spared,” Amy Qin, New York Times, last modified February 17, 2020, accessed April 18, 2020, https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/28/world/asia/china-xinjiang-children-boarding- schools.html.
“China Is Detaining Muslims in Vast Numbers. The Goal: ‘Transformation,’ Chris Buckley, New York Times, last modified September 8, 2018, accessed April 18, 2020, https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/08/world/asia/china-uighur-muslim-detention- camp.html.
Hiatt, Fred. “In China, every day is Kristallnacht,” The Washington Post, November 3, 2019, accessed on May 3, 2020 https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2019/11/03/china-every-day-is- kristallnacht/?arc404=true.
“Eradicating Ideological Viruses: China’s Campaign of Repression Against Xinjiang’s Muslims,” Human Rights Watch, last modified September 9, 2018, accessed on April 18, 2020, https://www.hrw.org/report/2018/09/09/eradicating-ideological-viruses/chinas- campaign-repression-against-xinjiangs#_ftn34.
Uyghur Human Rights Policy Act of 2020, Congressional Record—House, H2293-2300 accessed June 20, 2020, https://www.congress.gov/116/crec/2020/05/27/CREC-2020-05- 27-pt1-PgH2293.pdf.
WordPress Site Credits
© Copyright 2020 — Sisterhood of Salaam Shalom™
Town Hall Facebook Live With One of The Sisterhood's Greatest Supporters inThe U.S. Senate!
Cofounders, Sheryl Olitzky and Atiya Aftab, in dialogue with Senator Cory Booker as we focus on the issues facing us as Muslim and Jewish women in this challenging time in our history. Click here to watch.
|
cc/2021-04/en_middle_0045.json.gz/line1241
|
__label__wiki
| 0.552549
| 0.552549
|
Questionable fourth-down decision and controversial call loom large in Cowboys' loss to Rams
Frank Schwab
September 13, 2020, 11:20 PM ·4 min read
Dallas Cowboys fans complained loudly and often about Jason Garrett. They’ll have something to talk about with new coach Mike McCarthy this week.
McCarthy, coaching his first game for the Cowboys, made a debatable call to go for it in the fourth quarter when Dallas trailed the Los Angeles Rams 20-17. Instead of a short field goal to tie the game, Dallas came up short of the first down and turned it over on downs. The Rams went on to win 20-17.
In the final minute, Michael Gallup had a questionable pass interference when he extended his arm against Rams cornerback Jalen Ramsey, wiping out a big play that would have put Dallas in field-goal range in the final seconds. They’ll talk about that call, too, among other things. It didn’t seem like Gallup did enough to warrant the flag.
Dallas Cowboys quarterback Dak Prescott, right, is tackled by Los Angeles Rams defensive end Michael Brockers. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong )
Taking three points earlier would have made it a different game at the end. It’s not like McCarthy, the longtime coach of the Green Bay Packers, doesn’t understand the scrutiny that comes with being an NFL head coach. But he’s about to learn what it’s like in Texas when your decisions end up being the wrong ones.
Dallas doesn’t get it on fourth down
McCarthy faced his key decision early in the fourth quarter. Trailing 20-17, the Cowboys had fourth-and-3 deep in Rams territory. Instead of trying a field goal to tie the game, Dallas went for it. Dak Prescott hit CeeDee Lamb over the middle but short of the first-down marker, and Lamb was tackled right away for a turnover on downs.
The decision wasn’t necessarily wrong. You won’t win many NFL games settling for short field goals. One of the many reasons McCarthy’s Packers blew the 2014 NFC championship game was that they settled for a couple field goals from inside Seattle’s 5-yard line instead of going for it. McCarthy wanted to be more bold this time around.
But when decisions have bad results, it’s easy to second guess. And many people will second guess that one after the Cowboys lost by a field goal.
The Cowboys had a couple chances to drive again later and tie or win the game. On a third down, Amari Cooper was popped by Ramsey and the ball flew out incomplete. The Cowboys had to punt with a little more than five minutes left. Dallas got it back right before the two-minute warning, and Gallup seemed to have beat Ramsey for an enormous play, but the flag came down. That basically ended the game.
There were plenty of issues with the Cowboys on Sunday, not just related to fourth-down decisions or questionable calls.
Dallas’ offense comes up short
Dallas’ offense was supposed to be among the best in the NFL and it still might be, but it wasn’t all that great on Sunday night. The Cowboys were stuck on 17 points for a long time, unable to create many big plays downfield. The Rams did a good job containing all of the Cowboys’ skill-position stars.
The Rams sped up the tempo, were more unpredictable than usual with their personnel groupings and got in a good rhythm right away. Malcolm Brown, an afterthought for most of the offseason after the Rams used a second-round draft pick on running back Cam Akers, ran hard and scored two touchdowns.
While Dallas came in with a lot of hype, the Rams outplayed them in many areas. Prescott couldn’t lift his team to a winning drive with two opportunities in the final minutes, though he would have been a hero had the Gallup catch held.
Dallas struggled badly in close games last season. Garrett took most of the heat for that. The trend continued, and this time a new coach will have to answer the old questions.
More from Yahoo Sports
Thamel: Inside Big Ten’s potential about-face on football
Haynes: Russ vs. Rondo’s brother livens up Lakers’ win
Lawsuit: United fills NFL flights with attractive attendants
Sources: Giannis meets with Bucks ownership over future
Yahoo Sports is committed to finding you the best products at the best prices. We may receive a share from purchases made via links on this page. Pricing and availability is subject to change.
Bills Wire
Bills at Chiefs: Wednesday injury update for QB Patrick Mahomes
Injury updates for Kansas City Chiefs QB Patrick Mahomes ahead of Buffalo Bills matchup in AFC Championship.
|
cc/2021-04/en_middle_0045.json.gz/line1242
|
__label__cc
| 0.614721
| 0.385279
|
Diagnostic utility of coeliac disease: A descriptive study in a tertiary care hospital, Oman
Safana Salim Al Saidi, Salim Omar Al Harthi, Waad Allah Sharef Mula-Abed
Objectives: The prevalence of coeliac disease in Oman is unknown. We aim to estimate the prevalence of coeliac disease in at-risk subjects, describe the clinical characteristics and laboratory findings associated with coeliac disease and the validity of serological testing for coeliac disease at the Royal Hospital, Oman over a period of three years. Methods: This is a retrospective case finding study. The medical and laboratory records were reviewed for patients for whom serum antiendomysium IgA antibodies were requested at the Royal Hospital during a 3-year period (1st Jan 2006-31st Dec 2008). The data were extracted in order to assess the following: a) Prevalence rate of coeliac disease among at-risk subjects; b) Clinical characteristics in patients with coeliac disease and clinical manifestations for which the requesting clinicians considered coeliac disease as a possible diagnosis, including their specialties; c) Laboratory tests results in patients with coeliac disease; and d) Validity of antiendomysium antibodies testing in comparison with histopathology of jejunal biopsies for diagnosing coeliac disease. Results: The study included 431 patients (250 females, 181 males) who were suspected of having (or screened for) coeliac disease. The median of age was 15 years (range: 9 months-74 years) with mean ± SD 18.95 ± 14.1 years. Of these, 15 (3.5%) patients (10 females, 5 males) with a median age of 19 years and mean 21.4 ± 13.0 years (range: 2.5-38 years), had positive antiendomysium antibodies results with median (range) of 160 (40-320) IU/L and mean± SD 204.5 ± 160 IU/L. Of these 15 patients, 13 had positive jejunal histopathological changes indicative of coeliac disease; the remaining 2 patients had no biopsy examination. Of the 44 patients with negative antiendomysium antibodies
Oman Medical Journal
https://doi.org/10.5001/omj.2013.68
Antiendomysium antibodies
10.5001/omj.2013.68
Fingerprint Dive into the research topics of 'Diagnostic utility of coeliac disease: A descriptive study in a tertiary care hospital, Oman'. Together they form a unique fingerprint.
Oman Medicine & Life Sciences
Celiac Disease Medicine & Life Sciences
Tertiary Healthcare Medicine & Life Sciences
Tertiary Care Centers Medicine & Life Sciences
Antibodies Medicine & Life Sciences
Biopsy Medicine & Life Sciences
Immunoglobulin A Medicine & Life Sciences
Medical Records Medicine & Life Sciences
Al Saidi, S. S., Al Harthi, S. O., & Mula-Abed, W. A. S. (2013). Diagnostic utility of coeliac disease: A descriptive study in a tertiary care hospital, Oman. Oman Medical Journal, 28(4), 232-236. https://doi.org/10.5001/omj.2013.68
Diagnostic utility of coeliac disease : A descriptive study in a tertiary care hospital, Oman. / Al Saidi, Safana Salim; Al Harthi, Salim Omar; Mula-Abed, Waad Allah Sharef.
In: Oman Medical Journal, Vol. 28, No. 4, 2013, p. 232-236.
Al Saidi, SS, Al Harthi, SO & Mula-Abed, WAS 2013, 'Diagnostic utility of coeliac disease: A descriptive study in a tertiary care hospital, Oman', Oman Medical Journal, vol. 28, no. 4, pp. 232-236. https://doi.org/10.5001/omj.2013.68
Al Saidi SS, Al Harthi SO, Mula-Abed WAS. Diagnostic utility of coeliac disease: A descriptive study in a tertiary care hospital, Oman. Oman Medical Journal. 2013;28(4):232-236. https://doi.org/10.5001/omj.2013.68
Al Saidi, Safana Salim ; Al Harthi, Salim Omar ; Mula-Abed, Waad Allah Sharef. / Diagnostic utility of coeliac disease : A descriptive study in a tertiary care hospital, Oman. In: Oman Medical Journal. 2013 ; Vol. 28, No. 4. pp. 232-236.
@article{f3ce06b5f0d14907ba69800ab7d5ba9e,
title = "Diagnostic utility of coeliac disease: A descriptive study in a tertiary care hospital, Oman",
abstract = "Objectives: The prevalence of coeliac disease in Oman is unknown. We aim to estimate the prevalence of coeliac disease in at-risk subjects, describe the clinical characteristics and laboratory findings associated with coeliac disease and the validity of serological testing for coeliac disease at the Royal Hospital, Oman over a period of three years. Methods: This is a retrospective case finding study. The medical and laboratory records were reviewed for patients for whom serum antiendomysium IgA antibodies were requested at the Royal Hospital during a 3-year period (1st Jan 2006-31st Dec 2008). The data were extracted in order to assess the following: a) Prevalence rate of coeliac disease among at-risk subjects; b) Clinical characteristics in patients with coeliac disease and clinical manifestations for which the requesting clinicians considered coeliac disease as a possible diagnosis, including their specialties; c) Laboratory tests results in patients with coeliac disease; and d) Validity of antiendomysium antibodies testing in comparison with histopathology of jejunal biopsies for diagnosing coeliac disease. Results: The study included 431 patients (250 females, 181 males) who were suspected of having (or screened for) coeliac disease. The median of age was 15 years (range: 9 months-74 years) with mean ± SD 18.95 ± 14.1 years. Of these, 15 (3.5%) patients (10 females, 5 males) with a median age of 19 years and mean 21.4 ± 13.0 years (range: 2.5-38 years), had positive antiendomysium antibodies results with median (range) of 160 (40-320) IU/L and mean± SD 204.5 ± 160 IU/L. Of these 15 patients, 13 had positive jejunal histopathological changes indicative of coeliac disease; the remaining 2 patients had no biopsy examination. Of the 44 patients with negative antiendomysium antibodies ",
keywords = "Antiendomysium antibodies, Coeliac disease, Oman, Prevalence",
author = "{Al Saidi}, {Safana Salim} and {Al Harthi}, {Salim Omar} and Mula-Abed, {Waad Allah Sharef}",
doi = "10.5001/omj.2013.68",
journal = "Oman Medical Journal",
publisher = "Oman Medical Specialty Board",
T1 - Diagnostic utility of coeliac disease
T2 - A descriptive study in a tertiary care hospital, Oman
AU - Al Saidi, Safana Salim
AU - Al Harthi, Salim Omar
AU - Mula-Abed, Waad Allah Sharef
N2 - Objectives: The prevalence of coeliac disease in Oman is unknown. We aim to estimate the prevalence of coeliac disease in at-risk subjects, describe the clinical characteristics and laboratory findings associated with coeliac disease and the validity of serological testing for coeliac disease at the Royal Hospital, Oman over a period of three years. Methods: This is a retrospective case finding study. The medical and laboratory records were reviewed for patients for whom serum antiendomysium IgA antibodies were requested at the Royal Hospital during a 3-year period (1st Jan 2006-31st Dec 2008). The data were extracted in order to assess the following: a) Prevalence rate of coeliac disease among at-risk subjects; b) Clinical characteristics in patients with coeliac disease and clinical manifestations for which the requesting clinicians considered coeliac disease as a possible diagnosis, including their specialties; c) Laboratory tests results in patients with coeliac disease; and d) Validity of antiendomysium antibodies testing in comparison with histopathology of jejunal biopsies for diagnosing coeliac disease. Results: The study included 431 patients (250 females, 181 males) who were suspected of having (or screened for) coeliac disease. The median of age was 15 years (range: 9 months-74 years) with mean ± SD 18.95 ± 14.1 years. Of these, 15 (3.5%) patients (10 females, 5 males) with a median age of 19 years and mean 21.4 ± 13.0 years (range: 2.5-38 years), had positive antiendomysium antibodies results with median (range) of 160 (40-320) IU/L and mean± SD 204.5 ± 160 IU/L. Of these 15 patients, 13 had positive jejunal histopathological changes indicative of coeliac disease; the remaining 2 patients had no biopsy examination. Of the 44 patients with negative antiendomysium antibodies
AB - Objectives: The prevalence of coeliac disease in Oman is unknown. We aim to estimate the prevalence of coeliac disease in at-risk subjects, describe the clinical characteristics and laboratory findings associated with coeliac disease and the validity of serological testing for coeliac disease at the Royal Hospital, Oman over a period of three years. Methods: This is a retrospective case finding study. The medical and laboratory records were reviewed for patients for whom serum antiendomysium IgA antibodies were requested at the Royal Hospital during a 3-year period (1st Jan 2006-31st Dec 2008). The data were extracted in order to assess the following: a) Prevalence rate of coeliac disease among at-risk subjects; b) Clinical characteristics in patients with coeliac disease and clinical manifestations for which the requesting clinicians considered coeliac disease as a possible diagnosis, including their specialties; c) Laboratory tests results in patients with coeliac disease; and d) Validity of antiendomysium antibodies testing in comparison with histopathology of jejunal biopsies for diagnosing coeliac disease. Results: The study included 431 patients (250 females, 181 males) who were suspected of having (or screened for) coeliac disease. The median of age was 15 years (range: 9 months-74 years) with mean ± SD 18.95 ± 14.1 years. Of these, 15 (3.5%) patients (10 females, 5 males) with a median age of 19 years and mean 21.4 ± 13.0 years (range: 2.5-38 years), had positive antiendomysium antibodies results with median (range) of 160 (40-320) IU/L and mean± SD 204.5 ± 160 IU/L. Of these 15 patients, 13 had positive jejunal histopathological changes indicative of coeliac disease; the remaining 2 patients had no biopsy examination. Of the 44 patients with negative antiendomysium antibodies
KW - Antiendomysium antibodies
KW - Coeliac disease
KW - Oman
KW - Prevalence
U2 - 10.5001/omj.2013.68
DO - 10.5001/omj.2013.68
JO - Oman Medical Journal
JF - Oman Medical Journal
|
cc/2021-04/en_middle_0045.json.gz/line1245
|
__label__wiki
| 0.662894
| 0.662894
|
You are here: Home / News / Forfeiture / George Osborne’s former nanny faces £100,000 bill and homelessness after refusing to pay major works on her leasehold ex-council flat
George Osborne’s former nanny faces £100,000 bill and homelessness after refusing to pay major works on her leasehold ex-council flat
January 11, 2014 // by Sebastian O'Kelly
The issues in this case – and others concerning local authority leasehold – will be debated tomorrow morning on BBC Five Live with Eric Pickles, Communities Secretary, and Sebastian O’Kelly, of LKP, at 11.30am, Sunday January 12
Farieda Chandoo, 60, on the balcony at her council-owned block in south London, where she has been a leaseholder of a three-bedroom, split-level flat since 1997. After her disastrous legal battles with Southwark council, she is almost certainly going to have to sell
A disastrous act of defiance in refusing to pay her share of a council’s major works scheme has cost Farieda Chandoo, 60, – who once looked after the five-year-old George Osborne – nearly £100,000.
She will also almost certainly have to sell her three-bedroom, split-level former council flat after being bailed out by her mortgage lenders.
Farieda, who was born in Trinidad, bought her comfortable flat in a 1970s three-storey block for £42,000 in 1997 from the former council tenant who had exercised the right to buy.
But she refused to accept that a £3.8 million refurbishment of the Brandon Estate, between Camberwell and the Oval, was necessary and believed the works to have been appallingly carried out. Her block, Kirwyn Way, had to pay £1.1 million.
As a result, she withheld payment of £40,000, which was her share for the works, setting in train a series of disasters which resulted in her facing a four-day forfeiture hearing at the county court last month (December 10 2013).
She now faces a total bill of nearly £100,000, and it could be more once the cost of the mortgage lender’s bail out is added to the total. The flat itself is only valued at £195,000.
“At one point I even got in touch with George Osborne’s mother through their business address,” says Farieda. “I hated to do it as it was like putting out the begging bowl.
“George was a lovely little boy and I was very fond of the family. But I never heard anything back. It was a long time ago.”
As she has always been in full-time employment as an NHS secretary, Farieda was the only leaseholder in Kirwyn Way who paid the full amount.
“I have always paid my service charge and I do not expect something for nothing,” says Farieda. “But I just will not pay for things that I did not receive.
“These works were badly carried out and made my life worse rather than improved it, so I refused to pay and fought the council in the Leasehold Valuation Tribunal.”
That took place in January 2011 and Farieda, who spent £500 on legal preparation for the case, was yet another lay applicant leaseholder to fail to persuade a tribunal when up against a legally represented freeholder.
In this case, however, and in contrast to so many private freeholders who use legal costs to play the Leasehold Valuation Tribunal system, Southwark did not ask for its legal costs at all.
Farieda’s argument was that the costs for council leaseholders should be capped at £10,000 – something which Eric Pickles, the Communities Secretary, is keen to introduce, although the figure will be higher in London at £15,000.
She also produced a string of complaints about the works, most of which were rejected.
But the builders did put a hole in the roof causing a leak to her flat. In addition, a front porch was erected which the tribunal ruled was not refurbishment, but new works, and the cost was removed from Farieda’s bill.
Nonetheless, on almost all points her arguments failed.
The tribunal ruled:
“This is yet another case of a leaseholder who has purchased a right to buy property from the original purchaser at the full market price, believed the property to be in good or at least acceptable condition and is then confronted with a bill for major works for over £38,000 which she is unable to afford and which had been imposed upon here by the landlord’s implementation of the Government’s Decent Homes Initiative.”
Farieda demonstrates broken masonry, which was refurbished only four years ago at a cost of £1.1 million. She refused to pay for ‘bad works’
As well as considering the sum unjust, Farieda was simply unable to pay it, although Southwark does run a low interest loan scheme for council leaseholders in these positions.
“But I could not afford to pay £600 a month more,” said Farieda. She also refused to accept that she needed to.
She continued to dispute the amount, spending £13,000 on a solicitor and £2,000 on a surveyor to examine the works at Kirwyn Way.
Nonetheless, she was without any professional representation at the four-day county court hearing that started on December 10.
Why a forfeiture hearing should be assigned four days is a question that requires an answer, but Farieda was unshakeable in her belief that she could re-fight the battle lost in the LVT and assembled her arguments according.
LKP, which was contacted before the case, urged dialogue with the council to avoid a further avalanche of costs for the legal profession – and the charges of Farieda’s mortgage lender.
The result of the four-day hearing has been an utter disaster.
On this occasion, Southwark deployed a barrister and sought and obtained £24,000 in costs.
“I will have to sell my flat because of this and I have no idea what I will do,” she says. “I will have to move into some bedsit somewhere. This case has brought me utter ruin.”
How she has managed to carry out a full-time job in the face of this litigation is astonishing.
What can be done to stop more cases like Farieda Chandoo’s?
It is a failure all round that this case came to court and that a dignified, independent woman is almost certainly going to have to sell her home and go into rented accommodation.
It is an open question why the judiciary permitted a four-day forfeiture hearing with a lay applicant.
Forfeiture can be lifted in 10-minute hearings where mortgage lenders agree – as they usually do – to pay the outstanding debt.
Water floods the gutters and gathers on the balconies of the top floor. The paving here, which also serves as a fire escape, was part of the new works. It traps the water and is extremely slippery. There have been complaints of damp by residents below
If there was no chance of Farieda interesting the court in her complaints about the necessity and quality of the works at Kirwyn Way, then one has to ask whose interests were served by holding a protracted case.
When she was first presented with an eye-watering bill for the works, Farieda consulted her MP, Harriet Harman, and John Prescott, then deputy prime minister and the Communities Secretary.
There was a move to limit leaseholders’ liability in major works to £10,000, but it did not apply to Farieda.
Eric Pickles, the Conservative Communities Secretary, is now attempting to introduce this scheme. He was indignant at the case of local authority leaseholder Florence Bourne, 93, in Newham, north London, who died tormented by the fear that she would have to pay £50,000 towards the refurbishment of her block.
The proposal is that over a five-year period, local authority leaseholders will have a cap of £10,000 (£15,000 in London) for five years.
Timber at Kirwyn Way already looks in a parlous state
Of course, this scheme would not have assisted Farieda who has lived in her home since 1997.
Southwark is considering a scheme to offer to buy back ex-council flats from leaseholders who cannot afford to pay for the major works.
Inevitably, this gives rise to suspicions that Southwark will abuse its whip hand forced down prices before snapping them up.
In the case of Farieda Chandoo, there have been failings. She did need help, rather than being financially ruined. She did look into selling her flat back to the council or a housing association, but these solutions failed.
She is still bitter about the quality of the works: pointed to fractured masonry, rotting woodwork, rainwater accumulating on the flat roofs.
It is all too likely that Kirwyn Way will need another refurb at some point in the not too distant future.
The accommodation standards fall well short of the truly opulent council offices enjoyed by Southwark’s housing staff in Tooley Street, beside London Bridge.
We must hope that Farieda Chandoo is the last of Southwark’s leaseholders to suffer these sorts of losses in the courts.
Farieda Chandoo’s LVT ruling can be read here
George Osborne’s former nanny faces £100,000 bills and loss of home George Osborne’s childhood nanny facing £115,000 bill to council Southwark litigant-in-person leaseholder faces wipe-out after £24,000 tribunal victory. Council now deploys ‘shock and awe’ QC … £146,257 – the highest major works bill ever? Southwark council leaseholders see major works bill slashed from £17,000 to £8,000
Category: Forfeiture, Local authority leasehold, News, Tribunal triumphs ... and defeats, VideoTag: Farieda Chandoo, forfeiture, George Osborne, Southwark
Previous Post: « Little warmth in this masonic handshake as Peverel website removes news of winning a new block
Next Post: Today’s BBC Five Live interview with Eric Pickles and Leasehold Knowledge Partnership … »
Anyone reading this case will be horrified by it and have the utmost sympathy for the trauma Farleda is going through.
We can always be wise after the event,( i made a similar mistake over ground rent which proved expensive, but fortunately not ruinous)
All the campaigning sites Campaign against retirement leasehold exploitation/LKP and About Action give the advice in the strongest terms that you should always PAY UNDER PROTEST, and claim back.
This means you are fully protected from any action a Freeholder/Managing Agent would like to take as you would have complied with your lease.
It is then a matter of claiming against the Freeholder/ Managing Agents, who would have to demonstrate that the work was fairly charged and carried out to a reasonable standard in order to defend themselves..
Typo, Sorry I meant About Peverel!
Further to the advice about paying under protest rather than withholding payment, I would like to add, that if you withhold payment the issue that will be the only concern for the court is to determine if you have complied with your lease? Mitigation (in that poor or no service was supplied is not a factor.
However, if you have paid (under protest) and then challenged in court, the onus completely changes. It is now for the Freeholder/Managing Agent to prove that they have complied with the lease. In the case outlined, Southwark Council would have to prove to the court that the work was reasonably priced and carried out to a satisfactory standard..
I am sorry but the above comments are wrong.
There is no right to withhold nor any “pay under protest”. If an owner disputes charge made or to be made, they should pay and qualify that they neither agree nor admit the charges as being due. That is then followed up with the basis of their dispute.
It is open to those who do not pay to immediately exercise their right to have the FTT determine that the charges, made or to be made, based on the lessee’s argument.
As a FH is then unable to take action for forfeiture until determination is made, the swift acting owner can skirt payment. If the FH seeks a money claim then that is different , however a Court will in most cases upon argument, defer judgement pending determination in the FTT.
It is clear that the LH must take the intitiatve and exercise their rights at the earliest oppurtunity( taking advice first on the lease and the costs of such action to see if your case is one of the few exceptions).
It is misleading to expect that there is any onus as posted, the claimant FH or LH must make their case and their argument, and the respondent defend their positions against the arguments made. A recent UT case, coincidentally on a council property chastised the FTT ( then LVT) for going beyond the arguments made by the lessee and limited ( some would say curtailed) the inquisitorial role of the FTT. It would be an unwise lessee that expects a court or lessee to make the arguments for them or expect that in response to a simple or brief refutal of charges, that the FH has the onus to defend its position comprehensively or lose.
I will read the LVT or FTT determination but if the defects pointed in the work are valid, then the above case I referred to is an example, as far as I can see now, of the behind the scenes briefing that has, particularly in public sector cases, stuffed residential leaseholders in social housing in general. I too am bemused by a four day listing or the need for a barrister over 24k worth of time when the matter has been( or should have been) substantially determined at the T. I would expect to see that the case to the T ws either flawed in its decision or that, as above, the arguments presented too insubtantial( despite I assume their inherant validity) to assist her claim. The photo is most telling I can see from it that there is an inherant defect that was not addressed and caused the render and coping to blow. … Frankly as I have said on other threads the scandal in public sector leaseholds far exceeds that of the likes of Peveral and clearly government does not like its tribunals awarding claims against its funded works.
The four-day county court case in December, which cost Farieda Chandoo £24,000, is incomprehensible. A forfeiture case can be dealt with in 10 minutes especially when, as here, the leaseholder’s mortgage lender was offering to pay off the debt.
Farieda was convinced that all the issues dealt with in the LVT – which were unambiguous and clear and were not appealed – could be re-opened.
Before the case, I urged her to employ an open access barrister we have used before, contact the council and mediate.
The unfactored costs here are those of her mortgage lender, which also employed a barrister.
The total costs involved are likely to exceed £100,000.
Thank you my suspicions were correct. Though the claimant can state “determined” but the county court are not unknown to rexamine issues nor accept them blindly, in simple terms, where they may be in error or some dispute of fact, and that it is they who have to consider the burden of forfeiture on an owner.
Michael Read
It is not the case that Southwark refused to claim costs at the LVT. It can’t unless it can show that the other party acted frivilously and vexatiously and even then it would not be awarded costs equivalent to those incurred at a county court hearing. Note that Southwark had no compunctions steaming in at the county court.
Ms Chandoo has not received the best advice on the evidence presented here. I don’t absolve her solicitors. And I don’t absolve her completely either. 15 minutes with a CAB housing adviser might have been wiser. Better to have taken the time to talk to a decision-maker, rather than a debt clerk, at the local authority.
Paragraph 55 of the ruling makes clear that Southwark stated that it would not be seeking costs at this hearing.
Or employ a chartered building surveyor to provide independant expert evidence on the shortcomings of the works which would have assisted her in what arguments to present. One way that the FTT can work is that provided with the facts and argument the legal aspect is not so important. Presented with clear shortcomings and the reasons for those by a professional, it is easier to ask for a determination of a reasonable cost” should I have to pay for something that has not been done right?” than soley rely on anecdotal evidence and photograhphs and a l;awyer.
Don’t forget that costs changed in July at the FTT and are no longer so limited. readers should also make sure they understand the difference betwen those costs and costs due under the lease for proceedings.
|
cc/2021-04/en_middle_0045.json.gz/line1251
|
__label__wiki
| 0.722594
| 0.722594
|
Europe Politics
Nikki Haley Urges Congress to Investigate CCPs Role in Pandemic
Nikki Haley, former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, launched a petition Thursday urging Congr..
By Sunday Herald Team , in US Politics , at April 24, 2020
Nikki Haley, former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, launched a petition Thursday urging Congress to investigate the Chinese Communist Partys (CCP) role in the pandemic and to hold the regime accountable for its actions around the world.
“We have long warned about the threats Chinas Communist government poses. Now we are seeing just how dangerous China is. The time for warnings is over. We must act and protect American security, health, and prosperity,” Haley said.
Haley launched the “Stop Communist China” petition through her advocacy group, Stand for America, saying that the CCPs influence has seeped into multilateral organizations.
“Right now, they head up a civil aviation organization, they head up an agricultural organization, they almost became the head of the world intellectual property organization until Singapore came in and saved us from that; theyre on the Human Rights Council, and now were seeing their influence in the World Health Organization (WHO),” Haley said.
President Donald Trump paused U.S. funding to the WHO this month amid widespread criticism that they mishandled the CCP virus, a novel coronavirus that emerged from mainland China last year.
“They called it wrong. They missed the call. They could have called it months earlier. They would have known. They should have known. And they probably did know. So well be looking into that very carefully,” the president told reporters in Washington earlier in April, referring to the CCP virus.
The review will focus on whether the WHO is being run well, said John Barsa, acting administrator of the U.S. Agency for International Development, on Wednesday.
“The President is right to say Im going to withhold money until I get answers, they owe us those answers, and they can talk about the victimization. What about the victimization of Americans who have had to deal with this crisis? What about victimization of so many other people and other countries in the world?” Haley told Fox News.
Another goal of the petition is to have Congress bring the manufacture of medical equipment and pharmaceuticals back to the United States from China. This is a Read More From Source
Sen. Johnson Accuses Sen. Peters of Undermining Efforts to Subpoena Ex-Official Linked to Steele
A powerful Republican senator who has recently fought off criticism for not issuing subpoenas in the..
Biden Receives Endorsements From Nearly 100 Republicans
Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden received endorsements on Sept. 3 from a group of nearly 10..
Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf Extends Red Phase Stay-At-Home Order
Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf has extended the stay-at-home order for all “red” phase counties in the s..
Iraq War Veteran Demands People Stop Using His Image in Anti-Trump Propaganda
Army veteran Bobby Henline on Monday lashed out at individuals using his image to spread “propaganda..
Tulsi Gabbard Skipping Next 2020 Debate
Rep. Tulsi Gabbard (D-Hawaii) said that shes skipping the next Democratic presidential debate.
Gabb..
|
cc/2021-04/en_middle_0045.json.gz/line1272
|
__label__cc
| 0.70769
| 0.29231
|
5 Questions About Rogue One
November 2, 2016 July 26, 2020 Soeren KamperUncategorized
Rogue One: A Star Wars Story comes out next month!
Now that we’ve passed Halloween and flipped our calendars to November, we can officially say that. For the second year running, a brand-new Star Wars movie is headed our way in December, and it’s safe to say that fans of the franchise are eagerly anticipating the release. And the latest trailer showed off broad, beautiful glimpses of a film that looks like far more than some flimsy side project. This should definitely be thought of as a full-fledged Star Wars movie, even if it’s not part of the core series.
And if that’s the case, we all have some questions! It would take many, many pages to cover some of the speculation going on about what Rogue One will bring us and what it will mean for the greater Star Wars universe. But to sum up some fun speculation, here are five key questions we can’t wait to see answered.
1. Will We See Links To Episode VII?
We’ve been told that Rogue One is pretty firmly a standalone project, and not one that will tie into the future of the series. However, fans simply have a hard time accepting that. Cinemablend did a nice write-up of four fan theories not just in general about Rogue One but about how it may address mysteries related to Episode VIII (and VII). These theories included the idea that Mads Mikkelsen’s Galen Erson may in fact be Max Von Sydow’s mysterious Lor San Tekka from The Force Awakens, that Felicity Jones’s Jyn Erso is related to Rey, and more. It will be fascinating to see if we do in fact get any clear links to The Force Awakens or Episode VII.
2. Will We See The Force?
We know Darth Vader will appear in this film, but there aren’t expected to be any Jedi in key roles—so will we actually see the Force in action? Most speculation seems to be leaning toward no, but it’s worth remembering just how crucial the Force, particularly the wielding of lightsabers, is to this franchise. For reference, Lottoland posted an article about some of the most expensive movie memorabilia in history and claimed Luke Skywalker’s original weapon sold for $240,000 at auction. And quite simply put: hat sum is staggering! It may be the best characterization out there of just how iconic the lightsaber—and the Force that allows people to wield it expertly—really is. Don’t blindly assume that the studio won’t inject a bit of Force action for this reason.
3. Will We Learn Why The Death Star Is Vulnerable?
One of the silliest things in the Star Wars films—something that’s commonly mocked among fans, in fact—is the bizarre vulnerability of the Death Star. In A New Hope, we’re basically asked to accept that a nearly all-powerful empire built the universe’s deadliest weapon and randomly left a tiny patch of it exposed. That patch is then destroyed by weapons from an X-Wing, a pretty puny vessel compared to the Death Star. We know that Rogue One is about the Rebels’ quest to obtain the specific Death Star plans and thus recognize this vulnerability. However, will we actually learn why the vulnerability exists in the first place?
4. Did The Death Star Destroy Another Planet?
We all remember when the Death Star destroyed Princess Leia’s home planet of Alderaan. It appeared at the time to be the first display of the weaponized space station’s devastating power. However, Digital Spy posted another list of questions about the possibilities of Rogue One, and made the interesting note that the trailer hints at more planetary destruction. There’s talk in the trailer of a “major weapons test,” and there’s a scene that might be viewed as a Rebel ship escaping an exploding planet. It would be pretty interesting to learn that the Death Star had pulled off its horrific Alderaan stunt before—and makes you think of just how many times it did so.
5. Is Jyn Turning Dark?
Finally there’s the question we always seem to ask when a new Star Wars project rolls around: is someone we believe to be good actually bad? We knew it would happen with Anakin, so that doesn’t really count. Many believed it would happen with Luke (as in, he’d be Kylo Ren), and that of course proved to be nonsense. But could it happen with Jyn Erso, the mysterious protagonist for Rogue One? There’s a shot in the trailer in which she appears to be wearing dark Imperial armor, and some even specifically believe she’ll ultimately become Captain Phasma, who we met in The Force Awakens. That specific theory seems like a bit of a reach, but there are some clear indications that Jyn Erso will flirt with the dark side.
Changes to the Cartel Market — Tuesday November 01 2016
Star Wars Knights of the Old Republic Netflix TV Series Movement
|
cc/2021-04/en_middle_0045.json.gz/line1286
|
__label__wiki
| 0.985106
| 0.985106
|
Commonwealth Games England
Para powerlifting
* 2022 Games
Isle of Man 2011
Bendigo 2004
Edmonton 1978
Kingston 1966
Cardiff 1958
Y : Youth Games
Board & Subcommittees
Financials & Governance
Diversity Strategy
UKAD
Birmingham Connect
Search for athlete, sport or news
Marcus Ellis
Marcus made his Commonwealth Games debut on the Gold Coast.
He competed for Team and Country in badminton and won gold in the badminton men's doubles and silver in the mixed doubles as well as bronze in the mixed team event.
Marcus plays in the men's doubles with Chris Langridge. His major achievement is winning a historic bronze medal with Chris at the 2016 Rio Olympic Games and winning back-to-back English National Championship titles in 2015 and 2016.
National Badminton Centre
Commonwealth Appearances
Sporting Achievements
Gold Coast 2018 Commonwealth Games - Gold, silver and bronze
Rio 2016 Olympic games - Bronze
2016 European Championships - Bronze
2016 and 2015 English National Badminton Championships - Gold
Badminton is often described as the fastest sport in the Commonwealth Games with the shuttlecock reaching speeds of up to 400km/h, these lightning speed reactions and nimble techniques makes badminton one of the most exciting sports at the Games.
Get the latest news from Team England straight to your inbox
Search all athletes
Gabby Adcock
Chris Langridge
Doubles delight for Ellis
13 more medals on final day
Golden pairing
Badminton Mixed doubles - Gold medal match
© Copyright 2021 Site by Salad
Countdown to...
...Gold Coast 2018
Begins...
|
cc/2021-04/en_middle_0045.json.gz/line1289
|
__label__wiki
| 0.966462
| 0.966462
|
Quora begins making money with the introduction of advertising
Jon Russell @jonrussell / 5 years
Question and answer site Quora has made its first push to make money after it introduced advertising.
The company, which was valued at around $900 million when it closed an $80 million Series C in 2014, recently reported that it has 100 million monthly visitors, half of whom are from the U.S. with 15 percent from India. That’s up from 80 million in January, and likely the reason for this foray into ads.
“Our initial ads will show on only a very small number of question pages, and only in cases where we believe that the fact that someone is reading this particular question page means that they are likely to be interested in what the advertiser is offering,” Quora product manager Ryan Browne wrote.
Browne added that Quora will be highly selective of which companies’ messages it chooses to show. Initially it is letting four advertisers on to its platform — Lever, Uber, Wealthfront and Sunrun — though there are plans to open up to more over time.
As for the kind of messages that you can expect to see, advertisements sit below questions and are market with “promoted by.” The desktop version of the service includes a small blurb, but in the mobile app it is just the advertiser’s name.
This move into advertising follows the launch of new features that have taken Quora beyond its initial focus on questions and answers. Those include AMA-style “sessions”, which arrived last year, and a curious feature that lets anonymous entities offer up cash-prizes for certain answers — the latter may well tie in to this new focus on advertising. Quora also made its first acquisition last month, buying Parlio, a Q&A site started by a former Googler who was involved in the Arab Spring revolution in Egypt.
|
cc/2021-04/en_middle_0045.json.gz/line1290
|
__label__cc
| 0.664928
| 0.335072
|
Hands-on with revamped Huawei Assistant
by Shi Jiayi, David Cohen and Suzanne Loo Apr 28, 2020 Apr 28, 2020
Editor’s note: This article is first published on TechNode Global by Shi Hui Tan in partnership with Huawei Assistant. We believe in transparency in our publishing and monetization model. Read more here.
Huawei recently showed off new, Asia-specific content that’s just rolled out to Huawei Assistant.
Keen to give it a whirl, TechNode’s editor, David Cohen, gave a review of the Chinese version of Huawei Assistant and Huawei Ability Gallery at our Shanghai office while our TechNode Global (Singapore) country manager, Shi Hui Tan, visited a Huawei store in the city-state to check out the international version.
If you can’t play the video above, click HERE.
Huawei is facing a big challenge outside of China where, as was reported in 2019, new versions of its smartphones lose access to popular applications and services including Google Play, Google Maps and the Gmail app.
To overcome this, Huawei is launching its own version of these, including the revamped Huawei Assistant and the new Huawei Ability Gallery. It’ll be interesting to see if the big-name Southeast Asia apps will sign up for the Huawei Ability Gallery – it’ll be a crucial factor for Huawei to stand up against the competition.
Tagged: Branded content, Features, Hardware, Huawei, Smartphones and Devices, Video
Shi Jiayi
Shi Jiayi is the Shanghai-based visual reporter helping provide multimedia elements about China’s fast-changing technology and culture. She holds a B.A. in Convergence Journalism from the University... More by Shi Jiayi
David Cohen is the acting editor in chief of TechNode. Since 2010, he has covered China as a writer and editor at outlets including the Diplomat, the Jamestown Foundation, and China Policy. He’s always... More by David Cohen
Suzanne Loo
Based in Shanghai, Suzanne builds and promotes TechNode domestically and globally by designing and implementing online and offline marketing campaigns and events. A Global Studies graduate from St. Lawrence... More by Suzanne Loo
|
cc/2021-04/en_middle_0045.json.gz/line1292
|
__label__cc
| 0.725013
| 0.274987
|
Texas "Off The Record"
Untold tales of Texas politics & government collected by Julian Read
Congressional Junket Costs Soar But Travel Perks an Old Story
The Wall Street Journal gave front page prominence a few days ago to a major article about the mushrooming volume and cost of taxpayer-paid junkets by members of Congress and their fellow travelers. It reports that spending on overseas travel has nearly tripled since 2001, and that the 2008 tab of $13 million represents a 50 percent jump since Democrats took control of Congress two years ago. This follows a flap back then when some critics claimed that Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi had asked for a 200-seat government aircraft to ferry her entourage between California and Washington, while she responded that she only wanted one that could fly that distance non-stop–regardless its size.
All of which brings to mind a comparative, if trivial, smiler of a story told here in Texas years forty years ago. Back in those days, when President Lyndon B. Johnson was in office, along with Austin Congressman Jake Pickle, old Braniff Airways ran a daily “Jake Pickle Special” non-stop flight between Washington, D.C. and Austin, and on to San Antonio.
A frequent flyer on that plane was longtime Bexar County Congressman Henry B. Gonzalez, the popular voice of hundreds of thousands of Mexican Americans. Rep. Gonzalez always sat in Seat 1A in the first class section. The story goes that a reporter, taking note of that non-egalitarian practice, one day asked the Congressman how he, as champion of the little man, could justify the cost of sitting in first class. And without hesitation and with a straight face, Gonzalez is said to have replied: “I want to make sure there are plenty of seats back there for my people.” The Congressman went to his grave as a hallowed figure with the Convention Center on the Hemisfair grounds named in his honor. And today, son Representative Charles Gonzalez proudly carries on his legacy of public service as a member of Congress. But we haven’t ask whether he flies first class.
–Julian Read
Posted in Politics | Leave a Comment »
|
cc/2021-04/en_middle_0045.json.gz/line1297
|
__label__cc
| 0.561953
| 0.438047
|
Tilman Fertitta Confirms Casino, Restaurant IPO Plans
December 10, 2020 3 min read editor
Texas billionaire Tilman Fertitta confirmed reports from last week that he is considering taking parts of his casino and dining businesses public amid strong investor appetite for new equity.
In an interview with CNBC, the businessman said Tuesday that he could list some of its business because “IPOs are so hot right now” and the size of his business, the restaurant industry, and the casino industry are “something that people would want to own.”
Mr. Fertitta owns casino operator Golden Nugget and the Landry’s Inc. dining empire, among other businesses. Bloomberg reported last week that the businessman was mulling taking a “substantial” portion of his gaming and restaurant operations public via an IPO.
According to sources familiar with ongoing listing discussions, the IPO could include several Golden Nugget casinos and a number of Landry’s-owned restaurants and would see the company be valued at several billions of dollars.
Golden Nugget currently operates five casinos in four states, including two in Nevada and one in Atlantic City. As for Landry’s, the multi-brand dining giant incorporates the Landry’s Seafood chain as well as a number of other brands operating under its umbrella.
People close to Mr. Fertitta said that in the event of an IPO the businessman would retain control of his company through a stake of well over 50%.
Being Public Is Fun, Businessman Says
If he takes his business public, Mr. Fertitta could take advantage of the recent rally in equity markets driven by record coronavirus lows this spring. Investors have maintained a strong appetite for initial public offerings after the pandemic hit the deals market.
Landry’s first went public in 1993 but was returned to the private market about a decade ago. Mr. Fertitta told CNBC that he enjoys being public and the “competitiveness of quarter to quarter and year to year.”
He further elaborated that a business could do “bigger deals” and that there is “much more opportunity when you have a stock book.” The businessman pointed out that they have tried several acquisitions in the last six months but lost out to public companies every time because these companies can pay a larger multiple.
Another company owned by Mr. Fertitta, Golden Nugget Online Gaming (GNOG), is taking an alternative route to the stock market. The iGaming and betting operator announced this summer that it would go public via a merger with a special purpose acquisition company.
The SPAC that GNOG is set to merge with, Landcadia Holdings II, Inc., is too led by Mr. Fertitta. The deal secured regulatory approval in New Jersey late last month. Landcadia shareholders are set to vote on the transaction on December 18 and it is expected to close shortly after.
Follow us on Facebook and Twitter to stay up to date on the day’s top casino news stories
The post Tilman Fertitta Confirms Casino, Restaurant IPO Plans appeared first on Casino News Daily.
Original source: https://www.casinonewsdaily.com/2020/12/09/tilman-fertitta-confirms-casino-restaurant-ipo-plan/
online poker best sites, online poker free with friends, online poker game, online poker in pa, online poker play, online poker players, online poker with friends free, playing online poker
Caesars Brings Iconic Casino Brand to New Orleans in $325 Million Renovation, Rebrand
Yggdrasil Enters Swiss Market with Grand Casino Luzern
|
cc/2021-04/en_middle_0045.json.gz/line1304
|
__label__wiki
| 0.672475
| 0.672475
|
About T&G
Fresh Magazine
Our Growers
120 Years Fresh
T&G Fresh
T&G Fruitmark
Produce Calendar
NZ Branches & Market Floors
Customer & Grower Applications
Worldwide Fruit
Log Ins
FirstPick™
Brandspace
A New Look for the Turners & Growers Brand
Turners & Growers, the global grower, distributor and exporter of fresh produce, has today launched a refreshed corporate brand that signals a positive change and reflects the new direction of the company.
With 117 years of history, the company took careful consideration ensuring the heritage was retained, while acknowledging the growth of the business outside of New Zealand, and the new strategies for the future.
“In the past eight months we have created a new Purpose, new Mission, new Strategies, and new company Mindset (Values) – all with the help of our own people. By refreshing our brand we bring together all of that work under a strong new banner to unify our entire business,” says T&G Chief Executive Alastair Hulbert.
Global Marketing Manager Rosstan Mazey has been the driving force behind the corporate rebrand and sees it as an opportunity to simplify the business while strengthening the company’s position in the industry.
One significant but simple change is the move away from the full name ‘Turners & Growers’ for the subsidiaries and business units, to the shortened initials ‘T&G’.
“T&G is the term we use every day throughout our business and what many of our growers and customers use as well, so it makes sense to change the brand to the shortened form. We have a long history in the industry which we are very proud of so we didn’t want to completely change our brand – but are also focused on the next 100 years,” says Global Marketing Manager Rosstan Mazey.
“We have retained the importance of the ‘ampersand’ symbol that signifies the strong relationships we have within the industry, the koru style gives a nod to our New Zealand roots and the leaf signals our fresh produce business and growth aspirations.”
With over 30 companies and brands within the T&G Group, the refresh is an opportunity to simplify the business and move closer to one organisation. The new T&G brand name will be incorporated across the majority of divisions including ENZA (in New Zealand) which will become T&G Pipfruit and Status Produce (tomatoes) will become T&G Covered Crops.
The refresh will take approximately six to nine months and will roll-out across 30 sites involving signage, vehicles, uniforms, websites and other areas where the brand has a strong presence.
“It’s a great time to be part of T&G. Our people are excited and these changes will build a strong unified team and brand that will take us into the future,” says Mr Mazey.
Passion for freshness. Everyday. Everywhere.
T&G has a distinguished history stretching back to 1897 and is recognised as New Zealand’s leading distributor, marketer and exporter of premium fresh produce. Since 2012 BayWa AG, Munich (Germany) is major shareholder of T&G.
With a network of over 41,000m2 of storage facilities, a global distribution network covering sales, marketing, and logistics, and a passionate, experienced team, T&G is intent on ensuring the produce their customers receive – whether they are in New Zealand or New York – is as good as the day it was harvested.
View all jobs at T&G
View Seasonal Jobs
Email the Careers Team
Buy from us; grow for us
Login To Online Services
Email: info@tandg.global
Media Queries:
communications@tandg.global
T&G Investors:
Follow T&G:
By browsing this site you accept cookies used to improve and personalise our services and marketing, and for social activity.
Read our updated privacy policy for more about what we do with your data, as well as your rights and choices.Agree
|
cc/2021-04/en_middle_0045.json.gz/line1305
|
__label__cc
| 0.521292
| 0.478708
|
Shows featuring Gillian Anderson
by Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Third Rail’s Hi-Definition Screenings feature amazing productions from London’s National Theatre, captured live onstage and presented locally in high-definition video. NT Live Punch Card holders may use their cards for any Third Rail Hi-Definition Screening.
July 14, 2019 at 12pm
September 8, 2019 at 12pm
– World Trade Center Theater –
25 SW Salmon St (2WTC), Portland, OR 97205
Runtime: 2 hours and 20 minutes with no intermission
Gillian Anderson (X-Files, NT Live: A Streetcar Named Desire) and Lily James (Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again) lead in All About Eve, broadcast live to cinemas from the West End in London.
All About Eve tells the story of Margo Channing. Legend. True star of the theatre. The spotlight is hers, always has been. But now there’s Eve. Her biggest fan. Young, beautiful Eve. The golden girl, the girl next door. But you know all about Eve…don’t you…?
Lifting the curtain on a world of jealousy and ambition, this new production, from one of the world’s most innovative theatre directors, Ivo van Hove (NT Live: A View from the Bridge), asks why our fascination with celebrity, youth and identity never seems to get old.
All About Eve is adapted by Ivo van Hove from the 1950 Twentieth Century Fox film by Joseph L Mankiewicz and the play The Wisdom of Eve by Mary Orr. Ivo van Hove directs this new stage version with set and lighting design from Jan Versweyveld, costume design by An D’Huys and music from double Mercury Prize-winner PJ Harvey, alongside Tom Gibbons’ sound design. Casting is by Julia Horan CDG.
Photographs: Gillian Anderson by Pari Dukovic and Lily James by Perou. Design: Bob King Creative.
Ivo van Hove
Margo Channing
Karen Richards
Max Fabian
Ian Drysdale
Tsion Habte
Claudia Caswell
Jessie Mei Li
Bill Sampson
Julian Ovenden
Lloyd Richards
Rhashan Stone
Addison DeWitt
Stanley Townsend
Philip Voyzey
Third Rail core company member
Guest Artist
A timeless masterpiece
Tennessee Williams’ timeless masterpiece A Streetcar Named Desire will be broadcast live with Gillian Anderson (The X-Files, The Fall) as Blanche DuBois, Ben Foster (Lone Survivor, Kill Your Darlings) as Stanley and Vanessa Kirby (BBC’s Great Expectations, Three Sisters at the Young Vic) as Stella.
As Blanche’s fragile world crumbles, she turns to her sister Stella for solace – but her downward spiral brings her face to face with the brutal, unforgiving Stanley Kowalski. Visionary director Benedict Andrews returns to the Young Vic following his Critics’ Circle Award-winning Three Sisters.
Runtime: 3 hours 45 minutes, one intermission
|
cc/2021-04/en_middle_0045.json.gz/line1310
|
__label__wiki
| 0.693623
| 0.693623
|
BTS Clinical Statement on pulmonary sarcoidosis
BTS Clinical Statement
Muhunthan Thillai1,
Christopher P Atkins2,
Anjali Crawshaw3,
http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4606-9559Simon P Hart4,
Ling-Pei Ho5,6,
Vasileios Kouranos7,
Karen Patterson8,
Nicholas J Screaton9,
Joanna Whight10,
Athol U Wells7
1 Cambridge Interstitial Lung Disease Unit, Royal Papworth Hospital, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, UK
2 Department of Respiratory Medicine, Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital, Norwich, Norfolk, UK
3 Interstitial Lung Disease Unit, University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust, Birmingham, Birmingham, UK
4 Respiratory Research Group, Hull York Medical School/University of Hull, Cottingham, UK
5 MRC Human Immunology Unit, Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, Oxford, UK
6 Oxford Centre for Respiratory Medicine, Churchill Hospital, Oxford, UK
7 Interstitial Lung Disease Unit, Royal Brompton Hospital, London, London, UK
8 Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, Brighton and Sussex Medical School, Brighton, UK
9 Radiology, Papworth Hospital NHS Trust, Cambridge, UK
10 SarcoidosisUK, London, UK
Correspondence to Dr Muhunthan Thillai, Royal Papworth Hospital, Cambridge CB2 0AY, Cambridgeshire, UK; muhunthan.thillai{at}nhs.net
http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/thoraxjnl-2019-214348
This British Thoracic Society (BTS) Clinical Statement addresses the diagnosis, evaluation and management of pulmonary sarcoidosis, with each section summarised with key clinical practice points. In an era in which medical practice is increasingly determined by evidence-based guidelines, it must be acknowledged from the outset that current evidence in sarcoidosis, especially with regard to treatment, is weak. Thus, a number of the conclusions in this Statement are based on expert opinion and accumulated clinical experience.
The diagnosis of pulmonary sarcoidosis is often challenging, with ongoing evolution in clinician views on the need for a tissue diagnosis. Historically, a biopsy diagnosis was considered mandatory and we provide guidance on when to offer bronchoscopy and which bronchoscopic procedure to perform. We also stress that decisions made by individual patients to decline bronchoscopy, when there is a highly probable but not definite clinical diagnosis, should be supported in most cases, with careful subsequent monitoring. The document includes sections on the diagnosis of cardiac sarcoidosis and pulmonary hypertension as either disorder may present to respiratory physicians as ‘symptomatic pulmonary sarcoidosis’.
Traditional treatment algorithms and their reported application in the medical literature tend to be based on a ‘one size fits all’ approach and this has often led to over-treatment and major steroid-related comorbidity. However, a great many patients do not need to be treated: the broad indications for initiating therapy are (1) a high risk of mortality or disability due to major organ involvement; and (2) unacceptable loss of quality of life. In this statement, we focus on the management of pulmonary disease; the management of concurrent cardiac sarcoidosis or pulmonary hypertension requires referral to expert subspecialist teams.
Key pulmonary management considerations are discussed in this Statement. While higher dose treatment regimens may be required in high-risk disease, a highly flexible patient-centred approach is …
MT and AUW are joint chair authors.
Contributors The following individuals were responsible for drafting the manuscript for submission to Thorax. MT, CPA, AC, SPH, L-PH, VK, KP, NJS, JW, AUW. MT and AUW were the authors responsible for final completion of the manuscript. All authors approved the final content of the submitted draft.
Funding The authors have not declared a specific grant for this research from any funding agency in the public, commercial or not-for-profit sectors.
Disclaimer A Clinical Statement reflects the expert views of a group of specialists who are well versed on the topic concerned, and who carefully examine the available evidence in relation to their own clinical practice. A Clinical Statement does not involve a formal evidence review and is not developed in accordance with clinical practice guideline methodology. Clinical Statements are not intended as legal documents or a primary source of detailed technical information. Readers are encouraged to consider the information presented and reach their own conclusions.
Competing interests Declarations of interest were completed in line with the BTS Policy and are available from the BTS Office on request.
Data availability statement There are no data in this work.
© Author(s) (or their employer(s)) 2021. No commercial re-use. See rights and permissions. Published by BMJ.
|
cc/2021-04/en_middle_0045.json.gz/line1314
|
__label__wiki
| 0.87703
| 0.87703
|
A.J.Carter
Position Running Back
BirthplaceMany, LA
Arizona State Sun Devils2018-2020 (2 Seasons)
With Larry Scott's tenure coming to an end, what's next for Pac-12?
Kyle Bonagura reports on Larry Scott's tenure as Pac-12 commissioner coming to an end this June after an 11-year run.
Larry Scott's 11-year run as Pac-12 commissioner to end in June
Larry Scott's 11-year run as Pac-12 commissioner will end in June, the conference said Wednesday night.
Oklahoma State Cowboys' Mike Gundy among 6 in Oklahoma Sports Hall of Fame class
Oklahoma State football coach Mike Gundy will join Roy Clymer, Stacey Dales, Dan Hays, Robert Kalsu and Gene Stephenson as inductees into the Oklahoma Sports Hall of Fame Class of 2021.
Henry To'o To'o among 4 Tennessee football players to enter portal after Jeremy Pruitt firing
Henry To'o To'o, a former SEC All-Freshman linebacker who started 22 games for the Tennessee Volunteers over the past two seasons, was among four Vols to enter the transfer portal on Wednesday.
Antonio Pierce named Arizona State Sun Devils' solo defensive coordinator; Marvin Lewis stays on staff
Antonio Pierce has been named Arizona State's sole defensive coordinator, in a move that also will see Marvin Lewis remain on staff as special assistant to coach Herm Edwards.
Pete Kwiatkowski leaving Washington Huskies to become defensive coordinator for Texas Longhorns, sources say
Pete Kwiatkowski, who has served as defensive coordinator at Washington since 2014, will be hired to the same role at Texas under head coach Steve Sarkisian, sources told ESPN.
All NCAAF News
|
cc/2021-04/en_middle_0045.json.gz/line1323
|
__label__cc
| 0.601365
| 0.398635
|
Advertising & Circulation
Exeter student detained for spying in the UAE
Home » Local Life » Exeter student detained for spying in the UAE
Posted By Laura White on Oct 26, 2018 | 0 comments
Exeter student Matthew Hedges has been charged with spying “for a foreign state” in the United Arab Emirates.
The 31-year-old was detained in May as he tried to leave Dubai airport following a study trip to the region for his PHD at Durham University. For much of the last five months he has been held in solitary confinement and has been given few details of what he is alleged to have done.
A statement by the attorney general of the UAE said Mr Hedges had been charged with “spying for and on behalf of a foreign state, jeopardising the military, economy and political security of the UAE.”Prosecutors claim his study trip was “cover” for his spying.
The statement said the charge was “predicated on evidence secured from Mr Hedges’ electronic devices; surveillance and intelligence gathering by UAE intelligence and security agencies; and corroborating evidence provided by Mr Hedges himself.”
Mr Hedges’ PhD was in Emirati security policies after the Arab Spring and included work on the Muslim Brotherhood. His wife, Daniela Tejada, said all she has been told is that his trial will resume on 24th October.
In a statement, she said he had not received “appropriate medical care and attention, especially in regard to his mental health.”
UAE authorities, however, say “any requested medical care” has been provided. “Matt has been kept in solitary confinement for over five months,” said Mr Hedges’ wife.
“Matt does not speak Arabic and is therefore unable to communicate fully with the court-appointed lawyer, who he has only met once, at his court hearing last week.”
She said he had only had two consular visits “in direct violation of his rights.”
“Matt is a man of integrity and principle,” she added.
Author: Laura White
The Big Interview with The Right Reverend Robert Atwell Jan 10, 2021
Councillor seeking rapid electric vehicle charge points for Ashburton Jan 9, 2021
Devon and Cornwall Special Constables eligible for coronavirus allowance Jan 8, 2021
Farmers welcome Brexit deal Jan 8, 2021
Devon shines bright in the New Year Honours list Jan 8, 2021
Vibrant and creative new Art House launching in South Brent Dec 18, 2020
The Big Interview: With Julian Stockwin Dec 17, 2020
Histories and Mysteries: Concealed ferrets and shredded trousers – Some unusual Devon crimes Part 1 Dec 15, 2020
READ THIS – A SHOCKING CONFLICT OF INTEREST Jan 26, 2018
Gardening on the Moor with Anne Swithinbank – Apples and orchards Oct 5, 2017
Green Issues: WIND POWER IS EVEN CHEAPER THAN NUCLEAR Sep 21, 2017
Dartmoor Real Ale Trail Oct 19, 2017
No time like the present Dec 14, 2017
The PM’s support for newspapers is both timely and welcome Feb 8, 2018
The story of Fox Halt Farm Dec 1, 2017
PROPERTY OF THE WEEK: Church House, Throwleigh – OIE £625,000 Dec 14, 2017
No.10 votes for Dartmoor Christmas Tree Nov 29, 2019
Proposed Development at Whiddon Down Dec 1, 2018
The Dartmoor Writers’ Hotel Mar 26, 2019
Nourish food, craft and music festival wows the crowds Sep 6, 2019
WE’LL BE BACK: ON 26th JANUARY 2018 Dec 29, 2017
Double success for The Moorlanders Sep 25, 2018
Parishscapes fund re-development of ancient church Dec 11, 2020
Tests on cladding at hospital Sep 17, 2017
The BEST source of local news, sport, arts and entertainment, property, business, features and striking photography.
The Moorlander brings together inspiring articles and features from all across the moor and the surrounding area.
Welcome to The Moorlander
We use cookies to ensure that we give you the best experience on our website. If you continue to use this site we will assume that you are happy with it.CloseRead more
|
cc/2021-04/en_middle_0045.json.gz/line1331
|
__label__wiki
| 0.575792
| 0.575792
|
The Online Gamer Guy
Just Some Guy Who Games
Old Games!
Relive The Glamorous 80’s With GTA Vice City!
Blue Shift: Half Life’s Guard On Duty
Half Life: Opposing Force Super Review!
Half Life 1 Holds Up, Seriously
Explore A Post-Nuclear World With Far Cry New Dawn!
Follow Your Own Creed With Assassin’s Creed Rogue!
Take A Vacation With Far Cry 3!
Experience Kyrat With Far Cry 4!
Enthralling Far Cry 5 Review!
Dinosaur Park Simulator? Jurassic World Evolution!
Riveting Assassin’s Creed II Review!
Colossal Shadow Of The Colossus Review!
20 Best Browser Games That Are Free!
The Best Steam Games On Sale!
Seriously, Is Prototype Underrated?
Is Assassin’s Creed: Origins Good?
Is God Of War Best Game Ever?
Tech!
6 More Best Phones Under 100 Dollars!
6 More Best Tablets Under 150 Dollars!
5 More Best Handheld Gaming Devices!
5 Best Gaming Computers Under 1000 Dollars!
6 Best Tablets Under 150 Dollars!
5 Best Gaming Accessories For Tablets!
5 Best Laptops For Gaming Under 600 Dollars!
7 Top Tablets For Gaming!
7 Best Phones Under 100 Dollars!
6 Best Handheld Gaming Devices!
7 Best Gaming Accessories For The Xbox One!
7 Best Cell Phone Gaming Accessories!
8 Of The Best Retro Gaming Consoles
7 Best Cell Phones For Gaming!
10 Best Gaming Accessories For The PS4!
16 Best PC Accessories For Gaming!
5 Affordable Plug N Play Video Games
Wanna Earn Money While Stuck At Home?
Keep Safe Of Coronavirus!
Contact the OGG!
Psst, click here.
May 26, 2020OGG4 Comments
CategoriesGames
Hello dear readers! Today I’ll be writing a Far Cry 5 review. Will you join the cult?
Okay, that started weird. Before anything else, I just want to say, that this post contains a little bit of gore (in-game gore, of course).
With that out of the way, let us get started with this awesome game!
Let’s start this Far Cry 5 Review with…
Looking… (Ubisoft)
Far Cry 5 is a 2018 first-person shooter game developed by Ubisoft Montreal and Ubisoft Toronto and published by Ubisoft. It was released for the PC, Xbox One, and the PS4 on March 27, 2018. It is the fifth main installment in the Far Cry series.
The game takes place in Hope County, a fictional region of Montana (which is not fictitious), United States. The plot revolves around the Project at Eden’s Gate, a religious doomsday cult that has taken over Hope County at the order of its charismatic (quite frankly, hot) and powerful leader, Joseph Seed.
As the player, you will be in control of an unnamed junior deputy sheriff who becomes trapped in the County. You must work alongside The Resistance, a group of fighters that, you know, resist the cult, to liberate the county from the despotic rule of the Seeds and Eden’s Gate.
This game was heavily inspired by several socio-political events in modern history, such as the Cold War and the September 11 attacks. The game drew controversy for this after being announced at the height of several political conflicts. Regardless, the game was critically praised for its design, visuals, gameplay, and soundtrack.
Gameplay?
Looking cool. (Ubisoft)
Gameplay is from a first person shooter perspective. The game has you focus on combat and exploration; players battle enemy soldiers and dangerous Montana wildlife using a wide array of weapons. The game features many elements found in role-playing games, such as an arching storyline and several side quests. The game also has a co-op multiplayer, competitive multiplayer and a map editor.
You can pretty much do anything in this game. You can fly a plane, glide in a wingsuit, parachute, climb mountains, slide down mountains, hunt animals, fish, talk to people, ride a car, explore, endless!
Drive a jeep! (Ubisoft)
Oh, you can also hire allies to help you take down the cult. They are a great help, and they each have their own abilities. You can even have a bear and a cougar as allies!
My very first cougar. (Ubisoft)
You were sent in by the Father…
Will you join? (Ubisoft)
As mentioned earlier, you will be playing an unnamed junior deputy trapped in the county after the arrest of Joseph Seed (we’ll talk all about the Seed family after this) has gone wrong. This allowed Joseph to rally the whole cult and start preparing for the Collapse, a doomsday event predicted by him. Basically he was told by the Lord’s voice that the world will end, so he ordered his cult to start forcibly capturing townsfolk, raiding farms, and killing anyone who resists them. This was being done so they would be “saved”. Very vague, I know.
…. (Ubisoft)
You, as the player, are then tasked to liberate the whole county from The Project at Eden’s Gate and the rest of the Seed family. In order for you to successfully liberate the county, you have to seek help from The Resistance, the faction that is fighting for Hope County’s freedom.
The Resistance are split in groups of three across the three regions of the county, with each group having their own leader. Your task, as the player, is to do whatever it takes to earn the trust and inspire the local Resistance forces in that region. Free prisoners, save hostages, liberate outposts, do missions for Resistance leaders and the locals, and they will gladly help to fight and free the county.
Beautiful Montana
Look at how pretty this is. (Ubisoft)
Before we get to the Seed family, can we just quickly talk about how beautiful they created Hope County? I’ve never been to Montana, but I’m positive that it more or less looks like this. Can any Montanians(sorry I must’ve butchered that) confirm? I mean look how beautiful it is.
The county is split into three regions: Holland Valley, Henbane River, and Whitetail Mountains.
Holland Valley is mostly flat, with large farmland and orchards dotted around the region.
Henbane River is a mixture of flatlands and mountains, with the Henbane River spanning around the region. Great place for fishing!
Whitetail Mountains is, well, mountains. Most, if not all of the land around this region is mountainous, save for the main road that circles the entire county.
The wildlife is also vast, from bears, to cougars, to moose, to caribou, there’s a lot of animals for you to see. And they interact with each other, just like a real ecosystem that functions.
I would love to visit Montana someday and just hike, fish, and camp out (avoiding the wildlife, of course) especially if it looks like the pictures above. Beautiful Montana!
What is with these cults?
Sacrifice the weak.. (Ubisoft)
Okay, BEFORE we talk about the Seeds, let’s touch up on their cult, The Project At Eden’s Gate. Basically they’re a doomsday cult led by Joseph Seed. They believed in Joseph’s prediction about the world ending someday, and the reason they believe it is because Joseph promised them salvation and prosperity after the Collapse, and will live in a new world with Joseph.
Weak. (Ubisoft)
As explained earlier, Joseph ordered the cult to start ransacking the whole county of food, supplies, and people, in the hopes that “they will see the light and be set free from their sins to be able to enter Eden’s Gate” (Joseph’s words, not mine).
The cult itself might be preparing for something, but the way they do it is just so wrong. If you want to see why it’s wrong, play the game and you’ll see. You already see what they are capable of via the picture above. Still, no spoilers. 😉
Why’d they name them “Seed” though?
The Seeds, well mostly Joseph. (Ubisoft)
Good question, but that’s not why we’re here. Let us all welcome the Seed family, starting from John Seed, Faith Seed, Jacob Seed, and Joseph Seed. Joseph is their leader, and he calls his three siblings his “Heralds”.
Let’s quickly describe them, shall we?
John Seed
John is the youngest of the Seed family, and probably the most sadistic (as told by the locals in the region he controls). He is the Herald of the Holland Valley region. He is in charge of getting the supplies for the cult, and “recruiting” other townsfolk to join the cult. His methods of recruiting include forcibly getting them from their homes, “baptizing” them, and “forgiving” them of their sins. Trust me, you have to see it to know what I mean. This is a review, after all. :p
Jacob Seed
Jacob is the oldest of the Seed family, and is the Herald of the Whitetail Mountains. He is in charge of training the cult’s militia, molding them into killing machines, basically. He is an army veteran who has seen some shit in the war, and this led to his mentality of “Sacrifice the weak. Cull the herd.” Basically he kills people who he deems weak and unable to fight for the cult. Really stand up guy. He is also known for creating Judges. Which I will let you find out what are they as well 😉
Faith Seed
It is unknown how Faith got into the cult, as she is not a Seed by blood, but Joseph considers her a sibling, so here she is. Faith is the Herald of the Henbane River region, and is tasked with the distribution of the powerful drug known as the “Bliss”. Basically the Bliss is a drug that induces vivid hallucinations of a blissful paradise, where everything is safe and fluffy and comfortable.
What you see during the Bliss hallucinations. (Ubisoft)
Faith herself is a dangerous individual, due to her innocent and pure appearance concealing her manipulative and heartless demeanor.
Joseph Seed
Ahh yes, Joseph Seed. He is the leader of the Seed family, and the leader of the Project at Eden’s Gate. He is endearingly called “The Father”, as the cult believes that God himself has spoken to Joseph about the Collapse. The cult follows him without question, and they believe every word he says. He looks like your everyday hipster, but he is a charismatic and enigmatic individual, which, for me, are the most dangerous traits of all.
Final thoughts, Deputy?
Final thoughts? Hit ’em with a shovel. (Ubisoft)
This game is a great game. From the design elements, to the rendering of Hope County, it’s absolutely stunning. The vast wilderness you can explore, the small towns and homes with people either living in fear of the cult, or simply do not care at all, you can see them all in this one small county of Montana.
The only flaw I would say is the story. The characters (well some of them), aren’t fully fleshed out, the story is not really that engaging, but it is a good story, nonetheless.
The option for a customizable protagonist was also great. You can play as a male or female, which is always nice. And the wide array of fashionable clothes to wear while wielding also a vast array of weapons is a nice touch.
Gameplay itself was pretty fun, as I always love me a good first person shooter game. The RPG elements added to it was also a nice touch, and you can play however you like, be it a stealthy shoot-from-afar type to a rampaging, gun-toting, Rambo-esque player, the possibilities are endless.
All in all I highly recommend this game, especially if you’re into stopping murderous doomsday cults led by a hipster. :p
Boom! (Ubisoft)
Get this game now!
You won’t regret it, I promise.
Get it from G2A!
Get it from Amazon! (Physical copy, almost out of stock! 🙁 )
Thank you for reading! Let me know your thoughts! Sound them off in the comments below, and don’t forget to share this post! Thanks for reading!
Topicsfar cry 5gamesreview
Omer El-Hamdoon May 26, 2020 @ 12:29 pm
Thank you for your comprehensive review which clearly shows that you have enjoyed the game. The fun of games like these is the renewing elements that they have. Is this game easy to complete in all its levels, or does it demand a high level of competence and hundreds of replays?
OGG May 26, 2020 @ 12:45 pm
It is overwhelming at first, but once you get the hang of it, it’s easy. It still requires a degree of strategizing and reflexes though.
Listen Linda May 26, 2020 @ 12:30 pm
Wow this game has incredible graphics and I can see why Far Cry has been praised for its graphics and visualizations. I was expecting a little more gore than you’ve described but I was pleasantly surprised that it definitely isn’t anything like the walking dead.
You mentioned the concept of hiring allies in the game. How is that done? Do you have to use your own real money or is the game using a system of credit or exchanging your experience level for your purchasing needs?
Yeah, I kinda missed it with the gore. Probably gonna add more pictures later. :p
Some allies, you can pick right off the road. You can hire them free of charge. There are special allies that you can get that are far better than the ones you can randomly encounter. In order to unlock them you need to do their quest. Once you do that, they are available!
Follow me for memes and dreams
Stats!
Earn Bitcoins by clicking ads, doing offers, and taking surveys! Register by clicking the image below!
Want to earn money just by clicking ads? Click the picture below and register to start now!
What you beautiful people had to say
sana ali on 5 Best Laptops For Gaming Under 600 Dollars!
Ayo on 5 Best Laptops For Gaming Under 600 Dollars!
Pedro on 6 More Best Tablets Under 150 Dollars!
Mubbasher Ahmad on Welcome To The Online Gamer Guy!
Mary Bazuaye on 5 Best Gaming Computers Under 1000 Dollars!
Oh look, posts!
Copyright © 2021 The Online Gamer Guy
|
cc/2021-04/en_middle_0045.json.gz/line1333
|
__label__wiki
| 0.873991
| 0.873991
|
Policy TV
Indo-Vietnam Business Fourm 2020: Tourism
WEC 2021
Entrepreneur Speak
The Policy Times
Home International World Society Philippines thanked India for its “valuable alliance”, welcomes in the Southeast Asia...
Philippines thanked India for its “valuable alliance”, welcomes in the Southeast Asia Sea
In the prevailing situation of pandemic and the warlike condition with China, one country has assured India for its support. The Philippines, which is already an alliance of India has thanked India for its kind and unexpected gesture. The Philippines Navy Chief wrote, “We assure that the Philippine Navy remains committed to this Partnership”.
TPT Bureau | Agencies
The Mishap
Indian Navy rescued a Philippines Navy Ship after a fire broke out in its engine room the Indian Navy repaired the ship free of cost at the Navy shipyard in Kochi. Apart from that the Indian Navy also rescued two Pilipino Navy officers who got injured with second-degree burns. After which both of the officers were rushed to INHS Sanjivani, the Naval Hospital at Kochi. One of them is still under observation and has been taken to a Bengaluru.
The Chief of Philippines rear Admiral Bacordo has written to the Indian Navy Chief Admiral Karambir Singh, “Your support in this unfortunate accident is way beyond our expectations and it is a testament of your sincerity in deepening our Navy to Navy partnership. Rest assured that the Philippines Navy remains committed to Partnership”. He further added, “We hope to expand this relationship as we seek better ways to make our seas safer and more secure for everyone. Fervent wishes for your continuing success in leading the Navy’s sustained resolve to be a global maritime force”.
The Philippines is done with China
When the Philippines talked about ‘making the seas safer’, from this, it can be inferred that it wants to counter the Chinese aggression and expansionism in the South China Sea. After Bejing’s aggressive behavior in the South China Sea, the interest of the Philippines along with Indonesia, Vietnam, and Malaysia has also decreased the interest there. But now they are fed up with Chinese aggression in the Maritime region, thus they are trying to maintain a proper distance from China.
Tension Continues at Border; Showing a Sign of War between India and China
5 Reasons why Europe is better than America
Recently, Philippine’s President Rodrigo Duterte rolled back his decision to pull out of the visiting forces agreement with the United States, a two-decades-old military part between the two countries owing to the ‘political development’.
Thus, to counter the malicious technique of China to claim another territory, the Philippines Navy Chief is seeking greater maritime collaboration with the Indian Navy because he knows that the Indian Navy is a formidable force that can contain the blue-water Navy ambitions of the people’s liberation Army Navy.
India’s interest
It is known to all that India itself stands to benefit from such collaborations. The fact that remains that a sizeable portion of Indian trade passes through the international waters of the South China Sea.
It is in India’s interest to ensure free navigation in the international waters of the strategic waterways, apart from creating a new front to poke China whenever the latter gets belligerent in the Himalayas.
Philippines navy
Previous articleThe richest states of India may face worst hit by the pandemic economically
Next articlePost Covid tourism; Vietnam and New Zealand to see different travel trends
প্রধানমন্ত্রী খান – করোনভাইরাস,ঈদ-উল আজহা, সম্পর্কে সতর্কবাণী
Education-Hindi
पिछले एक दशक में 75,000 छात्रों ने की आत्महत्या
Nikhat Reaz - September 27, 2018 0
हाल ही में केंद्र सरकार ने साल 2014 से 2016 तक के आंकड़े सदन में पेश करते हुए जानकारी दी कि 2 साल के भीतर देश भर में 26,600 छात्रों ने आत्महत्या की है|
Corona: Concerted strategy for Post Lock-down
Sharda University expands its wings: Opens new campus in Uzbekistan
Internet turns 30 this month
Need for a national agency to take over to stop illicit...
An Unexpected Host in a Soft‑Tissue Lesion of Thigh
Prof.Kalyani Unkule,O.P Jindal University on Internationalizing the University: A Spiritual Approach
World-Hindi
कनाडा ने ‘सिख चरमपंथि खालिस्तान’ को टेरर लिस्ट से बहार किया…...
সত্যি পরিস্থিতিকে হারাতে সবার আগে দিনমজুর; আমরা যেযার গৃহে, একটি হৃদয়ে...
বন অধিকার থেকে শুরু করে নোটবন্দি এবং জিএসটি: মোদী কীভাবে...
Promoting India-Vietnam Trade in Agricultural & Food Processing 2020
UK court issues arrest warrant against Nirav Modi
Educational Qualifications of all Indian PMs
Kerala’s petro dollar dream fading fast
India-Hindi531
The Policy Times aims to unfold social, economic, business, policy and practical issues that matter to India and the world especially the youth and women who would require to develop practical understanding about long-term developmental issues.
© The Policy Times, A Deksun Media Pvt. Ltd. Company
Denis Mukwege and Nadia Murad awarded for Nobel peace prize 2018
Tension Continues at Border; Showing a Sign of War between India...
Empowerment: A Solution for Inequality in Rural Morocco
Nation in Peril, Government in Denial. Almost!
|
cc/2021-04/en_middle_0045.json.gz/line1336
|
__label__cc
| 0.5808
| 0.4192
|
THE RICHARD EVANS FOUNDATION
CONTACT US OR DONATE TODAY:
New project underway
The shooting of Breonna Taylor
The fight against sex trafficking
The Bill and Melinda Gates
Charity Concerts
Christian charities
Giving Food Hungry
Homless Children in America
Homless Famlies in USA
Homeless Union group calls on Salinas to stop cleanup of encampments – Monterey Herald
SALINAS – The homeless encamped at Carr Lake in Salinas will be subject to a cleanup operation by the city Thursday, but the Salinas/Monterey County Homeless Union has issued a cease-and-desist order to stop the action, saying it violates California’s shelter-in-place order.
“The cease and desist is a civil request provided by the California Homeless Union statewide council,” said Nick Musni, Salinas/Monterey County Homeless Union spokesman.
The Homeless Union is part of a national and state organization of homeless leaders committed to ending the oppression of all homeless, poor and dispossessed people.
The Homeless Union said it has issued a cease-and-desist order addressed to the city of Salinas and the county of Monterey urging them “to immediately suspend all sweeps of homeless persons … and cease and desist from clearing homeless encampments as directed by the U.S. Center for Disease Control.”
“Today (Wednesday) is a holiday (and) we expect a response in a timely manner,” said Musni.
But Salinas City Attorney Christopher Callihan said he is not aware of any “cease and desist letter” from the Homeless Union and therefore was not able to comment or respond.
In its media release, the Salinas/Monterey County Homeless Union said the “cleanup” is colloquially known as a “homeless sweep.”
“The city does not conduct ‘sweeps,’” said Callihan. “The city has a responsibility for maintaining the public’s health, safety, and welfare of the entire city; the city takes that responsibility seriously and when a condition exists which negatively affects the public’s health, safety, and/or welfare the city will take steps to address such condition. The city will continue to take such steps consistent with its authority and consistent with current COVID-19-related guidance.”
The Salinas/Monterey County Homeless Union said that those individuals residing at Carr Lake encampment will be forced to relocate in direct violation of Gov. Gavin Newsom’s executive order which requires “all individuals living in the State of California to stay home or at their place of residence” which includes homeless encampments under California Voting Rights Law.
Musni said his organization is looking at a similar situation in another California city and how to stop the action.
“Sacramento Homeless Union currently is in court but was granted a writ of mandamus stopping sweeps,” said Musni.
A writ of mandamus is a court order that compels someone to execute a duty that they are legally obligated to complete.
The organization said the Center for Disease Control maintains that unsheltered individuals should not be forced to move, unless provided with transportation and placement into an appropriate, safe, indoor housing option, and maintains that unless adequate shelter is provided, the city is defying state stay-at-home orders by denying unsheltered people their residences in which to remain.
The Salinas/Monterey County Homeless Union said if the cleanup operation takes place, it will be documenting the action and following the lead of the Sacramento Homeless Union in obtaining legal counsel to seek advice on its next steps.
In: Homless Famlies in USA
Tagged: calls, cleanup, encampments, Group, Herald, homeless, Monterey, Salinas, stop, Union
Previous Post: VUSD board president makes misleading claims on face masks and tuberculosis
Next Post: The Nigerians standing up to sex-work traffickers in Sicily
Ex-first grade teacher pleads guilty to horrific sex trafficking charges related to a child
Task Force calls for more education on human trafficking
Charitable Giving in 2021 – How to Maximize your Impact
Woman arrested on allegation of trafficking Oshawa teen in sex trade – OurWindsor.ca
New virus strains emerge, states expand vaccine distribution
Human trafficking cases in Thailand hit decade low due to COVID-19
I Gave $20,000 To Random Homeless People
Cesar Millan: How to Pick the Best Shelter Pet for You | Zappos.com
Domestic Violence Shelters
Drawing Day For Charities May 22, 2010
A ‘Selfless’ Life Cut Short: Esteban Gonzalez’s Unlikely Journey Into the Hearts of Arcata | Lost Coast Outpost
Address: 141 Riverchase Way Lexington,
Therichardevansfoundation@therichardevansfoundation.org
Copyrights © 2020, The Richard Evans foundation Inc - All rights reserved |
|
cc/2021-04/en_middle_0045.json.gz/line1338
|
__label__cc
| 0.741483
| 0.258517
|
Transportation headlines, Tuesday, December 3
Have a transportation-related article you think should be included in headlines? Drop me an email! And don’t forget, Metro is on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Pick your social media poison!
ART OF TRANSIT: Canada’s holiday train.
Metro North train sped at 82 mph ahead of curve in fatal crash (New York Times)
The speed limit on the turn in the Bronx where the commuter train crashed is 30 miles per hour. Trains aren’t allowed to go faster than 70 miles per hour anywhere on the Hudson Valley Line. Yet, for some reason, the Metro North engineer didn’t hit the brakes until six seconds before the crash that killed four passengers and injured many others. The train’s brakes appear to have been in working order.
A subsequent Times story says that the engineer’s cell phone doesn’t seem to indicate he was using it before the crash but that investigators are also looking to see if perhaps another device was being used.
Shifting gears: commuting aboard the L.A. bike trains (NPR)
Nice segment on All Things Considered about cycling groups that get together to help newbies navigate rides to and from work. The group is the “train” and the group leader is the “conductor.”
The meaning of #BlackFridayParking (Strong Towns)
Blogger Charles Marohn asked his Twitter followers to send photos of empty parking lots last Friday. The followers didn’t have any problems finding unoccupied asphalt and concrete. Excerpt:
We literally can’t afford all of this unproductive space. When you look at the Big K and Jimmy’s Pizza we featured in last week’s post, the major difference in the financial productivity of the properties is the amount of land devoted to parking. Storing cars is very expensive. The only thing more expensive is building parking spaces to store cars and then have them never be used. What a waste!
Can you imagine Wal-Mart building an entire row of their store and then leaving the shelves empty? It would be ridiculous. Why then do we simply accept that large swaths of their land would be built upon for a use (parking) that literally never happens? We accept it because that is the price of entry, the cost of complying with local regulations.
This is an ultra-intelligent post that you should read. The big point here is that parking requirements favor big retailers who can afford the land needed for that kind of parking. Big costs also mean a higher barrier to entry for competitors while big parking lots guarantee that these kind of stores will be built, in many places, in the darkness on the edge of town that is away from city centers.
Go for a drive through small town America and see for yourself.
High-speed rail gets yellow light (San Francisco Chronicle)
A pair of court rulings in November will likely make it more difficult for the state’s bullet train project to get off the ground. As a result, columnist Dan Walters — who has long been skeptical of the project — calls on Gov. Jerry Brown to either kill the project or go back to voters with a more realistic plan.
The original bond measure that went to state voters in 2008 included a variety of requirements for the bullet train (in particular involving speed of travel) that have proven to be extremely expensive.
Categories: Transportation Headlines
Tagged as: bike trains, bullet train, Dan Walters, high speed rail, parking minimums, parking requirements, Prop 1A, Walmart
This Friday the 13th: Dr. Pinch and the Pinchtones bring swing music to Union Station
Metro Board to consider motions involving restrooms, parking and paying fares at transit stations
Kravu pārvadājumi says:
I would love to go on one of these holiday trains. I have been traveling in Europe (Switzerland) by train. Well the views where just unbelievable.
|
cc/2021-04/en_middle_0045.json.gz/line1342
|
__label__wiki
| 0.61107
| 0.61107
|
How to Watch The Southern Arkansas Muleriders Live Without Cable in 2020-21
You can stream Southern Arkansas Muleriders college football games with a Live TV Streaming Service. No cable or satellite TV subscription needed. Start watching with a free trial.
Select a League NFL Football College Football NBA Basketball MLB Baseball NHL Hockey PGA Tour College Basketball English Premier League NASCAR MLS Soccer La Liga Italian Serie A Bundesliga XFL Select a Team Abilene Christian Wildcats Air Force Falcons Akron Zips Alabama A&M Bulldogs Alabama Crimson Tide Alabama State Hornets Albany Great Danes Alcorn State Braves Appalachian State Mountaineers Arizona State Sun Devils Arizona Wildcats Arkansas-Pine Bluff Golden Lions Arkansas Razorbacks Arkansas State Red Wolves Army Black Knights Auburn Tigers Austin Peay Governors Ball State Cardinals Baylor Bears Bethune-Cookman Wildcats Boise State Broncos Boston College Eagles Bowling Green Falcons Brown Bears Bryant Bulldogs Bucknell Bison Buffalo Bulls Butler Bulldogs BYU Cougars Cal Poly Mustangs California Golden Bears Campbell Fighting Camels Central Arkansas Bears Central Connecticut State Blue Devils Central Michigan Chippewas Charleston Southern Buccaneers Charlotte 49ers Chattanooga Mocs Cincinnati Bearcats Citadel Bulldogs Clemson Tigers Coastal Carolina Chanticleers Colgate Raiders Colorado Buffaloes Colorado State Rams Columbia Lions Connecticut Huskies Cornell Big Red Dartmouth Big Green Davidson Wildcats Dayton Flyers Delaware Fightin' Blue Hens Delaware State Hornets Drake Bulldogs Duke Blue Devils Duquesne Dukes East Carolina Pirates Eastern Illinois Panthers Eastern Kentucky Colonels Eastern Michigan Eagles Eastern Washington Eagles Elon Phoenix ETSU Buccaneers FIU Golden Panthers Florida A&M Rattlers Florida Atlantic Owls Florida Gators Florida State Seminoles Fordham Rams Fresno State Bulldogs Furman Paladins Gardner-Webb Runnin' Bulldogs Georgetown Hoyas Georgia Bulldogs Georgia Southern Eagles Georgia State Panthers Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets Grambling State Tigers Hampton Pirates Harvard Crimson Hawaii Rainbow Warriors Holy Cross Crusaders Houston Baptist Huskies Houston Cougars Howard Bison Idaho State Bengals Idaho Vandals Illinois Fighting Illini Illinois State Redbirds Incarnate Word Cardinals Indiana Hoosiers Indiana State Sycamores Iowa Hawkeyes Iowa State Cyclones Jackson State Tigers Jacksonville Dolphins Jacksonville State Gamecocks James Madison Dukes Kansas Jayhawks Kansas State Wildcats Kennesaw State Owls Kent State Golden Flashes Kentucky Wildcats Lafayette Leopards Lamar Cardinals Lehigh Mountain Hawks Liberty Flames LIU-Post Pioneers Louisiana Ragin' Cajuns Louisiana Tech Bulldogs Louisville Cardinals LSU Tigers Maine Black Bears Marist Red Foxes Marshall Thundering Herd Maryland Terrapins Massachusetts Minutemen McNeese Cowboys Memphis Tigers Mercer Bears Merrimack Warriors Miami Hurricanes Miami (OH) RedHawks Michigan State Spartans Michigan Wolverines Middle Tennessee Blue Raiders Minnesota Golden Gophers Mississippi State Bulldogs Mississippi Valley State Delta Devils Missouri State Bears Missouri Tigers Monmouth Hawks Montana Grizzlies Montana State Bobcats Morehead State Eagles Morgan State Bears Murray State Racers Navy Midshipmen NC Central Eagles NC State Wolfpack Nebraska Cornhuskers Nevada Wolf Pack New Hampshire Wildcats New Mexico Lobos New Mexico State Aggies Nicholls Colonels Norfolk State Spartans North Alabama Lions North Carolina A&T Aggies North Carolina Tar Heels North Dakota Fighting Hawks North Dakota State Bison North Texas Mean Green Northern Arizona Lumberjacks Northern Colorado Bears Northern Illinois Huskies Northwestern State Demons Northwestern Wildcats Notre Dame Fighting Irish Ohio Bobcats Ohio State Buckeyes Oklahoma Sooners Oklahoma State Cowboys Old Dominion Monarchs Ole Miss Rebels Oregon Ducks Oregon State Beavers Penn Quakers Penn State Nittany Lions Pittsburgh Panthers Portland State Vikings Prairie View A&M Panthers Presbyterian Blue Hose Princeton Tigers Purdue Boilermakers Rhode Island Rams Rice Owls Richmond Spiders Robert Morris Colonials Rutgers Scarlet Knights Sacramento State Hornets Sacred Heart Pioneers Sam Houston State Bearkats Samford Bulldogs San Diego State Aztecs San Diego Toreros San Jose State Spartans SMU Mustangs South Alabama Jaguars South Carolina Gamecocks South Carolina State Bulldogs South Dakota Coyotes South Dakota State Jackrabbits Southeast Missouri State Redhawks Southeastern Louisiana Lions Southern Illinois Salukis Southern Miss Golden Eagles Southern University Jaguars Southern Utah Thunderbirds St. Francis (PA) Red Flash Stanford Cardinal Stephen F. Austin Lumberjacks Stetson Hatters Stony Brook Seawolves Syracuse Orange TCU Horned Frogs Temple Owls Tennessee State Tigers Tennessee Tech Golden Eagles Tennessee Volunteers Texas A&M Aggies Texas Longhorns Texas Southern Tigers Texas State Bobcats Texas Tech Red Raiders Toledo Rockets Towson Tigers Troy Trojans Tulane Green Wave Tulsa Golden Hurricane UAB Blazers UC Davis Aggies UCF Knights UCLA Bruins UL-Monroe Warhawks UNI Panthers UNLV Rebels USC Trojans USF Bulls UT Martin Skyhawks Utah State Aggies Utah Utes UTEP Miners UTSA Roadrunners Valparaiso Crusaders Vanderbilt Commodores Villanova Wildcats Virginia Cavaliers Virginia Tech Hokies VMI Keydets Wagner Seahawks Wake Forest Demon Deacons Washington Huskies Washington State Cougars Weber State Wildcats West Virginia Mountaineers Western Carolina Catamounts Western Illinois Leathernecks Western Kentucky Hilltoppers Western Michigan Broncos William & Mary Tribe Wisconsin Badgers Wofford Terriers Wyoming Cowboys Yale Bulldogs Youngstown State Penguins Southern Arkansas Muleriders
|
cc/2021-04/en_middle_0045.json.gz/line1344
|
__label__cc
| 0.719243
| 0.280757
|
The SuperSpeedway NASCAR Podcast and News
The home of the SuperSpeedway Podcast. Here you will find weekly episodes of our NASCAR podcast, along with show notes, news articles, driver interviews and much more.
Coverage Schedule
Podcast 179 — Offseason catchup
Posted on December 8, 2020 by Eric Young
The SuperSpeedway Podcast · 179 — Offseason catchup
News items:
California Speedway is off the 2020 schedule.
Will be replaced by the Daytona roadcourse
NASCAR releases 2021 Camping World Truck Series schedule
Eldora is done
Trucks will race with Cup on the dirt at Bristol
Trucks will run at Knoxville for the first time
Trucks will race at COTA and Nashville in triple-header weekends with Cup and Xfinity
Trucks return to Watkins Glen for the first time since 2000
World Wide Technology Raceway is back on the schedule to open the playoffs
https://www.jayski.com/2020/11/19/nascar-releases-2021-camping-world-truck-series-schedule/
Reduced capacity for the Daytona 500
https://www.jayski.com/2020/12/02/daytona-500-to-have-limited-fan-capacity/
Ty Majeski wins the Snowball Derby
Chase Elliott wins last chance race and finishes third in Derby
Chandler Smith finishes fourth after starting dead last in the last chance race due to a DQ in qualifying
Kyle Busch finishes seventh
Grant Enfinger finishes 8th
Ross Kenseth 23rd
https://speed51.com/unofficial-results-53rd-annual-snowball-derby/
Team/Driver news:
Jimmie Johnson has a good teammate in Indycar next year — Tony Kanaan will run the oval tracks
https://www.jayski.com/2020/11/23/tony-kanaan-to-split-chip-ganassi-indycar-ride-with-jimmie-johnson/
John Hunter is going to KBM to drive the 4 truck
https://www.jayski.com/2020/11/23/john-hunter-nemechek-joins-kyle-busch-motorsports-for-full-truck-season/
Corey LaJoie will drive the #7 car for Spire Motorsports in 2021
https://www.jayski.com/2020/11/30/corey-lajoie-to-drive-for-spire-motorsports/
AJ Almendinger running full time for Kaulig in 2021
https://www.jayski.com/2020/12/01/aj-allmendinger-to-return-to-kaulig-racing-in-2021/
Kaulig will run a limited Cup schedule in 2021
Will run the superspeedway and road courses
https://www.jayski.com/2020/11/22/kaulig-racing-considering-move-to-cup-in-2022/
Harrison Burton will return to JGR next season
https://www.jayski.com/2020/11/13/harrison-burton-returning-to-joe-gibbs-racing-in-2021/
Jeb Burton to Kaulig #10 for 2021
https://www.jayski.com/2020/11/16/jeb-burton-joins-kaulig-racing-for-2021/
Brett Moffitt to Niece Motorsports in the Truck Series
https://www.jayski.com/2020/12/02/brett-moffitt-to-compete-full-time-for-niece-motorsports-run-for-truck-championship/
Ryan Truex also to Niece
https://www.jayski.com/2020/11/24/ryan-truex-to-drive-full-time-for-niece-motorsports-in-2021/
Raphael Lessard will run part time for GMS
https://www.jayski.com/2020/11/25/raphael-lessard-signs-with-gms-racing-seeking-full-time-effort/
S1apSh0es on YouTube: The NASCAR Playoffs are worse than you thought
Argues that NASCAR’s waning popularity is because of the playoff championship format
Claims the format allows people to coast through the regular season and the first couple rounds of the playoffs
Proposes a new format.
Shoutouts if any
Eric:
Close show
Where can we be found on social media?
James @jameskuch on Twitter
Eric @TSuperspeedway on Twitter
Facebook: Facebook.com/TheSuperSpeedway
For more of the podcast:
Website address: www.thesuperspeedway.com
Podcasts will be found on there as well.
Find us on Apple Podcasts, Google Play and Soundcloud
Become a Patron at www.patreon.com/thesuperspeedway
This entry was posted in Uncategorized by Eric Young. Bookmark the permalink.
Categories Select Category Analysis Breaking News Commentary Fantasy Featured News Opinion Photos Podcasts Power Rankings Race Coverage Uncategorized
jameskuch
|
cc/2021-04/en_middle_0045.json.gz/line1345
|
__label__cc
| 0.557436
| 0.442564
|
Today In Irish History
On this day in Irish History. What Happened on this Day – Ireland
For the Love of Being Irish
What Mark Twain Learned Me ’bout Public Speakin’
Great Book for Job Seekers
Click for Kindle. ONLY $2.99
Conor Cunneen: Motivational Humorous Business Speaker
Professional Master of Ceremonies, Emcee, MC
Sales Marketing Conference Speaker
Conor Cunneen
James Joyce in For the Love of Being Irish
Pages: Check them out
Follow Today in Irish History
« Today in Irish History: Actor Tyrone Power Dies. Anglo Irish Agreement 1985 | Today in Irish History: Confederate General Joseph Finnegan, Brian Lenihan, Luke Kelly »
Today in Irish History: 61 Year Old Olympian Jerry Millner, Death of Siobhan McKenna
TODAY IN IRISH HISTORY (published by For the Love of Being Irish)
1814: Michael Kelly Lawler who served as a Brigadier General in the Union army in the civil war was born in County Kildare. He also fought in the Mexican War of 1846-1848 when he quite possibly fought against some fellow Irishmen the famous San Patricios, the Saint Patrick’s Battalion who fought as part of the Mexican Army against the United States in the Mexican-American War.
Michael Lawler Union General
In his memoirs, Ulysses S. Grants writes of Lawler’s bravery during the Vicksburg campaign and specifically at Big Black. “(A)n officer from Banks’ staff came up and presented me with a letter from General Halleck, dated the 11th of May. It had been sent by the way of New Orleans to Banks to be forwarded to me. It ordered me to return to Grand Gulf and to co-operate from there with Banks against Port Hudson, and then to return with our combined forces to besiege Vicksburg. I told the officer that the order came too late, and that Halleck would not give it now if he knew our position. The bearer of the dispatch insisted that I ought to obey the order, and was giving arguments to support his position when I heard great cheering to the right of our line and, looking in that direction, saw Lawler in his shirt sleeves leading a charge upon the enemy. I immediately mounted my horse and rode in the direction of the charge, and saw no more of the officer who delivered the dispatch; I think not even to this day.”
1931: Death of Olympic gold medalist Joshua (Jerry) Millner. Millner was born in Dublin in 1847 and represented Britain in 1908 in the free rifle event which he won at the age of 61!
1986: Death of famous Abbey actress Siobhan McKenna. Married to actor Dennis O’Dea, their son Donncha is a professional poker player who represented Ireland in 1968 Olympic games and is the first Irishman to swim the 100 metres in less than one minute. O’Dea’s son (McKenna’s grandson) is also a professional poker player who reached the final 9 in the World Series of Poker Championship in Las Vegas.
Want to learn more about Ireland? See these images and more in the acclaimed For the Love of Being Irish
BUY Quality Quality Guinness and Ireland Rugby Shirts
For the Love of Being Irish written by Chicago based Corkman Conor Cunneen and illustrated by Mark Anderson which is an A-Z of all things Irish. This is a book that contains History, Horror, Humor, Passion, Pathos and Lyrical Limericks that will have you giving thanks (or wishing you were) For the Love of Being Irish
Watch For the Love of Being Irish author Conor Cunneen – IrishmanSpeaks on his Youtube channel IrishmanSpeaks. Laugh and Learn. Here Conor was speaking to Harley-Davidson
This blog is written by Irish author, business keynote speaker and award winning humoristIrishmanSpeaks – Conor Cunneen. Visit Conor’s YouTube channel IrishmanSpeaksto Laugh and Learn. Tags: Best Irish Gift, Creative Irish Gift, Unique Irish Gifts, Irish Books, Irish Authors, Today in Irish History
Posted on November 16, at 6:31 am in Today in Irish History | RSS feed | Reply | Trackback URL
Tags: General Michael Lawler, irish in american civil war, Jerry Millner, on this day in ireland, on this day in Irish history, San patricios, Siobhan McKenna, union general michael lawler
1798 1798 rebellion 1916 1916 Rising accredited speaker best irish books Best Irish Gifts best selling irish books Chicago Motivational Speaker de valera eamonn de valera famous irish Famous Irish Americans Famous Irish Musicians famous Irish Sportsmen famous Irish sports persons Fenians fianna fail gift ideas for st patrick's day guinness rugby shirts IRA irish actors Irish american presidents irish civil war Irish gift ideas irish in american civil war irish in civil war Irish medal of honor winners Irish musicians irish rugby shirts irish soldiers Irish VC winners irish war of independence irish writers jfk loyalist Northern Ireland michael collins northern Ireland on this day in ireland on this day in Irish history the troubles titanic today in irish history united Irishmen young ireland rebellion
|
cc/2021-04/en_middle_0045.json.gz/line1349
|
__label__cc
| 0.58777
| 0.41223
|
Tony Lloyd MP for Rochdale
Putting Rochdale First
Advice and Contact
Constituency and Parliament
Letters from Parliament, News
Rochdale MP backs nurses’ charity walk for Yemen
Tony Lloyd MP is supporting two NHS nurses, Sofia Ali and Kirsten Trafford, on an 18-mile walk for charity to raise money for the people of Yemen.
Sofia, from Spotland, and Kirsten, from Manchester, work together at the Manchester Royal Infirmary and will walk from Liverpool to Southport on 10th August.
So far, they have made £1,675 of their £2,000 target.
Tony Lloyd said, “I’m proud of Sofia and Kirsten’s efforts to raise awareness of what is happening in Yemen.
“The Covid-19 pandemic takes up much of the news output in Britain, and the crisis doesn’t have much coverage in the media.
“Sofia and Kirsten are right to feel outraged at Britain’s role in the arms exports to Saudi Arabia, which might be used in Yemen, and I have written to the Foreign Secretary urging for its cancellation.
“The government should follow Sofia and Kirsten’s lead, and provide humanitarian action to prevent the crisis from spiralling into an irreparable disaster.”
Yemen is the largest humanitarian crisis in the world with 80 per cent of the population in need of humanitarian assistance, including more than 12 million children.
Sofia Ali said, “When we looked into the Yemen crisis, we found the most heart-wrenching facts.
“We were astounded to learn that the world’s biggest humanitarian crisis is not on the front page of every paper, and disgusted to learn about Britain’s involvement in providing arms to the Saudi government.
“The British public does not condone or support violence. We do not want to be recognised as a society that played a part in the extinction of a nation.”
Monies raised will be donated to the Human Relief Foundation’s Yemen Emergency Appeal.
You can donate to their cause by clicking here: www.justgiving.com/fundraising/kirstensofia
tonylloydmp 3 Jul 2020 12 Aug 2020 Rochdale
Previous Previous post: Racial discrimination still blights lives, even in modern Britain
Next Next post: Post-16 education and care homes: the blame game won’t work
Rochdale MP reacts to Brexit saying the deal leaves ‘too many gaping holes’
Wishing you all a Peaceful Christmas and a better New Year
Christmas helplines
Tony Lloyd MP: ‘Warm words of thanks don’t pay bills, decent pay does’
Tony Lloyd MP demands crackdown on dangerous electrical goods online
|
cc/2021-04/en_middle_0045.json.gz/line1351
|
__label__wiki
| 0.802805
| 0.802805
|
Nickelodeon Headlines
MattIsForReal | 1/10/2021
Filed Under: "Nickelodeon"
During Nickelodeon's special slime-filled broadcast of Sunday's NFL Wild Card game between the Chicago Bears and New Orleans Saints, fans were treated to a sneak peek at the all-new CG-animated series Kamp Koral: SpongeBob’s Under Years.
The series serves as a prequel to the hit Nickelodeon cartoon and follows 10-year-old SpongeBob SquarePants and his pals as they spend the summer at Kamp Koral. The nearly six-minute sneak peek is from the premiere episode, "The Jellyfish Kid," and sees a young SpongeBob try to catch his first jellyfish. While seeing SpongeBob and his friends recreated in CG may take a bit of getting used to at first, all of the same wacky humor and crazy antics are still present.
In the first-ever SpongeBob SquarePants spinoff, the CG-animated prequel follows 10-year-old SpongeBob SquarePants and his pals as they spend their summer building underwater campfires, catching wild jellyfish, and swimming in Lake Yuckymuck at the craziest camp in the kelp forest, Kamp Koral.
Kamp Koral: SpongeBob’s Under Years is produced by Nickelodeon Animation Studio. The series will premiere on Paramount+, ViacomCBS' upcoming subscription on-demand service, in 2021. The series will air on Nickelodeon later in the year, following the first season's run on Paramount+.
Many of the cartoon's original voice actors are returning to reprise their roles, including Tom Kenny (SpongeBob), Bill Fagerbakke (Patrick), Rodger Bumpass (Squidward), Clancy Brown (Mr. Krabs), Carolyn Lawrence (Sandy) and Mr. Lawrence (Plankton). The series will also introduce new characters Nobby and Narlene, narwhal siblings who live in the woods surrounding the camp, who will be voiced by Carlos Alazraqui (The Casagrandes) and Kate Higgins (Blaze and the Monster Machines), respectively.
Nickelodeon To Air Kid-Focused, Slime-Filled Telecast Of NFL Wild Card Game With Sneak Peek Of KAMP KORAL
A special kid-focused presentation of the National Football League's Wild Card game on January 10 will air on Nickelodeon and feature special effects and a sneak peek at Kamp Koral: SpongeBob's Under Years.
NICKMAS: Nickelodeon To Air Over 100 Hours Of Seasonal Holiday Content Starting November 19
Nickelodeon has released its holiday calendar for Nickmas, a festive celebration filled with over 100 hours of seasonal content, including the return of Top Elf and classic episodes of Rugtrats and SpongeBob.
|
cc/2021-04/en_middle_0045.json.gz/line1352
|
__label__wiki
| 0.847038
| 0.847038
|
Only one U.S. airline cracked the list of the 10 safest carriers in 2021
Posted by admin | Jan 8, 2021 | News | 0 |
Discussions around the safety of flying are now dominated by the global pandemic, but the “Top Twenty Safest Airlines 2021” list compiled by airline website AirlineRatings.com doesn’t have anything to do with Covid-19.
Released this week, the list analyzes crash records and safety compliance to highlight airlines that it claims are leading air travel safety.
The top 10 list
AirlineRatings.com analyzed crash and serious incident histories, fleet ages, and audits of 385 airlines performed by governments and aviation associations.
It used that analysis to name the 10 safest airlines for 2021 as:
1. Qantas
2. Qatar Airways
3. Air New Zealand
4. Singapore Airlines
5. Emirates
6. Eva Air
7. Etihad Airways
8. Alaska Airlines
9. Cathay Pacific
10. British Airways
Qantas, Australia’s flag carrier, was named the world’s safest airline for the third year in a row by the website.
Qantas holds the distinction of being the only airline that Dustin Hoffman’s character in the 1988 movie “Rain Man” would fly because it had “never crashed.” The airline suffered fatal crashes of small aircraft prior to 1951, but has had no fatalities in the 70 years since.
Qantas has had no passenger fatalities since the dawn of the “jet era” in the 1950s.
Scott Barbour | Getty Images News | Getty Images
“Qantas has been the lead airline in virtually every major operational safety advancement over the past 60 years and has not had a fatality in the pure jet era,” said Geoffrey Thomas, the website’s editor-in-chief. “But Qantas is not alone. Long established airlines such as Hawaiian and Finnair have perfect records in the jet era.”
In addition to Air New Zealand and British Airways, the remainder of the list is dominated by the “Middle East Three” — as Qatar Airways, Emirates and Etihad Airways are collectively known — and Asian airlines such as Taiwan’s Eva Air and Hong Kong-based Cathay Pacific.
Alaska Airlines is the only U.S. carrier named among the 10 safest airlines in the world.
The list: 11-20
U.S. and European airlines figure more prominently in the second half of the list, which includes:
11. Virgin Australia/Virgin Atlantic
12. Hawaiian Airlines
13. Southwest Airlines
14. Delta Air Lines
15. American Airlines
16. SAS (Scandinavian Airlines)
17. Finnair
18. Lufthansa
19. KLM
20. United Airlines
U.S. airlines had a particularly positive showing in overall top 20. Only two of the six American carriers on the 2021 list — Alaska and Hawaiian Airlines — were included on last year’s list.
Alaska Airlines has been named among the world’s safest airlines for the past six consecutive years.
Robert Alexander | Archive Photos | Getty Images
Thomas said that overall, there is little real difference in terms of safety among the 20 airlines named to the list: “They are all standouts.”
Safest low-cost airlines for 2021
In response to public interest, AirlineRatings.com announced the 10 safest and “best” low-cost airlines on Monday as well.
In alphabetical order, they are: Air Arabia, Allegiant Air, EasyJet, Frontier Airlines, Jetstar, JetBlue, Ryanair, Vietjet Air, WestJet and Wizz Air.
Safest airlines for Covid
Separately, the airline rating website on Monday announced the top 20 airlines for Covid-19 safety compliance.
Those carriers are AirBaltic, Air New Zealand, Alaska Airlines, All Nippon Airways, AirAsia, British Airways, Cathay Pacific, Delta Air Lines, Emirates, Etihad Airways, Eva Air, Japan Airlines, JetBlue, KLM, Korean Air, Lufthansa, Singapore Airlines, Southwest Airlines, Qatar Airways and WestJet.
Singapore Airlines was named among the world’s safest and most Covid-compliant airlines in 2021.
GOH CHAI HIN | AFP | Getty Images
The website added a Covid-19 check to its airline safety comparison charts.
Airlines are awarded a compliance “star” for instituting four of the following six criteria: Covid-19 website information, social distancing while boarding and during the flight, nightly deep cleaning of aircraft, the provision of passenger face masks, personal protection equipment (PPE) for cabin crew, and changes to meal services.
Thomas said 119 airlines achieve the highest Covid-19 rating.
“But it is disappointing to see that 117 get a zero for compliance or have no information for the public on their Covid policies on their website,” he said.
This article was originally published by Cnbc.com. Read the original article here.
PreviousThis is : AMSTERDAM
NextThe best hotels in the Maldives with overwater bungalows, including top-notch restaurants and soothing spas
New York City mayor asks residents to avoid traveling out of state during the holidays
New luxury cruises are scheduled to sail to Antarctica this year
TSA officers buy pizza, stock pantries for airport co-workers affected by coronavirus pandemic
United to offer Hawaii-bound passengers coronavirus tests, a possible blueprint for flights abroad
|
cc/2021-04/en_middle_0045.json.gz/line1354
|
__label__cc
| 0.587485
| 0.412515
|
Go Boldly
Food Is Life
Know and Go
Life Changing Trips
Home Know and Go Temperature Checkpoints at Airports Could Become the Norm, But Are They Effective?
Temperature Checkpoints at Airports Could Become the Norm, But Are They Effective?
Travel Magazine Editors
Last week, Airlines for America (A4A), the industry trade organization for the major U.S. airlines called upon the TSA to perform temperature checks at all US airports. The airlines represented by A4A include names such as American, Delta, Hawaiian, Jet Blue, United, Southwest, and Alaska.
“Temperature checks are one of several public health measures recommended by the CDC amid the COVID-19 pandemic and will add an extra layer of protection for passengers as well as airline and airport employees. Temperature checks also will provide additional public confidence…[and having them] performed by the TSA will ensure that procedures are standardized, providing consistency across airports so that travelers can plan appropriately.”
There’s much to debate about this tactic. Frontier Airlines recently announced that their crew would be checking the temperature of all passengers pre-boarding, but it’s beginning to look like a standardized system would, in fact, be the better option.
While the question of who should give the tests is currently being debated, along with plenty of major questions about COVID-19 and travel, another relevant question looms.
Do temperature checkpoints prevent the spread of the virus?
It makes sense on a surface level that taking people’s temperature pre-flight would help combat spreading the virus – but what do the numbers show?
Unfortunately, despite practices being implemented for airport screening many years ago in places like China, it doesn’t look to be all that effective – the results can be marginal at best.
“Ultimately, measures aimed at catching infections in travelers will only delay a local epidemic and not prevent it,” says Ben Cowling, an epidemiologist at the University of Hong Kong.
The problem is that viruses like COVID-19, people that carry the virus in the incubation period (before any symptoms are present) are missed by scanners.
Recently a study conducted at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (which we should mention has not been peer-reviewed as of yet) found that out of 100 infected people passing through the entry and exit screening, 42 went through undetected.
In another study, researchers at the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control concluded that roughly 75% of passengers with COVID-19 traveling from affected Chinese cities would not be detected by entry screening.
Meanwhile, in Canada, new procedures are being implemented by airlines themselves on May 15. Air Canada will begin testing all passengers, despite Canada’s top doctor saying that temperature testing is “not effective at all” to identify people who have COVID-19. The devices are prone to false-positives and false-negatives, and test for skin temperature as opposed to body temperature, which can be misleading. People with symptoms can also mask those symptoms by taking medication.
One of the ways it’s possible that screening could help, however, is by discouraging those with any symptoms at all, whether they be major or minor, to take a trip. Another positive for entry screening is that it allows countries to gather information about a patient’s whereabouts over their period of contracting the disease, which helps later with tracing their contacts.
So this is where we’re at. We don’t expect the debate around this issue to go away any time soon, but there’s one thing that can truly help slow the spread of the disease regardless of whether testing is implemented at airports:
If you’re sick, stay home!
Previous articleFulfill Your Wanderlust With These 5 Travel Documentaries and Docuseries
Next articleNASA’s Most Beautiful Photos of Planet Earth
Top 10 Things To Do In Athens
7 Amazing Day Trips From Brussels
The 8 Do’s and Don’ts of Responsible Travel
Travel Magazine is a new kind of travel publication for those who go boldly.
Contact us: info@travelmagazine.com
5 Beautiful Countries That Are Almost Completely Untouched By Tourists
6 Bars in Vancouver You’re Guaranteed to Have a Good Time...
5 Off The Beaten Path Honeymoon Destinations
Go Boldly127
Know and Go113
Life Changing Trips49
Food Is Life39
Web Design by Something Great Marketing
© Copyright 2020 © Travel Magazine
|
cc/2021-04/en_middle_0045.json.gz/line1356
|
__label__cc
| 0.670493
| 0.329507
|
HomeTestimonialsFrom Corporate to Startup
From Corporate to Startup
Ravacan Inc.
Owner: Anne-Sophie Le Bloas
ravacan.com
What do you do:
We help manufacturing companies replace the massive spreadsheets they have been using to manage their supply chain with powerful analytics and collaboration software.
What inspired you to start your business?:
I have personally experienced the pains caused by the lack of tools in sourcing: lack of real-time data, time wasted doing low-value tasks, errors, and misunderstandings. For over 10 years, I have built models in spreadsheets that were broadly used by my teams, but software is much more powerful than spreadsheets. I was waiting for someone to launch a product like Ravacan until I lost patience and I decided to do it myself.
What's special about your business?:
We are building tools that directly improve the day-to-day for sourcing & supply teams. Our team is comprised of former Supply Chain and Cost Reduction managers.
What have been the high and low points of being a business owner?:
It is stressful to launch a venture, especially when you are over 30 and there is so much at stake. It helped me to keep my eyes on the prize and work on my self-confidence. The lows of rejections are nothing compared to the highs of having grateful customers.
What have you learned from your experiences as a business owner?:
There is so much to say, but I have learned that overnight success takes years, that the key is to trust oneself, to ask for help when we need it, and not to give up.
What is your relationship with SCORE?:
SCORE client
What influenced you to seek help from SCORE?:
I heard about Score from Ryan Allis' presentation.
How SCORE Helped:
I needed some mentorship in marketing and sales. I did not really know where to start. Gary helped me tremendously by breaking down the process into smaller steps. He helped me with strategy, we set goals and he kept me accountable for them. I also started fundraising, and he shared his experience and opinion, so that I could build my own. He invited me to workshops that have been very helpful.
What's Great About My Mentor?:
Gary has been a perfect fit for us. Given his career, he understood very quickly our space, our product, and our challenges. He shared his experience and helped us focus on what's important. He kept me accountable and at the same time could encourage me. I always felt energized after our sessions. He's really good at taking a complex problem and turning it into bite-size chunks. I feel lucky I got to work with him. I also connected with Gary on a personal level. We had good laughs talking about France and our cultural differences. I am very grateful for the time he has invested in my mentoring.
What advice whould you give to someone thinking of starting a small business?:
I would say to go for it and pick a domain for which they have an unfair advantage over the competition. I would also suggest connecting with SCORE for mentoring!
rvcn_hq ravacan.inc ravacan ravacan.com
Accounting & Cash Flow
Financing/Capital
Marketing, Public Relations & Sales
Technical & Scientific Services
My Mentors
Gary I Geschwind
|
cc/2021-04/en_middle_0045.json.gz/line1357
|
__label__wiki
| 0.802829
| 0.802829
|
Become a TCB supporter!
Advertise in TCB
Triad City Beat Media Kit
TCB Digital Services
Triad City BeatGreensboro•Winston-Salem•High Point
Greensboro • Winston-Salem • High Point
AllInstitutional Memory
EDITOR’S NOTEBOOK: A new day
Brian Clarey- January 20, 2021 0
I just watched Trump, who by the time this column runs will no longer be president, climb aboard Air Force One for the last time and head for Florida, where he will be just another strange, loud, old, white man. I don’t want to think about the possibility of him coming back to Washington. Not right now. And I don’t want to write about his disastrous presidency, the people who enabled his reign of ineptitude and cruelty, those who were motivated by it to internalize horrible sentiments and a litany of lies. I don’t want to write about the lies. I definitely don’t want to write about the insurrectionists, who are still being rounded up, or Trump’s raft of scummy pardons that dropped late Tuesday night. I’m not ready to unpack the last four years, not ready to turn the page, not ready to forgive and forget all those people who got it wrong, are still getting it wrong. What’s the worst that can happen? How about that stock market? Her emails! All lives matter! It’s a new day, and I can feel it… sort of. But after four years of political and civil whiplash, part of me is still waiting for another shoe to drop. I don’t want to speculate on Trump’s nefarious plans. Nor do I want to explore the next phase of the impeachment process — the Senate trial, where they will decide if he is ever allowed to run for office in this country again. Likewise with the future of the Republican Party, which wears Trump around its neck like a gold-plated anchor that will sink until it hits bottom. Not today. When it comes to Trump, I’ve been right about pretty much everything: unprecedented abuse of power, armed fascists in the streets, suffering on a scale that hasn’t been seen in this country since the Great Depression. But I don’t want to gloat. It’s a new day. Looks that way, anyhow. And all I want to do after four years of Trump is to unclench. Exhale. Let my guard down, if even just for a moment. We’ll be back to business soon enough.
EDITORIAL: Canceling Anita Sharpe
Staff- January 19, 2021 1
Anita Sharpe must resign her post with the Guilford County School Board, effective immediately.
EDITOR’S NOTEBOOK: Trump, fascism and the five-figure cover
At my insistence, we also included an actual Nazi soldier, in full fascist salute. That’s the one, I think, that pushed things over the edge.
Searching for the American Dream in Forsyth County
The case of Forsyth County is baffling. At face value, the county appears to be thriving and a fantastic place for achieving the American Dream.
Coronavirus daily update: Wednesday, Jan. 20
Forsyth County jail reports 237 total cumulative positive COVID-19, compared to Guilford’s 27
Coronavirus daily update: Tuesday, Jan 19
HomeFeaturesDiversity discussed as co-chairs of the Women’s March visit Wake Forest University
Diversity discussed as co-chairs of the Women’s March visit Wake Forest University
Joel Sronce
Melissa Harris-Perry (left) moderates a discussion with Linda Sarsour, Carmen Perez and Tamika Mallory.
Tamika Mallory, Linda Sarsour and Carmen Perez — lead organizers of the Women’s March on Washington DC — discussed the march, intersectionality and resistance with moderator Melissa Harris-Perry for the keynote Black History Month event at Wake Forest University.
Linda Sarsour echoed a statement she had expressed almost a month earlier in front of the enormous crowds that gathered in Washington DC: “If you want to know that you’re going the right way, you need to make sure that you’re following a woman of color.”
Sarsour, a Palestinian-American activist and executive director of the Arab American Association of New York, sat with fellow activists and social justice advocates Tamika Mallory, former executive director of National Action Network, and Carmen Perez, executive director of the Gathering for Justice.
The three women had come together as national co-chairs of the Women’s March on Washington on Jan. 21. Now they took the stage at Wake Forest University’s Wait Chapel with moderator Melissa Harris-Perry — political science professor and editor-at-large of Elle.com — to discuss their resistance as women of color.
Despite having orchestrated a great part of what collectively was the largest protest in US history, the co-chairs expressed having to first overcome their differences.
“This march could not have gone on,” Perez told the Wait Chapel audience of several hundred, “without women of color.” Her statement didn’t recognize that the march was initiated by two white women, Teresa Shook and Bob Bland, and that a march would likely have happened without the organizational help of women of color. But her words did address the rampant criticism of a protest that did not center racial diversity, one of several points of tension that jeopardized mass mobilization and that led to the inclusion of Perez, Mallory and Sarsour as co-chairs. They were an addition that some labeled a contrived attempt at diversity.
Speaking to the need for these three women to influence other women of color and contend with this criticism, Perez proposed the phrase “women of color” as a point of unification.
“We’re reshaping what feminism looks like,” she said. “What we’re doing right now is allowing for feminism to be intersectional.”
Perez, who is Mexican American, said in her experience as an activist she often asked herself: “Is anyone gonna show up for me?” Perez’s concern referred to the issues of oppression directly associated with being Latina that were not centered in other social justice efforts.
For her part, Sarsour said, “I had some selfish interest in coming to this march, and that was because I wanted to center my own community; I wanted to put my community at the middle of the table.”
And Mallory, who is African American, said that in the country’s uprising against Trump’s executive orders, the black community wondered where such protest, particularly white activism, had been after each time a young black person died at the hands of the police.
The isolation of specific injustices had often hindered the collective action that these activists desired; it kept their communities divided by “their own issue,” as Perez said.
Yet the relationship between the three women, Mallory suggested, has itself inspired the unification they seek.
“Us being together has been helpful to people for them to be able to see something outside of their issue,” she said, including that most people she talked to “had no idea about occupation and what was happening in Palestine until I started working with Linda and with Carmen.”
Sarsour, too, saw their relationship with the other women as a catalyst for greater interracial activism: “I think the reason why us three together are really powerful is because we have built a relationship together, and that no one gets to Tamika without getting through me, no when gets to Carmen without getting through me. That’s the kind of love that we need to have, that’s why… this coalition will never be broken.
“We want a collective movement that is about: My liberation is bound up with yours,” Sarsour continued. “And if you can’t see that my liberation is bound up with yours, I don’t want to organize with you.”
Sarsour pointed out that a third of Muslim Americans are black, a population that further inspires her.
“When I march,” she said, “I think about my black Muslim sisters and brothers who got to be black and Muslim in America in 2016 and 2017.” For Sarsour, being black and Muslim signifies oppression suffered because of both race and religion.
Despite the involvement of Mallory, Sarsour and Perez, one of the most common criticisms of the Women’s March is that it didn’t publically achieve its goal of diversity and solidarity. Rather, many saw the protest as a feel-good event for the white majority that took to the capital in their pink pussy hats, and that would then recede into further silence and inaction.
Mallory, Sarsour and Perez did not address that the march had been initiated by white women. Instead they gave a strong and specific message to the white community: Do your work.
As more white folks have been eager to participate recently, the organizers demanded acknowledgement of the previous absence.
“So I ask the question,” Mallory said, “‘Where were you?’ Because it is necessary for you to think back about the fact that you had not been present, so that you never leave again…. But you have to ask yourself, ‘Why wasn’t I there? Was I actually benefiting from the oppression of other people? Is that why I wasn’t there? Was it okay with me?’”
The co-chairs called those conversations courageous, and said they’re imperative to moving forward.
“America has been hostile to its people for a long time,” Mallory continued. “It did not start on Nov. 8. And it will not end in four years. And if you acknowledge that, the conversations become a little bit easier because they start from a place of truth.”
Bob Bland
Carmen Perez
Linda Sarsour
Melissa Harris-Perry
Tamika Mallory
Teresa Shook
Wait Chapel
Previous articleImmigrants in Greensboro: ‘Listen up, Trump, we’re in the struggle’
Next articleLocal conservative activists prepare for violent confrontation with Islam
Professor Melissa Harris-Perry and Wake Forest University clash over MLK speech
Back to school with Melissa Harris-Perry (and why she loves Winston-Salem, too)
Rhetoric at Kernersville meeting dovetails with Trump agenda
Search triad-city-beat.com
Click for our Digital Edition
Triad City Beat Press Services
The Charms of the Horse Races Fans Can’t Wait for in 2021
It's safe to say that a lot of people missed out on their favorite horse racing events in 2020 to avoid unhealthy escalations. The post The Charms of the Horse Races Fans Can’t Wait for in 2021 appeared first on Triad City Beat Press Services.
PLATINUM WEED STRAIN REVIEW
Platinum strains are also referred to as looking “frosty” which most cannabis users can predict it to be some dank bud. The post PLATINUM WEED STRAIN REVIEW appeared first on Triad City Beat Press Services.
Buy Watches and Jewelry with Bitcoin
there are necklaces and body jewels available with bitcoin, that you can buy on the internet. The post Buy Watches and Jewelry with Bitcoin appeared first on Triad City Beat Press Services.
4 Tips on How to Start A New Business
Starting a new business can be an incredible journey but it will certainly be a difficult one, particularly in the early stages. The post 4 Tips on How to Start A New Business appeared first on Triad City Beat Press Services.
Triad City Beat exists to chronicle the North Carolina Triad cities of Winston-Salem, High Point, and Greensboro as low-cost incubators of innovation, sustainability and creativity. We publish smart reporting and writing that recognizes the intelligence of our readers. Triad City Beat is wholly owned by Beat Media Inc.
Black men arrested with weapons at protest while armed white militia...
Local conservative activists prepare for violent confrontation with Islam
Fresh Eyes: Aunt Bee’s Siler City cat house
IN PRINT4591
Columns1621
Covers440
© Beat Media, Inc. All Rights Reserved
Wake students demand ‘zero tolerance’ for white supremacy at speak-out
Jordan Green- April 22, 2019 0
Antiracist students at Wake Forest University, backed by faculty members and community allies, reiterated a demand for administration to implement a “zero tolerance” policy...
|
cc/2021-04/en_middle_0045.json.gz/line1358
|
__label__wiki
| 0.911447
| 0.911447
|
Home | News | World | Mayor of London to present Wills, Kate with bicycle made for two
Mayor of London to present Wills, Kate with bicycle made for two
| Apr 25, 2011
London, Apr 25 (ANI): London Mayor Boris Johnson, who is a cycling enthusiast, is set to present the royal couple, Prince William and Kate Middleton, a bicycle made for two.
Johnson, 46, who will be presenting the couple the tandem bicycle next week, caused a row when he demanded Transport for London (TfL), which is funded by passenger fares and taxpayers, pay for the 500 pounds bike.
TfL managers objected on the grounds that it would be wrong to use taxpayers’ money in such a way.
Serco, the company that runs the London cycle hire scheme, subsequently agreed to pick up the bill for the customised bike.
A senior Whitehall source said the tandem would help raise the profile of Johnson’s cycle scheme.
“It is typical of Boris to want to give a tandem as a special gift, but TfL didn’t want to pay for it out of public money,” the Daily Mail quoted him as saying.
“They said it would set the wrong precedent and give out the wrong message,” he stated.
Meanwhile, Johnson has organised free live screenings of the Royal Wedding in Hyde Park and Trafalgar Square, and he has also encouraged communities in the capital to hold street parties.
“The Mayor is determined to mark the historic event to show London’s support for the happy couple. He is planning additional celebrations and surprises,” a spokesman stated. (ANI)
Sai Baba passes away
Air India flights hit by pilots' strike
Mausam – Review
Aishwarya Rai Bachchan expecting Twins in November
Rani Mukerji weds Aditya Chopra
Eating out, takeaways,home delivery to cost more
Ajith follows his policy, keeps away from Arrambam promotions
|
cc/2021-04/en_middle_0045.json.gz/line1361
|
__label__wiki
| 0.674782
| 0.674782
|
Home | National | News | Sourced | Wired | Home Ministry sends presidential reference on Justice AK Ganguly’s removal to Attorney General
National News Sourced Wired
Home Ministry sends presidential reference on Justice AK Ganguly’s removal to Attorney General
New Delhi, Dec.19 (ANI): The Home Ministry has sought the opinion of the Attorney General on the suggestion for the removal of AK Ganguly from his position as Chairman of the West Bengal Human Rights Commission on Thursday.
The suggestion is that the President will have to make a reference to the Supreme Court, which will then order an inquiry.
According to reports, the draft of the presidential reference is expected to go to President Pranab Mukherjee in the next two days.
On Sunday, Additional Solicitor General Indira Jaising wrote to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and sought the removal of Justice Ganguly as chairman of the West Bengal Human Rights Commission.
Justice Ganguly has been accused of sexually assaulting a law intern who worked with him. The Supreme Court had set up a three-judge panel, which heard testimonies from both, the law intern and Ganguly and submitted its report to the Chief Justice of India, P. Sathasivam, naming Ganguly as the accused.
The alleged sexual molestation incident is said to have taken place in a five-star hotel in Delhi last December. (ANI)
TNPSC notifies recruitment 2014
AAP leader Kumar Vishwas in war of words with Congress
Odisha JEE 2014 admit card to be released on 20th April
Gujarat HSC Results 2014
Box office collection report : English Vinglish dominates Japan; emerges second only to Aamir Khan’s 3 Idiots
Shahrukh Khan and Katrina Kaif back in Mumbai
|
cc/2021-04/en_middle_0045.json.gz/line1362
|
__label__wiki
| 0.848656
| 0.848656
|
Valley Show Girl
Cinemadope
Stream Queen
Blaise’s Bad Movie Guide
O Cannabis!
Stagestruck
The V-Spot
The Beerhunter
Where to find the Advocate in print
Best Of Winners
Stagestruck: The Fruits of Poetry
by Chris Rohmann | Nov 8, 2017
Note: An earlier version of this article contained several errors. They have now been corrected.
In 1999, Time magazine named its pick for “the song of the century.” That song was “Strange Fruit,” perhaps an odd choice from the songbook of the era that gave birth to blues, jazz, musical comedy and rock’n’roll. Written in the late 1930s by a schoolteacher named Abel Meeropol, it’s a mournful tune set to a bitter lyric about an appalling topic – lynching in the Jim Crow South.
Meeropol wrote the song under a pseudonym because his left-wing sympathies made him politically vulnerable at a time when Red-baiting was already on the rise. After fellow activists Julius and Ethel Rosenberg were executed in 1953 on charges of espionage (now largely discredited) he and his wife Anne adopted their two young sons, Michael and Robert.
The two sons eventually settled in the Valley, where Robert founded the Rosenberg Fund for Children, whose mission is supporting American families targeted for their political beliefs and activities. Robert’s wife Ellen, a novelist, is a co-founder of the local Straw Dog Writers Guild. Those two passions have now intersected in the Abel Meeropol Social Justice Writing Award, which honors those who, like its namesake, “work to change the world through literature and the arts.”
The first recipient is activist poet Patricia Smith. She will be celebrated this Sunday in a free public event at Gateway City Arts in Holyoke, where she’ll will read from her work and discuss “writing as resistance.” Local singer-songwriter Pamela Means will perform “Strange Fruit.”
Probably best known as the winningest-ever participant in the National Poetry Slam, Patricia Smith is a widely published, multi-prize-winning author for whom this award seems tailor-made. In a recent interview with Publisher’s Weekly, she answered the question “Do you consider your poetry political?” this way:
A poem is political if it rattles a predictable landscape or introduces a thread of doubt into a deep-seated belief. And the personal can clearly be political. … I write poetry so that I can move from one moment to the next without stopping to scream into my cupped hands. I write to celebrate, to condemn, to mourn, to be giddy and ridiculous, to bellow what’s up front in my life.
The Abel Meeropol Social Justice Writing Award will be presented on Sunday, Nov. 12, 3:30 p.m. at Gateway City Arts, 92 Race Street, Holyoke. Free, but reservations are required.
Photo by Rachel Eliza Griffiths
If you’d like to be notified of future posts, email StageStruck@crocker.com
We believe in people-powered journalism
Join us and donate now via Paypal
Local Advertisers
Check out our most recent performances in the playlist below, or click here to dig into interviews and related material!
The Advocate’s Daily Feed
Copyright © 2020 by H.S. Gere & Sons, Inc.
Privacy Policy – Copyright
Website by NNE digital
We’re Shaking Up The News Industry — You Can Help
Donate Now via Paypal!
|
cc/2021-04/en_middle_0045.json.gz/line1366
|
__label__wiki
| 0.862916
| 0.862916
|
Join the GamesBeat Community
Free: Join the GamesBeat Community for access to 3 premium posts or videos a month.
Microsoft demonstrates how DIY game Project Spark integrates Xbox One, PC, and tablet
Jeff Grubb@jeffgrubb June 26, 2013 11:10 AM
The build-your-own world game gets demoed at Build 2013.
Image Credit: Microsoft
Driving Game Growth & Into the Metaverse
Register today to connect with the games industry, join private networking sessions, and hear the latest on driving game growth and the metaverse.
The PlayStation has LittleBigPlanet for gamers that love to create, and now Xbox has Project Spark. To show off that game’s cross-platform creation capabilities, Microsoft closed out its Build 2013 developer conference today with an in-depth demonstration of Project Spark in action.
Project Spark is a digital canvas that has you using a controller, the Kinect, a mouse, or a touchscreen to design games that are immediately playable. It is due out this year for Xbox One, Xbox 360, and Windows 8.
As part of the demonstration, Microsoft Game Studios general manager Dave McCarthy walked through one of the Project Spark’s developers building something on a Windows 8 PC with a touchscreen. They then saved their stage to the cloud and picked it up and played the level on an Xbox One.
Since this demo was all about Microsoft’s dedication to cross-platform support, they didn’t stop at that point.
Next, McCarthy had the developer make some changes to the level using a Windows 8 tablet running the SmartGlass app that connects tablets to the Xbox console. After around a minute in the tablet, the developer was able to change the game from a controller-based title to a touch-enabled game.
Build is Microsoft’s developer-facing show, so it’s obvious that it wants to inspire studios to use its services in a similar manner. The software company is putting a lot of effort into its ecosystem, and Project Spark is a good example of something that takes full advantage of it.
Register for GamesBeat's upcoming event: Driving Game Growth & Into the Metaverse
|
cc/2021-04/en_middle_0045.json.gz/line1368
|
__label__wiki
| 0.711856
| 0.711856
|
Awards > Robert Buchanan Forbes McKail Memorial Prize
Robert Buchanan Forbes McKail Memorial Prize
The Robert Buchanan Forbes McKail Memorial Prize was founded in 1941 by Isabella Stevenson Forbes, widow of John McKail of Glasgow, in memory of her son Robert Buchanan Forbes McKail, MB 1909, DPM, formerly Superintendent of Brockhall Institution for Mental Defectives in Langho, Lancashire. It is awarded annually on the result of the special examination for the Mackintosh Bursary in Mental Science to a student of the Faculty of Medicine who has shown eminence in the subject of Psychiatry.
|
cc/2021-04/en_middle_0045.json.gz/line1372
|
__label__cc
| 0.635759
| 0.364241
|
The "Akademik Lomonosov" floating NPP in Atomflot, Murmansk. Photo: Bloger51.ru
«Akademik Lomonosov» arrives in Murmansk, gets ready for loading of nuclear fuel
After a 4,000 km voyage from St. Petersburg, the floating nuclear power plant is moored on the banks of the Kola Bay.
Read in Russian | Читать по-русски
The world’s first nuclear power plant of its kind on Thursday arrived in Murmansk after 19 days at sea. Accompanied by tugs and support vessels «Spasatel Karaev», «Umka» and «Yasnyy», the barge with the reactors moored at the Atomflot base, just few kilometers from the Murmansk city center.
According to Rosatom General Director Aleksey Likhachev, the voyage had proceeded smoothly without any incidents. In a ceremony on Saturday, the leader of the federal nuclear power company underlined that the «Akademik Lomonosov» will be charged with nuclear fuel in the course of the next months.
The barge with the reactors is brand new and not yet in operation. Still, judging from the photos, it looks rusty and old.
Photo: Bloger51.ru
«We have successfully towed the nuclear energy block without nuclear fuel to Murmansk and here we will put into life this unique mobile nuclear object, which has been built in close cooperation with many companies», Likhachev said in the ceremony, Rosatom informs.
On site were also regional leaders from Murmansk and Chukotka, as well as several directors from Rosatom, among them Rosatomflot leader Vyacheslav Ruksha.
In a comment, regional Deputy Governor Evgeny Nikora said he was proud to see the floating nuclear power plant in Murmansk.
«The «Akademik Lomonosov» will operate in the Arctic, and the development of the Arctic is a task which stretches over several decades. We are absolutely confident that out region plays a special role in the development of the Russian Arctic territories,» Nikora underlined in a press release.
After a year of testing at Atomflot, the power plant will be towed along the whole Russian Arctic coast to Pevek where it will be permanently based.
According to Rosatom, it is the State Marine Rescue Service which is responsible for the towing operations, both from St. Petersburg to Murmansk and from Murmansk to Pevek. Loading of nuclear fuel is planned to take place in the course of fall this year. After testing in the Kola Bay, the installation is to be towed to Pevek in the course of June 2019.
The «Akademik Lomonosov» has been under construction for more than 12 years. The building originally started at the Sevmash yard in Severodvinsk back in 2006. Then, the hull was moved to the Baltic Shipyard in St. Petersburg in 2009 because the yard by the White Sea had to concentrate on building warships and submarines. In 2011, the floating nuclear power plant became central in the bankruptcy proceedings against the Baltic Shipyard.
With some improvements, the reactor of the KLT-40s type is similar to the reactors on board Russia’s fleet of nuclear powered icebreakers.
Floating nuclear power plant entering Norwegian waters
Cold War heritage secured, but now comes new wave of maritime reactors
Infrastructure for floating nuclear power plant more than half-ready
Floating nuclear power plant will be towed through the ice
Power button for floating nuclear plant will be pushed in Murmansk next autumn
After pressure from Norway, Rosatom says floating nuclear plant will be fueled in Murmansk
«I’m deeply concerned about the safety on board this nuclear armageddon machine»
Uranium fuel will be loaded before towing around Scandinavia
|
cc/2021-04/en_middle_0045.json.gz/line1381
|
__label__wiki
| 0.758419
| 0.758419
|
Radio Easter off-air, activists worry over lack of local information
Radio Tamazuj
Previous Aritcle The Church must have integrity to play its role as peace maker, says bishop
Next Aritcle UN condemns harassment of civil society members
[Yei, South Sudan, RT] Radio Easter 94 FM, a branch of the Catholic Radio Network, is off-air in Yei River County. The station has been the only FM radio used by both the public and government to pass out public announcements.
Workers at the station said the facility was hit by lightening and its connection cable got burnt completely. The station workers also said if there is no access to fuel, the station may continue to remain silent until further notice.
Radio Spirit had already been suffering blackouts due to lack of fuel and technical problems with its transmission system.
Women's activist Mama Hawa said they have resorted to the old days of accessing information through the shortwave channels.
“Apart from getting information from Radio Fm as the only radio covering parts of Yei River State, we have resorted from getting information from the old BBC, [and] South Sudan radio shortwave channels not known by many people,” said Hawa.
Hawa says access to pass information to the public via the local media houses in Yei has been greatly affected.
Meanwhile, human rights and civil society activist Mr. Dara said “information black out” in the area will create a vacuum allowing for rumors and fabricated information to spread, which is very dangerous for Yei River State.
“Information blackout means nobody knows what is happening and if nobody knows what is happening, then the people will find a way to access information and when individuals are allowed to find information, then it will be a dangerous result to our country and once people are missed informed, there will be a lot of chaos in the country,” Dara explained.
Dara added that the constitution protects right to access information but this right is not being fulfilled.
“We all know that article thirty two of our constitution provides for the rights to access to information whether in form of an audio or electronic record. Information is power and its one of the critical aspects of national governance. Our leadership should intervene. People need information to make correct decisions,” said Dara.
Source: Radio Tamazuj
[Tab] Content Navigation - Article
|
cc/2021-04/en_middle_0045.json.gz/line1384
|
__label__cc
| 0.717356
| 0.282644
|
theendoc
Research News for Engineers, Doctors and other professionals
Mouth clicks used in human echolocation captured in unprecedented detail
Like some bats and marine mammals, people can develop expert echolocation skills, in which they produce a clicking sound with their mouths and listen to the reflected sound waves to “see” their surroundings.
The research, performed by Lore Thaler of Durham University, U.K., Galen Reich and Michael Antoniou of Birmingham University, U.K., and colleagues, focuses on three blind adults who have been expertly trained in echolocation. Since the age of 15 or younger, all three have used echolocation in their daily lives. They use the technique for such activities as hiking, visiting unfamiliar cities, and riding bicycles.
While the existence of human echolocation is well documented, the details of the underlying acoustic mechanisms have been unclear. In the new study, the researchers set out to provide physical descriptions of the mouth clicks used by each of the three participants during echolocation. They recorded and analyzed the acoustic properties of several thousand clicks, including the spatial path the sound waves took in an acoustically controlled room.
Analysis of the recordings revealed that the clicks made by the participants had a distinct acoustic pattern that was more focused in its direction than that of human speech. The clicks were brief — around three milliseconds long — and their strongest frequencies were between two to four kilohertz, with some additional strength around 10 kilohertz.
The researchers also used the recordings to propose a mathematical model that could be used to synthesize mouth clicks made during human echolocation. They plan to use synthetic human clicks to investigate how these sounds can reveal the physical features of objects; the number of measurements required for such studies would be impractical to ask from human volunteers.
This entry was posted in Doctor, Editorial, Engineer, Technical, Uncategorized and tagged Doctor, Engineer, General, Professional, The Endoc.
Gut bacteria that ‘talk’ to human cells may lead to new treatments
NASA’s Cassini spacecraft ends its historic exploration of Saturn
Hotel Shagun Bhopal
Best Luxury Hotel in Bhopal
Click Here Hotel Shagun is located just away from Bhopal City Centre Market, And only 2 Km away from railway station, and bus stand; thus making it an apt location for enthusiastic explorers who are looking for convenience plus luxury. Each of the 28 well-appointed
|
cc/2021-04/en_middle_0045.json.gz/line1386
|
__label__wiki
| 0.792396
| 0.792396
|
Daily Photo (01.20.2021)
Six Tips to Slay the Semester
Plans for inauguration mostly unchanged despite recent events
Georgia Southern officials report 108 positive COVID-19 cases in the first week
The Real Issue With Going Out During a Pandemic
Reflector Magazine
Miscellany Lit Mag
The George-Anne Media Group
About Reflector
Cuisine & Culture
Reflector Advertising
Inkwell - Arts & Entertainment
Visiting Writer’s Series Presents Elise Blackwell
The cover of Elise Blackwell’s novel “Hunger.” Photo by: Allison Cummings
Allison Cummings, Staff Writer
On Thursday, Oct. 5, The Armstrong’s College of Liberal Arts hosted the Visiting Writer’s Series featuring Elise Blackwell. Blackwell hosted a writing seminar during the day on campus and a reading from her new novel, The Lower Quarter, took place at Foxy Loxy Café that night.
Blackwell is a professor of creative writing and contemporary fiction at the University of South Carolina. Blackwell is the author of five novels: The Unnatural History of Cypress Parish, An Unfinished Score, Grub, The Lower Quarter and Hunger, which was named the “Best Book of 2003” by the Los Angeles Times.
Blackwell read short excerpts from Grub, a satirical retelling of George Gissing’s New Grub Street, Hunger, a short novel placed during WWII about a botanist during the Siege of Leningrad, and her new novel, The Lower Quarter.
The Lower Quarter is set in New Orleans, La. after Hurricane Katrina. The novel follows four characters’ lives as they work to solve a murder investigation surrounding a long-missing European painting.
Blackwell is a native from southern La. Her inspiration into starting this novel occurred during a visit to New Orleans while she was staying outside of the French Quarter in an off-beat hotel.
“I had the strong, but possibly totally false, feeling that someone had died in my room,” Blackwell said. The story revolving around a murder mystery developed from there. Johanna and her art restoration studio became one of the earliest characters in the novel. Blackwell said she was drawn to the idea of what it would mean to be somebody who restored water damaged art in a place terribly water damaged by a hurricane.
Throughout Blackwell’s, reading she spoke about how she draws inspiration on her stories from her real life. Blackwell has always been passionate about reading and started writing as a young child.
“At one point, my grandfather offered me and my cousins a dollar for every story or poem we wrote. When he had to give me twenty dollars one week, he stopped that. He told me to keep writing, but not for the money.”
Blackwell graduated with her MFA from University of California and went on to become a professor at South Carolina University teaching courses in creative writing and contemporary fiction.
“I was initially drawn to the flexible schedule that university teaching sometimes provides.” Blackwell explains. “What happened, though, was that I found teaching to be incredibly rewarding. Writing and reading fiction involved inhabiting another person’s point of view, which is a great opportunity for empathy and learning,” She added.
Blackwell’s books, Hunger and The Lower Quarter were for sale at the event by the Armstrong Bookstore. Following her reading, Blackwell was available for questions and conversation. You can read more about her or purchase her books at http://eliseblackwell.com.
We Asked, You Responded: The COVID-19 Vaccine
President Trump's second impeachment
Georgia Southern reacts to riots at the Capitol • 372 Views
COVID money for students • 320 Views
Georgia Southern officials report 133 positive COVID-19 cases the week before class starts • 280 Views
Books to read in 2021, if you hate reading • 268 Views
Georgia Southern officials report 108 positive COVID-19 cases in the first week • 206 Views
Film Recommendation: “A Christmas Carol” A Little Horror for Christmas
A Day of Fun with Campus Recreation and Intramurals
Campus Spotlight: Campus Recration and Intramurals (CRI)
Popular Game brings a whole new meaning to Quarantining: Among Us
Worry Free Wednesday Returns to Armstrong Campus
Students’ Thoughts on Thanksgiving during a Pandemic
Changes to SARC Accommodations
Students Adjust to a New Kind of Learning
“Meraki” Exhibition Brings the Self into the Spotlight
WEEKLY UPDATE: GSU’s COVID-19 Numbers
The student led, student read news organization at Georgia Southern University
thegeorgeanne.com
F.I. Williams Center Room 2023
Support Student Journalists
Your contribution will enhance the experience of our student staff by sending them to
conferences and providing other training and support.
SINGLE MONTHLY ANNUALLY
|
cc/2021-04/en_middle_0045.json.gz/line1389
|
__label__wiki
| 0.641383
| 0.641383
|
WRESTLING THEN & NOW – 07.08.2020
By Evan Ginzburg, Columnist
Welcome to the Ginzburg Time Machine as we go back and forth through the decades for another Wrestling- Then & Now.
In clearly the most pressing story of the week, Mickie James has announced she will be running for President in 2020:
Official Announcement!! I have decided to fufill my true destiny and give the people what they really need. I am running for President #MJ2020 You’re welcome America! I’ll see you at the polls pic.twitter.com/YmHbZjOIFR
— Mickie James~Aldis (@MickieJames) July 6, 2020
Clearly, the immediate frontrunner as she’s prettier than Trump, Biden, and Kanye, I think it’s time for yet another wrestler in the White House as we have not had one since Abraham Lincoln. Lincoln, as many of you may remember is best known for his flaming tables match with a young Frank Gotch. He also had a brutal steel cage match with George Hackenscmidt which went three hours and eighteen minutes as bouts tended to go long a couple of centuries back. I was the babysitting in row three center in the legendary photo shot of the bout shot by the omnipresent Bill Apter.
AEW fans have been titillated (I always liked that word) in recent weeks as Cody Rhodes, Dax Harwood and Cash Wheeler have been “subtly flashing” the Four Horsemen symbol. Rumors abound that AEW may be trying to bring an updated group for the 2020s. Considering Arn Anderson and Tully Blanchard appear on their TV I’m sure they could make this work. During a recent interview, Flair even gave his endorsement for the idea. Hey, mid pandemic this is as close to excitement as we’re going to get, so let’s hope for the best.
By the way, if I ever have kids, I’m going to name them Cash and Money. But if a doctor ever told me I had a “bad case of DAX” I’d be concerned.
Speaking of our rising pandemic, WWE workers have tested positive. You know, because having sweaty wrestlers breathing hard right on top of each other intrinsically makes sense in battling the virus. Among those who have come forward that have tested positive including Renee Young, Kayla Braxton, Adam Pearce, and Jamie Noble.
July 8th would have been the 79th birthday for “Gentleman” Jerry Valiant. Best known for being one-half of the WWWF tag team champions along with the late “Luscious” Johnny Valiant, he also had a lengthy main-event territories run as Guy “The Stomper” Mitchell. I was one of the promoters for the Valiant Brothers Reunion which reunited Jimmy, Johnny & Jerry who was doing the three-man thing well before the Freebirds. Unfortunately, with pro wrestling, much of what transpired before Hulkamania and Rock & Wrestling is often lost to history, so I am grateful that great sites like Gorilla Position and true historians like Jim Phillips keep the memories alive.
As I do not enjoy the antiseptic fan-free TV wrestling of today I’ve been catching up on a lot of post heel Piper era WWF house shows mid-late 80’s/the early 90s on YouTube. I had pretty much stopped attending their shows at that point as I was going to NWA shows in Philly every month. All I can say is it was a real mixed bag. Way too many “characters” catering to kids rather than meaningful feuds. Cards slapped together haphazardly. I zip through the cards picking and choosing the one or two or three matches I’ve never seen live or that look interesting.
Off the top of my head I have enjoyed:
Terry Funk vs. Mr. Wrestling II
Don Muraco vs. Greg Valentine
Piper (Face) vs. Orndorff
Bret Hart vs. Jim Brunzell
Heenan vs. SD Jones (and pretty much any time Heenan wrestled)
Orndorff-Hogan (“Mr. Wonderful” was really going strong around that time).
Little else registered. Most of it I skipped.
Titan Championship Wrestling returns to the Willis Jones Memorial First Aid Park in Ocean Gate NJ on Saturday, July 11th. Doors open at 4 pm, bell time is at 4:30 pm. All seats are $15 (bring your own chair).
Yours truly, along with West Coast-based indie heel manager Buddy Sotello, have started a unique show, Wrestling & Everything Coast to Coast, where we have hour-long interviews with unsung heroes of the wrestling industry. This week we interview Eric Adamz, wrestling’s greatest unsigned talent and co-host at Beyond Bushido Podcast, talks about wrestling around the world, being trained by Johnny Rodz, working with Robert Gibson and many legends. Plus wrestling in the year of Covid-19 and recent scandals rocking the business.
— Check out both 350 Days starring Bret Hart, Superstar Graham, and three dozen legends and Wrestling-Then & Now starring Killer Kowalski & Nikolai Volkoff both free on Amazon Prime. 350 Days also free on Tubi and Roku. You can check out the new 350 Days trailer here.
Speaking of Wrestling- Then & Now I am now offering grab bags of my long out of print newsletter packed with legends columns and interviews and exceedingly rare clips. $25 postpaid gets you 10 issues and a free surprise legends signed 8X10. Contact me for details.
That’ll about do it, folks. Catch you next week for Wrestling- Then & Now.
Evan Ginzburg is a contributor for The Gorilla Position. He was an Associate Producer on the movie The Wrestler and 350 Days starring Bret Hart and Superstar Billy Graham. He is a 30-year film, radio and TV veteran. Check out his Evan Ginzburg’s Old School Wrestling Memories page on Facebook. He can be reached on Twitter @evan_ginzburg or by e-mail at [email protected]
Be sure to visit ProWrestlingStories.com - "Your daily source of nostalgia and a peek behind the curtain wall of wrestling’s past!"
Want More? Choose a story!
Follow Pro Wrestling Stories: Twitter / Facebook / Instagram
|
cc/2021-04/en_middle_0045.json.gz/line1390
|
__label__cc
| 0.586759
| 0.413241
|
Photo: John Stillwell/PA Wire/APPhoto: John Stillwell/PA Wire/AP
The Way GCHQ Obliterated The Guardian’s Laptops May Have Revealed More Than It Intended
In its attempt to destroy information, GCHQ may not have realized it was creating other important information: exactly what it was doing and why.
Jenna McLaughlin
August 26 2015, 3:05 p.m.
In July 2013, GCHQ, Britain’s equivalent of the U.S. National Security Agency, forced journalists at the London headquarters of The Guardian to completely obliterate the memory of the computers on which they kept copies of top-secret documents provided to them by former NSA contractor and whistleblower Edward Snowden.
However, in its attempt to destroy information, GCHQ also revealed intriguing details about what it did and why.
Two technologists, Mustafa Al-Bassam and Richard Tynan, visited Guardian headquarters last year to examine the remnants of the devices. Al-Bassam is an ex-hacker who two years ago pleaded guilty to joining attacks on Sony, Nintendo, and other companies, and now studies computer science at King’s College; Tynan is a technologist at Privacy International with a PhD in computer science. The pair concluded, first, that GCHQ wanted The Guardian to completely destroy every possible bit of information the news outlet might retain; and second, that GCHQ’s instructions may have inadvertently revealed all the locations in your computer where information may be covertly stored.
Editors of The Guardian chose to destroy the files and the devices they lived on after the British government threatened to sue them and halt further reporting on the issue, including stories on how GCHQ utilized data collected by the NSA on communications from many major Internet companies.
Footage of Guardian editors physically destroying their MacBooks and USB drives, taken by Guardian executive Sheila Fitzsimons, wasn’t released until months later, in January 2014. The GCHQ agents who supervised the destruction of the devices also insisted on recording it all on their own iPhones.
The Guardian’s video reveals editors using angle-grinders, revolving drills, masks that GCHQ ordered them to buy, and a “degausser,” an expensive piece of equipment provided by GCHQ, which destroys magnetic fields and thereby erases data. The procedure eliminated practically every chip in the device, leaving almost no recognizable piece of machinery behind. The whole process lasted over three hours.
But while Paul Johnson, The Guardian’s deputy editor, chalked the exercise up to “purely a symbolic act” of power on the part of the British government — given that copies of the Snowden files still existed in New York — there may be more to it.
At a speech given at the Chaos Communication Camp technology conference a few weeks ago in Germany, Al-Bassam and Tynan explored the details surrounding GCHQ’s decisions about how to destroy the devices, and hypothesized about what the government’s intentions might have been beyond intimidation.
“Normally people just destroy the hard drive,” said Al-Bassam. But GCHQ took it several steps further. The spy agency instructed Guardian editors to destroy parts of multiple MacBook Airs’ track pad controllers, power controllers, keyboards, CPUs, inverting converters, USB drives, and more.
According to “Joint Services Publication 440,” a 2001 British government document released by WikiLeaks, the U.K. Ministry of Defense mandates total destruction of top-secret information in order to protect it from “FISs [foreign intelligence services], extremist groups, investigative journalists, and criminals.”
However, when Al-Bassam and Tynan sent an email asking the British government for the “HMG (Her Majesty’s Government) Information Assurance Note 5,” the government-wide document that contains the U.K.’s “sanitization” policies — i.e., the specific steps necessary to destroy top-secret data — the government denied their request. The sanitization policies of the other members of the so-called “Five Eyes” intelligence alliance — the U.S., New Zealand, Canada and Australia — are public, and appeared to have very similar requirements to the techniques used to destroy The Guardian’s computers.
But in allowing The Guardian’s editors to destroy the devices themselves, and hold onto the remaining shards of computer dust, the British government essentially revealed those policies — by making it possible for people like Al-Bassam and Tynan to analyze just why they might have destroyed each part in such a specific way.
What Al-Bassam and Tynan theorized was that the government may have targeted parts of the Apple devices that it “doesn’t trust”: pieces that can retain bits of electronic information even after the hard drive is obliterated.
The track pad controller, they said, can hold up to 2 megabits of memory. All the different “chips” in your computer — from the part that controls the device’s power to the chips in the keyboard — also have the capacity to store information, like passwords and keys to other data, which can be uploaded through firmware updates. According to the public documents from other members of Five Eyes, it is incredibly difficult to completely sanitize a device of all its content. New Zealand’s data deletion policies state that USB memory is only destroyed when the dust is just a few millimeters in length. “This wasn’t a random thing,” said Tynan, pointing to a slide displaying a photo of a completely destroyed pile of USB chip shards.
These hidden memory storage locations could theoretically be taken advantage of, Tynan and Al-Bassam said, by a computer’s owner, hackers, or even the government itself, either during its design phase or after the computer is purchased. The Russian cybersecurity firm Kaspersky Lab has presented evidence that an organization it calls “Equation Group,” which is reportedly linked to the NSA, has developed ways to “create an invisible, persistent area hidden inside [a computer’s] hard drive” that would be virtually undetectable by the computer’s owner. This area could be used “to save exfiltrated information which can be later retrieved by the attackers.”
Other technologists and computer experts agreed with Al-Bassam and Tynan that significant data could theoretically be stored on a computer’s various chips. “It’s actually possible to store quite a bit of data in a small space — look at Micro SD cards!” wrote Dan Kaminsky, a computer security specialist, in an e-mail to The Intercept. “But generally these other data stores are small. [They] can certainly store cryptographic keys pretty much anywhere though; those things are minuscule.”
Steve Burgess, a computer forensics and data recovery expert, echoed Kaminsky’s technical points: “Certainly data could be stored on any kind of flash memory or SSD (if there was one), or on the computer’s BIOS, and of course on the hard disk’s rotating media — and its own on-board flash storage.”
But in terms of GCHQ’s intentions, Kaminsky thinks the answer lies somewhere between a power play and protocol based on real concern on the part of the agency. “I think GCHQ was doing half theater and half genuine threat response here. The likelihood that The Guardian had anything hidden in the trackpad was low, but from GCHQ’s perspective they’d hide something in the trackpad so why wouldn’t anyone else?”
To Tynan and Al-Bassam, the methods GCHQ used revealed just how little control we have over our data, and how difficult it is to permanently delete it when necessary. When the pair asked various companies, including Dell and HP, how different parts of the devices are designed to store information and which chips “could potentially betray us,” none were willing to reveal any specifics publicly, they said. When a member of the audience asked Tynan what laptop he’d recommend for journalists and activists who rely on privacy and control of their data, he didn’t have an answer.
“From a privacy perspective, we need to empower users with knowledge about what their devices do,” Tynan concluded.
Correction: August 26, 2015
A previous version of the article stated that Kaspersky Lab “suspects” what it calls the Equation Group is “connected to the NSA.” While Kaspersky Lab reported earlier this year that “the Equation group has interacted with other powerful groups, such as the Stuxnet and Flame operators” (which in turn are reportedly projects of the United States and Israel), Kaspersky Lab emphasized in email to The Intercept that “we don’t have hard proof to attribute the Equation Group or speak of its origin.”
Jenna McLaughlin[email protected]theintercept.com@JennaMC_Laugh
Nigel K. Quinn, USA Citizen, Ex-Marine, Current Nurse
September 7 2015, 2:32 p.m.
I think more than anything this shows us that the respective governments dont want the people to know the truth behind what they do, what they have done, or what they plan to do. So the governments are opaque meanwhile democracy is supposed to function in a manner where we elect people to represent us and our wants and values up through the chain of command at which point whoever it may be, whether the executive or legislative branch, to carry out those wishes, so long as it does not infringe upon peoples rights and is in accord with the constitution of each respective country. So it seems to me that democracy does not exist in America any longer. The politicians are increasingly being recycled through government and private companies so that they can be elected based on donations, perform duties for those donors, rather than the people who elected them, then when their time is due they leave the government to become an employee of a company which pays them, personally, a lot of income so they can become one of the 1%. But not ever the %. Those people would never allow a silly millionaire to wield any real power. Then these puppets go back into government with their orders in mind and once again carry out the wishes of the corporation heads. We as voters have no power. Non-violent protests never work. Our own founding fathers said that for every generation there should be a revolution and we are simply not fulfilling our obligations by allowing this system of corporate-fed-governments to exist. We need to stop watching the news and start looking at all the traffic light cameras. The backs doors built into our PC’s and the complicity of companies to allow governments to not only spy and collect all our data, but to literally murder journalists who will expose them (RIP Michael Hastings). People in America need to stop watching TV news thinking that is the truth. The truth is whatever is left when you remove all the lies. So in my humble opinion we need to as a people assemble, armed, in great masses to the doors of our government and throw out each and ever politician and hit the reset button on the USA. We need a revised constitution making it illegal for companies to store our data or information without our consent, we need to get money out of politics and we need to elect people to represent our needs and wants. Stop making government a popularity contest. Its an evil spectacle. That is the only way to fix this problem because we already have a tyranny in the USA and basically the world. If we want change than we have to do it with our hands not our voices. This country wasn’t built by blogging about rumors of celebrities it was built on the blood of those who fought for true freedom and if we continue to do nothing than we have only ourselves to blame for the police state/surveillance state/thought crime states that we now live in. But we can change. The question is, who of us is brave enough to stand toe to toe and storm this generations Bastille.
Mess O Potamia Nigel K. Quinn, USA Citizen, Ex-Marine, Current Nurse
I like to look at the Google News sites for various countries. You can tell a lot by what you get on that front page. On the front page of the US version it’s often far more gossipy than other English versions — and each country has their own level of gossip, some are surprisingly quite low in gossipy things (unless it’s in a different section, not the top part).
Rome wasn’t built in a day. But many blogs are, and most people think that that qualifies as real work (and go apeshit if you criticize it, at that).
I don’t think ‘blood’ is what we need, though. What we need is more character and knowledge and to become informed citizens. Most though aren’t capable of becoming such, and thus is the crux of the dilemma; they want to be ruled and as long as it’s not TOO bad, they’ll put up with anything.
Hephaestus for the Rest of Us
Oh, for the Love of GOD, peepul…just wipe it with a CLOTH!!! If it’s good enough for Queen Hillary, it’s goddam good enough for you. Serf’s up, baby, grab yer Waterboard and hit th’ waves. Before the waves hit you! Ooops. Too late.
Trust. No. One.
Herbert Mulrooney Hephaestus for the Rest of Us
Always a difficult thing, trying to distinguish between information and disinformation in order to get to the truth. Trust no one probably goes both ways, but I guess nobody will know. I’ve never understood trust; it only seems to work for people who live in the fantasy world most people take as the ‘real world’, not realizing there’s a whole other world they don’t see.
I keep seeing every side toss theories about who’s doing what. It’s destructive. It’s even more destructive when our leaders feel the need to hide data from the watchers that are supposed to be their guardians, like Hillary and the bathroom email server, or the Senate getting spied on. It makes you wonder who doesn’t have dirt on everyone at this point — and makes one think the only real solution is to make dirt up on yourself and see where it shows up. I don’t think that worked well for Hillary, but I’ve never seen her as much of a tactician. First she was painted as a nutcracker, now she’s being painted as a ‘me-too’.
In the case of the Guardian’s computers, the only sane conclusion is that they were probably backdoored, likely at a hardware level. I doubt newsrooms are the most secure location in the world. I have no idea how or where the data was stored, but if I were GCHQ, I’m sure I’d find a way to get myself in there sometime after the initial burst and the final destruction, if only to find out what might be on there. But that’s a conspiracy theory, at best. I’m no genius.
Every story that comes out just looks like turtles all the way down, to me. At some point it just seems like a bad move to assume anything is unpervertable. Best to choose one’s perversions and keep the rest to oneself… let people believe what they want to believe?
Like with these servers, noone’s ever going to find out. The false story benefits both sides, I’d imagine.
Christian C Holmer Herbert Mulrooney
September 3 2015, 2:57 a.m.
Well you said it. You’re no genius.
And Yet Christian C Holmer
The funny thing is, there’s nothing there that isn’t true. Or do you know something the rest of us don’t and think things can’t get backdoored? I thought you were one of the people drilling up the paranoia a few months back about all this stuff?
I are confuse. I better go clean my computer with a Magic ShammyWow or whatever they’re called.
You’re all daft – it was obviously to stop the Russians stealing the data from The Guardian’s computers.
Mess O Potamia Peter
Don’t be absurd. It was clearly to stop oppressed countries’ citizens from getting information that might encourage them to throw off their yokes and protest in a meaningful way. Money.
Or it was the North Koreans. Or China. Or Anonymous, which has a habit of being indiscriminate for ‘lulz’ not realizing that when they do so they’re contributing to the very oppression they claim to oppose.
Notice signs of device failure once one engages in measures to avoid surveillance while challenging the status-quo narrative online.
Christian C Holmer Private
August 31 2015, 4:36 a.m.
Noticing…signs of device failure and impending device failure… another index card outlining an inexplicable tech anomoly (confirmed as unique or unseen before by three pairs of eyes) lands on the WTF “timeline” stack…
One reason for securing redundant insurance coverage (point of sale, manufacturer, extended third party etc) for all devices.
Current Focus: ASUS Routers, Sprint Gemalto cards, and ADT security
camera controller phantom
port settings changes. Baby.
A new development regarding Edward Snowden. He won’t be traveling to Oslo to pick up an award because, it turns out, the Obama Dept of Justice has been pressuring Scandinavian countries to arrest him if he ever shows up.
http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/aug/28/edward-snowden-fbi-norway-extradite-julian-assange
It may be difficult to destroy information; the person carrying it is another matter.
Snowden has been invited to Norway next week to receive the Bjørnson Prize from the Norwegian Academy of Literature and Freedom of Expression, but he decided not to travel because he could not receive guarantees from the Norwegian government that he would not be extradited, the academy told NRK. — story
Ricardo Camilo López coram nobis
Obama Dept of Justice has been pressuring Scandinavian countries to arrest him if he ever shows up
I think the Swiss may offer him asylum even though if I were him I would stay put. Trying to make friends again with USG is totally irrational, does he have a sense of what he did? He morally debased the world’sonlysuperpower! They will never forget that!
Matthew 10:28: “Do not be afraid of those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul”.
You should still, however, be cautious of them since you need a body to carry the soul and, with it, the exemplary spirit of your deeds though your existence
Ricardo Camilo López Ricardo Camilo López
merely through your existence
coram nobis Ricardo Camilo López
To get to Switzerland, Snowden or Assange would have to fly over territory held by Germany or other countries and with a considerable US military presence. Aircraft can be forced down, as the President of Bolivia found when Snowden first surfaced in Moscow.
tombrowns' schooleddaze' coram nobis
http://www.theguardian.com/media/2015/aug/29/julian-assange-told-edward-snowdon-not-seek-asylum-in-latin-america
Julian Assange has said he advised the NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden against seeking asylum in Latin America because he could have been kidnapped and possibly killed there.
The WikiLeaks editor-in-chief said he told Snowden to ignore concerns about the “negative PR consequences” of sheltering in Russia because it was one of the few places in the world where the CIA’s influence did not reach.
In a wide-ranging interview with the Times, Assange also said he feared he would be assassinated if he was ever able to leave the Ecuadorian embassy in London, where he sought asylum in 2012 to avoid extradition.
Christian C Holmer Ricardo Camilo López
Or perhaps in some cases the ALMOST entirely exemplary spirit of your deeds through existence.
I have a few keyboards laying around…I should switch up on them? Why not? If they can update firmware and store your key logging? On your keyboard? Wow! And the other chips on your motherboard that can store data on you? We’re so screwed beyond any privacy. All the encrpytion in the World can’t stop these nosy idiots!
Ricardo Camilo López Heyman
All the encrpytion in the World can’t stop these nosy idiots!
True, but we can still do a lot to keep them off. In fact, i do believe we can regain our privacy
curious Ricardo Camilo López
Mr. Lopez states – “I do believe we can regain our privacy”.
Please tell us why you believe that, and your suggestions on how to go about doing it.
Blah curious
September 5 2015, 11:11 p.m.
(1) Watch the movie ‘Blast from the Past’ for exciting ideas on living underground.
(2) Build a big ol’ fallout shelter, making sure to have plenty of hydroponics and supplies.
(3) Wait a year or three.
Just joking. I hope.
Too dark?
Excellent work, Jenna. Re ” the U.K. Ministry of Defense mandates total destruction of top-secret information in order to protect it from investigative journalists, and criminals,”how is the public to be protected against data theft, industrial espionage and extortion by members of the intelligence-gathering community with criminal intent?
EMFattacks
Alright so NSA who can read human minds using EMF Waves need to destroy chipsets to destroy data when they can basically kill off a journalist by giving him heart attack or organ failure after figuring out his EMF frequency of mind?The Remote Nueral Monitering ensures NSA can hack human minds and kill,torture whoever they like.Only isse NSA faces is when they get probelm with some supernatural beings who know how to use natural human EMF frequency shields to fight back. Generally NSA loves taking away kids of those who know too much about natural EMF for MKULTRA experiments to improve RNM, which is kind of expected because that is NSA job.If you read black magic, the whole concept is using own EMF frequency to damage other person EMF. Prayers is again EMF. Journalists across the globe know well you can’t cross NSA path or ask whistle blowers who complain of organ pains,heart pain,heart beat problems because NSA used EMF to hack human mind areas to delivery EMF waves of torture while claiming NSA is using “black magic”.I am sure Intercept got a document on this but they can’t release the “good” stuff? Human mind is an electronic computer with different chips in it and NSA has been testing on kids since 1960’s to hack human minds.In my case, NSA when used EMF torture they claimed that they are “anti-christ” and “use witchcraft” which is not false because origin of this program is from Voodoo and satanic works but in reality they do it so you don’t understand 8 band frequency jammers and protective shielding and binueral beats can stop NSA from torturing you.
keller EMFattacks
August 28 2015, 11:57 a.m.
Black magic, white magic and transcendental magic… or karma?
Finally it is all in your mind!
So clean your cache regularly – meditation works better :-)
RNM keller
When NSA trolls attack, they always call opposite side NSA propaganda army. Nothing new.
http://www.greatdreams.com/RNM.htm
You know at end of day, all of you NSA trolls will answer to God to what you are doing. in 1960’s no one believed US government can do human experimentation?Still no one believe JFK was killed by mind controlled slave whose memory was wiped clean. In 2015, its very visible that RNM is in action. Plus, don’t stress out, the more truth anyone speak, more hurt NSA gets.
Derpaderp EMFattacks
Dude… seriously… have you ever considered meditation? Counseling? Getting some form of help? Or is this another one of those times where you and your buddies just want to run down the forums by trying to twist ‘reality’ and ‘crazy’ in peoples’ minds again and stirring up the people here who are already confused enough without your ‘influence’? Always gotta fight it, eh? Keep things self-sustaining while you go have your weekend off? Boring, boring, boring, yawn.
Anyway, if you want to get all historically accurate, AFAIK you’d be wanting to look into the companies that DARPA provided funding to in the 60s and 70s. DOD ain’t NSA. And I’m sure they’d be fascinated to hear ALL ABOUT how great their tech is, given their pitiful record at trying to get remote viewing off the ground. Them Rhine decks didn’t turn out so well either, but I bet that cost them less to figure out.
Legba would be disappointed to hear that you think he’s abusing you.
Christian C Holmer EMFattacks
Sounds like Monas Quaker Friend Non-Anon
From the Jeh Jhonson piece a ways back…
PanoptikonicallyKool
the panopticon will allow encryption, and we will be told to trust it, but the panopticon has the resources to see, no matter what we do; and even if encryption DOES work, to some extent, we will never really trust it, thus we change our behavior, which is the point of the panopticon. how does it feel to be Panoptikonically Kool?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=12gLKggzj9g
So it’s safe to assume that they can look at me knocking one out if my computer camera’s on… great… good to know… will definitely either be covering everything or practicing my absolutely most hysterical busting a nut face.
In the United States my electronic communications are tampered with on a daily basis. For over 10 years I have notified the U.S. Department of Justice, members of Congress, federal and state attorneys general and even IG’s.
That’s in a nation with a U.S. Constitution that makes it illegal. We can’t judge any other nation.
Mike Sulzer
August 27 2015, 12:33 p.m.
Crap! Can we have some respect for easily verified technical details.? A degausser is not an expensive or unusual device, and it does not destroy magnetic fields. A typical degausser creates a strong time varying magnetic field to destroy the alignment of magnetic domains in a magnetic material. The information in a magnetic storage device is contained in the pattern formed by the alignment of these domains. The degausser flips the domains back and forth, leaving them in a state that contains little or no useful information.
Ricardo Camilo López Mike Sulzer
not entirely due to
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hysteresis
HonourableMember
HonourableMember [1508270601] ….. outing more than just one huge problem with a short comment on http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/picture/2015/aug/26/steve-bell-chilcot-inquiry-iraq-war-report-cartoon
This is/Is this what Chilcot is revealing/has revealed?! ……. Western Democracy Is An Endangered Species On Its Way To Extinction
And yes, that is a rhetorical question and valid inconvenient statement which is too true to ever be dismissed as nonsense.
Interesting times and spaces ahead, mes amis, with smarter events than ever thought possible and probable, virtually leading remotely and relatively anonymously.
tombrowns' schooleddaze'
There is another story to this happening.
GCHQ could, as td says, just taken them.
The song and dance that ensued was for the benefit of the punters, the public.
The Guardian and I mean Rusbridger ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Rusbridger ) was a player with them and he did his patriotic service.
Wrong parts shown in photos, wrong hard drives shown in videos and Rusbridger describes the process as if he were there and not in New York at the time.
Suss as all shit.
Follow the sequence of events, the Guardian played their part.
If the devices were to be destroyed, surely it would have been easier just for GCHQ to confiscate them?
I think the NSA and GCHQ are first graders in the school where the principal is a Chinese. No wonder those yellow geniuses hack into any server they whimsically choose to slant their peek into, helped no doubt by the fact that most of the stuff is what they produce. Donald Trump is the only person who has realized our folly of oursourcing all electronic manufacturing to them, and after he becomes president he will send the NSA director to Beijing to get properly trained in Spi Chi.
Christian C Holmer
We’re a nation of laws not men and women. It is our collective responsibility to each other as citizens to make every effort to create the necessary conditions to enforce existing laws. That ship has not sailed at all people. Pointing to the pre-snowden pre-standing failures of legal efforts to enforce existing law is a gutless dodge unworthy of First Look her readership or our brave whistleblowers.
At a site like this every attorney should be working toward that end. Filing criminal charges against the perps on behalf if anyone snd everyone. Anybody with a clue knows every Intercept regular is targeted as a potential trouble maker just like
every Wikileaks user or supporter is part of an open ended Five (5) year grand
jury investigation. ..
Whats more is it is First Look discussion board legal eagles that should be leading the charge in identifying seeking out and confirming (FOIAing) ongoing criminal constitutional violations against its journalists, administrative staff AND ITS READERS as each one is deserving of remedy and relief. Most of us have given to Snowden Manning Assange etc so there is no doubt a “material support” aspect in play as well.
First Look and the Intercept should be submitting public records requests requesting public records requests from every IC and LEO entity or related private contractor that MIGHT play a role in breaking laws that already criminalize violating the constitutional rights of the Intercepts managerial staff and activist journalists AND the collective constitutional rights of their readership (us).
You guys need a Ryan Schapiro or a Jason Leopold to be running an FOIA public records mosaic on behalf of every Intercept journalist or staff member AND every clearly identified (real names) intercept reader brave enough to participate.
Too often at this site folks with the legal training to know better stop well short of encouraging filing criminal charges against known perps individually or collectively.
Socrates is a criminal for aiding and abetting an unconstitutional regime. Everyone here understands jtrig tactics designed to destroy peoples lives are deployed against environmental activists govt transparecy advocates human rights activist throughout the United States. For those of you with less well documented cases (in other words not me) the Intercepts needs to take a more active role in seeking to ENFORCE EXISTING LAW by pre-emptively (via legal actions and public records requests) protecting the constitutional rights of your staff and readershi on an ongoing basis. Think of it as entrapping the entrappers.
No flying saucers. No aliens. Just Pierre and Company stepping up to Criminally prosecute thise responsible for violating the constitutional rights of a bunch of ordinary First Look staff and First Look readers. Those readers with the temerity to prefer their news on mass surveillance to be based on that ever increasing stack of top secret givernment documents finding their way slowly but surely into every court in the land.
Stop pussyfooting around and take it to them.
TITLE 18 – CRIMES AND CRIMINAL PROCEDURE
PART I – CRIMES
CHAPTER 13 – CIVIL RIGHTS
§ 241. Conspiracy against rights
If two or more persons conspire to injure, oppress, threaten, or intimidate any inhabitant of any State, Territory, or District in the free exercise or enjoyment of any right or privilege secured to him by the Constitution or laws of the United States, or because of his having so exercised the same; or
If two or more persons go in disguise on the highway, or on the premises of another, with intent to prevent or hinder his free exercise or enjoyment of any right or privilege so secured –
They shall be fined not more than $10,000 or imprisoned not more than ten years, or both; and if death results, they shall be subject to imprisonment for any term of years or for life.
§ 242. Deprivation of rights under color of law
Whoever, under color of any law, statute, ordinance, regulation, or custom, willfully subjects any inhabitant of any State, Territory, or District to the deprivation of any rights, privileges, or immunities secured or protected by the Constitution or laws of the United States, or to different punishments, pains, or penalties, on account of such inhabitant being an alien, or by reason of his color, or race, than are prescribed for the punishment of citizens, shall be fined not more than $1,000 or imprisoned not more than one year, or both; and if bodily injury results shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than ten years, or both; and if death results shall be subject to imprisonment for any term of years or for life.
Nick P
The targets would be obvious if you asked a simple question: “Can the software communicate with it? Can it store data? Can it process data?” Anything that’s a yes is a potential point of attack or point of covert storage. Always has been. This event tells real, security engineers nothing new except that GCHQ knows this and will destroy any chips visible. We suspected this, of course, so any critical data is stored in *removable* storage.
All lessons to remember for anyone that didn’t know. Will help when you’re looking for attack surface in a system that should resist or slow nation states.
Bill Stewart in San Francisco
There are two obvious reasons.
– The more likely is simply that they were being mean and vicious for the sake of being mean and vicious.
– It’s possible that they or one of their partners in the intelligence community had black-bagged the Guardian’s computers, hiding bugs in keyboards or other hardware, and wanted to make sure that they covered it up so the Guardian couldn’t find out.
I think the latter is more paranoid, but we do know that GCHQ and others were out to get them. The latter certainly doesn’t preclude the former.
Thanks Jenna,
Firmware present in almost every component part. Unique EMF signatures for every component part separately and collectively. A truly elegant First Look…
Peter Ford
> what laptop he’d recommend for journalists and activists who rely
> on privacy and control of their data, he didn’t have an answer.
I think the Purism Librem laptops are a move in the right direction.
GCHQ and the rest of ‘five eyes’ can go to hell.
toidiY sselesU
I readily admit to being what I declare myself to be and am thankful for this article; but, all the same, as it seems to me, we rather badly need some prehistory here — viz., how did Snowden’s data get into those Guardian computers in the first place? Did The Guardian’s Ewan MacAskell return from Hong Kong with a computer of Snowden’s, and/or with (a) memory stick(s) handed him by Snowden — and/or by Poitras and/or by Greenwald — and transfer that to the computers then destroyed by the GCHQ? Alternatively, did EM fly to Hong Kong with a PC (plus memory sticks?) of his very own, and there load it (or these) up with Snowden data? If so, was EM’s personal computer one of those destroyed by GCHQ; and, if not, did the GCHQ demand access to and/or possession of that private PC, too? Come to that, can we confidently assume that, in the absence of any cry of “Eureka!” from the GCHQ (and NSA) these past two years, they have failed miserably in decrypting the electronic data which they pirated @ LHR @ UK from David Miranda, and we are therefore entitled to award ourselves some Schadenfreude? Won’t GG please consider giving us all an update on the Miranda/Greenwald lawsuit pending against the UK govt.?
24b4Jeff
First, at typo: it’s the Chaos Computer Club (www.ccc.de). Second, I guess this only shows the high anal retentiveness of the GCHQ. Confiscating the hard drives would have done the job and, as Benito points out below, given the thugs at least a partial inventory of the Snowden document store. It is pretty clear from the subsequent articles that they are still relatively clueless in that regard, viz the hilarity of successive lies by Obama, Cameron and their ilk that are promptly followed by articles revealing their deception.
Of course the alternative hypothesis is that GCHQ and NSA did recover the list of documents, but Obama and Cameron are too stupid to anticipate the consequences of their continued lying. Hmmmmm, I think I like that alternative better.
TorontoMike
Serious question: how expensive is a vat of Hydrofluoric acid?
I did a quick check on Alibaba and you can get a metric ton of the stuff for 1-2 thousand dollars.
Mike T TorontoMike
Just a word of warning — hydrofluoric acid is really nasty stuff that shouldn’t be handled without stringent safety precautions. You don’t want to get even a drop of it on you.
TorontoMike Mike T
I obviously wasn’t interested in purchasing any.
My question was, why wouldn’t they just dissolve the laptops in acid? Seems like it would be pretty easy to do. Not in-field, but at one of their facilities.
SugarMan
It would be good if the included youtube video was in English (https://media.ccc.de/browse/conferences/camp2015/camp2015-6799-how_to_destroy_a_laptop_with_top_secrets.html#video&t=1) rather than the German version.
PietjePuk SugarMan
And the Youtube URL for that would be:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2vv6OfjpU1E
Well written article (sad that a machine which we can control and doesn’t control us doesn’t exist yet)
There is a real danger if any nation’s government can attack the free press when it is “contrary” to that nation’s official rulebook advertised for both citizens and government to follow.
That is the basis for civilized society: written laws for citizens to comply with and an independent judiciary to “referee” that written rulebook. In this country, it would be akin to the FBI punishing Martin Luther King, Jr not for violating the written laws but punishing citizens for complying with the written laws – very barbaric!
Once we abandon the constitutional “rule of law” we become more like banana republics that use “rule of man” models of government – which creates chaos amongst the citizenry since law abiding citizens are punished and law breakers are rewarded.
24b4Jeff Ross
It is a mistake to assume that the press enjoys the same protections in the UK as it does in constitutional republics like Germany and the US. There is no British constitution, believe it or not, and it has been a longstanding practice of the British government to attack the press when they are felt to be out of bounds. I leave it to others to compare the scope of the US Espionage Act with the UK Official Secrets Act; my impression is that the latter has far broader scope.
Ross 24b4Jeff
Good points! Both the U.S. and other nations did sign onto the binding U.N. Convention Against Torture supported by Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher. Most civilized nations also supported the Geneva Conventions and supported the “Nuremberg Defense” legal precedent from World War Two (“following orders” is not a legal shield for order-takers involved in war crimes).
These are “binding” international agreements that mandates all signatories agree to investigate and prosecute torturers within their borders. Ronald Reagan also thought any cruel & unusual punishment should be included also.
Senator Patrick Leahy tried to give alleged war criminals an option of little or no prison time if they created a “Truth Commission” – essentially tell the whole truth and there is little to no punishment, lie about and you go to orison for perjury. Victims of these government abuses would e compensated for punitive damages and receive official apologies for Cheney & friends.
War crime proponents essentially told Leahy to go “F—” himself. If that’s the path they choose – why not criminally indict and prosecute them? Cheney admitted to it on national television and is opposed to a Truth Commission.
Christian C Holmer Ross
We’re a nation of laws not men and women. It is our collective responsibility to each other as citizens to create the necessary conditions to enforce existing laws. That ship has not sailed at all people. Pointing to the pre-snowden pre-standing failures of legal efforts to enforce existing law is a gutless dodge unworthy of First Look and her readership.
At a site like this every attorney should be toward that end. Anybody with a clue knows every Intercept regular is targeted as a potential trouble maker just like
Whats more is it is First Look discussion board legal eagles that should be leading the charge in identifying seeking out and confirming (FOIAing) the criminal ongoing constitutional violations against its journalists, administrative staff and regular passive and active users each one deserving of remedy and relief. Most of us have given to Snowden Manning Assange etc so there is no doubt a “material support” aspect in play as well.
First Look and the Intercept should be submitting public records requests requesting public records requests from every IC and LEO entity or related private contractor that MIGHT play a role in breaking laws that already criminalize violating the constitutional rights of the Intercepts managerial staff and activist journalists AND the collective rights of their readership. TI should be lookin out for their readership of informed citizens. Those with the temerity to prefer the fact based adversarial journalism represented by First Look to its alternative.
Socrates is a criminal for aiding and abetting an uncostitutional regime. Everyone here understands jtrig tactics designed to destroy peoples lives are deployed against environmental activists govt transparecy advocates human rights activist throughout the United States. For those of us with less well documented cases (in other words not me) the Intercepts needs to take a more active role in seeking to ENFORCE EXISTING LAWS by pre-emptively (via legal actions and public records requests) protect your staff and readerships constitutional rights on an ongoing basis.
No flying saucers. No aliens. Just watching out for protecting the constitutional rights of a bunch of ordinary intercept staff and readers. Those with the temerity to prefer their news on mass surveillance to be based on that ever increasing stack of top secret documents finding their way slowly but surely into every court in the land.
Stop pussyfooting around and take it to them
abbadabba
Angle grinders, unite!!
That’s curious, since they may also have been attempting to destroy any evidence of their having toyed with those devices before hand, too. Perverts.
I still do not understand why we are not concerned that David Cameron’s email in a criminal suspect’s BlackBerry which spent a month in police custody under complaints of hacking and corruption was returned to her lawyers with his email content compressed as if it was a Tempora metadata file. No content.
We only knew this occurred because someone in Britain requested the court question the BB’s owner, who used a secret server much like Hillary’s which she had wiped against court oders, to explain this. She had no idea how it became “compressed,” and no one in Britain could come up with an answer, not even BlackBerry, until Snowden’s leaks came through loud and clear.
She said the email was “compressed,” which is the language GCHQ used to brag to NSA that they’d cracked the BB’s compression technology in that very quarter.
Are we ever gonna address this perversion of justice, because if not, I’m taking my talents to SONY.
blueba
To me this is even more convincing evidence that the internet has become this grotesque monster where nothing is protected and nothing is safe. With millions of tech savvy (enough) people out there any one of them with a petty grudge or adolescent morality can and might do great harm to me or anyone because there is no way to stop them.
And NSA/GCHQ are vulnerable too if some of the most sophisticated tech companies in the world can be hacked (see Hacking Team) what chance is there for regular people? – NONE!
Enter anything into a computer connected to the internet and it becomes public information there for anyone to take. The hardware we buy is already outfitted for spying and the number of people with the skills to hack is growing constantly.
The internet is now this out of control monster working more against us than for us – no matter who we are.
Ricardo Camilo López blueba
The hardware we buy is already outfitted for spying
and so is the software bought or not. Socially spying on people in various ways has become a commodity thanks to the Internet
Privacy became the Santa of Adulthood a long time ago thanks to the Internet technically but also because we let it be that way
Excellent article, Jenna.
The GCHQ wouldn’t be interested in where the Guardian might be hiding data, since it was already known to have been copied to computers in New York and potentially other places as well. So perhaps the GCHQ was simply following standard protocol for wiping a computer.
But if we’re speculating, it’s possible the GCHQ was destroying the evidence that it had successfully hacked the computers. Even if they were air gapped, the GCHQ no doubt has agents at the Guardian who could have found a way to insert the hacking software. In that case, the iPhones might not have been for taking pictures, but to remotely download all the data from the pwned hard drive and then the GCHQ destroyed all of the chips where various pieces of its hacking software were tucked away.
The GCHQ would have been extremely interested to know what files Snowden had taken. So there is no way they would destroy the data unless they themselves already had a copy. They could probably, under English law, have simply confiscated the computers under the pretext of national security. But then everyone would know they had a copy of the files. So they perhaps preferred to use a more covert approach – spies never walk in through the front door if they can use a secret passage instead.
Karl Benito Mussolini
This is a keenly astute perspective.
abbadabba Karl
Benito can imagine duplicity in every loop, mobious. But there are so many more angles to corrupt. FCPA got this partly started. Murdoch freaked he was gonna get made as King Hack with a 2 billion dollar cashback so he killed his favorite and blew EVERYONE’s covers, even Q’s. That’s my story and I’m sticking it to him.
Torturestan Benito Mussolini
If GCHQ embeds spies in the BBC, and they do, GCHQ would not neglect IT departments of any and all other sizable media organizations in the UK, since none of them could possibly be as loyal as the Queen’s own Ministry of Information.
The theory this was more than a panicky, frustration triggered clowning op is plausible. CYA does take priority over everything else in all Stasi organizations.
Carol Anne Ogdin
This reads like a story about a comedy skit, directed by people without a sense of humor. The unfounded worries about how “chips” might “retain data” exposes an awesome level of ignorance of the basic physical forces at work. This entire “Guardian” exercise was solely and exclusively GCHQ’s attempt to intimidate the citizenry with outlandish claims. And, by the way, a “degausser” doesn’t “destroy magnetic fields.” It PRODUCES magnetic fields that corrupts the fine, magnetic details holding the bits of data within a magnetic medium like a disk drive, effectively destroying the patterns by replacing them with random values, or destroying the magnetic “tracks” that guide the reading process. All theater, signifying nothing except the intelligence community’s lack of native intelligence.
Torturestan Carol Anne Ogdin
What is the smallest, lightest degaussing device available? Do you know?
(I’ll check to see if the Stasi’s product catalog includes degaussers.)
jim Torturestan
The cheapest degausser would be a small fire. Place those Macs in a small fire and they won’t remember anything.
PietjePuk Carol Anne Ogdin
“The unfounded worries about how “chips” might “retain data” exposes an awesome level of ignorance of the basic physical forces at work.”
Except they’re not unfounded.
You can find a video on youtube (likely more then one) about how to get the data out of the RAM chips after you’ve shutdown your laptop. I think it was on DefCon.
The data in the RAM chips decays over time (which you can slow down by cooling it) but if you get access to the RAM before that has happened, you can retrieve the data that is/was on it.
It falls in the expert level (hardware) hacking, so not a lot of ppl in the world can do that. But it can be done and thus is not unfounded.
24b4Jeff PietjePuk
Carol Anne is correct: not only do the various chips retain miniscule amounts of data, but they are very difficult to program. Think about the consequences of overwriting the software of the trackpad controller with 2 MB of “secret” data: the track pad will stop working. Aside from main memory almost all the memory contained on a computer motherboard is either volatile (like RAM) or is dedicated to the function of various devices such as displays, mice, disk drives, DVD ROMS, and so forth. Overwriting that memory comes at the price of making the computer disfunctional.
As far as recovering the contents of RAM, you are right, technically, but the time the data remains viable is on the order of seconds, and after a couple minutes at room temperature the device is essentially blank. Also, what can be recovered, even after say 30 seconds, consists of fragments, so what is recoverable even after that amount of time is probably useless except for forensic purposes. (By that I mean being able to prove that classified material was in fact stored there.)
PietjePuk 24b4Jeff
I interpreted the part I quoted of Carol Anne’s post as meaning that chips/RAM do NOT retain data, to which I disagreed.
I never said it was easy or that you’d have plenty of time to do it.
I only said that it was possible.
“As far as recovering the contents of RAM, you are right”
Thanks for confirming my point ;-)
I found the DefCon talk and linked directly to the part of the cold-boot attack: https://youtu.be/EFsoCr589GI?t=10m35s
In that talk there is a reference to a paper which Jacob Appelbaum talked about on Debconf8, which you can see here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O_QA4vCJr40
Ricardo Camilo López Carol Anne Ogdin
This entire “Guardian” exercise was solely and exclusively GCHQ’s attempt to intimidate the citizenry with outlandish claims.
I have always thought so as well. I never understood why they did guardian people destroy them and why did they participate. They could have done it themselves. Police does that as a way to make people self discipline themselves, acquiesce to their being ruled in the future, “behave”.
This is their way to let us know: “we are the rulers”
“I think GCHQ was doing half theater and half genuine threat response”
they think so too
Torturestan
A question for anyone knowledgeable about degaussing technology…
How small can degausser hardware be? Does the Stasi have portable units that fit in smart phone sized containers?
JV Torturestan
A degauser is just a magnet with a coil around it so can be any size. A tape deck head for example could be used as a degausser and is if you use it to wipe a tape. However a degausser with enough oomph to get through a metal harddrive and at the platters is usually a foot by 9′ x 9″ or so it can very by design. They are very heavy and eat a lot of power.
24b4Jeff JV
The smallest degausser that can be used on a hard drive is just the magnet that the hard drive uses to write data. Disassemble a hard drive by removing the magnet. Then place the magnet in contact with the media surface to be erased. Done. I’ve personally verified that this works for floppy drives, for instance.
The size of the degausser depends on a number of factors, including the size of the device to be degaussed and the distance of the degausser from the device being degaussed. The largest degaussers have an inner diameter somewhat larger than the diameter of a submarine; various navies degauss their subs to make them less easily detectable by magnetic anamoly detectors (MAD).
Gy?rgy 24b4Jeff
Correct me if I’m wrong, but the coercivity of floppy drives is notoriously low, far lower than that of a modern HDD plate.
With HDDs you’re far more likely to damage the heads during disassembly or mess with the contents of the chips that house the firmware and stuff than to actually destroy the data on the plates. The magnets sit quite close to them during the whole of the device’s lifetime, after all.
24b4Jeff Gy?rgy
True regarding coerecivity and damage during disassembly. My point was that one can effectively erase magnetic media simply by bringing a sufficiently strong magnet into direct contact with it. As you know, the magnet-HDD geometry under normal conditions constitutes a near field geometry, but even so, bringing the magnet into direct contact is sufficient to bring the domains into alignment with the field.
Let me also say that the standard for erasure depends on what one’s standards are. Making a document as a whole unreadable is much easier than making each and every word in the document unreadable. I suppose the intelligence agencies would worry that a name of some agent might remain readable even though the document as a whole was rendered incomprehensible, and hence they feel the need to take extraordinary measures to destroy the media.
Torturestan JV
Thanks. I am wanting to know how large a degausser would need to be to have the capacity to corrupt laptop hard drives in crowded, public areas.
stalked562 Torturestan
I’ve noticed STASI love their phones in public!
Torturestan stalked562
Yes, they are always attached to their controllers. Others have to think for them. They would be lost, and possibly more vulnerable to annoyed targets without techincal support during stalking and skit sessions.
I have been wondering if the gadget waving habits I have recently witnessed among some of my Zerstezung teams are something more than theatre, which is why I am asking about portable, wavable degaussing devices.
Yes more!
And yes more than just a PSYOP!
FBI / COINTELPRO are murderous Bastards!
Yes… more soapbox time until I’m banned a second time.
Zersetzung’s goal is social death of the target, up to murder, accompanied by mirth, popcorn, and a long suck on the public teat. It is executed in ways indoctrinated Americans refuse to acknowledge because they live in a free country where things like this just don’t happen. More zealous patriots overtly approve of American on US Person torture, rationalizing it with “they do it over there” whataboutery. I speculate active-duty torturers are probably the most vociferous Zersetzung deniers. And as many regular TI comment readers know — including Stasi sock-puppets — a surfeit of unhinged Zersetzung denials with companion crazy talk from decoy targets can be found in TI discussion threads containing targets’ posts about their experiences.
But I reserve much of my contempt, nursed by too many years of no-touch and a dash of touch torture, for the ass-wipes who call themselves US Citizens. The Voter. The Complicit. Zersetzung cannot happen without their consent and active participation. This was true in the GDR and it is true in the US.
Yes, the Stasi are murderous bastards, and so are millions of patriots who support them. The “I’m scared. Thanks for keeping me safe by torturing those people I do not want to know anything about” crowd. They approve of torture and deny it happens at the same time. Creepy, stupid, vicious and contemptible.
soillodge Torturestan
The NSA has hand held degausser “wands”. They can fit in your pocket. They do not even have to hide it, because most people would not know what it is in the first place. I am sure all the alphabet agencies use these kinds of devices.
They are not directional though, they just manipulate magnetic fields. it is not like someone can just point it at you and destroy your laptop/tablet. That would be more like an electro magnetic pulse device.
Torturestan soillodge
I watched a man plug a rubber armored smartphone shaped device into an outlet next to my chair and place the gadget on the floor, right next to my laptop/briefcase. When I returned home and turned it on the disk boot sector was “gone”.
It could have been the cheap — but new — crappy hardware. I do not know. But after this incident I noticed my active-duty Stasi Rodents had a new habit: waving their phone-things at me instead of just pointing them at me. One of them waved their gadget at another machine, wrapped in several layers of tinfoil, and there was no apparent damage.
Cheap hardware? Skits? Both? Or Stasi angst as they watched me set up disk encryption on an air gapped machine being used exclusively for dumping experiences into a book about their torture techniques? I haven’t got clue, but I want my IPSec placebo. Fuck, I had to pay through the nose for the priviledge of being tortured and I should not have to pay extra just to write about it.
This is an excellent article that emphasizes how the “free market”, as is all too common nowadays, fails to deliver any tangible example of a product people want: open source computers, designed for privacy from the bottom up, that the world can freely scrutinize.
I apologize for an off-topic question: Windows 10 has a “Wi-Fi Sense” system, enabled by default, that as far as I understand is snarfing up the unique identification codes of any Wi-Fi device it can communicate with and uploads them to Microsoft, together with its own location information. Can someone confirm whether this means, essentially, that any device you might have with a ‘local’ Wi-Fi connection capability is now going to be trackable at Microsoft by GPS wherever it goes that is within reach of any Windows 10 system? How serious is this issue?
RayMD Wnt
Rather than imposing on the citizenry the requirement that they be embedded with geo location and identification, tracking and monitoring devices… the NSA and private industry was engaged to “solve” the problem of human management, civilian monitoring and control.
The solution, of course, was a completely voluntary, willful adoption of a commercial product, that… bonus… pays for itself!
You guessed it: cellphones.
Gotta have ’em, right?
Wnt RayMD
Well, the thing is, it’s not just the person with the cellphone in this case. I mean, suppose some guy is living in a shack in Montana and he sets up a router to connect his few electronic devices. Living off the grid on solar power, no internet connection, he thinks he’s off the grid, and even if the router (like all of them seem to now) come with wireless built in, he imagines at least his privacy isn’t being infringed because it’s short range. Well, if one lost motorist drives up his driveway and asks him which way to Burning Man, who is carrying a phone with Windows 10 and GPS, now Microsoft has – AFAIK – a record of exactly where the router with that serial number is. And if the guy in the shack has distributed some naughty revolutionary documents over flash drive, that had hidden records of the numbers built in to them somehow, now someone can connect the one with the other.
I feel like the scenarios I picture are individually unlikely, but I’m thinking there’s some very common exemplar that I haven’t thought of yet.
Ricardo Camilo López Wnt
Well, if one lost motorist drives up his driveway and asks him which way to Burning Man, who is carrying a phone with Windows 10 and GPS, now Microsoft has – AFAIK – a record of exactly where the router with that serial number is.
“Living in a shack” is not enough. It must be a shack framed in a Faraday cage. Which you could even do in an apartment.
// __ Sleep Inside A Faraday Cage
youtube.com/watch?v=P4UdozjyLlA&t=165
Also you could take networking totally off the Linux kernel into user space and not ever use that computer to connect to the Internet …
There are still ways to have some privacy in not such a difficult way
Charlie the Tuna Ricardo Camilo López
That’s disingenuous from every angle. Faraday doesn’t stop signals from transmitting — it only prevents signals from getting OUTSIDE. But if someone were to have bugged your equipment, they could merely just do transmission and storage locally within said cage, then just retrieve it when you go out to do your groceries or your errands (as people generally do) — basically, pretty much like any old-school tap before wireless came around, without even having to worry about inductance or battery life (both are, by far, technologically superiour to their predecessors).
|
cc/2021-04/en_middle_0045.json.gz/line1393
|
__label__wiki
| 0.540483
| 0.540483
|
2021 Diversity Leader Awards
Now Accepting Applications for the
Profiles in Diversity Journal presents its annual Diversity Leader Award to organizations that are advancing the evolution of diversity and inclusion, and the Diversity Officers who help them achieve that goal.
Companies that are Diversity Leaders continually use the expertise of their diversity teams in new ways to help them meet the challenges of today’s business environment. In these organizations, the work of the diversity officer is regarded not as a series of programs, but as a strategy for change.
For more than two decades, Profiles in Diversity Journal has been in the business of recognizing the exciting and ambitious people, initiatives, and programs that support the success of diverse workforces across the country and around the world. We have also witnessed tremendous changes in both work environments and markets, resulting from globalization, technological advancements, and shifting demographics.
Change has truly become an inherent and integral part of organizational life. And today, the most successful companies in the world rely on their diversity managers and teams to help them respond to this change.
The companies and people we celebrate in our 13th Annual Diversity Leader Awards issue view both challenges and opportunities through the lens of diversity and inclusion as a means to achieving business success.
We welcome your submission and hope to see you among our Diversity Leaders for 2021!
James Rector | Publisher
Profiles in Diversity Journal
profiles@diversityjournal.com
Applications due Friday, January 22, 2020
Copyright © 2021 Profiles in Diversity Journal, All rights reserved.
|
cc/2021-04/en_middle_0045.json.gz/line1397
|
__label__cc
| 0.574559
| 0.425441
|
SCCA NEWS
Gospel Rock Update
The SCCA has been working with the Friends of Gospel Rock Society to protect ecologically rare and sensitive lands in the Gospel Rock Neighbourhood area since 2004. In 2018, the SCCA partnered with The Land Conservancy of BC (TLC) to negotiate a conservation covenant with the Gospel Rock property owner, to forever protect the ecologically sensitive and waterfront lands on Block 7.
However, in 2019, covenant negotiations with the property Owner stalled when the Town of Gibsons attempted to secure from the Owner a multi-use trail through the most ecologically sensitive forests on Block 7. Development of the trail would drastically degrade the fragile ecosystem on this parcel. Neither the SCCA nor the TLC could agree with the town’s request to develop it. We expressed our concerns to the Town for many months to no effect, as development approvals advanced.
In September 2020 the SCCA appealed to Gibsons Mayor and Council to step in, to resolve the issue and ensure protection of the land. And they did. On October 6th, 2020, at a lively meeting, Gibsons Council directed town staff to abandon the destructive trail and work with the SCCA and TLC to secure the conservation covenant.
In early November the Block 7 Owner, TLC and SCCA received a revised trail plan form the Town. The SCCA and TLC are now reviewing the final draft of the agreement and we expect to have this protective covenant in place by the end of the year.
Please stay tuned for an update on this long awaited protection of the remaining forests on Gospel Rock!
To follow the SCCA’s work to protect Gospel Rock, please sign up for our eNews, follow us on social media and share our stories.
December 1st is #GivingTuesday at Canada Helps!
As the year comes to a close, the SCCA would like to extend a special invitation to those who are able to support our conservation work with a charitable donation. GivingTuesday is a global movement for giving and volunteering, which takes place each year after 'Black Friday'. On December 1st, your gift will make an even bigger difference to the SCCA as all donations of $20 or more made through the CanadaHelps website will be topped up with an extra $2 from CanadaHelps.
Thank you for supporting the SCCA!
Copyright © 2020 Sunshine Coast Conservation Association
PO Box 1969, Sechelt, BC V0N 3A0
|
cc/2021-04/en_middle_0045.json.gz/line1399
|
__label__wiki
| 0.829383
| 0.829383
|
utdreport
Scout Reports
Three things Burnley win taught us ahead of Liverpool
Four things that have changed since Manchester United last faced Liverpool
It was January last year that Manchester United last made the trip up the M62 to Anfield and almost a year to...
Manchester United finally starting to take their opportunities
It’s not even halfway through the season yet, so Reds all around the world should be careful when it comes to getting...
United’s newfound winning mentality a further sign of progress under Solskjaer
The magnitude of Bruno Fernandes’ impact on Manchester United on the pitch is not something that needs too much further discussing. But...
Ole Gunnar Solskjær’s Man Utd: Football of Faith
“Foolish humans, this is faith without the H“ The further you go through life, the less you be predicate on faith. Without...
Bruno’s third Premier League POTM award shows that he is the star leader United have been looking for
In 2020, other than maybe Robert Lewandowski, you would be hard pressed to find a footballer more influential than Premier League’s Player...
Edinson Cavani shows that class is permanent
Eyebrows were certainly raised when Manchester United announced the signing of Edinson Cavani. A name that carries great respect in the game,...
United must execute the basics in order to start building momentum against West Brom
The third international break of the 2020/21 season (last one this year) has almost come to a close, and Manchester United are...
Could Jack Grealish fit in a United XI?
Pieces like this can often come across as reactionary or ‘jumping on the bandwagon’, but given that the mass admiration of Jack...
Targeting Greenwood shows we haven’t learnt from mistakes in the past – it’s time to take action
There has been a common error defined within the tabloid press that ultimately hasn’t been spoken of regularly. A recurring theme of...
Join the official utdreport Fantasy Football league
Are you an avid player of Fantasy Football? If so, then you’ll love our...
Report: “Everything indicates that Moises Caicedo will go to Manchester United”
On Dec. 1, Ecuadorian wonderkid Moises Caicedo proclaimed his admiration of Manchester United. 10...
Marcus Rashford valued as most expensive player in the world, Bruno Fernandes tops midfielders list
Marcus Rashford has been valued as the most expensive player in the world by...
Bruno Fernandes insists United showed they did not learn from Leicester draw despite win over Aston Villa
Manchester United extended their unbeaten run in the Premier League to 10 games and...
“Foolish humans, this is faith without the H“ The further you go through life,...
Copyright © 2020 utdreport
|
cc/2021-04/en_middle_0045.json.gz/line1401
|
__label__wiki
| 0.974067
| 0.974067
|
Ford hires goats, baby horse for Bronco Sport ad
Phoebe Wall Howard | Detroit Free Press
An obviously excited Oscar Jennings, age 3, recently asked his daddy if he could watch the goats over and over and over again. He curled up in front of the computer at home in Brooklyn and couldn't get enough of the happy creatures he was seeing in the rough cut TV commercial.
The 60-second spot depicts the story of an abandoned colt found by goats who adopt it and teach it how to navigate rough terrain in a way that makes the little horse more rugged and capable than an average horse.
Toward the end of the story, the horse runs into a cave and then out comes the Bronco Sport SUV, sort of like Clark Kent running into a telephone booth and coming out as Superman.
The rest of the world gets to see the unique new Ford Bronco Sport spot filmed near a snowy Mount Baker outside Seattle this weekend during the NFL wild card playoffs. The commercial will play again during the Ohio State-Alabama national championship game Monday.
This is the story of the smallest Bronco in the Ford stable.
The shoot behind the TV commercial is one filled with challenges and adventure, not to mention animal wranglers, an unexpected snowstorm and relief that a young goat named Barney was so darn cooperative on the film set.
But the team at Wieden+Kennedy in New York also revealed a strategy designed to define a product that many feared might be overshadowed by its big brother Bronco, the popular two- and four-door SUV scheduled for delivery in mid-2021 that already has a reservation list of 190,000 fans.
Meanwhile, the Bronco Sport is available now and getting snapped up as fast as it can be unloaded from delivery trucks.
So this new Bronco Sport campaign, which launches with the first of a trio of ads, is meant to spotlight its personality and make sure people don't dismiss it as a scrappy-do lesser Bronco.
"It's a very capable vehicle and we wanted to showcase that capability," said Stuart Jennings, creative director at the agency behind the campaign for Ford Motor Co.'s hot new franchise.
The team is not just spotlighting the climbing skill for a vehicle that comes with standard four-wheel-drive but also the Bronco Sport's actual driving modes that give it the ability to Go Over Any type of Terrain (GOAT) — mud, snow, ice, rocks. The internal project code name at Ford for the 1966 Bronco was actually G.O.A.T.
Sisters in Seattle
Enter: goats.
Half a dozen live Cashmere and Nigerian goats. Oh, and goat wranglers.
The goat with the shorter gray hair is Maggie. Her sister, Hattie, is the goat with a longer coat and is dark gray. Hattie is a bit of a star in the ad.
The small gray goat with horns is Barney.
"We were believing the stereotype that goats are super stubborn and terrible and unable to do anything with them. But, as it turns out, they were pretty good. They did everything we needed them to do. I mean, we weren't asking a ton of the goats other than a scene where they were poking around the colt laying down. We wanted the spot to have a naturalistic feel," Jennings said.
Most of the commercial is a composite of individual shots with different animals.
"It was definitely a challenging production," Jennings said. "There's tons of different goats. We wanted a mountain goat and they said mountain goats aren't domesticated. You just can't. We can't get wild goats. So we had to get a domesticated breed that looked like mountain goats."
Adorable goat bloopers from making of the new Ford Bronco Sport ad
Goats are featured in the new 'Built Wild' Ford Bronco Sport commercial. Like human actors, they have their moments where they do not want to cooperate.
And then they had to sort of interview the goats to decide which had personalities that might work for the project. "We had to have a number of goats on standby in case some were not performing," Jennings said. "And we had to have different horses to play different ages," Jennings said.
Horses grow quickly and the time between casting a colt and shooting the ad, well, colts grow quickly. And the producers needed to work quickly. They wanted an adolescent horse to show it growing in confidence and agility. Then a fully grown horse that represents strength.
The little colt came up from the Los Angeles area.
Horse wranglers, they were needed, too.
It took several days to shoot the goat spot in cold and rain and snow.
"It was Seattle in October. We were like, man, we thought it would be a flurry and it really snowed," Jennings said. "We just shot through it."
As for horses, well, Lucas is cast as the colt and Hummer plays the older Bronco.
More: 2021 Ford Bronco Sport buyers see unexpected stardom; 'I just had no idea'
More: No one knew secret behind Ford's Mustang Mach-E, Bronco Sport — until now
More: She was 15-year-old smuggler in Detroit: How her family's shop became Woodbridge Tavern
And so the first big Bronco campaign is called Built Wild, an umbrella campaign for the Bronco family of three vehicles. This new ad, "Raised by Goats," focuses on capabilities, the second spot called "Go There" shows adventure-ready use and the third is "Find Your Wild," which highlights the interior features of the vehicle as well as potential use as a mobile base camp, and trail action shots in mud, rain, snow and rocks.
The video shows how much gear the small SUV can hold, for example, easing concerns for people who may own $4,000 or $5,000 bikes and want to store them inside safely, or pack before work to hit the mountains and trails at 5 o'clock sharp.
Bronco, F-150 together
On top of freezing temperatures, social distancing during COVID-19 meant boxed lunches alone in individual cars during the ad shoot, and everybody driving up to the film site alone in separate cars. Even touching the animals was discouraged to keep everyone safe from the contagious coronavirus.
In the end, this was all about how to create a special identity for the smaller SUV in the Bronco family released months before the bigger Bronco.
Ford revealed all sorts of wonderful little morsels about the "Raised by Goats" shoot:
It took about four days, not counting casting and training prep time, and was part of a larger shoot for the 2021 Ford F-150 in the Pacific Northwest.
All goats in the shoot are Cashmeres except for Vinnie, the one without horns, who is a Nigerian Dwarf.
The most cooperative goat was actually the youngest, Barney. That ended up leading the narrative very well, because you had this young goat showing the young horse the ropes.
Super Bowl caliber
Nature cooperated with the production shoot, giving them a beautiful snowstorm that you can see in the backdrop of the ad. Very Hollywood. No snow machines.
Ford isn't running the spot during the Super Bowl, but the Ford team wanted it to be so special and so unique, to break through the noise in a way that a Super Bowl ad is designed to do, said Matt Van Dyke, Ford director of marketing.
Already the Bronco Sport has exceeded company expectations, and some critics rave, too. Some impatient consumers say they don't want to wait for the Bronco so they buy a Sport.
Robert Davidman, a partner at The Fearless Agency on Madison Avenue in New York, said everyone tries to avoid working with children and animals.
"They’re very hard and unpredictable," he said. "But what are the videos that people watch the most when they’re watching YouTube or Instagram? Animals. People can relate and connect. It's an emotional thing. There’s so much crap going on in the world. Everyone is sick and tired. Goats are goats."
They make people smile, Davidman said.
Ford Bronco Sport 'Raised By Goats' ad
Goats are featured in the new 'Built Wild' Ford Bronco Sport commercial. The animals star in a new Ford Bronco Sport ad featuring the G.O.A.T. modes available on the new vehicle. The ad was shot in October 2020 outside of Seattle, WA near Mt. Baker and Baker Lake.
Aside from sheer entertainment value, the theme of the new ad is spot on, said Karl Brauer, executive analyst at iSeeCars.com, a car-listing and data site. "We knew that the vehicle, at some point, started with the same platform as a Ford Escape. If you want to be jaded, you'd say you've got the 'Escape-o' or a 'Bron-scape.' You really wonder how good it can be with its off-road prowess."
But automotive experts who have driven the vehicle have been astonished, he said.
"This is nothing like the Escape, despite somewhere in its gestation period starting with the same platform, and it has clearly evolved and changed into a Bronco Sport," Brauer said. "This is its own vehicle and it's reflected in its capabilities. Ford needs to make sure people understand that. It's good to hear a compelling ad is coming out."
Bronco vs. Jeep
The Bronco Sport SUV is designed to compete with the Jeep Cherokee, which sold about 191,000 in 2019, and the Jeep Compass, which sold about 144,000 that year.
The bigger Bronco has dominated the headlines with its upcoming return to the market after a quarter-century absence. Bronco Nation has clubs and a legacy that includes a famous police chase through Los Angeles. Fans cheered the vehicle's unveiling in mid-July.
Video first drive: 2021 Ford Bronco Sport
Fetching compact SUV impresses with off-road capability, room, features
Mark Phelan, Detroit Free Press Auto Critic
The base Bronco Sport starts at $28,155 including $1,495 in destination fees. A top-of-the-line Badlands edition can climb to $41,000 with fees.
Bronco Sport is built at the Ford plant in Hermosillo, Sonora, Mexico. Its big brother Bronco is built at Michigan Assembly in Wayne.
More: 2021 Ford Bronco designer follows in footsteps of the Jackie Robinson of car design
Contact Phoebe Wall Howard at 313-222-6512 or phoward@freepress.com. Follow her on Twitter @phoebesaid. Read more on Ford and sign up for our autos newsletter.
|
cc/2021-04/en_middle_0045.json.gz/line1403
|
__label__wiki
| 0.795944
| 0.795944
|
Valentyn Stetsyuk (Lviv, Ukraine)
Mail to site
Sender name (0/64)
E-mail / phone (0/64)
Message (0/1000)
Search for the site section News
Only in titles
Only in texts Word part:
whole word
Don’t find what you need?
1) Modify search term and / or additional search settings;
2) Search another site section;
3) Use Google search over entire site:
Англосаксы у истоков российской государственности
Core Vocabulary of the Turkic and Mongolic Languages
Pechenegs
Ancient Greeks in Ukraine
North Germanic Place Names in Belorus and Western Russia
Anglo-Saxons on the Ukraine
Cimbri
The Ethnic Composition of the Population of Great Scythia According Toponymy.
Trypillian Place Name
Origin of Ukrainian Folk Dishes
Inscription in the cave of Stinka.
Ukrainian "Didukh" and Heraldry "Lily" as Symbols of Tree of Life
Філософські міркування
Передісторя як визначальний фактор історії.
До питання генези української мови
Національний характер українців і росіян
Українські прізвища гіпотетичного булгарського походження
Дмитро Донцов. Дух Росії
Торгівля в передісторичні часи
Maykop Enigma
To the Source of Brewing at the Indo-European Peoples.
Мордовська (мокша) топонімія на території Східної України
Етнічна приналежність скіфів
+ Архів
+ Biography
Compendium of Graphic-Analytical Studies
+ Historical Macrolinguistics.
Reasoning on the Origin of the Human Language
The Relationship of the Sino-Tibetan languages
Far East: The Relationship of the Altaic and Türkic Languages.
+ Primary Settling of Eastern Europe and Asia by Homo sapiens
+ Nostratic Languages. Ethnogenetic Processes in East Europe and Asia till the Bronze Age.
+ Ethnogenetic Processes at the Iron Age.
+ The Scytho-Sarmatian Problems
Pechenegs and Hungarians
Khazars
Ancient Balts Outside Ethnic Territories
+ The Development of Siberia and Far East by the Anglo-Saxons
+ Onomastic survey in Eurasia
+ The Substratum Phenomena in Ethnogenetic Processes
Trypillian Roots in Ukrainian Culture
+ Literature. B. Scientific Works and Sources
+ Hypotheses
+ Self-expression of Ukrainians and Russians by proverbs
+ Field researches in the expedition "Dnister" (Ukr)
+ Historical sketches.
+ Pen and Ink Activities
+ Analysis
+ Philosophical Reflections
28 Apr 2017 Англосаксы у истоков российской государственности
14 Nov 2016 Core Vocabulary of the Turkic and Mongolic Languages
The basic core vocabulary of the Turkic and Mongolic languages, drawn up on the basis of the so-called "Swadesh list", which consists of 200 words, is prepared and served on the site. Only 140 matches to the list were found in these language families submitted as in the Proto-Turkic and in Proto-Mongolic languages. Among the 140 pairs, 20 words, that is 14%, are common for bouth languages. Such a small number of common words in the basic core vocabulary, which consists of the most ancient words, allows firmly reject the concept of genetic kinship of the Turkic and Mongolic languages. They can be regarded as "becoming kinship", ie those which have gained a large number of common vocabulary by mutual borrowing in times remote from their arising.
9 May 2016 Pechenegs
A new section "Pechenegs" is opened. Place names and proper names suggest that the Pechenegs were the ancestors of the Chechens.
22 Sep 2015 Ancient Greeks in Ukraine
A new section "The Ancient Greeks in Ukraine." The presence of Greeks in Ukraine in prehistoric times podtvrzhdaetsya these place names (Poltava Khorol, Trakhtemyriv, Tahtaulovo, Kolomak perhaps even Kiev, and others.), As well as the Greek cultural and linguistic substratum
2 Jul 2015 North Germanic Place Names in Belorus and Western Russia
A new section "North Germanic Place Names in Belorus and Western Russia" is opened.
24 Jun 2015 Anglo-Saxons on the Ukraine
By the 800th anniversary of the "Magna Carta" a new section "The Anglo-Saxons in the Ukraine" is opened. For the convenience of stydying Anglo-Saxon history all materials about them, scattered among other sections, were collected.
28 May 2015 Cimbri
Thoroughly redesigned section "Cimbri". Analysis of many place names in Poland, Germany and neighboring countries, deciphering the names of historical figures, together with the use of historical evidence, including the Greek navigator Pytheas (4 cen. BC) made it possible to come to a final conclusion that Cimbri were one of Iranian tribes akin to the modern Kurds.
1 Apr 2015 The Ethnic Composition of the Population of Great Scythia According Toponymy.
New section "The Ethnic Composition of the Population of Great Scythia According Toponymy" is added which to some extent summarizes research on the Scythian-Sarmatian problems and generally confirms the conclusions about the ethnic composition of Scythia obtained by other methods.
1 Jan 2015 Trypillian Place Name
The section "Ethnicity of Trypillians" was largely expanded. In particular, here was given the launch of the new theme of remaining Trypillian place names in Ukraine, Moldova and Romania. According the results of the research creators of Trypillian culture were unknown to us Semitic tribes. On the other hand, the results of geomagnetic research show that communities of Trypillians totaled to 20 thousand people. Such settlements have to be existing for a long time and keep their original names. With this in mind, an attempt was made to decipher "dark" place names of Right-Bank Ukraine by means of Hebrew. Quite a number of made transcripts can not be accidental. If even a small part of them is true, it would be evidence not only of Semitic origin Trypillians, but also mean that some of the names given by them exist at least six thousand years. In particular, the added part of the section includes an interpretation of these names: Bakota, Bar, Bershad, Moshanets, Seret. Research is in progress.
12 Dec 2014 Origin of Ukrainian Folk Dishes
In addited last paragraph of the "Cultural substrate" is given explanation of names of Ukrainian dishes such as soup, taratuta, asherba, solomakha, jur, pyrih, perepichka by means of the Chuvash language. The first striking that similar words for any first course are used by Ukrainians and Chuvash: (Ukr. yushka, Chuv. yashka).
21 Nov 2014 Inscription in the cave of Stinka.
An important addition was given to the section "Bulgarish Cave Temple on the Dniester River Bank", where inscription on the altar of the cave temple is explained by means of the Chuvash language. The cave was arranged on the steep bank of the Dniester River near the village of Stinka of Buchach district by ancient Bulgars. Inscription in Bulgarish runes neans "to oath" (Chuvash "tupa tu").
5 Nov 2014 Ukrainian "Didukh" and Heraldry "Lily" as Symbols of Tree of Life
An important additionIn has beeb made in the section "Cultural substrate", which illustrates development of the symbol of Tree of Life in the Ukrainian Christmas didukh and further in element of European heraldry known as "lily".
Similarity of didukh and "lily" is expressed, firstly, in flowing down branch, and secondly, in some cases by presence of elements of plants in petals of "lily", in the third, by presence of a cross-belt that would be totally inappropriate for lily stalk. Besides, it is necessary to add that the sheaves in a more explicit form were also elements of heraldry (Wed Sheaf in the coat of arms of the Swedish House Vasa).
Simultaneously, for the convenience of the reader, a new subsection "Traces of cultural relations of the peoples of Eastern Europe in the music" was formed from the Section "Cultural substrate"
7 Apr 2014 Філософські міркування
9 Dec 2012 Передісторя як визначальний фактор історії.
21 Oct 2012 До питання генези української мови
1 Oct 2012 Національний характер українців і росіян
30 Sep 2012 Українські прізвища гіпотетичного булгарського походження
29 Sep 2012 Дмитро Донцов. Дух Росії
29 Sep 2012 Переклади
9 Jun 2012 Торгівля в передісторичні часи
14 Feb 2012 Maykop Enigma
The article "Maykop enigma" was placed in the section "Hypotheses", where two possible explanations for the hypothetical relationship of the Sino-Tibetan and North Caucasian languages are given. One explanation is based on the impact on Sino-Tibetan languages of the speakers of the Maykop culture migrated to the east till China. The second explanation issues from the possibility of the location of the Urheimat of the Sino-Tibetan languages in the Near East.
13 Feb 2012 To the Source of Brewing at the Indo-European Peoples.
The article "To the Source of Brewing at the Indo-European Peoples" was placed in the section "The language contacts between the Indo-Europeans, Turks, and Finno-Ugrians in Eastern Europe". It is proved that the brewing was borrowed by Indo-European Peoples from the Bulgars.
14 Oct 2011 Мордовська (мокша) топонімія на території Східної України
13 Oct 2011 Трипільські корені в українській культурі
9 Oct 2011 Етнічна приналежність скіфів
18 Dec 2010 On the founding of Kiev.
The short article "On the founding of Kiev" was published in the section "Hypothesis". Based on data of prehistoric toponymy in Eastern Europe and tieing it to certain archaeological cultures and ethno-forming areas, the concludes was made that the time of the foundation of Kiev should be attributed to the 3 rd millennium BC
16 Nov 2010 Scythian and Sarmatian problems.
The section "Scythian and Sarmatian problems" is opened and filled. The section deals with the cultural continuity between the Cimmerian and Scythian period, the ethnicity of the Scythians, Sauromatians, Sarmatians and Alans. The hypothesis of the presence among the Sarmatians Germanic tribes of ancient Anglo-Saxons is assumed.
15 Nov 2010 Legends of the Dniester
The section "Legends of the Dniester" is opened and filled, in which material is distributed about Kaiser, serfdom, churches, healing springs, Taras Bulba etc.
10 Nov 2010 Ethnogenetic Processes in the Neolithic, Chalcolithic and Bronze Age.
The filling of the section "Ethnogenetic Processes in the Neolithic, Chalcolithic and Bronze Age" is finished/ The section consists of several subsections that address the relationship of the Indo-European, Turkic, and Finno-Ugric languages, the correspondenes between the habitat settlement of the speakers of these languages and archaeological cultures of the Bronze Age and linguistic contacts between them.
28 Oct 2010 The mutual relations of the Altaic languages.
The article "The Altaic languages" is published in the sub-section "Ethnogenic Processes at the Neolithic, Chalcolithic, and Bronze Age". Using the graphic-analytical method, the territory of the forming the Altaic languages (Mongolic, Tungus, Japan, and Korean) was located in the basin if the river Amur and near regions. Simultaneously the facts of the similarity of the Turkic and Mongolian languages are explaied not by their genetical kinship but only by languages contacts what contradicts the widly spread think among scholars.
22 Oct 2010 The Language Contacts between Indo-Europeans, Turks, and Finno-Ugrians in Eastern Europe
The sub-section "The Language Contacts between Indo-Europeans, Turks, and Finno-Ugrians in Eastern Europe" completed. Among others one can find the selections of the lexical parallels in the names of metals and plants in the Indo-European and Turkic languages.
19 Oct 2010 The Further Restructuring of the Site.
The great section "Alternative Historical Linguistics" is divided to three parts: 1. The Common Principles of the Alternative Linguistics. 2. Ethnogenic Processes at the Neolithic, Chalcolithic, and Bronze Age. 3. Ethnogenic Processes at the Iron Age.
14 Oct 2010 The Restructuring of the Site.
For convenience conducted a partial restructuring of the site.
7 Oct 2010 Prehistoric Toponymy in the East Europe
The large section "Prehistoric Toponymy in the Ukraine" was opened and began to be filled.
The place names of the Germanic, Iranian, Finno-Ugric, and Turkic origin were found on the territory of the Ukraine and adjacent regions and explaind by means of these languages. These place names left the ancient population which presence is proved also by the archaeolgic and linguistic data.
1 Oct 2010 The Resettlement of the Indo-European, Turkic and Finno-Ugric tribes in Eastern Europe.
The article "The Resettlement of the Indo-European, Turkic and Finno-Ugric tribes in Eastern Europe" was published in the srction "Alternative Historical Linguistics".
27 Sep 2010 The ancient Water Way from the Dniepr to the Azov Sea.
The article "The Gerros – the ancient water way from the Dniepr to the Sea of Azov" was published in theSection "Hypotheses".
27 Sep 2010 Semitic Tribes in Eastern Europe at Prehistoric Time
The article "Semitic Tribes in Eastern Europe at Prehistoric Time" is published in the Section "Hypoteses" where the origin and the ethnical belonging of famous Trypilla (Tripolje) is considered on the ground of the research by means of the graphic-analythical method. It is adduced the supposition that the creators of this cultures had coming from Asia Minor and could be some Semitic tribe.
22 Sep 2010 Analysis section
The section "Analysis" was opened. There will be placed several analytical articles written earlier, but they have not lost their relevance to the present day, because I do not analyze political struggle, which generally can not be analyzed, and try to guess the future prospects of the Ukrainian state.
21 Sep 2010 To the primary formation of numerals in the Nostratic languages
The article "To the primary formation of numerals in the Nostratic languages" was published in the srction "Hypotheses". Based on the analysis of numerals dozens of languages,their relationship with the pronouns, found .
18 Sep 2010 Field research in the expedition "Dniester ".
The section "Field research in the expedition " Dniester" is opened and began to be filled. There will be materials from the different branches of science – ecology, culture, history, linguistics, etc.
17 Sep 2010 The Section of Hypotheses was opened
Obtained in the course of the research results gave grounds for some hypothetical deductions. Tartly some of them are present in common texts, partly they go out beyond naratsiy, so it makes sense to apply them in a separate section in the final form of hypotheses. The first article is already presented – "To the primary formation of numerals in the Nostratic languages"
16 Sep 2010 Alternative Historical Linguistics
Initiation of intensive filling of sub-section "Alternative historical linguistics." The first article describes the graph-analytic method and the method of selection of lexical material for statistical analysis following by the determination of initial sites of settlements of peoples Nostratic languages macrofamily on the territory of three lakes near Mount Ararat, and ways of their further migratory. Materials are richly illustrated with graphs, tables and maps
16 Sep 2010 Cultural clusters of the Dniester
In the section "Historical Essays", there are a few of my articles from the book "Cultural clusters of the Dniester", which was published in 2001 and the compiler of which I was. However, my general overview of multi cultural relations edge in historical terms was absent in the book, which was not published for purely technical reasons. This is the time for it. My article on the cultural heritage of Ukrainians, Germans, Jews, who lived in the neighborhood in the Dniester region, are published separatelly.
15 Sep 2010 Letters
Only in Ukrainian
15 Sep 2010 Scientific-Research Activities
The large section "Scientific-Research Activities" was opened and began to be filled. The lion's share of the material will be devoted to a description of studies prehistoric ethnogenetic processes in Europe and Asia. Studies carried out on the basis of graphic-analytical method which provides geometric interpretation of the lexical-statistical material. A detailed description of the method is given. Obtained with its help results were associated with the data of geography, archeology, mythology and other sciences
14 Sep 2010 Pen and Ink Activities
The part "Pen and Ink Activities" was opened.
8 Sep 2010 Historical scetches
The part "Historical scetches" was opened
5 Sep 2010 Army service
The memoirs about my army service were published.
Upper level | Next page
Please this page? Help us to develop this site!
Place link to this page
in your site / blog / etc.
Code for insertion Should be rendered as
Copy HTML code from «Code for insertion» field and paste it to your page. Adjust it as your need.
via social network
© 1978 – 2021 V. M. Stetsyuk
Reprinting of articles from site are encouraged while
reference (hyperlink) to this site is provided
Site powered by Smereka
Load count : 7 981
Modified : 28.08.2019
If you look up the type error
on this page, please select it
by mouse and press Ctrl+Enter.
|
cc/2021-04/en_middle_0045.json.gz/line1404
|
__label__wiki
| 0.837577
| 0.837577
|
The Winery at La Grange
Haymarket, Va.
The glass of red wine sitting on the mantle of The Winery at La Grange‘s tasting room wasn’t accidentally left by an over-served guest. It’s for Benoni Harrison, one of the original owners of the estate. Every day, winery staff set out a glass for Harrison, who bought the property in 1837 and lived there until he died in 1869. Rumor has it he’s still lurking around the historic property, which dates back to 1790; to keep him happy, the staff religiously pours him a daily tipple. (The stone cellar, called Benoni’s Lounge, is the perfect spot to raise a glass of Benoni’s Blend.) But Benoni isn’t the only presence on the property: The ghost of a young girl is believed to inhabit one of the upstairs rooms.
Sonoma, Calif.
Credit: Buena Vista Winery
For more than 50 years, strange things have been happening at Buena Vista Winery. People have spotted ethereal figures in 19th-century clothing, and heard footsteps on the roof or ghostly sounds of crying babies. One of the most recent encounters involved a team member who spotted the full-body apparition — that’s a big-time score in paranormal circles, by the way — of a man in a black coat and distinctive mutton chops. He believes it may have been the spirit of General Vallejo, who also sported mutton chops and whose two daughters married sons of the winery’s original founder. Paranormal experts back it up: The property has been investigated by several ghost-hunting groups that have documented all sorts of activity. Psychic mediums also report the presence of spirits.
Howell’s MainStreet Winery
Howell, Mich.
Keep an ear tuned for little footsteps during a visit to this history winery: The spirit of a 7-year-old boy named Thomas, whose parents ran a store on the property in the 1800s, is one of its resident ghosts. Winery employees and paranormal experts have witnessed various unexplained happenings on the premises: Objects move on their own, noises come from empty rooms, and lights flicker. One of the spookiest tales, staff say, happened when a group of visitors, one of whom was a staunch non-believer, came into the winery. While the group was chatting, a bottle of wine inexplicably cracked, and all of the wine drained out and encircled their table.
Valerie Hill Vineyard & Winery
Stephens City, Va.
Credit: Valerie Hill Winery
At Valerie Hill Vineyard & Winery, ghost stories share the spotlight with wine. From fall through early spring, the winery’s History and Hauntings Tours feature wine tastings, a locally sourced meal (think Virginia oysters), and candlelit tours that delve into the property’s paranormal activity. You’ll hear about the four resident ghosts, including that of the most prominent specter, Benedict Rust, the son of the man who built the house. Sadly, Rust was declared insane and sequestered to the attic for most of his life; his spirit is still rattling around today. Other sightings might include a cantankerous old man and a gun-toting spirit of a Civil War soldier; all have made believers out of the formerly skeptical owners. And there’s no better way to drink up this chilling history than with a bottle of Apparition, the winery’s delicious, limited-production port.
Nello Olivo
Placerville, Calif.
Unexplained noises, lights and faucets turning on and off by themselves, ghostly children running around: If you happen to notice something weird during a tasting at this El Dorado County winery, it might not be because you’ve had one too many. Indeed, the Sequoia Mansion where the winery is housed is a known paranormal hotspot. Built in 1853 and later expanded by Judge Marcus Bennett, the mansion is now a wedding site and also home to the Nello Olivo Winery tasting room, where visitors may feel the presence of a number of resident spirits, including Judge Bennett himself, or perhaps his young son, Marcus Jr., who sadly passed away at age 4.
Miles Wine Cellars
Himrod, N.Y.
One of the most gorgeous wineries in New York’s Finger Lakes has an especially haunted past — and a wine that honors it. Miles Wine Cellars dates back to the mid-1800s, when a young couple renovated the mansion in elegant Greek Revival style. Before the project was complete, both the man and woman died in the house — and they’re definitely still around, according to the current proprietors, the Miles family. Since the mid-1980s, the Miles’ have regularly seen apparitions of a man and a woman. The supernatural encounters inspired the family to produce a wine called Ghost: a semi-dry Chardonnay-Cayuga blend. The wine is quite tasty, but the real showstopper is the custom-designed silk-screened bottle. Shine a flashlight on it, and the ethereal image of the ghostly woman who roams the home appears.
Ravenswood Winery
Credit: Ravenswood Winery
Ravenswood is one of Sonoma’s most recognizable wineries, as is its bottle, which bears the company’s distinct logo of an interlocking trio of ravens. But there’s more to it than just a cool design. On a fall day in 1976, founder and winemaker Joel Peterson was rushing to help harvest some four tons of grapes when an approaching thunderstorm hit. Peterson scurried around picking the fruit, watched by groups of ravens circling above. Just as he was wrapping up the harvest, Peterson noticed that, somehow, he was mysteriously dry while the surrounding areas were drenched from the rain. He went on to crush the fruit that was used for one of two single-vineyard Sonoma County Zinfandels, the first wines to bear Ravenswood’s signature ring of ravens. Three years later, those wines earned first and second place in a prestigious San Francisco tasting.
Whatever happened that night of the 1976 harvest — bizarre weather patterns or some strange protective spell from the birds — is anyone’s guess. Whatever the case, it’s a fascinating story to share over a glass of (what else?) Ravenswood Zinfandel on The Nest, the nickname for the winery’s patio.
William Chris Winery
Hye, Texas
An on-property family cemetery sets a spooky tone at this Texas Hill Country winery. Ever since the owners, William Blackmon and Chris Brundrett, bought it in 2008, staff and guests have experienced plenty of head-scratching happenings — like the old marbles that Carol Blackmon, the groundskeeper, finds in random places on the property. Apparently, one of the little boys who once lived in the house loved shooting marbles. Staff suspects he also likes grabbing the feet of the tasting room manager when she’s at her computer in one of the rooms. Guests report strange things, too, like a ghostly orb floating over one of the tombstones in the cemetery, captured in a Polaroid image. The activity was enough to grab the attention of popular paranormal show “Ghost Hunters.” The owners declined, however, because they wanted to keep the focus on the wine. Speaking of which, the Skeleton Key Red is a subtly spooky nod to the property’s history and the skeleton key the owners found during a renovation (it opened every door on the property).
Belhurst Estate Winery
Credit: Belhurst Castle & Winery
If a winery is located in a castle well over a century old, and it also happens to be a stop on the Haunted History Trail of New York State, you know it’s going to have some spooky stories. The Belhurst Estate Winery is part of Belhurst Castle, whose history spans forbidden love affairs, mysterious deaths, and legends of underground passages. Fact and folklore have intertwined over the years, but the most prominent ghost story is that of Isabella, a stunning opera singer often seen dressed in white. One version of one of the tales about Isabella is that she died in an underground tunnel while escaping authorities (or, others say, her enraged husband) with her forbidden lover. Grab a glass of Riesling, one of the winery’s most popular wines, at a table on the back patio, and see if you can catch a glimpse of Isabella wandering the shoreline of Seneca Lake, still grieving for her lover.
Here’s Why The Ingredients In Your Lager Matter
Baseball’s Beer and Champagne Shower Celebrations Face an Uncertain Future
Killer Boo-quet: 10 American Wineries With Haunted Histories | VinePair
https://vinepair.com/articles/10-haunted-wineries-ghost-stories/
wbs_cat Wine, wbs_type Chardonnay, wbs_type Riesling, wbs_type Syrah (Shiraz), wbs_type Zinfandel, wbs_brand Ravenswood, wbs_brand William Chris Vineyards, halloween, Travel, Wine
|
cc/2021-04/en_middle_0045.json.gz/line1414
|
__label__wiki
| 0.616137
| 0.616137
|
This M’sian App Makes A Sign Language Class Out Of Cards, Complete With A Lil’ Teacher
Rayden Koh
Imagine not being able to communicate with your own children.
That was a sad situation that Siasitok co-founder Awang Shahrizan Bin Awang Abu Bakar realised existed when a close friend struggled to communicate with his own daughter who was deaf.
But using augmented reality (AR) technology and flashcards, Awang shared with Vulcan Post how his startup is going to help bridge the gap between the deaf community and the hearing.
A Friend In Need
You may be thinking, “Aren’t there plenty of sign language classes out there?”
Sure, but when you are busy putting food on the table, the time needed to attend these classes may not be something you can afford. This was the case for Awang’s close friend.
Being a photographer by trade, Awang first helped out by taking photos of sign language and giving them to his friend.
Image Credit: Global Entrepreneurship Network
Amazingly, Awang said that it helped his friend communicate with his deaf daughter within 2 weeks.
This is when he realised that he may have stumbled upon a novel idea. He started researching ways to expand on this and to make learning sign language more efficient and fun.
Instead of photos, the end result was an app that uses AR flashcards to display CGI demonstrations of sign language.
Along with co-founder and wife Nur Aishah Binti Ahmad, he established Siasitok on March 8, 2018, and they officially launched a month after.
The Signs Are Everywhere
Hailing from Sarawak, Awang told us that Siasitok actually means “here and there” in the Sarawakian Malay language.
Fitting, as the idea is that people can use the app and flashcards to learn sign language anywhere, at any time.
Just scan a flashcard (which features words/phrases in Bahasa Malaysia accompanied by colourful illustrations) and an animated figure of a man will appear on your device to demonstrate the proper signing technique.
A video demonstrating how Siasitok works
“It will also help family members and teachers at home and at school to bond while learning sign language as there will not be as much pressure and will not be as boring,” Awang said.
He also told us that there is a lack of teaching aids for deaf children to learn sign language and that deaf children are 6 years behind abled children in terms of education.
As such, 4 schools including SKPK Semabok in Melaka have already adopted Siasitok’s product.
In boosting awareness about Siasitok, the startup also organises workshops to teach people to sign and on how to use the app.
The flashcards and app have been distributed mainly to parents, welfare department staff, teachers and the public who attended these workshops.
To ensure the accuracy of what they are teaching, the app and the flashcards are checked by trainers from the Malaysian Federation of The Deaf, who are also trainers at Siasitok’s workshops.
Additionally, Siasitok also collaborates with both the Malacca and Negeri Sembilan Deaf Associations.
Making Noise In A Silent World
While the app and animations are done by a third party, Siasitok develops the flashcards decks (or modules, as they call it) that are used by the app.
Image Credit: Siasitok
The modules are categorised into themes like Haiwan (animals), Tempat (places), and Makanan & Minuman (food and drinks).
Currently, they have finished 5 out of 22 planned modules that will be based on American Sign Language (ASL). And as mentioned, these cards feature words in our national language of Bahasa Malaysia.
Since Malaysia has its own version of sign language, we asked Awang why they chose to use ASL.
“Actually, 120 countries around the world use American Sign language. While Malaysia uses Malaysian Sign Language, around 70% of the signs are similar. So, most probably it will be same,” he explained.
Another reason was that they are also planning to penetrate the international market (worth US$5 billion) such as Indonesia, India, Singapore, and more, which is why they will be translating their cards into English.
They are also open to translations in other languages, should the demand arise, by collaborating with the deaf associations of the relevant country.
Image Credit: Siasitok Facebook
About RM150,000 has been invested in the development of Siasitok’s product so far.
Through selling their modules (for RM30 each) and holding workshops, they have already earned back the same amount in revenue.
Within the next 2 years, they are looking to publish all 22 of their modules as well as to fully translate them into English once they have a demand for it.
Ambitiously, they even have plans to collaborate with the United Nations to achieve their Sustainable Development Goals.
“This collaboration will help deaf people advance in life and not be left behind anymore. They will also be given the opportunity to not be isolated at work and also in society,” Awang said.
“We need to learn more about deaf culture before all this can happen. We will slowly adapt to all this pressure and focus on our mission because nothing is easy in the real world,” he concluded.
You can read more about what we’ve written on apps here.
The Education Industry Needs To Jump Onto The Entrepreneurial Bandwagon. Here’s How.
Featured Image Credit: Mohd Hafiz Zainol Shokor, Siasitok co-founder, Linkedin
Tags: appsARDeafmalaysiamalaysian startupSiasitok
Budget 2021 Is Coming: What Support Measures Do S’pore Entrepreneurs Want To See This Year?
How This S’porean Transformed His Family’s Snack Store Into A Popular Brunch Cafe At Only 20
by Jae Chia
|
cc/2021-04/en_middle_0045.json.gz/line1416
|
__label__cc
| 0.568408
| 0.431592
|
How covid-19 put wind in shipping companies’ sails
SICKNESS AND shipping have an extended shared historical past. The phrase quarantine is derived from the 14th-century Venetian apply of isolating ships at anchor for 40 days if plague was suspected on board. The newest ailment is a worldwide pandemic that has killed no less than 1m folks and put the world economic system, and world commerce, full steam reverse. This might need been anticipated to becalm an trade which carries 90% of traded items—11.9bn tonnes final yr, or 1.6 tonnes for each human—and the place income have typically been elusive. The final time commerce quantity declined, in the aftermath of the monetary disaster of 2007-09, maritime shipping suffered. Clarksons, a shipbroker, expects volumes to fall by 4.4% in 2020.
Still, Neptune appears to have smiled on shipping corporations. Oil tankers and dry-bulk vessels that transport iron ore, coal and grain will flip a revenue in 2020. Operators of ships ferrying containers, filled with client items or elements, are set truthful for a banner yr. Shipping is a enterprise the place, in the phrases of Martin Stopford of Clarksons, companies “make a living and occasionally make a killing”. This yr, it seems, belongs to the second class. What is happening?
One reply is that the carnage wrought by the coronavirus has not been as dangerous as anticipated. The World Trade Organisation initially anticipated commerce quantity to shrink by as a lot as 30% in 2020. Drewry, a consultancy, had reckoned worldwide port visits by ships in the second quarter would possibly decline by 16%. In truth they fell by 8%.
The trade has been capable of make the most of the swifter-than-expected restoration due to massive underlying modifications in its construction over the previous decade, in the direction of better focus. Container shipping, like tankers and dry bulk, appears lastly to have discovered a lesson from the debilitating overcapacity created as corporations battled for market share.
In the last decade earlier than the monetary disaster demand grew by round 10% a yr. The order e-book swelled to the equal of 60% of your complete fleet when Lehman Brothers collapsed in 2008. An armada of latest ships, which take no less than two years from order to launch, arrived simply as progress slowed. In the 2010s the fleet expanded by 100% whereas demand grew by simply 50%, factors out Peter Sand of BIMCO, a shipowners’ affiliation.
The extra capability ruined returns for years afterwards. McKinsey, a consultancy, reckons that between 2012 and 2016 container-shipping destroyed $84bn of shareholder worth. Over the previous 5 years, notes David Kerstens of Jefferies, an funding financial institution, the trade in combination has carried out a bit higher, nearly breaking even.
Now, although, efforts to chop prices and win market energy are lastly paying off. After years of consolidation the highest seven companies now declare three-quarters of the worldwide fleet, up from 55% in 2016, in accordance with Jefferies. On prime of that, 2017 noticed the beginning of three world alliances that now management 85% of capability throughout the Pacific and nearly all capability between Asia and Europe.
Increased co-ordination has allowed the businesses to answer slowing commerce. “Blank sailings”, trade jargon for cancelled voyages, got here thick and quick. In May a record-breaking 12% of the worldwide container fleet was idled, in accordance with one estimate. Even as capability has been reinstated—the share of the fleet that’s idle has fallen to round 3%—freight charges have rocketed to deal with an unexpectedly vigorous restoration. Now, says Lars Jensen of SeaIntelligence, a consultancy, the container trade is on the right track for document income of $12bn-15bn this yr. Maersk, the world’s largest container-shipping agency with 17% of the market, expects income of $6bn-7bn, up from a pre-pandemic estimate of $5.5bn.
Rates have shot up most dramatically on trans-Pacific routes (see map). Spot costs for sending a container from China to America’s West Coast have risen by 127% since final yr, to document highs. The port of Long Beach in California reported its busiest August ever; Los Angeles noticed enterprise that month up by 12% yr on yr.
Can companies proceed to handle capability and resist the urge to order ships? Possibly, thinks Mr Kerstens. Maersk and Hapag-Lloyd, one other massive agency, have eschewed chasing quantity and market share in favour of profitability. Maersk is investing closely in integration with extra profitable hyperlinks in the chain, comparable to lorries and warehouses.
The skinny order e-book (see chart)—now equal to simply 7% of the fleet—will not be completely all the way down to newfound sobriety. Stricter environmental guidelines play a component, says Mark Jackson of the Baltic Exchange, an information supplier. The International Maritime Organisation, the UN’s shipping company, needs to halve the trade’s carbon emissions by 2050, relative to 2008. As lengthy because the pathway to fulfill the goal stays sketchy, and the requisite expertise nascent, corporations are reluctant to order vessels with a lifespan of 25 years or extra.
Shifting commerce patterns are one other issue. Supply chains are being reconfigured by the pandemic and the Sino-American financial warfare. As manufacturing shifts from China to different components of Asia—Cambodia has quickly changed it because the predominant supply of America’s Christmas-tree lights, for instance—smaller ships can be required. These can ferry items instantly from minor Asian ports to Europe or, as a result of huge current vessels plying the route between China and Europe have loads of life left, to trans-ship smaller masses to Asian mega-hubs for onward dispatch. All meaning constructing ever-mightier ships supply diminishing returns to scale. Today’s leviathans—such because the Hong Kong, owned by OOCL, a agency based mostly in the Chinese territory—can carry nicely over twice as many containers as the biggest ships in 2005.
Tankers and dry-bulk carriers face rougher situations. Both segments are way more fragmented than container shipping, and so unable to chop capability as simply. The largest specialist tanker operator, Teekay of Canada, wholly owns round 60 vessels totalling practically 7m deadweight tonnes out of a worldwide fleet of 623m in 2019. The common variety of ships per agency is round 5.5.
Even so, tanker-owners have been “having a party in the first half of the year”, says Mr Sand of BIMCO, due to sinking oil costs. Average annual earnings over the previous decade have been above break-even solely half the time for the biggest crude-oil tankers. But the collapse of an settlement between the Organisation of the Petroleum Exporting Countries and Russia despatched oil costs tumbling simply as covid-19 sapped demand for crude. Traders with nowhere to stash undesirable oil turned to tankers. At one level this spring greater than a tenth of the world’s fleet was chartered as storage. Rates for the biggest craft soared from $6,500 a day to $240,000, ten occasions the break-even stage. Rates have now slipped beneath break-even however that bonanza will tide tanker-owners over to an annual revenue.
Bulking up
Dry-bulk vessels, in contrast, had a horrible begin to the yr. But they’ve since been helped by China’s swift restoration. The nation accounts for 40% of the worldwide dry-bulk commerce, principally as a result of it imports 70% of the world’s iron ore (see Schumpeter). Stimulus measures have led to document manufacturing and iron-ore imports hit all-time highs in the primary seven months of the yr. That has offset decrease exercise in the remainder of the world, says Bimco. All sizes of ships are actually earning profits.
One danger for commercially minded corporations is that massive rivals with totally different motivations would possibly undermine capability cuts. Governments in China, South Korea and Taiwan regard their state-controlled shipping giants, 4 of that are in the world’s prime ten, not a lot as revenue motors however as a approach to protect their place in the worldwide buying and selling system. Hyundai Merchant Marine, the ninth-largest agency, is the one massive shipper to not trim capability. There are hints that China’s authorities doesn’t approve of the excessive costs to shift Chinese-made items. It has reportedly requested its carriers to reinstate capability to America. COSCO and OOCL, that are state-controlled, will chorus from elevating charges.
It is the same story with ports. Maersk’s port division, APM, has clear monetary imperatives. But Hyundai and Evergreen Marine, a Taiwanese firm, in all probability regard their ports as a value to bear for the sake of their shipping companies. China Merchants and COSCO, which additionally runs massive ports, are owned by a state eager to make use of commerce to unfold Chinese affect across the globe. Dubai’s DP World, which delisted in February, and PSA, a Singaporean operator, are each commercially pushed however in the end in state arms, too. Hong Kong’s Hutchison, one of many world’s largest port operators, noticed income dip by 15% in the primary half of the yr. Often the pursuits of shareholders don’t utterly align with the function of enabling commerce, says Eleanor Hadland of Drewry.
Another doubt is whether or not governments will permit their shipbuilders to fall into desuetude. China, Japan and South Korea now management 90% of worldwide shipbuilding. They have incentives to maintain shipyards in enterprise, even when some may quickly be out of labor; reopening mothballed yards is an extended and costly course of.
Keeping the world’s items flowing is, then, a posh enterprise—simply ask the seamen trapped on board for months as lockdowns and journey restrictions have prevented common changeovers. But their employers are shifting into the nascent world financial restoration with wind in their sails. That is sweet information for world commerce. ■
Editor’s observe: Some of our covid-19 protection is free for readers of The Economist Today, our each day newsletter. For extra tales and our pandemic tracker, see our hub
This article appeared in the Business part of the print version underneath the headline “It’s an ill wind that blows no one any good”
Hollywood reclaims starring role at Joe Biden’s inaugural
|
cc/2021-04/en_middle_0045.json.gz/line1418
|
__label__wiki
| 0.865932
| 0.865932
|
Wicked Rods & Customs
1970 Chevy Chevelle
If there’s any car that’s capable of tapping into the passion of someone who grew up in the 1970s, it’s the Chevy Chevelle—including Wicked co-owner Chuck Anderson, who had to get his hands on this classic. The original plan for this “10-footer” (looked pretty good from 10 to 15 feet away) called for making it a daily driver, but it didn’t take long for Anderson to decide on a new paint job. And when a good sanding revealed everything from pounds of Bondo to chicken wire, it was only a matter of time before this one was headed for sand blasting and a complete makeover.
Starting from scratch, Wicked technicians added all new body panels, including new quarters, fenders and doors. Next, they pulled off the impossible by shaving down its drip rails to such perfection that you’d never know they were there to begin with. The front and rear bumpers were cut down and drawn in, along with custom integrated lights and a new front grill, in order to give this car a sleekness that’s both coming and going. (Though, most cars are only going to get a good look at the back end of it and only for a short distance.) In the end, about the only thing that’s original on this car is its roof and floor, which were in surprisingly good shape. Now, everything from the under-carriage to the floorboards look like they just left the factory floor.
Mechanically, the car was in sound shape and ready to be driven, but, “One thing just leads to another,” Anderson says. To go with its sleek, new road-touring appearance, this Chevelle’s 454 engine is bored and stroked out to 496 cubic inches, while being outfitted with new cams and a bigger carburetor to take it from roughly 280 to a whopping 600 horsepower. Meanwhile, a new Tremec five-speed transmission and Detroit Speed road touring suspension make it drive and handle along the lines of a modern Corvette—a far cry from how it handled in the 70s.
The goal was to give this Chevelle a completely unique look and feel, while staying within the parameters of its original makings. At a glance, there’s no mistaking that you’re looking at a 1970 Chevelle. But up close, its uniqueness blew the judges away at Goodguys North Carolina National (2016 in Raleigh), netting it the All-American Award. Meanwhile, Chuck Anderson says don’t be surprised to see fuel injection coming soon, because a Wicked ride isn’t Wicked until it’s truly reached its limits.
1955 Chevy 210
Looks can be deceiving. Especially when it comes to what rolls out of Wicked Rods & Customs’ workshop and this 1955 Chevy 210 proves it. (Though, we use the label ’55 loosely.) Winning a Steel the Show Award at a Goodguys North Carolina National is no small feat, but this car did it.
When the owner found this ’55 hard top, he spotted an opportunity to relive a teenage experience. There was just one issue: Requirements of the modern road and lifestyle have, well, changed a tad since the 1950s. But that’s where Wicked comes in.
After somewhere between 20 to 30 years in a garage, this car was in pretty good shape, but in order to completely redesign it from the ground up, Wicked’s technicians had to strip it down to ground zero. (Because, after all, that’s the only way to do it.) After pulling the body off, they started by adding a brand new Art Morrison frame, pairing it with a pro-touring suspension system—every piece of which is absolutely brand new and hand selected. Next, the old engine was swapped out with a modern LS-3, that just so happens to produce 425 horsepower (a far, far cry from the original) and bolted to a 465e transmission. A new, custom rack-and-pinion steering system and four-wheel disc brakes make this car drive and stop like a modern dream.
This 210 features a fully custom paint tone, but inside and out strictly maintains its original appearance, including whitewall tires and hubcaps, and a stock interior (that’s been heavily updated, however). Traditional old-school, Delray upholstery and a classic Bel Air steering wheel offer slight departures from the original 210 styling, but in a way that even a hard pressed Chevy historian would find difficult to pinpoint. When you turn the key, however, you’ll notice a radical departure from the 1950s. First, it’s been outfitted with modern air conditioning. And while the gauges look traditional, they’re actually Dakota Digital. Meanwhile, original window cranks no longer require any muscle to move, but now serve as tip actuators for full power windows. Lastly, behind the glove box lies a remote stereo system that includes such things as USB ports, Bluetooth technology and every imaginable feature.
This car’s owner turned to Wicked in order to recreate his teenage years with a modern twist. Now, the only addition he’s aiming to make is 300,000 miles to the odometer after he retires.
1970 Chevy C10
Nailing the perfect C10 took Wicked two tries, after the first truck turned out to be loaded with plastic, pop rivets and a hodge podge of frames. But boy was the second time a charm. The project fell close to heart for Wicked co-owner Chuck Anderson, as he did it hand-in-hand with (as well as for) his father-in-law, a long-time restoration buddy and car enthusiast.
This C10 rests as low as she can go, with its Custom American Racing wheels tucked neatly into its wheel wells (all of which were fabricated for this exact effect). But when you turn the key to fire up its 400-cubic-inch engine, a Ridetech air suspension lifts this truck to attention.
After removing the body from its frame for a part-by-part restoration, this Chevy received numerous design changes that make it one of the most unique C10s in existence. The tailgate is welded into the body, for a uniform and boxed appearance, while a set of trailer fenders were bent to form the bed floor, then painted and detailed to look like real wood. A burgundy and silver combination give the body a modern finish that’s smooth like candy, while giant swoops along the truck’s side profiles, trimmed out in an air-brushed chrome edging, give it a classic look that’s reminiscent of a 1953 Buick. A custom grille, exhaust tips that follow the outside of the bed, a bed-mounted gas tank and a retractable antenna that motors out from the old gas flap—all of this truck’s details push the concept of customization to its limits.
As if the outside isn’t enough, the interior of this truck is truly stunning. A one-of-a-kind dash was formed from raw metal and welded into place, then paired with a custom middle console that’s designed to match. Gauge chambers were crafted from tail pipe ends and protrude from the dashboard’s unique curve for a look that both draws you in and stares you down. The seats were completely refurbished in burgundy and black leather, then capped off with a kimono-dragon-style pattern that’s duplicated throughout the full interior. Unbelievable.
“Yeah, we went a little too far with it,” Chuck Anderson jokes.
Which means, by Wicked standards, they got it just right.
As seen in the August 2013 Fender Bender Magazine
1969 Chevy Camaro
One of Wicked Rods & Customs’ key niches includes turning old classics into completely unique, fully modernized, high-performance vehicles. And perhaps no car proves this more than the company’s 1969 Chevy Camaro.
After spotting and picking this car up from a small roadside garage in central Virginia, it rolled onto Wicked’s lot, ready for nothing more than a washing. Instead, they chopped this puppy up and tore it down, then custom designed and engineered every part to resurrect it as a one-of-a-kind, truly wicked creation.
While it maintains the theme of its original 1969 appearance, with the exception of its completely refurbished interior, there’s nothing stock about this vehicle. All new quarters and doors, and a completely refurbished roof and fenders show off Wicked’s metal fabricating and shaping abilities, while its Detroit Speed road touring and racing suspension, a full-length rear end, new six-caliper brakes, and a five-speed transmission (definitely not from 1969!) make this car a mechanical marvel. Add to that a modern 427-cu.-in. aluminum-head engine that reliably pumps out 500 horses, and this car is ready to rip around a race track, or make a cross-country tour.
A two-toned black and silver paint job show off Wicked’s unparalleled abilities in the booth to achieve a polished and fully custom look for every inch of every vehicle. In true Wicked Rods & Customs fashion, the under-carriage of this car shines as bright as its hood. Speaking of hood—you may have to reach out and touch its carbon-fiber accents in order to tell that…well, they aren’t carbon fiber at all! While we aren’t giving up any secrets, let’s just say that Wicked’s paint technicians have an answer for every creative problem and this one’s so creative that it’s almost indistinguishable!
When folks see Wicked’s 1959 Buick LeSabre, they’re truly mesmerized. This car’s flawless, bright pink paint job (which was selected by Chuck Anderson’s wife, Bobbie) captivates the eye, while its chrome, whitewall tires, and large tail fins scream 1950s Americana.
Past projects may have grabbed the spotlight and stunned even the most discriminating car enthusiasts (which is partly what prodded Chuck and Benny to start Wicked), but the LeSabre is what placed them on the map, eventually becoming the iconic logo of their sister company, Precision Body Works. As a result, this car has stolen numerous shows, sat through thousands of camera flashes, and was even one of just a dozen or so cars, nationwide, to be selected for a Discovery Channel feature program.
This model of Buick is a rare find and one that Wicked backed out of a garage in Beaverton, Oregon, where it belonged to just its second owner. After rubbing their eyes in disbelief, technicians tore this car completely apart, stripping it down to bare metal for a complete rebuild. All of the mechanical components were meticulously redone, from the complete drivetrain all the way down to its wiring. Twenty seven pieces of stainless steel and 18 pieces of chrome were refinished and combined with old-school steel wheels to become this car’s crowning jewels. In true testament to Wicked’s unbelievable attention to detail, this car is painted and polished from top to bottom—including the underside of its hood and chassis—and even the underside of its valve covers! Meanwhile, the interior was completely refurbished in white and pink leather with gray accents.
In its first outing (Asphalt Angels, a show that’s held in Doswell, Va.) the Buick landed “First in Show” out of more than 200 cars, only to turn around and win “Best Custom Rod” the very next year. Two years later, it sailed into Myrtle Beach for “Run to the Sun” and drove away with a top-25 trophy out of more than 3,200 vehicles!
About Wicked
Wicked Rods & Customs started with an obsession—an obsession for something superiorly unique, something stunningly perfect and truly “wicked.” This delightful passion has led us to appear on television, be featured in magazines, and win multiple "Best in Show" awards.
We Go The Extra Mile
Our technicians will stop at nothing to ensure the authenticity of every fine and obscure detail for your vehicle—from matching every number under its hood, to the underside of its chassis, where overspray patterns can be matched to exactly what rolled off of the factory floor.
We are continuously looking for the best in the industry to come join our leading team of professionals. We have a first-rate atmosphere and are always looking to add greatness to our company. Do you have what it takes to be a part of the Wicked Rods & Customs team?
804.641.7933 | © 2019 Wicked Rods & Customs | All rights reserved. Site by BigTree
|
cc/2021-04/en_middle_0045.json.gz/line1425
|
__label__wiki
| 0.830428
| 0.830428
|
Posted inBlog, Loose Lips
Gray Gets a General Election Challenger
Gary Butler wants a Council seat—or at least some name recognition
by Will Sommer June 28th, 2016 September 18th, 2020
Credit: Darrow Montgomery
Ex-mayor Vince Gray won this month’s Ward 7 Democratic party by nearly 30 percent over incumbent Yvette Alexander. That landslide, plus Gray’s Democratic affiliation, make his general election victory in November all but certain. Still, one Ward 7 advisory neighborhood commissioner wants his own shot at the seat.
During the primary, 45-year-old ANC 7B commissioner Gary Butler didn’t like his options. Butler didn’t like Alexander’s nine-year tenure in the Council seat, but he didn’t think Alexander should be replaced by Gray, who has already represented in the ward in the past. With the primary settled, Butler is now running for the seat himself.
“The city’s got a wave of new talent coming into the Council,” Butler says. “And I think Ward 7 deserves a chance to ride that wave as well.”
In March, Butler switched his party affiliation from Democrat to independent. If Butler can get enough signatures to make the ballot, he’ll face Gray on the November ballot.
Butler was inspired to run in part, he says, by how much of the focus in the Ward 7 has been on Gray’s possible mayoral ambitions.
“I have no interest in being anything other than a change agent,” Butler says.
If Alexander—supported by Mayor Muriel Bowser, a hefty fundraising apparatus, and almost a decade of incumbency—lost to Gray, Butler will almost certainly do the same. Gray campaign treasurer Chuck Thies declined to comment on Butler until he makes the ballot.
Butler sees some advantages to losing: Like biding his time for 2020, the next time the seat is scheduled to be on the ballot.
“It’s one of the better ways of getting your name out, if you’re thinking about a future in politics,” Butler says.
|
cc/2021-04/en_middle_0045.json.gz/line1426
|
__label__cc
| 0.549194
| 0.450806
|
D.C. Chefs and Restaurants Come Home Empty-Handed at the Beard Awards
by Tim Carman May 4th, 2010 September 24th, 2020
After watching one D.C. nominee after another strike out last night at the James Beard Foundation Awards — from Komi‘s Johnny Monis in the Rising Star Chef category to CityZen’s Amanda Cook in the Outstanding Pastry Chef category — I thought for sure José Andrés would win the Outstanding Chef medal.
I mean, Andrés had all the momentum. He just was the subject of a glowing 60 Minutes profile and he had just told WaPo‘s Tom Sietsema he was opening two restaurants in Las Vegas. C’mon, if that isn’t Outstanding Chef material, what is?
Apparently, Tom Colicchio is. The Top Chef host took home the top honors last night at the Lincoln Center ceremonies. Colicchio was about the closest thing to a D.C. winner, given his constant presence in our restaurants as he films the next season of Top Chef in the District.
The real D.C. area contingent didn’t fare so well. Not only did Cook and Monis lose in their respective categories, but all three area toques nominated for the Best Chef: Mid-Atlantic medal lost out to Jeff Michaud of Osteria in Philadelphia. I’m sorry, I’ve eaten at Osteria, and it’s not in the same class as Restaurant Eve (whose chef Cathal Armstrong was up for the medal), nor even as consistently good as another local nominee, Peter Pastan, at the likewise Italian-leaning Obelisk.
What gives? I think the New York Times hit upon a legitimate point when it noted that Beard Foundation voters appear to be heavily influenced by celebrity chef restaurants (and their PR machines that constantly generate more favorable press). Marc Vetri, the co-owner of Osteria, is arguably Philly’s biggest celebrity chef. Armstrong certainly rates on the celebrity chef meter too, but in ways I can’t clearly define in this post-Beard Award haze, I don’t think his star is in the same orbit as Vetri’s. At least not on a national scale. Maybe I’m wrong. I’d love to hear your take, Y&H Nation.
One of the Beard Award highlights for Washingtonians had to be Carol Blymire‘s work on the foundation’s live-blog page. You can review her posts from the event here.
As noted yesterday, the D.C. area fared far better in Sunday night’s journalism awards, which might seem a little strange given we’re often surveying the food and restaurant scene around us.
Regardless if the locals won or lost, Y&H passes along his congratulations to all the nominees. You can read the full list of winners here.
Photo courtesy of the Beard Foundation
|
cc/2021-04/en_middle_0045.json.gz/line1430
|
__label__cc
| 0.715454
| 0.284546
|
Cereal Bowl Set to Open March 27
by Tim Carman March 17th, 2010 September 24th, 2020
I noticed the door was open at The Cereal Bowl so I wheeled into an illegal parking spot on Connecticut Avenue NW, near the Uptown, and decided to pop in. How long could it take to put together a bowl of cereal? Long enough to get a ticket?
I wanted to know.
Looks like I’ll have to wait until next week. The most criticized restaurant that no one has actually tried yet will open to the public on Saturday, March 27, the friendly man behind the counter said. The Cereal Bowl had just passed its health inspection today, he added, and plans to have a soft opening next week to test drive its cereal combos, specialty oatmeal bowls, parfaits, smoothies, and Ugly Mug coffee.
Believe it or not, the Cereal Bowl is not the only business to try to cash in on Frosted Flakes and Froot Loops. There’s also Cereality and possibly a company called Cereal Central, although I can’t find a Web site on the latter.
Regardless, the point is, D.C. will soon become part of the Cereal comedy, in which Washingtonians will pay good money to have someone put together a bowl of Something Sweet (Lucky Charms, Cinnamon Toast Crunch, Fruity Pebbles, Vanilla Wafers, and Rainbow Sprinkles), Give Me S’More (Golden Grahams, Cocoa Puffs, Marshmallow Graham Bites, and chocolate chips), and other specialty bowls of commercial cereal.
Check out some of the commentary from the foodie community:
Wow. Just wow. I looked at their “menu”. I don’t think you could make that shit up if you tried.
Infantile adults
It’s a pretty clever scheme by a bunch of college kids, but it does seem like an excuse to charge you a lot of money for something you can do for a buck at home.
Why do I suspect this is going to be a big hit? At least for awhile.
More pictures below:
|
cc/2021-04/en_middle_0045.json.gz/line1431
|
__label__wiki
| 0.52656
| 0.52656
|
Judge Rules Groping Victim Too Hot Not to Ogle
by Amanda Hess January 12th, 2010 September 30th, 2020
On Aug. 17, 2008, an Ottawa waitress in her early 20’s came down with some abdominal pain, so she left her early-morning shift to check into the emergency room at a local hospital. There, the woman alleged, an emergency room orderly repeatedly entered her exam room, ogled her, asked if she had a boyfriend, grazed her butt as he changed her sheets, looked up her skirt, then groped her breast beneath her shirt and called her beautiful. When the case went to court, Judge Robert Fournier convicted the orderly of sexual assault—-and cited the victim’s attractiveness as evidence.
According to the Ottawa Sun:
Testifying through an Ethiopian-dialect interpreter, [the defendant] denied doing anything but his job and said he didn’t even remember the woman until confronted by hospital officials.
He refused to agree with prosecutor Paul Attia that the woman was attractive, insisting he only found his wife beautiful.
Fournier scoffed at that.
“If 50 men, self-respecting, objective men, men who respect women, were to view (the woman), however briefly, they would conclude that she meets the standard of an attractive woman, at least in the city of Ottawa,” Fournier said.
The accused refused to admit it because he knew it would bolster her account he was showing her “undue attention,” Fournier argued.
“Here is a woman, relatively attractive, scantily dressed in a miniskirt, at times she is lying on the bed, exposing a great deal of her leg,” Fournier said.
“This accused refuses to acknowledge he noticed that. In my view this is virtually impossible.”
Strangely, the Sun piece does not mention any additional facts in the case that may have led to the orderly’s conviction. As far as this account is concerned, the woman’s appearance alone was enough to stick the guy with a sexual assault conviction.
I agree that claiming, in a court of law, that you are only capable of recognizing your wife’s beauty is a pretty stupid defense. But it’s depressing that even as a judge convicts a man of sexual assault, he insists upon reinforcing the most victim-blaming sentiments about women bringing unwanted attention onto themselves based on how they look and what they’re wearing. When a judge uses the word “scantily” in his description of a victim, you know you’re in trouble. (She was coming straight from work, remember). And the idea that a woman exposing “a great deal of leg”—-in a hospital exam room—-is just too tempting for a medical professional to ignore is ridiculous.
But Fournier didn’t stop there—-he then launched into a little hot-or-not scenario in open court. If he were to invite 50 regular dudes to come in and ogle this sexual assault victim, most would agree that she “meets the standard of an attractive woman”—-well, at least for Ottawa! (Because she’s not that hot, amirite?). Way to re-victimize a sexual assault victim even while convicting her assailant, Judge Fournier.
|
cc/2021-04/en_middle_0045.json.gz/line1432
|
__label__wiki
| 0.538665
| 0.538665
|
Most Read: Contributor Luxembourg, December 2020
Netherlands: Is Appointment Of A 'Projectnotaris', Under The Condition That Purchasing Costs Are Payable By The Purchaser, Unreasonably Onerous?
by Maaike Timmer
This is generally also accompanied by a transaction whereby the purchasing costs are payable by the purchaser, with the purchaser expected to pay the notarial fees, among other things. The Gelderland District Court recently rendered a judgment in preliminary relief proceedings on whether using a 'projectnotaris' in a transaction with purchasing costs payable by the purchaser places an unreasonable burden on the purchaser in question.
In the case before the court, the vendor was a housing association that always used a 'projectnotaris' appointed by it when selling properties. The intended purchaser was aware of this from the outset of the negotiations. The sales contract (a NVM contract) stated that the civil-law notary is appointed by the vendor and that the fees are to be borne by the purchaser. The purchaser openly disagreed with this provision, but nonetheless signed the (unamended) sales contract. The purchaser subsequently argued that the respective provision in the sales contract is an unreasonably onerous general condition because the purchaser would be obliged to enter into a contract with a third party (the civil-law notary).
It is true in itself that the starting point according to the law is that a general condition is unreasonably onerous if it obliges the counterparty to enter into a contract with a third party. This is a rebuttable presumption, however. The housing association argued that the stipulation can be reasonably demanded of the purchaser, since the law requires that the transfer of title to an immovable property be effected by means of a notarial deed. In addition, the appointment of a 'projectnotaris' is more efficient and economical from the housing association's perspective. Furthermore, the purchaser knew that the sale was subject to purchasing costs being payable by the purchaser, as this was made clear from the outset. The preliminary relief judge concurred and found in favour of the housing association.
The preliminary relief judge's decision is primarily a weighing of interests, with due regard for the circumstances of the case. It is clearly of importance that the purchaser was aware of the stipulation that there was a 'projectnotaris' whose fees would be paid by the purchaser and that there were multiple benefits for the vendor in appointing a 'projectnotaris'. The circumstances could also weigh in the purchaser's favour, of course. It seems advisable, prior to signing a sales contract, at a minimum to communicate clearly and where necessary to negotiate about the use and the costs of a 'projectnotaris'.
Maaike Timmer
Netherlands Real Estate and Construction Real Estate
POPULAR ARTICLES ON: Real Estate and Construction from Netherlands
Extension Of Duty Schemes On Acquisition Of Immovable Property
KPMG Malta
Schemes allowing for the reduction in duty on the acquisition of immovable property have been extended pursuant to the publication of LN 427 of 2020.
UK Construction & Engineering: Another Lockdown
The New Year has been ushered in by an alarming surge in hospitalisations and sadly a dramatic increase in deaths from the ongoing pandemic.
UK Construction And Brexit - What Does The Brexit Deal Do For UK Construction?
The final nail in the coffin of Christmas 2020 for me was getting a directive from NHS Test and Trace to self-isolate on the 23rd.
UK Construction & Engineering: The Cladding Catastrophe Car Crash!
2020 will be forever synonymous with the global pandemic. The end of the year saw the approval of vaccines and with that a hope to an end, or at least the taming, of the Covid-19 pandemic.
Contract Administrators - The Obligation Of Impartiality And Liability For Incorrect Certification
For well over a hundred years it has been standard practice for contract administrators to be used on construction contracts. Architects have been engaged to supervise and manage building contracts and engineers engineering contracts. More recently, project managers and construction managers have undertaken similar roles under new forms of contract.
Les Baux Commerciaux À L'épreuve Du Covid-19
Soulier Avocats
La fermeture de nombreuses entreprises depuis la mise en place du premier confinement en mars 2020 et le ralentissement de l'activité...
Dubbele bemiddelingskosten: Airbnb is op de vingers getikt! Dentons
PFAS problematiek in Nederland DLA Piper UK LLP
Energy Efficiency For Your Property? Act In Time! Loyens & Loeff
Should Parking Contracts Be Qualified As A Lease? Loyens & Loeff
Change In Sanction Policy For Sale Of Dutch Residential Properties Without Valid Energy Label: Immediately Due And Payable Penalty Loyens & Loeff
|
cc/2021-04/en_middle_0045.json.gz/line1436
|
__label__cc
| 0.503759
| 0.496241
|
21/01/2021 The Idiot’s Guide To Recreational Fishing Explained
20/01/2021 The For Golf Score Revealed
19/01/2021 Up In Arms About Champions Sports Academy?
18/01/2021 What You Do not Know About Champions Sports Center May possibly Surprise You
17/01/2021 The Single Thing To Do For Tennis Sports
16/01/2021 The Best Strategy For Tennis Champions
Unanswered Questions on Sports Champions That You Need To Learn About
J. Charles (KC) To your next Dordogne holiday, there are specific issues that you have to do and locations that you should not miss. Beneath are some recommendations on the place to go and what to do to make sure that your vacation in Dordogne is as fulfilling as possible. Rules: The flexibility to get into the zone, at will, creates champions. Envisioning confidence towards reaching his objective is vitally important. Visualization is a wonderful instrument for achievement. The greater his mindset for achievement, the greater his potential recapture his dream.A�
The primary one is to do nothing and spend the rest of the sport worrying whether or not they’ll conceded or not, and the other one is to place a small bet on draw (and even smaller on the opposite workforce), as a way to expect some sort of profit no matter how the game ends. The percentages on the team that concede a objective clearly enhance an important deal and also you, subsequently, have the prospect to safe your winnings.
J. Addai (IND) That is what had to say about it:
For the second time in as a few years, Rory McIlroy blistered the field in considered one of golf’s major championships in path to successful in record setting trend. This performance by the 23-12 months-outdated from Northern Eire leads further credence to the concept he will be the new face of the game for the foreseeable future.
In Basketball, one must grasp physical and mental talents. However, to succeed in one’ potential, one must adopt a attitude of competitors that boosters confidence and sportsmanship that may be felt by fellow teammates, challengers and fans. That sort of mindset constitutes the psychology of nice sportsmanship.
St. Louis Cardinals. A. Peterson (MIN) S. Holmes (NYJ)
It seems to me that we could redesign the wetsuits in order that they may hyper inflate permitting a surfer to rapidly come to the surface in case they received into bother, obtained simply oriented, or couldn’t figure out which means was up whereas turning and churning within the wave action like the proverbial misplaced sock that disappears in your washer or dryer.
After studying the important thing positions on repeat basketball championship teams and the life of Joseph, I noticed seven key positions of purpose for all times. I matched the seven key positions of a repeat championship basketball crew with the seven key positions of goal for all times and listed here are my results.
This is the time of yr all athletes must be engaged on enhancing method and becoming more fit and balanced. Each and every pair used laser printed graphics on the shoe’s upper. The graphics depicted elements distinctive to every city. Every time an athlete loses or performs badly, the tendency is in charge himself for not doing sufficient for sports motivations.
The Idiot’s Guide To Recreational Fishing Explained
The For Golf Score Revealed
Up In Arms About Champions Sports Academy?
What You Do not Know About Champions Sports Center May possibly Surprise You
The Single Thing To Do For Tennis Sports
academy center champion champions climbing clubs fishing games latest more about gyms olympics outdoor recreational score sport sports tennis
The Idiot’s Guide To Recreational Fishing Explained 21/01/2021
The For Golf Score Revealed 20/01/2021
Up In Arms About Champions Sports Academy? 19/01/2021
Activity Max Sports
Delivered by Max Sports
|
cc/2021-04/en_middle_0045.json.gz/line1452
|
__label__wiki
| 0.814026
| 0.814026
|
DEFEND YOUR COMMUNITY
Help make sure that every Wyomingite's right to thrive is protected.
ACLU of Wyoming
ACLU National
All News and Blogs
Grab your kit and get advocating
Your advocacy toolkit for Menstrual Equity
What Does the ACLU Say About the Right to March While Armed?
Legislative Advocacy Toolkit
Legislative Bill Tracker
50 State Blueprint: Wyoming
FACTS AND POLICY REFORMS FOR WYOMING
As in most states, the prison population in Wyoming has exploded in recent decades.
Between 1980 and 2017, the number of imprisoned people nearly quintupled. As of 2018, 2,493 people were incarcerated by the state in prisons. That same year, Wyoming was no longer able to house all of its prisoners and began paying a contractor to imprison 88 in people in Mississippi. Without reform, the state prison population will grow by 200 people by 2023, costing more than $50 million in new contracts and/or prison capacity.
In 2018, almost 40 percent of people in Wyoming were imprisoned for drug or property related offenses. Additionally, between 2013 and 2017, the number of prison admissions for supervision revocations increased by 27 percent. 84 percent of revocations over this period did not include a new felony conviction.
Unsurprisingly, Wyoming’s mass incarceration crisis has had an enormous impact on people of color, especially Black people. In 2015, the imprisonment rate of Black adults in Wyoming was nearly 5 times that of white adults, and although they made up just one percent of the state’s adult population, Black adults accounted for five percent of state’s prison population.
The population of women in Wyoming prisons is also growing at an alarming rate: Between 1980 and 2016, the number of women imprisoned in Wyoming grew nearly tenfold. Despite empty beds at the Wyoming Women’s Center (WWC), in 2018 eight women were moved to a county jail due to understaffing. A lawsuit filed in early 2019 by three women imprisoned in the WWC alleged unconstitutional conditions due to overcrowding and deteriorating facilities.
But it doesn’t have to be this way.
Wyoming can dramatically reduce its prison population by implementing just a few sensible reforms:
Advocate for a restorative justice model for the wider criminal justice system.
Expand probation as the presumptive punishment for certain crimes.
Prohibit incarceration in cases of technical violations of parole and probation.
Expand Medicaid so that Wyomingites have greater access to drug treatment.
Reduce reliance on cash bail and create a fairer, smarter pretrial system.
If Wyoming were to follow these and other reforms outlined in this Smart Justice 50-State Blueprint, 1,528 fewer people would be in prison in the state by 2025, saving over $166 million that could be invested in schools, services, and other resources that would strengthen communities.
For more information, along with detailed breakdowns of Wyoming’s prison population and the reforms needed to reduce it, click here.
pdfSmart Justice 50 State Blueprint, Wyoming
https://www.aclu-wy.org/sites/default/files/field_documents/sj-blueprint-wy.pdf
REPORT: Bucking the Trend
We Can Uphold Free Speech and Hold President Trump Accountable
Let Ron tell you why the death penalty must be repealed
Chat with ACLU-WY
ACLU of Wyoming to Host Virtual Know Your Rights Workshop in Spanish
Pasajero: ¡Usted tiene derechos!
Know Your Rights: Riding Public Transit or Public Interest Transit
Search aclu-wy.org
ACLU of Wyoming on Facebook
ACLU of Wyoming on Twitter
ACLU of Wyoming on YouTube
ACLU of Wyoming on Instagram
© 2021 ACLU of Wyoming
|
cc/2021-04/en_middle_0045.json.gz/line1457
|
__label__cc
| 0.519099
| 0.480901
|
Adult Humor Questionable for Children
Geffen Pictures, MTV Networks, Paramount Pictures
Beavis and Butt-head Do America (1996)
Directed by Mike Judge / Kim Jae Joong / Park Jun Nam / Kim Jong-Ho / Yvette Kaplan / Chris Prynoski
Genres - Comedy | Sub-Genres - Buddy Film, Gross-Out Comedy, Road Movie | Release Date - Dec 20, 1996 (USA) | Run Time - 82 min. | Countries - United States | MPAA Rating - PG13
Review ↓
Synopsis by Clarke Fountain
This is a full-length cartoon movie featuring the dim-witted obnoxious loser teens, Beavis and Butt-head. They are obsessed with sex, TV, heavy-metal rock 'n roll, sex, coolness and sex, in that order. The trouble begins when the couch-potato duo's beloved television disappears (they assume it was stolen). In the course of trying to get another TV, they get involved in a major arms-smuggling scheme and are chased all over the U.S. by mobsters and lawmen alike. In one of the movie's highlights, Butt-head tries to get Chelsea Clinton to go to bed with him. Apparently he believes that since they both wear braces, she will naturally want to have sex with him.
Obsessive Quests
on-the-road, couch-potato, television, teenagers, smuggling, FBI (Federal Bureau of Investigation), gangster, loser, robbery, sex, on-the-run
|
cc/2021-04/en_middle_0045.json.gz/line1467
|
__label__wiki
| 0.889131
| 0.889131
|
President Trump leaves White House for the final time, skipping Biden inauguration
Just in....
A HISTORIC INAUGURATION DAY
President Trump pardons 73 people hours before leaving the White House on Inauguration Day
12 National Guard members removed from Biden's inauguration over reported ties to militias
WATCH: President Donald Trump released a farewell address
Silver Spring resident arrested after GPS ankle monitor places him at Capitol riot
200K flags placed on the National Mall ahead of Biden inauguration
Trump to lift some Covid travel restrictions, a move Biden immediately rejects
Trump Will Issue 100 Pardons on His Final Day In Office
Maryland Receives Major Disaster Declaration From Federal Administration For COVID-19
Governor Larry Hogan announced tonight that the State of Maryland has received a Major Disaster Declaration from the federal administration in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Earlier today, Maryland reported 580 confirmed cases of COVID-19—an increase of 157 new cases, which is by far the largest one-day increase to date. The number of confirmed cases in the National Capital Region has quadrupled over the past week.
The announcement comes just hours after Governor Hogan pushed for disaster declarations for the states during a teleconference with the White House. As chairman of the National Governors Association, he also continued to press for further action on the five requests he submitted to the president and vice president last week.
“We are pleased that our federal partners answered our calls for action and swiftly granted Maryland’s request for a Major Disaster Declaration,” said Governor Hogan. “This declaration will help provide much-needed funding for state and local governments and nonprofits, and it will be another important step in Maryland’s aggressive and coordinated response to COVID-19.”
Tonight’s announcement means Maryand will be eligible for reimbursement for the Emergency Protective Measures taken by state and local government agencies and certain non-profit groups under its Public Assistance program under the Robert T. Stafford Act.
“The COVID-19 pandemic is having a significant impact on our entire state and country unlike anything we have seen before,” said Russell Strickland, Executive Director for the Maryland Emergency Management Agency. “We have been working alongside Governor Hogan and our local partners to ensure the continued safety and wellbeing of all Marylanders. This declaration is an important and necessary step to continue on our path of resilience.”
INFO: coronavirus.maryland.gov.
2020 ALL NEW DIGITAL PRIVACY POLICY
|
cc/2021-04/en_middle_0045.json.gz/line1468
|
__label__wiki
| 0.569049
| 0.569049
|
Share buybacks continue at P2P Global Investments trust, nears 2 per cent of issuance
By Daniel Lanyon on Tuesday 13 December 2016
The P2P and marketplace lending fund is aiming to narrow its 25 per cent discount at current low valuations.
The largest closed-ended portfolio offering exposure to the P2P/marketplace lending space P2P Global Investments has entered into another round of share buy-backs in the past three weeks, according to regulatory filings.
In the past two months, the fund has engaged in share buybacks on 14 separate days, with tranches of buybacks ranging from 3,400 to 50,000 in a single day, the latter has occurred on four separate occasions.
The portfolio, like several of its sector peers such VPC Speciality Lending, has seen a bearish widening of its discount to net asset value [NAV], this year despite mostly consecutive monthly gains in its NAV, in comparison to its first few months back in 2014, where the investment trust was on a double-digit premium. Several factors have prompted its share price to fall. The discount is today 25.3 per cent.
Sellers have been concerned of cash drag from currency hedging as well as the level of defaults, amid the market volatility and uncertainty post Brexit, analysts at Numis Securities.
“Returns have been hit by the cost involved in putting in place debt facilities that were not fully utilised; Lending Club increasing rates, which reduced the value of existing loans; holding large cash balances against potential losses from currency hedges; and the life cycle of delinquencies,” they said recently.
Gearing is now 90 per cent, versus a target of 100 per cent, and cash levels are relatively modest at 4.8 per cent of the portfolio. In September, the fund securitised a pool of Zopa loans which is expected to reduce the cost of debt.
The total amount of share capital held in treasury by the £841m fund has now reached 1.8 per cent of total issuance
The fund initiated share buybacks back in June after calls from some institutional investors. It subsequently completed several more rounds of buybacks, including 250,000 in just one day in July, in two more periods in the summer. It now holds a total 1,567,604 Ordinary Shares out of a total 86,306,803 Ordinary Shares.
According to AltFi Data, the trust has outperformed the broader UK marketplace lending space, as measured by the Liberum AltFi Returns index (the LARI) since its launch back in 2014.
Performance of P2P GI's NAV since launch vs LARI
Source: AltFi Data
|
cc/2021-04/en_middle_0045.json.gz/line1469
|
__label__wiki
| 0.562335
| 0.562335
|
Search AMA
Join AMA
Professional Certified Marketer
Digital Marketing Certification
Advanced Digital Marketing Certification
Content Marketing Certification
Marketing Management Certification
Sales Management Certification
What Is Marketing?
About AMA
AMA Foundation
Please upgrade your web browser. We noticed that you are using Internet Explorer. Please consider using an alternative such as Microsoft Edge, Chrome, or Firefox.
Ensuring Market Entry or Survival During Disruptive Technology Innovation
Deepa Chandrasekaran, Gerard J. Tellis and Gareth M. James
In July 2020, Tesla became the world’s most valuable automaker, surpassing Toyota in market value for the first time. Ironically, it was Toyota that in 1997 released the Prius, the world’s first mass-produced hybrid electric vehicle. In 2006, Tesla Motors, an upstart entrant, bet its future on fully electric cars. Incumbents dismissed the effort as futile because of the high entry barriers for auto production, the high cost of production in California, and the challenges of establishing charging stations across the vast USA. In contrast, Toyota bet the future on hybrids. Toyota faced hard choices: invest in hybrids, all-electrics, or both?
This example illustrates that during times of potentially disruptive technological change, both industry incumbents and new entrants face difficult choices. For incumbents, the critical dilemma is whether to cannibalize their own successful offerings and introduce the new (successive) technology, survive with their old offerings, or invest in both. To address this dilemma, they need to know whether disruption is inevitable and if so, how much of their existing sales will be cannibalized over time, or whether both old and new technologies may, in fact, exist in tandem (coexist). The entrant’s dilemma is whether to target a niche to avoid incumbent reaction or target the mass market and incur the wrath of the incumbent.
Our new study in the Journal of Marketing posits that to effectively manage disruption, companies must answer the following questions: First, when does an old technology coexist with a new, successive technology, versus going into an immediate decline? If so, how can one account for the coexistence of two technologies in an empirical model? Second, how can one estimate the extent of cannibalization and leapfrogging of an old technology by a new technology over time? Third, can consumer segments explain coexistence, cannibalization, and leapfrogging in successive technologies and, if so, in which segments?
To answer these questions, we develop a generalized model of the diffusion of successive technologies. A key feature of the generalized model is the rate of disengagement from the old technology, which is not forced to equal the rate of adoption of the successive technology, thus allowing both technologies to coexist. A low rate of disengagement indicates people hold both technologies (co-existence) whereas a high rate of disengagement indicates they let go of the old technology in favor of the new (cannibalization). We apply our model to three different types of aggregate data to ascertain model fit:
penetration of seven successive technology pairs across 105 countries (441 technology pair-country combinations), spanning multiple years;
sales of three contemporaneous technology pairs across 40 countries (92 technology pair-country combinations);
case analyses of real disruption of large incumbents in the U.S.
Our key finding is that technological disruption is frequent, with dominant incumbents failing in the face of takeoff of a new technology. However, disruption is neither always quick nor universal because new technologies sometimes coexist as partial substitutes of the old technologies. Our generalized model of diffusion of successive technologies can help marketers capture disruption or coexistence due to the presence of a rate of disengagement from the old technology, which can vary from the rate of adoption of the new technology. This model enables a superior fit to data on technological succession over prior multi-generational models that do not include such flexibility.
Next, we identify four adopter segments that account for competition between successive technologies from aggregate data: leapfroggers correlate with the growth of the new technology, switchers and opportunists account for the cannibalization of the old technology, and dual users account for the coexistence of both technologies. The generalized model can capture variations in segment sizes across technologies and markets. For example, leapfroggers form a dominant component of adopters in the early life cycle of a new technology in developing markets while dual users do so in developed markets.
We model can provide important signals about disruption and survival by estimating cannibalization versus co-existence and forecasting the evolution of four critical consumers segments from aggregate data. Incumbents often wait until the market for the new technology is large enough to be profitable before committing resources to its development. Our analysis suggests that managers should be careful not to underestimate cannibalization by switchers, especially when they dominate dual users, or the growth of new technologies via leapfroggers (especially in developing countries). In addition, despite its frequent occurrence, disruption is not a given when a new successive technology enters the market. Thus, managers do not have to make a stark choice between the two technologies. Disruption may be averted by effectively targeting dual users and by carefully examining factors driving the prolonged (co)existence of the old technology.
From: Deepa Chandrasekaran, Gerard Tellis, and Gareth James, “Leapfrogging, Cannibalization, and Survival during Disruptive Technological Change: The Critical Role of Rate of Disengagement,” Journal of Marketing.
Go to the Journal of Marketing
Sign Up for the "My Journal Reader" Newsletter
Get the latest academic-focused marketing research and updates directly in your inbox. My Journal Reader is powered by AI to bring you personalized content that is most relevant to you.
Please wait …
How to Maximize the Potential of Marketing Agility
How to Win Back Customer Defectors
How Anxiety—and Hope—Can Drive New Product Adoption
Deepa Chandrasekaran
Deepa Chandrasekaran is Associate Professor, University of Texas at San Antonio, USA.
Gerard J. Tellis
Gerard J. Tellis is Professor, Director of the Center for Global Innovation, and Neely Chair of American Enterprise, Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California.
Gareth M. James
Gareth M. James is Deputy Dean, E. Morgan Stanley Chair in Business Administration, and Professor of Data Sciences and Operations, University of Southern California, USA.
Marketing Services Search
© 2021 American Marketing Association. This site content may not be copied, reproduced, or redistributed without the prior written permission of the American Marketing Association or its affiliates.
|
cc/2021-04/en_middle_0045.json.gz/line1470
|
__label__cc
| 0.713122
| 0.286878
|
Church Booth Schedule
Over 10 Years of Giving
AARF has helped for over 10 years. 100% of your donations have and always will go directly to a family in dire need of help, and hope. There are many ways to help our cause
Watch our 10 Year Anniversary Tribute 38:16
Watch our 10 Year Anniversary Tribute
Answering the Call to Help Refugees
How would you like to wake up one day, and discover a letter on your doorstep threatening to kill you if you don’t leave the place your people have called home for thousands of years? How would you feel about having your business, home, or church bombed? What if your sister was kidnapped, raped, forced into marriage or murdered, all for being Christian? What if you were a part of this modern-day genocide?
There are many ways to help, and 100% of your donations go directly to a family in dire need of help, and hope. There are many ways to help our cause
The turmoil in Iraq & surrounding areas has taken a toll on more than 50,000 families, which are comprised of mostly Christians, including Assyrians, Chaldeans, Syriacs, Armenians, and other ancient and historic cultures dating back thousands of years. These refugees are being singled out, persecuted, kidnapped, raped, and even murdered because of their religious beliefs. They have nowhere to call home, and are forbidden to work, forcing young women into prostitution starting as young as 9 years old.
Reduced to the status of “refugee”, these displaced persons are prohibited from working, going to school, worshipping… and are prevented from living their normal lives. Not only have they lost their homes, their jobs, and their livelihoods, but their food, water and other basic necessities have become exceedingly scarce. Entire families, children, infants, grandmothers… are homeless, hungry and desperate.
The Adopt-a-Refugee Family program has been successfully working with the Jesuits to aid these refugees for years.
View our Giving History
Our Leadership Committee
All Adopt-A-Refugee Family Committee members and volunteers work on a purely voluntary basis. None of them are paid for any of the work they do for the Adopt-A-Refugee charity. All Administrative and overhead costs associated with this effort have been paid for by an anonymous donor from the Chaldean community.
Basil Bacall – Chairman
Jamhouria Kaskorkis
Renee Kakos
Sara Iskander
Adil Bahari
Mike Setto
Karl Senawi
Najat Ibrahim
Raed Jabbori
Melody Kalla
Albert Bajjoka
Huda Bajjoka
Please note our TAX ID # is 501(c) 38-2953203
West Bloomfield Township, MI 48322
E: info@adoptarefugeefamily.org
E: receiptsaarf@gmail.com
Adopt-A-Refugee Family Chairman – Basil Bacall
© 2020 ADOPT A REFUGEE FAMILY PROGRAM
POWERED BY LOCAL WEBSITE COMPANY
|
cc/2021-04/en_middle_0045.json.gz/line1474
|
__label__wiki
| 0.974985
| 0.974985
|
Sudan protest hub: US threatens sanctions in case of any junta violence
Sudan protest updates: December 2018 – February 1, 2019
June 19, 2019: Junta sends envoy to Nigeria
A top U.S. State Department official who deals with Sudan said on Tuesday that Washington was considering all options, including possible sanctions, if there was more violence after a deadly assault on protesters in Khartoum early this month.
“We’re looking at all options, including sanctions down the line should there be any kind of repeat of violence,” Makila James, deputy assistant secretary for East Africa and the Sudans, told a U.S. House of Representatives hearing.
She said they could include visa sanctions or economic sanctions. “We want to use the right tool and we want to target the right people,” James said.
Sudan’s ruling generals and an opposition coalition have been wrangling for weeks over what form a transitional government should take after the military deposed and detained long-time president Omar al-Bashir on April 11.
Talks between the two sides collapsed when security forces stormed a protest sit-in on June 3, killing dozens and prompting concern from world powers.
James told the House Foreign Affairs Africa subcommittee that Washington believes the best possible outcome in Sudan is an agreement between the military authorities and the opposition Forces for Freedom and Change, or FFC.
The State Department appointed a veteran diplomat, Donald Booth, as special envoy for Sudan on June 10.
James praised a mediation effort led by Ethiopia and said Washington had made clear “in very strong terms” that a unilateral military government would not be acceptable.
The United States sanctioned Sudan under Bashir over its alleged support for militant groups and the civil war in Darfur.
Trade sanctions were lifted in 2017 but Sudan is still on the U.S. list of state sponsors of terrorism, which prevents it from accessing badly needed funding from international lenders. Washington says Sudan will stay on the list until the military leaves power.
Prior to the arrival of Lt. Gen. Jammal Eddin Ibrahim in Abuja, Nigeria on Thursday, the military junta in Sudan had largely engaged players in the region and gulf players.
An aide to Nigerian president Muhammadu Buhari posted pictures of the Sudanese Special Envoy on Twitter. He did not give any details as to what their discussions were about.
Lt. Gen. Jammal Eddin Ibrahim is currently the Sudanese Head of Security and Defence Committee. Back home the stalemate in talks between the junta and protesters continues with Ethiopian PM Abiy Ahmed expected to fly to Khartoum.
President MBuhari earlier today received Special Envoy from Sudan, the Sudanese Head of Security and Defence Committee Lt. Gen. Jammal Eddin Ibrahim at the Presidential Villa, Abuja. pic.twitter.com/4DvcC4yNFh
— Bashir Ahmad (BashirAhmaad) June 20, 2019
June 17-18, 2019: Night rallies, new tactic of protest movement
Sudan’s protest leaders earlier this week called for nighttime demonstrations and marches in the capital, Khartoum, and elsewhere in the country, amid a tense standoff with the ruling military over who should lead the transition after the ouster of the autocrat Omar al-Bashir.
The protest leaders said they’ve begun a “revolutionary escalation” to pressure the country’s generals to hand over power to civilians and to condemn the military’s violent dispersal of their sit-in camp in Khartoum earlier this month.
At least 128 people have died since the security force’s crackdown on June 3, according to the protest organizers. The military-backed authorities, however, say 61 people died, including three members of the security forces.
The group representing the protesters — known as the Forces for the Declaration of Freedom and Change — said the night rallies will begin on Tuesday and marches on Thursday.
June 14, 2019: Junta leader in Eritrea
A Sudanese delegation on Friday arrived in neighbouring Eritrea for a working visit, the Eritrean Information Minister disclosed on Friday.
The delegation is led by Chairman of the Transitional Military Council, TMC; Abdul Fattah Al-Burhan. They were received by President Isaias Afwerki at the Asmara International Airport.
The two sides have since talks which are likely to center around bilateral relations and incidents back in post-Bashir Sudan.
Eritrea has in recent weeks been a vocal neighbour calling on the African Union to stop externalizing the crisis and then Afwerki’s visit to Egypt to hold talks on Sudan with Egyptian counterpart Abdel Fatteh Al-Sisi.
Eritrea was the only country in the region that the TMC leader had yet to visit in the last few months. Al-Burhan has alread been to Egypt, South Sudan and Ethiopia holding talks with the respective leaders.
Back home, despite the resumption of talks between the junta and protest leaders; the call for a third party is the latest stumbling block to the talks. Protesters are also demanding a probe into deaths from a violent break up of a sit-in.
The Chairman of Sudan’s Transitional Military Council (TMC), Lt. Gen. Abdul-Fattah Al-Burhan, arrived in Asmara in mid-morning hours today for working visit to #Eritrea. Delegation was accorded warm welcome by President Isaias Afwerki on arrival at Asmara’s International Airport. pic.twitter.com/zGvV88o1sw
— Yemane G. Meskel (@hawelti) June 14, 2019
June 4, 2019: German envoy talks tough at special UNSC meeting on Sudan
The United Nations Security Council called an emergency meeting to discuss events in Sudan after a deadly attack by security forces on protesters in Khartoum on Monday.
One of the biggest pronouncements from the stakeout of the session was by the German envoy Ambassador Heusgen who warned against the use of force in a bid to achieve legitimacy.
“Legitimacy cannot come from the barrel of a gun,” the German Mission to the UN quoted him in a tweet.
Whiles expressing “deep concern over violence against protesters in #Sudan. He stresses the urgent need for a return to the negotiation table to bring about an inclusive, civilian-led transitional gov’t,” the tweet added.
The June 3 attack led to the deaths of over 30 people whiles over 100 are reported to have sustained varied degrees of injuries. Protest leaders have vowed to escalate their push for civilian transition.
Hours after the deadly removal of a sit-in by predominantly Rapid Special Forces, RSF, with the backing of other militia, the junta that deposed Omar Al-Bashir has scrapped previous agreements with protesters.
The Abdul Fattah al-Burhan-led junta has also scheduled elections in nine months time, a time frame totally rejected by the protest leaders.
The junta initially called for two-year transition. It later agreed a three-year period in what is now scrapped legislative deal with the protest leaders.
Post-Bashir Sudan has proven to be a very difficult period as the country grapples with the aftershocks of a revolution that many believe is experiencing a counterrevolution engineered from outside the country by powerful players in the Gulf region – Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates and Egypt.
On the situation in #Sudan: We are deeply worried about developments in #Khartoum. Violence against protesters cannot be justified and has to stop immediately. We call on parties to avoid escalation and to return to the negotiating table.
— GermanForeignOffice (@GermanyDiplo) June 3, 2019
June 3, 2019: Violent break up of Khartoum sit-in
Security forces stormed a protest camp in the Sudanese capital Khartoum on Monday and opposition-linked medics said more than 30 people were killed in the worst violence since the overthrow of President Omar al-Bashir in April.
Footage shared on social media and verified by Reuters showed chaotic scenes of people fleeing through streets as sustained bursts of gunfire crackled in the air during violence that drew rapid Western and African censure.
Witnesses said a sit-in next to the Defence Ministry, the focal point of anti-government protests that started in December, had been cleared. Protesters poured onto streets elsewhere in Khartoum and beyond in response, setting up barricades and roadblocks with rocks and burning tyres.
A group of doctors linked to the opposition said 30 people had been “martyred” in Monday’s violence, with the toll expected to rise because not all casualties had been accounted for. The group had earlier said at least 116 people were wounded.
The main protest group accused the ruling military council of perpetrating “a massacre” as it broke up the camp.
The Transitional Military Council (TMC) denied that, with a spokesman, Lieutenant General Shams El Din Kabbashi, telling Reuters security forces were pursuing “unruly elements” who had fled to the protest site and caused chaos.
“The Transitional Military Council regrets the way the situation unfolded, reaffirming its full commitment to the … safety of the citizens and renews its call for negotiations as soon as possible,” the council later said in a statement.
Monday’s violence is likely to deal a blow to hopes for a restart to stalled talks and a negotiated settlement over who should govern in a transitional period after Bashir’s overthrow.
Sudan’s public prosecutor on Monday ordered an investigation into the violence, state news agency SUNA said.
Early June 2019: Mass protest demanding transition
Tens of thousands of Sudanese demonstrators converged on central Khartoum on Thursday night demanding civilian rule amid increasing tensions with the country’s military rulers who accused a protest encampment of threatening stability.
The protest, which followed a two-day strike organised by demonstrators and opposition groups frustrated by a deadlock in talks on a transition to democracy, underscores the volatility of the situation in Sudan nearly two months after the military overthrew autocrat Omar al-Bashir.
The head of the central Khartoum military region accused “unruly elements” of attacking a vehicle used by the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) and seizing it near the protest site.
“The protest site has become unsafe and represents a danger to the revolution and the revolutionaries and threatens the coherence of the state and its national security,” General Bahar Ahmed al-Bahar, head of the central region in Khartoum said in a statement he read on television.
May 23, 2019: Hemedti in Saudi, stalemate back home persists
The two leaders of the Transitional Military Council, TMC, were in the news for different reasons on Thursday. Deputy head of TMC Mohamed Hamdan known as Hemedti arrived in Saudi Arabia for an official visit.
He was met on arrival in Jeddah by Prince Khalid Faisal. Saudi has been blamed as one of the interferers in ongoings back in Sudan. They have since Bashir’s overthrow made financial support available to Sudan.
Back home an opposition concession in transition talks was said to have been rejected by the TMC.
A journalist closely following the talks, Yousra Elbagir said the coalition had offered the TMC leader, Abdul Fattah al Burhan the role of leader of the sovereign body that was to lead the three-year transition.
But the TMC’s rejection was on the grounds that the coalition wanted a civilian Burhan to be leader – in which case he was expected to retire from the Army in order to hold the post. Neither the coalition or TMC have confirmed the report.
“On negotiations, inside source tells me: “[Opposition] Coalition made a major concession: they offered to agree to Burhan being President/Head of the Presidential Council – on the condition that he retire from the Army. It was flatly rejected [by Transitional Military Council]” she sad in a tweet.
Vice Chair of the Transitional Military Council, Mohamed Hamdan “Hemedti” arrives to Jeddah, Saudi Arabia today and met by Prince Khalid Faisal. pic.twitter.com/YDGsFIcj27
— Yousra Elbagir (@YousraElbagir) May 23, 2019
May 16, 2019: Roadblock removal starts, US lawmakers demand more pressure on junta
The removal of roadblocks in parts of the Sudanese capital, Khartoum, has started according to multiple reports.
The many roadblocks that had crippled movement across Khartoum led to the suspension of civilian-led transition talks between the military junta and protest leaders.
The military said it had suspended the talks for 72 hours effective Thursday morning. The protest leaders hit back at the move describing it as a surprise tactic by the military.
Nile Street is now officially open, after protesters clear barricades.
Fb live stream:.https://t.co/qhzEeDabTj
Meanwhile, a group of United States Senators have reiterated a call for America to stand with the Sudanese people in their fight to achieve a democratic country.
In a May 16 letter to the U.S. Secretary of State and Secretary of the Treasury, the 92 bipartisan lawmakers said: “This is a critical moment for Sudan, one that came about because of the Sudanese people took to the streets to demand it.
“It is also critical for the United States to support Sudanese citizen’s demands for real democratic change.” The protests that started since December 2018 has led to the ouster and arrest of long serving Omar al-Bashir.
May 16, 2019: Roadblock removal blocks transition talks
Days after the military and protest leaders agreed on a deal to lead Sudan out of a post-Bashir political flux, there is a new headache in the form of mounted roadblocks.
The Transitional Military Council, TMC, is calling for all roadblocks particularly in a designated area in the capital to be removed.
The measure had been one of the effective means that protesters have used in pressing for their demands. Vehicular movement has been largely restricted due to the roadblocks.
Protesters have also camped around these roadblocks as part of a sit-in around the premises of the military headquarters. Attempts to forcibly remove the roadblocks have failed despite claiming lives of some protesters and a security official.
The two parties have agreed for a three-year transition period to a civilian administration. The opposition alliance would have two-thirds of the seats on a legislative council. The sticking point is about who gets what number of seats on the sovereign council.
May 15, 2019: South Sudan president comments on crisis
The military junta that deposed Omar al-Bashir have agreed a deal transition deal with the opposition alliance. This follows weeks of back and forth over post-Bashir Sudan.
How long: The two parties have agreed for a three-year transition period to a civilian administration.
Legislative make up: The Transitional Military Council (TMC) disclosed that the alliance would have two-thirds of the seats on a legislative council.
TMC & opposition joint presser now:
They have agreed on a transitional period of three years & a legislative council comprising of 300 members, 67% will be signatories of the Declaration of Freedom & Change and 33% will not.
No mention of composition of ruling council.
Sticking point: the configuration of a sovereign council is what remains outstanding. The military and civilians have disagreed on who gets majority of seats on the council.
The last time the military made concessions on the issue, they said the best they could do was to allow for equal representation.
President Salva Kiir of South Sudan has asked that the sovereignty of Sudan be respected in this time of political uncertainty as the country works towards a transition.
“It is important to remind international and regional actors not to interfere in Sudan. The people of Sudan are perfectly capable of managing their own affairs. Let us prove the world wrong.
“We are not war mongers, we are peace loving people and we are a proud and dignified nation,” he said on Tuesday during the opening of the second session of the South Sudan parliament in Juba.
Meanwhile, over in Sudan, post-Bashir flux continues. Transition deadlock between the junta that ousted Bashir and protest leaders is reportedly making headway.
The Khartoum sit-ins that have crippled movement in key areas of the capital continues. Reports indicate that in the second city Omdurman, protesters have blocked roads after deadly clashes on Monday in Khartoum.
May 13, 2019: Sudan’s military and opposition agree on power structure
Sudan’s military council and opposition groups have agreed to a power structure for the country’s transition but have yet to decide how long it will last or the make-up of transitional bodies, the council’s spokesman said on Monday (May 13).
Protesters are pushing for a civilian-led transition and have kept up demonstrations against the council since military officers removed Bashir, who is now facing multiple criminal investigations, from power.
On Monday they blocked roads in central Khartoum in an escalation of tactics after security forces used tear gas to disperse dozens of protesters across the Nile in Khartoum North, Reuters witnesses said.
On day two demonstrators blocked Nile Street, a major avenue running south of the Blue Nile, placing burning branches and stones across the road.
The military-civilian balance of power and the length of the transition have been key sticking points in talks between the council and an alliance of protest and opposition groups since former President Omar al-Bashir was ousted on April 11.
Sudan military, protesters sign power-sharing deal
Sudan to hold elections within nine months
Dozen plus protesters killed in 'attack' on Sudan sit-in, junta condemned
At least 48 people killed in inter-communal violence
It is Christmas time for Coptic Christians
United States signs $1.2bn loan deal with Sudan
Talks / negotiations
protests in sudan
At least 130 people killed in Sudan after days of inter ethnic violence
Nigerian Army Regains Control of Marte Military Base Post-ISWAP Attack
ECOWAS confident of Mali's return to civilian rule before 18 month deadline
Nigeria: 13 soldiers killed in jihadist attack
UN camp in Sudan registers new Tigrayan refugees
|
cc/2021-04/en_middle_0045.json.gz/line1479
|
__label__wiki
| 0.516273
| 0.516273
|
Milk price cuts ‘inevitable’ as Covid-19 tightens grip on dairy
Apr 2, 2020, 5:45pm
Image source: Claire Keogh
Milk price cuts are “inevitable” over the coming months, with one dairy giant projecting a reduction beyond 2c/L as the sector braces itself for a Covid-19 hammer blow.
While urgent steps are being taken to protect the sector at national level – all of the country’s processors are collaborating and sharing information in a bid to manage processing disruption; next month’s milk cheque will not escape the contagion.
Speaking to AgriLand, Jim Woulfe, the CEO of Dairygold, gave some insights on milk price outlook for the months ahead, as peak milk production is set to coincide with the peak outbreak of the highly-infectious virus.
It is next to near-impossible to put a number on it at this moment in time because the powder side has fallen well away.
“Cheese is only now recently impacted; butter hasn’t been impacted much yet – so it’s going to be that balance of products that are going to bear the true price correction.
“But you are looking at a reduction – and it will be more than one or two cent per litre,” he said.
While March prices may not be as significantly impacted, Woulfe says the “full brunt” will happen in April, May and June.
With the EU skimmed milk powder price having fallen from €2,500/t to €2,000/t; while cheese and butter has fallen to €100/t, the CEO says its milk price will land “somewhere in between” when the co-op sits down to look at accounts in the next 10 days.
“That’s all I want to say on it at this point. I can’t put an exact number on it; but it’s looking pretty negative at this point in time,” he said.
Woulfe was speaking following the publication of Dairygold’s financial results for 2019 – having reported an annual turnover of €1.02 billion, an increase of €27.5 million (2.7%) on the previous year.
Dairygold’s 2,750 milk suppliers expanded milk production by 50 million litres during 2019, to deliver a record 1.39 billion litres of milk to the cooperative over the 12-month period – representing a 65% increase in milk production since the abolition of dairy quotas.
Absentee concern
Last week, Dairy Industry Ireland (DII) warned of challenges posed by potential sharp rises in absenteeism at processing sites – a scenario that could possibly lead to mechanical failures and the loss of individual plant operations.
To avoid such a scenario DII is advising processors to take the following measures:
Bring people out of retirement;
Talk to the specialised nutrition people to see can they take milk in an emergency;
Talk to Northern Irish processors to see if they can take milk in an emergency;
Talk to UK processors to see if they can take milk in an emergency;
Inquire about expediting tests of suspected cases in milk processing facilities, so if they come back clear they can return to work straight away.
When asked about current absentee levels among the Dairygold workforce, Woulfe described the situation as “manageable”.
“In today’s environment people that have head-colds, or earaches, or headaches are going to their medical doctor and are then going into isolation straight away; so there is a very different dynamic.
“What in the past might have been brushed off by saying ‘I’m feeling a little under the weather’ is becoming now, in certain circumstances, a fear factor that they are after contracting something.
From that perspective absenteeism is higher than normal; but we’re still able to manage the business due to the good work of our Pandemic Response Steering Group.
In practical terms, Dairygold is managing its staff through tailoring its rostering system and through increased flexibility at its plants – however, concern remains around its more high-tech processing roles.
“In key areas where equipment is highly technical in nature, where there is nuance and know-how built up over years, like cheese making – they are the areas that you have to be extra sensitive on.
“But there is a huge amount of collaboration going on with the other processors; there is very positive engagement on how we can work together to ensure that our processing industry stays on track during this peak.”
Dairy decade
After a decade of significant growth and success for Dairygold – which translates into a 75% increase in milk solids supplied by its farmers – Woulfe notes how quickly the landscape has shifted during the first quarter of 2020 due to damage from the coronavirus.
The reduced demand for milk powder on the Asian side of the market has been particularly pronounced.
“It has been a phenomenal decade for the dairy industry just ending in 2019. We played our part in that and we have a very well invested business across our dairy and agri operations.
“We invested €85 million of cash in capital projects during the year; while debt is gone up to €157 million it’s manageable. We’re happy to be where we are from that point of view.
“But it’s fair to say that that’s the picture as of the close of the year December 31, 2019.
March 31 was the close of the first quarter. The change in climate and business dynamics over the first 90 days – and how much it has changed over 30 days – is huge.
“Covid-19 is a rapidly evolving situation…it is rare that you have a risk identified that would be capable of wiping out potentially the whole industry in the global context on the extreme side of that.
“But there is a huge amount of restructuring of people going on; support services are now working remotely to support us with new plants, and things are being commissioned,” said Woulfe.
V-shaped recovery
Keeping the plants going is the “critical priority” for Dairygold, with Woulfe stating that the co-op’s milk producers “are not being made the fall guys here”.
With agriculture and food production deemed an “essential industry” by Government, Woulfe contends that the sector deserves “essential supports” from Brussels to weather the crisis.
But, with the current 20c/L intervention price for milk, Woulfe warns that a variety of tools will be needed at EU level – including Aids to Private Storage (APS).
The impact hasn’t happened at farm level and pricing yet because the prices that are running now in the market won’t be reflected until over the next number of weeks and months.
“APS is one of the tools; but the issue will be about working capital, storing product and getting assistance in that space.
“That will enable us to steer through this period and if it’s as they predict – a V-shaped recovery – that’s ideal for those kinds of short-term storage arrangements or supports from Brussels,” Woulfe concluded.
Dairy industry braces itself for ‘probability’ of supply-chain disturbance
Covid-19 Dairygold Milk Price
|
cc/2021-04/en_middle_0045.json.gz/line1485
|
__label__wiki
| 0.599044
| 0.599044
|
Home » Airports » Cape Town International » Statistics
O.R. Tambo International Airport
O.R. Tambo International Airport has over 21 million passengers per annum and 110 286 arriving air traffic movements. O.R. Tambo International Airport was awarded fourth place in the Best Airport ACI-ASQ Awards for Middle East and Africa.
Passenger statistics
Aircraft statistics
King Shaka International Airport
King Shaka International Airport has 2 818 611 departing passengers and 27 041 arriving air traffic movements. King Shaka International Airport was awarded fifth place in the Best Airport ACI-ASQ Awards for Middle East and Africa.
Aircraft statistics
Cape Town International Airport
Cape Town International Airport has 5 404 706 departing passengers and 51 497 arriving air traffic movements. Cape Town International Airport was awarded second place in the Best Airport ACI-ASQ Awards for Middle East and Africa.
National Airports
To view detailed statistics on passenger traffic and aircraft movements for each National airport, click here.
|
cc/2021-04/en_middle_0045.json.gz/line1489
|
__label__cc
| 0.745618
| 0.254382
|
Holy Archangel Michael and All Angels Skete
28650 105th St. Weatherby, MO 64497
Tour of Holy Archangel Michael and All Angels Skete
Chapel and Trapeza
Once the property was acquired the building was initially a chapel, today is the central gathering place (a trapeza-monastic dining area). Lovingly crafted using cordwood construction by the previous property owner is a circular structure made of logs placed into a bed of cement. Cedar was cut into two feet logs and some chopped are from the forest and carefully placed between concrete-forming the walls. The cordwood design provides a natural insulation to keep the heat out in the summer and the severe cold out during the winter. Cordwood structures are still standing and date back one thousand years in Northern Greece and Siberia!
Energy efficient and very sustainable sod roof: building inspection states: "This green system consists of a decking over the beams of 2x6 and 2x8 tongue and groove planks, covered with a water-tight bitumous membrain, covered with two 2" layers of foam board, a drainage layer of pea-gravel approx 4" deep and topped with approx. 8" of soil ringed with treated railroad ties." This roof was originally sewn two grass types but over the years has picked up seeds of native plants, requires maintenance with several year layers and if maintained annually should last the life of the structure.
Another amazing feature of the (trapeza) is a Russian furnace stove. The Russian stove once fired up and heated retains and distributes the heat up to 12 hours. All these structural designs made from the environment adds a refreshing and earth friendly atmosphere.
Aerial View of the Monastery
Cordwood Construction
Trapeza Entry
The two log cabins will likely be used initially as guest cells. Constructed from near-by timber, they provide an aesthetic quality consistent with monastic values – i.e. that the structures of the monastery should be harmonious with the natural environment. The furniture is made from local trees. Later, they will likely be used as monastic “cells”.
The third cabin has served as a tool shed in the past. But it will be converted into a third “cell”. The word cell is based on the idea of a communal beehive. Even the prisons borrowed monastic words for their living quarters. A “penitentiary” was originally the idea of a place to repent or to be ”penitential.” Their use of the word cell came from this original monastic context.
Back of Multi-Purpose Bldg.
Multi-Purpose Bldg.
Father and the Nuns
The Pond
This larger building will serve several functions in the monastery. It is built in the Appalachian ‘dog-trot’ design. The distinguishing feature are two buildings joined by a common roof and breezeway. The breezeway serves as a common gathering area, an area for prayerful meditation while observing the pond and forest below, as well as a place to cool off in hot Missouri summers! It will provide initial cells for the nuns, a fully functioning woodshop with exhaust system, and a greenhouse designed to adapt to the many Missouri climate changes.
The workshop is fully operational with electric saws, a sander, router, and an exhaust system that will enable wood working and icon mounting to be implemented immediately (see photo).
The greenhouse is perfect for enabling starter herbs and plants year-round. One of our hopes is to grow and cultivate medicinal herbs and help support the monastery with teas, tinctures and salves.
Three rooms will enable the sisters of St. Xenia Sisterhood to make their transition from the city to the rural, monastic environment.
The design is enhanced by energy saving systems. Concrete roof tiles with underlayment provide a 50-year roof. (According to the recent inspection it still has 40 years to go). The radiant heat of the plumbing system below the flooring provides a very low cost way to heat the entire building. Last winter, while using the radiant heat alone, the basement was 68 degrees Fahrenheit!
Trails and Ponds
Much of traditional monastic life in Greece, Serbia, Russia and Alaska was in the setting of forests and streams. The site for the future monastery has 65-acres of forest, trails, a creek and two ponds. In addition, there are 15-acres of pasture for farming, gardening, and grazing.
The trees vary between sycamore, cedar, walnut, hickory, oak, pine and some Osage orange. Throughout the property there are carefully laid out grassy trails 5-6 yards wide. Along the way, one can find many natural herbs, mushrooms, and wild flowers. (Of course, it is Missouri! So, caution must be taken for poison ivy and insect repellant). Click here for a natural remedy for insect repellant.
Along the trails, you will find pond, nearly an acre in size, stocked with bass, catfish, and crappie. With a sandy entrance, it is ideal for baptisms or wading in the water on a hot day. A dock and a row boat provide immediate places from which to fish. Nearby there is a smaller gold fish pond. It will likely be an ideal place for cultivating tilapia fish as a source of protein.
Holy Archangel Michael &
All Angels Skete
For more information, please contact us:
Tel : (660) 749-5325
Email : holyarchmichael@gmail.com
Keep in touch with us via tumblr and google + for now. In the days to come you’ll see a new link for a future blog. Also, feel free to redirect people to the website from other social media that you are part of. We are just beginning!
Have you been inspired by visiting this monastery or other monasteries? Do you have specific quotes that have helped you along the way? Click to share a couple of these insights with us and to inspire others!
|
cc/2021-04/en_middle_0045.json.gz/line1490
|
__label__wiki
| 0.680807
| 0.680807
|
News & Media Drone fence arriving in Denver
Drone fence arriving in DenverDrone fence arriving in Denver
November 3, 2016 By Jim Moore
Drones approaching sensitive facilities can be instantly identified and tracked; their operators located; and, if need be, the defense system developed by a company called Sensofusion can even force the offending drone to land at a location designated in advance—all without need for human intervention. The essential equipment is roughly the size of a wireless router commonly found in homes and offices, or a set-top cable television box. Add an antenna and a computer, and you’re up and running. Soon there will be an Airfence at Denver International Airport.
The Airfence system by Sensofusion uses a small electronic device to detect and control drones that enter sensetive areas, and will soon be installed at Denver International Airport. Airfence device photo courtesy of Sensofusion.
At the outset of the Denver installation, the Airfence will simply monitor radio frequencies used by drones and alert air traffic control if a drone is powered up within six miles of the antenna. That is somewhat unlikely around Denver International Airport already: Electronic fences built into systems produced by major drone makers will not allow a drone to fly anywhere near the airport.
Still, if, perhaps, a homebuilt drone ventures within range of the airport, Airfence should be able to detect its electronic signature; issue an immediate alert, such as a text message; and log the intrusion for later viewing by authorities, including the digital signature that uniquely identifies most electronic equipment made today.
Much of the Airfence system’s capability to do more than just detect a drone will be held in reserve, pending updates to or waivers from federal regulations that preclude deliberate interference with the airwaves.
“We already have the technical capabilities” to control a drone and, at minimum, force it to land, said Kaveh Mahdavi, vice president of operations at Sensofusion, in a telephone interview.
He plans to personally see to the Denver installation, a first for his company in the United States but far from the first time the system has been demonstrated or deployed. Airfence has been shown to the FAA, NATO, various government agencies in Finland, and elsewhere in Europe. It has been set up in stationary installations and just as easily gone mobile, installed in a motorcade transporting Russian President Vladimir Putin during an official visit in Europe. Mahdavi said he must be circumspect about the details of such deployments, but he’s eager to show airport operators and others with responsibility for critical or sensitive facilities what Airfence can do.
The system can accomplish exactly what proved impossible for companies and laboratories, large and small, that participated in the recent MITRE Corp. Drone Challenge, which awarded $100,000 in prizes to firms that came close in many respects, but failed to fully achieve the goals: Detect the drone, locate the operator, and (this is the part nobody managed to fully achieve) force the drone to land in a designated area with any payload undamaged.
This last challenge, Mahdavi said, is well within the capabilities of Airfence, which is designed to (where allowed by law or regulation) override the radio communication between drone and operator, and either force the drone to land in a designated area, or at least force it to land where it is. Even if the unmanned aircraft uses encrypted communication protocols, Airfence can still triangulate drone and operator, and take control of the drone to a high degree. It even has a form of artificial intelligence, a built-in ability to reverse engineer the communications between drone and operator of a system it has never detected before.
Mahdavi does not claim Airfence is completely foolproof, and bad actors will continue to develop their own technology hoping to counter the countermeasure. But the most common drones, those most likely to be flown too close to an airport, inadvertently or otherwise, are vulnerable to Airfence takeover and control.
Mahdavi said introducing the system capabilities in stages, starting with simple monitoring and recording of drone activity in local airspace and providing awareness to air traffic controllers and others has proved to be the best approach. He is eager to gain a foothold among U.S. airports since the rest of the world looks to the United States for leadership in matters of technology, and welcomes inquiries from airport operators. Sensofusion is also working with the FAA on a Pathfinder program launched this year, one of three companies engaged to identify the most promising countermeasures against wayward or maliciously operated drones of the present and future.
“I am having weekly conference calls with the FAA,” Mahdavi said.
Once the system is installed in Denver, the first U.S. airport to have its own Airfence, the equipment will be connected to a local computer. It can be set up to passively collect data, or alert controllers or anyone else, via text message or other means, when a drone flies into a designated area. Airfence collects telemetry including metadata from the drone. That metadata includes the electronic address that identifies a specific piece of equipment like a digital fingerprint, information that could allow law enforcement to trace equipment back to a specific individual. It will also locate the operator in real time by triangulating the electronic exchange between drone and control station.
Alerts can escalate as the drone approaches a more sensitive area; Mahdavi said the system is so sensitive it can often locate a drone in a protected area before the motors start. Electronic communication between drone and controller begins as soon as each is powered on, and those signals can be detected up to six miles away.
“Because our detection range is so long, we can in most cases detect the UAV when it’s turned on before it even starts flying,” Mahdavi said.
Even if an operator sets a drone to fly autonomously along a route defined by GPS waypoints, there is still radio frequency traffic to and from the unmanned aircraft, Mahdavi noted, using the acronym for unmanned aerial vehicle: “The UAV … they may not realize this as the operator … still communicates.”
Sensofusion is not a newcomer, not one of the technology startups in recent years fueled by huge infusions of venture capital and big drone dreams. In fact, Mahdavi said, the company has never taken a dime of venture capital funding. Founded in 2005, the company has built its own autonomous, tactical, military drones, at first to conduct reconnaissance and collect data for military users on the battlefield. Mahdavi said that when military customers asked Sensofusion to add weapons to those drones (a step the Pentagon is also studying) the realization followed immediately that an effective defense against armed drones would be crucial.
The first commercial Airfence units followed, and were deployed two years ago, though Mahdavi is tight-lipped about who has Airfence, mainly because of the sensitive and secretive nature of many of those customers. He is eager to work with airports, and said that he’d be inclined to price the system and services within reach of small community airports, not just major international hubs like Denver.
“The long-term view is the whole smart city approach,” Mahdavi said, referring to a vision of the future where infrastructure is connected to a grid, and Airfence transmitters are mounted on utility poles scattered throughout the city, perhaps one per mile, creating an electronic counter-drone network that covers an entire city.
“The only way to scale to that level is to make it affordable,” Mahdavi said.
Jim Moore
Editor-Web
Editor-Web Jim Moore joined AOPA in 2011 and is an instrument-rated private pilot, as well as a certificated remote pilot, who enjoys competition aerobatics and flying drones.
Go to Jim Moore's Profile
Topics: Unmanned Aircraft, Technology
CAP forensics leads to holiday-week saves
FAA issues rule to support supersonic aircraft development
|
cc/2021-04/en_middle_0045.json.gz/line1495
|
__label__wiki
| 0.913346
| 0.913346
|
News & Media Garmin ending GNS 400/500 WAAS upgrades
Garmin ending GNS 400/500 WAAS upgradesGarmin ending GNS 400/500 WAAS upgrades
Orders accepted until May 29Orders accepted until May 29
May 7, 2020 By Mike Collins
Garmin International will be ending Wide Area Augmentation System upgrades for the GPS receivers in its popular GNS 430/530 GPS/com navigators and similar products in the GNS 400/500 product line. Aircraft owners with units that have not been upgraded still have an opportunity to do so if they wish.
Garmin is discontinuing WAAS GPS upgrades to its popular GNS 430 navigator and other products in the GNS 400/500 line. The GNS 430 was made from 1998 to early 2012. Photo by Mike Fizer.
“In order to support future GNS 400W/500W-series repairs, Garmin will be ending WAAS upgrades for non-WAAS GNS 400/500-series products on May 29, 2020. WAAS upgrade orders can be placed up until this date; however, units must be received by Garmin by June 30, 2020,” Garmin said in a statement. “Garmin has made deliberate investments to continue serviceability. Repairs will continue to be available for the non-WAAS 400/500 series 28-volt units with 16-watt com transmitter and all 14/28-volt non-WAAS 400/500-series units. These units will not be able to be eligible for the WAAS upgrade after May 29, 2020, but repairs will continue to be available after this date.”
Garmin announced the GNS 430 in the summer of 1998, and it was revolutionary in general aviation at the time. The GNS 430 integrated an IFR-approach-approved GPS receiver with a 760-channel com radio and a VOR/localizer/glideslope receiver, along with a sunlight-readable, eight-color LCD display that was large for the day. At the time, Garmin promised WAAS upgradability, even though the standard did not yet exist. The similar GNS 530, with a larger, five-inch-diagonal screen, was introduced later that year.
The GNS 430/530 series was popular in the marketplace for more than a dozen years, with about 120,000 units sold by the time Garmin unveiled its successor—the GTN 600/700 series—at the Aircraft Electronics Association convention in March 2011. “We couldn’t just make small, evolutionary changes to a product like the GNS 430/530 and expect people to be satisfied with it,” Gary Kelley, then Garmin vice president of marketing, said at the time. “We had to create something completely new that made flying easier and safer. Whatever we did, it had to be so compelling that existing 430/530 customers would want to upgrade—and that’s not easy when you’ve got a product that pilots know, like, and seems to last forever.”
“We started the WAAS upgrade program in 2003, so we’ve offered WAAS upgrades for the GNS series for over 17 years,” said Jessica Koss, Garmin aviation media relations specialist, noting that the company continues to support the first GNS 430 units some 22 years after they entered service.
Garmin discontinued the GNS 530W/500W in late 2011, and the GNS 430W/420W/400W in early 2012, following the introduction of the GTN 650/750 in early 2011, she said.
The FAA’s mandate for ADS-B Out, which became effective in January 2020, influenced Garmin’s decision to continue offering the WAAS upgrades. “Because GNS WAAS upgrades were a part of so many aircraft owners’ equipage plans, we strived to keep enough parts available to support GNS WAAS upgrades until the ADS-B mandate went into effect,” Koss said. “The demand for WAAS upgrades was strong leading up to the ADS-B mandate, but has since slowed.”
A WAAS-compliant GPS navigator meets ADS-B Out position accuracy requirements, and upgrading an existing GPS navigator reduced the cost of ADS-B compliance for many aircraft owners. A WAAS navigator also opens up the new generation of GPS instrument approaches, including LPV and LNAV/VNAV approaches, which are increasingly important to active instrument pilots as NDB and VOR approaches are phased out.
Garmin notified dealers it was ending the WAAS upgrade program in March, providing customers two and a half months to request the WAAS upgrade and an additional month to have the unit sent in by a Garmin dealer. Additional information is available from authorized Garmin dealers.
Technical Editor
Mike Collins has worked for AOPA’s media network since 1994. He holds a private pilot certificate with an instrument rating.
Go to Mike Collins's Profile
Topics: Aircraft Accessories
AeroLEDs’ landing, taxi lights approved for Part 27 helicopters
Invention automates weight-and-balance calculation
Garmin alerts select owners of possible fuel indication error
|
cc/2021-04/en_middle_0045.json.gz/line1496
|
__label__cc
| 0.619852
| 0.380148
|
Toms River police found 25 bags of crack in drug raid
Steph Solis
@stephmsolis
TOMS RIVER – Police arrested four men after finding heroin, Oxycodone pills and crack cocaine in a drug raid Wednesday at a house on Harrison Road.
Investigators with Toms River Police Department executed a court-authorized search warrant on the house at 881 Harrison Road, according to a statement from Officer Ralph Stocco. They seized 220 wax folds of heroin, 25 plastic bags containing crack cocaine and a quantity of Oxycodone pills.
One man at the residence, 29-year-old Albert Palmieri, ran into a crawl space and barricaded himself when police arrived, Stocco said. Officers eventually talked Palmieri of Beachwood into leaving the crawl space and arrested him on outstanding warrants worth more than $100,000.
Police also found Tyrek Grant, 23, of Jersey City and Robert Dawson, 23, of Hackensack at the house, Stocco said. They seized $5,000 from Dawson and Grant.
Grant and Dawson were charged with possession of cocaine, possession of cocaine with intent to distribute, possession of heroin, possession of heroin with intent to distribute, possession of Oxycodone and possession of controlled-dangerous-substance paraphernalia, Stocco said.
Dawson also was arrested in November on charges of possession of heroin and intention to distribute 461 wax folds of heroin.
Dawson was taken to Ocean County Jail and released on $40,000 bail.
Grant was taken to Ocean County Jail with bail set at $50,000.
Palmieri was charged with resisting arrest with risk of substantial injury and heroin possession, Stocco said. He was taken to Ocean County Jail on $20,000 bail in addition to the outstanding warrants.
Another man, Toms River resident John Rizzo, was seen leaving the residence and later arrested on a no-bail warrant out of Monmouth County Jail. Rizzo, 36, was charged with possession of heroin.
Photographs of Rizzo and Dawson were not immediately available on the online inmate database of the Ocean County Department of Corrections.
Steph Solis:732-643-4043; ssolis@app.com
|
cc/2021-04/en_middle_0045.json.gz/line1497
|
__label__cc
| 0.709211
| 0.290789
|
At the End of the Road
Alt title: What Lies at the End
Lezhin
4.424 out of 5 from 2,655 votes
After a truck accident, Taemin finds himself in the body of Siwon, a victim of bullying at school. No longer a pushover, he starts standing up for himself but then meets Woojin, an old friend from the past. Somehow, Woojin immediately picks up Tamin's 'scent' from Siwon. What happened between these two in the past and how will it affect their future?
Source: Lezhin
Body Swapping
Mature Themes,
Physical Abuse,
Sexual Abuse,
my manga:
Unread Read Reading Want to Read Stalled Dropped Won't Read Vols Chs 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63
See all chapters
If you like this manga, you might like...
A Guy Like You
Escape into Oblivion
The Last Zombie
Best Actors Life: Take-Two
See all recommendations
Shadow Star Narutaru
Fish in the Trap
Hikari: Be My Light
Ryokunohara Labyrinth
The Lost Village
Fujimi Orchestra
Happy Birthday Inochi Kagayaku Toki
kaliaaisawsomee Dec 31, 2016
A MUST READ! I'm not good at reviewing so yea.... I binged read all 16 chapters and it was amazing! I haven't read such a good story in a while. Manhwas never fail to impress me with their stories. Basically a tough guy gets hit by a car only to wake up in the body of a guy who was bullied significantly in high school. Unable to stand the bullying of the guy, he stands up for himself and changes completely. Not only that, he ends up meeting the one childhood friend who knows about his past and past self. That childhood friend begins to realize the similarities between the real protagonist that is inside the guy he wakes up in. I love love the main guy's character so much so far, especially how he handles the bullying situation. He's too cool. One thing I don't understand is what happened to the guy who got bullied then, where did he go? & what happened to Taemin's real body then? BUt then againa, its not completed so I'll have to wait for the chapters.
PixieDoll Feb 9, 2018
Great art and characters, also the plot buuut... Dissapointed with the end
GigiDk8 Dec 8, 2017
You guys this is a must-read manhwa. The story of both of the main characters was fictional and very interesting, I love the part of the psychological issues that all the characters go through it was a well-developed story that catches you at the end. Don't expect a Yaoi because it's a shounen Ai. Cute, and [email protected]#ked up couples 2. I really liked it I hope I can see more work from this artist.
Siwon HAN
Siwoon MIN
Taemin YOON
Hoon LEE
Jiwook HAN
Minjun CHOI
Jaeseo AN
Joohoon LEE
See all characters
Author & Artist
See all staff
Sorry, no one has started a discussion yet.
Login or sign up to start a discussion.
There are no custom lists yet for this series.
See all custom lists
|
cc/2021-04/en_middle_0045.json.gz/line1504
|
__label__cc
| 0.642213
| 0.357787
|
We are aware of all internet traditions.
The revolution will be supervised.
You are here: Home / Economics / C.R.E.A.M. / Don’t feel sorry about the way it’s gone
Don’t feel sorry about the way it’s gone
by DougJ | December 20, 2017 10:49 am | 56 Comments
This post is in: C.R.E.A.M., Election 2018, Assholes
It’s a terrible shame that Donald Trump ever became president. On the bright side: the progressive response in 2017 was tremendous. Here’s a couple remarkable charts. The first is the number of House challengers who have raised at least 5K as of the last filing (September 30).
And here’s another: Democrats over-performed Cook PVI by 9 points on average in 2017 special elections.
In six 2017 special elections, Dems have been outperforming their @CookPolitical PVI-suggested share of the vote by an average of 9%: pic.twitter.com/P4qDT7LDGv
— Dave Wasserman (@Redistrict) December 15, 2017
If Democrats beat the Cook PVI by 9 points every district in 2018, they’ll win something like 100 seats. I doubt that will happen but….you never know.
Here’s a fund that’s split between all eventual Democratic nominees in House districts currently held by Republicans. Let’s kick in a little money.
Previous Post: « Don’t get fooled again
Next Post: Thank You, Repubs Open Thread: Poster Boy for the GOP Tax Scam »
mai naem mobile
Jeezus that stupid recount is not over . Some election official is saying they discounted a vote which hr feels shold have gone.to Yancey the GOP ahole. It’s in court .
Yeah, but he is still president, and God knows how many dreamers are being deported on a cdaily basis.
Can’t do much, but I am calling the snake disguised as a human I have for a Republican Senator.
@mai naem mobile: funny how they always locate just the right number of votes.
I feel like some of our elected officials are not keeping up with the sentiment of their base. I think that the Democrats should shut down the government over the budget fight that is coming up. Whether they shut it down over not getting a clean DACA bill or not having CHIP reinstated does not matter. They need to be seen as fighting for their constituents.
Note on that Kansas result: Gov. Brownback already ran the tax scam in our state that they took nationwide yesterday. He called it a “real-life experiment”. The experiment was an utter failure. All the neighboring states had better job growth than Kansas. They had to raid the highway and pension funds to keep the lights on, and make enough cuts to school funding that they’re under a court order to find more. Moody’s downgraded our bond rating 3 or 4 times. People here are angry, and voted out the worst of the tea-party state legislators in favor of moderates who promised to raise taxes to fix things. My Congressman, who has run basically unopposed in the past, has 4 people in the Democratic primary ready to take him on. We lost the best one, Andrea Ramsey, last week when the DCCC dropped her when they found out she was accused of sexual harassment by someone she fired. Yesterday’s vote will help get rid of Yoder. We’ve seen this movie before.
sixthdoctor
An economist in Puerto Rico called this bill “Maria part 2”. Is Rubio up in 2018?
https://www.cnbc.com/2017/12/19/maria-part-2-puerto-rico-to-take-another-hit-from-tax-bill.html
Thoroughly Pizzled
We have a chance to fix this. Someday we can look back on the Trump-McConnell years as battle scars and not a fatal wound. We have a chance.
@Starfish: I’m conflicted about that. Shutting down the government is a bad thing. We’ll hurt a lot of people by doing that. If you think that’s a worthy price to pay for drawing attention to DACA, then so be it. But my guess is that the Republicans won’t bring it back.
@Thoroughly Pizzled: What about the health insurance for poor children that has either run out or will run out soon in many states? My state has managed to keep it up until the end of January. Then it is gone.
@sixthdoctor: Unfortunately, Lil’ Marco is not up again until 2022.
ETA: And when he is, I hope Florida curb-stomps the prick with extreme prejudice.
@Starfish: I read yesterday that Collins might tank the budget vote over something about the Hyde amendment. I didn’t have time to read the article and now I can’t find it.
@Starfish: I’m coming around to that point of view: Tell the Republicans they don’t get one Democratic vote on the budget without clean DACA and CHIP renewals. Easy for me to say, though: I don’t work for the government or otherwise depend on government sources for income, and I don’t have to hold a somewhat fractious caucus together. So far, I’ve been trusting Pelosi and Schumer to do their jobs. They’re definitely better at the legislating thing than a peanut gallery dweller like myself.
Quantumman
What is happening with the tax bill is legislative violence, akin to corporate violence. They know this will harm people but will do it anyway for the financial gain. A-holes.
@Betty Cracker: I think I saw a headline that they aren’t planning on playing hardball about DACA?
bearcalypse
And we better hope the Dems we elect in the meantime don’t go killing enthusiasm by spouting stupid bipartisanship-ism and Trump’s-misdeeds-are-in-the-past crap.
@Major Major Major Major: I clicked on one of those headlines about “many Democrats” being unhappy with Schumer and Pelosi. The only Dem quoted was Luis Guttierez. I did see a group of activists were having a sit-in in Cortez-Mastro’s office. I hope they were also in Dean Heller’s, and Martha McSally’s, and press just didn’t cover it.
@bearcalypse: Someone running for the U.S. House of Representatives in my district is doing some “both sides” nonsense, and I am not here for it.
@Betty Cracker: Oh well. I’m in Maryland so the only rep voting for this crap was Andy Harris, who won by 40 in 2016…
Heightening the contradictions works!
[ducks]
@Starfish: I’m not sure. Feels like all of our options here are pretty bad. We are in the grasp of evil.
I clicked on one of those headlines about “many Democrats” being unhappy with Schumer and Pelosi. The only Dem quoted was Luis Guttierez.
When it comes to disarray narratives, one democrat suffices for many.
HeleninEire
@opiejeanne: No she won’t. Especially over the Hyde Amendment. No she won’t.
@different-church-lady: People keep saying that Pelosi should resign because she is doing a terrible job. Of course most of those people are Republicans or Bernie dead-enders. I tell them that Pelosi is doing a great job.
Let’s see if The Corporation manages to mash the two tribes into bloody civil war. Think of Zeus and Hera pushing counters on the map while exchanging the loving barbs of a long- married couple.
It sure seems like a lot of Internet liberals are convinced nobody is going to turn out to vote for Democrats, even after repeated special and odd-year elections in which people did turn out to an extraordinary degree.
At this point, it seems to me that the only thing that could really stop a Democratic wave in 2018 would be a new war or international crisis that gets people desperate to rally around Daddy. And there are many ways that could happen. But when it comes to electoral gain, that’s a bullet that Trump only gets to fire once.
@opiejeanne: I assume this is the story you’re thinking of – http://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/365669-abortion-fight-threatens-collins-deal-risks-shutdown
The latest, though, is that the Teabaggers still can’t get their crap together. http://thehill.com/homenews/house/365776-house-gop-leaders-ditch-government-funding-plan-amid-infighting
House Republican leaders have ditched their initial plan for a stopgap spending bill amid GOP infighting over how best to avoid a government shutdown, which will take place Friday at midnight if Congress doesn’t intervene.
The original plan was to send a bill to the Senate that links a full year of funding for defense with a short-term patch that funds the rest of the government through Jan. 19. The continuing resolution (CR) was also supposed to include funding for the Children’s Health Insurance Program and a massive $81 billion disaster aid package.
But some conservatives balked over the emergency aid because it is not offset by spending cuts elsewhere, while the boost for the military was likely dead on arrival in the Senate.
A House Rules Committee meeting, which was supposed to prepare the CR for a floor vote on Wednesday, was forced to recess Tuesday evening so that the panel could “continue to talk with members to determine the best path forward,” according to a committee aide.
A spokeswoman for Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) confirmed Wednesday that “member discussions continue,” though no final decisions have yet been made about the new spending strategy.
So leadery. Much wonk.
Ridnik Chrome
@Quantumman: “Corporate violence” is a term I had never heard before, and a useful one, so thank you for that. Nobody should be surprised that the tax bill passed. Even when they can’t do anything else, Republican administrations always manage to get their tax cuts passed. What’s different this time around is that they went out of their way to make them as shitty as possible for everyone who’s not a one-percenter.
This is interesting and really shouldn’t have surprised me.
Chris Hayes RT
Alex Rowell @AlexRowell
Seems worth noting that working-and middle-class families got bigger tax cuts from the 2009 stimulus(*way* bigger for bottom 40%) than the GOP tax bill.
@Matt McIrvin: No one is going to rally around this daddy besides the ones already humping his leg.
I believe this media noise about Collins receiving a promise and about her attachments to the budget is all about lies to the media — she knew that any “promise” from McConnell means nothing to the House. She’s known that since forever. The only purpose was to give her cover in Maine and nationally. She has a strong media machine that’s furiously paddling to keep the discussion off of her vote and onto her attachment and The Promise, get the blame off of her and all on the House. She’s a player in the Fake News game. Maybe the prize offering is a fake promise of a VP or P run.
Cruelty to children and a government shutdown–the Christmas gifts of the Maga.
@mai naem mobile:
The story is that there’s a ballot with both names bubbled in, but someone is arguing that there is a slash through the Dem’s bubble, so it should be counted as a vote for the Republican and not as a non-vote.
Since the recount was supervised by the court, it seems unlikely to me that the court will change its mind, but I suppose you never know. Interestingly, it doesn’t appear that either the Republican candidate nor the Virginia GOP is supporting this challenge (which doesn’t mean that they didn’t encourage it, just that they’re not saying anything in public so far).
@Another Scott: Yeah, they just put a loophole in their tax bill for real estate owners that will cost $450 billion over the next decade but they can’t find their way to funding $81 billion in disaster release. And the Rs in the House and Senate want to increase funding for the defense budget by $37 billion over what Trump has already asked for yet finding $15 billion to fund health insurance for 9 million kids whose families are economically challenged–that’s too hard.
Fuck all these Republican congress critters. This information is out there and is getting through to the majority of Americans who aren’t addicted to RW news sources. And, honestly, I think it is even getting through to some of them.
@Aleta: She already had protests at her office in Portland when she voted yes the first time around. I don’t think anyone is buying it anymore. I think above all, Collins is just a very weak individual.
@randy khan: hey, it’s a stronger case than Lizard People.
@randy khan: But a slash could mean the opposite as well. In other words, the intent cannot be determined.
Doug R
@Matt McIrvin: I can’t see a scenario where trump gets even as high numbers as W. He’s already at 32%. It’s like a stock that plummets to 1/10 of its value, it’s never coming back. Even that 32% has softened from strongly support to kinda support.
As for Democratic candidates for Republican held house seats in the St Louis area most have raised far more than $5K. One of the candidates against Ann Wagner (MO-2) has already raised $225K by last September 30th’s filing deadline.
WASHINGTON • Two Democratic challengers outraised Republican incumbents from July through September in St. Louis-area congressional districts that national Democrats have said are key to their taking control of the U.S. House of Representatives in 2018.
@randy khan: I just, really, how can you screw up voting like this? Butterfly ballots & hanging chads I can understand. But filling in circles next to a candidate’s name. Or filling in a line to complete an — —>. How? The mind boggles. Also too, how do these folks make it to voting age without sticking their finger in a power socket or getting sucked into a wood chipper or something similar?
/rant off
No, I really don’t want to know.
@Thoroughly Pizzled:
From the day they took back the house in 2010, the Republicans served notice that they would not vote to raise the debt ceiling. Obama had to crawl to them repeatedly to get it passed. Every time the Republicans got something out of the deal. What are the Democrats going to get? CHIP is an obvious hill to die on. You want our votes, take care of the children or go fuck yourselves.
@Doug R: The flipside to Trump could shoot a man on Fifth Avenue and his supporters wouldn’t care is that Trump could do a lot of positive things (in theory) and a lot of voters would not care. They still won’t support him. The problem with a cult of personality is that people will love you or hate you in spite of what you do.
@marcopolo: We migrated from electronic to paper ballots over the last two elections. Just from the ease of completing the ballot, the electronic ballots were better. You touch the name and the computer fills it in. If you make a mistake, you just hit the other guy’s name and the machine changes the choice. You can get another ballot if you really screw up your paper ballot, but the print is smaller, it’s not always clear which marks you are supposed to make, and so on. An elderly person could easily make a mistake. But putting a slash through one of the bubbles after filling out both could mean that you are marking the one you actually meant, or trying to cross out the first mark. It would not be clear.
@Matt McIrvin:
Yep. After VA and AL, I will never again listen to a doom-and-gloomer whining that Democrats never show up. When we are motivated, we show the fuck up.
If we do the work and make sure every one of our voters gets to the polls, we will win. But we have to do the work.
@marcopolo:
The districts in question are R+8 and R+5, so that would seem ambitious, except that the Virginia HoD campaign flipped a lot of districts like that.
@marcopolo: Our ballots say to fill them out with a blue or black pen. I was calling voters to see if they had filled out the ballots and sent them in. I ended up talking to some person who was telling me she had filled out her ballot with a Sharpie and asked if that was okay. ?
You want our votes, take care of the children or go fuck yourselves.
And so they go with go fuck themselves.
Because, reasons.
/Yes, I’m bitter that the CR is likely to keep going, despite Adam’s analysis of it. Optics are still fucking terrible.
@Barbara: Total bullshit; if tRump did many good things both people here and dems in general would praise him but his base would attack him; examples? When he said he’d support the dream act, dems praised him and his base rose up in revolt and he caved. If he supported the dream act, chip, provided money for ACA and really cut taxes on the middle class a lot of dems (majority, in fact) would support him.
@Cermet: I disagree, but that’s okay because he isn’t going to do any of those things. There is some subset of people who will not vote for Trump no matter what. These voters are mostly female or Latino or Black, but it transcends party affiliation.
@opiejeanne:
collins’ll fold. she always does.
and even then, trump ain’t no g-dub. if shit gets real with north korea or iran or something it ain’t gonna give donnie jonnie much of a boost if any at all.
DougJ
Plus 5 is winnable.
@Mnemosyne: I agree. Then I look at the Congressional map of Alabama. Jones won the state, but won only one congressional district out of seven. That is some serious gerrymandering to overcome. Plus voter ID, plus the Secretary of State is in the southern tradition of southern sheriffs.
KithKanan
@marcopolo: You would be surprised. I somehow managed to vote the wrong way on a one-question yes/no ballot for a mail-in only special election.
It was a referendum and I was doing too many things at once and forgot that voting for it repealed the law in question while voting against it left it in place.
When I went to the county office of elections to ask what to do, they essentially had me do what this one ballot did (cross out the one I didn’t want to vote for and bubble in the other one).
It’s bugged me a bit ever since that I’m not sure which way my vote was counted, but the way I intended to vote won so it worked out in the end.
Nuts. The court decided that the ballot should have been counted for the R. Now it’s a coin toss (although, oddly enough, the loser of the coin toss can ask for another recount).
@Barbara: Thanks for this reply. I live w/ an 85 year (my mom) so I should remember things that are “easy” to do become more challenging as we age and our hearing/eyesight/sense of taste/touch declines.
Doug!
|
cc/2021-04/en_middle_0045.json.gz/line1508
|
__label__cc
| 0.735234
| 0.264766
|
Search on barcelona.cat
Barcelona.cat
Living in BCN
Teenagers and young people
Elderly people
Services and assistance
Low emissions zone
Do you want to start your own business?
Lifelong training
What to do in BCN
Bathing and beaches
Magic Fountain
100 % Culture
Places of interest in the city
Traditions and memory
Imatges Barcelona
Innovate and create
Transform it
Participate and get involved
Jardins del Teatre Grec
For the purposes of preventing the spread of COVID-19, there is a temporary ban on access to parks and use of children’s games between 8 pm and 7 am.
Per evitar la propagació de la covid-19, queda prohibit accedir als parcs i jocs infantils a partir de les 20.00 h
These gardens, which began life as a rose garden, are one of several green spaces created on Montjuïc for the 1929 International Exposition.
NOTE: Sunday 24th of February, the garden will close at 2 p.m.
These gardens, which began life as a rose garden, are one of several green spaces created on Montjuïc for the 1929 International Exposition. An old quarry allowed the construction of an amphitheatre that now hosts many of the Barcelona Grec Festival performances every summer. It is a sunny spot, with geometric flowerbeds, pergolas and terraces, from where visitors can admire the landscaped mountain and the city.
As you walk up Passeig de Santa Madrona, you will encounter a large, stone, imperial staircase that rises up either side of a wall. This is the main entrance to the gardens. From here you can see some of their main features: the pergola, the old pavilion and the sloping trimmed hedges with tall trees behind them.
Jardins del Teatre Grec is the current name of the Roserar Amargós, a rose garden that used to be part of a garden complex built on Montjuïc for the 1929 Barcelona International Exposition. This was named after the first architect to landscape Montjuïc, Amargós, but the gardens were designed by the French civil engineer, Jean-Claude Nicolas Forestier.
The main purpose of the Roserar Amargós was to connect the large Plaça del Solstici – originally part of the Jardins de Laribal but now the site of the Fundació Miró – to the lower part of Passeig de Santa Madrona and the 1929 International Exposition’s buildings located in that area, bridging a difference of 44 metres in ground levels.
After 1979, when democracy returned to Barcelona City Council, the site regained its artistic and landscape splendour, becoming the main venue for Barcelona’s summer festival: the Grec Festival.
Climber plants are the first thing you encounter when you reach the gardens, just before you go in: a large bougainvillea that brings colour to the wall at the main entrance, with stairs going up either side.
The Jardins del Teatre Grec are highly geometric gardens, with species that structure their layout. On the rectangular terrace closest to Passeig de Santa Madrona there are flowerbeds full of lavender. They share their space with Seville orange trees, African lilies and Natal lilies.
The geometric flowerbeds are bounded by small boxwood hedges. Common ivy fills the row of flowerbeds shaded by the pergola and several species of landscaped, flowering roses decorate the sunbathed flowerbeds that cover the large esplanade.
On the pergola that precedes the large upper terrace you will find jasmine and rose bushes, while the walls you come across as you go up to the highest part of the gardens are covered in ivy and Virginia creepers. The large upper terrace is notable for its ash trees, which mark the boundary of the part nearest to the neighbouring Jardins de Laribal, and the cypresses, some very tall, that are spread around the esplanade, mark out spaces and define paths. A large semi-circle of solid, tall holm oaks surrounds the upper part of the amphitheatre, separating it from the rest of the garden.
Two trees are listed in Barcelona’s Catalogue of Trees of Local Interest. On the left of the amphitheatre there is a pyramid tree, popularly known as “pica-pica” (prickly) due to the irritating hairs of its seeds, and on the path that joins up the Jardins del Teatre Grec with the Jardins de Laribal there is a large coral tree. There are also terracotta flower pots containing either small geraniums or ferns.
Landscaping and Design
Once you have climbed the first flight of steps, you will see a path on the left bounded by wrought-iron railings that fence off the gardens and a slope full of vegetation leading up to a mirador terrace, where you can enjoy an exceptional view of Barcelona.
On the left of the mirador, you will find one end of the pergola which crosses the gardens, dividing them into two large sections either side of the stairs. Climbing plants are the central feature here.
If, after going in, you go up a second flight of steps and then walk to the right, you will find a terrace on a level slightly below that of the mirador, with one part of the pergola above. The terrace is rectangular, quite long and landscaped with geometric flowerbeds full of aromatic plants and Seville orange trees next to the balustrade facing Passeig de Santa Madrona.
Layers of earth, superimposed to level out the sharp incline of an old quarry, enabled the creation of the amphitheatre’s large terrace in the upper part of the gardens. This provides a place to walk and stay awhile during the Grec Festival performances. Above the terrace there is a raised area dominated by a pavilion that houses a restaurant during the theatre season. There is a small rectangular terrace in front of this building with a pool that feeds the pool below, on the large terrace. It is an excellent place for admiring all the flowerbeds.
The amphitheatre in these gardens, which gives rise to their current name, was built according to the traditional Greek model. It was designed by the architect Ramon Reventós and made the most of the slope of the old “Machinet” quarry, which had been worked by excavating the earth before a huge wall of extremely hard stone just where Montjuïc mountain starts to rise.
As for the building that houses the bar restaurant during the theatre season, this was originally the Music Pavilion for the 1929 International Exposition.
Pg Santa Madrona, 38
Centro público
De l'1 de novembre, al 31 de març Tots els dies de 10:00h a 19:00h Hora de tancament
aproximada,en funció de
l'horari solar (tanquen
quan es fa fosc, al capvespre)
De l'1 d'abril, al 31 d'octubre Tots els dies de 10:00h a 21:00h
|
cc/2021-04/en_middle_0045.json.gz/line1510
|
__label__wiki
| 0.850292
| 0.850292
|
FA Youth Cup Third Round Fixture
Date confirmed for FA Youth Cup 3rd round tie
Barnsley's Youth Team will take on Oxford United in the third round of the FA Youth Cup.
The game will take place at Thame United's ASM Stadium on Tuesday 11th December, with a 7.30pm kick-off.
Admission is £5 adults and £3 concessions.
Address for the stadium is:
Meadow View Park
Tythrop Way
OX9 3RN
FA CUP FOURTH ROUND DATE CONFIRMED
Our Emirates FA Cup fourth round tie with Norwich City will be played on Saturday 23 January.
CARDIFF CITY FIXTURE RESCHEDULED
Due to our progression to the Emirates FA Cup fourth round, our Sky Bet Championship fixture against Cardiff City has been rescheduled.
SWANSEA GAME SELECTED FOR SKY SPORTS COVERAGE
Our Sky Bet Championship fixture against Swansea City on Saturday 16 January has been selected for live Sky Sports coverage.
FA CUP DATE CONFIRMED
Our Emirates FA Cup third round tie at home to Tranmere Rovers will take place on Sunday 10 January 2021, kick-off at 1:30pm.
|
cc/2021-04/en_middle_0045.json.gz/line1511
|
__label__wiki
| 0.791169
| 0.791169
|
INTWFB
6 Corbin Drive, Darien, Connecticut 06820-4127 | 203-655-2712
CONTACT US | HOURS & DIRECTIONS
Register Your Bookclub
Cassandra Speaks: When Women Are the Storytellers, the Human Story Changes (Hardcover)
By Elizabeth Lesser
(Save: $2.80 10%)
On Our Shelves Now (PLEASE CALL TO CONFIRM BEFORE COMING TO STORE)
(BOOKCLUB)
What story would Eve have told about picking the apple? Why is Pandora blamed for opening the box? And what about the fate of Cassandra who was blessed with knowing the future but cursed so that no one believed her? What if women had been the storytellers?
Elizabeth Lesser believes that if women’s voices had been equally heard and respected throughout history, humankind would have followed different hero myths and guiding stories—stories that value caretaking, champion compassion, and elevate communication over vengeance and violence.
Cassandra Speaks is about the stories we tell and how those stories become the culture. It’s about the stories we still blindly cling to, and the ones that cling to us: the origin tales, the guiding myths, the religious parables, the literature and films and fairy tales passed down through the centuries about women and men, power and war, sex and love, and the values we live by. Stories written mostly by men with lessons and laws for all of humanity. We have outgrown so many of them, and still they endure. This book is about what happens when women are the storytellers too—when we speak from our authentic voices, when we flex our values, when we become protagonists in the tales we tell about what it means to be human.
Lesser has walked two main paths in her life—the spiritual path and the feminist one—paths that sometimes cross but sometimes feel at cross-purposes. Cassandra Speaks is her extraordinary merging of the two. The bestselling author of Broken Open and Marrow, Lesser is a beloved spiritual writer, as well as a leading feminist thinker. In this book she gives equal voice to the cool water of her meditative self and the fire of her feminist self. With her trademark gifts of both humor and insight, she offers a vision that transcends the either/or ideologies on both sides of the gender debate.
Brilliantly structured into three distinct parts, Part One explores how history is carried forward through the stories a culture tells and values, and what we can do to balance the scales. Part Two looks at women and power and expands what it means to be courageous, daring, and strong. And Part Three offers “A Toolbox for Inner Strength.” Lesser argues that change in the culture starts with inner change, and that no one—woman or man—is immune to the corrupting influence of power. She provides inner tools to help us be both strong-willed and kind-hearted.
Cassandra Speaks is a beautifully balanced synthesis of storytelling, memoir, and cultural observation. Women, men and all people will find themselves in the pages of this book, and will come away strengthened, opened, and ready to work together to create a better world for all people.
Elizabeth Lesser is the cofounder of Omega Institute and the author of Marrow; The Seeker’s Guide; and the New York Times bestseller Broken Open. She has given two popular TED talks and is one of Oprah Winfrey’s Super Soul 100, a collection of one hundred leaders who are using their voices and talents to elevate humanity. She lives in New York’s Hudson Valley with her family.
www.elizabethlesser.org
“Every chapter of this blazingly wonderful book hit home. It gave me strength, comfort and hope."
— Sally Field, Academy-award winning actor, bestselling author of In Pieces
"A book that will change women’s lives—and therefore, everyone’s lives—by calling out the stories that have held us back for millennia. Cassandra Speaks delivers an urgent message to women to listen within, follow their instincts, and do power differently."
— Alyssa Milano, actor and activist
“When did we as women start trying so desperately to tame our feelings, our bodies, our ambition? In this powerful and beautiful book, Elizabeth Lesser brings us back to the earliest stories that convinced us to silence our voices, and then forward to a place where we trust ourselves to lead our lives—and the world.”
— Glennon Doyle, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Untamed and founder of Together Rising
“Cassandra Speaks is about the power of love instead of the love of power. Elizabeth Lesser speaks to the value of finding your voice in the wilderness of these times and, of taking a new kind of hero’s journey—one that replaces violence and domination with deep feeling and courageous communication. What a blessing!”
— Iyanla Vanzant, author and host of Iyanla: Fix My Life (OWN)
“Blessed are the truthtellers, and Elizabeth Lesser is one of them. Cassandra Speaks is astute and witty, tender and soulful. It’s a tapestry of memoir, cultural commentary, and spiritual fuel that inspires women—and all people left out of history’s storytelling—to reclaim our lineage, to become prophetic alchemists in a world in grave need of healing.”
— Jamia Wilson, executive director and publisher of the Feminist Press
“Cassandra Speaks is a nod to the power of storytelling in our journey to build a truly equitable society. It lays bare the relationship between gender and power, and makes a compelling case for deepening our connections and embracing our collective humanity.”
— Tony Porter, CEO of A Call to Men
“Elizabeth is a wise and powerful storyteller. Cassandra Speaks helps us understand the roots of women’s shame and guilt and offers a path forward—by changing our stories, we change our lives."
— Eileen Fisher, founder of Eileen Fisher, Inc.
Social Science / Feminism & Feminist Theory
Social Science / Women's Studies
Literary Criticism / Feminist
Kobo eBook (September 15th, 2020): $14.99
Barrett Bookstore | 6 Corbin Drive, Darien, Connecticut 06820-4127 | 203-655-2712
Copyright © Barrett Bookstore
|
cc/2021-04/en_middle_0045.json.gz/line1512
|
__label__wiki
| 0.772845
| 0.772845
|
bong mieu gold mining company
Besra Gold Inc Vietnam
Besra is proud of our long history in central Vietnam. We opened the first modern plant in the country and, with two sites processing gold, our operation was the largest in the country. We acquired the Bong Mieu property in 1997 and opened a gold plant there in 2005. We were granted exploration licenses at Phuoc Son in 1999, and commissioned
Besra: vision • gold • asia
We have a premium gold asset in the Bau goldfield in East Malaysia. Besra also opened Vietnam’s first modern gold mine at Bong Mieu, followed five years later by the plant at Phuoc Son. At the time, they formed the largest gold mining operation in the country until Besra divested its interests there in July 2017. Read more →
Gold mine leaks toxic waste into central Vietnam river
Nguyen The Vinh, chairman of Tam Lanh's People’s Committee, said the pond originally belonged to Bong Mieu Gold Mining Limited Company. However, the company had closed and the site was taken over by 6666 Mineral Industry Joint Stock Company. “Local authorities are working with the company and have told it to shut down until we solve the problem,” said Vinh. The location of the breach was
Show Mines of Vietnam: Bong Mieu Gold Mine
a dedicated road to link Tam Ky to Bong Mieu built by a French company, mining boosted. 2007: scheduled opening as a show mine. Description. The Bong Mieu Gold Mine was mined for a very long time. First by the Chinese, then Vietnamese, and then French. Today the mine remains productive and is mined by the Bong Mieu Gold company. The planned tour will show a part of the still operational
Two gold mining firms asked to pay VND250 billion in
VietNamNet Bridge Officials of the Bong Mieu gold mining company and Phuoc Son Gold Company said that they had asked the customs office to reconsider the export tax of nearly VND250 billion
Besra banished from Bong Mieu gold mine Investing
The license to exploit the gold mine that was earlier issued to Bong Mieu Gold Mining Company Ltd. (BMGMC) by the Ministry of Heavy Industries (now the Ministry of Industry and Trade) in 1997 expired on May 3, 2016. However, the company continued mining operations despite the authorities and related agencies’ repeated warnings.
The ASIA Miner VIETNAM Export tax win for Besra
Decision 754/QD-BTC, relating to Bong Mieu Gold Mining Company and Decision 755/QD-BTC relating to Phuoc Son Gold Company repeal the tax claim applied for goods exported and imported by Besra’s operating companies in Vietnam. The company says it is delighted by the news that its position on this assessment has been vindicated. It says it has
Buyers of Phuoc Son, Bong Mieu gold are familiar faces
Besra Gold Inc has announced its withdrawal from the two biggest gold mining projects in Vietnam Bong Mieu and Phuoc Son in Quang Nam province. All the assets in the two companies will be sold
Vietnam’s biggest gold mining company fails to strike gold
Bong Mieu, Vietnam’s biggest gold mining company, should be declared bankrupt, its long-standing creditors have voted. The company, which belongs to Canadian-invested mining firm Besra Vietnam, has not been able to repay VND1 trillion ($43.24 million) for an extended period of time.
Bong Mieu Gold Mine Industry About
Bong Mieu Gold Mine Details Parent Category: Vietnam Category: Gold Mining Last Updated on 11 May 2019 Commodities: Gold. Area: Quang-Nam. Type: Underground Mine. Products: Gold. Owner: Bong Mieu Gold Mining Company (BMGMC) Shareholders: Besra Gold Inc. Activity since: 2006 Contact: Coordinates: 15.406506,108.411113. Address: Bong Mieu, Quang-Nam. Email: Phone: +84
BMGMC Bong Mieu Gold Mining Company
BMGMC abbreviation stands for Bong Mieu Gold Mining Company. All Acronyms. Search options; Acronym Meaning; How to Abbreviate; List of Acronyms; Popular categories; Texting; Medical; Technology; Business; Military; Clear; Suggest. BMGMC stands for Bong Mieu Gold Mining Company. 1 alternative BMGMC meaning. Bulk metallic glass matrix composites; All Meanings . images. Feel
bong mieu gold mining company vietnam
Bong Mieu Gold Mine industryabout. Feb 11, 2018· Dec 22, 2015·Bong Mieu Gold Mine. One of the main mining areas of Vietnam is the Bong Mieu gold mine. This mine can be found within Tam Lanh commune in the Phu Ninh district. This vast area was once a great lush jungle but it has since been devastated and is now littered with hundreds of
Lack of finances forces Bong Mieu gold mine to close
Notably, the company’s licence to exploit gold at Bong Mieu gold mine in Phu Ninh district, Quang Nam province, expired three years ago and the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment urged the company to complete the dossiers to close the mine numerous times. However, to date, the company has yet to comply, although it is far past the last deadline of June 2017.
Apr 24, 2006 Vietnam's Gold Company Bob Moriarty
Bong Mieu is south of the port city of Da Nang, Vietnam, about 45 miles. Olympus Pacific has drilled and proven about 587,000 ounces of gold in 43-101 categories and built a 30,000 ounce per year mill on site. I was there, along with about 400 guests, on April 6th, for the formal opening even though they have been milling and producing gold prior to the official opening.
Jose Escobal Mine Superintendent Bong Mieu Gold
Jose Escobal. Mine Superintendent at Bong Mieu Gold Mining Company, Ltd. company placeholder image. Mine Superintendent at Bong Mieu Gold Mining Company, Ltd. Cebu Institute of Technology. View profile View profile badges View similar profiles. Jaime Luengas. Jaime Luengas Mine Underground Foreman at Besra. Ronan McKeown . Ronan McKeown Superintendent at Montgomerie Links. Bui
Active Gold Mines in Vietnam's Jungle
Bong Mieu Gold Mine. One of the main mining areas of Vietnam is the Bong Mieu gold mine. This mine can be found within Tam Lanh commune in the Phu Ninh district. This vast area was once a great lush jungle but it has since been devastated and is now littered with hundreds of deep holes. These holes have been used by illegal miners to get down to the rich deposits. It is known that considerable
About us — Hok
Bong Mieu Holdings Limited No. 20 Bupajit Building, 3rd Floor, North Sathorn Road, Silom Sub-District, Bangrak District, Bangkok, Thailand. Phuoc Son Gold Company Block 7, Kham Duc, Phuoc Son district, Quang Nam Province, Vietnam. Bong Mieu Gold Mining Company Bong Mieu Hamlet, Tam Lanh commune, Phu Ninh district, Quang Nam province, Vietnam.
Gilbert Salazar Executive Mine Manager Bong Mieu
View Gilbert Salazar’s profile on LinkedIn, the world's largest professional community. Gilbert has 1 stone listed on their profile. See the complete profile on LinkedIn and discover Gilbert’s connections and stone at similar companies.
Bong Mieu VnExpress International
Bong Mieu Bong Mieu, Vietnam’s biggest gold mining company, should be declared bankrupt, its long-standing creditors have voted. VnExpress International is a leading source for politics, economic, finance, travel & stone from Vietnam and ASEAN.
Intellasia East Asia News Besra banished from Bong
Besra banished from Bong Mieu gold mine 12-May-2017 Intellasia VIR 7:50 AM The authorities of the central province of Quang Nam said that they would not propose the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment to license Bong Mieu Gold Mining Company Ltd (BMGMC), a subsidiary of Canadian company Besra Gold Inc., to exploit Bong Mieu gold mine again.
TAGS: Bong Mieu gold mine Vietnam News
TAGS: Bong Mieu gold mine Quảng Nam to close Bồng Miêu gold mine The central province of Quảng Nam will allocate VNĐ12.6 billion (US$547,800) from the provincial budget to close the Bồng Miêu gold
Bong Mieu Silver Mine In Quang Nam, Vietnam The
Gold mining deposit report for "Deposit #Usgs10069581" (#USGS10069581) in Quang Nam, Vietnam. Home. Mines. Asia. Vietnam. Deposit #USGS10069581; Bong Mieu Silver Mine Quang Nam, Vietnam. 15.3667°N 108.4662°E Overview Gold ; Location 1 Aliquots; Mine Overview. The Bong Mieu Silver Mine is in Quang Nam, Vietnam. The Bong Mieu Silver Mine was closed at the time of data entry
Olympus completes clean water initiative im-mining
Olympus Pacific Minerals, a Canadian mining company developing the Bong Mieu gold mine, and the East Meets West Foundation have recently completed a clean water project for the people of the Tam Lanh commune, near the mine in central Vietnam. An official ceremony to hand over the project to the community was held on January 20, 2009 at the Peoples’ Committee Hall in Tam Lanh. The modern
TAILINGS FACILITY PERFORMANCE: 2017 AND 2018
Bong Miew (Vietnam) March 16, 2018 • A release of tailings from the Bong Mieu gold mine reached the Que Phuong River. The site was owned by 6666 Mineral Industry Joint Stock Company, and the previous operator was the Bong Mieu Gold Mining Limited Company. • The release was from a tailings dam breach, which
Directors Asia Pacific Mining Limited
Since 1983 Bill has worked in a management capacity with several exploration and mining companies both in Australia and overseas. Bill was the President of Ivanhoe Philippines and GoviEx Uranium Inc. He is currently a director of Ivanhoe Mines Ltd (TSX listed), Globe Metals & Mining Ltd (ASX listed), Asia Pacific Mining Limited, NovaCopper Inc (TSX listed) and Condoto Platinum NL. (ASX listed
Bong Mieu Page 1 MiningNews
The latest Bong Mieu articles from MiningNews Page 1
DaNang Bongmieu Gold Mining Company Gekko
The Bong Mieu mine is located in the Quang Nam provence of Vietnam, 20km southwest of Tam Ky. Commissioned in 2006, Bong Mieu consists of an open-pit operation with a CIL processing plant. Equipment: EWC. Mineral: Free Gold. Latitude: 15.54. Longitude: 108.47. Log in to post comments; Gekko Systems @Gekko_Systems. Sign Up for Gekko News Newsletter Small. Email * Quick Links.
Controversial Canada firm has Vietnam gold-export license
Besra’s Bong Mieu gold processing plant in Quang Nam Province. Photo courtesy of Besra . A Canadian mining company whose two gold-production plants in central Vietnam owe locals and tax authorities millions of dollars has had its export license renewed. Besra, which owns most of the Phuoc Son and Bong Mieu gold mines in Quang Nam Province, stone its previous license expire in
Bong Mieu exit causes golden headache for local authorities
After Bong Mieu Gold Mining Co., Ltd. in the south-central province of Quang Nam stone its mining licence for Bong Mieu mine expire three years ago, one of the two largest gold mines in Southeast Asia went officially bankrupt in 2018. The consequences, however, are far from over as the surrounding area has been ploughed and left to deal with dangerous chemicals. This has led to the province
Bong Mieu Gold Mining Co., Ltd., 1644-646 NGO QUYEN
Bong Mieu Gold Mining Co., Ltd. Company profile Vietnam . See Bong Mieu Gold Mining Co., Ltd. 's products and suppliers Thousands of companies like you use Panjiva to research suppliers and competitors. Sign Up 1 min video. Easy access to trade data. U.S. Customs records organized by company 8 U.S. shipments available for Bong Mieu Gold Mining Co., Ltd., updated weekly since
Press Release GDC Ruling Repealed v5
Mining Company and Phuoc Son Gold Company have been repealed. The Ministry of Finance has provided the Company copies of the final resolutions on Besra’s second complaint against the General Department of Customs. Decision 754/QĐ-BTC, relating to Bong Mieu Gold Mining Company and Decision 755/QĐ-BTC relating to Phuoc Son Gold Company repeal the tax claim applied for goods
Vietnam blocks exports by foreign gold Thanh Nien
Bong Mieu gold mill in the central province of Quang Nam. Photo credit: VnExpress Photo credit: VnExpress Two major foreign-invested gold mining companies in the central province of Quang Nam will not be allowed to resume exports until they pay VND387 billion (US$16.93 million) in back taxes, a government spokesman confirmed at a press conference on Friday.
The ASIA Miner Bong Mieu production resumes
Bong Mieu production resumes. BESRA has celebrated the re-opening of its Bong Mieu gold mine in Central Vietnam with a ceremonial underground blast.The event, attended by company representatives and local officials, marks the return to operations by the property after it was shut down in November last year following a series of severe weather events.
Despite officially going bankrupt, Bong Mieu Gold Mining Co., Ltd. (BMGMC) has yet to close the mine and restore the area due to a lack of finances. Bong Mieu gold mine cannot be closed and restored as the investor has ran out of funds Notably, the company’s licence to exploit gold at Bong Mieu gold mine in Phu Ninh district, Quang Nam province, expired three years ago and the Ministry of
Olympus Pacific's Bong Mieu Gold Mine Begins
Olympus Pacific’s Bong Mieu Gold Mine Begins Production. 1 September 2009 . Share. Full company details Follow. Following the successful commissioning of Olympus Pacific Minerals’ Bong Mieu gold mine in December, the company is already ramping up from 500t/day to 800t/day in the first half of this year. The mine is located in central Vietnam near the port city of Danang. Mine commissioning
Vietnam top gold miner Bong Mieu goes bankrupt
However, Bong Mieu assets are specialized for mining and attached to the gold mine, so the asset value could only be maintained by keeping exploiting gold, instead of liquidizing. Bong Mieu is a subsidiary of New Zealand-based Besra Gold Inc, which were granted exploration license in Vietnam until March 2016. The company kept on operating even
<< Previous: Capital Cost Of 2200 7500 Ball Mill
>> Next: Price Of Jaw Crusher Plate In India
rock crusher parts vietnam
puzzolana tph stone crushers price
type coal crusher price diesel engine small mobile hammer crusher
bucket elevators new sukup support towers and
vibrating screen in india
crushing for sand and gravel pit
design of impact crusher machine
small concrete crusher exporter in south africa
steel rolling mill in bangalore
stone crusher instalation
cone crusher price list cone crusher price list suppliers
big seconday mobile crusher haiti
gold grinding mill for sale thailand
used crushing machine in germany for sale
stone coal crusher quarry crusher
mining supplies australian
|
cc/2021-04/en_middle_0045.json.gz/line1514
|
__label__wiki
| 0.570426
| 0.570426
|
Mobility Studies (7)
Transportation Studies (7)
"Finland" x
Transportation Studies x
Under the Waves
A Review of “Spoils of Riches-Stories of the Vrouw Maria and the St Michel“ at the Maritime Centre Vellamo
Katariina Mauranen
Maritime Centre Vellamo, Tornatorintie 99, Katariina Mauranen, Imperial College London, Kotka, Finland Admission: €8/4 http://www.merikeskusvellamo.fi/en “Spoils of Riches” is open from 25 April to 2 December 2012
In Transfers
The Prime, Decline, and Recalling of Rural Cycling
Bicycle Practices in 1920s' and 1930s' Finland Remembered in 1971-1972
Tiina Männistö-Funk
The article studies rural cycling in Finland in the 1920s and 1930s through a folklore survey conducted in 1971-1972. Written memories enable a rare insight in the disappeared practices of bicycle use in the countryside. Comparing the role of the bicycle in the remembered time and the time of remembering, the article furthermore scrutinizes the role of historical narratives in the cultural constructions of the bicycle. Instead of demonstrating a linear, universal decline in the face of motorization, changes in bicycle use and redefinitions of the bicycle are linked to fundamental societal changes.
The Art and Design of London’s Mobility
Carlos López Galviz
station’s entrance, a curved façade, was the famous glass vase designed by Finnish architect Alvar Aalto. An example of the vase is part of the exhibit, together with station drawings. Aalto submitted his design to the competition of the Paris world fair
Tough Ultramarathons and Life on the Run
Kai Syng Tan
running after trucks as a leap to a new life, prezi.com/user/kaisyngtan. Commissioned as performance-lectures in the ANTI Festival (Kuopio, Finland), Exparte (Brick Lane Gallery, London), and Fermynwoods Contemporary Art Centre (U.K.). Image: Kai Syng
The Contribution of Car Sharing to the Sustainable Mobility Transition
Emma Terama, Juha Peltomaa, Catarina Rolim, and Patrícia Baptista
Finland, for example, car-sharing pilots have mainly been undertaken at the municipal level, not specifically supported by national government schemes. In Portugal, there has been discussion of including fiscal incentives for future shared mobility users
From the Auto-mobile to the Driven Subject?
Discursive Assertions of Mobility Futures
Katharina Manderscheid
driverless cars, and any attempt would be outdated quickly. Interestingly, in Switzerland and in Finland, there are currently ongoing trials with self-driving buses as part of the public transport system. I did not consider them here because of the focus on
Mobile Disasters
Catastrophes in the Age of Manufactured Uncertainty
Steve Matthewman
the coasts of Sweden, Holland, and Germany. By 2007, it was in the Gulf of Finland, the Bothnian Sea, and the Gulf of Gdansk. 60 In Gershwin’s estimation, Mnemiopsis ’s proliferation in the Black Sea is among “the world’s worst cases of multinational
|
cc/2021-04/en_middle_0045.json.gz/line1516
|
__label__cc
| 0.513775
| 0.486225
|
Beet.TV
REWIND: ‘Second-Screening’ Will Be Key for Sports Coverage: Disney’s Rita Ferro
Editor’s Note: We are republishing this informative conversation between Bill Koenigsberg and Rita Ferro with an added introduction from Sean Cunningham, President and CEO of VAB. The VAB is partner to Beet.TV in this 12-part series. This video was originally published in June. This is one of the segments from the series of selected videos we are re-publishing this month. We call this highlight series “Rewind.” Andy Plesser
Broadcasters have experienced a dearth of live sports with the suspension of operations by professional sports organizations during the coronavirus pandemic. That absence has raised expectations for the upcoming return of the National Football League, whose regular season last year was responsible for 47 of the 50 most-viewed telecasts, according to researcher Nielsen.
Rita Ferro, president of Disney Advertising Sales, is keeping a close eye on news developments for sports, with network brands that include ABC, ESPN, Freeform, FX Networks, Hulu and National Geographic. In this episode of the Beet TV/VAB “TV Reset” forum, Ferro discusses the possibilities for innovation in sports broadcasting that will be meaningful for fans and advertisers.
Speaking to Bill Koenigsberg, the president, CEO and founder of media services agency Horizon Media Inc., Ferro said she sees more opportunity to provide “second-screening” experiences to fans who use their smartphones and tablets while watching games on TV. Second-screening is likely to be more important to fans who preventing from attending games at stadiums, but still want to share the experience of watching their favorite teams.
“Even if they allow some fans in, it’s never going to be the full, packed, sold-out stadium and the energy that that brings to a game, and yet you can create so much of that,” Ferro said. She cited the coverage of this year’s NFL Draft of college players, which this year was a virtual event consisting of 200 live video feeds from across the country.
“There was a tremendous engagement around that property, and it was the biggest NFL Draft of all time because it was covered differently and relevant for the times,” she said. “It’s opened our eyes to ways you can do things very differently than before.”
You are watching TV Reset, a leadership forum produced in partnership with VAB. The series is presented by 605 and Magnite. For more videos please visit this page.
By Robert Williams on August 27, 2020 August 27, 2020 @robwilliamsNY
TV Reset, A Leadership Forum Produced with VAB and presented by 605 and MagniteTagged Bill Koenigsberg, Rita Ferro
Share: REWIND: ‘Second-Screening’ Will Be Key for Sports Coverage: Disney’s Rita Ferro
Tweets by Beet_TV
Convergence of Linear TV, Digital Video Is Key Goal: Xandr’s Christina Beaumier
The shift in viewing habits from linear TV to newer digital video platforms comes as advertisers seek a more unified approach to their media buying. The pandemic sped up that change in viewing habits, making it more imperative for advertisers to better understand the best ways to reach unduplicated audiences. “When we think about the […]
How To Drive CTV Ad Growth: Sling TV’s Tint
Advertising on connected TV has growth healthily lately, after a pandemic viewer surge combined with the maturation of the platform. But what will it take to sustain that growth. In this video interview with Beet.TV, Sling TV’s programmatic partnerships account executive Andrew Tint says education will be needed. Education needed EMarketer forecasts US connected TV […]
Where Addressable TV Fits In: Dentsu’s Stockton
The emergence of connected and over-the-top TV solutions for advertisers presents the promise of one-to-one advertising, going beyond the old demographic targeting approach. But few ad agencies out there believe that a grand lurch from one medium to another would be sensible. In this video interview with Beet.TV, Dentsu Aegis Network’s VP of video innovation […]
Sports Sponsors Can Thrive in Hybrid Media World: Nielsen’s Jon Stainer
Sports viewership just went through one of the most volatile periods in recent memory, with the pandemic having a significant effect on sports leagues and consumer behavior. Amid limitations on fan attendance, sports entertainment became a more virtual experience that’s likely to have a lasting effect on reaching younger consumers. The National Basketball Association, National […]
‘People Need Sports the Most’: NBC’s Dan Lovinger
“Necessity is the mother of invention” is an enduring phrase with special meaning for broadcasters of live sports during the coronavirus pandemic. The health crisis forced sports leagues, their sponsors and their broadcast partners to come up with new ways to work together as fans hungered for live entertainment. “History proves that people need sports […]
No Walled Gardens In CTV’s Last Mile: LiveRamp’s Jay Prasad
Connected TV has come a long way – but it still has a little way to go to fully realize the dreams of efficient, data-driven advertising that reaches individual homes. EMarketer forecasts US connected TV ad spending will reach $18.29 billion by 2024, more than double the amount spent in 2020, driven especially by YouTube, […]
New Year Brings Time to Reflect on Innovation: TrueCar’s Beth Mach
The pandemic has been a catalyst for innovation as businesses find new ways of doing things to help customers, many of whom are stuck at home and rely more than ever on digital connections with the outside world. Creating a positive customer experience (CX) in a website or mobile app is crucial when consumers are […]
‘Convergence Is a Real Thing Right Now,” Xandr’s Jason Burke
BOSTON – The convergence of traditional linear TV and digital video has accelerated as more households connect their TVs directly to the internet. The shift has created more opportunities for advertisers to improve their targeting by harnessing consumer data. “In recent years, there have been certain concepts that have come to TV in terms of […]
Criteo’s Clarken on Identity, E-Commerce and Business Beyond the Walled Gardens, #BeetCast
MIAMI – This week’s episode of the #BeetCast is guest hosted by Matt Prohaska, who I met 10 years ago when he ran programmatic advertising at The New York Times. He moved from there to form a powerhouse consulting firm in his name. Matt is one of the brightest lights in our industry and a […]
COVID-19 Has Changed Business Forever: Dentsu’s Naryani
SINGAPORE – Vaccines may be rolling out but, even when something like normality arrives, few are expecting the world to function in quite the same way it did before COVID-19. Case in point – the pandemic has tilted business even farther toward online channels. In this video interview with Beet.TV, Sunil Naryani, Vice President, Commercials […]
Leadership Events
Copyright © 2021 Beet Media, LLC. All Rights Reserved. Beet.TV is published by Beet Media, LLC.
|
cc/2021-04/en_middle_0045.json.gz/line1522
|
__label__cc
| 0.638961
| 0.361039
|
How Australia Can Lead the World to Zero Carbon Prosperity
Posted by Peter, on July 23, 2012 (Source: Beyond Zero Emissions)
Betond Zero Emissions has published a new report: "Laggard to Leader – How Australia Can Lead the World to Zero Carbon Prosperity".
The report identifies six policy deficiencies which are preventing Australia from playing its part in reducing carbon emissions:
Arbitrary, unambitious targets;
Overreliance on offsets, overseas credits and "green carbon" (relying on forrests and soil to remove carbon from the atmosphere);
Relying on the dubious benefits of switching to "transition gas";
Insufficient support for the deployment of renewables;
Hoping against reason for carbon capture and storage; and
Pursuing aggressive fossil fuel promotion policies.
It says that to achieve a world leadership possition, Australia should:
Publicly commit to a moratorium on new fossil fuel developments within Australia;
Implement a federal moratorium on the development of new coal, oil and gas deposits within Australia;
Convene a high-level panel of independent experts to publish a report making the case for a global moratorium and phasedown of fossil fuels, within a timeline consistent with a global carbon budget for warming of 2˚C or less; and
Convene a summit of world leaders to discuss options to decarbonise the global energy system through the widespread deployment of renewable energy and the phase-out of fossil fuels.
The Report points out that coal mining employs only 0.3% of the Australian workforce and that 80% of the profits from mining go overseas – and that those profits which remain in Australia end up concentrated in very few hands.
The Zero Carbon Australia Project's next undertaking will be a detailed plan to show how Australian fossil fuel income can be replaced by zero carbon industries. The “Renewable Energy Superpower” plan will provide more detailed analysis of how an Australian renewable energy product and service export strategy, and a phase-out of fossil fuel industries, can best be orchestrated.
See more articles on: carbon, economy
|
cc/2021-04/en_middle_0045.json.gz/line1527
|
__label__wiki
| 0.769741
| 0.769741
|
Wiki Automotive Catalog
Home >> News >> 2020 Volvo XC40 Recharge - Electric future is coming
Autocatalog NewsBlog Login Registration Add data for a new car Car Specs API
2020 Volvo XC40 Recharge - Electric future is coming
Safety has been at the core of Volvo since the very beginning in 1927. So it's been natural for the carmaker to assign the safety as a benchmark. As a result, the latest fully electric car of the company - XC 40, will be one of the safest cars in Volvo's line-up.
Built as an electric car, Volvo XC40 Recharge must be even safer. Thanks to the electrification, the combustion engine is removed. This causes the redesign of the front structure of the car. The battery in the fully electric XC40 is integrated into the floor structure of the car. To protect the battery and to keep all occupants safe, Volvo reworked the car inside and out.
© 2020 Volvo Car Corporation
The most important part of any fully-electric vehicle is the battery. XC40 is equipped with one that offers 78 kilowatt-hours of energy capacity, 408 horsepowers and provides the impressive 660 Newton metres of torque and acceleration from 0 to 100 kmph in 4.9 seconds. While the combustion engine is normally positioned in the front, the Recharge model is an all-wheel-drive vehicle with twin motors. Volvo says the range should be around 320 km. in real-world usage. The manufacturer has tested the safety of the pack in all sorts of impact situations to make sure that the cells were protected as much as possible. The battery position allows generous foot room for the occupants. The XC40 Recharge offers spacious storage areas and trunk compared to the internal-combustion variant.
The virtual world with the flexibility of simulation has allowed the famous carmaker to realize that the safety performance is the core of the success to any vehicle. That has led to limited speed for safer drive experience.
Volvo has already presented its first fully electric XC 40. It is the first model to feature the newest infotainment technology powered by Android. An open-source operating system offers more apps and services for a better experience. Google assistant allows the drivers to control in-car functions by voice. The XC 40 Recharge is also connected to the Internet and comes with Google Maps and the Google Play Store built-in. In this way, everyone can easily download their favourite apps. Google Maps will help keep drivers up-to-date with real-time traffic data, alternative routes and charging station locations.
The new Android-based infotainment system is fully integrated into the latest Volvo model. The on-call offering features such as monitoring battery level, remote locking and unlocking and car-sharing via a digital key are other smart features of Volvo's fully-electric XC40.
This car is created to fulfil all customer's needs and demands. This is not just a smaller version of Volvo's larger cars. The new XC40 Recharge has its unique character and tailored innovations for an active urban lifestyle. The new model has a clear SUV identity combined with the benefits of the electromobility. Being the first EV by Volvo, the XC40 Recharge brings big hopes for a brighter future for the Swedish carmaker.
Author: Danny Stoyanova
Privacy policy Ads policy Terms of use
Contact Team Car Specs API
All rights reserved. Auto-Data.net® and the Auto-Data.net® logo are registered trademarks.
Catalog information is collected from publicly available sources 0.00081014633178711
|
cc/2021-04/en_middle_0045.json.gz/line1528
|
__label__cc
| 0.666574
| 0.333426
|
Car Rental Suppliers
Renault Euro-Leasing
Motorhome Rental Deals
SAVE ON CAR HIRE AT GATWICK AIRPORT
" Excellent service and got an upgrade for free which was great "
" All went smoothly "
" Overall very pleased with the vehicle and the staff. "
" We used you guys for a four month trip, USA& Europe, you are excellent. What do you not... "
" Appreciated being able to phone a local 0800 number to discuss our car hire requirements, all... "
" Excellent to deal with "
" Simple, easy, did what it says on the box ! Excellent "
" Generally very happy with the car and service provided. "
Compare Companies for Great Rates
Pay in New Zealand Dollars
Car Rental Gatwick Airport
The London Gatwick Airport is located 28 miles south of London's city center and is considered to be the second busiest airport in the UK, with Heathrow being the busiest. Last year the airport served just over 34 million passengers who were travelling with 90 different airlines. If you're flying in and looking to tour London, you'll be well-served by a car hire at Gatwick Airport!
For your convenience, Auto Europe is able to book both London Gatwick and Heathrow Airport car hires, as well as at offices in downtown London. During their time abroad, clients are also offered discounted rates on airport transfers so you can get to your hotel and relax after a long flight. Save up to 30% on your car hire in England when you book with us today! Use our booking engine and start comparing rates!
What is the airport code for Gatwick? LGW
Where to Find the Car Hire Desks at the Gatwick Airport
The car hire branches are located in the south terminal due to construction inside the north terminal. Follow the above signs for "Car Rentals," which will be located on your right after exiting international arrivals and on your left if exiting UK arrivals. You are heading in the correct direction if you pass a currency exchange. Go down the travellator to exit outside. On your right hand side there will be lifts that take you to the lower level. Get off the lift and go towards the forecourt, turning right towards bus stop number 1. After a quick walk you will arrive at the car hire area!
Book with Great Car Hire Suppliers at Gatwick Airport
When our clients reserve a car hire at the Gatwick Airport they know they are booking with the most reputable car hire suppliers who do business out of the Gatwick Airport. Our unique relationship with these suppliers allow us to offer lower rates found anywhere else on the web including booking directly with the car supplier. We carefully vet our partners and only work with trusted suppliers like Avis, Enterprise, Budget, Hertz, Sixt, and more! Use our booking engine to compare rates among suppliers and models to find the ideal mode of transportation for you and your travel group.
Avis London Gatwick Airport LGW
Location At Gatwick Airport:
South Terminal, Gatwick Airport
London, UK RH6 0NP
Local Telephone Number:
Sun - Sat 6:00 AM - 11:59 PM Local Time
Europcar London Gatwick Airport LGW
Gatwick Airport, International Arrivals
Sun - Sat 12:00 AM - 11:59 PM Local Time
Enterprise London Gatwick Airport LGW
Gatwick Airport, South Terminal
Lower Forecourt Rd., London, UK RH6 0NY
Hertz London Gatwick Airport LGW
London, UK RH6 0QX
Hours of Operation (Local Time):
Mon - Fri 6:00 AM - 11:59 PM
Sat - Sun 6:00 AM - 10:00 PM
Gatwick Airport Services for Travellers
Gatwick Airport Facilities & Amenities
There is an information desk located in the arrivals area of both Terminals. These desks are open 24 hours a day and are helpful for travellers looking for information specific to the airport, as well as information regarding currency conversion and other travel needs. Attendants at these desks will speak English and can direct you towards the counter for your Gatwick Airport car hire in London, should you get lost.
If you need to exchange currency, both terminals have bureau de change and ATMs available. Looking to spend that money you just exchanged? There is a variety of unique shops and designer boutiques to help you with that before boarding or picking up your Gatwick Airport car hire in London. Gatwick also offers a large selection of cafes, restaurants and bars so you'll have no trouble finding a great place to grab a bite to eat while you are at the airport.
Hotels Near Gatwick Airport
In addition to car hires, Auto Europe is able to book hotels near Gatwick Airport, London. Available accommodations include the Gatwick Hilton Hotel, which is located at the South Terminal of the airport. The Le Meridien London Gatwick Hotel is also located on the premises at the North Terminal. Call one of Auto Europe's friendly reservation agents for more info on any of our premium travel services, from Gatwick Airport hotels to London luxury car hires, available 24/7 and toll-free at 0800-885-052.
Hire a Car at Gatwick Airport
Horley, Surrey , RH6 0NP
IATA Code: LGW
IACO Code: EGKK
General Information: Gatwick Airport is a major international airport in south-east England, 29.5 miles south of Central London. It is the second-busiest airport by total passenger traffic in the United Kingdom, after London Heathrow. Gatwick is the eighth-busiest airport in Europe.
England Car Hire
London Car Hire
Gatwick Airport Car Hire
Gold Coast Car Hire
Auckland Car Hire
Wellington Car Hire
Noumea Car Hire
Christchurch Car Hire
New Zealand Car Hire
|
cc/2021-04/en_middle_0045.json.gz/line1529
|
__label__cc
| 0.675884
| 0.324116
|
Race Squad
Ride Captains
kaiw
Kai Watts
Starting from a young age of 6 I’ve always loved going fast on my bike especially on the hills and with type 1 diabetes I’ve shown that you can do anything no matter what condition or illness you have and I’ve raced and ridden in some fantastic places such as the grim Belgium Kermesse and the beautiful roads of Atlanta Georgia in America
What sport would you do if you were not a cyclist?
Probably running or swimming but I would never do a triathlon
Who in the cycling world would you like to go for a ride with?
Nario Quintana his riding still is similar to mine and I would love to have a crack with him on a nice long hill
Which other sport do you mostly follow and which club or athlete do you support?
running and the ingebrigrigtsen brothers are astonishing
What city would you most like to live in?
Probably the nice and hot city of Alicante some beautiful hills round there
How do you relax after a hard day?
Probably watching some Netflix
What music do you put on when you want to get pumped?
Some rap music but of loski before I race would get me in the “zone”
What’s your favourite TV show?
Has to be the good old A team
What is one or two of your favourite smells?
Hmm probably my dads stews when coming back from a ride
Which of your scars has the best story behind it?
Probably one on my leg back when I was 12/13 racing in the regional track omnium at herne hill it was the last race of the day (points) and I went in to the race placing quite high on the standings and I can only remember having to back pedal to avoid a crash and doing a sort of flip off the bike
What food do you love that a lot of people might find a little unfamiliar?
A Caribbean traditional dish of Ackee and saltfish which on a hot day would be served with some fried plantain and always lifts your mood
Black Cyclists Network (BCN) Limited (company number 12972088) is a commercial company limited by shares. BCN was founded in 2018 by Mani Arthur. Our goal is to get people from Black, Asian, and Minority Ethnic (BAME) backgrounds to get into cycling. We are a progressive and inclusive organisation consisting of cyclists of all backgrounds, united by a mission to encourage people of colour around the world to take up cycling. BCN generates revenue through the sale of club merchandise, membership fees, sponsorship, and grants. BCN has one full-time employee, founder Mani Arthur, who devotes all reasonable hours to developing BCN and in return receives a basic income commensurate with the cash flow generated by the company, plus essential expenses incurred in fulfilling duties. The founding director is supported by Greg Patmore (Chief Commercial Officer) and James Gray (Operations Manager) and events and other activities are facilitated by a range of volunteer members.
|
cc/2021-04/en_middle_0045.json.gz/line1530
|
__label__wiki
| 0.799319
| 0.799319
|
Ekonomisk teori & filosofi
Inbunden (Hardback)
Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd
Agliardi, Elettra
The Economic Theory of Incentives
David Martimort
Herbert Simon (3 Volume set)
John Cunningham Wood, Michael Cunningham Wood
The Five Dysfunctions of a Team Facilitator's Guide
Patrick M Lencioni
THE ECONOMICS OF LOCATION
Melvin L Greenhut, George Norman
THE ECONOMICS OF ALTRUISM
Stefano Zamagni
Stefano Zamagni, Vera Zamagni
An Economic History of Europe Since 1700
Vera Zamagni
The Italian Economy
High-Impact Tools for Teams
Stefano Mastrogiacomo, Alexander Osterwalder, Alan Smith, Trish Papadakos
Time in Economic Theory
av Stefano Zamagni, Elettra Agliardi
Inbunden Engelska, 2004-04-01
Skickas inom 7-10 vardagar.
Fri frakt inom Sverige för privatpersoner.
No question has more intrigued the minds of scholars of economic thought throughout history than that of the nature and meaning of time. The articles in this insightful collection attempt to provide satisfactory answers to fundamental issues on the use of time in economic theory. These volumes bring together the most important contributions on the subject, ranging from issues about the allocation of time, theory of choice, preference reversal and time in equilibrium to the issues of irreversibility, complex systems and the role of time. This comprehensive collection will be of great interest to researchers and students alike.
Visa hela texten
Passar bra ihop
De som köpt den här boken har ofta också köpt Organizational Learning and Knowledge Management av William H Starbuck (inbunden).
Köp båda 2 för 16758 kr
Har du läst boken? Sätt ditt betyg »
Fler böcker av författarna
Stefano Zamagni, Elettra Agliardi
Microeconomics of Wellbeing and Sustainability
Leonardo Becchetti, Luigino Bruni, Stefano Zamagni
Outline of the History of Economic Thought
Ernesto Screpanti, Stefano Zamagni
Markets, Money and Capital
Roberto Scazzieri, Amartya Sen, Stefano Zamagni
Value and Capital: Fifty Years Later
Lionel W McKenzie, Stefano Zamagni, Stefano Zamagnid
Edited by Stefano Zamagni, Professor of Economics, University of Bologna and Johns Hopkins University, Bologna Center, Italy and Elettra Agliardi, Professor of Economics, University of Bologna, Italy
Contents: Volume I Acknowledgements Introduction Stefano Zamagni and Elettra Agliardi PART I METHODOLOGICAL ISSUES ON TIME IN ECONOMICS 1. Randall Bausor (1983), 'Time and the Structure of Economic Analysis' 2. Fernando Carvalho (1984), 'On the Concept of Time in Shacklean and Sraffian Economics' 3. M. Dummett (1986), 'Causal Loops' 4. N. Georgescu-Roegen (1971), 'Instants of Time and Duration', 'Hysteresis and History', 'Time and "Time"', 'Stocks and Flows', 'Funds and Services', and 'Entropy and Economic Value' 5. Nicholas Georgescu-Roegen (1985), 'Time and Value in Economics and in Gossen's System' 6. Derek Parfit (1984), 'Different Attitudes to Time' 7. F.P. Ramsey (1928), 'A Mathematical Theory of Saving' 8. Paul A. Samuelson (1944), 'The Relation Between Hicksian Stability and True Dynamic Stability' 9. G.L.S. Shackle (1958), 'The Complex Concept of Economic Time' 10. G.L.S. Shackle (1976), 'Time and Choice' 11. Stephen Smale ([1977] 1980), 'Some Dynamical Questions in Mathematical Economics' 12. Gordon C. Winston (1982), 'Economic Events in Time' 13. Gordon C. Winston (1988), 'Three Problems with the Treatment of Time in Economics: Perspectives, Repetitiveness, and Time Units' 14. Stefano Zamagni (1984), 'Ricardo and Hayek Effects in a Fixwage Model of Traverse' PART II TIME AND EQUILIBRIUM 15. Randall Bausor (1986), 'Time and Equilibrium' 16. Jean-Pierre Danthine (1978), 'Information, Futures Prices, and Stabilizing Speculation' 17. Gerard Fuchs and Guy Laroque (1976), 'Dynamics of Temporary Equilibria and Expectations' 18. Jean Michel Grandmont (1977), 'Temporary General Equilibrium Theory' 19. Jean-Michel Grandmont (1985), 'On Endogenous Competitive Business Cycles' 20. Jerry R. Green (1973), 'Temporary General Equilibrium in a Sequential Trading Model with Spot and Futures Transactions' 21. Sanford J. Grossman (1977), 'The Existence of Futures Markets, Noisy Rational Expectations and Informational Externalities' 22. Frank H. Hahn and Takashi Negishi (1962), 'A Theorem on Non-Tatonnement Stability' 23. Frank Hahn ([1989] 1990), 'Information Dynamics and Equilibrium' 24. Roy Radner (1972), 'Existence of Equilibrium of Plans, Prices, and Price Expectations in a Sequence of Markets' 25. Stephen Smale (1976), 'Dynamics in General Equilibrium Theory' Name Index Volume II Acknowledgements An introduction by the editors to all three volumes appears in Volume I PART I TIME AND IRREVERSIBILITY 1. Olivier J. Blanchard and Lawrence H. Summers (1986), 'Hysteresis and the European Unemployment Problem' 2. Christophe Chamley and Douglas Gale (1994), 'Information Revelation and Strategic Delay in a Model of Investment' 3. Avinash Dixit (1992), 'Investment and Hysteresis' 4. Nicholas Georgescu-Roegen (1975), 'Bio-Economic Aspects of Entropy' 5. Donald W. Katzner (2000), 'Economics and the Principle of Uniformity' 6. Robert S. Pindyck (1991), 'Irreversibility, Uncertainty, and Investment' 7. Jennifer F. Reinganum (1981), 'Market Structure and the Diffusion of New Technology' 8. Joan Robinson (1974), 'History Versus Equilibrium' PART II TIME AND COMPLEX SYSTEMS 9. W. Brian Arthur (1988), 'Self-Reinforcing Mechanisms in Economics' 10. Lawrence Blume and David Easley (1992), 'Evolution and Market Behavior' 11. William A. Brock (1991), 'Understanding Macroeconomic Time Series Using Complex Systems Theory' 12. Paul A. David (1994), 'Why are Institutions the 'Carriers of History'?: Path Dependence and the Evolution of Conventions, Organizations and Institutions' 13. Steven N. Durlauf (1993), 'Nonergodic Economic Growth' 14. Hans Foellmer (1974), 'Random Economies with Many Interacting Agents' 15. John Foster (1997), 'The Analytical Foundations of Evolutionary Economics: From Biological Analogy to Economic Self-Organization' 16. Nicholas Georgescu-Roegen (1977), 'What Thermodynamics and Biology can Teach Economists' 17. Douglass C. North (1994), 'Economic Performance Through Time' 18. Michael Woodford (1989), 'Imperfect
|
cc/2021-04/en_middle_0045.json.gz/line1536
|
__label__cc
| 0.604872
| 0.395128
|
‘Hello I’d Like To Report A Poster Theft’: People Showcase 30 Movie Posters That Are Suspiciously Similar
Movies & tv2 months ago
Liucija Adomaite and
Justinas Keturka
We live in the age of replicas, look-alikes, and stolen ideas. It feels like everything good has been done already, whether it’s a song, a painting, or a clever TV commercial. The fear of being unoriginal is stronger than ever if you’re trying to produce something entirely new.
And while some try their best to come up with fresh ideas, others decide there’s no point in trying too hard. This time, we are looking at some examples of copycats in the film industry, where movie posters are everything but original.
From the suspiciously similar Babel (2006) and Savages (2012) affiches, to the look-alike Inception (2010) vs. Geostorm (2017) designs, these can’t be just mere coincidences... or can they? Whoever designed these posters surely has no problem with being unoriginal, and this may as well be somewhat of a liberating feeling.
(h/t: Letterboxd users Bri and Malaine)
Shrooms (2007) vs. Singular Cay (2012)
Bri Report
Bardhi's Dad
If it's not from same studio and producer, that's clear it's plagiat
Unforgiven (1992) vs. Puss In Boots (2011)
It's almost like an adorable parody. ♡
Die Hard 2 (1990) vs. Speed (1994)
I have almost forgotten those two heroes were young once. But, must say they are still handsome - Bruce not as much as Keanu, but not bad at all
Bored Panda reached out to filmmaker and entrepreneur Romina to find out if such look-alike movie posters are innocent coincidences or sinister copies. Romina explained that both things can be true in these cases: “Sometimes copies are coincidental and other times they're not. The use of similar design elements, though, is indeed deliberate.”
Romina also said that it’s quite possible that the same designers were used to produce the film posters, and if that happens, “they end up with similar styles.” In that case, a look-alike poster is not a copy, but rather it reflects the style of a particular designer.
Blue Ruin (2013) vs. Happy Hunting (2017)
Happy Hunting is like a couple of frames after Blue Ruin..
Gravity (2013) vs. Ad Astra (2019)
2 months ago (edited)
Gravity is better movie and have better poster! In my opinion, of course
Cats & Dogs (2001) vs. Captain America: Civil War (2016)
cybermerlin2000
Cats and Dogs did it best
“It is common to copy or 'take inspiration' from other works. If it isn't broken, why fix it?” Romina said this is part of the storytelling process which is as old as time itself. For example, “Shakespeare's stories have been told over and over again.”
Having said that, Romina assured that people still genuinely care about original ideas. “The possibilities are endless as new ways of storytelling are developed, like VR, for example.” It’s really up to artists and designers to decide which direction they want to go.
Ex Machina (2014) vs. A.i. Rising (2018)
Yesterday I was listening to a podcast on AI and the presenter mentioned one interesting fact - for some reason, AI is always associated with blue color. Search whatever "AI" pic on Google and you will always find blue and its different shades to be the main color.
Star Wars: The Force Awakens (2015) vs. Dark Phoenix (2019)
Troux
This is kind of a standard movie poster for big-budget, multi-protagonist movies.
Winter's Bone (2010) vs. A Dark Place (2018)
I like much more that one with Jennifer Lawrence, must say. And movie was great also
Creating a captivating movie poster that will draw people to the cinema theaters is not as simple as you may think. The successful ones often follow a time-proven sales formula that can be traced in any movie poster you’d like to hang on your wall. It’s known as AIDA.
The first A in the AIDA formula stands for "attention." A good movie poster is one that grabs your attention on the street and steals it for some time. Whether it features the film’s main characters, establishes an intriguing level of plot, or presents a major plot point, it should be captivating.
The second part of the formula stands for iconography, which is basically showing without telling. The use of strong imagery and visual cues is what makes the design effective.
Drive Angry (2011) vs. Breaking Loose (2014)
Goo Lagoon
Didn't even try to make it different
Black Swan (2010) vs. Ghostland (2018)
I kind of like Ghostland's execution better.
Anatomy Of A Murder (1959) vs. Clockers (1995)
Yeah, it's clearly an homage to a very famous classic poster.
Another important feature in a good film poster design is "interest." This means that your poster should offer a fresh perspective or an unusual point of view. Sometimes it puts the viewers into the middle of a scene from the film. Often, it sparks an inner curiosity as you wish to find out more.The last bit of the magic AIDA formula stands for appeal, which combines both creative and aesthetic efforts to produce a poster that will serve as a form of art on its own.
On the other hand, there’s always a danger of making your poster too artsy, as it should carry appeal for both die-hard fans and passersby on the streets alike. Long-lasting appeal in poster designs is usually found in classical movies and high-budget blockbusters.
Shrek (2001) vs. The Incredibles (2004)
JessG
Well, the Shrek one was intentional. They had more than one poster, all with different “genre feel” to them
The Ruins (2007) vs. Wake Wood (2008)
Amanda Flesher
Originally the movie was called Morning Wood, but then they realized the error of their ways 😂
Hot Pursuit (1987) vs. Disturbia (2007)
John Tan
disturbia has more of a horror-ey feel
Babel (2006) vs. Savages (2012)
Julius Martin
Babel was easily better, in my opinion
The Breakfast Club (1985) vs. The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2 (1986)
Purple light
Clearly intentional
No Country For Old Men (2007) vs. Fright Night (2011)
Was Fright Night re-made in 2011? I didn’t even realize. The original poster is much better
Shame (2011) vs. The Delinquent Season (2018)
Capelli rosa e patate
Damn the delinquent season. That’s ones a doozy.
The Night Eats The World (La Nuit A Dévoré Le Monde) (2018) vs. The Rental (2020)
Both posters make me curious about the movies though. I haven’t seen either one, but I’d like to now, lol, it worked
Mystic River (2003) vs. Dusk (2010)
Mademoiselle Nat
Well, if it counts, the colour is different.
Straw Dogs (1971) vs. Cold Fish (2010)
Dog, Fish.... both animals so let's copy the poster
Lolita (1962) vs. American Strays (1996)
I believe this is made intentional
Vampire (2011) vs. Forgotten (2017)
Charlotte A.
They forgot the white sphere in the second pic... :p
The Ides Of March (2011) vs. Nancy (2018)
I like Ryan Clooney and George Gosling.
The People vs. Larry Flynt (1996) vs. The Kill Team (2013)
Robin DJW
The Silence of the Lambs poster is in this same family. They all say "We have secrets."
Death Ship (1980) vs. Ghost Ship (2002)
Martin Kaine
Well duh, first the ship dies, then it comes back as a ghost.
Body Snatchers (1993) vs. Berberian Sound Studio (2012)
Berberian Sound Studio is fantastic!
Inception (2010) vs. Geostorm (2017)
I love Inception!!!
Deepwater Horizon (2016) vs. Murder On The Orient Express (2017)
Mike Crow
Nope. Similar but not the same.
Note: this post originally had 47 images. It’s been shortened to the top 30 images based on user votes.
Liucija Adomaite
Writer, BoredPanda staff
Liucija Adomaite is a creative mind with years of experience in copywriting. She has a dynamic set of experiences from advertising, academia, and journalism. This time, she has set out on a journey to investigate the ways in which we communicate ideas on a large scale. Her current mission is to find a magic formula for how to make ideas, news, and other such things spread like a virus.
Justin is a photo editor at Bored Panda. He was fascinated with visual arts and arts in general for as long as he can remember. He was obsessed with playing and making music in his teens. After finishing high school, he took a gap year to work odd jobs and try to figure out what he wanted to do next. Finally, around 2016, he started learning how to use Photoshop and hasn't stopped since. He started working as a visual advertisement producer in 2017 and worked there for almost two years. In his spare time, he creates graphic collages and even had his first artwork exhibition at "Devilstone".
Show All Contributors
I'd say very few of these are similar enough to be "copied" - and in the cases where they ARE similar it is sometimes obviously intentional, sometimes probably warranted by the story (like those women in veils or the two ships) and perhaps sometimes the old poster is just somewhere at the back of the mind when a new poster is made... And as has been mentioned, some compositions and colour schemes are basically standard.
I think a few months back we had a posting here showing that there is a small number of stereotypical movie poster "templates" only. Thus, similarity is no coincidence, but even likely, without ripping other works off. That with much similarity something the lightning and colour is similar would be a result of graphic design best practices...
Some look similar, a few look like copycats (one at least on purpose like Puss in Boots). You have to realize that there is a formula or set of unofficial guidelines that the art departments follow and that is why the posters look similar. Especially if you look back at the different decades the movie poster all look similar.
Torchicachu
very interesting list - but i could tell that some of the really good ones were intentional
Zophra
"There is nothing new under the sun."
Kayla J
Eh, as someone who basically grew up in a movie theater a lot of these are genres/formula and even parodies. The enigmatic character in shadow looking over their shoulder, the eye staring/something over the eyes, red lips, the couple standing back to back to each other, the large moon background etc. Like many things in the entertainment industry, rehashes happen plus it's playing on your emotions. You really liked Die Hard, wait'll you see Speed. Wanna see something like Pretty Woman? How about How To Lose A Guy in 10 Days and so on.
Nicole Holt
From this post I learned that I have a lot of movies to watch :)
Damon Tripodi
Basically everyone comes up with the same trite ideas
Steve Cruz
Film publicity is all about marketing. A lot of these similar posters are after the same audience. I can practically hear a marketing muck instructing artists to "Do something like this."
fuggnuggins
And apparently still don't realise that everyone is watching a selection from maybe a dozen movies over, and over, and over, and over...
Tek Ang
You forgot Raid: Redemption and Battleship https://montrealgazette.com/entertainment/movies/separated-at-birth-posters-for-films-the-raid-redemption-and-battleship
Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery!
Mimi M
Cute idea -wonder who thought it up and how they found them all.
just a hamilfan
the only movies on this list I've seen is star wars, Shrek, Incredibles, harry potter, and how to train your dragon
Oskar vanZandt
Similar is not plagiarism... there are enough differences in the presentation and subject matter in the majority of these to move towards 'imitation'- and isn't that it "is the sincerest form of flattery that mediocrity can pay to greatness.” (Oscar Wilde)
lil peep stan
its most likely if you see a movie poster and think "hey! it looks like *a different movie thats well liked* it must be simular, i should see it, paramore album, riot! looks like no doubts album, rock steady
El muerto
to be honest, there are few posters designs that get recicle over and over, with some variation in what is trending at the moment...most of the "originals" weren't original at all
troufaki13
Many of them are like a couple of years apart!
J Rob
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ThnxSaExzU
Ronel du Plessis
I either watch too little movies, or I go through life blind folded. I don't know halve of these movies (or they weren't released in South Africa)
copy-cat film posters,
copycat posters,
stolen film poster ideas,
stolen poster designs,
suspiciously similar movie posters,
visual similarities in movie posters
|
cc/2021-04/en_middle_0045.json.gz/line1537
|
__label__wiki
| 0.997418
| 0.997418
|
Filmmaker Michael Moore explores the roots of America's predilection for gun violence.
All ReleasesOriginal ReleaseFebioFest
All TerritoriesDomesticArgentinaAustraliaAustriaChileCzech RepublicFinlandFranceGermanyGreeceHungaryItalyMexicoNetherlandsNew ZealandNorwaySouth AfricaSpainUnited Kingdom
DistributorUnited Artists
Opening$209,148
Budget$4,000,000
Release DateOct 11, 2002 - Sep 18, 2003
Running Time2 hr
GenresCrime Documentary Drama
Widest Release248 theaters
Key:Estimated
Oct 18, 2002 Friday 19 $210,000 - - 46 $4,565 $534,503 8 true
Oct 19, 2002 Saturday 19 $300,000 +42.9% - 46 $6,521 $834,503 9 true
Oct 20, 2002 Sunday 17 $215,000 -28.3% - 46 $4,673 $1,052,554 10 true
Oct 21, 2002 Monday 17 $90,000 -58.1% - 46 $1,956 $1,142,554 11 true
Oct 22, 2002 Tuesday 17 $95,000 +5.6% - 46 $2,065 $1,237,554 12 true
Oct 23, 2002 Wednesday 17 $92,000 -3.2% - 46 $2,000 $1,329,554 13 true
Oct 24, 2002 Thursday 17 $85,000 -7.6% - 46 $1,847 $1,421,190 14 true
Nov 1, 2002 Friday 13 $420,000 - - 162 $2,592 $3,397,046 22 true
Nov 2, 2002 Saturday 11 $695,000 +65.5% - 162 $4,290 $4,092,046 23 true
Nov 3, 2002 Sunday 10 $430,000 -38.1% - 162 $2,654 $4,518,239 24 true
Nov 4, 2002 Monday 10 $155,000 -64% - 162 $956 $4,673,239 25 true
Nov 5, 2002 Tuesday 10 $190,000 +22.6% - 162 $1,172 $4,863,239 26 true
Nov 15, 2002 Friday 13 $370,248 - - 248 $1,492 $7,905,373 36 false
Nov 16, 2002 Saturday 13 $556,690 +50.4% - 248 $2,244 $8,462,063 37 false
Nov 17, 2002 Sunday 11 $336,442 -39.6% - 248 $1,356 $8,798,505 38 false
Nov 18, 2002 Monday 10 $120,074 -64.3% - 248 $484 $8,918,579 39 false
Nov 19, 2002 Tuesday 10 $159,166 +32.6% - 248 $641 $9,077,745 40 false
Nov 20, 2002 Wednesday 10 $131,022 -17.7% - 248 $528 $9,208,767 41 false
Nov 21, 2002 Thursday 10 $149,702 +14.3% - 248 $603 $9,358,469 42 false
Nov 22, 2002 Friday 14 $289,457 +93.4% -21.8% 244 $1,186 $9,647,926 43 false
Nov 23, 2002 Saturday 14 $431,941 +49.2% -22.4% 244 $1,770 $10,079,867 44 false
Nov 24, 2002 Sunday 12 $262,069 -39.3% -22.1% 244 $1,074 $10,341,936 45 false
Nov 25, 2002 Monday 12 $112,523 -57.1% -6.3% 244 $461 $10,454,459 46 false
Nov 26, 2002 Tuesday 12 $149,042 +32.5% -6.4% 244 $610 $10,603,501 47 false
Nov 27, 2002 Wednesday 13 $173,215 +16.2% +32.2% 227 $763 $10,776,716 48 false
Thursday 15 $171,114 -1.2% +14.3% 227 $753 $10,947,830 49 false
Nov 29, 2002 Friday 15 $374,235 +118.7% +29.3% 217 $1,724 $11,322,065 50 false
Nov 30, 2002 Saturday 15 $375,126 +0.2% -13.2% 217 $1,728 $11,697,191 51 false
Dec 1, 2002 Sunday 15 $217,321 -42.1% -17.1% 217 $1,001 $11,914,512 52 false
Dec 2, 2002 Monday 14 $71,719 -67% -36.3% 217 $330 $11,986,231 53 false
Dec 3, 2002 Tuesday 14 $91,606 +27.7% -38.5% 217 $422 $12,077,837 54 false
Dec 4, 2002 Wednesday 14 $81,129 -11.4% -53.2% 217 $373 $12,158,966 55 false
Dec 5, 2002 Thursday 14 $87,176 +7.5% -49.1% 217 $401 $12,246,142 56 false
Dec 6, 2002 Friday 16 $189,781 +117.7% -49.3% 246 $771 $12,435,923 57 false
Dec 7, 2002 Saturday 16 $275,642 +45.2% -26.5% 246 $1,120 $12,711,565 58 false
Dec 8, 2002 Sunday 15 $163,731 -40.6% -24.7% 246 $665 $12,875,296 59 false
Dec 9, 2002 Monday 14 $72,299 -55.8% +0.8% 246 $293 $12,947,595 60 false
Dec 10, 2002 Tuesday 14 $88,581 +22.5% -3.3% 246 $360 $13,036,176 61 false
Dec 11, 2002 Wednesday 14 $83,369 -5.9% +2.8% 246 $338 $13,119,545 62 false
Dec 12, 2002 Thursday 14 $87,134 +4.5% <0.1% 246 $354 $13,206,679 63 false
Dec 13, 2002 Friday 16 $153,938 +76.7% -18.9% 234 $657 $13,360,617 64 false
Dec 14, 2002 Saturday 16 $240,101 +56% -12.9% 234 $1,026 $13,600,718 65 false
Dec 15, 2002 Sunday 15 $168,371 -29.9% +2.8% 234 $719 $13,769,089 66 false
Dec 16, 2002 Monday 15 $82,132 -51.2% +13.6% 234 $350 $13,851,221 67 false
Dec 17, 2002 Tuesday 15 $89,914 +9.5% +1.5% 234 $384 $13,941,135 68 false
Dec 18, 2002 Wednesday 16 $74,212 -17.5% -11% 234 $317 $14,015,347 69 false
Dec 19, 2002 Thursday 16 $75,562 +1.8% -13.3% 234 $322 $14,090,909 70 false
Dec 20, 2002 Friday 18 $98,231 +30% -36.2% 195 $503 $14,189,140 71 false
Dec 21, 2002 Saturday 16 $148,039 +50.7% -38.3% 195 $759 $14,337,179 72 false
Dec 22, 2002 Sunday 16 $139,764 -5.6% -17% 195 $716 $14,476,943 73 false
Dec 23, 2002 Monday 16 $88,694 -36.5% +8% 195 $454 $14,565,637 74 false
Dec 24, 2002 Tuesday 16 $46,721 -47.3% -48% 195 $239 $14,612,358 75 false
Wednesday 20 $59,731 +27.8% -19.5% 195 $306 $14,672,089 76 false
Dec 26, 2002 Thursday 19 $114,439 +91.6% +51.5% 195 $586 $14,786,528 77 false
Dec 27, 2002 Friday 20 $128,058 +11.9% +30.4% 175 $731 $14,914,586 78 false
Dec 28, 2002 Saturday 20 $155,555 +21.5% +5.1% 175 $888 $15,070,141 79 false
Dec 29, 2002 Sunday 20 $133,602 -14.1% -4.4% 175 $763 $15,203,743 80 false
Dec 30, 2002 Monday 21 $112,064 -16.1% +26.3% 175 $640 $15,315,807 81 false
Tuesday 23 $58,077 -48.2% +24.3% 175 $331 $15,373,884 82 false
Wednesday 22 $138,510 +138.5% +131.9% 175 $791 $15,512,394 83 false
Jan 2, 2003 Thursday 22 $106,112 -23.4% -7.3% 175 $606 $15,618,506 84 false
Jan 3, 2003 Friday 19 $115,612 +9% -9.7% 198 $583 $15,734,118 85 false
Jan 4, 2003 Saturday 20 $180,783 +56.4% +16.2% 198 $913 $15,914,901 86 false
Jan 5, 2003 Sunday 20 $115,976 -35.8% -13.2% 198 $585 $16,030,877 87 false
Jan 6, 2003 Monday 21 $54,330 -53.2% -51.5% 198 $274 $16,085,207 88 false
Jan 7, 2003 Tuesday 20 $65,244 +20.1% +12.3% 198 $329 $16,150,451 89 false
Jan 8, 2003 Wednesday 19 $64,594 -1% -53.4% 198 $326 $16,215,045 90 false
Jan 9, 2003 Thursday 19 $63,447 -1.8% -40.2% 198 $320 $16,278,492 91 false
Jan 10, 2003 Friday 22 $103,175 +62.6% -10.8% 204 $505 $16,381,667 92 false
Jan 11, 2003 Saturday 22 $150,431 +45.8% -16.8% 204 $737 $16,532,098 93 false
Jan 12, 2003 Sunday 21 $99,003 -34.2% -14.6% 204 $485 $16,631,101 94 false
Jan 13, 2003 Monday 21 $38,086 -61.5% -29.9% 204 $186 $16,669,187 95 false
Jan 14, 2003 Tuesday 21 $47,888 +25.7% -26.6% 204 $234 $16,717,075 96 false
Jan 15, 2003 Wednesday 21 $47,404 -1% -26.6% 204 $232 $16,764,479 97 false
Jan 16, 2003 Thursday 21 $53,775 +13.4% -15.2% 204 $263 $16,818,254 98 false
Jan 17, 2003 Friday 23 $92,413 +71.9% -10.4% 213 $433 $16,910,667 99 false
Jan 18, 2003 Saturday 24 $139,916 +51.4% -7% 213 $656 $17,050,583 100 false
Jan 19, 2003 Sunday 25 $108,848 -22.2% +9.9% 213 $511 $17,159,431 101 false
Monday 25 $72,269 -33.6% +89.8% 213 $339 $17,231,700 102 false
Jan 21, 2003 Tuesday 23 $40,225 -44.3% -16% 213 $188 $17,271,925 103 false
Jan 22, 2003 Wednesday 22 $37,554 -6.6% -20.8% 213 $176 $17,309,479 104 false
Jan 23, 2003 Thursday 22 $46,235 +23.1% -14% 213 $217 $17,355,714 105 false
Jan 24, 2003 Friday 25 $66,416 +43.6% -28.1% 188 $353 $17,422,130 106 false
Jan 25, 2003 Saturday 25 $101,995 +53.6% -27.1% 188 $542 $17,524,125 107 false
Jan 26, 2003 Sunday 26 $41,272 -59.5% -62.1% 188 $219 $17,565,397 108 false
Jan 27, 2003 Monday 23 $25,420 -38.4% -64.8% 188 $135 $17,590,817 109 false
Jan 28, 2003 Tuesday 23 $29,142 +14.6% -27.6% 188 $155 $17,619,959 110 false
Jan 29, 2003 Wednesday 23 $30,342 +4.1% -19.2% 188 $161 $17,650,301 111 false
Jan 30, 2003 Thursday 22 $34,015 +12.1% -26.4% 188 $180 $17,684,316 112 false
Feb 1, 2003 Saturday 29 $79,640 +54.8% -21.9% 174 $457 $17,815,404 114 false
Feb 2, 2003 Sunday 29 $53,526 -32.8% +29.7% 174 $307 $17,868,930 115 false
Feb 3, 2003 Monday 27 $17,152 -68% -32.5% 174 $98 $17,886,082 116 false
Feb 4, 2003 Tuesday 25 $23,467 +36.8% -19.5% 174 $134 $17,909,549 117 false
Feb 5, 2003 Wednesday 26 $21,713 -7.5% -28.4% 174 $124 $17,931,262 118 false
Feb 6, 2003 Thursday 26 $24,265 +11.8% -28.7% 174 $139 $17,955,527 119 false
Feb 7, 2003 Friday 30 $42,060 +73.3% -18.2% 142 $296 $17,997,587 120 false
Feb 9, 2003 Sunday 31 $43,429 -35.2% -18.9% 142 $305 $18,108,035 122 false
Feb 10, 2003 Monday 28 $15,889 -63.4% -7.4% 142 $111 $18,123,924 123 false
Feb 11, 2003 Tuesday 27 $17,342 +9.1% -26.1% 142 $122 $18,141,266 124 false
Feb 12, 2003 Wednesday 27 $18,169 +4.8% -16.3% 142 $127 $18,159,435 125 false
Feb 13, 2003 Thursday 28 $19,265 +6% -20.6% 142 $135 $18,178,700 126 false
Feb 14, 2003 Friday 30 $42,334 +119.7% +0.7% 172 $246 $18,221,034 127 false
Feb 15, 2003 Saturday 27 $74,688 +76.4% +11.4% 172 $434 $18,295,722 128 false
Feb 16, 2003 Sunday 26 $63,328 -15.2% +45.8% 172 $368 $18,359,050 129 false
Monday 27 $42,957 -32.2% +170.4% 172 $249 $18,402,007 130 false
Feb 18, 2003 Tuesday 25 $27,390 -36.2% +57.9% 172 $159 $18,429,397 131 false
Feb 19, 2003 Wednesday 23 $29,059 +6.1% +59.9% 172 $168 $18,458,456 132 false
Feb 20, 2003 Thursday 23 $31,279 +7.6% +62.4% 172 $181 $18,489,735 133 false
Feb 21, 2003 Friday 26 $43,333 +38.5% +2.4% 118 $367 $18,533,068 134 false
Feb 22, 2003 Saturday 26 $69,523 +60.4% -6.9% 118 $589 $18,602,591 135 false
Feb 23, 2003 Sunday 26 $46,001 -33.8% -27.4% 118 $389 $18,648,592 136 false
Feb 24, 2003 Monday 26 $13,079 -71.6% -69.6% 118 $110 $18,661,671 137 false
Feb 25, 2003 Tuesday 25 $15,970 +22.1% -41.7% 118 $135 $18,677,641 138 false
Feb 26, 2003 Wednesday 26 $13,742 -14% -52.7% 118 $116 $18,691,383 139 false
Feb 27, 2003 Thursday 25 $17,809 +29.6% -43.1% 118 $150 $18,709,192 140 false
Feb 28, 2003 Friday 32 $37,427 +110.2% -13.6% 106 $353 $18,746,619 141 false
Mar 1, 2003 Saturday 32 $63,701 +70.2% -8.4% 106 $600 $18,810,320 142 false
Mar 2, 2003 Sunday 30 $45,007 -29.3% -2.2% 106 $424 $18,855,327 143 false
Mar 3, 2003 Monday 29 $17,968 -60.1% +37.4% 106 $169 $18,873,295 144 false
Mar 4, 2003 Tuesday 27 $21,603 +20.2% +35.3% 106 $203 $18,894,898 145 false
Mar 5, 2003 Wednesday 27 $20,824 -3.6% +51.5% 106 $196 $18,915,722 146 false
Mar 6, 2003 Thursday 24 $21,589 +3.7% +21.2% 106 $203 $18,937,311 147 false
Mar 7, 2003 Friday 32 $42,369 +96.3% +13.2% 106 $399 $18,979,680 148 false
Mar 8, 2003 Saturday 31 $70,123 +65.5% +10.1% 106 $661 $19,049,803 149 false
Mar 9, 2003 Sunday 29 $50,223 -28.4% +11.6% 106 $473 $19,100,026 150 false
Mar 10, 2003 Monday 28 $16,303 -67.5% -9.3% 106 $153 $19,116,329 151 false
Mar 11, 2003 Tuesday 28 $20,052 +23% -7.2% 106 $189 $19,136,381 152 false
Mar 12, 2003 Wednesday 28 $17,835 -11.1% -14.4% 106 $168 $19,154,216 153 false
Mar 13, 2003 Thursday 27 $19,593 +9.9% -9.2% 106 $184 $19,173,809 154 false
Mar 14, 2003 Friday 33 $42,859 +118.7% +1.2% 101 $424 $19,216,668 155 false
Mar 15, 2003 Saturday 33 $65,667 +53.2% -6.4% 101 $650 $19,282,335 156 false
Mar 16, 2003 Sunday 32 $42,227 -35.7% -15.9% 101 $418 $19,324,562 157 false
Mar 17, 2003 Monday 33 $13,503 -68% -17.2% 101 $133 $19,338,065 158 false
Mar 18, 2003 Tuesday 33 $18,044 +33.6% -10% 101 $178 $19,356,109 159 false
Mar 19, 2003 Wednesday 31 $18,221 +1% +2.2% 101 $180 $19,374,330 160 false
Mar 22, 2003 Saturday 30 $74,445 +69.2% +13.4% 106 $702 $19,512,074 163 false
Mar 23, 2003 Sunday 31 $38,098 -48.8% -9.8% 106 $359 $19,550,172 164 false
Mar 24, 2003 Monday 24 $29,052 -23.7% +115.2% 106 $274 $19,579,224 165 false
Mar 25, 2003 Tuesday 24 $33,339 +14.8% +84.8% 106 $314 $19,612,563 166 false
Mar 26, 2003 Wednesday 26 $26,850 -19.5% +47.4% 106 $253 $19,639,413 167 false
Mar 27, 2003 Thursday 24 $30,575 +13.9% +58.5% 106 $288 $19,669,988 168 false
Mar 28, 2003 Friday 28 $74,445 +143.5% +69.2% 121 $615 $19,744,433 169 false
Mar 29, 2003 Saturday 29 $120,007 +61.2% +61.2% 121 $991 $19,864,440 170 false
Mar 30, 2003 Sunday 27 $76,656 -36.1% +101.2% 121 $633 $19,941,096 171 false
Mar 31, 2003 Monday 28 $23,128 -69.8% -20.4% 121 $191 $19,964,224 172 false
Apr 1, 2003 Tuesday 27 $27,478 +18.8% -17.6% 121 $227 $19,991,702 173 false
Apr 2, 2003 Wednesday 24 $29,461 +7.2% +9.7% 121 $243 $20,021,163 174 false
Apr 3, 2003 Thursday 24 $27,323 -7.3% -10.6% 121 $225 $20,048,486 175 false
Apr 4, 2003 Friday 31 $55,254 +102.2% -25.8% 144 $383 $20,103,740 176 false
Apr 5, 2003 Saturday 31 $93,520 +69.3% -22.1% 144 $649 $20,197,260 177 false
Apr 6, 2003 Sunday 31 $58,013 -38% -24.3% 144 $402 $20,255,273 178 false
Apr 7, 2003 Monday 25 $23,290 -59.9% +0.7% 144 $161 $20,278,563 179 false
Apr 8, 2003 Tuesday 25 $30,708 +31.9% +11.8% 144 $213 $20,309,271 180 false
Apr 9, 2003 Wednesday 27 $26,154 -14.8% -11.2% 144 $181 $20,335,425 181 false
Apr 10, 2003 Thursday 26 $31,453 +20.3% +15.1% 144 $218 $20,366,878 182 false
Apr 11, 2003 Friday 33 $46,398 +47.5% -16% 146 $317 $20,413,276 183 false
Apr 12, 2003 Saturday 34 $76,827 +65.6% -17.8% 146 $526 $20,490,103 184 false
Apr 13, 2003 Sunday 32 $46,156 -39.9% -20.4% 146 $316 $20,536,259 185 false
Apr 14, 2003 Monday 30 $19,887 -56.9% -14.6% 146 $136 $20,556,146 186 false
Apr 15, 2003 Tuesday 25 $26,745 +34.5% -12.9% 146 $183 $20,582,891 187 false
Apr 16, 2003 Wednesday 26 $23,871 -10.7% -8.7% 146 $163 $20,606,762 188 false
Apr 17, 2003 Thursday 26 $35,223 +47.6% +12% 146 $241 $20,641,985 189 false
Apr 18, 2003 Friday 31 $62,002 +76% +33.6% 121 $512 $20,703,987 190 false
Apr 19, 2003 Saturday 32 $69,144 +11.5% -10% 121 $571 $20,773,131 191 false
Sunday 32 $41,444 -40.1% -10.2% 121 $342 $20,814,575 192 false
Apr 21, 2003 Monday 31 $23,750 -42.7% +19.4% 121 $196 $20,838,325 193 false
Apr 22, 2003 Tuesday 29 $21,967 -7.5% -17.9% 121 $181 $20,860,292 194 false
Apr 23, 2003 Wednesday 29 $23,116 +5.2% -3.2% 121 $191 $20,883,408 195 false
Apr 24, 2003 Thursday 28 $20,857 -9.8% -40.8% 121 $172 $20,904,265 196 false
Apr 25, 2003 Friday 39 $30,435 +45.9% -50.9% 100 $304 $20,934,700 197 false
Apr 27, 2003 Sunday 37 $26,614 -48% -35.8% 100 $266 $21,012,472 199 false
Apr 28, 2003 Monday 33 $11,881 -55.4% -50% 100 $118 $21,024,353 200 false
Apr 30, 2003 Wednesday 33 $12,883 -20.7% -44.3% 100 $128 $21,053,476 202 false
May 1, 2003 Thursday 31 $14,080 +9.3% -32.5% 100 $140 $21,067,556 203 false
May 2, 2003 Friday 40 $22,504 +59.8% -26.1% 88 $255 $21,090,060 204 false
May 3, 2003 Saturday 41 $35,714 +58.7% -30.2% 88 $405 $21,125,774 205 false
May 4, 2003 Sunday 42 $19,802 -44.6% -25.6% 88 $225 $21,145,576 206 false
May 5, 2003 Monday 39 $8,400 -57.6% -29.3% 88 $95 $21,153,976 207 false
May 6, 2003 Tuesday 36 $11,473 +36.6% -29.4% 88 $130 $21,165,449 208 false
May 7, 2003 Wednesday 35 $9,813 -14.5% -23.8% 88 $111 $21,175,262 209 false
May 8, 2003 Thursday 37 $8,990 -8.4% -36.2% 88 $102 $21,184,252 210 false
May 10, 2003 Saturday 37 $25,007 +42.6% -30% 76 $329 $21,226,795 212 false
May 11, 2003 Sunday 38 $18,118 -27.5% -8.5% 76 $238 $21,244,913 213 false
May 12, 2003 Monday 37 $6,826 -62.3% -18.7% 76 $89 $21,251,739 214 false
May 13, 2003 Tuesday 34 $10,123 +48.3% -11.8% 76 $133 $21,261,862 215 false
May 14, 2003 Wednesday 37 $6,410 -36.7% -34.7% 76 $84 $21,268,272 216 false
May 15, 2003 Thursday 34 $7,500 +17% -16.6% 76 $98 $21,275,772 217 false
|
cc/2021-04/en_middle_0045.json.gz/line1538
|
__label__wiki
| 0.88131
| 0.88131
|
TV ReviewsNarcosSeason 3
Narcos' third season searches for its next Pablo Escobar
Dennis Perkins
Pedro Pascal as Javier Peña (Photo: Juan Pablo Gutierrez/Netflix)
TV ReviewsAll of our TV reviews in one convenient place.
“God forbid anyone thinks they’re the bad guys.”
NarcosSeason 3
"The Kingpin Strategy"
Narcos’ biggest challenge in continuing past the death of Pablo Escobar is cannily mirrored in the season three premiere’s dilemma of now lone DEA agent protagonist Javier Peña. (Boyd Holbrook’s Steve Murphy has exited the series, leaving the lead role and its attendant voiceover duties to Pedro Pascal’s dogged Peña.) Promoted after his highly publicized role in taking down Colombia’s most notorious drug kingpin, Peña finds himself the object of hero worship, both at a wedding in the States, and from his bright-eyed new underlings at his U.S. Embassy office in Colombia. Back home, his knowing father (Edward James Olmos) reminds the conflicted Javy of his long-ago warning of the dangers of trying to change the world. “More likely, it’ll change you.”
Pedro Pascal, in this first episode, brings his signature soulfulness to Javier’s plight. Fully expecting to be fired (at least) for accepting the rival Cali Cartel’s aid in finally bringing down Escobar, Peña, instead, finds himself recruited as the head of the DEA unit tasked with bringing the cartel down. In crisp white dress shirts and chewing nicotine gum in an attempt to give up old habits, Pascal makes Peña’s conflict intensely physical. Penned in by both his new golden boy image and the Cali Cartel’s cannier approach to drug trafficking, Pascal’s Peña strains against his wonted cowboy cop instincts. When the officious ambassador congratulates him on his promotion, Peña, hunched on the office’s posh sofa, watches warily, knowing there’s a big “but” on the way. “Things won’t be like Escobar, Agent Peña,” the ambassador tells him. “They can’t be. Things have changed down here.”
Damian Alcazar as Gilberto, Alberto Ammann as Pacho (Photo: Juan Pablo Gutierrez/Netflix)
And things have changed, at least on the surface of the insanely lucrative drug business. The Cali Cartel, as Peña explains in the pat, over-dramatic voiceover that remains Narcos’ storytelling crutch, operates in almost complete opposition to Pablo Escobar’s flamboyantly violent methods. “It’s like the Soviet Union with nice weather,” Peña’s narration informs us, as we see how the annual billion dollars in bribes (“That’s ‘billion’ with a ‘b’,” Peña underscores) has everyone from the police to the telephone company busily operating as the cartel’s spies. We see a suspiciously familiar hot-dog DEA two-man team (a smug gringo and his Spanish-speaking partner) setting up an elaborate undercover operation. They pressure a young waiter to spy on an unprecedented Cali organization get-together, only for the cartel’s smoothly efficient head of security, Jorge Salcedo (Matias Varela) to pull the terrified kid aside with an unconcerned joke about the expensive DEA button camera he’s wearing, a rundown of all the waiter’s loved ones and their addresses, and a warning to get out of town. As Peña—sidelined into exposition mode for much of the premiere—tells us, the four top men of the Cali Cartel (who call themselves “the Gentlemen of Cali”) run their operation “like a Fortune 500 company,” relying on bribery, intimidation, and nigh-omnipresence to maintain a veneer of, if not respectability, at least of not being “as evil as the guy before.” The show’s portrayal of Colombian culture remains intertwined with the drug trade, with Peña suggesting that, as long as the Cali kingpins aren’t waging literal open war in the streets as Escobar did, most people are content to let them operate in relative peace.
But running coke, in the world of Narcos, is an inherently evil business, and the Gentlemen of Cali carry out their vendettas just as bloodily as did Pablo Escobar, if not as ostentatiously. (With one exception we’ll get to.) Peña tells us dutifully that the cartel’s preferred method of body disposal (involving chicken wire, natural decomposition, and a river filled with obligingly hungry fish) isn’t “very gentlemanly.” Therein lies this third season’s (and Peña’s) problem—how to get people invested in a group of wealthy villains whose more surreptitiously polished misdeeds seem dramatically unimpressive next to the thrillingly grandiose, bombastic villainy of Wagner Moura’s Pablo Escobar. If Moura’s towering performance unbalanced Narcos’ narrative of murky morality in Escobar’s favor (especially when the series began by positioning Holbrook’s wan Murphy as his nemesis), the post-Pablo Narcos begins in a muddle of mostly nondescript new characters and exposition.
Pascal’s Peña, ending the episode in bed with a woman he’s picked up at a bar and lighting up his first cigarette in a long time, remains a compellingly compromised protagonist. Confronted at a bar by local CIA man Stechner (Eric Lange, making his spook’s unkempt casual friendliness as subtly menacing as ever), Peña registers the truth behind the smug Stechner’s knowing condescension about the value of his “hero cop” reputation. “You’re the dashing DEA agent who took down Escobar,” smiles Stechner, taking his leave with the effortlessly emasculating, “It always helps to have a hero on board.” If, over the course of its first two seasons, Narcos gradually edged Peña into the spotlight, it’s because Pascal earned it, and even as the premiere lays out its new narrative mission with customary klutziness, the prospect of ten episodes focused on Pascal’s Peña trying to adapt to this de-centralized but equally dangerous new adversary is promising.
Matias Varela, Francisco Denis (Photo: Juan Pablo Gutierrez/Netflix)
Less so is the Cali Cartel themselves, however. The show’s creators have always stressed how their examination of the birth and growth of the Colombian cocaine business was bigger than one man. But Wagner Moura became Narcos, for better and sometimes worse, the actor’s powerful embodiment of such an infamously larger-than-life figure perhaps necessarily overshadowing the overarching narrative. Now that both Escobar and Moura are gone, though, the Gentlemen of Cali can’t help but come off as underwhelming, at least in their rushed introduction here. We’ve seen Damian Alcazar’s Cali boss Gilberto Rodriguez Orejuela previously, but his toothy, glad-handing menace isn’t the stuff major players are made of. Newly introduced characters like Gilberto’s money man brother Miguel (Francisco Denis) has a subplot shoehorned into the episode about how his infatuation with the wife (Andrea Londo) of an unruly sub-boss affects his decision making when it comes to the man’s fate. And NYC-based captain Chepe (Pepe Rapazote) conveys hints of being the cartel’s cruder loose cannon (if his metaphor about how he plans to “fuck the Statue of Liberty in her ass” is any indication).
Alberto Ammann as Pacho Herrera (Photo: Juan Pablo Gutierrez/Netflix)
But if there’s one character positioned to take up the narrative space vacated by Pablo Escobar, it’s Pacho. When it was announced that Narcos would continue with the Cali Cartel as its focal point, it was Pacho Herrera, Cali boss and, as Peña fills us in here, leader of “a team of young psychopaths,” who appeared the heir apparent to Escobar’s series bad guy crown. In my review of the season two finale, I contemplated a Pablo-less Narcos, asking, “Do we really want a season focused on Pacho?” Well, we’re getting one, and, on the basis of the effort put into establishing Alberto Ammann’s character in this first episode of season three, it’s not as farfetched an idea as it once seemed.
Pacho—with his blow-dried hair and patterned silk shirts—was always positioned as a softer, more polished foil to Pablo’s bull-snorting machismo. But Pablo is dead, the Cali Cartel—here announcing a controversial deal with the Colombian to get out of the cocaine business after six final months of snorting up all the cash and power they can—is more successful than Pablo Escobar was, and Pacho Herrera is nobody’s foil any longer. After tracking a reticent under-boss to a roadside club (he’s the same boss whose wife Miguel Rodriguez has a thing for), Pacho roars up on a motorcycle with his men, orders a bottle to share with the man and for the bartender to put on a particular song (“Dos Gardenias”)—and then makes the entire club watch as he holds out his hand for a handsome young man to dance with him. As the swooning bolero plays and the dance floor empties, Pacho and his partner perform a passionate, romantic dance, finally kissing with abandon. When the song is done, Pacho walks back to the table where the under-boss sits averting his gaze and smashes the bottle over his head. (He then is shown killing the unfortunate guy via an Old West-style motorcycle drawing-and-quartering, riding off into the night with the man’s arm clattering from a rope behind him.)
(Photo:Juan Pablo Gutierrez/Netflix)
Narcos has never been the most gracefully written show. Tonight, expository dialogue clunks to the floor as the pieces for this third season are dropped into place. (“Congratulations on the promotion, sir,” beams Peña’s new aide, adding, “You know, you’re kind of a big deal around here. You know, since Escobar.”) And there’s an effortful strain here in propping Pacho up as the new badass in town. But Ammann rules his big scene, an ostentatious demonstration of his unquestioned power that flies in the face of the homophobic abuse he’s suffered, no doubt, during his rise. Sure, Pablo threw gay slurs at a lot of people, but the cultured Pacho bore some of his harshest, and Pacho’s long-implied sexuality is presented here as intrinsic to his violent response to being shown disrespect. Earlier at the Cali party, Pacho had only said of the under-boss, “You know I have a personal issue with that son of a bitch.” In the club scene, that issue is never explained to us directly, but Pacho uses his sexuality to underscore just how far above anyone’s opinions of him he sees himself to be. That his show of pride and power partakes of the sort of over-the-top, very public violence that was Pablo’s preferred style hints that his inner conflict is going to bring Pacho into promising clashes with both his own allies and with Peña. Narcos’ third season begins with two restless men, bristling for a fight.
Stray observations
A pair of admirable fake-outs reveal the extent of the cartel’s reach. A group of men gathered in preparation of the party seem like police, bidding an ominous farewell to the officer doing one last job before retirement. (No word if he’d bought a boat called the “Live-4-Ever.”) As it turns out, the impressive mobilization comes from the army of cartel operatives who will be scanning the gathering for any intruders, and the retiring man is Cali security chief, Jorge Salcedo, as revealed when he threatens the spying waiter.
In the other, Gilberto is presented with a bulging envelope filled with audio cassettes, suggesting damaging information, perhaps blackmail. As it turns out, the cartel had bugged every one of the under-bosses in attendance, and—like Pacho’s victim at the club—every one who expressed reluctance to go along with the six-month plan is summarily executed.
Jorge’s plan to go legit is scuttled by Miguel, who informs his security chief, “We didn’t get where we are by allowing good people to leave.” It sets up another potentially interesting conflict within the Cali organization, although that the show felt it necessary to saddle Jorge with a worried wife angry that he’s breaking his promise to quit falls back on some worrisomely tired tropes.
Cali’s more nuanced way of dealing with problems (chicken wire and arm-amputating aside) is seen in the fact that Jorge allows the terrified young waiter to split town for good (without even telling his mother or his girl), rather than killing him. Also, the clumsy DEA team (including Shea Whigham, continuing to mark out the “undeservedly cocky lawman” territory, post-Fargo) is allowed to find out their surveillance is blown, not with bullets, but with pictures of their meeting with the waiter—that they’re allowed to develop themselves.
Peña’s narration, on Gilberto: “They called him the chess player because he was always one move ahead.” Thanks, Javy.
Gilberto cites Joseph Kennedy’s bootlegging background as proof that the Cali Cartel can retire from crime and still maintain their standing and power going forward. His people are not impressed.
Pascal doesn’t get to do much in this first episode, but his confrontation with the oily Stechner sees the actor registering Javier’s warring guilt, shame, and contempt, rousing himself finally against the CIA man’s manipulations with a contemptuous, “You don’t care about American streets or dead Colombians.”
Stechner’s unfazed. “If there were any justice in this world, Javier, you’d be in jail.”
And we’re back for season three of Narcos, everyone. I’m Dennis, and I’ll be your reviewer. Look for new reviews at noon every day until, one assumes, the last body falls. As usual with streaming shows, I’ll be reviewing the series in order, without reference to future events, so let’s keep things a spoiler-free in the comments as possible. Don’t be spoiler-person. No one likes spoiler-person.
Contributor, The A.V. Club. Danny Peary's Cult Movies books are mostly to blame.
|
cc/2021-04/en_middle_0045.json.gz/line1539
|
Subsets and Splits
No community queries yet
The top public SQL queries from the community will appear here once available.