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Home News Woman among three killed
Woman among three killed
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A woman who went to a fruit stall to shop was among three people killed in two separate incidents late yesterday afternoon.
Sharlene Ramkissoon, 37, was among the patrons of a fruit stall at Acono Village in Maracas, St Joseph, when gunmen saw their intended target and opened fire on the shop at around 4.30 pm.
They felled Ramkissoon and Dharie Simon, a 34-year-old Acono resident who was also present in the shop.
Police believe that Simon may have been the person in the crosshairs of the killers, while Ramkissoon was an incident bystander caught in the line of fire.
The gunmen fled the scene, while those who had not been injured by the attack contacted emergency services.
Ramkissoon died at the scene and Simon was taken to the Eric Williams Medical Sciences Complex but succumbed to his injuries.
In an unrelated incident that occurred after 4 pm in Dibe Long Circular, Lyndon Pierre was gunned down at a car wash in the area.
Pierre was reportedly at the car wash, which is located obliquely opposite his home at Dibe Road, when a car pulled up.
Three men with guns targeted Pierre, shooting him several times before the car sped off.
He was taken to hospital, where he died.
Police were processing both murder scenes late yesterday.
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Figures suggest clearing placements at highest rate for five years
Tyler Fisher News August 22, 2017
Over 11,000 students received places on undergraduate courses through clearing in the 24 hours following A-level results.
Ucas figures show that this was the highest number seen in the last five years.
Typically, students that gain places through clearing are usually those who did not receive sufficient grades to enrol on their preferred courses, however a fall in university applicants has left more places available for students than normal.
The figure provided at this stage is almost twice that seen at the same time last year.
Overall, 437,070 students have received places on university courses, 1.3 per cent lower than at the same stage last year, with 134,840 still looking for places through clearing.
Ucas chief executive Clare Marchant said with nearly 45,000 courses looking for students there was a huge amount of choice out there.
Following a change in the rules made in 2013, universities have been able to give places to an unlimited number of students with the required grades in their A-levels.
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Zhou Dynasty Bronzes
The ritual bronzes of the early Western Zhou continued the late Anyang (安陽) tradition; many were made by the same craftsmen and by their descendants. Even in the predynastic Zhou period, however, new creatures had appeared on the bronzes, notably a flamboyant long-tailed bird that may have had totemic meaning for the Zhou rulers, and flanges had begun to be large and spiky. By the end of the 9th century BC, moreover, certain Shang shapes such as the gu (觚) and gong (觥) were no longer being made, and the taotie (饕餮) and other Shang zoomorphs had been broken up and then dissolved into volutes or undulating meander patterns encircling the entire vessel, with little apparent symbolic intent.
From the outset of Zhou rule, vessels increasingly came to serve as vehicles for inscriptions that were cast to record events and report them to ancestral spirits. An outstanding example, excavated near Xi’an in 1976, was dedicated by a Zhou official who apparently had divined the date for the successful assault upon the Shang and later used his reward money to have the bronze vessel cast. By late Zhou times a long inscription might have well over 400 characters. The longest discovered so far is on the Cauldron of Duke Mao (毛公鼎), which has 499 characters.
Cauldron of Yu
Cauldron of Ke
Cauldron of Duke Mao
The bronzes of the Eastern Zhou period, after 771 BC, show signs of a gradual renaissance in the craft and much regional variation, which appears ever more complex as more Eastern Zhou sites are unearthed. Often adorned with boldly modeled handles in the form of animal heads, 8th- and 7th-century BC bronzes are crude and vigorous in shape. Typical vessels of this phase have been found in a cemetery of the small feudal state of Guo (虢) in Henan province. Vessels from Xinzheng (新鄭) in Henan (8th–6th century BC) reveal a further change to more elegant forms, often decorated with an allover pattern of tightly interlaced serpents; the vessel may be set about with tigers and dragons modeled in the round and topped with a flaring, petaled lid.
Wine Vessel Hu with Lotus and Crane
Wine Vessel Hu with Dragons
The aesthetic tendency toward elaboration was given further stimulus by the introduction of the lost-wax method (失蠟法) of production (by the late 7th century BC), leading quickly to zealous experiments in openwork design that are impressive technically though often heavy in appearance and gaudy in effect. The style of bronzes found at Liyu (李峪) in Shanxi (c. 6th–5th century BC) is much simpler, more compact, and unified; the interlaced and spiral decoration is flush with the surface. Thereafter, until the end of the dynasty, the bronze style became increasingly refined: the decoration was confined within a simpler contour, and the interlacing of the Xinzheng style gave way to the fine, hooked “comma pattern” of the vessels of the 5th and 4th centuries BC. By this time, bronze decor had come under the influence of textile patterns and technique, particularly embroidery, as well as of lacquer decor, suggesting the bronze medium’s decline from primacy. Bronzes decorated in this manner have been found chiefly in the Huai River valley.
In the Zhou Dynasty, bronze bells emerged. Perhaps the oldest class is a small clappered bell called ling (鈴), but the best known is certainly the zhong (鐘), a suspended, clapperless bell. Zhong were cast in sets of eight or more to form a musical scale, and they were probably played in the company of string and wind instruments. The section is a flattened ellipse, and on each side of the body appear 18 blunt spikes, or basses, arranged in three double rows of three. These often show marks of filing, and it has been suggested that they were devices whereby the bell could be tuned to the requisite pitch by removing small quantities of the metal. The oldest specimen recovered in a closed excavation is one from Pudu Cun, dating from the 9th century BC.
The finest example discovered so far is an orchestral set of 64 bells, probably produced in Chu (楚) and unearthed in 1978 from a royal tomb of the Zeng (曾) state, at Leigudun (擂鼓墩) near Sui Xian (隨縣) in Hubei Province. The bells were mounted on wooden racks supported by bronze human figurines. They are graded in size (from about 20 to 150 cm [8 to 60 inches] in height) and tone (covering five octaves), and each is capable of producing two unrelated tones according to where it is struck. Gold-inlaid inscriptions on each bell present valuable information regarding early musical terms and performance, while a 65th bell with flat bottom called bo (镈) is dedicated by inscription from the king of Chu to Marquis Yi of Zeng (Zeng Hou Yi, 曾侯乙), the deceased, and bears a date equivalent to 433 BC.
Wine Vessel Zun in the Shape of a Bull
The Orchestral Set of Marquis Yi of Zeng
Bronze mirrors were also used in the Zhou Dynasty, not only for toiletry but also as funerary objects, in accordance with the belief that a mirror was itself a source of light and could illuminate the eternal darkness of the tomb. A mirror also was thought of as a symbolic aid to self-knowledge. Ancient Chinese mirrors were generally bronze disks polished on the face and decorated on the back, with a central loop handle or pierced boss to hold a tassel. The early ones were small and worn at the girdle; later they became larger and were often set on a stand. Mirrors, however, were not widely used until the 4th and 3rd centuries BC. The present day Changsha of Hunan Province, which was in the state of Chu, was a center for the manufacture of late Zhou mirrors, the designs on which consist chiefly of zigzag lozenges, quatrefoil petals, scallops, a hooked symbol resembling the character for “mountain” (shan, 山), and sometimes animal figures superimposed on a dense allover pattern of hooks and volutes. These mirrors are often thin, and the execution is refined and elegant.
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Stunning goals lift Honduras over Panama at CU20
Darixon Vuelto (white jersey) scored in Honduras' win over Panama in the CONCACAF Under-20 Championship on February 27, 2017, in Tibas, San Jose, Costa Rica. (Photo: Starffon Images)
SAN JOSE, Costa Rica – Honduras (1W-0D-0L, 3 points) scored two brilliant goals – one in each half -- and earned a 2-0 win over Panama (0-0-1, 0), in the 2017 CONCACAF Under-20 Championship classification stage on Monday at the Estadio Ricardo Saprissa.
With the result, the Catrachos hold the initial advantage in Group E and will book a ticket to the 2017 FIFA U-20 World Cup with as little as a draw against Costa Rica on Wednesday.
Darixon Vuelto struck for the first goal in the sixth minute, receiving a pass down the right from Douglas Martinez and shifting towards the middle, before drilling a left-footed shot past goalkeeper Charles Taylor from the top of the 18-yard box.
In the 81st minute, Jorge Alvarez pounced on an errant Panama clearance and unleashed a right-footed rocket from 25-yards out that went under the crossbar for his third goal of the competition.
Panama came close to halving the deficit two minutes later, but goalkeeper Javier Delgado made a tremendous save on Roberto Cordoba's effort.
See also: CONCACAF
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Universal Credit £20 uplift - Rishi Sunak refuses to confirm extension
Claimants are currently benefiting from a £20 uplift which is due to end from April
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The Chancellor of the Exchequer Rishi Sunak evaded questions about whether or not a £20-per-week uplift to Universal Credit will remain in place after April.
The extra money was brought in last year to help vulnerable families suffering the effects of the coronavirus pandemic and lockdown which resulted.
In Parliament yesterday (January 11), Sunak was grilled by Labour's Kate Osborne who said: "Can I ask the Chancellor if he agrees with me that it would now be unthinkable to cut this lifeline given the ongoing significant impact the pandemic has had on low income families?"
Sunak declined to answer directly, and said: "Notably supported with over 5.3 million households, with their council tax bills, £150 each worth £670million in aggregate.
"But also, increasing the national living wage, above inflation at 2.2 percent, providing around £350 of benefit to those on low wages and those are the kinds of things that this Government will continue to champion."
In Cornwall, as of November 2020 48,526 people were signed onto Universal Credit - or 15 per cent of the working-age population of the county.
This was a 126 per cent increase on November 2019, and 95 per cent increase on March 2020.
Nationally, 3.6 million claims for Universal Credit have been submitted since last March.
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Thérèse Coffey, Secretary of State for Work and Pensions - the Government department in charge of benefits - said: "The statutory annual review is separate from the temporary £20 per week uplift to Universal Credit and Working Tax Credit, which was announced by the Chancellor as a temporary measure in March 2020, and enacted for one year under different legislation to support those facing the most financial disruption as a result of the public health emergency.
"As the Government has done throughout this crisis, it will continue to assess how best to support low-income families, which is why we will look at the economic and health context in the new year."
Those on Universal Credit must be on low income or out of work, over 18, have less than £16,000 in savings and must be living in the UK.
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Aliso Canyon 1 year later: How a massive gas…
Aliso Canyon 1 year later: How a massive gas leak left its mark on Porter Ranch
Porter Ranch homes that come up to the SoCalGas Aliso Canyon Storage Facility on Monday, Oct. 17, 2016, nearly one year after the gas leak was discovered.
This Dec. 17, 2016 photo provided by Earthworks shows an overhead aerial view of the relief well at the Aliso Canyon facility above the Porter Ranch area of Los Angeles.
By Dana Bartholomew | dbartholomew@scng.com | Daily News
PUBLISHED: October 22, 2016 at 7:12 p.m. | UPDATED: August 28, 2017 at 5:55 a.m.
PORTER RANCH >> First came a whiff like rotten eggs, wafting through parts of Porter Ranch.
Then came reports of headaches, vomiting and nosebleeds from families living within large homes along its meandering streets. School kids were getting sick. Even dogs were falling ill.
What residents weren’t told was that, a year ago Sunday, a pressurized natural gas well just north of thousands of San Fernando Valley homes had sprung a leak, releasing a giant cloud of noxious fumes.
By the time Southern California Gas Co. managed to plug the ruptured well four months later at its Aliso Canyon gas storage field, nearly 100,000 metric tons of methane had escaped over Los Angeles — making it the largest atmospheric release in U.S. history.
• Related Story: 100,000-metric ton Porter Ranch gas leak is largest in U.S. history, scientists say
The 112-day leak would generate thousands of complaints of gas-related illnesses, force thousands of residents to evacuate from their homes for months, temporarily close two schools and impact businesses and property values throughout the region.
The largest environmental disaster since the 1994 Northridge earthquake would also trigger local and state criminal charges, hundreds of lawsuits against SoCalGas and sweeping regulations for below-ground natural gas fields. The cost to the utility alone: more than $700 million and rising.
The Aliso Canyon gas leak also raised questions about the nation’s energy infrastructure, with some calling for the shutdown of the storage field.
“Part of the legacy of the leak is that here, and across the nation, gas storage facilities will be (more) as safe as a result,” said Paula Cracium, president of a Porter Ranch Community Advisory Committee on the discharge, who works for Shepherd Church, a megachurch in Porter Ranch. “We were blissfully ignorant of what was going on up there — how many leaks were happening, how it operated.
TX Body: “We can never go back to that: We must actively participate in what’s going on in those fields.”
• RELATED: Timeline of the Aliso Canyon leak
It was on Oct. 23, 2015, that SoCalGas discovered the ruptured gas well known as SS-25 leaking from its 3,600 Aliso Canyon Storage Facility north of Porter Ranch, among the nation’s largest underground gas storage fields.
The facility, within a depleted oil field once owned by J. Paul Getty, featured 115 wells that tapped into a sandstone reservoir containing 86 billion cubic feet of natural gas a mile and a half below Oat Mountain.
The gas, imported from other states, fueled more than a dozen power plants and helped keep the lights, heating and air conditioning humming across Los Angeles.
The 62-year-old SS-25 well sprung a leak through an underground casing on a Friday. But it took until Sunday for SoCalGas to notify state oil and gas regulators, another day to tell county fire officials and five days after the leak for the utility to release a statement alerting nearby residents, according to interviews and news reports.
At first, the delinquent well leaked up to 53 metric tons of methane per hour, or 1,300 metric tons per day into the air, a mile from the nearest home, according to federal report. At its peak it discharged 58 metric tons per hour, or enough methane each day to fill a balloon the size of the Rose Bowl, researchers said.
The total greenhouse gas pollution equaled the emissions of a half million cars driven for a year, according to a UC Davis study.
After numerous attempts to kill the leak from above, a relief well was dug to kill it from below. After months of worry, the Aliso Canyon gas leak was controlled on Feb. 11 and officially sealed on Feb. 17.
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The natural gas leak forced the evacuation of more than 8,000 families, scattered from Days Inns to Hiltons and rented housing miles from residents’ jobs and schools.
Some Porter Ranch area residents have left the area, citing health issues they say were caused by the leak.
“I’m really terrified to live there,” said Hope Tropper, who left Porter Ranch and eventually moved to Granada Hills with her family after suffering serious breathing problems for months after the leak sprung. “I was just so sick.”
And some say they are still fighting with SoCalGas to recover the thousands or tens of thousands of dollars owed to them for food and housing.
To date, it has cost SoCalGas an estimated $717 million, including around $500 million to relocate families.
The cataclysmic gas cloud, while it never ignited, has exploded into a war of litigation.
State, county and city attorneys have sued SoCalGas for violating safety laws, or for safer gas wells, or to recover costs. Air regulators have sued the utility to pay for a community health study.
Meanwhile, at least 14,000 residents and businesses have filed nearly 200 lawsuits over health issues, property loss claims, or lost business blamed on the leak.
A Porter Ranch family represented by Sherman Oak-based attorney William Daniels alleges both harmful health effects and property loss from the catastrophe.
“The only thing that the legal system can do to address that harm is to turn it into some sort of monetary compensation,” Daniels said.
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Los Angeles County District Attorney Jackie Lacey filed criminal charges against SoCalGas for allegedly failing to immediately report the leak to authorities. The utility settled the case last month for $4.3 million.
A year after the leak, residents await the launch of a community health study ordered by air regulators. But that, too, is tied up in court, as the gas company and regulators battle over its potential cost and scope.
Los Angeles County, meanwhile, is now considering whether to launch its own health assessment.
The cost to public health isn’t clear. Preliminary results from a door-to-door survey of more than 200 homes found that 71 percent of residents reported having headaches, while almost half had reported nosebleeds.
In the first few months there was speculation that the leak would deal a heavy blow to the community’s housing market. But that didn’t happen. Last month, the median price for a home in the community where Steven Spielberg filmed “E.T.” was 16.5 percent higher than when the leak was discovered.
The Aliso Canyon gas leak spawned a range of local, state and federal regulations aimed to ensure the safety of underground gas storage fields in California and across the nation.
The gas company is now awaiting safety test results from seven wells at Aliso Canyon before state agencies can allow gas to be pumped back into the field. To date, 28 storage wells have passed all tests, according to state regulators, with the remaining wells either plugged, taken out of service or sealed off from the storage reservoir until further testing.
New laws demand the field be certified as safe before it can reopen. A public hearing next year will discuss the feasibility of closure.
SoCalGas issued a statement last week saying it had installed more than 40 miles of steel pipe into old wells, in accord with a state safety review.
“Once SoCalGas has met all of the requirements of the comprehensive Safety Review, the company will request regulatory approval to begin replenishing the supply of natural gas at the facility to support regional energy reliability,” SoCalGas, owned by San Diego-based Sempra Energy, said in a statement.
Some, however, have called upon officials to shut Aliso Canyon down. There have been four major leaks at the storage field since the big one, environmental activists say, and an average two minor leaks each day. The summer blackouts predicted as a result of its being out of use never occurred.
“Until facilities like this are not allowed near our communities,” said Los Angeles Councilman Mitch Englander, who represents the area, “disasters like Aliso Canyon will always be a possibility.”
“This community has been fighting for a year to hold the gas company accountable for the disaster that they caused — the gas blowout,” said Alex Nagy, a community organizer for Food and Water Watch, an environmental group. “People are still getting sick in their homes. We still need a long-term health study. We still need people’s homes cleaned of residue.
“We still need the decommissioning of this facility.”
Staff writers Susan Abram, Brenda Gazzar, Dakota Smith and Greg Wilcox contributed to this story.
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Scottish TV comedians admit frustrations at being overlooked by English BBC
THE CREATORS of the new wave of Scottish TV comedy including Limmy's Show and Gary: Tank Commander have said they're prepared to look elsewhere if BBC London continue to snub their work.
Brian Limond, creator and star of Limmy's Show, and Greg McHugh of Gary: Tank Commander, have voiced their frustrations over the lack of uptake of their BBC Scotland shows, with corporation chiefs in London still not giving them a chance on the UK network.
It comes after we revealed in yesterday's Record that Burnistoun duo Robert Florence and Iain Connell are now working with Channel 4 on new scripts after station chiefs stole a march on Beeb bosses for the talented pair.
Long-running BBC comedy Rab C Nesbitt was broadcast UK-wide and Still Game eventually made it on to the network.
But the new trio have so far been unable to secure a spot even on BBC3, home for emerging talent and seen across the whole country, although Beeb insiders say talks are ongoing with a view to a "best bits" package being made for the rest of the UK.
Limond's work has been anointed by Little Britain star Matt Lucas and by Father Ted writer Graham Linehan.
And Still Game star Greg Hemphill has criticised Beeb bosses for their lack of interest in Burnistoun, the second series of which finishes on Monday.
Burnistoun writers Florence and Connell - who also penned gags for Chewin The Fat - will deliver their scripts to Channel 4 this week on a new show called The Bold Connell And Florence.
Speaking in the second of our exclusive comedy podcasts at dailyrecord.co.uk/showbiz, Limmy said: "I would like my show to be UK-wide since it's on the BBC.
"But I don't know what the reasons are for it not being on. So that's why I'm thinking about what I want to do next. Should I make up a new thing that has a better chance of going UK-wide? Right now I'm waiting to see what happens and considering my options. I need to see how it goes."
Greg McHugh, creator and star of Gary: Tank Commander said his brother in Oxford can't see his comedy, yet his Australia-based brother can after Gary was snapped up by Aussie TV.
He said: "It would affect how we move on from here. It's odd and frustrating. We have this country called England which has a big output through BBC London and we can't get it on there.
"I could be bitter about it and say it's because of xenophobia or racism but I don't think it's that.
"We've made a show which has been a success and BBC3 is supposed to be for new talent - so why not put it on there?"
Even the BBC Scotland chief responsible for giving the stars a chance north of the border has admitted frustrations over the lack of interest from down south. BBC Scotland's commissioning editor Ewan Angus said: "I've made the point to colleagues in London.
"I believe that Limmy's Show, Gary: Tank Commander and Burnistoun are all of a standard that they could be seen and enjoyed by anyone throughout the UK.
"There's nothing about them that limits their appeal to Scotland, and the numbers relating to their material online and on the BBC iPlayer would substantiate that.
"Plus the endorsement of the talent from some big comedy practitioners reinforces that. "Matt Lucas says Brian Limond is the next big thing in British comedy. They all have potential to go on and become bigger stars.
"The network commissioners in London are well aware of these shows and the talent and they are under consideration.
"Whether that will result in them receiving a network outing, I'm not sure. It's not my decision ultimately, and if it were, then they would be. But I will continue to push for it."
Network chiefs sparked fury when they subtitled award-winning gritty Greenock film Sweet Sixteen, when it was given its TV outing but Angus rubbished suggestions that the current comedy crop is too Scottish for the other three of the four nations.
He said: "If people start saying there's an issue about accents then you just need to point to Rab C to show how that should not be an impediment to appreciation in the wider UK. There's enough of a universal appeal that they can travel."
Ewan Angus will also be involved in the second series of Mrs Brown's Boys, filmed later this year at BBC Scotland studios. It attracts a different audience from the new-wave trio, and he acknowledged that the three shows, produced by the Comedy Unit who make Rab C Nesbitt and Chewin The Fat, aren't to everyone's taste - even in Scotland.
He said: "I think that's certainly true when you look at the response for example to Limmy's Show. I always knew that wouldn't appeal to everyone - it's not broad-based mainstream comedy.
"Brian Limond is a major talent who has a comic perspective on the world which veers between darkly surreal to laugh-out-loud funny.
"But he really polarises people. Gary: Tank Commander is more mainstream and Burnistoun is traditional on one level. But there's a darkness to their reflections and observations. They're as good as anything that's on British television.
"One of the problems with UK comedy over a period of time is there was a point when there was a lot of safe comedy on air.
"It's our job to provide a platform to talent with something unique to say."
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LONDON BY TRAIN IN JUST 3 HOURS
A NEW high-speed rail link could help slash journeys from Glasgow and Edinburgh to London to just three hours.
Building the #11billion line in England would mean trains could make the trip in three and three-quarter hours, a report revealed yesterday.
And improving track in Scotland could shave off another 45 minutes, experts at industry-backed pressure group Greengauge 21 said.
Train trips to London take between five and six hours from Glasgow and can take more than five hours from Edinburgh.
The high-speed link would cut congestion on the west coast main line, which is set to run out of seats by 2015 despite an existing #8billion upgrade, the pressure group said.
It would provide an "immense" boost to businesses here and down south.
And it would help fight global warming by providing an alternative to environmentally damaging plane flights.
The report warned that work must start this year if the link is to start operating by 2022.
It added: "It is time for ministers to press the start button in planning Britain's high-speed rail network."
Transport Secretary Douglas Alexander is due to announce long-term plans for the railways this summer.
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Cafe torched as firebugs strike in town centre
THE tearful owners of a busy café were left with a £50,000 repair bill yesterday after it was targeted by firebugs who went on a rampage of destruction.
THE tearful owners of a busy caf› were left with a s50,000 repair bill yesterday after it was targeted by firebugs who went on a rampage of destruction.
Ken Dunsmore, 53, and his wife June, 49, were shocked to find their popular Taste Buds diner and takeaway shop was gutted by flames.
The blaze was among half a dozen fires that were deliberately sparked within just six hours.
Vandals started a fire at the back of the caf›, in Lawn Street, and the intense heat from the flames blew out a window and rapidly swept through the kitchen area, reducing it to a charred mess.
Ken reckoned the cost of the damage is at least s50,000, plus the cost of replacing ruined stock.
He offered a reward for information that leads to the arrest and conviction of the fire-starters, and pledged: This shop will be open again within weeks.
The big clean-up operation begins now.
Yesterday fire and police chiefs revealed there had been six early morning fires. Five of these were around the town centre and the sixth was in the towns South End.
Ken and June opened the popular shop seven years ago. Ken added: Now look at it. The back area is gutted, and the restaurant and the counter area are black with soot. When I first saw the mess I was in tears. All that work up in smoke.
Its choking in there and as you walk through the place its just a charred and black mess. Whoever did this is not going to drive us out of business.
As well as the shop damage the outside catering side of the business is on hold. We ask our loyal customers to be patient. Well be back in business soon.
June said she could smell smoke as soon as she arrived at the business she has worked so hard to build up.
She told the Paisley Daily Express: There is so much damage. When we arrived to open up we first of all smelled the smoke, then we saw windows boarded up. But there was an even bigger shock when we went inside the shop. I was in tears.
The heat from the fire melted light fittings, burned the ceiling and charred the walls.
Ken said: I want these people caught, and thats why Im offering a reward for information.
As detectives stepped up inquiries there were fears the firebugs could strike again. Officers are trawling through CCTV footage in the hope the arsonists have been caught on camera.
The first of yesterdays fires was started at 1.20am when burning rubbish, including a wheelie bin, outside the former Libertys nightspot in Old Sneddon Street was lit.
The others were:
l Taste Buds at 2.05am.
l At 2.30am an R-registration car was torched in Union Street, off Stock Street. Two men were spotted at the scene.
l Ten minutes later a rubbish bin was set alight in Dyers Wynd, off Gilmour Street.
l At 2.45am a store area at Renfrewshire Councils ground floor car park, Mill Street, was next.
l Around 8am, in Harbour Road, a rubbish fire was started inside a derelict single storey building.
Last night police revealed that all the fires are being linked and, at this stage, its not known what was used to start the outbreaks.
One officer said: We are trying to trace one or two people in connection with these suspicious fires.
Anyone who saw a person, or people, acting suspiciously in the town early yesterday or has information about these cases should ring Paisley Police Office on 0141 532 5900 or Crimestoppers on 0800 555 111.
Police Superintendent Donald McCallum added: We are investigating a number of overnight fire-raisings. Our officers and Renfrewshire Wardens will step up patrols to make sure this wilful fire-raising does not continue.
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Controversial wind turbine plan near Dalbeattie to be decided by councillors
The decision over a controversial wind turbine planning application between Dalbeattie and Castle Douglas will now be made by councillors.
Andrew McNair
A flurry of objections in recent weeks means the decision about the 54m structure at Guffogland has been taken out of the hands of planning officers.
The plan has upset residents and local communities. More than 20 people objected, with most of them giving the poor road surface as their main reason why the proposal should be rejected. They also complained about the height of the planned power generator.
Residents believe the U97 is not up to coping with heavy traffic associated with the erection of a turbine of the size in the proposal.
They have been backed by Buittle and Dalbeattie community councils, who have both sent letters to the planning office.
Dalbeattie Community Council believe the turbine will be too high and could have a detrimental effect on the area’s tourism.
Member Ian Robertson’s letter also said that they “believe that the turbine height as planned is in contravention to Dumfries and Galloway’s policy regarding wind turbines in this area”.
Buittle Parish are also against granting planning permission.
Kevin Morrison, senior technician at Castle Douglas’ Abercromby Depot, wants to meet the applicant’s agent as the routes they plan to take “require some attention” and “there is a particular section of carriageway which might require some strengthening”.
Other complaints mention the potential for the turbine to interfere with TV signals.
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Irvine Sikhs make Scottish history
AYRSHIRE’S Sikh Association will become the first in Scotland to have its Sunday worship lead by a team of female ministers.
Lorraine Howard
For the first time in the history of the group and according to chairman Paul Singh, it’s the first time in Scotland that women have led the Sunday worship.
The group, who meet at the town’s Woodlands Centre every Sunday, will hold the ceremony on Sunday, January 30.
Paul said: “As far as I am aware, this is the first time in Scotland that women have taken the lead in the Sunday service.
“It’s something that we are keen to start and I am proud to be the first.”
Ayrshire Sikh Association are currently in talks with North Ayrshire Council to take over the running of the Woodlands Centre.
Members are now working on a plan to submit to North Ayrshire Council.
Police ScotlandThugs attack couple with hammer and knife in terrifying home raid in AyrshireThe man and woman, both aged 30, were in their home on Seaton Terrace, Irvine, when a pair of males entered around 10.10pm on Thursday January 14.
AccidentsRoad tragedy as cyclist dies after being found on Aberdeenshire roadThe 60-year-old man was discovered unwell by the side of the B9119 close to Lumphanan, near Aberdeen, at around 11.25am on Friday January 15.
Stunning Ayrshire beachfront property with wrap-round balcony on the market
Ayrshire Homes & PropertyA key seller for this property has to be the stunning wrap-round balcony
Hearts director in 'crocodile tears' jibe as he takes aim at clubs who stood by during SFA relegation fight
Hearts FCSeveral League One and League Two clubs have been left fuming after the SFA put the divisions on hold for three weeks.
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Pathologist reveals Navy lieutenant shot in head by berserk junior officer would have died instantly
DAD-of-four Ian "Molly" Molyneux was trying to tackle the Able Seaman, who had gone on the rampage with an assault riffle, when the incident happened.
An expert said Lieutenant Commander Ian "Molly" Molyneux would have died very shortly after the attack
A NAVY officer murdered by a junior rating on his submarine was unconscious an instant after he was shot in the head, an inquest has heard.
An expert said Lieutenant Commander Ian “Molly” Molyneux would have died “very, very shortly” after the attack.
Dad-of-four Ian, 36, was killed on board HMS Astute at Southampton in April 2011 when Able Seaman Ryan Donovan, 23, went berserk with an assault rifle.
Donovan went after two petty officers who had reported him for disobeying an order but shot Ian and another lieutenant commander, Chris Hodge, 45, instead.
Home Office pathologist Dr Basil Purdue told the inquest Ian would have died very quickly.
Ian was found face-down with a bullet wound in the top of his head, suggesting he had been lunging towards Donovan. He was awarded a posthumous George Medal.
Chris was shot in the stomach but survived. Donovan is serving a 25-year minimum sentence for what the judge called his “murderous onslaught”. The inquest continues.
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Smoking ban to extend to drivers
Aug 22, 2017 12:00 am GMT+3
A report in Turkish media outlets said that the government was preparing a draft law which will ban smoking for drivers.
The ban, currently applied in mass transit vehicles will now cover the drivers of privately-owned cars who will be fined if caught smoking, Habertürk newspaper reported.
The same draft law also brings plain packaging for cigarette packs.
Turkey's battle to stamp out smoking, a previously endemic habit, met success with a drop in smoking rates after eight years of smoking ban championed by the ruling Justice and Development Party (AK Party) government. Figures show the ban that covered almost all public spaces, along with escalated taxes and free treatment for smokers, helped decrease smoking in the country.
The Health Ministry, which oversees anti-smoking initiatives, plans to step up its fight against smoking with new measures addressing the decreasing population of smokers in Turkey. Smoking will be banned in public parks and gardens and other public places and specific areas will be designated for smoking.
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Royal City School of Ballet and Jazz
Studio Etiquette
About Royal City School of Ballet and Jazz
Established in 1979 by Patricia McLeod, RCSB follows the RAD syllabus for ballet, ISTD for Modern Jazz and Acrobatic Arts and ADTA for Acro. (See links on our Home page for these organizations).
We have a serious, but non-competitive attitude in our approach to the teaching of dance. Progress only flourishes in a disciplined, yet positive and cheerful atmosphere.
Careers after RCSB. Students from RCSB have gone on to programs at NBS and subsequently the company, RWB school, Dutch National Ballet, Quinte Ballet School, Italia Conti Theatre in England, University of Winsor Theatre, Ryerson University, York University, George Brown Sheridan and more. Others have performed leading roles in major theatres, TV series and independent movies, or pursued careers as dance teachers, dance company administration and physiotherapy.
Many younger students have performed with Ballet Jorgen’s youth touring and local casts and in RCMPI musical productions.
Why choose Royal City School of Ballet and Jazz?
Royal City School of Ballet and Jazz is a well-established experienced dance school - 40 years and counting!
Teachers are mature and experienced - Students assist only in classes, they do not teach the classes.
A full-scale Performance is held every three years enabling RCSB to focus on the learning of the art form of dance.
Opportunities for dance examinations with organizations holding a high world-wide standard.
Age-appropriate dance movements, music attire and costumes.
Live pianist accompaniment.
Dance at RCSB is a drop-off activity so that students are not distracted by the presence of parents or siblings.
Parents are invited to observe classes twice yearly during the three week Open Houses in December and May/June. In a Performance year, the Performance supplants the Open House.
New Dancer Registration Form
BRANDI MATHESON
DIRECTOR RAD-RTS, A.I.S.T.D., Acrobatic Arts Certified (AAC2)
Miss Matheson holds registered teacher status with the Royal Academy of Dancing. Registered Teachers follow a voluntary Code of Professional Conduct endorsed by the Council for Dance Education and Training (UK) and other leading dance organizations. She is also a registered teacher with the Imperial Society of Teachers of Dancing, having attained Associate status and has achieved her Advanced executant exam with Distinction in the Modern Theatre Dance Branch. Both the R.A.D. and the I.S.T.D. offer a well-regulated high international standard of training. She is a certified (Level Two) Acrobatic Arts teacher and is NCCP trained.
Miss Matheson continues her professional development, attending seminars, workshops and Teacher’s Professional Development courses at the National Ballet School as well as the professional associations with which she is affiliated. (See Home Page for links to these organizations).
PATRICIA MCLEOD
Founder of Royal City School of Ballet and Jazz
Mrs. McLeod founded Royal City School of Ballet and Jazz in 1979. She received her dance training in London, England at the Bush Davies Theatre School. She has her Solo Seal from the R.A.D. of which organization she is a Life Member. She has Associate status with the I.S.T.D in Modern Theatre, Cecchetti ballet and Imperial ballet.
Mrs. McLeod has choreographed and done workshops for GCVI, JF Ross, Bishop MacDonnell, Guelph Little Theatre, and the Guelph Spring Festival, as well as is a founding member of RCMPI for which she has both choreographed and directed productions. She is a former Board member of the Guelph Arts Council. She was
honoured by the nomination to be on the Wall of Fame at the GYC for her work with young people in Guelph and other communities.
Other Instructors & Support Staff
Leilani Bowry - Dance Teacher
Meghan Peters - Dance Teacher
Tonny Bulionis - Pianist
Gregson Lodge - Pianist
Grace Peters - Pianist
Hannah Brown - Reception
Yingying Li - Reception
128 Woolwich St
Guelph, ON N1H 3V2
info@danceroyalcity.ca
© 2019 Royal City School of Ballet and Jazz. Website design by Creative Type
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New Requirement for Residential Solar Energy System Contracts to Take Effect January 1, 2019
SACRAMENTO – The Contractors State License Board (CSLB) is notifying the California construction industry that effective January 1, 2019, contractors who install residential solar energy systems will be required to comply with a new consumer notice requirement.
Assembly Bill 1070, Stats of 2017, Ch 662 established Business and Professions Code (BPC) section 7169. This new law requires the CSLB, in collaboration with the California Public Utilities Commission (PUC), to develop and make a solar energy system disclosure document available on its website by July 1, 2018. The disclosure document must be provided to consumers prior to the completion of a sale, financing or lease of a system. CSLB posted online a proposed one-page Solar Energy System Disclosure Document on June 29, 2018 and indicated the document was pending PUC approval.
At its August 23, 2018 meeting, the PUC approved Final Resolution M-4836 to endorse PUC staff's collaboration with CSLB to draft consumer disclosures required by AB 1070 and approved the Solar Energy System Disclosure Document posted on the CSLB’s website.
Contractors will be required to comply with this new requirement beginning January 1, 2019.
Some of the requirements of BPC section 7169 include:
Solar energy system companies must provide the Solar Energy System Disclosure Document to consumers printed in boldface 16-point font on either the front or cover page of every solar energy contract prior to completing a sale, financing, or lease of a solar energy system to be installed on a residential building.
The disclosure document and the contract must be written in the same language principally used in the oral sales presentation or the marketing materials provided to the consumer. English and Spanish versions of the disclosure document are available on CSLB’s website in English and Spanish. The contractor must translate the document into other languages, as necessary.
If the sale of the solar energy system utilizes Property Assessed Clean Energy (PACE) financing, the PACE Financing Estimate and Disclosure form may be used in place of the new solar energy system disclosure document. The PACE form is available on the California Legislative Information website and State Assembly website.
PACE contractors must still comply with the current home improvement disclosure requirements of the Contractors State License Law (LINK).
BPC §7169 also contains provisions for the development of further disclosure content for residential solar energy systems contracts. To that end, CSLB hosted a meeting of stakeholders on August 24, 2018 to seek industry and consumer input on the development of further disclosure content. Please stay tuned for new Industry Bulletins regarding possible additional stakeholder meetings and possible future solar energy system contract disclosure requirements that will be implemented through the regulatory process, which will provide an additional opportunity for public comment.
CSLB hopes the requirement to include the Solar Energy System Disclosure Document in the contract for residential solar energy systems will reduce misunderstandings between contractors and consumers and help our licensees improve their relationships with customers.
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9/3/2020 CSLB Releases Latest List of Revoked Licenses
8/18/2020 Contractors State License Board Calls on Contractors to Conserve Electricity as Heatwave Increases Demand Statewide
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3/25/2020 CSLB Updates Licensees on Building Permits Requirements During COVID-19 Outbreak
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3/18/2020 Contractors State License Board Closing its Test Centers Statewide in Response to COVID-19 Health Emergency
01/29/2020 2020 Edition of California Contractors License Law & Reference Book Now Available
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1/09/2020 Affirming California’s Restrictions on Lead Generation and Solar Broker Services in the Residential Solar Industry
1/3/2020 CSLB Announces New Renewal Fee Schedule
12/16/2019 New Contracting Laws Effective Jan. 1, 2020
9/30/2019 New Requirements for Solar Providers
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Constitution - Part 5G - Financial standing orders - FR3 Asset Management
11 - Assets
The following should be read in conjunction with Part 3 of the Constitution, which sets out the Corporate Director - Economy and Highways responsibility for the use of land and buildings.
11.1 Directors will be responsible for the safe custody of all County Council assets under their responsibility and control.
11.2 Assets will not be purchased using loans, leases or hire purchase agreements except with the agreement of the Section 151 Officer.
11.3 Directors will ensure that contingency plans for the security of assets and continuity of service in the event of disaster or system failure are in place and are regularly tested.
11.4 Directors will be authorised to dispose of non- property surplus, damaged or scrap assets on the best possible terms.
12 - Review of Capital Assets
12.1 Having regard to the County Council's Strategic Asset Management Plan Directors will regularly review the use of capital assets to determine whether they continue to provide value for money and remain essential to service provision. Property assets identified as surplus to Directorate requirements will be promptly declared as such to the Assistant Director - Economy and Environment who will review alternative uses of surplus assets, and recommend the future use or disposal of such assets to the relevant Portfolio Holder and Leader of the Council.
12.2 The Council's Disposals Policy sets out how the Council identifies properties for disposal and appropriate disposal routes. It makes clear when the Council can consider, under section 123 of the Local Government Act 1972 and Circular 06/03 General Disposal Consent (England) 2003, the power to promote and improve the well being of the area by disposing of its surplus properties at less than market value, provided the difference between the actual value and the disposal price is less than £ 2m.
12.3 Assets that are disposed of through Community Asset Transfers (CAT) comply with the Council's Disposals Policy and Community Asset Transfer Policy The CAT policy provides the opportunity to transfer an asset to a community for a nominal cost. Each transfer is considered on a case by case basis; involving an assessment of any proposals being made against the well being benefits to the community and whether it presents value for money.
12.4 Cabinet will decide, in relation to individual Community Asset Transfers, whether to agree with the disposal at less than market value.
12.5 Where assets are not disposed of through Community Asset Transfers assets will be disposed of through an open market sale. The Section 151 Officer and Assistant Director - Economy and Environment will be consulted on any alternative method of disposal.
12.6 The Section 151 Officer will be notified of the intention to dispose of any item which might be regarded as capital, for example, land and buildings or capital assets obtained via a leasing agreement.
12.7 The Section 151 Officer will maintain an asset register for purposes of financial accounting which will record capital assets when they are acquired by the County Council and ensure it is kept up to date, in consultation with Directors.
13 - Inventories
13.1 In accordance with arrangements made or agreed by the Section 151 Officer, Directors will maintain appropriate inventories (includes stocks and stores) and ensure procedures are operated for the safe custody, issue and disposal of inventory assets. The inventory will include any items that Directors consider to be vulnerable to loss or are of significant replacement value (over £ 1,000). It is not necessary to include office furniture or fittings, and IT equipment.
13.2 Directors will arrange regular physical checks asset against the relevant inventory records. Any significant surplus, deficiency or deterioration revealed as a result of such checks will be investigated and reported to Internal Audit for their advice and/or assistance. The rules for write-offs are included in FR 9 Systems and Procedures.
14 - Security Against Assets
14.1 Except as agreed by Council, no officer may raise money by securing any legal charge or claim upon the buildings, land or any other asset or interest of the County Council. Any contract or legal agreement involving a charge upon assets (of the County Council or a contractor) will be forwarded to the Monitoring Officer and the Section 151 Officer for approval and signature on behalf of the County Council
15 - Banking and Cash Handling
15.1 The Section 151 Officer will be responsible for all arrangements relating to the operation of the County Council's bank accounts. The Section 151 Officer is authorised to open subsidiary bank accounts as are necessary.
15.2 Directors will ensure that the collection and banking of monies is undertaken in accordance with any instructions issued by the Section 151 Officer.
15.3 Directors will inform the Section 151 Officer when £ 500,000 or more cash is expected to be received.
Petty cash and imprest accounts
15.4 Petty Cash and imprest accounts will be operated in accordance with instructions issued by the Section 151 Officer. Maximum limits for cash holdings will be agreed with the Section 151 Officer, and will not be exceeded except as authorised by the Section 151 Officer.
15.5 Petty cash should not be used to make payments to suppliers for goods / services that should be paid through the formal purchase ordering processes including the e-proc system.
15.6 The Section 151 Officer will maintain a record of all imprest accounts and the approved current level. Any cash holding can be removed by the Section 151 Officer at any time.
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Pathogens, viruses and national security: how can we prepare for endgame viral events? Can Cyber play a part?
In this “Secure in Mind” podcast episode, we interview two special guests on how the worlds of immunology, research, pharmacy and national security intersect. How does technology play a part? Is a cyber attack on virus databases or weaponisation through manipulation possible?
https://www.cybersecurity360.it/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/secure-in-mind-Dr-Fauci-08-May-2019.mp3
In this “Secure in Mind” podcast episode, we interview two special guests on how the worlds of immunology, research, pharmacy and national security intersect. Dr Anthony Fauci, Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infection Diseases in the US, and my sister, Dr Melissa Kelly, Infectious Diseases Physician specialized in HIV.
Complexities, mitigations and successes
Policy-wise health and hygiene guidelines: a global perspective
The Secure in Mind Project
Nick Kelly Bio
Dr Fauci is the Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infection Diseases (NIAID) that is an agency of the US Department of Health and Human Services. As said, Melissa Kelly, more than being my awesome sister, is also an incredibly talented Infectious Disease Physician specialised in HIV, so I invited her along to make sense of any answers where all I could respond with was “boh” (my Italian audience will understand this!).
Dr Fauci’s vast experience is incredible: he has personally advised six, count them, SIX, US Presidents since Reagan on research / preparation / budget and direction of a department that fundamentally predicts and prepares the US for the worst and constructs both its National and International health and safety interests accordingly. We discuss the evolution of the infection diseases, immunology and HIV and the impact that these transmittable diseases have on society. Nation states will be nation states, and stockpiling weapons of immunological destruction is an old game, so we touch on stockpiles of Soviet Anthrax, Smallpox, Botulism and more!
However, for all of the wonderful destruction that we humans can and do inflict upon ourselves, we are not even in the same ballpark as mother nature, and Dr Fauci mostly dismisses the prospect of a “humanity endgame” event being the result of a man-made pathogen.
Nature will find a way, and countries must navigate through the highly complex landscape of pharmaceutical incentives, international relations, security mitigations, health education and more to ensure we are in the strongest position possible before the next inevitable pandemic hits.
Dr Fauci’s experience over the last 4 decades is formidable and both my sister and I truly appreciated spending time with one of the greats in the field. It was a pleasure to have my sister join me as well to make up for my zero medical knowledge! She is travelling the world with organisations like the World Health Organisation continuing Dr Fauci’s fights against microbial nasties.
A final note: I have the utmost admiration and respect for people like Dr Fauci and my sister, Dr Mel; they are on the frontlines, sometimes facing very dark days filled with death and pain but always fighting the good fight.
Info on our guest here.
We are passionate about international policy, and to contextualise this, we discussed the state of the art of cross-border cooperation and integration of different entities – researchers, academics, practitioners, institutions, clinics – for risk mitigation strategies and pre-clinical trials.
Particularly enriching was the discussion on the role of national and global institutions, such as the US National Institute of Standards and Technology, the WHO and the US Centres for Disease Control and Prevention in setting best practices and health guidelines.
Particularly, what kind of pressures are successful on different nation states’ governments to foster their alignment with globally recognised best practices? You’ll have to listen to find out!
Our mission is to greatly increase and encourage community discussion about technological and ethical issues that have done, are and will impact society on a global scale.
There is a longstanding and distinct disconnect between the way information is packaged and presented to the public and the effectiveness of this presentation in terms of generating informed, considered debate.
If we can take complex, important topics and present them, as best we can, in a manner that can interests people from outside the speciality, then we have surpassed our expectations.
Nick is someone who, in many senses, is just like you: a human being trying to make sense of this existence of ours as we hurtle around a ball of gas in a sea of infinite eternity. More relevant though are his vacillations in the world amongst diverse countries and environments, collaborating, negotiating, elaborating and celebrating with fascinating people from all walks of life including politics, technology, activism, military and intelligence the world over.
He brings this unique breadth of perspective to the table and has a dogged interest in pursuing the human story behind the title or policy, appreciating the fact that underneath all of our bravado, political correctness and dichotomous states of creation and destruction, we are, after all, merely mortals trying to make the best of it.
The production cost of this episode of ‘Secure in Mind’ was supported by aizoOn Technology Consulting.
aizoOn is a global technology consulting company focused on innovation. Since the digital economy requires new visions, technologies and organisational models, we have taken the eco-system approach. Through this attitude, innovation happens through a co-creation process involving government agencies, individuals, public and private entities.
What this boils down to is that we use data and brains to drastically increase efficiencies, reduce waste, consolidate technology security and cyber postures and train the next generation of the top tech force.
If you want to passively and effectively identify hackers in your network, require project management on your space programme or even need a chemical scientist to solve a supply chain issue in your bottling plant, give us a call!
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Dell’s XPS Tower, Alienware Aurora desktops get Intel 8-core 9th-gen processor
By Arif Bacchus October 8, 2018
Dell took the wraps off its refreshed XPS Tower Special Edition and Alienware Aurora desktops today, October 8. The devices are packed with the much-anticipated 9th-generation K-Series processors, marking the first time that 8-core CPU configurations will be available on either desktop, with Core i5, i7, and i9 options.
With the Alienware Aurora Desktop, consumers will be able to combine the power of the 9th-generation K-Series with liquid cooling and a multipurpose-built thermally advantaged chassis. Dell promises that this makes for the “ultimate gaming experience whether it be in 4K, VR, or in the latest esports titles.” The updated model will be available globally on October 30, starting at $900, direct from Alienware.com and in retail stores.
As for the XPS Tower Special Edition, that model is aimed at consumers looking for a “subtle yet sophisticated performance-based PC,” according to Dell. This gaming desktop packs fully accessible expandability options, and will be available in the U.S. and China on October 29 with pricing starting at $1,100.
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Dell also is announcing a new and updated Alienware Command Center. The software first launched with the Alienware Area-51 and gives complete control over system lighting, Alienware’s keyboards, mice, and headphone, and access to the Alienware Aurora’s advanced overclocking tools. This is meant to tie in with Intel’s new Solder Thermal Interface Material, which adds in a new simple interface for quick fixes or peeking into processor information like clocks and voltages.
Prior to today, the Alienware Aurora and XPS Tower were running 8th-Gen 6-Core Intel CPUs and the upgrade in chipset marks a significant boost in power for consumers who are looking to move beyond stock experiences.
“The Intel 9th-gen is supercharged for creating faster video editing and easy sharing using today’s top tools. Intel Quick Sync Video provides hardware acceleration for the latest video codecs, and Intel Optane memory intuitively learns what applications you use most and loads your most-used apps and tools faster,” explained Dell.
The upgrade to the 9th-generation K-Series processors marks a full 12-month gap between processor generations for Dell, and arrives just in time for the holidays. You can expect other laptop makers to come on board with the new chips soon, too, making for an exciting shopping season.
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RuPaul prodco launches LGBT-themed SVOD net
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Bobbin’ Around with Bob the Drag Queen
The prodco behind RuPaul’s Drag Race is launching a pop culture-, drag- and LGBT-themed subscription VOD service.
World of Wonder (WOW) is lining up WOW Presents Plus, which will offer original series from Drag Race breakout stars such as Valentina, Bob the Drag Queen and Detox.
It will also offer shows from emerging takent such as A.C. Soto and the Sugarpill team, plus WOW library documentaries and specials from the past two decades.
The service is the latest example of how content owners are exploiting their catalogues and niches through direct-to-consumer products. Though the likes of NBCUniversal’s Seeso failed, many are still on the market.
WOW Presents Plus will be available in the US through iOS-enabled devices, Apple TV, Roku and Android for US$3.99 per month or US$39.99 per year.
The original series include Bobbin’ Around with Bob the Drag Queen, which follows the titular performer travelling the world with her bubbly assistant Luis.
Marco Marco’s Models follows LA designer Marco Marco, who includes drag queens, trans men and women and gender non-conforming individuals in his fashion shows.
Move You Body with A.B. Soto will follow a gender-fluid Latin dancer, The Sugarpill Show will follow a cosmetics company popular with celebrities and drag queens, and Detox’s Life Rehab is “inspired by the magazine shows from the late 1980s”.
The influential doc Becoming Chaz is included the documentaries section, as is Died on the Fourth of July, which is about celebrate New York video archivist Nelson Sullivan, and Out of Iraq, which follows the story of two men who fell in love in the war-torn city Ramadi.
WOW, which Randy Barbato and Fenton Bailey lead, is also behind shows such as Million Dollar Listing and HBO’s Mapplethorpe.
“For more than 20 years, World of Wonder has created programming and experiencesthat give a voice to the outsiders and the marginalised,” the pair said in a statement.
“As the marginal moves into the mainstream, the time has come for us to curate a platform for our audience with content fans will devour, featuring stars that deserve to be on television round-the-clock.”
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Three Men Arrested for Beating Dolphin to Death in Vicious Attack – Newsweek
A dolphin was beaten to death by a group of men who used sticks and rods to beat the helpless animal in a vicious attack in India.
The disturbing incident, which took place on December 31, was filmed in Uttar Pradesh in the country’s far north.
In the footage, at least three men can be seen beating the critically endangered freshwater Ganges river dolphin as one man pins the animal down.
The dolphin struggles to free itself but is powerless against the group of men as blood pours from its body.
Horrific , difficult to watch video from UP’s Pratapgarh where these villagers beat a Dolphin ( yes a dolphin ) to death on dec 31 . Three arrested , says @pratapgarhpol . Must take a different level of depravity to do this … pic.twitter.com/KsV7eBZW4F
— Alok Pandey (@alok_pandey) January 8, 2021
Towards the end of the 30-second clip, the dolphin appears to show few signs of life from the vicious attack.
“You are assaulting it for no reason,” one man can be heard saying, according to NDTV.
A forest department official who responded to a call about the incident, reportedly found the animal lying lifeless by the side of the Sharda Sahayak canal.
The official said the dolphin had received multiple injuries, including axe wounds. Villagers were reportedly unwilling to reveal how it died.
Three men have since been arrested after the video went viral on social media, according to the Pratapgarh Police Department.
In November, the gutted carcass of an endangered freshwater dolphin was found in a river sanctuary in Bangladesh, leading wildlife officials to express fears of a spike in poaching during the country’s coronavirus lockdown.
Residents in the town of Raojan spotted the body of the Ganges river dolphin on the banks of the Halda River, AFP reported. It contained a deep incision from the neck to the tail.
Poachers appeared to have gutted the 62-inch-long animal, removing layers of body fat—a product that is used in local traditional medicine—Abdullah al Mamun, an official from the Bangladeshi fishery department, told AFP.
The Ganges dolphin is critically endangered. According to the World Wildlife Fund, there are thought to be between just 1,200 and 1,800 Ganges river dolphins left living in the wild in Nepal, Bangladesh and India.
Concerns over poaching during coronavirus lockdowns have been raised by wildlife officials in countries around the world.
Poaching attempts have increased in Kaziranga National Park in India, which is home to the world’s biggest population of one-horned rhinos, during the country’s lockdown, AFP reported.
There has also been a spike in the killing of other animals in India, with poachers targeting the endangered Indian gazelle, peacocks, and other species, according to The Hindu Times.
File photo: A bottle nosed dolphin swimming in the Bay of Islands in Pahia, New Zealand. Lisa Wiltse/Getty
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If we truly want to change our unjust systems, we have to be brave enough to look them in the face.
The way poultry and meat are produced is an inconvenient truth. Just like racial injustice or climate change tell us that our systems, which we have created to live a comfortable life, are sick to the bone.
I’m reading Eating Animals, a book by Jonathan Safran Foer, published 10 years ago. It’s a compelling and important book. At moments, uncomfortable and shocking.
I learned about the life of a modern chicken and turkey, with thousands crammed in factory farms, from birth to the moment they get transported to the slaughterhouses—again with thousands on a truck—to the process of arriving, and machines cutting their throats open and “kill-floor” employees, not seldom underpaid immigrants, prepare the flesh for the consumer market.
A whopping 90 percent of the meat we consume globally is factory-farmed meat (in the United States it’s even 99 percent). Unless you deliberately search for an alternative, you can be certain that your ham, your burger, and bacon are factory-farmed.
And you can be certain that you’re eating tortured flesh; even the flesh that has a quilt-soothing, animal-friendly, and certificated organic label, Foer demonstrates in his book.
The most likely chance of consuming “animal-friendly” meat, though, is meat that comes from small family farms, which have become a curiosity these days. The best chance for “happy cow meat” is in the hands of small farmers who see the animals as more than only capital.
Small farmers, however, can’t compete with the mechanized and consolidated farms that have been created over the years and are the norm these days. It isn’t even called a farm anymore, but a Concentrated Animal Feeding Operation (CAFO) also known as a factory farm. These CAFOs are huge industrialized farming operations. They contain tens of thousands of animals tightly packed together, without having any space to move or walk around, and without seeing any natural light. Factory farms house as many animals as possible.
Here you see how that looks like.
CAFOs are efficient and profitable, and you see this model all over the world. In the worldwide poultry industry, 50 billion birds each year are raised like this.
Here’s an example of how efficiency and profit look like (from “Eating Animals”):
“Piglets tend to wean at around 15 weeks, but on factory farms, they will typically be weaned at 15 days and increasingly as young as 12 days. At these young ages, the piglets are unable to properly digest solid food, so additional pharmaceuticals are fed to them to prevent diarrhea.
The weaned pigs will then be forced into thick-wire cages—’nurseries.’ These cages are stacked one on top of the other, and feces and urine fall from higher cages onto the animals below. Growers will keep piglets in these cages as long as possible before moving them to their final destination: cramped pens. The pens are deliberately overcrowded as “overcrowding pigs pays.”
Without much room to move, the animals burn fewer calories and get fatter on less feed.
Piglets who don’t grow fast enough—the runts—are a drain on resources, and so have no place on the farm. Picked up by their hind legs, they are swung and then bashed headfirst onto the concrete floor. This common practice is called ‘thumping.’ ‘We’ve thumped as many as 120 in one day,’ said a worker from a Missouri farm.”
The life of a modern bird, pig, or cow–it’s a dark pit to descend, and most people don’t want to go there. Maybe they know more than they admit, but mouths only open to taste the flesh and close again to digest the meat that derives from a whole life of suffering. The way humans treat animals is one of the blind spots we have—and it’s an ugly one.
If we care about the humane treatment of animals, we should care about eating animals. For his book, Eating Animals, Foer also dove into the issues of the underwater world and its inhabitants, such as the modern fishing techniques that cause disproportional suffering to sea animals.
Animal cruelty is one thing.
The animal agriculture sector is an important contributor to climate change as it’s one of the world’s biggest sources of climate-altering gases, the vast majority of which come from meat and dairy production. If cows were their own country, they would be the third-biggest greenhouse gas emitter in the world.
Animal agriculture is responsible for more than half of the global greenhouse emissions. With a plant-based diet and sustainable agriculture policies, we can make a true difference here. Harmful practices of unsustainable animal agriculture are, amongst others, deforestation, water pollution, and habitat destruction.
That’s not all.
Factory farms are ticking time bombs, as they are pools of viruses. Virologists and health experts from organisations such as the World Health Organization have been ringing the alarm bells for years already.
Since football-field-size factory farms house as many animals as possible—beaks and snouts cramped, stress crippling the animal’s immune system, and ammonia from the decomposing waste burning their lungs, without fresh air and sunlight—pathogens that could cause pandemics are having a party every single day with so many hosts to pick from.
A virus needs hosts to survive, and the more hosts, the more chances for the virus to replicate and mutate and a new virus emerging and possibly transmitting to humans (zoonosis). For example, the Asian flu in 1958, that caused between one and four million deaths worldwide, or the swine flu pandemic in 2009, which was relatively mild with an estimated 141,000 to 575,000 deaths worldwide.
Also, bacterial diseases can easily spread in factory farms. Sick or not, livestock is treated with antibiotics, and mutated bacteria can become resistant to antibiotics, which too is an extreme danger to human health when it spreads into humans.
Much attention has been paid to the wet markets in China—highly likely the roots of the novel coronavirus, according to virologists—but factory farms, specifically poultry farms, are a more important breeding ground for zoonosis and pandemics, according to Foer in New York Times.
Now that we all have experienced what it is like to live in a pandemic world and how it hits our lives hard, we should understand the risks of the animal pathogens cooking in our food systems.
Therefore, we need to abandon CAFOs or factory farms entirely and make a transition to a farming model of smaller and less crowded farms. The international, long-distance transport of animals must end or decrease. Governments must stop subsidizing, and banks must stop financing factory farms. It’s criminal.
The call for sustainable animal agriculture has never been so important and those farmers who are willing and already doing so, but are lacking support, must get that support.
Isn’t it striking that only a few politicians are speaking about the need to end factory farms? Instead, all we hear about is the fight for a vaccine that must protect the people from the current pandemic. Hardly any political party is speaking about how the next pandemic will be prevented, while it’s just a matter of time before the bomb explodes.
And here’s to you. If you truly care about animals, health, climate, the oceans, the Earth, you should care about eating animals and reconsider your consumption of animal products (meat, poultry, fish and sea animals, dairy, and eggs).
Foer’s book, a fine mix of arguments, science, and storytelling, could help understand “big agriculture,” and what it means if we sustain this model.
Meat and cheese are unmistakably a part of our cultures, our traditions, our beliefs, our comfort. Some years ago, I asked myself if this justifies the broken relationship with animals and the perpetuation of unjust systems. No!
I asked myself if there isn’t a better way, and to live closer to what is essential in life. Yes!
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A case of surgically treated traumatic ptosis caused by scratching by human hand
Toshihiko Nishioka1, Yuji Shirakawa1, Yuka Okada2, Shizuya Saika2, Shinichi Asamura1
1 Department of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Graduate School of Wakayama Medical University, Wakayama City, Wakayama, Japan
2 Department of Ophthalmology, Graduate School of Wakayama Medical University, Wakayama City, Wakayama, Japan
Dr. Shinichi Asamura
Department of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Graduate School of Wakayama Medical University, Wakayama City, Wakayama 6410012
DOI: 10.4103/tjo.tjo_8_20
The patient was a 49-year-old woman. She had worked at a child welfare facility where she sustained a wound to the left side of her upper eyelid after it was scratched by a child facility resident's finger. One month had passed since the injury when she visited our hospital. The initial treatment was not appropriate, and her left eyelid could not be lifted at all. A secondary surgery was performed 2 months after the injury when the scar contracture was most strong. Such corrective surgery for posttraumatic eyelid is typically scheduled after at least 6 months when the scar tissue softens from the viewpoint of wound healing. However, this case indicated the importance of determining the appropriate timing of surgery in consideration of the patient's background and the scientific basis. Reports of sharp traumatic ptosis are rare, and this is the first reported case of traumatic ptosis resulting from a scratch caused by human hand.
Keywords: Blepharoptosis, trauma, wound healing
Nishioka T, Shirakawa Y, Okada Y, Saika S, Asamura S. A case of surgically treated traumatic ptosis caused by scratching by human hand. Taiwan J Ophthalmol 2020;10:131-3
Nishioka T, Shirakawa Y, Okada Y, Saika S, Asamura S. A case of surgically treated traumatic ptosis caused by scratching by human hand. Taiwan J Ophthalmol [serial online] 2020 [cited 2021 Jan 15];10:131-3. Available from: https://www.e-tjo.org/text.asp?2020/10/2/131/283012
The outcomes of traumatic ptosis often range from injury to levator dysfunction due to palpebral laceration or orbital fracture caused by traffic accident, falling, and so on.[1],[2] Blunt injuries are most common, whereas sharp injuries are rare.[1],[2],[3],[4] In cases where >3 weeks have passed since the onset of the sharp injury of the skin or subcutaneous tissue, in terms of wound healing, the timing of the operation is usually secondary and performed after around 6 months.[5] We report a rare case of levator aponeurotic defects resulting from a scratch caused by human hand that was treated with secondary surgery 2 months after the onset of injury, which is considered an inappropriate time.
The patient was a 49-year-old woman with no family history of note. She had worked at a child welfare facility where she sustained a wound to the left side of her upper eyelid after it was scratched by a child facility resident's finger. She was conscious and had a stable general condition without nausea or vomiting when she was transported to a local hospital by an ambulance. Immediately on arrival, only the skin tissue was sutured by a general surgeon.
Five weeks after the injury, she showed upper eyelid drooping and complete left-sided ptosis, so she was referred to our department. Locally, left-side eye-opening dysfunction associated with the fissure and swelling of the left upper eyelid was observed [Figure 1]. Nine weeks after the injury, surgery was performed to restore the eye-opening function.
Figure 1: Five weeks after the injury. There was complete blepharoptosis and swelling in the left eye
The surgical procedure was performed under local anesthesia, and the left side of the upper eyelid area was infiltrated with 0.5% lidocaine with 1:100,000 epinephrine. After the removal of the scar on the inner side of the eyelid, which was the previous sutured part, it was peeled off to expose the front surface of the aponeurotic and levator muscles [Figure 2]a. As the medial canthal band was torn, scar tissue was removed as much as possible [Figure 2]b. Subsequently, the band was sutured with periosteum inside the orbit and 5-0 nylon to return to the original position. Attempts were made to separate the conjunctiva from the Muller muscle, but the scar contracture was so severe that the levator and Muller muscles could not be identified. These two muscles were combined into a lump, with the tissue in front of the levator muscle fixed firmly at approximately half the height of the tarsus with a single 6-0 nylon horizontal mattress suture [Figure 2]c. Fixation for a double fold was made, and the skin was closed with 6-0 nylon interrupted sutures. Six months after the operation, the upper eyelids showed symmetrically appropriate heights. The patient did not demonstrate exposure keratitis, wound infection, lagophthalmos, eye movement disorders, or ptosis in the 6 months following the operation [Figure 3].
Figure 2: Nine weeks after the injury, surgery was performed. (a) We approached the scar on the inner side of the eyelid, which was the previous sutured part, (b) The scar tissues were peeled off so as to expose the front surface of the aponeurotic and levator muscle. (c) The band was sutured with the periosteum inside the orbit, and the levator resection was performed
Figure 3: Six months after the operation. (a) Eyelid opening was possible, (b) eyelid closing was possible
This case indicated the importance of determining the appropriate timing of surgery in consideration of the patient's background and the scientific basis. Ptosis due to scarring after trauma with lacerations is best managed with levator aponeurotic repair at the time of primary repair of the eyelid injury. Performing an immediate repair of the aponeurotic or levator defect of the eyelid is desirable for severe cases. However, if the initial treatment is handled by a nonspecialist physician, only skin suturing is performed, and then the patient is most likely referred to a plastic surgery after a few weeks. Thus, the primary treatment of the injury is highly important [Figure 4].
Figure 4: Immediately after the injury. The initial treatment was only skin suturing
Wound healing is a complex process in which the skin and the tissues under it repair themselves after an injury. In an undamaged eyelid, the skin, orbicular muscle, and orbital fat form an eyeball-protective barrier against the external environment. When the barrier is broken by a sharp injury, a regulated sequence of biochemical events is activated to repair the damage. This process is divided into predictable phases of blood clotting (hemostasis), inflammation, tissue growth (proliferation), and tissue remodeling (maturation).[5],[6] The maturation phase takes several months to occur. Revision surgery for posttraumatic eyelid is typically performed after at least 6 months to 1 year when the scar tissue softens from the viewpoint of wound healing.[5] After this period, a levator resection or sling procedure can be performed, depending on the severity of the ptosis and the degree of levator function recovery.[7]
Surgery was performed 2 months after the injury when the scar contracture was most strong. The surgery took >1 h. Considering the need to relieve the patient of the mental distress caused by the undesirable appearance of her face and to improve her activities of daily living (ADLs), performing the operation as soon as possible was preferable. As a result, the patient's ADL improved, and she could return to work early.
The incidence rates of postoperative lagophthalmos and dry eyes have been reported to increase in patients with severe contractures and limited eyelid movements.[8] In the present case, to avoid these complications, the intraoperative margin reflex distance 1 mm was adjusted to 3 mm to avoid overcorrection, and the possibility of reoperation was fully explained to the patient. For similar cases in future, whether equivalent functional and cosmetic improvements can be obtained must be examined in comparison with those in patients who underwent surgery after waiting at least 6 months after the onset of the injury.
Acquired ptosis can have a myogenic, neurogenic (peripheral or central lesion of the sympathetic or oculomotor nerve), aponeurotic, mechanical, or traumatic cause.[1],[2],[3],[4],[8],[9] Reports of sharp traumatic ptosis are rare,[1],[2] and this is the first reported case of traumatic ptosis resulting from a scratch caused by human hand.
The authors certify that they have obtained all appropriate patient consent forms. In the forms, the patient gave her consent for the publication of her images and other clinical information in the journal. The patient understands that her name and initials will not be published and that due efforts will be made to conceal her identity, although anonymity cannot be guaranteed.
The authors declare that there are no conflicts of interests of this paper.
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Denise Green is feeling a little panicked. After 40 years in her Tribeca studio, the Melbourne-born painter is moving, forced out by Manhattan’s ongoing redevelopment boom…
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DETROIT ROCK AUTHOR DAVID CARSON APPEARING AT MACOMB CC
Detroit’s '70s Music Scene: A Time of Transition
March 15, 2019 | 11:00 - 12:00 PM
David Carson, author of Grit, Noise and Revolution: The Birth of Detroit Rock 'n' Roll and Rockin' Down the Dial: The Detroit Sound of Radio presents an audio/visual look back at Detroit's rich music legacy in the 70's.
Detroit's '70s Music Scene: A Time of Transition
Lorenzo Cultural Center at Macomb Community College
44575 Garfield Rd., Clinton Township
Friday, March 15, 11 am / Free admission
Carson will lead off with a recap of the '60s era and then follow the careers of Motor City acts that went on to national fame in the '70s: Bob Seger, Ted Nugent, Alice Cooper, Parliament/Funkadelic, and Iggy Pop among them.
Also included are the veteran musicians from other '60s Detroit bands who formed new groups in the '70s such as the Rockets, Destroy All Monsters, and Sonic's Rendevous Band all of which eventually became rather influential.
By the latter part of the decade, a new wave/punk rock scene was happening at a place called Bookies Club 870 which spawned many new bands such as the Sillies, the Mutants, and most notably the Romantics.
Dave Carson will have his books for sale/signing during this event next Friday.
Grit, Noise, and Revolution: The Birth of Detroit Rock 'n' Roll
Labels: 60S, 70S, BOOKS, David Carson, Grit, MACOMB CC, Noise and Revolution: The Birth of Detroit Rock 'n' Roll
MICHAEL DAVIS AUTOBIOGRAPHY: HOW I TOOK DOWN THE MC5!
Michael Davis passed away February 17, 2012 and 6 years later Cleopatra Records has released this book... I read it and I have say it was unvarnished and highly readable. The title is appropriate, but it took all 5 members for the high performance group to stop.
There are all of the deadly sins and quite a lot of humor in the telling of the MC5 and Mike's life. It is as honest as any autobiography I have ever read. Mike is hard on everyone he meets but just as hard on himself...I give it 5 stars as it is light years better than any of these "Detroit" rock books of late. RK
New Book By MC5's Bassist Michael Davis “I Brought Down The MC5” Now Available!
Los Angeles - Famed bass player from MC5, Michael Davis, takes us on a rollercoaster ride of triumph and tragedy in his superb new 350-page memoir titled “I Brought Down The MC5”! The book includes rarely seen photos and original artwork by Davis!
“I basically wanted to be the MC5. The attack! They were really on! They were brilliant!” - Lemmy
MC5 was an American rock band from Lincoln Park, Michigan, formed in 1964. The band line-up consisted of vocalist Rob Tyner, guitarists Wayne Kramer and Fred "Sonic" Smith, bassist Michael Davis, and drummer Dennis Thompson.
The MC5's ANTI-WAR political views, rebellious lyrics and complex music positioned them as emerging innovators of the activist musical movement in the United States. Their loud, energetic style of back-to-basics rock and roll included elements of rock, rhythm and blues, and jazz fusion. Quite a feat for 1966!
MC5 had a promising beginning which earned them a January 1969 cover appearance in Rolling Stone and a story written by Eric Ehrmann before their debut album was released. They developed a legendary reputation for energetic live performances, one of which was recorded as their 1969 debut album Kick Out the Jams.
In 1972, just three years after their debut record, the group disbanded. The MC5 is often cited as one of the most important American hard rock groups of all time.
Their three albums are regarded as classics, and their anthem “Kick Out the Jams” has been covered by Kid Rock, Presidents of the USA, Pearl Jam, Rage Against the Machine, Blue Oyster Cult, Bad Brains, and countless numbers of up and coming young bands.
“For me, Michael was the original cool guy... He belongs in the Hall Of Fame, along with his whole group, for their contributions to American music and its politics.” - Iggy Pop
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MC5 BASSIST MICHAEL DAVIS' NEW AUTOBIOGRAPHY RELEASED POSTHUMOUSLY
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GENE SIMMONS JOINS POWERHOUSE BOOKS WITH 27
powerHouse Books is thrilled to announce their new, ongoing collaboration with SIMMONS BOOKS, the imprint of none other than KISS idol, business mogul, and bestselling author GENE SIMMONS.
As well as selling over 100 million albums with KISS, Simmons has created a merchandising empire with over 2,500 licenses, produced two successful reality TV shows, and launched a restaurant chain and a record label, among many other things. SIMMONS BOOKS will now join the pantheon.
27: THE LEGEND AND MYTHOLOGY OF THE 27 CLUB, the inaugural release of the new series, is Simmons’ witty, insightful, and no-BS take on the myth, and the actual people, that make up the “27 club”—the ground-breaking musicians, artists, and celebrities who died at the age of twenty-seven, frozen in the collective consciousness at the zenith of their creative output.
The book is from the perspective of a fellow musician as Simmons, for the first time, tries to dig deep and understand the deeply human and compelling stories about many of his heroes—from Blues icon Robert Johnson to Rolling Stones co-founder Brian Jones, from grunge superstar Kurt Cobain to rebel chanteuse Amy Winehouse. Simmons takes us into the worlds of these larger-than-life personalities and tries to find truth beneath the myths of sex, drugs, and rock ‘n’ roll.
27: The Legend And Mythology Of The 27 Club
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THE KINGPIN'S KID RADIO SHOW! TUNE IN TONIGHT 9PM
Tune into the show tonight 9PM
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KNIGHT MOVES: THE KJ KNIGHT STORY
Knight Moves: The K J Knight Story recounts the fascinating tale of a miscreant young rock drummer growing up in the Motor City during the 1960s and 70s-a dynamic time period in rock and roll history. This is also the story of a teenage boy whose family is ripped apart by his father's infidelity and the dissolution of his parent's marriage.
As his home life quickly deteriorates, he immerses himself in his music, moving from one band to the next. In this no-holds-barred book, author K J Knight describes his life and career, including his repeated acts of juvenile delinquency and the capricious nature of the music scene, not only in Detroit, but all across the country.
This is a candid, behind-the-scenes memoir that could only have been written by a music insider, overflowing with insight into America's burgeoning rock culture. He delves into his experiences playing in The Amboy Dukes with infamous guitar great Ted Nugent and his encounters with other Motor City icons, such as Bob Seger, Alice Cooper, and Iggy Pop. Knight's passion for both music and his family provide the emotional core for his searing autobiography, Knight Moves: The K J Knight Story.
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JIM HARPER'S BOOK REVIEW: DETROIT: AN AMERICAN AUTOPSY BY CHARLIE LEDUFF
If you were born here, and remember when Detroit was alive. If you just moved here and are curious how it got this way.If you're from somewhere else and want to understand..I highly recommend Charlie LeDuff's "Detroit an American autopsy".
The hipsters who think "everything's great! The city's comin' back!", won't like it, but if they read it, I think they'll learn a lot. Best book I've read in a long time.
The ending gave me chills and I wept. It will stay with you for days after you finish. If you can't afford to buy it, borrow it. But I strongly recommend it. Charlie is a very talented writer and this book does NOT exploit Detroit's misery. It explains it and puts a human face on it. And like it or not, it's truth. JIM HARPER
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Back in his broken hometown, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Charlie LeDuff searches the ruins of Detroit for clues to his family’s troubled past. Having led us on the way up, Detroit now seems to be leading us on the way down. Once the richest city in America, Detroit is now the nation’s poorest.
Once the vanguard of America’s machine age—mass-production, blue-collar jobs, and automobiles—Detroit is now America’s capital for unemployment, illiteracy, dropouts, and foreclosures. With the steel-eyed reportage that has become his trademark, and the righteous indignation only a native son possesses, LeDuff sets out to uncover what destroyed his city. READ MORE
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DETROIT PHOTOGRAPHER TOM WESCHLER RELEASING DETROIT ROCK N ROLL BOOK!
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We can't wait to buy a copy of Tom's book! He has the bet shots of anyone in the rock photography business....just the best....Tom is Detroit Rock n Roll
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April 29, 2014 – Rochester Hills, MI – Entertainment photographer Tom Weschler has started an IndieGoGo campaign to fund production of a fine-art photo book exhibiting Detroit’s vast rock ‘n’ roll and entertainment history.
Weschler, who has been doing live-music photography since the 1960s for artists such as Bob Seger, has compiled exclusive live photos of Detroit’s entertainment industry dating back to 1964.
THE WHO @Grande Ballroom summer '68
The book, set for a summer release, will include photos of notable artists and bands spanning four decades, including The Doors, Jimi Hendrix, The Ramones, and many more, performing at local venues around the Metro-Detroit.
The IndieGoGo campaign has a goal of $68,000, and the campaign includes perks for donating to production. Some of these perks include assorted prints from the book, posters, and even a day with Tom Weschler for a tour of Detroit’s landmark concert locations.
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Labels: BOOKS, detroit, ROCK PHOTOGRAPHY, TOM WESCHLER
THIS FRIDAY ON THE ROCK AND ROLL LAWYER SHOW
Sheldon and the gang will be interviewing author, Steve Miller, whose tome Detroit Rock City is in everybodies hands and conversations these days...
People interviewed for this book include Dan Carlisle, Mitch Ryder, Stirling Silver, VC Lamont Veasey, Ron Cooke, Don Was, Mark Norton, Hiawatha Bailey, Brian Pastoria, Tom Morwatts, Jerry Brazil, Dave Leone, Jann Uhelszki, Pete Cavanaugh, Punch Andrews, Scott Morgan, Deniz Tek, Scott Richardson, Steve Fogey, David Teegarden, John Sinclair, Gary Rasmussen, S. Kay Young, K.J. Knight, Dennis Thompson, Jon Landau, Frank Bach, Rick Kraniak, Leni Sinclair, Sigrid Smith, Dennis Dunaway, Norm Liberman, John Koslosley, Pete Woodman, Susie Kaine, Jack Bodner, The worlds most pissed off guy Rick Stevers, Bill White, Donny Hartman, Shaun Murphy, Dave Palmer, Suzi Quartro, Ray Goodman, Gary Quackenbush, Becky Tyner, Jim McCarty, Jimmy Recca, Niagara, John Kordosh, Cathy Gisi, Robert Matheu, Nikki Corvette, Art Lyzak, Mike Rushlow, Skid Marx, Nick Kent, Dave Hanna, Ric Siegel, Peter Rivera, Gil Bridges, Mark Parenteau, Gail Parenteau, Michael Bruce, Jim Kosloskey, Cindy Lang, Tony Reay, Charlie Auringer, Tom Weschler, and Dick Wagner.
To listen to the show, airing Friday, April 11 at 6 PM EDT, go to http://www.tunein.com and type WCXI in the search bar. If you're mobile, download the free TuneIn app for your phone or other device.
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THE MC5 AND SOCIAL CHANGE: PURE REBELLION AND TOTAL ENERGY
Former Professor Mat Bartkowiak designed a university course featuring Detroit band The MC5. He wrote THE MC5 AND SOCIAL CHANGE: A STUDY IN ROCK AND REVOLUTION for that class. It is Dennis Thompson's person favorite of all the MC5 books out there...Mat has graciously signed on as a contributor for our DetRMag...and here is his first entry.....more to come
Author Mat Bartkowiak:
I was in college in the late 90s when I first heard the MC5. I don't know if this if the same for everyone, but that time was a heady one for me. I was really coming into my own sense of politics and defining my own world-view. I was young, I was amped, and I was ready to change the world.
It was in that context, that the MC5 first assaulted my eardrums. I had the intro to "Ramblin' Rose" by JC Crawford played first by my then my co-worker, Matt Conger at the record shop I was working in, and then he cut right over to "Kick Out the Jams."
There weren't any customers in that night, so he turned it up to eleven. That speech by Crawford asking the crowd if they were ready to testify and be a part of the solution, then to have someone in a recording from 1968 none-the-less scream "Kick Out the Jams, Motherfuckers!" and launch into the cacophony of that song...well, let's just say I was ready to turn myself loose on the world that night. I was converted.
Photo courtesy of Leni Sinclair
It was that sense of pure rebellion and total energy that I carried with me for years. The White Panther stories that I vaguely attached to the band only pushed that further.
It wasn't until I started digging into the research that I found that the band became a sort of lighting rod for discussions of authenticity and rebellion during the band's life and since.
Their music was seen by some as a huge ruse; others thought the pulse of rebellion in rock and roll had not only been found but that it was pumping like it was on amphetamines. You could take it or leave it...it was usable. The same possibility for multiple readings and uses went for the stakeholders themselves, too.
About Author Mat Bartkowiak:
Before accepting a position in the private sector with Nelson-Jameson, Inc. in 2014, Mathew J. Bartkowiak was an associate professor of English at the University of Wisconsin-Marshfield/Wood County. Bartkowiak received his Ph.D. from the Department of American Studies at Michigan State University, his M.A. from Bowling Green State University, and his B.A. from UW-Green Bay. His fourth book, his second co-authored with Yuya Kiuchi of Michigan State University, examines music in counterculture film (due from McFarland in 2015).
Labels: BOOKS, Mat Bartkowiak, MC5, Revolution
MOTOWN BURNING: NEW BOOK BY JOHN JEFFIRE
Author John Jeffire
"Motown Burning," which has just been released in e-book format on Amazon for Kindle owners. You can purchase the first chapter for only 99 cents to get a feel for it, or throw caution (and sanity) to the wind and purchase the whole thing for only $9.99! For those of you unfamiliar with the book, here is the synopsis: Detroit, late July of 1967, and the city boils over.
For Aram Pehlivanian, aka Motown, the Grande Ballroom and the music of the MC5 and Iggy Pop and The Temptations no longer provide a haven as destruction engulfs his city. However, escaping death in the streets during the '67 Detroit Riots only leads him to the jungles of Vietnam and away from Katie, the girl who might be his salvation.
Beaten on the streets of Detroit, hunted in the jungles of Vietnam, and fueled to survive by the music of the Motor City, Aram burns with one goal...to see Katie again. Winner of the 2005 Mount Arrowsmith Novel Competition and the 2007 Independent Publishing Awards Gold Medal for Regional Fiction. READ AN EXCERPT HERE
Labels: Authors, BOOKS, detroit, Motown Burning
CARL LUNDGREN'S NEW BOOK: PSYCHEDELIC ROCK ART
Music inspired, science fiction and fantasy combined in a way that revolutionized poster art of the Psychedelic 1960's-era. Famous for his rock posters, The Psychedelic Rock Art of Carl Lundgren, a Detroit, Michigan based artist, showcases his posters which were as important to the Detroit Music and Art history as were the music legends themselves; The Who, Jefferson Airplane and Pink Floyd to name a few.
The book's foreword is written by Mitch Ryder, who was lead vocalist of a Detroit 1960's rock group The Detroit Wheels. The introduction is by Russ Gibb, a former radio personality and rock promoter from Dearborn, Michigan, who played a major role in the late sixties/early seventies Motor City music scene. Whether looking for something fun, entertaining or reminiscent, this book has it all! The Psychedelic Rock Art of Carl Lundgren presents Carl's posters in a unique way that will evoke emotion and memories.
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Why did Churchill ally with Joseph Stalin and go against Adolph Hitler? Didn't Stalin murder millions of his own people?
The old saying that "the enemy of my enemy is my friend" especially holds true in wartime.
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The enemy of my enemy is my friend, until he is not.
Captain Matticus, LandPiratesInc
Because the enemy of your enemy is sometimes your friend. And the term "ally" is a little generous. More of an uneasy pact than anything else. After all, Stalin's predecessor Lenin had ordered the deaths of the Romanovs, and Tsar Nicholas II was the first cousin of King George VI's father, so I doubt that anybody was too keen on being overly friendly with the USSR. It was enough that Stalin hated Hitler and was willing to assist with giving Germany a war on 2 fronts. Also, as Eddie Izzard said, we're somehow fine when a despot kills their own people. "Pol Pot killed one point seven million Cambodians, died under house arrest, well done there. Stalin killed many millions, died in his bed, aged seventy-two, well done indeed. And the reason we let them get away with it is they killed their own people. And we're sort of fine with that. Hitler killed people next door. Oh, stupid man. After a couple of years we won't stand for that, will we?"
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Because they had a common enemy in Nazi Germany. The strategic importance was forcing Germany in to a two-front war. After the German reversal at Stalingrad (Feb-1943) and the Normandy invasion (Jun-1944) Germany's doom was sealed. The fact that Stalin was a brutal dictator had to be put aside.
Churchill was a war monger, unduly influenced by Zionists. Consider General Patton, who thought the real enemy was the Russian, the Bolsheviks, and their Zionist supporters. Patton said, "We defeated the wrong enemy." One only has to look at the Bolsheviks today to see that he was right.
The enemy of my enemy is my friend. Churchill knew that Stalin was a monster but Britain needed any help it could get against Hitler.
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"The enemy of my enemy". Britain was under attack by Germany. Stalin offered help. It was a choice of accepting that help, or being destroyed.
Sometimes you have to overlook what you don't like to beat something worse. At least Stalin kept it all within his own country at the time unlike Hitler who took his Murderous Nazis all over Europe. Britain was surviving but knew it needed strong ally to have any chance of defeating the Nazis and at that point the USA was believing it would be better off if it sat back and ignored everything happening half way around the world. Britain needed an ally that would force Hitler to split their forces and take some of the pressure off Britain as before Russia was forced to fight the Nazis Britain was basically the only free nation in the world holding the Germans back from their total European domination. Many say the Americans saved Britain's @ss but the truth is if Britain had fallen to the Nazis likely America would have been fighting the Germans on US soil and likely the truth is Britain's stubborn refusal to buckle to Hitler may have actually saved America as Hitler always had it is his long term plans to conquer America and with all the resources of Europe behind him likely he would have been able to.
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The U.K. created a big mess with its interference in other people's affairs, & offering aid to Stalin let the Soviet people do the fighting & dying on the U.K.'s behalf.
Tim D
Because Britain was at war with Germany when Hitler decided to turn on his erstwhile colleagues.
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THE Geological Survey of India (GSI) on Saturday (22) refuted reports on the discovery of gold deposits estimated to be about 3,000 tonnes in the north Indian state of Uttar Pradesh.
“Such data was not given by anybody from GSI…. GSI has not estimated such kind of vast resource of gold deposits in Sonbhadra district [of Uttar Pradesh],” GSI Director General M Sridhar said at the Central body’s headquarters in Kolkata.
A day ago, reports had claimed massive gold deposits in the region, and the estimated volume was estimated to be five times the national gold reserve.
“We share our findings regarding any resources of ore after conducting survey with the state units…. We had carried out work in that region in 1998-99 and 1999-2000,” said Sridhar. “The report was shared with UP Directorate of Geology and Mining for information and further necessary action.”
The GSI’s exploration project, however, was “not satisfactory” and the results were “not encouraging” to conclude on major gold resources in Sonbhadra district, he added.
“The GSI has estimated a probable category resource of 52,806.25 tonnes of ore with 3.03 grams per tonne gold…. the total gold which can be extracted from the total resource of 52,806.25 tonnes of ore is approximately 160 kg and not 3,350 tonnes,” he said.
Sridhar suspected some “miscommunication of facts” for the “overestimated” figures reported in the media.
The reports had garnered immense interest in the gold-hungry nation, and drew amusing responses.
Some claimed on social media that the discovery was a divine reward for the decision to construct a Lord Ram temple in Uttar Pradesh’s Ayodhya. Some others wondered if the gold deposits would alleviate poverty in the nation. And, many womenfolk were curious whether jewellery costs would dip from the current all-time high prices of $1,643.89 an ounce!
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ACLU Escalates Battle Against Faith
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By Randy Alcorn May 23, 1992
My home town, Gresham, Oregon, has emerged as the newest battlefield between the historic role of the Christian faith in our society, and the newer vision of the ACLU (the American Civil Liberties Union, looking more like the Anti-Christian Liberties Union).
The ACLU has taken bold action since our last newsletter. On July 22 I attended a hearing at the Multnomah County Courthouse. The ACLU claimed that the mayor and city of Gresham should be held in contempt of Court for not acting quickly enough to force Gresham residents to stop praying and leave City Hall on the National Day of Prayer May 7.
Gresham resident Gloria MacCracken initiated the original action against the city of Gresham, claiming the gathering would damage her. (What damage can be done to someone by a prayer meeting she is free not to attend is still unclear to me, but hey, I'm not a lawyer.) The ACLU, led by attorney Charles Hinkle, took up her cause and asked for a restraining order from Judge Robert Jones. Jones complied, ordering the City of Gresham not to allow the May 7 prayer gathering.
To obey the order, the City of Gresham formally withdrew its permission for the event. The Day of Prayer began with a police Lieutenant saying to the 500 adults and children, "You are commanded to leave." After two pastors and Rep. Ron Sunseri said a few words, and songs were sung, people gathered into small groups to pray. After a few minutes the Gresham Chief of Police told Pastor Gil Harder to end the meeting. A closing song was sung at 12:25, and the meeting, scheduled to go till 1:00, ended. (People were still arriving, as this was a "come anytime during the hour" event.)
This, however, wasn't good enough for the ACLU. They felt the Gresham police should have immediately enforced the restraining order by physically removing people from the property. Hence the July 22 hearing, in which Charles Hinkle played what he considered to be a most incriminating video tape of the gathering, made by a private investigator. The tape showed (no, I am not making this up) that heads were bowed and some people's hands were raised, clearly indicating the forbidden (wanton?) act of prayer. (Of course, you can talk to any person, real or imaginary, on City Hall grounds—any person except God.) Not only that, Hinkle pointed out, but they were singing the "Battle Hymn of the Republic," and "Revive us O Lord" (Can you imagine Americans daring to sing such songs on property paid for by our tax dollars?)
Another interesting fact surfaced at the trial—the plaintiff whose cause the ACLU nobly rose up to defend, Gloria MacCracken, turns out to be an ACLU employee! Hinkle presented into evidence a program that contained Bible verses and religious songs, with the shocking testimony by the ACLU's private investigator that it had actually been distributed at the May 5 gathering. With the drug war, AIDS crisis, teen suicide, gangs, violence and soaring crime in our cities, isn't it reassuring to know the ACLU is out there protecting this society from prayer and religious songs?
Judge Jones finally ruled that the mayor and city of Gresham were not in contempt, since they had in fact stopped the prayer meeting, even if a bit late. The ruling was good news for the city and the mayor, but the real battle—for the rights of Christians to have equal access to public facilities, and to exercise free speech—is still ahead.
The ACLU, again led by Charles Hinkle, is seeking to impose a permanent restraining order on the city of Gresham, banning any prayer or religious activities on city facilities—despite the fact they are used by other groups.
According to Mississippi's American Family Association, this would be the first ban of its kind in the country, setting a statewide and national precedent. The AFA therefore requested to add two "interveners" to the case. Gil Harder, pastor of Crossroads Bible Church, and myself (Randy Alcorn) were added as defendants at the July 22 hearing. The AFA attorneys will be defending us and the Christian community we represent. The case is scheduled to go to court the end of September.
Randy Alcorn (@randyalcorn) is the author of fifty-some books and the founder and director of Eternal Perspective Ministries.
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France: Donation of leave to employees with seriously ill children
Topic: Leave Équilibre entre vie professionnelle et vie privée Temps de travail Labour law Working conditions Labour and social regulation Les conditions de travail et le travail durable
Published on: 18 Décembre 2014
Turlan, Frédéric
Certain French companies have traditionally allowed employees to donate some of their leave to colleagues with seriously ill children. This tradition is sometimes implemented informally and sometimes enshrined in a company-level labour agreement. The French National Assembly has now passed a law providing a framework for companies to manage this practice.
Legislation allows employees to donate their days off
On 30 April 2014 the French National Assembly adopted a law enabling employees to gift their days off to a parent of a seriously ill child. The law, which became effective on 11 May 2014, provides a framework for companies which have traditionally followed this practice.
As highlighted in a parliamentary report on the proposal to allow the donation of leave to colleagues (in French), about 1,500 children in France are undergoing terminal care at any one time, but the existing legislative arrangements do not make it easy for their working parents to stay with them. One parliamentarian was inspired to present the bill after employees of the mineral water company Badoit banded together in 2010 to support a colleague whose 11-year-old son had been diagnosed with cancer, so that the father could be with the child throughout treatment. Employees anonymously donated leave days or overtime hours. A total of 170 hours were collected and credited to the employee, who was able to take leave and still be paid. The aim of the legislation inspired by this event was to allow parents to give their full attention to a seriously ill child without giving up pay.
Existing provisions
Legislation did already exist to permit leave in this type of situation. The Labour Code (Art. L. 1225-61) provided for three days’ unpaid leave for the parent of a sick child (although leave was sometimes paid if the provisions of a collective agreement covered this). It also set out conditions under which leave could be taken for family support (Labour Code, Art. L. 3142-24), where the leave entitlement can be renewed after three months, up to a maximum entitlement of 12 months over the whole working life. The code also provided for paid family solidarity leave of three months, renewable once (Labour Code, Art. L. 3142-16). Legislation also provided for compensation for 21 days’ absence from work of up to about €50 per day; and leave for parental presence (Labour Code, Art. L. 1225-62) which can last up to 14 months but with a daily allowance for parental presence of about €50 per day.
However, the parliamentary report acknowledges that these various provisions do not always support the household fully during the stressful time of a child’s illness.
Main measures of the new law
Under the new law, Law No. 2014-459 of May 9, 2014 for the gifting of days off to a parent of a seriously ill child (in French), all employees of all companies, regardless of their size, can donate days off if their employer agrees. No special requirements are imposed except that the leave donated should already have been accrued by the donor. A decree has yet to specify how this new law will apply to military personnel.
An employee may waive all or part of their days off. This includes all types of time off, including days of reduced working time (RTT) offered by the company, days off and paid leave, provided that employees retain at least four weeks of paid leave. The law requires that employees donate their days off anonymously and the employer can not disclose their identity. Earnings are allocated to employees of the company who are caring for a sick child. The child must be under 20 years of age with an illness, disability or injuries of such severity that the constant presence of the parent is required. A medical certificate must be produced to confirm the illness. During the period of absence, the employee retains his or her salary and the benefit of all the advantages acquired before their departure. This leave is considered as a period of actual work for the determination of seniority rights for the employees concerned.
Company-level agreements with leave donation arrangements
In practice, in businesses where a leave donation arrangement has been created by a collective agreement, the social partners limit the number of days that an individual employee can give to other employees each year. At PSA Peugeot-Citroën Automobile, the number is limited to five a year and at property company Paris Habitat the limit is 10 days. Animal health company Merial allows the gift of a single day off per year per employee.
At Peugeot-Citroën the agreement established a solidarity fund that collects donations and days off given by managers (100 days available at the initial launch, and 50 days per year for the following two years). Within the Casino group, any employee may pay days off into a caregivers’ leave plan. The management of Paris Habitat adds extra leave days to the period of leave requested by an employee. Agreements also provide a maximum number of days off that can be taken (20 days at Peugeot Citroen and Merial, 60 days at Paris Habitat). At Merial, the agreement allows any employee who must care for their seriously ill child to take 20 days’ leave, paid at 75%. The use of donated days off starts only once this 20-day period is up.
Social partner responses
The government was initially reluctant to act because it saw no need to legislate in this area. However, the law was broadly supported by the social partners. Most of the existing company-level leave donation agreements were supported by all the relevant unions.
The French Christian Workers’ Confederation (CFTC) expressed satisfaction, saying in a press release that the adoption of the new law would provide a better balance between private and professional life (in French). But the CFTC believes that ‘the gift of hours should not be limited to this single scenario’. The French Democratic Confederation of Labour (CFDT) describes the new law as ‘real progress’ (in French).
This law is widely supported by workers because it promotes solidarity among co-workers and ameliorates a painful situation for parents with critically ill children. Its advantage is that it was developed from a bottom-up approach based on practice before being translated into legislation that provides a general framework for the donation of leave.
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The Chicks drop the “Dixie” from their name, unveil fiery new “March March” single
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HomeMusicCountry MusicThe Chicks drop the “Dixie” from their name, unveil fiery new “March March” single
ABC Audio has confirmed that The Dixie Chicks have officially dropped the “Dixie” from their name, moving forward simply as The Chicks.
The country trio marked the change by releasing a timely new song, “March March,” under their new moniker, as well as adjusting their social media pages and website.
“We want to meet this moment,” The Chicks wrote. Their name change comes in the wake of the ongoing U.S. and worldwide protests against racism and police brutality.
The trio’s decision to change their name comes after another country group, Lady A, dropped the “Antebellum” from their name due to the term’s association with the pre-Civil War South and slavery.
After Lady A announced their decision earlier this month, they faced objections from blues singer Anita White, who’s been performing under the moniker for decades. Private conversations ensued, ultimately resulting in “positive solutions and common ground,” according to the two acts’ social media pages.
In light of their name change, the Chicks issued a statement about the 1960s New Zealand singing duo who performed as The Chicks.
“A sincere and heartfelt thank you goes out to The Chicks of NZ for their gracious gesture in allowing us to share their name. We are honored to co-exist together in the world with these exceptionally talented sisters. Chicks rock!” the band wrote.
Released in tandem with the name change, “March March” is a call to action, accompanied by a music video filled with image of protests, climate marches and more. Throughout the clip, a list of the names of marginalized people killed by the police flips across the screen.
The video also calls on viewers to vote, and spotlights the quote: “If your voice held no power, they wouldn’t try to silence you.”
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Lidl and Aldi middle aisles: What's available from Sunday, November 29?
By Kieran Doody @kierandoody UK Trending Editor
Lidl and Aldi middle aisles: What's available from Sunday, November 29? Picture: Lidl/Aldi/Canva
Lidl and Aldi have revealed the latest items hitting the shelves in the middle aisles of their stores from Sunday, November 29, 2020.
We've rounded-up some of the highlights to look out for in each supermarket.
This week, Aldi are looking ahead to Christmas with home wear and board games offered at discount prices.
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Premier League football club pyjamas, available in a range of clubs including Manchester United, Liverpool and Chelsea for £12.99.
Monopoly is among a number of board games available, the popular family family classic is available for £14.99.
The Philips Wet/Dry Electric Shaver 3000 is available for £49.99.
The Avenue Luxury Leather Cognac Purse is £8.99 and available in black and brown.
Find more deals at Aldi.co.uk.
In the middle of Lidl this week, the supermarket chain are very much focused on Christmas decorations.
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Lidl are offering a 6ft non-drop tir Christmas tree for £24.99.
Christmas wreaths are on sale for £5.99 with four different designs to choose from.
Botanical decorations are on sale for £2.29, fill your home with natural Christmas scents with dried Citrus Slices, Lotus, Cinnamon Sticks, Star Anise and more.
Vind out more at Lidl.co.uk.
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Super Bowl 2020: Kickoff time, who's playing and how to watch
Abigail Rosenthal, USA TODAY NETWORK
America's favorite televised event is nearly upon us. The 2020 Super Bowl is just days away, and it's time to get plans in place.
Whether you're a diehard football fan or just watching for the commercials while snacking on chips and dip, here's what you need to know about Super Bowl LIV.
When and where:
Kickoff is slated for 6:30 p.m. ET on Sunday, Feb. 2. at Hard Rock Stadium in Miami Gardens, Florida.
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Who's playing:
The Kansas City Chiefs will face off against the San Francisco 49ers. This is the Chiefs' first Super Bowl appearance in 50 years after their last appearance (and only win) in 1970. The San Francisco 49ers have appeared in the Super Bowl seven times and won five times. The 49ers' most recent win was in 1995.
Who's performing:
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Gun Control Debate Reaches Peak Potato in Australia
fouadmin October 25, 2016 Adler, Border Force, Greens, Gun Control Australia, Gun Grab, Michael Keenan, NFA 2 Comments
What a time to be alive!
Upset about the outcome of the National Firearms Agreement and Adler fiasco last week, Gun Control Australia and a cavalcade of irrelevant names decided to pen an emotive, void of fact letter in the most left leaning, anti-gun publication in Australia. The group are not happy with the outcome, claiming it was “biased” and that gun control advocates were “locked out” of discussions.
That’s interesting, considering it took the Firearms Dealers Association of Queensland going on strike before they were able to get a meeting with Police Minister Bill Byrne. And aside from Troy Grant (who proved to be the lone voice of reason at COAG), no other Police Minister consulted with shooting groups.
Further, every FOI request into the NFA was actively denied by the Federal government yet according to Lee Rhiannon, the anti-gun crowd were allegedly able to obtain FOI documents about said proceedings? Yeh, that seems pretty “unbiased” to me.
Essentially the letter reads like this:
“We aren’t happy with the outcome as our 18 month brute force campaign of lies, mistruths and sensationalism didn’t work. So we’d ask for you to review the NFA again until we get the outcome we want. Because a group of 39 people who have no expertise on this issue and are in no way impacted by said laws, should totally get to determine the fates of over 1.2 million people who were consistently locked out of being consulted on laws that would have direct consequence to their way of life.”
Let’s have a brief look at signatories to this letter:
University of Sydney Emeritus Professor of Public Health (code for: authoritarian with no real discernible skills living off the public purse who specializes in banning things he doesn’t like, ie guns, tobacco and alcohol) Simon Chapman recently published further research claiming Australia’s gun laws had worked, etc. Anyone who bothers to read his latest “research” on the subject realises that conclusion of said study stated “Because of this, it is not possible to determine whether the change in firearm deaths can be attributed to the gun law reforms”. That’s also after he changed the definition of mass shooting from 4 killed to 5 killed by one or more assailants (after it was changed from 3 to 4 in 1997). Nothing like a good bit of intellectual dishonesty? What would you expect from a guy who claims to be an authority on the subject but did his PhD on cigarettes and advertising. Totally relevant.
Like all good intellectual cowards, Chapman will block you on Twitter instantly over a difference of opinion. Can’t be shown up to be an intellectual fraud in public now, can we? He also once called semi-automatic rifles “frightening death machines” and a pro-gun activist as “frothing” when the only thing “frothing” is the milk on Chapman’s latte.
Philip Alpers
The man with the most elusive academic qualifications on the planet who recently claimed on ABC Radio Perth that “illegal firearm imports are an urban myth” and that Australia has “no local firearms manufacturers”. Alpers seems to have taken a back seat these days as maybe even GCA have realised no one takes him seriously, and the bulk of the spokesperson duties has moved over to fellow signatory Charles Watson at Curtin University who, as pointed out by Justin Luke, is another academic fraud with his snout in the gun control funding trough.
David Shoebridge
The former Stalinist, once under surveillance by ASIO for supplying secrets to the KGB as well as having a drug dealing son and serving as former head of the Coalition for Gun Control. Yes another highly credible authority on the subject.
Ms Peters has returned to the University of Sydney and it is no doubt in my mind that she was brought back to help with this latest anti-Adler campaign. This is the same woman who along with Roland Browne produced a TV segment (cough, predictive programming, cough) in 1995 about “how easy it is to get a gun in Tasmania” and that Bryant was alleged to have referenced during interview. Neither were investigated nor held criminally culpable and the video has miraculously disappeared.
She’s also on the board of the George Soros Open Society funded IANSA but as George seems busy trying to steal the US Presidential election for Hillary Clinton and paying BLM activists to cause chaos, the money may have dried up and Ms Peters was forced back to the disarmament cause.
The rest of the list are predominantly a who’s who of leftists, union representatives and random list of authoritarian media and business figures and more than likely signed on for a financial incentive. Walter “being a victim makes me an expert” Mikac also makes an appearance right on cue. Spider Redgold of the “Erinyes Autonomous Activist Lesbians” is also a signatory. Yes, another household name and organisation when I think of firearms and totally relevant to this discussion. Obviously they are also against the LGBTI community owning firearms?
Would Spider Redgold be happy with the Catholic Church or Islamic Council adjudicating over gay marriage laws in this country? Imagine the outrage. But as usual, it’s only minority groups they like that get special treatment.
The strong union presence is interesting and the most interesting omission would be the Maritime Union of Australia – because revelations of illegal firearm and drugs trafficking on the docks might be a touch embarrassing to the Labor Party and the weight of the letter.
Perhaps Rita Mallia of the CFMEU would like to explain why she was a signatory? Considering that the same CFMEU who fought tooth and nail against the ABCC Bill, were saved by Senator Leyonhjelm who was not originally going to vote for it because of certain provisions (ie reverse burden of proof, etc). So a pro-gun Senator essentially saves the union movement and the CFMEU’s response is to call for more gun control out of spite? Especially as many of it’s members enjoy hunting and shooting? I’ll just let that sink in for a bit.
It’s also applicable to the CPSU whom also signed this letter, representing Australian Border Force (essentially the agency attempting to stop illegal firearms entering the country) against the Australian government, who have been locked in a pay dispute for 3 years.
Yes, we have officially hit peak derp in the gun debate in this country.
I’m sure there’s plenty of ammunitions left though, right Sam Lee?
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Fourlaws Forest Plan
Located to the east of Kielder Forest, Fourlaws Forest is a relatively isolated forest block covering a total area of 423 hectares, and is owned freehold. 190 hectares are open space encompassing the Aid and Wanney Crags and the remaining open section of Aid Moss blanket bog.
The forest area was originally established in three main phases in 1957, and 1966/67 when the majority of the plantation was planted, and more recent planting from 2001 to the present date as the forest has undergone significant restructuring. The remaining original planting is pure conifer, a mixture of Sitka spruce, Lodgepole pine and Scots pine. The new planting presents a more balanced and diverse species structure in terms of the inclusion of broadleaf species and alternative conifer species.
Although there are no formal designations within the forest the main features of biological conservation interest are the blanket bog forming Aid moss, and the Aid and Wanney crags which form part of the Wanneys SNCI, designated for geological interest, but also providing nesting sites for raptor species. No other designated features are contained within the area. Though a significant area of Aid moss is currently open, it has been partially drained and afforested.
No scheduled sites of archaeological interest are present within the forest, though a Scheduled Ancient Monument, a Pre Roman Iron Aged Hill Fort on Wanney Crag borders the forest. A number of unscheduled sites are present within the forest mostly boundary features which are currently within open areas and will remain unplanted through future rotations.
Access to the forest in the North West corner was improved in 2009 as part of an initiative with the local community providing access through the farmers’ field to allow locals to access the forest without going onto the busy A68 road. An interpretation panel was designed by the community group and local children planted the broadleaves along the A68 woodland edge. A simple circular path exists with some sculptures along the route.
No other formal provision for recreation is made within the forest; however the public rights of way are regularly used, especially as a means for climbers to access Wanney crags, which are a popular rock climbing venue within Northumberland.
Our aim is to create a more diverse and resilient woodland, with a greater range of species and habitats. The objectives of management here are:
•Maximise the value of sustainable timber production by felling and restocking with productive mixtures and species best suited to the soils, and by thinning windfirm stands.
•Although Sitka spruce remains the principle commercial species for restocking wider species diversification will be introduced to improve resilience of the forest.
•Developing mixed broadleaved areas could provide local woodfuel market opportunities.
•Environmental improvements will be delivered through forest restructuring achieved through felling, thinning and restocking and open space management.
•At restocking, as indicated by the indicative restocking plan, the opportunity is being taken to restock both to mitigate the straight boundaries of the earlier planting, increase the open area, and introduce a wider range of conifer and broadleaf species.
•Seek to extend Aid Moss blanket mire following harvesting of the coupe to the south, the exact boundary for restocking to be determined post felling.
•Continue with upper forest boundary realignment post harvesting to achieve better integration with adjacent moorland.
•Improve the external attractiveness of the woodland through restructuring and choice of species and silvicultural systems.
•Maintain the network of public rights of way to a good standard to facilitate public access with consideration to public access during forest operations.
What we'll do
The proposals in this plan will lead to a more diverse and resilient woodland, with a greater range of species and habitats. Substantial areas of alternative conifer species will have been established, and the range of broadleaved species will have been extended.
Timber production remains a priority and will continue through a clearfell/restock regime with the focus on Sitka spruce but with a much broader range of conifer species and broadleaves too. This strategy will also contribute toward climate change mitigation and long term forest resilience.
The high conservation value of Aid Moss blanket mire is safeguarded and public use of the forest will continue to be made available with ongoing maintenance of permissive and public routes as appropriate.
The current plan outlines management proposals including felling and restocking over several decades, with felling licence approval for operations up until 2027.
For further information regarding species composition and the future management of Fourlaws, please refer to the full plan below.
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Mercedes’ Nico Rosberg is the 2016 world champion, emulating his father Nico’s achievement after a tense 2016 Formula 1 Etihad Airways Abu Dhabi Grand Prix in which he finished a pig-in-the-middle second as winning team mate Lewis Hamilton attempted to back him up as much as possible into the clutches of Ferrari’s Sebastian Vettel and Red Bull’s Max Verstappen in an enforced but finely judged masterclass of race craft.
1 HAM Lewis Hamilton GBR Mercedes 1:38:04.013 25
2 ROS Nico Rosberg GER Mercedes +0.439s 18
3 VET Sebastian Vettel GER Ferrari +0.843s 15
4 VER Max Verstappen NED Red Bull Racing +1.685s 12
5 RIC Daniel Ricciardo AUS Red Bull Racing +5.315s 10
6 RAI Kimi Räikkönen FIN Ferrari +18.816s 8
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8 PER Sergio Perez MEX Force India +58.776s 4
9 MAS Felipe Massa BRA Williams +59.436s 2
10 ALO Fernando Alonso ESP McLaren +59.896s 1
Less than two seconds covered the top four at the chequered flag as Hamilton ignored instructions from the Mercedes pit wall to up his pace in the closing laps. Daniel Ricciardo followed his Red Bull team mate home, with Ferrari's Kimi Raikkonen taking sixth ahead of Force India’s Nico Hulkenberg and Sergio Perez. Williams’ Felipe Massa and McLaren’s Fernando Alonso completed the top ten.
The start saw the two Mercedes lead off the line, with Hamilton heading Rosberg, as Raikkonen passed Ricciardo for third. Things got worse for Red Bull as Verstappen, in sixth, ran out of room exiting Turn 1 and spun after making light contact with Hulkenberg.
That forced the team to switch the Dutchman to a one-stop strategy as he fell to last place, and would have its effect later on.
Hamilton and Rosberg moved clear until their first pit stops, respectively on the seventh and eighth laps, after which Hamilton led again but with Verstappen having risen to second ahead of Rosberg.
The German was then content to follow him for the next 12 laps before finally slicing by the Red Bull, with a closely-fought but crucial pass. After that he got the throttle down, cutting a 5.8s gap to Hamilton to 3.1s by the time they stopped again, on laps 28 and 29.
That was when Hamilton was forced to try to back up his team mate, as he needed him to finish fourth or worse, and the gap came down to less than a second thereafter as the outgoing champion did all he could to let Ferrari and Red Bull catch up.
When Ferrari kept Vettel out until lap 37 before switching him to supersoft tyres, when everyone else was running softs, the German suddenly became the dangerman.
He passed team mate Raikkonen for fifth on the 41st lap, then set out after Ricciardo, who was having a subdued run in fourth. He passed the Red Bull on lap 47, and that set up the final showdown.
On his worn softs - he had pitted on lap 21 - Verstappen just wasn’t able to get closer than within three seconds of Rosberg as Hamilton continued to lap at a relatively slow pace despite being implored - and at times directly told - to speed up by his Mercedes bosses.
Vettel eventually out-dragged Verstappen’s Red Bull on the 51st lap, and Hamilton, Rosberg and he then circulated nose to tail. They were having kittens at Mercedes, especially as Hamilton told them quite trenchantly that if he was losing the world championship he didn’t particularly care if he lost the race as well.
In the end, of course, he was never going to do that. He did everything that he could, and crossed the finish line 0.4s ahead after 55 laps to score his 10th win of the season, the 53rd of his career - and to lose his world title.
Rosberg kept his cool despite the pressure from Vettel, but said it had been tough.
“That definitely wasn’t the most enjoyable race I’ve ever had!” he admitted. “With Max early on, and then with these guys coming at the end, it definitely wasn’t fun. I’m just really glad it’s over!”
For Vettel, third was a decent way to finish the season, with Verstappen taking fourth from his team mate and the distant Raikkonen.
Hulkenberg took a fine seventh for Force India, and with team mate Sergio Perez eighth Force India easily secured their fourth position in the constructors’ stakes. But Perez only just got home ahead of the fighting Williams of Felipe Massa, who signed off on his F1 career by maintaining his record of scoring points in each Abu Dhabi Grand Prix in which he has competed, and Fernando Alonso, who took the final point for McLaren.
Alonso’s team mate Jenson Button was in contention for points in his final Grand Prix, until a right-front suspension failure put him out after a heavy kerb contact. He was joined in retirement by the Toro Rossos of Daniil Kvyat and Carlos Sainz, Williams’ Valtteri Bottas and Renault’s Kevin Magnussen.
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Afterwards, Hamilton shook hands with the man who has taken his crown, and they hugged on the podium.
“Winning the championships is a great feeling, Hamilton said as he congratulated his team mate, “and I’m looking forward to fighting with him for it again next year.”
Rosberg, meanwhile, looked forward to celebrating with his father Keke and mother Sina, and did so in the moment with his wife Vivian, on the greatest day of his racing career. It would, he admitted, take some time before it really sank in.
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The recent elections in the U.S. have unleashed a flood of articles from journalists and political operatives about the future of conservatism and the Republican Party. Nevertheless, few if any of those articles have considered the historical roots of the current situation, nor have their authors the historical and analytical skills to move beyond a simple analysis of immediate political tactics. On November 15, 2012, FPRI Senior Fellow James Kurth presented his article, The Crisis of American Conservatism: Inherent Contradictions and the End of a Road, to the Study Group on America and the West. The combination of Professor Kurth’s deeper perspective and analytical skill inspired a lively conversation on the part of the participants of that evening’s seminar. Confident that it will also inspire interest and controversy among the larger circle of FPRI members and partners, we are excited to continue the conversation at this inaugural session of Firing Line 2.0, when moderator Ron Granieri will “interrogate” Professor Kurth — with help from theaudience.
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MURIC to Bishop Kukah: Resign From National Peace Committee
franspat December 30, 2020
The Muslim Rights Concern (MURIC called out Bishop Mathew Hassan Kukah to resign from the General Abdul Salaam-led National Peace Committee. This call was made through a statement signed by the director of the organization, Professor Ishaq Akintola.
Recall that Bishop Mathew Hassan Kukah had in his Christmas day message to Nigerians stated that the President Muhammadu Buhari’s government owes Nigerians an explanation over the killings of innocent people in the country.
He maintained that the leadership of President Muhammadu Buhari has failed to address the nation’s problems, and that the administration policies have worsened the country’s socio-economic and political condition.
“The spilling of blood across the country must be related to a more sinister plot that is beyond the people’s comprehension”, he said.
In his view, the North has not been spared by the socio-economic and political woes that have enveloped the nation, as the region has been the worst for it.
He lamented that, “against the backdrop of our endless woes, ours has become a nation wrapped in desolation. The prospects of a failed state stares us in the face with endless bloodletting, a collapsing economy, social anomie, domestic and community violence, kidnappings and armed robberies, among others.”
On handling of the deplorable security situation and economic woes in Nigeria Kukah said: “Ours has become a house of horror, with fear stalking our homes, highways, cities, hamlets and entire communities.
“The middle grounds of optimism have continued to shift and many genuinely ask, what have we done to the gods? Does Nigeria have a future? Where can we find hope? Like the Psalmist, we ask; from where shall come our help?
“Whatever the temptations to despair, we cannot give up. When the Psalmist asked where help shall come from, he answered that it will come from the Lord. Therefore, like Zachariah, the father of John the Baptist, we Priests must stand before the mercy seat of God and plead the cause of our great country. Like Abraham, we must plead for the Lord to save our nation, because we have more than ten righteous men.”
“These are trying but life changing moments in the history of our nation. Politics and economics alone will not resolve our problems.
In a reaction to Kukah’s Christmas day message, , Alhaji Lai Mohammed, the Minister of Information and Culture urged religious leaders in the country to refrain from stoking the embers of hatred and disunity, warning that resorting to scorched-earth rhetoric at this time could trigger unintended consequences.
MURIC has also reacted to these statements, MURIC asked the Bishop kuKah to recuse himself from the Abdul Salaam-led Peace Committee, arguing that his pronouncements are inconsistent with the Bishop’s status particularly as the secretary of Nigeria’s Peace Committee.
“How did such a belligerent combatant emerge as the secretary of Nigeria’s Peace Committee? What good can come from a man who is filled with hate and bias for a large section of the country?
He calls for a coup against a democratically elected government. He stigmatized Islam as a violent religion. He derides the North. We demand that Kukah should honourably recuse himself from the Peace Committee. Failure to do so will have a devastating effect of discrediting that committee.
It will mean that the committee was set up in the first place for a partisan purpose.
“This is because many see Bishop Kukah as the de facto leader of the Committee. The Peace Committee must clarify some issues surrounding its formation and modus operandi. Whose idea was the whole thing from the beginning? Where is the committee’s secretariat? Is it true that the whole committee was Kukah’s initiative ab initio? Is it also true that its secretariat is headed and managed by the director of the Kukah Center? If that is so, General Abdulsalam must have been persuaded to come on board and serve as the chairman just to give legitimacy and credibility to the idea.
“This Peace Committee has a credibility crisis on its hands unless it can remove Kukah as secretary and as a member if the bishop fails to recuse himself. Nigerian Muslims no longer have any confidence in the Peace Committee. It may as well disband while the members go home to sleep.
“This is the honourable thing for the Bishop of Sokoto Diocese to do in view of the humongous allegation levelled against him. A national peace committee needs wide acceptance from the general populace in order to function effectively. Unfortunately, this does not appear to be the true situation on the ground at present.
“There is no gainsaying the fact that the secretary of any organization is its livewire. He keeps their records and writes their reports. A man who is heavily biased against one faith cannot be trusted to prepare a fair report on interfaith issues. That position is too sensitive to be left in the office of a firebrand missionary known for his emotional outbursts.
“The silence of the Peace Committee since the Kukah controversy began is also disturbing. A peace committee whose secretary comes out with blazing guns firing from all cylinders at a section of the country and calls for a coup while its members keep mute gives cause for concern. It gives the impression that the secretary is holding members of the committee to ransom. He calls the shots. Afterall, any statement to be issued by the committee, ceteris paribus, is expected to be prepared by the same secretary. Here comes the hard nut.
“Nigerian Muslims have no confidence in the Peace Committee as long as Kukah remains its secretary and member. He has failed to remain neutral. His bias against Muslims has been openly displayed. Rev. Fr. Kukah should recuse himself, otherwise, the committee has to disband.
“This has become necessary in view of the jaundiced position taken by the Catholic mission yesterday in an official statement. Nigerian Catholics declared their full backing of the preposterous pronouncements of Bishop Kukah. In that situation, it is no longer acceptable to leave the destiny of the Peace Committee in the hands of the Catholic Bishop.
“The question must be asked: who is the secretary of the Peace Committee? Kukah or the Catholic Diocese? A situation whereby Kukah issues a highly combustible statement and the Nigerian Catholic Mission backs him calls for caution.
“MURIC suggests an immediate review of the composition and operation of the Peace Committee. The secretariat of the Peace Committee must be moved out of the Kukah Centre. A neutral place must be found. In addition, a neutral person who is not head or official of any religious group or a person known for making volatile statements must be made head of its secretariat. The Peace Committee may also consider coopting a co-chairman who must be a Christian since the current chairman is a Muslim. This will engender balance.
“We call on the Chairman and members of the Peace Committee to take these suggestions seriously in order to retain the respect it currently enjoys. A stitch in time saves nine. Immediate consultations and proper advice will save the committee from any embarrassment in future,” MURIC’s statement read in part.
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Lubricant composition for automobile driving system
A lubricant composition having a 40° C. dynamic viscosity of 40 mm2/s or less that has wear resistance equal to or better than a lubricant having a 40° C. dynamic viscosity of 76 mm2/s is achieved by providing a base oil with a zinc dithiophosphate and alkaline earth metal salt in an amount to provide a ratio of elemental zinc to alkaline earth metal in the oil in the range of 0.2 to 1.0.
Kato, Tomohiro (Hannou-shi, JP)
Narihiko, Yoshimura (Kawagoe-shi, JP)
Yamamori, Kazuo (Nagoya-shi, JP)
Saito, Koji (Toyota-shi, JP)
Yoneda, Tetsuzo (Toyota-shi, JP)
Yamamoto, Yoshikazu (Okazaki-shi, JP)
Ichikawa, Akihiko (Toyota-shi, JP)
C10M169/04; C10M101/02; C10M129/10; C10M129/54; C10M135/10; C10M137/10; C10M141/10; C10M159/22; C10M159/24; C10M163/00; C10N10/04; C10N20/02; C10N30/06; C10N40/04; (IPC1-7): C10M141/10
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OLADAPO, TAIWO
ExxonMobil Research & Engineering Company (Annandale, NJ, US)
1. A lubricant composition for a manual speed-change gear comprising: a base oil; additives comprising at least one alkaline earth metal salt and a zinc dithiophosphate, the amount of alkaline earth metal element based on the total weight of lubricant composition being 0.1 wt % or more, the elemental ratio of zinc to alkaline earth metal from the additive being in the range of 0.2 to 1.0; and wherein the dynamic viscosity at 40° C. of the lubricant is 40 mm2/s or less.
2. The lubricant composition of claim 1 wherein the amount of alkaline earth metal is from about 0.15 wt % to about 0.6 wt %.
3. The lubricant composition of claim 1 wherein the dynamic viscosity at 40° C. is 30 mm2/s or less.
4. The lubricant composition of claim 1 wherein the alkaline earth metal salt is selected from the group consisting of sulfonates, salicylates and phenolates.
5. The lubricant composition of claim 1 wherein the alkaline earth metal salt is a metal sulfonate.
6. The lubricant composition of claim 4 wherein the metal sulfonate is magnesium sulfonate.
7. The lubricant composition of claims 1 and 6 wherein the ratio of zinc to alkaline earth metal is 0.3 to 0.8.
8. In the method of increasing the wear resistance of manual speed-change gears by lubricating the gears, the improvement comprising: lubricating the gears with a lubricant composition having a dynamic viscosity at 40° C. of 40 mm2/s or less and containing an additive comprising an alkaline earth metal salt and a zinc dialkylthiophosphate, the amount of alkaline earth metal element in the lubricant being 0.1 wt % or more based on the total weight of the lubricant; and the elemental ratio of zinc to alkaline earth metal is from 0.2 to 1.0.
9. The improvement of claim 8 wherein: the alkaline earth metal salt is selected from the group consisting of sulfonates, salicylates and phenolates; the amount of alkaline earth metal is from 0.15 wt % to 0.6 wt %; and the elemental ratio of zinc to alkalinic earth metal is from 0.3 to 0.8.
10. The improvement of claim 9 wherein the alkaline earth metal salt is magnesium sulfonate.
This application claims the benefit of Japanese Patent Application 2004-163106 filed Jun. 1, 2004 (Patent Applicants: Tonen General Sekiyu K.K. and Toyota Motor Corporation).
The present invention pertains to a lubricant composition for an automobile driving system. More specifically, the present invention pertains to a lubricant composition for automobile gears, especially for a manual speed-change gear.
In recent years, as a measure for preventing global warming, various schemes for protecting the environment have been proposed. One said scheme calls for development of an environmentally friendly lubricant. An environmentally friendly lubricant for use in automobiles, is required to have an excellent effect in improving gas mileage to reduce the amount of carbon dioxide exhaust from internal combustion engines. In order to increase the mileage with the lubricant, two methods have been under study, that is, a method for reducing friction in the sliding parts and a method for reducing the viscosity of the lubricant.
Concerning reducing friction, it has been proposed that, in order to increase the effect of the gear lubricant used in the power transmission system for increasing the mileage, a gear lubricant composition prepared using molybdenum dithiophosphate or another friction-reducing agent is used (see Japanese Kokoku Patent Application No. Hei 6[1994]-33390). In another method, a combination of a prescribed polymethacrylate-based viscosity index increasing agent and a molybdenum-based friction-reducing agent is used to obtain a lubricant composition that can maintain a low friction coefficient even after oxidation degradation (see Japanese Patent No. 2906024).
However, for the manual speed-change gear of an automobile, friction between metal parts is exploited to form a synchronization device incorporated within it. In order to realize smooth operation of the synchronization device, lowering of the friction coefficient is undesirable because if only the viscosity is reduced, the oil film becomes thinner, and wear is facilitated. Aluminum parts adopted for reducing the weight of the driving system device are especially more prone to wear than are steel parts, and they are more easily affected by a reduced viscosity. In practice, almost all commercially available lubricants for manual speed-change gear of automobiles have a dynamic viscosity at 40° C. (hereinafter referred to as “40° C. dynamic viscosity”) higher than 40 mm2/s, and a lower-viscosity manual speed-change gear lubricant has not been used in practical application.
On such background, there is a high demand for development of a lubricant composition for a manual speed-change gear that exploits technology for increasing mileage by lowering the viscosity of the lubricant.
The objective of the present invention is to solve the aforementioned problems relating to the prior art for improving mileage by providing a type of lubricant composition for automobile gears, especially a lubricant composition for a manual speed-change gear, characterized by the fact that the mileage can be improved by lowering the viscosity of the lubricant and, at the same time, the durability of wear resistance can be maintained.
In order to solve the aforementioned problems, the present inventors have performed extensive research. As a result of this research, it was found that when an alkaline earth metal salt and zinc dithiophosphate are mixed at a prescribed ratio, it is possible to obtain a lubricant composition that has a 40° C. dynamic viscosity of 40 mm2/s or lower, and, at the same time, that has excellent wear resistance for steel parts and, especially, for aluminum parts, equal to or better than the wear resistance of a conventional commercially available lubricant with a 40° C. dynamic viscosity of 76 mm2/s. The present invention was achieved based on this finding.
That is, the present invention provides a lubricant composition for a manual speed-change gear characterized by the following facts: the lubricant composition for a manual speed-change gear contains a base oil, and the following components added into said base oil: (a) at least one alkaline earth metal salt selected from the group of alkaline earth metal salts of sulfonate, salicylate, and phenolate, and (b) zinc dithiophosphate;
the dynamic viscosity at 40° C. of said lubricant composition is 40 mm2/s or lower;
the content of said alkaline earth metal salt relative to the total weight of said lubricant composition corresponds to a content of the alkaline earth metal element in the oil of 0.1 wt % or more;
and the ratio of the quantity of elemental zinc in the oil to the quantity of elemental alkaline earth metal in the oil is 0.2 to 1; and
where the quantity of elemental zinc in the oil is derived from said zinc dithiophosphate, and the quantity of alkaline earth metal element in the oil is derived from said organic acid alkaline earth metal salt.
DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF INVENTION
As explained above, according to the present invention, by adding an organic acid alkaline earth metal salt, especially magnesium sulfonate, in a prescribed quantity in a base oil with a low viscosity, and by mixing said organic acid alkaline earth metal salt and zinc dithiophosphate at a prescribed ratio, it is possible to obtain a type of lubricant for a manual speed-change gear that can display significant wear resistance for not only steel parts but also aluminum sliding parts, and that has an excellent effect in increasing mileage.
As explained above, the present invention provides a lubricant composition for automobile gears, especially a lubricant composition for a manual speed-change gear, characterized by the fact that it is composed of a low-viscosity base oil as well as an organic acid alkaline earth metal salt and zinc dithiophosphate in a prescribed ratio. The preferable embodiments are the following (1)-(6):
(1) The aforementioned lubricant composition for a manual speed-change gear preferably is characterized by the fact that the dynamic viscosity at 40° C. of said lubricant composition is 30 mm2/s or lower.
(2) The aforementioned lubricant composition for a manual speed-change gear preferably is characterized by the fact that said alkaline earth metal salt is an alkaline earth metal salt of sulfonate.
(3) The aforementioned lubricant composition for a manual speed-change gear preferably is characterized by the fact that said alkaline earth metal salt of sulfonate is magnesium sulfonate.
(4) The aforementioned lubricant composition for a manual speed-change gear preferably is characterized by the fact that the total base value of said alkaline earth metal salt is 200 mgKOH/g or higher.
(5) A lubricant composition for a manual speed-change gear preferably is characterized by the following facts:
it contains a base oil as well as magnesium sulfonate and zinc dithiophosphate added into said base oil;
the dynamic viscosity at 40° C. of the lubricant composition is 30 mm2/s or lower;
the content of said organic acid alkaline earth metal salt relative to the total weight of said lubricant composition corresponds to a content of the alkaline earth metal element in the oil of 0.1 wt % or more;
and the ratio of the quantity of element zinc in the oil to the quantity of alkaline earth metal element in the oil is form 0.3 to 0.8 and where, the quantity of elemental zinc in the oil is derived from said zinc dithiophosphate, and the quantity of alkaline earth metal element in the oil is derived from said organic acid alkaline earth metal salt.
(6) A lubricant composition for a manual speed-change gear preferably is characterized by the following facts: it contains a base oil as well as the following components added into said base oil:
(a) at least one acid alkaline earth metal salt selected from the group of alkaline earth metal salts of sulfonate, salicylate, and phenolate, and
(b) zinc dithiophosphate;
and the ratio of the quantity of element zinc in the oil to the quantity of alkaline earth metal element in the oil is from 0.2 to 1.0 and where, the quantity of elemental zinc in the oil is derived from said zinc dithiophosphate, and the quantity of alkaline earth metal element in the oil is derived from said organic acid alkaline earth metal salt.
In the following, explanation will be provided for the structural components of the lubricant composition for a manual speed-change gear in the present invention. The lubricant composition for a manual speed-change gear contains a base oil as well as an organic acid alkaline earth metal salt, zinc dithiophosphate, and other additives for a speed-change gear that maintain the extreme-pressure performance, etc., added to the base oil.
The base oil as a structural component of the lubricant composition for a manual speed-change gear may be a conventional base oil for a lubricant or another usable type, and there is no special limitation on the type. More specifically, examples include mineral oil base oils, GTL (gas to liquid)-based base oil, synthetic oil-based base oil, as well as mixed base oils.
Examples of mineral oil base oils include solvent refined mineral oils or hydrogenation treated oils and other mineral oils prepared by treatment of a lubricant distillation fraction obtained by reduced pressure distillation of residual oil from an ambient pressure distillation device for paraffin-based, intermediate-based, or naphthene-based feed oil by means of solvent refinement, hydrogenation decomposition, hydrogenating treatment, hydrogenating refinement, solvent dewaxing, contact dewaxing, white clay treatment or another refinement method, mineral oil prepared by treatment in said refinement process of de-bitumen oil prepared by solvent de-bitumen treatment of reduced pressure distillation residual oil, mineral oil obtained by isomerizing a wax component, as well as mixed oils thereof. In said solvent refinement, phenol, furfural, N-methyl-2-pyrrolidone, or another aromatic extracting solvent is used. Also, examples of solvents for solvent dewaxing include liquefied propane, MEK (methyl ethyl ketone)/toluene, and the like. On the other hand, in contact dewaxing, for example, a shape-selecting zeolite or the like may be used as the dewaxing solvent.
Examples of refined base oil substrates prepared in the above include different types of light neutral oils, middle neutral oils, heavy neutral oils, bright stock, etc., having different viscosity levels. One may blend said substrates appropriately to prepare the mineral oil-type base oil.
Examples of GTL-type base oils include the lubricant fraction separated from liquid product obtained from natural gas or another raw material using a GTL process, the lubricant fraction obtained by means of hydrogenation decomposition of generated wax, etc. In addition, one may also use the lubricant fraction separated from liquid oil generated in an ATL (asphalt to liquid) process using asphalt or another heavy residual oil component as the raw material.
On the other hand, as a synthetic oil base oil, one may select from the following group of compounds to obtain an appropriate viscosity property for the lubricant composition for a manual speed-change gear: a poly(α-olefin) (such as poly(1-hexene), poly(1-octene), poly(1-decene), and their mixtures); polybutene; an ethylene-alkylene copolymer; an alkyl benzene (such as dodecylbenzene, tetradecylbenzene, di(2-ethylhexyl)benzene, dinonylbenzene, etc.); a polyphenyl (such as biphenyl, alkylated polyphenyl, etc.); an alkylated diphenylether, an alkylated diphenyl sulfide, and their derivatives; esters formed from dibasic acids (such as phthalic acid, succinic acid, alkyl succinic acid, alkenyl succinic acid, maleic acid, azelaic acid, suberic acid, sebatic acid, fumaric acid, adipic acid, linoleic acid dimer, etc.) and various alcohols (such as butyl alcohol, hexyl alcohol, 2-ethylhexyl alcohol, dodecyl alcohol, ethylene glycol, diethylene glycol monoether, propylene glycol, etc.); esters formed from C5-18 monocarboxylic acids and polyols (such as neopentyl glycol, trimethylol propane, pentaerythritol, dipentaerythritol, tripentaerythritol, and the like); as well as a polyoxyalkylene glycol, a polyoxyalkylene glycol ester, a polyoxyalkylene glycol ether, a phosphate, etc.
As explained above, the base oil of the lubricant composition for a manual speed-change gear in the present invention is prepared by selecting one of said various types of base oil substrates, either alone or as a mixture of several, such that the 40° C. dynamic viscosity of the lubricant composition is 40 mm2/s or lower, or preferably 30 mm2/s or lower. The base oil has the desired viscosity and other properties required for a lubricant. Consequently, the viscosity of the base oil should be appropriate to provide a lubricant composition of the present invention. The viscosity depends on the composition of the additives, etc., and can be selected preferably from those having a 40° C. dynamic viscosity in the range of 25-40 mm2/s.
The organic acid alkaline earth metal salt is selected from the group of alkaline earth metal salts of sulfonate, phenolate and salicylate.
The alkaline earth metal sulfonate is an alkaline earth metal salt of a petroleum sulfonic acid, long-chain alkylbenzene sulfonic acid, and alkyl napththalene sulfonic acid. It is a component of the composition for a manual speed-change gear of the present invention. A typical example is represented by formula (1):
In the formula, M represents an alkaline earth metal, such as magnesium, calcium, or barium. Among them, magnesium is especially preferred. R1 and R2 are C1-30 hydrocarbon groups, which may be identical or different from each other. At least one of the hydrocarbon groups should be a C6 or higher alkyl group. Examples of preferable hydrocarbon groups include C1-18 straight chain or branched alkyl groups; C2-18 straight chain or branched alkenyl groups; C6-30 cycloalkyl groups; C6-18 aryl groups, etc. The aryl groups are optionally substituted with C1-12 alkyl groups or C2-12 alkenyl groups. Especially preferable hydrocarbon groups include C6-18 straight-chain or branched alkyl groups.
For the sulfonate in the lubricant composition for a manual speed-change gear of the present invention, perbasic salts are preferred. However, it is also possible to use a normal salt or basic salt. A perbasic salt has excess hydroxide or carbonate dispersed in colloidal form in the sulfonate. It is preferred that the total base value be 200 mgKOH/g or higher.
The quantity of alkaline earth metal sulfonate should be appropriate so that the alkaline earth metal quantity in the oil with respect to the total weight of the composition is 0.1 wt % or more, or preferably in the range of 0.15-0.6 wt %, or more preferably in the range of 0.15-0.3 wt %.
As the alkaline earth metal sulfonate, magnesium sulfonate is especially preferred. In the low-viscosity state, when it is used together with zinc dithiophosphate, excellent wear resistance can be displayed in a manual speed-change gear having sliding aluminum parts.
The alkaline earth metal phenolate includes an alkaline earth metal salt of alkyl phenol sulfide represented by formula (2):
In the formula, R1, R2, R3 and R4 represent C1-30 hydrocarbon groups, which may be identical or different from each other. At least one of the hydrocarbon groups should be a C6 or higher alkyl group. Examples of preferable hydrocarbon groups include C1-18 straight-chain or branched alkyl groups; C2-18 straight-chain or branched alkenyl groups; C6-30 cycloalkyl groups; C6-18 aryl groups, etc. The aryl groups are optionally substituted with C1-12 alkyl groups or C2-12 alkenyl groups. Especially preferred hydrocarbon groups include C6-18 straight-chain or branched alkyl groups. x is an integer in the range of 1-3. M represents magnesium, calcium, or barium. Among them, magnesium is especially preferred.
A perbasic salt of phenolate is obtained by dispersing a hydroxide or carbonate in colloidal form in phenolate, just as with sulfonate. The total base value is preferably 200 mgKOH/g or larger. However, one may also use a normal salt or basic salt.
The quantity of alkaline earth metal phenolate with respect to the base oil should be appropriate to correspond to a quantity of alkaline earth metal element in the oil with respect to the total weight of the composition of 0.1 wt % or more, or preferably in the range of 0.15-0.6 wt %.
The alkaline earth metal salicylate is represented by a compound represented by formula (3):
where, M represents an alkaline earth metal, such as magnesium, calcium, or barium. Among them, magnesium is especially preferred. R1 and R2 represent C1-30 hydrocarbon groups, which may be identical or different from each other. At least one of the hydrocarbon groups should be a C6 or higher alkyl group. Examples of preferable hydrocarbon groups include C1-8 straight-chain or branched alkyl groups; C2-18 straight-chain or branched alkenyl groups; C6-30 cycloalkyl groups; C6-18 aryl groups, etc. The aryl groups are optionally substituted with C1-12 alkyl groups or C2-12 alkenyl groups. Especially preferable hydrocarbon groups include C6-18 straight-chain or branched alkyl groups.
For the lubricant composition for a manual speed-change gear of the present invention, perbasic salicylate is preferred. However, one may also use normal salt or basic salt. A perbasic salt is prepared by dispersing carbonate in colloidal form in salicylate.
The quantity of alkaline earth metal salicylate with respect to the base oil should be appropriate to correspond to a quantity of the alkaline earth metal in the oil with respect to the total weight of the composition of 0.1 wt % or more, or preferably in the range of 0.15-0.6 wt %.
As explained above, the structural components of the lubricant composition for a manual speed-change gear of the present invention include said alkaline earth metal sulfonate, phenolate and salicylate. Among them, especially, the alkaline earth metal salt of sulfonate is preferred. More specifically, magnesium sulfonate is preferred.
In the following, explanation will be provided for zinc dithiophosphate as a structural component of the lubricant composition for a manual speed-change gear of the present invention.
An example of zinc dithiophosphate is a compound represented by following formula (4):
In formula (4), R1 and R2 represent C1-20 hydrocarbon groups, which may be identical or different from each other. Examples of hydrocarbon groups include C1-20 alkyl groups; C2-20 alkenyl groups; C6-20 cyclohexyl groups, aryl groups, alkyl aryl groups, aryl alkyl groups, etc. Specific examples include a methyl group, ethyl group, propyl group, butyl group, pentyl group, hexyl group, heptyl group, octyl group, 2-ethylhexyl group, nonyl group, decyl group, undecyl group, dodecyl group, tridecyl group, tetradecyl group, pentadecyl group, hexadecyl group, heptadecyl group, octadecyl group, stearyl group, oleyl group, butylphenyl group, nonylphenyl group, etc., as well as branched alkyl groups thereof, etc. Preferable hydrocarbon groups are C3-18 alkyl groups. Examples of alkyl groups include primary and secondary alkyl groups. More specifically, it is preferred that compounds having the following groups be used: isopropyl group, isobutyl group, secondary butyl group, pentyl group, hexyl group, 4-methyl-2-pentyl group, octyl group, 2-ethylhexyl group, nonyl group, decyl group, as well as dodecyl group, tridecyl group, tetradecyl group, hexadecyl group, octadecyl group, and other alkyl groups.
Typical examples of zinc dithiophosphate include zinc diisopropyl dithiophosphate, zinc diisobutyl dithiophosphate, zinc di-secondary butyl thiophosphate, zinc di(n-pentyl) dithiophosphate, zinc di(n-hexyl) dithiophosphate, zinc di(4-methyl-2-pentyl) dithiophosphate, zinc di(n-octyl) dithiophosphate, zinc di(2-ethylhexyl) dithiophosphate, zinc di(n-nonyl) dithiophosphate, zinc di(n-decyl) dithiophosphate, zinc di(n-dodecyl) dithiophosphate, zinc di(n-tridecyl) dithiophosphate, zinc di(n-tetradecyl) dithiophosphate, zinc di(n-hexadecyl) dithiophosphate, zinc di(n-octadecyl) dithiophosphate, etc. According to the present invention, for the lubricant composition for a manual speed-change gear, zinc dithiophosphate containing primary and secondary alkyl groups is preferred. For example, one may blend a zinc dithiophosphate having primary alkyl groups as the main component and a zinc dithiophosphate having secondary alkyl groups as the main component appropriately to adjust the proportions of the primary and secondary alkyl groups.
The quantity of said zinc dithiophosphate in the lubricant composition should be appropriate corresponding to an elemental zinc quantity in the oil in the range of 0.05-0.5 wt %, or preferably in the range of 0.1-0.2 wt %.
For the lubricant composition for a manual speed-change gear of the present invention, the quantity of said organic acid alkaline earth metal salt should be appropriate corresponding to an alkaline earth metal element quantity in the oil of 0.1 wt % or more; and the quantity of said zinc dithiophosphate should be appropriate corresponding to an elemental zinc quantity in the oil in the range of 0.05-0.5 wt %. Also, the ratio of the quantity of element zinc in the oil to the quantity of alkaline earth metal element in the oil is from 0.21 and where, the quantity of elemental zinc in the oil is derived from said zinc dithiophosphate, and the quantity of alkaline earth metal element in the oil is derived from said organic acid alkaline earth metal salt.
Especially, the preferred ratio of the quantity of elemental zinc in the oil to the quantity of alkaline earth metal element in the oil is from 0.3 to 0.8.
For the lubricant composition for a manual speed-change gear of the present invention, if the ratio of the quantity of elemental zinc in the oil to the quantity of alkaline earth metal element in the oil is over 1, the wear resistance decreases. On the other hand, if said ratio is less than 0.2, the wear resistance is worsened, and this is undesired.
In the following, explanation will be provided for other additives in the composition as needed, in addition to the aforementioned necessary additives.
An extreme-pressure agent is added in the lubricant composition for a manual speed-change gear of the present invention to maintain the extreme-pressure performance. In addition, as needed, one may add other additives appropriately, such as an ash-free dispersing agent, friction-adjusting agent, dissolving agent, rubber-expansion agent, fluid point lowering agent, and oxidation inhibitor. Also, other additives may be added as needed.
Examples of extreme pressure agents that may be added include an olefin polysulfide, sulfurized oils and fats, dialkyl polysulfide, and other sulfur-based compounds; alkyl and allyl phosphate, alkyl and allyl phosphite, amine phosphate, and other phosphorus-based compounds; paraffin chloride, and other chlorine-based compounds. They may be used either alone or as a mixture of several. Also, a combination of a sulfur based composition and a phosphorus based composition may be used. For example, a combination of an olefin sulfide and an alkyl phosphate may be used. The quantity is usually in the range of 0.05-3 wt %.
Examples of ash-free dispersing agents that may be used include polybutenyl succinic acid imide-based compounds, polybutenyl succinic acid amide-based compounds, benzyl amine-based compounds, succinic ester-based compounds, succinic ester-acid-based compounds, etc., usually added in a quantity in the range of 0.05-7 wt %.
Examples of friction-adjusting agents include organic molybdenum-based compounds, fatty acids, higher alcohols, fatty acid esters, oils and fats, amines, polyamide, sulfide ester, phosphates, acidic phosphates, phosphites, phosphate amine salts, etc. They are usually added in a quantity of 0.05-5 wt %.
Examples of defoaming agents that may be added include a dimethyl polysiloxane, polyacrylate, etc. They may be added appropriately in a small quantity.
Examples of fluid point decreasing agents that may be added include an ethylene-vinyl acetate copolymer, condensate of chlorinated paraffin and naphthalene, condensate of chlorinated paraffin and phenol, polymethacrylate, polyalkyl styrene, etc. Usually, the quantity is in the range of 0.1-10 wt %.
Examples of oxidation inhibitors that may be used include an alkylated diphenylamine, phenyl-α-naphthylamine, alkylated-α-naphthylamine, and other amine-based oxidation inhibitors, 2,6-ditertiary butylphenol, 4,4′-methylene bis(2,6-ditertiary butylphenol), and other phenolic oxidation inhibitors, as well as zinc dithiophosphate, etc. The quantity is usually in the range of 0.05-5 wt %.
In the following, explanation will be provided more specifically for examples of the present invention and comparative examples. However, the present invention is not limited to the examples.
A quantitative evaluation was performed using the following measurement methods. Also, the types of base oils and additives used in the examples are listed below.
METHOD FOR EVALUATION OF WEAR RESISTANCE
For each oil sample, the friction width formed on a block of the following listed material and under the following conditions was measured using a LFW-1 tester (ASTM D2714).
Test ring: S-10 (FALEX Test Ring H60)
Block: Aluminum sliding member
Load: 5N
Velocity: 2 m/s
Temperature: 100° C.
Refined mineral oil: 40° C. dynamic viscosity of 25-26 mm2/s
Zinc dithiophosphate (ZnDTP): Mixture having primary/secondary alkyl groups.
Magnesium sulfonate: Perbasic salt with total base value of 400 mgKOH/g.
Extreme-pressure agent, etc.: Sulfur-phosphorus-based package containing sulfur-based and phosphorus-based extreme-pressure agents, as well as an ash-free dispersing agent, friction-adjusting agent, defoaming agent, etc.
With said refined mineral oil as the base oil, magnesium sulfonate was added at a quantity corresponding to a content of elemental Mg in the oil of 0.15 wt %, and zinc dithiophosphate was added in a quantity corresponding to a content of elemental Zn in the oil of 0.1 wt %, with the ratio of the quantity of elemental Zn in the oil to the quantity of elemental Mg in the oil adjusted to 0.67. In addition, as other additives, the sulfur-phosphorus based (S—P) package was added in a quantity of 7.1 wt %, forming oil sample A with a 40° C. dynamic viscosity of 30 mm2/s.
For oil sample A, the friction width measured using the aforementioned wear-resistance evaluation method was found to be 0.74 mm.
Oil sample B with a 40° C. dynamic viscosity of 30 mm2/s was prepared in the same way as in Example 1, except that the magnesium sulfonate was added in a quantity corresponding to a quantity of elemental Mg in the oil of 0.3 wt %, and the zinc dithiophosphate was added in a quantity corresponding to a quantity of elemental Zn in the oil of 0.2 wt %, with the ratio of elemental Zn to elemental Mg in the oil being 0.67.
For oil sample B, the friction width measured using the aforementioned wear-resistance evaluation method was found to be 0.80 mm.
Oil sample C with a 40° C. dynamic viscosity of 30 mm2/s was prepared in the same way as in Application Example 1, except that the magnesium sulfonate was added in a quantity corresponding to a quantity of elemental Mg in the oil of 0.3 wt %, and the zinc dithiophosphate was added in a quantity corresponding to a quantity of elemental Zn in the oil of 0.1 wt %, with the ratio of elemental Zn to elemental Mg in the oil being 0.33.
For oil sample C, the friction width measured using the aforementioned wear-resistance evaluation method was found to be 0.80 mm.
Comparative Example 1-1
A commercially available oil for a manual speed-change gear with a 40° C. dynamic viscosity of 76 mm2/s (with the ratio of elemental Zn to elemental Ca in the oil being 5.00) was used in said wear-resistance evaluation test, and the results indicated a friction width of 0.83 mm.
A low-viscosity refined mineral oil was used to prepare oil sample (a) with a 40° C. dynamic viscosity of 30 mm2/s. The ratio of the quantity of elemental Zn in the oil to the quantity of elemental Ca in the oil was the same as that of the commercially available oil used in Comparative Example 1-1, that is, 5.00. The friction width of oil sample (a) measured using the wear-resistance evaluation method was found to be 1.05 mm.
Comparative Examples 2-1 through 2-6
With said refined mineral oil used as the base oil, magnesium sulfonate and zinc dithiophosphate were added in the quantities listed in Table 1, and, as other additives, an S—P-based package corresponding to GL-4 was added in a quantity of 7.1 wt % to obtain oil samples (b)-(g).
For samples A-C as well as the commercially available oil and oil samples (a)-(g), the properties as well as the wear resistance determined using said wear-resistance evaluation method are listed in Table 1.
From the results of the friction width listed in Table 1, significant effects can be displayed for the oil samples prepared with a low 40° C. dynamic viscosity of 30 mm2/s, corresponding to an excellent effect in increasing the mileage, with the quantity of elemental Mg in the oil at a prescribed value, and with the ratio of the quantity of elemental Zn in the oil to the quantity of elemental Mg in the oil in the prescribed range of 0.2-1. Example 1 was compared with Comparative Examples 2 and 3 with the same quantity of elemental Mg. In Example 1, the ratio of the quantity of elemental Zn in the oil to the quantity of elemental Mg in the oil is 0.67, that is, within the aforementioned prescribed range. On the other hand, in Comparative Examples 2 and 3, the ratio of the quantity of elemental Zn in the oil to the quantity of elemental Mg in the oil is 1.33, that is, outside the aforementioned range, and the wear resistance is much worse.
The lubricant composition for a manual speed-change gear of the present invention with the aforementioned constitution can be used not only as a lubricant for an automobile driving system consisting of a manual transmission (MT), but also for a manual transmission axle (MTX) in transfer, a differential (Dif.), etc. Consequently, it can be used as a common lubricant for said MT, MTX and differential for FF cars, etc.
Example Comparative Example
1 2 3 1-1 1-2(2) 2-1 2-2 2-3 2-4 2-5 2-6
Oil Sample A B C (1) a b c d e f g
Quantity of elemental Mg in the oil 0.15 0.30 0.30 0.016(3) 0.016(3) 0.15 0 0.15 0 0.30 0
(derived from Mg sulfonate) wt %
Quantity of elemental Zn in the oil 0.10 0.20 0.10 0.08 0.08 0 0.10 0.20 0 0 0.20
(derived from ZnDTP) wt %
Quantity of elemental Zn in the 0.67 0.67 0.33 5.00 5.00 — — 1.33 — — —
oil/quantity of elemental Mg in the
Dynamic viscosity 30 30 30 76 30 30 30 30 30 30 30
Friction width 0.74 0.81 0.80 0.83 1.05 1.00 1.00 0.85 1.03 0.85 0.88
(1)Commercially available oil for a manual speed-change gear
(2)Oil sample prepared using a low-viscosity base oil
(3)Quantity of elemental Ca (derived from Ca sulfonate)
The lubricant composition for a manual speed-change gear of the present invention contributes to protection of the environment since it is an environmentally friendly lubricant by realizing low viscosity. Also, it can be used as a high-quality lubricant for an automobile driving system, such as a manual transmission, manual transmission axle, etc. Consequently, it greatly contributes to the petroleum and automobile industries with regard to manufacture and application.
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Webinar Series: Anti-Blackness and Transformative Organizing in the Time of COVID-19
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Monday June 8 | 1:00pm ET | 12:00pm CT | 11:00am MT | 10:00am PT
In Funders Together’s commitment to racial equity, we shared that, in partnership with philanthropy that is committed to preventing and ending homelessness, we would “commit to learning more about the systemic racism and anti-black, anti-native, and other forms of violence and oppression that is our nation’s history and our present so that we can educate ourselves and our members about how this results in disproportionate homelessness among people of color.”
We are excited to deepen our own knowledge and learn alongside our members in this two-part webinar series on white dominant culture, anti-blackness, and transformative organizing. Through this webinar series, we hope funders will deepen their understanding of how we can shift the way we work in our organizations to create more equitable grantmaking practices that will benefit our grantee partners and people of color experiencing homelessness.
During this webinar series, participants will learn how white dominant culture shows up in our organizations and grapple with how to pivot to new ways of working and being. We’ll engage with concepts like principled struggle and liberation and further our knowledge about how anti-blackness, racial capitalism, and transformative organizing can bring us further into the discourse on the four levels of racism: internal, interpersonal, institutional, and structural.
Develop a deeper understanding of key terms, concepts and definitions that are critical to racial equity, liberation, transformation, the Black radical tradition and white dominant culture.
Do a deep dive of knowledge and context around white dominant culture practices and how they show up in organizational practices and how to identify anti-blackness when it comes up in our organizational practices
Reflect on how to connect these learnings to your grantmaking organization and work to prevent and end homelessness
Content in this webinar is designed for funders who have already begun their racial equity journey and who have a solid understanding of key racial equity concepts, including: equity (v. equality); internal, interpersonal, institutional, and structural racism; implicit bias; and white privilege. If you are at the beginning of your racial equity journey or feel like you do not have a solid grasp of these concepts, please reach out to Stephanie Chan, Director of Membership and Programs, to discuss what kind of learning opportunities might be more appropriate for you.
Webinar Dates & Times
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Trainer Bios
Jonathan Lykes, Executive Director, Liberation House
Jonathan Lykes is a Black queer artist, activist and academic. His interdisciplinary approach to art, activism and anti-oppression work, merges policy change, artistic expression and activism. Combining these forms of social transformation—and harnessing their synergy—Jonathan works to create awareness, promote personal healing, surmount institutional barriers and generate systemic change. Jonathan’s current position as Founder/Executive Director of Liberation House, situates him to merge his multidisciplinary artistic background with public policy reform, community engagement and systems change work to teach liberation praxis by pushing the revolutionary edge of radical transformative movement work. Lykes is also a founding member of Black Youth Project 100 (BYP100), a movement of young adults using a Black Queer Feminist lens to advocate for community and institutional change. Jonathan is also the curator of BYP100’s freedom song and chant album, The Black Joy Experience, helping to teach holistic energy through the Black radical tradition. He earned his bachelor’s degree from the University of Chicago, where he also received his master’s degree from the School for Social Service Administration.
Tashira Halyard, Consultant, Liberation House
Tashira led the Alliance for Racial Equity in Child Welfare, a coalition of child welfare stakeholders dedicated to eliminating racial disparities and improving outcomes for children and families of color in the child welfare system; facilitate workgroups, webinars and convenings with stakeholders focused on equity and improved outcomes; produce data analysis, written reports and campaigns highlighting the pressing issues facing families and children of color involved with public systems; co-lead CSSP's Race Equity Team charged with leading the organizations efforts to becoming anti-racist. Tashira also worked as the deputy director for Homeless Children’s Playtime Project, where she led a team of program managers who supervised trauma-informed play programs at temporary housing programs in Washington, DC; she also served as a thought partner with the Executive Director in executing organizational operations, fundraising, advocacy, community relations and hiring and spoke publicly about family homelessness at DC Council hearings, partner meetings, advocacy events and HCPP trainings. Tashira received her J.D. from Georgetown University.
Please note: Participation in our programming is limited to private funders, including foundations, United Ways, corporate giving programs, individual philanthropists, and philanthropy serving organizations (PSOs). You do not have to be a member of Funders Together to participate in this call. If you have questions about your eligibility to register, please contact Stephanie Chan(opens in new tab), Director of Membership and Programs at Funders Together to End Homelessness.
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EP Reviews 2020
EP Review – Oh God, I’ve Never Felt This Low by To Kill Achilles (Arising Empire)
23/10/2020 23/10/2020 Brendan 'Unholydarklotus' Fisher 21:36, Arising Empire, Beautiful Mourning, Dundee metal, Emotional Metal, hardcore, I’ve Never Felt This Low, Mark Tindal, Metalcore, New Metal, New Music, Oh God, Oh God I’ve Never Felt This Low, Post, Post Hardcore, To Kill Achilles, Venom
Scottish post hardcore/metalcore band, To Kill Achilles released a new EP called Oh God, I’ve Never Felt This Low on the 16th October via Arising Empire.
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Album Reviews 2020
Album Review: Empress – Premonition (Petrichor)
02/10/2020 10/09/2020 Carl 'The Disc' Fisher Album Review, Empress, Petrichor, Post, Premonition, Sludge
Adding a progressive touch to their monumental sludge sound Empress manage to succeed in creating a quite unique blend of their own. Premonition will be out on October 9th 2020.
Album Review: Kite – irradiance (Argonauta Records)
22/04/2020 21/04/2020 Carl 'The Disc' Fisher Album Review, Argonauta Records, Doom, irradiance, Kite, Post, Sludge
First coming to our attention in 2018 with their great EP ‘All Penetrating Silence’, Norwegian post-metal/sludge band Kite are now back with their brand new album, irradiance. Out now via Argonauta Records.
Album Review: Chrome Ghost – The Diving Bell (Seeing Red Records)
16/03/2020 07/03/2020 Carl 'The Disc' Fisher Album Review, Albums, Albums 2020, Chrome Ghost, Doom, Metal, Post, Seeing Red Records, Sludge, The Diving Bell
With a sound that can transition from doom to shoegaze, ethereal folk, or crushing sludge, The Diving Bell will make an impression. The new album from Chrome Ghost will be released on March 27th 2020 via Seeing Red Records.
Album Review: Hubris – Metempsychosis (Art As Catharsis Records)
05/03/2020 21/02/2020 Carl 'The Disc' Fisher Album Review, Albums, Albums 2020, Art As Catharsis Records, Hubris, Instrumental, Instrumental Rock, Metempsychosis, Post, Post-Rock, Rock
Formed in 2014, the instrumental quartet of Hubris is characterised by their original style which blends an experimental touch of post-rock, electronica atmosphere and some elements of the metal scene. Metempsychosis is out on March 13th 2020 via Art As Catharsis Records.
Album Review: Dystopian Future Movies – Inviolate (Lasairfhíona Records)
26/02/2020 06/02/2020 Carl 'The Disc' Fisher Album Review, Albums, Albums 2020, Dystopian Future Movies, heavy metal, Inviolate, Lasairfhíona Records, Metal, Post, Post-Metal, Post-Rock, Rock
Dystopian Future Movies’ second album entitled ‘Inviolate’ will be available on Vinyl, CD and digitally. ‘Inviolate’ will be the first release on Caroline Cawley’s new label, Lasairfhíona Records.
Album Review: The Osedax – Meridians (Self Released)
13/01/2020 10/01/2020 Carl 'The Disc' Fisher Album Review, Albums, Albums 2020, heavy metal, Meridians, Metal, Post, Post-Metal, Self-Released, Sludge, Sludge Metal, The Osedax
The Osedax are named after a bone-burrowing deep sea worm and their music is similarly infectious as it worms its way into your system. Now on their third major release, Meridians, the group push their blend of atmospheric sludge/doom/post-metal to new heights. Meridians will be released on January 17th 2020.
Album Review: The Shaking Sensations – How Are We To Fight The Blight? (Pelagic Records)
27/09/2019 26/09/2019 Carl 'The Disc' Fisher Album Review, Albums, Albums 2019, How Are We to Fight the Blight?, Pelagic Records, Post, Post-Rock, Rock, The Shaking Sensations
The Shaking Sensations have expanded the classic post-rock constellation by addition of a second drummer, allowing the band to develop a unique approach to the rhythm section and a fresh and unconventional take on instrumental rock music. How Are We To Fight The Blight? is released on the 4th October 2019 through Pelagic Records.
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Traditional and Folk Dances of Bihar
Folk Dances of Bihar: Jat-Jatin/Image Credit: Our Jaipur
Folk dances are an integral part of Bihar's culture. These folk dances not only reflect the appreciation for life by Bihari people but also celebrates the problems and struggles of one's life.
Following are the popular folk dances of Bihar
Bidesia
Bidesia is a form of dance drama which holds a unique position in the heart and minds of Bihari people, especially of Bhojpuri region. The dance drama is generally played around the themes of social evils like child marriage, dowry system, child labor and others. Bidesia is generally performed by male artists. Even roles of women are played by men folks.
Fagua
Holi is a well-known festival of Hindus across the country and the world. In Bihar, Holi is celebrated with lots of colors, songs in Dhamar style and distinct style of dance, Fagua.
Jat-Jatin Dance
Jat-Jatin Dance is weaved around the story of two lovers, Jat and Jatin, who faced many challenges from the society to stay together. Sometimes stories of mundane life and social problems are integrated into the dance drama in order to raise awareness about these topics. However, the central theme remains the same, i.e., love and struggles of Jat and Jatin.
Jhijian
Jhijian (or Jijya) is a community dance performed in order to please Lord Indra for a good rain. Jhijian dancers are accompanied by a singer, a harmonium player, a bansuri player and a dholak player.
Jumari
Jumari is a popular folk dance in Mithianchal region of Bihar. It is similar to Garba of Gujarat and only performed by married women. It signifies good omen and generally performed after the month of Ashwin (September-October).
Kajari
Kajari dance is a popular folk dance of Bihar. It is performed during the month of Shravan to mark the start of monsoon season.
Paika
Paika is a war dance of Bihar. It is characterized by rigorous dance movements and loud drumming sounds. The performers use swords and shields during this dance and showcase their skill to use them. In ancient times, it is performed by villages for light entertainment and as a preparation for war.
Sam Chakeva
Sam Chakeva is another folk dance drama from the Maithili region of the Bihar. It depicts the story of Sama and Chakeva, children of Lord Krishna. According to the mythological story, Sama was wrongly accused of misdoings and consequently cursed by her father, Lord Krishna. But, love and sacrifice of her brother, Chakeva, changed the heart of Lord Krishna, and Sama regained her humane form. The dance is usually performed during Kartik month.
Sohar-Khilouna
Sohar-Khilouna is usually performed to mark the arrival of a new one in the family. During the ceremony, women sing, dance and bless the newborn.
Other popular traditional and folk dance forms of Bihar are Domkach, Dhangar, and Bakho Nach.
Also Read: Folk Dances of India
Arts and Culture Bihar Dances
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Neighbouring States of Himachal Pradesh
Neighbouring States of Himachal Pradesh/Source:Wikimedia
On the eastern sides, the districts of Kinnaur and Lahaul-Spiti forms the international boundary of Himachal Pradesh (India) with Tibet (China). The total length of Indo-Tibet (Indo-China) boundary is 345 km.
On the northern side, Chamba and Lahaul-Spiti forms the inter-state boundary with Ladakh and Jammu region of Jammu and Kashmir.
On the western side, Chamba, Kangra, Una, Bilaspur and Solan forms the Himachal Pradesh boundaries with Punjab.
On the southern side, Nahan (Sirmaur) makes the state boundary with Haryana and on the south-eastern side, Shimla, Sirmaur and Kinnaur makes up the state boundaries with Uttrakhand.
Interestingly, near Paonta Sahib (Sirmaur), Himachal Pradesh forms a short boundary with Uttar Pradesh. At this point, it forms the tri-junction of Uttarakhand, Uttar Pradesh and Himachal Pradesh. Similarly at few kilometers north, a tri-junction of Haryana, Himachal Pradesh and Uttar Pradesh can be located.
Neighbouring Districts of Himachali Districts
Kinnaur: Lahaul-Spiti, Kullu and Shimla
Sirmaur: Shimla and Solan
Lahaul-Spiti: Chamba, Kangra, Kullu and Kinnaur
Chamba: Kangra and Lahaul-Spiti
Kangra: Chamba, Lahaul-Spiti, Kullu, Mandi, Hamirpur and Una
Shimla: Solan, Sirmaur, Mandi, Kullu and and Kinnaur
Mandi: Kullu, Kangra, Hamirpur, Bilaspur, Solan and Shimla
Kullu: Lahaul-Spiti, Kangra, Mandi, Shimla and Kinnaur
Hamirpur: Kangra, Mandi, Bilaspur and Una
Bilaspur: Una, Hamirpur, Mandi and Solan
Solan: Bilaspur, Mandi, Shimla and Sirmaur
Una: Bilaspur, Kangra and Hamirpur
Geography Himachal Pradesh
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Keller Family History
This ancient German descriptive or occupation surname denoted the man who in medieval times was responsible for the stores and provisions in a castle or noble house or even monastery. The root is actually Latin: cellarius, and was ?Germanized? during the medieval period to ?kellaere?. Such men were of great importance in the Middle Ages, and several of the name became high status families. Variants which became distinct modern surnames are Kellner and Kellermann.
The surname may also be Irish, an abbreviated form of Kelleher, or English, a medieval occupational name (kellere) denoting a maker of caps. However, the majority so named would be from the German origin.
The name appears early: we find one ?Cuonradus dictus (known as) der Keller?, a.k.a. as Cuonradus Cellarius (AD 1268, Basel Records). Hermann Kelre is named as the progenitor of a noble family at Hagnau Burg in 1294.
The surname was found early in Schwaben (Shwabia), concentrated in Baden-Wuerttemburg and Rheinland-Pfalz in South West Germany, spreading northward to Nieder Sachsen. It is the 56th most common surname in Germany, with approximately 41, 590 bearers.
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Helen Adams Keller (1880-1968) born in Alabama, political activist, social reformer and lecturer. She was deafblind from the age of 19 months, probably through meningitis; but that didn?t prevent her from being the first deafblind person to gain an academic degree, nor to prevent her from becoming a leading member of the Socialist Party of America and the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) through which she campaigned for women?s suffrage, labor rights and freedom of association.
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December 17, 2015 | By Alex Wawro
"We were literally putting kitchen foil from supermarkets over windows, to get the best lighting conditions possible. It was an exciting time because it was all new, and everyone wanted to be the next one figuring something cool out. But it was also a really frustrating, pull-your-hair-out time."
- Former Rare designer Gavin Price remembers the early days of Kinect game development.
When Microsoft launched the Kinect Xbox 360 peripheral in 2010, many felt it was a breath of fresh air for the industry: in a few months Kinect surpassed 10 million units sold, and so did Kinect-enabled games.
Less than four years later, Microsoft began removing the second edition of Kinect from the Xbox One consoles it was bundled with, leaving some Kinect game developers feeling hung out to dry.
Now, developers may appreciate that Eurogamer recently spoke to a posse of designers who'd worked at Kinect Sports maker Rare as the company shifted focus to making Kinect games. They found that while many were disappointed by Kinect's rise and fall, they didn't blame Microsoft for moving away from the technology.
"It was people in Rare's management at the time who said: 'Well, Kinect is a great opportunity for the studio - go all in on it," former Rare designer Gavin Price told Eurogamer. "Every company makes mistakes...everybody likes to create this narrative that Microsoft are evil, but that's not the case."
Elsewhere in the feature Price and other ex-Rare devs noted that Rare poured resources into making Kinect games, rather than continuing to make the traditional 3D games (think: Banjo Kazooie: Nuts & Bolts, Viva Pinata) the studio was known for.
"I think because we'd not made a massive hit for Microsoft like we had before they bought us, people at Rare and Microsoft saw this as a chance for Rare to do something big and own an audience, a key part of Microsoft's business," said Price. "But the result was we couldn't work on the kinds of game we'd traditionally worked on, because there was such pressure to deliver a fantastic Kinect game, to inspire other developers."
For more details on the trials and triumphs Rare experienced in trying to make great Kinect games, check out the full feature over on Eurogamer.
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What Is Financial Imperialism? Looting Greece
By Dr. Jack Rasmus
Global Research, August 24, 2018
Theme: Global Economy
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This month, August 2018, marks the ‘end’ of the 3rd debt bailout of Greece, 2015-18. If one were to believe the European and US press, Greece has now recovered and emerged from the bailout and its now nearly decade-long debt crisis, and the depression it created. But that conclusion couldn’t be further from the truth.
Greece has only now exchanged one set of creditors for another. In the first bailout in 2010 it was mostly the private banks of Europe to which it was indebted. In the second bailout, the pan-European state institutions (sometimes called the Troika: (European Commission, European Central Bank, International Monetary Fund) stepped in and provided loans for Greece to bailout its private creditors. In fact, Greece never saw the money. The Troika paid off the private investors and in effect transferred their debt to Troika balance sheets. Greece had to make even larger payments–this time to the Troika. The Troika then paid off the banks. (German Institute studies show that 95% of all the payments on debt by Greece to the Troika eventually were redistributed by the Troika to the northern European banks). The Troika thus served as the ‘middleman’ bill collector for the bankers.
The Eurozone’s double dip recession of 2011-13 exacerbated Greece’s debt still further, requiring it to borrow even more in 2015-18 to pay the Troika debt in incurred in 2012-15 (that was incurred to pay the 2010 private debt). So Greece was further indebted in 2015-18 to finance and pay for the debt in incurred in 2012 to pay for the debt it incurred in 2010. Each time a new debt deal was agreed to, the debt was in effect ‘rolled over’. Whether paid through the Troika or directly, the payments always end up in the private Euro banks.
Now the press ‘spin’ is that Greece is emerging from this raising new debt to pay for past debt. But not so. All that’s changed is that Greece can now borrow (i.e. more debt) from private investors once again, as it had before 2012. This time, it will borrow from the private sector (bond speculators, hedge funds, other vulture capitalists) in order to pay off the Troika for past debt.
How does Greece pay the interest on the debt? From austerity imposed on its citizens, especially workers, small businesses, the poor. The Greek state and the Greek central bank (a mere appendage of the European Central Bank under the Euro) collect the surplus managed by the Greek-Syriza government (from tax hikes, pension cuts, wage cuts, sale of national industries–i.e. austerity). The Greek central bankers then make the interest payments on the debt from loans from the Troika (who pay the bankers). Now Greece can continue paying the Troika and bankers indirectly, while it borrows anew from private investors once again and pays them interest on the new debt as well.
Nothing changes for the austerity measures. Austerity remains. Greek unemployment still remains at depression levels at 19.5% Employment levels are still 17.5% below pre-depression period highs. Greek wages continue to stagnate: Skilled workers’ wages have been cut 35%, unskilled cut 31%, and minimum wages reduced by 22%. Pensions continue to be cut and age eligibility to collect a pension raised by 10 years. Taxes have been raised on workers and small businesses alike. It’s still austerity by another name. And they call it recovery! The only change is who is the bill collector? The Troika? The new private lenders? Both? The answer is now both. The Troika moves to the sidelines and let’s the private vulture investors once again step in to loan Greece money (to pay the Troika and their Euro banks), while the vultures once again charge interest on top of the new debt they extend to Greece.
In my 2016 book, ‘Looting Greece: A New Financial Imperialism Emerges’, Clarity Press, I described this new form of exploitation on a national scale, in which State institutions and apparatuses now play in the 21st century an increasing direct role in extracting surplus and value from workers and small business classes on behalf of the big capitalist banks. This is a form of imperialism different from pre-20th century and early 20th century explanations (influenced heavily by Lenin and Hilferding). In the concluding chapter the historical evolution of imperialism from 19th to 21st century are discussed, and the various debates. Greece is the microcosm case example of the new form.
This article was originally published on the author’s blog site: Jack Rasmus.
Dr. Jack Rasmus is a frequent contributor to Global Research.
Title: Looting Greece: A New Financial Imperialism Emerges
Author: Jack Rasmus
Publisher: Clarity Press (October 15, 2016)
Copyright © Dr. Jack Rasmus, Global Research, 2018
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Myanmar launches Unicode standard to expedite e-government plan»
A ceremony to launch the nationwide migration of Unicode standard is opened by State Counsellor Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, Union Minister for Union Government Office U Min Thu, Union Minister for Transport and Communications U Thant Sin Maung and officials in Nay Pyi Taw yesterday. Photo: MNA
State Counsellor Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, patron of the e-Government Steering Committee, delivered an address at the official launching ceremony of Myanmar Unicode migration yesterday morning.
First, the Project K Group sang the Myanmar Unicode theme song after which the Myanmar Unicode migration process video was screened.
The inauguration of Myanmar Unicode migration took place with the slogan of ‘Let’s Migrate All Together to Myanmar Unicode Standard System’ which were written on the screens of tablets for the individual words ‘Myanmar’ by State Counsellor Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, ‘Unicode’ by Union Minister for Transport and Communications U Thant Sin Maung, ‘Standard System’ by Member of National Standard Council Member and Deputy Minister for Education U Win Maw Tun, ‘All’ by Union Minister for Union Government Office U Min Thu, ‘All Together’ by Member of Myanmar Language Commission Dr Myint Kyi, ‘Migration’ by Myanmar Computer Federation Chairman U Min Zeyar Hlaing, and ‘Let’s’ by Patron of Myanmar Computer Federation U Thein Oo. in Myanmar language on LED board.
They simultaneously touched ‘send’ for these words to announce the official migration of Unicode font system on the background LED board.
In her opening remarks, State Counsellor Daw Aung San Suu Kyi who is also Patron of the e-Government Steering Committee said that the inauguration of Myanmar Unicode was an essential step to support the e-government programme for the development of the country.
The e-Government was a system that conveyed the messages of departments to the public electronically. It was important to use a common standard communication system and language among the government ministries and its departments, inter-departments, the government and business companies, the government and public, inter-business companies, the business companies and the public and among the public. The use of Unicode standard system is an important stage under the e-Governance Master Plan.
If an order of government was written in Unicode, other non-Unicode (for example—Zawgyi font) cannot read it. Moreover, if someone used online banking to send money in non-Unicode fonts, the bank’s system would not read the font properly as it uses Unicode. Therefore, it was very important to have a common font system which would help for a wider use in online applications such as online shopping, mobile money and mobile health, as well as e-visa, e-passport and e-ticketing.
Myanmar has seen a 12-point increase in e-Government Development Index from level 169 in 2016 to 157 in 2018.
The State Counsellor said that the reason for this significant surge included setting up over 40,000 kilometer of internet fiber cable from 2016 to 2018, building 15,000 mobile telecom stations and over 50 million mobile phone users. However, Myanmar still lagged behind neighbouring countries due to lesser use of services from online applications among the people who lack skills and knowledge in these technologies.
She added that one more fundamental reason was that Myanmar hesitated to use Unicode at the national level, while the neighbouring countries have embraced this system, with Cambodia being the latest in 2010.
There were many advantages of the Unicode system. It meets international norms and Myanmar language writing system. The National Standard Council has approved the Unicode system with MMS ISO/IEC 10646:2017 on 21 September 2019. Everybody who knew the Myanmar language writing system could use the Unicode.
Although there were still some difficulties in writing Unicode, the languages of Myanmar ethnic people such as Kachin, Kayah, Kayin, Chin, Mon, Rakhine and Shan could be used in this system. She said that the system was named as Unicode and the font was called Pyidaungsu.
Another advantage was that the Unicode was developed in an international norm, and that it could be translated into other languages by using the Google translate software. The handwriting form could be turned into printing font system in personal assistant devices such as computers, mobile phones tablets and iPAD. The voice message could be converted into text message by using G-Board of Google when someone found it difficult to write.
For these reasons, people were urged to use the Unicode standard system. Every change would have some challenges at the initial stage. The relevant ministries and experts from the Myanmar Computer Federation were trying to overcome these issues. Telecom companies and mobile phone producers and importers have participated to solve these issues. Artistes and celebrities were helping in the Unicode campaign.
The State Counsellor also said all the difficulties could be solved in unity. If every computer user and mobile phone user followed the Unicode system in accordance with the expectation of e-Government Master Plan, then the communication system and services among the government, business firms and public would surely improve.
She finally reiterated all-inclusiveness to follow the Unicode font system.
The campaign video clip of the State Counsellor was then screened at the event.
Next, the State Counsellor and the Union Ministers posed for documentary photos together with the attendees before they looked around the Myanmar Unicode Migration booths displayed by telecom companies on the ground floor of MICC II.
State Counsellor Daw Aung San Suu Kyi looks around the Myanmar Unicode Migration booths displayed at the launching ceremony of Myanmar Unicode Migration in Nay Pyi Taw yesterday. Photo: MNA
The second session of the event was continued the explanation of Deputy Minister U Thant Sin Maung about implementation of e-Government and he also urged for using Myanmar Unicode across the country.
Chairman of Myanmar Computer Federation U Min Zeya Hlaing expressed thanks to the attendees and its Vice Chairman Dr Tun Thura Thet talked about the future plan for Union Migration.
Union Minister U Thant Sin Maung and the deputy ministers presented certificates to those who participated in the Myanmar Unicode Migration.
The event held at the Myanmar International Convention Center II in Nay Pyi Taw was attended by Union Ministers Lt-Gen Sein Win, Lt-Gen Ye Aung, Dr Pe Myint, U Min Thu, Thura U Aung Ko, Dr Aung Thu, U Thant Sin Maung, U Ohn Win, U Win Khaing, Dr Than Myint, Dr Myint Htwe, U Soe Win, U Han Zaw U Ohn Maung, Union Attorney-General U Tun Tun Oo, Union Auditor General U Maw Than, Chairman of Union Civil Service Board U Win Thein, Nay Pyi Taw Council Chairman Dr Myo Aung, Governor of Central Bank of Myanmar U Kyaw Kyaw Maung, deputy ministers, ministers of States/Region governments, Permanent Secretaries, departmental heads, ambassadors of international embassies in Myanmar, the patron of Myanmar Computer Federation, its chairman and responsible persons, chairpersons and officials from the associations of movie, Thabin and music, members of Myanmar Unicode standard drafting committee members of Myanmar Language Commission and invited guests. — MNA (Translated by Aung Khin)
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How RFID solutions improve patient safety and hospital workflow
Author:Lucy
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Pratt Regional Medical Center (PRMC) in the United States will prevent newborns from being kidnapped or accidentally switched by strapping them with RFID tags on their ankles.
Pratt, a 35 bed emergency care hospital, deployed Stanley healthcare's real-time location system (RTLS) and hugs baby security technology in 2018, and integrated them with the existing Cisco Wireless Network to monitor and track the real-time location of newborns.
If the hugs tag is cut or tampered with, the system will alert the nurse. If someone brings a baby near the door at the exit, the door will automatically lock and the alarm will sound. The moms will also receive a wristband that matches the baby to prevent mistakes.
"We want to provide better protection for newborn babies in families so that parents don't have to worry about their safety," said Dustin Newby, head of it at Pratt hospital.
In recent years, RFID technology using wireless communication to identify and track personnel equipment has been widely used in the medical industry. When used in conjunction with RTLS or indoor positioning systems, RFID tags not only enable healthcare workers to track newborns, but also prevent people with Alzheimer's or other cognitive problems from leaving the clinic, said Tim Gee, head of medical connectivity consulting.
"It's a big problem, and it's a huge burden for hospitals."
Hospitals also use RFID tools to measure temperature and monitor hand hygiene to prevent infection. In addition to improving patient safety, this technology can also improve staff efficiency and help hospitals save costs. In addition, RFID technology can manage medical assets, provide real-time information about the location of medical equipment, and improve patient workflow by automating the previous manual management and scheduling procedures.
"The really attractive ROI (return on investment) is to coordinate workflow, track staff and patients, and track events such as surgery to make sure everything goes smoothly."
Tools to enhance Baby Safety
Although baby kidnappings are rare, Pratt hospital updated its baby safety system in 2018 to reassure parents about the safety of their babies.
Brenda Blankenship, a nurse in Pratt's home delivery room, said that hospitals chose Stanley healthcare's RTLS and baby safety software for several reasons. One is that the price is reasonable. The other is that it can track the movement of babies in the delivery room. It can also be extended to track the movement of babies in the whole hospital. Each baby's RFID tag can continuously communicate with the hospital's Wi Fi network.
"We can see the drawing of each baby's position on the computer."
From a technical point of view, the technology of Stanley healthcare provides single sign on function and integrates well with the existing Wi Fi network of the hospital. Pratt hospital has standardized a variety of Cisco products, including access point, wireless controller, mobile service engine (MSE) and RTLS technology, which work in collaboration with Stanley healthcare's aeroscout RTLS software.
Aeroscout is installed in the data center of the hospital, loading maps and other information from Cisco MSE, so that staff can see the baby's location throughout the hospital.
To determine a more precise location for each child in the family delivery room, it staff quadrupled the number of access points on the floor, from four to 16. They also installed devices called "exciters" at each exit to monitor baby tags. If the baby enters within 5 feet, the system will automatically lock the door; if the door at the exit remains open beyond the normal range, the system will give an alarm to the nurse.
Using RFID tags to improve patient workflow
With the deployment of RFID tags and the combination of RTLS, operating room workflow management, mobile communication and cloud computing software, Adventist Health white memorial has shortened the operating room turnover time by 24 to 27 minutes.
The 353 bed hospital, which has six operating rooms, uses the technology to ensure that operations start on time and to reduce waiting times between registration, pre-operative assessment, surgery and post-operative recovery rooms.
Randy Saad, director of perioperative services at the hospital, said: "we have a busy schedule and we have to be efficient."
When patients register for admission, they receive a wristband with an RFID chip. RFID tags communicate with RTLS and workflow software through Wi Fi network every two to three seconds. When patients move, sensors that have been strategically installed in rooms and corridors will detect their location, which allows hospital staff to know the location of patients at any time.
Nurses can view their monitors to evaluate the workflow in real time. Each patient is marked with a different color, and if the patient waits more than 30 minutes for surgery, the color changes.
"If we're behind schedule, we can call another department and ask if they can prepare for the operation, which reduces the pressure on the patients to wait," Saad said
The hospital officially deployed RFID technology in 2012, which can not only send automatic alarms to employees' mobile phones, provide real-time workflow information, but also send the alarm that the recovery room is about to be full or the operating room is in urgent need of cleaning.
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Tags used by asset tracking system support different technologies to transmit data. In addition to RFID, medical providers can deploy tags that use Wi Fi, infrared and even ultrasound.
For example, Covent health, which operates seven hospitals in western Texas and Eastern New Mexico, has deployed Wi Fi and RFID hybrid tags to measure temperature and humidity and track medical devices.
Ubong okpon, manager of Covent's regulatory program, said the company started a pilot of Wi Fi tags with sensors in 2017 at Covent specialist hospital in rabbock, Texas, to monitor the temperature and humidity of refrigerators that store food, vaccines and drugs. The labels also monitor temperature and humidity in various rooms, including the operating room.
Oakpen said Covent's leadership team decided to automate temperature tracking to better meet the requirements set by the Joint Commission, rather than manually checking the temperature daily. After reading the temperature, the tag sends the data to the cloud based clinical software in real time through the wireless network. If the temperature exceeds the set range, the software will inform the hospital staff by email or SMS.
Covent has expanded the pilot project to several other hospitals. Recently, it deployed RFID tags in the emergency department of Covent medical center to track doctors and nurses and test their ability to respond to trauma events.
The health system is also starting to use Wi Fi tags to track medical devices, such as intravenous pumps and virtual patient observation tools. With these, if nurses need an IV pump, they can find it immediately, instead of searching in different departments. This gives nurses more time to take care of patients.
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FLASHBACK: Dumsor has shamed NDC – Akufo-Addo
FLASHBACK: Mahama deserves no credit for fixing dumsor – Bawumia
This story was originally published in 2016
by adomonline. com
Running mate of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia has said that President John Dramani Mahama and the National Democratic Congress (NDC) administration deserve no credit for ‘solving’ the energy crisis, known in local parlance as ‘Dumsor’.
FLASHBACK: I’ll fix 'dumsor' if I win - Akufo-Addo
by classfmonline. com
Flagstaff House hopeful Nana Akufo-Addo has promised to fix the power crisis in the country if he is elected President in the December 7 polls.
According to him, the Mahama-led administration is embarrassed to admit that the power crisis still prevails in spite of the numerous assurances by the President.
US President Trump`s government - Charlotte Osei's dismissal in U.S. Human rights report
"The June ouster of the electoral commission chairperson and the president’s subsequent stacking of the Electoral Commission with persons considered to be biased in favour of the ruling party raised questions about whether the body might be used to stifle voter registration among the opposition’s base."
Source: classfmonline. com - The sacking of a Chairperson of Ghana’s Electoral Commission (EC), Mrs Charlotte Osei as well as the country’s undesirable prison conditions and attacks on journalists have been captured in the 2019 Human Rights Report by the United States of America.
E.T. Mensah may lose Ningo-Prampram seat – Ben Ephson
Source: starrfmonline.co - Pollster Ben Ephson is cautioning the Member of Parliament for Ningo-Prampram, Enoch Teye Mensah, not to be too anxious of defeating his political opponent, Same George, in the National Democratic Congress’ (NDC) upcoming Parliamentary primary scheduled for November 7, 2015.
Sam George claim infuriates E.T. Mensah
Source: Today Newspaper - Member of Parliament (MP) for Ningo-Prampram Constituency, Mr. Enoch Teye Mensah, popularly referred to as Ningo-Prampram ‘Methuselah,’ has stated that “Almighty God should have mercy on one his main contenders, Mr. Samuel George Nartey, for peddling lies about him that he has done little to provide both social and infrastructure amenities in the area.
Nana takes on Mahama over ‘One Touch’
Source: Daily Guide Ghana - Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, the 2016 presidential candidate of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), has heavily descended on President John Dramani Mahama to accord Ghanaians with some measure of intelligence, saying his (Mahama’s) ‘one-touch victory’ refrain is clearly an insult to them.
E.T. Mensah must retire honourably – Sam George
20 years and counting..
Source: kasapafmonline.com - A Presidential Aide, Sam George, is passionately appealing to the incumbent Member of Parliament (MP) for Ningo-Prampram, to retire honourably for the youth of the area to take over the mantle of leadership.
He believes that the continuous stay in office by the incumbent will hamper growth of the area, insisting it was about time for him to bow out for someone like him with new ideas to take over and rebuild the constituency.
NPP will win 2016 election despite current crisis – Afenyo-Markin
Source: TN3network.com - Member of Parliament for Effutu, Alexander Afenyo-Markin, has ruled out assertions that the crisis within the New Patriotic Party would affect the party’s fortune in the 2016 general election.
Trust me - Akufo-Addo appeals to Voltarians - Election 2016
Hannah Tetteh: I’ll embark on effective campaign to win in 2016
Ghanaians will renew our mandate – Veep
Source: Daily Graphic Ghana - Vice President Paa Kwesi Amissah-Arthur says Ghanaians will renew the mandate of the John Mahama-led administration at the 2016 general elections for its good performance.
Paa Kwesi Amissah-Arthur expressed the optimism at the National Democratic Congress (NDC) headquarters in Accra on Thursday where he had gone to pick nominations forms for President John Mahama to contest the party’s flagbearership.
2016 will be one-touch victory for Mahama – Omane Boamah
Source: starrfmonline.com - Communications Minister Dr. Edward Omane Boamah has said President John Mahama will clinch a one-touch victory in the 2016 elections.
According to him, the infrastructural achievement of the government between 2012 and now, will give the President a smooth ride through the elections.
NPP’s 2016 hope on the rocks
Source: The Republic - Some prominent members of the opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP) have issued red-alerts about serious unrest, massive acts of indiscipline and disunity hidden from the public eye, likely to cause the party’s defeat in the 2016 general elections.
I’ll be seeking 7th term in Parliament – Alban Bagbin
Source: The General Telegraph - Majority Leader in Parliament Alban Kingsford Sumana Bagbin has dismissed reports that he would not be seeking re-election in 2016, barely 24 hours after the General Telegraph had quoted sources suggesting that the veteran politician would be joining other experienced legislators who are bowing out of the House.
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Saint Etienne – A Glimpse Of Stocking
Each year, radio stations bombard us with the same lame Christmas tracks, November through Christmas. Today, Rooms with Brittle Views compiled a list of Christmas – Songs To Save Your Sanity, and The Metro wrote an article called It’s beginning to sound a lot like Christmas that discusses how radio stations are playing Christmas songs earlier and earlier each year. But not all is grim.
Saint Etienne have a Fan Club called Lover’s Unite that has released exclusive CDs for over a decade now, and they have always been top quality, and highly collectible as well. But as our beloved band seem to be winding down after all their records received expanded edition reissues, fans wondered if there would be new stunning Fan Club releases. A Glipse of Stocking is that stunning release.
Some labels have put out imaginative and original Christmas compilations for years. Madrid’s Siesta Records have released memorable records for 20 years. In 1997 they released Christmas Single #1 from Free Design, and a year later, Christmas Single #2. In 2002 they released the compilation fantasÍa de navidad. All these releases contained magic, and would be hard to hate, no matter what your taste in music normally sought out. Similarly, Welsh Ramones-channelling all-girl band band Helen Love released the single-sided, etched Merry Christmas I Don’t Wanna Fight 7inch in 2002. But to me, the king of Christmas compilations will always be The World In Winter, a comp put together by Mike Alway for his El Records.
‘The World In Winter’ seemed to get everything right. It was a CD you could listen to, not just play select holiday tracks from. Not to say all “select Holiday tracks from” CDs are bad…. Peter Katis runs Tarquin Records in Greenwich CT. The label is named after his son. Peter plays in The Zambonis, and other bands as well. He put together the Gold Standard as far as Holiday CDs you play a single track or so from, The Tarquin Records All Star Holiday Extravaganza!. Not only does this CD have some AMAZING Christmas songs, such as ‘R2D2 We Wish You A Merry Crhistmas,’ ‘Flexible Flyer’ and ‘Snowflakes,’ but it also covers many other holidays including Groundhog Day (‘I Am The Ground Hog (And It’s My Day)’), Halloween (‘Mischief Day!’ and ‘Halloween’), and others. Check this CD out!
Saint Etienne have made a welcomed entry into this market with A Glimpse Of Stocking. The CD has 15 tracks. ‘Gonna Have A Party’, ‘Welcome Home’, ‘Snowbound On The Southbank’, ‘Fireside Favourite’, ‘No Cure For The Common Christmas’, ‘Wintertime Love’ and ‘Unwrap Me’ are exclusive to this record, the rest were released on long out-of-print Fan Club records from the past.
The CD starts off with the italo disco sounding ‘Gonna Have A Party’, which uses auto-tune on Sarah Cracknell’s voice, which is slightly disconcerting, but works well in the context.
’21st Century Christmas’ has verses sung in a talking style similar to ‘Schoolgirl Psychedelia’ by Fantastic Everlasting Gobstopper, from The World In Winter comp, though the chorus and bridge as smooth-as-silk Saint Etienne butter.
‘Driving Home For Christmas’ incorporates elements of the tune from Wham’s 1984 track Last Christmas in a subtle way, making a song that is both instantly familiar and something new.
‘Welcome Home’ has a familiar Saint Etienne sound. ‘Snowbound On The Southbank’ is a short instrumental with guitar and flute, sounding like a walk at night while it is snowing. ‘My Christmas Prayer’ has Sarah crooning over a programmed drum track in a 50’s reverb style. ‘I Don’t Intend To Spend Christmas Without You’ was also covered by Loveletter (The King Of Luxembourg) on The World Of Winter. ‘Come On Christmas’ sounds like ? & the Mysterians with the music of ‘Louie Louie.’
‘Through The Winter’ has a familiar Saint Etienne sound. ‘I Was Born On Christmas Day’ is a highlight, a disco styled upbeat winner, and a classic Saint Etienne original. ‘I Was Born On Christmas Day’ features guest vocalist, Tim Burgess, of The Charlatans. Saint Etienne band member Bob Stanley was actually born on Christmas Day.
‘Fireside Favourite’ is a short wordless vocal track with accordion. ‘No Cure For The Common Christmas’ is another highlight, a euro-disco sounding Saint Etienne original sharing kin with ‘Like a Motorway,’ and baring more than a passing resemblance to the vocal sound of Sarah Nixey in Luke Haines band Black Box Recorder. ‘Wintertime Love’ is a Doors cover! It has a whimsical sound, and is a very interesting addition to the amazing breadth of Saint Etienne’s discography. ‘Unwrap Me’ is a Saint Etienne original that reminds me of Marilyn Monrow in the breaty sexiness of the vocal. The music has upright bass, brushed drums, piano and a harmonica. The disc closes with ‘Snow,’ a Rany Newman track popularized by Claudine Longet, that is reverent and fantastic in its own right. What a record!
Most Favorite track: 21st Century Christmas
Other faves: Gonna Have A Party, I Was Born On Christmas Day, No Cure For The Common Christmas, Wintertime Love, Unwrap Me, Snow
Gonna Have A Party
Snowbound On The Southbank
My Christmas Prayer
I Don’t Intend To Spend Christmas Without You
Come On Christmas
Through The Winter
I Was Born On Christmas Day
Fireside Favourite
No Cure For The Common Christmas
Wintertime Love
Unwrap Me
This entry was posted in music and tagged christmas music, el records, free design, helen love, mike alway, saint etienne, siesta records, tarquin on October 7, 2011 by carl.
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This city of boats, bridges and balloons is full of colourful things to see and do.
Much on-the-water action can be found near the city centre, on the Floating Harbour. You can visit Brunel's SS Great Britain, and find out what travel was like for those brave passengers journeying to New York on its maiden voyage in 1845 - then a 14-day trip. You can explore The Matthew onboard a cream tea cruise, a replica of the wooden ship John Cabot sailed to North America in 1497. Or you can take a chilled-out cruise to Beese’s Tea Gardens with Bristol Packet Boat Trips.
You’ll also want to stroll across Clifton Suspension Bridge. One of Victorian engineer Isambard Kingdom Brunel’s most striking works, it straddles the dramatic Avon Gorge. Pop into the Visitor Centre, then potter around the boutiques in Clifton Village or spend the rest of the day at Bristol Zoo Gardens.
Visit during the season and you might spot bright balloons flying overhead from Ashton Court. Bailey Balloons and Bristol Balloons both do balloon rides if you want to see the city from up high. Or go to the International Balloon Fiesta in August and watch a dazzling display of shapes and colours take to the sky - with your feet firmly on the ground.
For an alternative experience - it is an alternative city, after all - there’s Arnos Vale, an Arcadian cemetery offering tours, talks and more. Glenside Hospital Museum, a mental health museum in a hospital chapel. And We The Curious, a thought-provoking science centre with a 3D view onto the stars from its planetarium.
You could also blow your own glass bauble at the Bristol Blue Glass shop. Step aboard the last Concorde ever to fly (capable of crossing the Atlantic in 3 hours) at Aerospace Bristol. Or take a tandem ride to see the city’s famous street art with Bristol Tandem Hire.
For more things to see and do in Bristol, see our listings below.
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Berkeley Castle is considered by many as a hidden gem; it was built in 1153 by the Berkeley family, who still live there. Over the centuries it has changed from a foreboding fortress to a welcoming family home.
Sulis Guides
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Sulis Guides is a highly regarded guiding company, based in the beautiful city of Bath for over thirty years.
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Visit Bristol Cathedral as part of your trip along the Great West Way.
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The Matthew
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In 1497 John Cabot set sail from Bristol to find a new trade route to Asia. Instead, he arrived in Newfoundland and therefore became the original discoverer of North America. To celebrate the quincentenary of this voyage, a replica Matthew was built…
Bailey Balloons
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Clive and Jo Bailey at Bailey Balloons would love to share their passion for ballooning with you and have special offers on their balloon rides over Bristol.
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Brunel's SS Great Britain
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Step aboard the ocean liner that defined an era of modern cruise ships and visit two award-winning museums to discover Victorian innovation and Brunel’s impact on the world.
Bristol Packet Boat Trips
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Enjoy harbour tours and river trips with Bristol Packet Boat Trips with public timetabled trips and private hire available.
Bristol Tandem Hire
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Operating from the centre of Bristol, Bristol Tandem Hire specialise in hiring high spec British made tandems for you to discover the lively cities of Bristol and Bath or further afield. Whether you have experience of riding a tandem or not, they…
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Discover the heights of Somerset's famous Cheddar Gorge
Cheddar Gorge is one of England's most iconic and spectacular landscapes. We are really proud to own the north side of this spectacular gorge and we hope that you will enjoy exploring it in a…
Aldwick Estate - Vineyard Tours and Tastings
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Led by a knowledgeable guide, the tour commences in the venue barns with a presentation, followed by a vineyard walking tour, and concluding with a tasting session.
Tours last approximately 90 minutes, depending on group size.
Clifton Suspension Bridge Visitor Centre
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Clifton Suspension Bridge Visitor Centre tells the story of the 'ornament of Bristol' and the people who built, maintain and treasure it. Explore the turbulent history of the ‘first love’ of famous British engineer Isambard Kingdom Brunel through an…
University of Bristol Botanic Garden
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Stoke Bishop, Bristol
The University of Bristol Botanic Garden cultivates some 4,500 plant species from over 200 plant families within its five-acre site. This diversity of plants is unique and not found anywhere else in the Bristol area.
Special collections at the…
Bristol Nordic Walking
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We’re an experienced and vibrant walking company leading scenic walks in and around Bristol and Bath.
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Take a day outside of Bristol and spend a day with the Big Zoo Animals at Noah’s Ark Zoo Farm home to Rhinos, Tigers, Lions and Giraffes and now Elephants.
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Avon Valley Adventure and Wildlife Park is a perfect family day out whatever the weather.
Avon Valley is a place to meet animals of all shapes and sizes, including Shetland Ponies, Pigs, Goats, Donkeys, Rabbits, Snakes, Alpaca, Wallabies, Red &…
Guthrie Road, Clifton, Bristol, BS8 3HA
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Clifton, Bristol
A visit to Bristol Zoo Gardens is an adventure into an exciting animal kingdom, all set within 12 acres of beautiful gardens. Get up close to more than 400 species of exotic, endangered and adorable animals from the four corners of the globe, whilst…
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Delphi Private Day Tour
Apollo Temple, Oracle.
Delphi private day tour... visit Apollo temple, oracle, stadium, museum, Athena tholos... drive via Levadia, Arachova, Mount Parnassus. Delphi tour -Greece Taxi
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Delphi private tour visits Orchomenos, Levadia Krya Springs, Apollo Temple and Oracle, Athena Pronaia Sanctuary... Orchomenos was a very important Boeotian city and was particularly prosperous in Mycenaean times. It is referred to by Homer, Strabo and Pausanias as one of the strongest centers of the heroic past, with legendary wealth.
Greece taxi visits the impressive tholos tomb of Minyas, dated to about 1250 BC. The tholos tomb, which was excavated by H. Schliemann in 1880-81, rose above ground level. It had a long dromos which is no longer preserved, a deep doorway with a lintel weighing many tons, a circular burial chamber 14m. in diameter and a small side room, the ceiling of which is formed of stone slabs decorated with relief spirals, rosettes and papyrus flowers. The tomb was robbed in ancient times. Inside the tholos a statue base and a base for an altar were found dating from the 3rd century BC.
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Delphi private tour, drives through the fertile plain of Boeotia, driving by the town of Thebes. Proceed to Levadia, a busy town and an important junction in the road network. Also an industrial center where its textile mills treat the cotton grown in the Copais valley. The upper town is graced by white houses with jutting wooden balconies dating from the 18th C. We'll stop for a drink by the beautiful river Karya over the spot where the water springs out. In ancient times, Karya was said to be the location of the Oracle of Trofonios Zeus which included the springs of Mnemosyne (Remembrance) and the spring of Lethe (oblivion). The oracle was used as a stage before visiting the oracle of Delphi and as such, through the times, it acquired great power and riches.
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Delphi private tour drives via Arachova, 9km from Delphi. A traditional mountain village on the slopes of Mount Parnassus (the 5th highest mountain of Greece), the picturesque mountain village of Arachova, (is a winter resort for skiers) is built on the south slopes of Parnassus (940m/3084ft). The main narrow street winds its way between taverns and workshops. In the taverns one can savor a dish of soft fried cheese (formaela) The workshops sell shoulder bags, carpets and long haired rugs (flokati) in bright colors.
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Delphi private tour soon arrives at Delphi the center of the Ancient world - the "Ompfalos" Navel of the Earth - whose prestige extended far beyond the boundaries of the Hellenic world, where in a landscape of unparalleled beauty and majesty, lie the ruins of the Sanctuary of Apollo Pythios. Visit the Treasury of the Athenians, the Temple of Apollo and the Museum containing masterpieces of ancient Greek sculpture such as the bronze Charioteer and the famous athlete Aghias
The temple of Apollo, the most important building in the sanctuary of Apollo at Delphi, dominates the temenos from its central position. Apollo's sacred precinct in Delphi was a panhellenic sanctuary, where every four years, starting in 586 BC athletes from all over the Greek world competed in the Pythian Games, one of the four panhellenic games. The victors at Delphi were presented with a laurel crown (stephanos) which was ceremonially cut from a tree by a boy who re-enacted the slaying of the Python. Delphi was set apart from the other games sites because it hosted the mousikos agon, musical competitions.
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Delphi private tour visit Castalia spring and the Sanctuary of Athena Pronaea. The most important buildings in it are the goddess's two temples, dating from the 5th and 4th c. and the Tholos, which was built about 380BC. A jewel of the famous Tholos of Delphi is a work by Theodorus of Phocaea in Athena Pronaia’s sanctuary.
The Tholos at the sanctuary of Athena Pronoia ("Athena of forethought") is a circular building that was constructed between 380 and 360 BC. It consisted of 20 Doric columns arranged with an exterior diameter of 14.76 meters, with 10 Corinthian columns in the interior.
The Tholos is located approximately a half a mile (800 m) from the main ruins at Delphi. Three of the Doric columns have been restored, making it the most popular site at Delphi for tourists to take photographs. Vitruvius (vii, introduction) notes Theodorus of Samos as the architect of the Round Building which is at Delphi.
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A Definitive Ranking Of Disney Sidekicks
By Lauren Duca and Jessica Goodman
Inspired by the fact that Olaf was such an excellent character in "Frozen," we got to thinking about the magic of Disney sidekicks. Following a common trope of being slightly flawed but fiercely loyal, they all contribute to the overarching message of friendship in their own unique way. So, with great reverence for the hard work of these less-recognized partners in crime, we bring you a definitive ranking of Disney's best sidekicks:
17. The Gargoyles, "The Hunchback Of Notre Dame"
Victor, Hugo and Laverne stole scenes as the trio of gargoyles with three distinct personalities. Victor speaks in a divine British accent and helps Quasimodo make decisions; Hugo becomes mischievous but also pushes Quasi to be the best hunchback he can be; Laverne is smart, supportive and maternal, even to those damn pigeons that follow her around.
16. Meeko & Flit, "Pocahontas"
Depicted as a clever raccoon, Meeko is often outwitted by Flit, a dainty but intelligent hummingbird. Although they don't necessarily like each other very much (or consistently get along), in true Disney sidekick form, they always pull it together to help out.
15. Gus, "Cinderella"
To be clear, the Fairy Godmother counts as a maternal figure here rather than a sidekick. While he's tiny and feels tertiary to the whole lose-shoe-marry-prince narrative, along with Jaq and the other mice, Gus plays crucial role in getting Cinderella to the ball. It also doesn't hurt that he is the most adorable animated rodent we've ever seen (Mickey included).
14. Mushu, "Mulan
Mulan's guardian and protector, Mushu, is a haughty red dragon voiced by Eddie Murphy. After a series of humiliating events, Mushu goes through his own transformation all while having Mulan's back. He rejects his selfish past and tries to use his impulsive (read: sassy) nature for good.
13. Piglet, "Winnie The Pooh"
Is there an animated sidekick more adorable than Piglet? We're going to say a hard no. Pink and loyal, Piglet always tries to conquer his fears to help the group through exciting adventures. He's often the unsung hero of "Winnie The Pooh" and only in "Piglet's Big Movie" does he ask for recognition.
12. Baloo, "Jungle Book"
Baloo the sloth bear is cuddly and popular, turned into the ultimate chill bro for the "Jungle Book" film. He's protective of Mowgli and is his father figure, willing to fight Shere Khan just to keep him safe.
11. White Rabbit, "Alice In Wonderland"
No one in Wonderland is sane, but the White Rabbit seems to be the character with the most know-how, even if he's a total stress ball. He's always worried about tardiness and believes the Queen will kill him if he loses track of time. The rabbit's role in the twisted story can be seen as Alice's antagonist but also as her guide.
10. Thumper, "Bambi"
How would our mothers even began to think about teaching us the basics of morality without the Thumper Rule? Overall, Bambi is pretty heavy for a children's film, but Thumper brings us plenty of comic relief (or whatever the "cuteness" version of that is).
9. All Seven of The Seven Dwarves, "Snow White And The Seven Dwarves"
If we have to pick one, it's a tie between Dopey and Grumpy, but the dwarves are an ensemble! All seven totally count, and wouldn't be nearly as great on their own. Even Snow White is sweet and all, but would be pretty boring without her seven pals (who, fun fact, are rumored to represent the stages of cocaine addiction).
8. Olaf, "Frozen"
Olaf can easily count himself among the logical inconsistencies of "Frozen," -- is creating life one of Elsa's powers and why does she suddenly have so much control over them? -- but obviously he is still completely delightful. Not knowing he would melt in the summer? That's the real Disney magic, folks. (Also, Josh Gad is fantastic.)
7. Tinkerbell, "Peter Pan"
Despite literally being a pixie, Tinkerbell doesn't quite fit the Manic Pixie Dream Girl trope, but she's certainly spunky enough to qualify. Most notably, she is one of the only major female Disney characters that is not also a princess or villain. And sure, she's a little malicious and unpredictable, but we're all for complexly developed 2D characters.
6. Sebastian & Flounder, "The Little Mermaid"
Flounder is Ariel's biggest ally under the sea and though he's a little anxiety-prone, he will always be around for the little mermaid. Perched on Flounder's back, Sebastian is more level-headed and attention-grabby. He's the musical center of the film franchise and knows all the secrets of the ocean. Ariel could have done a LOT worse when it comes to best friends.
5. Cogsworth & Lumière, "Beauty & The Beast"
Cogsworth and Lumière are basically the odd-couple of inanimate objects. Since such a large portion of the movie is spent with the beast being a beast, we get to know them pretty well, as they invite Belle to be their guest. Runners Up: Chip and Mrs. Potts
4. Dory, "Finding Nemo"
Voiced by Ellen DeGeneres, Dory is Nemo's likable ocean companion, with some bomb catch phrases. "Just keep swimming" is the best motto in any sticky situation, and "bad squishy!" is the only way we know how to address jellyfish these days. She'll be back in 2016 with her own feature, "Finding Dory," but until then we'll be trying to speak whale.
3. Timon & Pumba, "The Lion King"
Nathan Lane's Timon is the star here, but what's any funny guy without his goofy foil of a straight man. Together they form one of the best sets of unlikely animal pals and, of course, we have to thank them for "Hakuna Matata."
2. Jiminy Cricket, "Pinocchio"
Jiminy Cricket is the official conscience of the movie, and Pinocchio's moral compass. As one of the oldest sidekicks in the Disney universe, all the other supporting roles on this list have taken little bits and pieces from the well-dressed talking cricket. He's loyal, can be a little aggressive -- no sidekick can be perfect! -- and is territorial of Pinocchio. Plus, he's a chivalrous gentleman.
1. Genie, "Aladdin"
Based on the indexes of loyalty and comic relief, Robin Williams' genie is easily the best animated sidekick in or out of the Disney universe. Despite technically being a slave to his "itty bitty living space" (aka magic bottle), he's got a really great attitude about granting Aladdin those three wishes in anticipation of freedom.
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Rand Paul ABDUCTED Female Student While In College, Tried To Force Her To 'Take Bong Hits,' GQ Article Alleges
By Sam Stein
Updated below...
Just when the weird anecdotes involving Kentucky Republican Rand Paul appeared to have been exhausted, GQ published a profile of the Tea Party favorite that included a bizarre, colorful and decidedly sketchy episode from his college years.
The strangest episode of Paul's time at Baylor occurred one afternoon in 1983 ... when he and a [brother in his liberal secret society] paid a visit to a female student who was one of Paul's teammates on the Baylor swim team. According to this woman, who requested anonymity because of her current job as a clinical psychologist, "He and Randy came to my house, they knocked on my door, and then they blindfolded me, tied me up, and put me in their car. They took me to their apartment and tried to force me to take bong hits. They'd been smoking pot." After the woman refused to smoke with them, Paul and his friend put her back in their car and drove to the countryside outside of Waco, where they stopped near a creek. "They told me their god was 'Aqua Buddha' and that I needed to bow down and worship him," the woman recalls. "They blindfolded me and made me bow down to 'Aqua Buddha' in the creek. I had to say, 'I worship you Aqua Buddha, I worship you.' At Baylor, there were people actively going around trying to save you and we had to go to chapel, so worshiping idols was a big no-no."
The story is almost too bizarre to digest in full -- from the blindfolded, pot-infused kidnapping to the weird worship of the Aqua Buddha deity. And, in that respect, it's important to note that it was delivered via anonymous attribution.
Paul's campaign has not yet responded to requests for comment, telling GQ merely that "During his time at Baylor, Dr. Paul competed on the swim team and was an active member of Young Conservatives of Texas."
But there is an important thread to be drawn between the candidate's Baylor years and his current run for office. Both then and now, Paul showed something akin to an abject disdain for the establishment. His involvement in a secretive society that was targeted by school authorities; his instigation of various pranks around campus (digging up a time capsule, for one) seem echoed -- to a certain extent -- in the anti-government libertarian philosophy that has defined his Senate campaign.
UPDATE: The Paul campaign responds with a statement from spokesman Jesse Benton that ignores post-John Edwards scandal media realities: "National Enquirer type stories about Dr. Paul's teenage years should be left to the tabloids where they belong."
UPDATE II: As Ben Smith notes, the Paul campaign still has yet to deny the charges, but is now threatening to sue. "We are investigating all our options - including Legal ones," Paul aide Jesse Benton emailed Smith. "We will not tolerate drive by Journalism by a writer with a leftist agenda."
“We’ve vetted, researched, and exhaustively fact-checked Jason Zengerle’s reporting on Rand Paul’s college days, we stand by the story, and we gave the Paul campaign every opportunity to refute it," GQ Editor-in-Chief Jim Nelson responded. "We notice that they have not, in fact, refuted it.”
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Aishwarya Rai and Abhishek Bachchan celebrate 10-year wedding anniversary
April 20, 2017 - 15:13 BST Sharnaz Shahid Aishwarya Rai's husband Abhishek Bachchan took to Twitter to post a heartfelt message as he marked the couple's milestone
Happy anniversary to Aishwarya Rai and Abhishek Bachchan! The Bollywood couple, who are proud parents to four-year-old daughter Aaradhya, are celebrating ten blissful years of married life. Abhishek, 41, took to his Twitter page on Thursday to post a heartfelt message, which read: "And just like that... It's been 10 years! Thank you all for the wishes for Aishwarya and I. Lots of love." The stars tied the knot in a lavish wedding ceremony in 2007, forging the ultimate power couple in Indian cinema.
Aishwarya Rai and Abhishek Bachchan are celebrating ten years of married life
STORY: Aishwarya Rai calls her beautiful daughter a 'blessing'
Filmmaker Karan Johar congratulated the couple, tweeting: "Congratulations @juniorbachchan on 10 beautiful years...how time flies! Still remember the sangeet performances!!! #AishwaryaRaiBachchan." Bride and Prejudice actress Aishwarya exchanged vows with Abhishek after two years of dating. Speaking about wedded life with his beautiful wife, the handsome actor previously told Vogue India that he feels "very blessed".
The Bollywood couple are proud parents to four-year-old daughter Aaradhya
STORY: Aishwarya Rai 'never leaves' her daughter
"As a man, nothing gives me more pleasure than, well, my wife," he confessed. "No, seriously, as a man, nothing gives me more pleasure than putting my wife in front of me and seeing her be celebrated. Whether she receives the Padma Shri or goes to Cannes, the most amazing thing I can do is be supportive." He added: "It feels like we've spent our entire lives together, but it's still a thrill to wake up and see her lying next to me." Although the couple both appeared in Bollywood films Dhai Akshar Prem Ke and Kuch Naa Kaho in the early noughties, it wasn't until they worked together on the set of Dhoom 2 that they fell in love. Aishwarya previously said of her man: "I love that Abhi is this mix of a well-mannered, chivalrous boy and a knight in shining armour."
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STOLEN LEGACY
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by George G. M. James
The book is an attempt to show that the true authors of Greek Philosophy were not Greeks, but the people of North Africa, commonly called the Egyptians; and the praise and honor falsely given to Greeks for centuries belong to the people of North Africa. Consequently, this theft of the African legacy led to the erroneous world opinion that the African continent has made no contributions to civilizations, and that it's people were naturally backward. This is the basis of race prejudice, which has affected all people of color.
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The Scientific World Journal
The Scientific World Journal / 2014 / Article
AbstractIntroductionMaterials and MethodsResults and DiscussionConclusionsAcknowledgmentsReferencesCopyright
Impacts of Land Use Changes on Soil Properties and Processes
Aizhen Liang, Shenglong Chen, Xiaoping Zhang, Xuewen Chen, "Short-Term Effects of Tillage Practices on Soil Organic Carbon Turnover Assessed by δ13C Abundance in Particle-Size Fractions of Black Soils from Northeast China", The Scientific World Journal, vol. 2014, Article ID 514183, 7 pages, 2014. https://doi.org/10.1155/2014/514183
Short-Term Effects of Tillage Practices on Soil Organic Carbon Turnover Assessed by δ13C Abundance in Particle-Size Fractions of Black Soils from Northeast China
Aizhen Liang ,1 Shenglong Chen ,1,2 Xiaoping Zhang,1 and Xuewen Chen1
1Northeast Institute of Geography and Agroecology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Changchun 130102, China
2University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
Academic Editor: Antonio Paz González
Received03 Apr 2014
Revised25 Jun 2014
Accepted18 Jul 2014
Published05 Aug 2014
The combination of isotope trace technique and SOC fractionation allows a better understanding of SOC dynamics. A five-year tillage experiment consisting of no-tillage (NT) and mouldboard plough (MP) was used to study the changes in particle-size SOC fractions and corresponding δ13C natural abundance to assess SOC turnover in the 0–20 cm layer of black soils under tillage practices. Compared to the initial level, total SOC tended to be stratified but showed a slight increase in the entire plough layer under short-term NT. MP had no significant impacts on SOC at any depth. Because of significant increases in coarse particulate organic carbon (POC) and decreases in fine POC, total POC did not remarkably decrease under NT and MP. A distinct increase in silt plus clay OC occurred in NT plots, but not in MP plots. However, the δ13C abundances of both coarse and fine POC increased, while those of silt plus clay OC remained almost the same under NT. The C derived from C3 plants was mainly associated with fine particles and much less with coarse particles. These results suggested that short-term NT and MP preferentially enhanced the turnover of POC, which was considerably faster than that of silt plus clay OC.
In the past few years physical fractionation has played an important role in studying soil organic carbon (SOC) pool and its turnover under different land uses and management systems [1]. The stable C isotope trace technique is increasingly used to study the dynamics of SOC and the influences of agricultural managements on SOC turnover [2, 3]. However, SOC dynamics is so complex that it is hard to tell how SOC pool responds to changes in land uses and soil managements if only total SOC is measured. Thus, a combination of stable C isotope trace technique and SOC fractionation can be used to explore the mechanism of C dynamics and quantify the accumulation of newly added SOC in different SOC fractions [4]. Piao et al. [5] found that in forest soils, the δ13C values of SOC in light fractions were significantly lower than in heavy fractions, indicating that crop residues were first incorporated into the light fractions. The SOC in the light fraction or coarse particles was labile and sensitive to changes of soil managements [5, 6]. However, Magid et al. [7] found that labile SOC fractions were distributed in all-sized or all-density particles. Yonekura et al. [8] also found that when forest was converted to grassland, all soil organic matter fractions in the surface layer exhibited fast turnover based on natural abundance of δ13C.
Long-term intensive agricultural management could greatly reduce SOC level [9]. Also, it is well documented that conservation tillage could enhance C protection, increase SOC levels [10–13], and convert agricultural soils from C sources to C sinks, thereby removing significant amounts of CO2 from the atmosphere [14]. However, the effect of conservation tillage on SOC storage is sometimes contradictory [15, 16], especially for short-term (≤10 years) effect of conservation tillage. It varies with soil conditions, such as soil texture, climate, and biomass return, as well as management itself, and is difficult to be generalized [10, 17]. Hence, the studies on short-term impacts of tillage systems on SOC have to be verified in different soil conditions.
Northeast China is an important agriculture region, mainly due to the production of soybean and maize. Black soil (Typic Hapludoll, US Soil Taxonomy) dominates this region and mainly occurs in Liaoning, Jilin, and Heilongjiang provinces. Since 1940s and 1950s, large-scale cultivation and improper management have resulted in a significant decline of soil fertility, and present SOC content is less than one-half of the initial content before cultivation [18]. Hence, it is essential to find out an appropriate tillage system which can enhance the SOC level, while maintaining or improving local crop production. The objectives of this study were to analyze the dynamics of particle-size SOC fractions and to explore SOC turnover using δ13C natural abundances under short-term tillage practices in black soils of Northeast China.
2.1. Study Site
The tillage study was started in the fall of 2011 at the Experimental Station (44° 12′ N, 125° 33′ E) of Northeast Institute of Geography and Agroecology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, in Dehui, Jilin Province, China. The study site is located in the North Temperate Zone with a continental monsoon climate. Mean annual temperature is 4.4°C, and mean annual precipitation is 520.3 mm, with more than 70% occurring from June to August [18]. The soil was classified as a black soil, following the Chinese Soil Classification System, equivalent to a Typic Hapludoll in the Soil Taxonomy. This soil was clay loam textured, with an average of 36% clay, 24% silt, and 40% sand. Before the experiment started, the soil bulk density was 1.24–1.38 g cm−3. The total SOC and nitrogen (N) contents were 15.5 g kg−1 and 1.31 g kg−1, respectively. The slope of the experimental plots is less than 1°. The land had been used for continuous corn production under conventional tillage for many years (≥20 years) prior to 2001 [19].
2.2. Tillage Experiment
A tillage experiment, consisting of two treatments, mouldboard plough (MP) and no tillage (NT), was established in a randomized complete block design with four replicates. Each tillage plot was split into two subplots (5.2 m × 20 m) which were under corn-soybean rotation with both crops present each year. The MP included fall mouldboard ploughing (about 20 cm deep) after corn harvest, spring disking (7.5 to 10 cm deep), and field cultivation. The NT soils had no soil disturbance except for crop planting using a KINZE-3000 NT planter (Williamsburg, Iowa). All the crop residues were returned to the soil surface. Each year, 100 kg ha−1 N was applied to corn as starter fertilizer and 50 kg ha−1 N as top dressing at the V-6 growth stage, respectively. In addition, 45.5 kg ha−1 P and 78 kg ha−1 K were also added to corn as starter fertilizers. For soybean, all fertilizers were applied as starter fertilizer, including 40 kg ha−1 N, 60 kg ha−1 P, and 80 kg ha−1 K. The starter fertilizers for all plots were applied concurrently during the planting phase.
2.3. Soil Sampling and Measurements
Composite soil samples (7 subsamples per plot) were collected down to a depth of 20 cm after harvest (corn phase) in 2001 and 2006. The samples were taken using a hand auger (2.64 cm diameter) which allowed separation of each soil core into three segments (0–5, 5–10, and 10–20 cm) without soil compaction. Soil samples were gently broken and air-dried. Visibly identifiable crop residues were manually removed for SOC and SOC fractions measurements.
The silt plus clay (<20 m) SOC was measured as described by Liang et al. [20]. 25 g dry soil was placed in a 250 mL beaker and 125 mL distilled water was added. The soil suspension was mixed and allowed to settle at room temperature overnight. Then, the suspension was dispersed for 10 min with an ultrasonic probe (JY92 and 24 kHz, Xinzhi, Ningbo) with an energy input of 480 J mL−1. The dispersed soil suspension was transferred to a 1 L glass cylinder, and the cylinder was capped and shaken end over end to thoroughly homogenize the soil water suspension. Silt plus clay fraction and clay fraction were collected by siphoning the suspension based on Stokes’ law. The collected solid fractions were oven-dried at 60°C and then ground for SOC analysis. Silt OC content was calculated by the silt plus clay OC minus clay OC.
Soil particulate organic carbon (POC, 53–2000 m) was measured according to the method of Carter et al. [21]. 20 g soil sample passing through 2 mm sieve was put into a plastic vial and 100 mL 5 g L−1 sodium hexametaphosphate solution was added. The sample was shaken for 2 h for dispersion. The dispersed suspension was passed through a set of 250 and 53 m sieves from top to bottom. Distilled water was used to rinse soil particles on the sieves. Soil fractions retained on the sieves were collected and oven-dried at 60°C and then ground for SOC analysis. The POC in the >250 m size was defined as coarse POC, and POC in the 53–250 m size was fine POC.
All soil samples were free of carbonate, and hence SOC content was assumed to be equal to total C content. The total SOC and SOC fractions were determined using a FlashEA1112 elemental analyzer (ThermoFinnigan, Italy). Soil subsamples of 20–40 mg and plant samples (including natural plant and corn residues) were ground and passed through a 100-mesh sieve and then were used to measure the δ13C abundances of SOC by an isotope ration mass spectrograph (MAT252, Finnigan, USA).
The proportion of C derived from corn was calculated using [22] where stands for the proportion of corn-derived C in the sample, δ for the measured δ13C values in corn fields, for the δ13C of the corresponding sample from corn field as C3 reference soil, and for the δ13C values of corn plant (about −12).
Turnover time of SOC was calculated according to [22] where stands for the rate constant of the first-order decay, for the year of sampling (2006), for the year of vegetation change, for the remaining proportion of C3–C at the time of sampling (%), and for the proportion of C3–C at (100%).
Least significant difference (LSD) between means was calculated to examine the effects of tillage practices on SOC in each fraction. The procedure was performed using SAS 9.1 (SAS Institute, Cary, NC, USA). Statistical significance was determined at .
3.1. Total and Particle-Size Soil Organic Carbon under NT and MP
Five-year NT resulted in no substantial changes (1.2%) in total SOC in top 0–20 cm soil compared to the initial level. However, there were significant increases (9.9%) in total SOC at 0–5 cm depth (), despite a lack of noticeable differences at 5–20 cm depths after 5-year NT. MP had no significant effects on total SOC contents in the entire plough layer (). This difference was likely not a result from the difference in biomass inputs [23], but rather it resulted from retention of carbon from crop residue on the soil surface of the NT plots whereas it was incorporated into the soil in the MP plots.
Over five years, NT and MP significantly affected both fine and coarse POC (, Figures 1(a) and 1(b)). Due to significant and opposite influences of tillage treatments on fine and coarse POC, total POC contents had no distinct changes (Figure 1(c)). There were significant increases in coarse POC under NT and MP () which could be attributed to the annual input of organic materials. The NT decreased fine POC, which was different from the result of Pikul et al. [24]. We considered that our experimental study was conducted for a short period (only five years) which was not sufficient for crop residue decomposition and subsequent C association with finer soil particles. Collectively, these results suggested that SOC in coarse particle was more sensitive to the conversion of tillage systems.
Particulate organic carbon (POC) in 0–20 cm layer of black soil under no tillage (NT) and mouldboard plough (MP). Bars indicate standard error. Different lowercase letters above the column indicate significant differences at .
Under NT and MP treatments, silt plus clay OC and clay OC in the plough layers both showed an increasing trend over the five-year period (Figures 2(a) and 2(b)). Compared to data in 2001, the NT treatment significantly increased 7.9% and 39.7% SOC in these two size fractions (). These results indicated that short-term NT decreased silt OC, whereas clay OC played an important role in the total increase in silt plus clay OC. The reason was that the retention of crop residues above the soil surface and no disturbance under NT reduced the loss of silt plus clay OC. The MP only increased silt plus clay OC by 4.5% (). Similar to NT plots, there were significant increases in clay OC in the MP plots by 30.0% on average (). However, the concurrent decrease in silt OC and the increase in clay OC suggested that SOC in each fraction probably was translocated by splash erosion of rainfall or was transferred between fine and coarse particles [25]. The increase in silt plus clay OC under MP might be due to the breakdown of macroaggregates into microaggregates by tillage practice and incorporation of crop residues into soils which increased the input of organic materials. Also, undecomposed crop residues to some extent prevented soil from splash erosion. Hence, there were increases in silt plus clay OC in MP plots, but the increases were less than those in NT plots under greater protection of crop residues on the surface.
Soil organic carbon in <20 m particles of the 0–20 cm layer under tillage practices.
3.2. δ13C Abundances in Organic Carbon Fractions under NT and MP
At 0–20 cm depths the δ13C abundances (−19.9 and −21.1) of SOC in both fine and coarse fractions were lower than those of corn plants (−12.0) (Table 1). This was because the study site was conducted under corn-soybean rotation system; soybean residues (C3) were returned into soils in addition to corn residues (C4). Neither NT nor MP significantly affected the δ13C values of SOC fractions (Table 1). Gregorich and Janzen [26] reported that the changes in δ13C values of SOC with depths could approximately reflect the characters of SOC decomposition. In the present study, the δ13C values of SOC in each size fraction decreased with depths under NT and MP treatments (Table 1), which could be related to the decreasing input of C4 plants from top to subsurface soils. Average δ13C values of POC in the coarse and fine fractions in 0–20 cm layers were −20.3 and −19.4 in the NT plots, respectively, slightly greater than that of silt plus clay OC (−21.0). Similar results were found in MP plots.
Treatments δ 13C ( ) (%) (%) C4–C (g kg−1) C3–C (g kg−1)
0–10 cm
Coarse POC NT −19.8 32.2 67.8 0.48 0.83
MP −20.2 32.1 67.9 0.27 0.58
Fine POC NT −19.3 40.8 59.2 0.32 0.47
Silt plus clay OC NT −21.1 27.4 72.6 4.00 10.6
MP −21.1 27.2 72.8 4.10 11.0
10–20 cm
δ 13C abundances, C3–C and C4–C fractions in the plough layer of Black soil under no tillage (NT) and mouldboard plough (MP) in 2006.
Factors affecting the δ13C values include plant (plant types and water use efficiency of plant), soil (total SOC, SOC fractions, soil depths, and soil moisture), landform, and fertilization [27]. In this study, soil was the primary factor affecting δ13C values at the experimental site because of the same plant, landform, and fertilization. In NT plots higher soil moisture [28, 29] resulted in lower δ13C values of SOC in each fraction than in MP plots. It was due to the return of crop residues each year. Certainly the inputs and decomposition of organic materials were different between the NT and MP plots. Without fall ploughing, crop residues returned to the field significantly increased SOC concentration at 0–5 cm depth under NT [19]. We therefore hypothesized that in our present study δ13C values of SOC in each fraction under NT were lower than under MP. However, the experimental result was not exactly consistent with the above hypothesis. Neither NT nor MP practice significantly affected δ13C values of SOC fractions, despite the existence of differences (Table 1). In 0–20 cm layers, the δ13C values of coarse and fine POC were both slightly greater in NT plots (−20.3 and −19.4) than in MP plots (−20.5 and −19.5), whereas the δ13C values of silt plus clay OC were almost the same under two tillage treatments. Above results might be due to other soil conditions. Walley et al. [30] reported that NT increased soil water supplement and water use efficiency of plants. The higher the water use efficiency is, the higher the δ13C values are [31]. In our case, crops with higher abundances of δ13C were returned and then increased soil δ13C values. Thus, the δ13C values of coarse and fine POC at 0–20 cm depth were greater under NT than under MP. Additionally, the interactions among relevant factors might affect the δ13C values. Collectively, the above results suggested that short-term impacts of tillage practices on SOC were shown in the coarse fractions, with no substantial changes in fine particles.
3.3. Plant Sources of Soil Organic Carbon under NT and MP
In NT soils C3–C and C4–C concentrations in coarse POC fraction significantly decreased (), and the former was greater than the latter (Table 1). The C3–C and C4–C concentrations in fine POC showed the same variation trend, though the changes were not significant (). In MP soils, C3–C and C4–C concentrations of POC in the fine and coarse fractions had no noticeable decreases at two depths. These different effects were attributed to the enrichment of organic materials on soil surface under NT treatment in contrast to the incorporation of returned crop residues into soils and thus even distribution of organic materials inputs in plough layers under MP.
There were no significant differences in C3–C and C4–C concentrations in each SOC fraction between the NT and MP treatments () (Table 1). The NT only increased C3–C and C4–C concentrations in coarse POC at 0–10 cm depth. In other SOC fractions, both C3–C and C4–C concentrations were lower in NT soils than in MP soils, which could be attributed to the stratification of SOC in soil profiles under NT. In addition, the result indicated that the sensitive response of SOC to tillage conversion could be shown in the coarse fraction. There were no significant differences in the proportions of C3–C and C4–C between the NT and MP treatments (, Table 1). Short-term NT practice thus could not significantly affect the C source of SOC fractions, even POC. Regardless of the tillage practices (NT and MP), C derived from C3 plants was mainly distributed in the fine-size fractions (Table 1). That is, the turnover of SOC was faster in the coarse-size fraction than in fine-size fraction, which is in agreement with studies of Yonekura et al. [8] and Yamashita et al. [22].
3.4. Turnover Rates of Soil Organic Carbon under NT and MP
The silt plus clay OC represented not only the majority of the total SOC, but also the SOC fraction with the longest apparent turnover time under NT and MP practices (Figure 3). The turnover time of POC in the NT and MP soils was more than 200 years, far longer than the results previously reported by Cambardella and Elliott [32] that the turnover time of POC ranged from 5 to 20 years in cultivated grassland soils. The reason might be that after cultivation of virgin black soils, soybean (C3 crop) residues provided an extra source of organic matter input in addition to corn-derived C (C4 crop). It might also be due to a certain amount of black C in POC [33]. The mean turnover time indicated faster turnover of SOC in coarse fraction than that in fine fraction. We suggested that short-term NT did not significantly affect the turnover time of SOC. The turnover time of SOC was even longer in MP plots because of the incorporation of returned crop residues into soils.
Concentrations of C3–C and C4–C in different fractions and the mean turnover time of C under tillage practices.
Five years of no tillage tended to stratify total SOC concentration in the plough layer (0–20 cm) on the studied clay loam soil of Northeast China. Soil management using no tillage on this fine-textured and poor-drained black soil might not sequester more SOC than conventional tillage. No tillage had great impacts on fine and coarse POC, though the total POC did not significantly increase. Compared with mouldboard plough, no tillage remarkably increased silt plus clay OC in the plough layer. Both no tillage and mouldboard plough did not significantly affect δ13C value in each SOC fraction, despite the occurrence of certain changes. The δ13C values of coarse and fine POC under no tillage treatment were greater than those under mouldboard plough, but there were almost no changes in δ13C values of silt plus clay OC between these two treatments. Thus, the short-term impact of no tillage was firstly shown in the coarse-size fractions (POC). The distribution of C3–C mainly in fine particles (silt plus clay) indicated that the turnover of SOC in coarse-size fraction was faster under tillage practices. Further study is needed to verify the long-term effects of tillage practices on SOC turnover and distribution in different size fractions.
This research was supported by the Key Deployment Program of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (no. KZZD-EW-TZ-16-02), the National Natural Science Foundation of China (no. 31170483), and the Foundation of Excellent Young Talents in Northeast Institute of Geography and Agroecology, Chinese Academy of Sciences (no. DLSYQ12003).
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1. Genomics is the study of:
a. The structure and function of mutations and how they alter genetic traits.
b. Genes and the DNA sequences between genes and how they determine development.
c. The information provided by computer programs which analyzes mRNA.
d. The human genome as compared to other vertebrate genomes.
2. Microarrays are a very useful tool in genomics because they:
a. Help scientists examine intergenetic DNA by separating it from genes.
b. Provide a unique promoter region for polymerase chain reactions.
c. Allow scientists to examine thousands of genes all at once.
d. Decrease the time it takes for scientists to make copies of DNA.
3. Generally, every cell in our body contains the same 20,000 (or so) genes. However, cells in our body are different from each other because they:
a. Have different genes turned “on” or “off” to support different functions.
b. Contain different copies of genes for different functions.
c. Provide different nucleotide bases for each developmental function.
d. Function differently based on varying proteomics.
4. How can scientists determine the function of or differences between cell types? They can examine the:
a. Number of nucleotide bases in genes versus intergenetic sequences.
b. Amount of mRNA expressed for each gene in a cell type, and then compare that information between cell types.
c. Amount of mutations between genes in the intergenetic spaces.
d. Number of tRNA copies for a particular cell type.
5. How is a microarray constructed? In each spot, there are:
a. Copies of all the genes for an organism.
b. Multiple copies of one gene; each spot has copies for a different gene.
c. Multiple copies of intergenetic sequences, which bind to genes in the samples.
d. Copies of intergenetic sequences, which promote the replication of DNA in a sample.
6. The experiment that begins in Chapter 3 of the simulation seeks to answer the question:
a. What is the difference between intergenetic spaces in cancer cells versus healthy cells?
b. Why do different cell types express different amounts of mRNA?
c. How do different cancer cells produce different mutations?
d. What is the difference between healthy cells and cancer cells?
7. Why can’t doctors use cell appearance to diagnose cancer?
a. Not all cancer cells look different from healthy cells.
b. Cancer cells are too small to examine using cell appearance.
c. Not all cancer cells are able to be biopsied from the body.
d. Cancer cells change appearance when taken out of the body.
8. In the experiment, a solvent is added to each cell type (healthy cells and cancer cells). After the sample tube containing each cell type is mixed on the vortex, the RNA is separated from the rest of the sample in a centrifuge. Why does DNA settle to the bottom of the tube and RNA doesn’t?
a. RNA is much longer than DNA.
b. RNA is attached to proteins that help it stay in solution.
c. DNA is attached to biomolecules that weigh it down and help it settle to the bottom.
d. DNA is much longer than RNA.
9. What feature does mRNA have that tRNA and rRNA do not? mRNA always:
a. Contains a GABA box.
b. Contains a TATA sequence.
c. Ends with a G tail.
d. Ends with a poly-A tail.
10. How do the beads in the column separate mRNA from all other RNA? The beads contain:
a. Sequences that magnetically separate the mRNA.
b. A glue-like substance derived from spider webs.
c. Poly-T’s.
d. A sequence of uracil’s that bind to the Poly-A tail.
11. After you isolate mRNA, you have to make a DNA copy. Why can’t we just use mRNA?
a. DNA is much more stable than mRNA.
b. We have to add a fluorescent label that will allow us to see the sample.
c. mRNA will eventually transform into tRNA making it unusable.
d. A and B
12. Scientists call hybridization the key to microarrays. Hybridization occurs when:
a. Two complimentary strands of DNA from different sources bind to each other.
b. Poly-A tails bind to Poly-Ts.
c. Different species interbreed and create new DNA base pairings.
d. Two strands of identical DNA bind without using the traditional nucleotide pairs.
13. When you scan the microarray in the scanner, the data show some dark spots. What do these represent?
a. The DNA that has been replicated in healthy cells.
b. The mRNA that was washed away in the washing solution.
c. The DNA that was not transcribed and expressed in healthy cells.
d. The mRNA that was not bound by Oligo-d-tails in the beads.
14. When you scan the microarray in the scanner, some spots are yellow and represent places where the gene was expressed in both healthy and cancer cells. These spots tell us:
a. Where to look for mutations.
b. Where DNA hybridized in cancer cells.
c. That DNA expression didn’t change in these genes when cancer occurred.
d. That the microarray didn’t work in these genes.
15. In our example, gene 6219 mRNA is made in both healthy and cancerous cells; however proteins are only translated from that mRNA in healthy cells. Microarray analysis:
a. Shows us this defect by making yellow spots.
b. Cannot show us this defect, which is a limitation of this type of analysis.
c. Show us this defect by making red spots.
d. Cannot show us this defect, which is a benefit of this type of analysis.
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1) If atmospheric carbon dioxide was eliminated from our atmosphere, we would expect that the
Earth would:
A) cool considerably and photosynthesis would dramatically increase
B) cool considerably and photosynthesis would dramatically decrease
C) heat up considerably and photosynthesis would dramatically increase
D) heat up considerably and photosynthesis would dramatically decrease
2) Which of the following is a correlation that is causing widespread concern?
A) As atmospheric oxygen levels decline, the ozone layer is being destroyed.
B) As atmospheric carbon dioxide levels decline, the ozone layer is being destroyed.
C) As levels of methane decline, average global temperatures are increasing.
D) As levels of carbon dioxide increase, average global temperatures are increasing.
3) Which of the following is part of natural capital but not ecosystem capital?
A) solar energy used to drive photosynthesis throughout the biosphere
B) coal and oil reserves
C) the production of electrical energy from wind turbines and dams
D) the genetic diversity of all plants and animals used in modern agriculture
4) From an ecological economist’s perspective, without sustainability, as economies grow:
A) gross national product grows too
B) natural resources are renewed
C) the natural world is depleted
D) natural ecosystems are replenished
5) Natural capital includes ecosystem capital plus:
A) natural forms of energy, such as solar, wind, and flowing water
B) nonrenewable resources such as fossil fuels
C) money available to invest in growing industry
D) all of the products of photosynthesis in the biosphere
6) The concept of sustainability requires that:
A) economic growth does not exceed the renewal of natural capital
B) all sources of energy used in an economy must come from the sun
C) global economic systems are based on the harvesting of natural products
D) economies use equal portions of land, labor, and capital
7) Uncertain about the best way to keep his new lizard alive, Jerome places a heat lamp at one
end of the long lizard cage. Over several days, Jerome notices that the lizard tends to sit in a
certain place when the lamp is on. The lizard’s selection of a particular place to stay
represents its:
A) range of tolerance
B) temperature optimum
C) biotic conditioning
D) use of a limited resource
8) As global climate change warms certain mountain ranges, the temperature optima for the insect
species living on the mountain is causing these insects to:
A) move higher up the mountain
B) move down the mountain
C) move to a new biome
D) become parasitic
9) Energy is lost as it moves from one trophic level to the next because:
A) one trophic level does not consume the entire trophic level below it
B) some of the calories consumed drive cellular activities and do not add mass
C) some ingested materials are undigested and eliminated
D) All of the above.
10) In general, biomes at higher latitudes are most like:
A) biomes at higher altitudes
B) aquatic biomes
C) biomes at lower altitudes
D) biomes at lower latitudes
11) Biomes with more than 75 centimeters (30 inches) of rain a year and that never experience
freezing temperatures are most likely found:
A) at high altitudes
B) nearest the equator at low altitudes
C) at high altitudes in temperate zones
D) at high altitudes and high latitudes
12) Biomes with permafrost are most likely:
A) covered in coniferous forests at high latitudes
B) in temperate zones with deciduous trees
C) located near the poles and without any trees
D) located at high altitudes nearest the equator
13) Biomes with less than 25 centimeters (10 inches) of rain a year are:
A) high in primary productivity
B) likely to have extremely cold winters
C) covered with coniferous trees
D) deserts
14) Which of the following are current limiting factors for future human population growth?
A) pollution and land for agriculture
B) availability of oxygen and water
C) fossil fuels and carbon dioxide production
D) oxygen levels in the atmosphere and availability of sodium chloride
15) According to demographer Joel Cohen, the human carrying capacity:
A) can be calculated in the same way it is determined for other animal species
B) depends upon a standard of living
C) can clearly be determined
D) largely depends upon the availability of fresh water
16) In a significant 2004 paper reviewing 69 studies on world human population and carrying
capacity, the authors estimated that the sustainable carrying capacity of humans for the
planet is about:
A) 600 million
B) 2.5 billion
C) 7.7 billion
D) 20 billion.
17) According to the UN Population Division and a significant 2004 paper reviewing 69 studies
on world human population and carrying capacity, the world population of humans will exceed
carrying capacity in about the year:
D) 2100
18) Which of the following activities would be consistent with the Millennium Development Goals?
A) help communities build technical and trade schools for boys to learn skills in high
B) develop coal, gold, and silver mines wherever possible as quick sources of jobs
C) provide meals and mosquito nets for every child under the age of five
D) encourage the expansion of national militaries to provide income and technical training
19) If the Millennium Development goal to eradicate extreme poverty and hunger by 2015 is
achieved:
A) almost a billion people will still live in extreme poverty
B) no continent will have more than 10,000 people still hungry
C) fertility rates will decline to those of most European nations
D) the rural population of the world will nearly double
20) Which of the following represents the Millennium Development Goal that is least likely to be
achieved?
A) universal primary education
B) reduced child mortality
C) increased access to clean drinking water
D) decreased maternal childbirth deaths
21) Which of the following affects the greatest number of people in the developing world?
A) water availability
B) lack of primary schools for children
C) inadequate sanitation
D) no childhood immunization for measles
22) A rural farmer most likely obtains drinking water by drilling a deep well to use:
A) gravitational water that has percolated through soil and accumulated as groundwater
B) gravitational water that is retained by the soil and accumulated just above the water
C) capillary water found in surface waters, located above the water table
D) capillary water that has percolated through soil and accumulated below the
23) About 99% of all liquid fresh water on Earth is found in:
A) lakes, including the Great Lakes of North America
B) rivers such as the Amazon, Nile, and Mississippi watersheds
C) underground aquifers
D) the upper few meters of topsoil
24) Which one of the following is fed by groundwater and often drained by seeps or springs?
A) lakes
B) aquifers
C) rivers
D) watersheds
25) In Costa Rica, a heavy downpour provides water that quickly evaporates or is absorbed and
released by the dense vegetation of the tropical rain forest. This is an example of a cycle
using:
A) condensation, evaporation, transpiration, and green water
B) condensation, precipitation, and gravitational water
C) evaporation, gravitational flow, and adiabatic cooling
D) precipitation, gravitational flow, and convection
26) Gutters and storm sewers in a city are most concerned with the:
A) evapotranspiration loop
B) surface runoff loop
C) precipitation loop
D) groundwater loop
27) Which one of the following soil orders is the most typical of drylands and deserts?
A) alfisols
B) oxisols
C) mollisols
D) aridisols
28) A hydric soil is one that:
A) is typical of wetlands and may contain peat
B) is unusually well suited for agriculture
C) is typical of tropical areas that receive abundant rainfall
D) was typical of the U.S. prairie states until the Dust Bowl of the 1930s
29) Which of the following would be best suited for planting crops such as corn or wheat?
A) an irrigated aridisol
B) a fertilized alfisol
C) a plowed oxisol
D) an irrigated gelisol
30) Most plants acquire their minerals from:
A) the recycling of nutrients from detritus
B) the precipitation of minerals from rainfall
C) the weathering of rock
D) dust storms that transport minerals into a region
31) Which of the following would be classified as “soil constraints”?
A) cold climate
B) moderate to heavy rainfall
C) poor drainage, salinity and high levels of aluminum
D) low erosion potential and high levels of phosphorus
32) One of the general concerns about the widespread use of transgenic organisms is the:
A) spread of these transgenic traits to other organisms
B) need to apply more pesticides to crops and plow the soil twice a year
C) reduced yields that result from using bioengineered organisms
D) pressure to bring more land into agricultural production
33) If you live in the United States, chances are that you have consumed some processed food
that includes bioengineered plants:
A) almost every day
B) at most once a month
C) perhaps once a year
D) once in your lifetime
34) Wood pellets are produced from the waste sawdust of lumber and paper mills. Home-heating
stoves burning these pellets can heat homes directly, instead of relying on other energy
sources. Heating your home with wood pellets is:
A) sustainable, less polluting, and more efficient than heating a home using electricity
from a coal-fired power plant
B) sustainable, much more polluting, and is about 30% more efficient than using
electricity from a coal-fired power plant
C) not sustainable but is less polluting and is about as efficient as using electricity from a
D) not sustainable and actually pollutes more than using electricity from a coal-fired
35) Which one of the following energy sources is most likely to lead to thermal pollution?
A) a coal-fired power plant
B) a large field of windmills
C) a hydroelectric plant
D) a large field of solar cells
36) The future use of electricity to power personal transportation largely depends on:
A) more efficient turbogenerators
B) finding more fossil fuel supplies
C) low-cost, lightweight batteries that can store large amounts of power
D) the development of small turbogenerators for automobiles
37) Instead of only generating more electricity, rising energy demands may also be met by:
A) switching from natural gas to coal
B) switching from coal and natural gas to windmills and solar technologies
C) increasing the efficiency of energy consumption
D) using more nuclear power instead of fossil fuels
38) At present, the total number of long-term, commercial, below-ground nuclear waste
depository sites in use in the United States is:
D) over 100
39) One of the major problems associated with long-term, high-level nuclear waste storage is:
A) selecting an environment that will remain stable for more than 10,000 years
B) determining a cost-effective way to shoot waste into space
C) figuring out how to contain the material so that it does not leak into the ocean
D) creating a secure environment to protect the material from terrorists
40) Yucca Mountain in the state of Nevada is:
A) the location of a leaky nuclear power plant that will cost billions of dollars to clean up
B) the only potential site for long-term commercial nuclear waste storage in the United
States, rejected for safety concerns in 2009
C) a military base that has accumulated low-level and high-level nuclear waste for many
D) the site of a lake that received illegal dumping of nuclear waste in the 1960s
41) NIMBY is:
A) a publicly perceived risk of siting a toxic or nuclear waste disposal facility near their
B) the U.S. federal agency that oversees nuclear power facilities
C) a U.N. organization in Geneva that directs the medical use of radioactive isotopes
D) the deciding factor in the approval of theYucca Mountain disposal site in Nevada
42) The Obama administration’s commission on nuclear power waste disposal recommended:
A) the process of site selection should be kept secret from the public
B) a private for-profit corporation should be engaged to choose and construct the facility
C) that the sites should be spread over dozens of freshwater lakes in the northern United
D) there is an immediate need to develop temporary geological storage sites until a
permanent one is located
43) New Generation III nuclear plants such as the AP1000 Advanced Passive Reactor features:
A) a combination of nuclear fusion and fission in a single design
B) a pressurized water system with many new passive safety features to prevent a LOCA
C) a design that uses a mechanical source of X-rays for power
D) designs based on the Fukushima Daiichi plant in Japan
44) In a photovoltaic system, an inverter is required to:
A) directly convert surplus electricity into heat
B) generate electricity from solar energy
C) connect the DC current of the solar panel to the AC current of an electrical grid
D) convert AC from the solar panel into DC of the grid
45) Around the world, photovoltaic technology is quickly being adopted to generate electricity in:
A) large scale commercial power plants and on rooftop home units
B) large scale commercial power plants but not yet on rooftop home units
C) rooftop home units but not large scale commercial power plants
D) small electronic applications such as calculators but not yet on rooftops or in
commercial power plants
46) The most costly aspect of photovoltaic technology is being addressed by:
A) inventing a way to convert alternating current to direct current
B) inventing a way to convert direct current to alternating current
C) finding a way to reduce the damaging effects of the sun on solar panels
D) new technologies that reduce the cost of manufacturing solar cells
47) Solar trough technology converts:
A) the ultraviolet light in sunlight directly into electricity
B) the heat of the sun into steam to drive a turbogenerator
C) sunlight into electricity which then produces steam heat
D) the direct current generated by photovoltaic cells into alternating current
48) Some milk becomes contaminated with mercury. If each of the following people consume 16
ounces of this contaminated milk each day for a month, who will most likely be impacted by
this poison?
A) an 82-year-old woman
B) a fetus inside a mother who drinks this contaminated milk
C) a 12-year-old girl
D) a 51-year-old man
49) A pharmacist asks a mother about a new prescription for an antibiotic, wanting to be sure that
the drug is for the mother. The pharmacist is most likely concerned because:
A) antibiotics do not typically work on children
B) most types of antibiotics prescribed to an adult will likely kill a child
C) a normal dosage for an adult can be toxic to a child
D) a normal child’s dosage may be toxic to an adult
50) You learn that an old friend has died from a disease that resulted from their lifelong exposure
to a substance. This loved one most likely died from:
A) whooping cough
B) a bacterial infection
C) cancer
D) malaria
51) Which of the following contains the greatest number of carcinogens?
A) a thick vanilla milkshake
B) a Twinkie snack
C) chewing tobacco
D) tap water from most cities in the United States
52) You examine an ice core sample from 10,000 years ago when global temperatures were
unusually high. Based upon past studies and insights from current GHG levels, we expect that
atmospheric levels of carbon dioxide:
A) and methane were unusually low
B) and methane were unusually high
C) were high but methane levels were low
D) were low but methane levels were high
53) In his movie, An Inconvenient Truth, Al Gore warns of increasing levels of carbon dioxide in
the atmosphere which suggest that:
A) methane levels will soon rise, destroying the ozone layer
B) global temperatures will also continue to rise
C) the oceans of the world are losing carbon dioxide
D) clouds are thinning and global precipitation is declining
54) Evidence from proxies indicate eight major oscillations in global temperatures over the past
800,000 years, most likely the result of:
A) rising and falling sea levels that greatly impact photosynthetic activity
B) variations in solar activity that produce different levels of radiation
C) Milankovitch cycles of periodic variations in Earth’s orbits around the sun
D) lunar cycles in which the moon orbits at different distances from the Earth
55) In general, temperatures along an ocean coastline vary less than temperatures 100 miles
inland. This moderation of temperatures along coastlines is because:
A) as the oceans evaporate it cools off the coastlines
B) the sun shines more intensely away from the ocean coastlines
C) ocean temperatures change more quickly than air temperatures
D) ocean temperatures do not change as quickly as air temperatures
56) In our world, something with the greatest heat capacity is able to:
A) evaporate the most water from its surface
B) retain its heat the longest
C) insulate the best
D) reflect the greatest amount of sunshine
57) If the sun suddenly stopped shining, where would be the best outdoor location to stay warm
with the least change in ambient temperature?
A) Atlanta, Georgia
B) on a beach in Hawaii
C) Kansas City, Kansas
D) the center of Brazil
58) Which one of the following principles of smart-growth will most likely result in less commuting
for all residents?
A) have states purchase open spaces
B) set physical boundaries on urban sprawl
C) build new homes and stores on existing abandoned or brownfield urban properties
D) promote the integration of homes, stores, light industry, and professional offices
59) According to the U.S. Sprawlometer, the most sprawling and congested area is:
A) New York
B) Los Angeles
C) Greensboro, NC
D) Riverside, CA
60) The Obama administration has moved to combat urban sprawl through the:
A) Clean Air Act
B) Clean Water Act
C) American Recovery and Reinvestment Act
D) ISTEA
61) Over the past 60 years, as people moved from U.S. cities to suburbs, the people that were left
behind in the cities were primarily:
A) older, poor people representing ethnic minorities
B) younger, wealthy people representing ethnic minorities
C) older and wealthy Caucasians
D) younger Caucasians
62) In a large city experiencing urban blight, we would be surprised to find:
A) a declining tax base
B) depreciating real estate
C) improving schools
D) increasing crime
63) The main financial problems for a city experiencing urban blight result from:
B) increasing industrial growth
C) the need to build new schools
D) increasing use of public transportation
64) Buses and cars using fuel cells are:
A) not yet possible because the technology to safely store hydrogen is still not resolved
B) not yet available because the fuel cell generates unsafe levels of heat
C) still inefficient, largely because the fuel cells are large and heavy
D) already in use and ready for commercial production
65) Which one of the following produces the least air pollution?
A) an automobile burning hydrogen as a fuel
B) an automobile running on a hydrogen fuel cell
C) a Toyota Prius hybrid vehicle
D) a car running on natural gas
66) Automobiles with fuel cells can be more flexibly designed because they:
A) do not have wheels
B) have to be so large that there is extra room for passengers and accessories
C) do not have an engine fuel combustion compartment
D) do not have to be aerodynamically constructed to get better fuel mileage
67) A hydrogen-oxygen fuel cell uses:
A) hydrogen and water and generates electricity and oxygen
B) hydrogen and oxygen and generates electricity and water
C) carbon dioxide and water and generates electricity and hydrogen
D) hydrogen and water and generates electricity, oxygen, and carbon dioxide
68) The most promising immediate alternative to gasoline fueled vehicles in a time of global
climate change and increasing oil imports is powering vehicles using:
A) solar power
B) hydrogen as a fuel source
C) fuel cells using hydrogen
D) plug-in hybrid electric vehicles
69) Enhanced geothermal systems:
A) generate electricity using the heat of the earth to make steam
B) are routinely used in China to power automobiles
C) use the energy of the sun to boil water and generate electricity
D) use gravity to propel large turbines, which generate electricity
A home located next to a 5-acre pond (30 feet deep in the center) uses the steady temperature of the deep pond water for heat exchange. A closed system of water is piped from the home underground to deep regions of the pond and then back to the home. Inside the home, a heat exchange system extracts heat in the winter and removes heat from the home in the summer. This home relies completely on electricity, generated by burning coal at a distant power plant.
70) This home system illustrates the use of:
A) ecothermal energy
B) biomass fuels
C) geothermal energy
D) hydroelectric energy
71) Compared to heating and cooling this home using a standard heat pump system, this home’s
heating and cooling system will:
A) probably keep the pond from freezing over in the winter
B) probably cause ice to form on the pond in the early summer and fall
C) reduce the carbon footprint of the homeowners
D) not work if ice forms on the top of the pond
72) Harnessing the energy of tides to generate electricity is different than the force moving the
water in a hydroelectric power station at a dam because:
A) tidal energy uses turbines and a dam uses generators
B) tidal energy ultimately relies on moon’s gravity and hydroelectric power ultimately relies on the energy from the sun
C) tidal energy ultimately relies on ocean currents and hydroelectric power ultimately relies on the energy from the sun
D) tidal energy ultimately relies on the wind and hydroelectric power ultimately relies on the energy of rain
73) A tidal barrage would be used to generate electricity:
A) at the mouth of a bay
B) at the bottom of a large lake
C) near the tip of an ocean peninsula
D) in the open ocean
74) One of the least promising non-fossil fuel energy sources uses:
A) wind power
B) biomass energy
D) thermal-energy conversion in the oceans
75) The future global energy demands may be met by developing sustainable energy resources and
also, most easily, by:
A) dramatically increasing oil and natural gas exploration
B) increasing our use of the abundant natural gas and coal resources
C) improving energy conservation and efficiency of current technology
D) limiting the use of energy in developing countries
76) In the past decade, the United States government has:
A) discouraged the use of alternate energy resources and promoted the use of fossil fuels
B) promoted but not invested in the development and use of sustainable energy resources
C) promoted and invested heavily through the Recovery Act of 2009 in the development
and use of sustainable energy resources
D) required the use of sustainable energy resources for more than 95% of our energy
demands by the year 2020
77) Responsible stewardship in the coming decades will require global energy policies that
A) both sustainability and technological efficiency
B) productivity and economic prosperity in developing nations
C) the development of abundant and inexpensive fossil fuels such as shale gas
D) additional exploration of shale oil and natural gas resources
78) Energy policies that promote the use of renewable-energy resources:
A) and oil and gas exploration are the most promising ways to address global climate
B) and efficiency will automatically reduce the generation of greenhouse gases
C) increase the demand for fossil fuels and require the importation of oil to most
D) hurt the poorest families and discourage economic growth in developing countries
79) If some current trends and energy strategies continue and succeed over the next few decades,
in fifty years you might be able to say that you witnessed the shift from:
A) an energy-consuming economy to an energy-producing economy
B) a wind-driven economy to a solar economy
C) an unsustainable fossil-fuel-driven economy to a sustainable hydrogen economy
D) a renewable energy- driven economy to a clean-burning natural gas economy.
80) Which one of the following vehicles would generate the greatest amount of carbon tax?
A) a large hybrid-electric SUV that gets 31 miles per gallon
B) a small gas-powered car that gets 27 miles per gallon
C) an all-electric car that charges its batteries using solar power-generated electricity
D) a car powered by natural gas that gets 33 miles per gallon
81) The general U.S. government response to possible terrorism at nuclear power plants since
2001 has been:
A) limited to a few unenforced regulations
B) to convert nuclear facilities to military installations with state of the art security
C) enhanced security at plants and at spent fuel storage pools
D) nothing, because of budget cuts brought about by the 2008 recession
82) Security of nuclear resources and the safe storage of nuclear wastes:
A) remain a global challenge
B) have been improved by concentrating these in four secure locations throughout the
C) have now been addressed by UN task forces who guard resources that are subject to
D) remain a problem only outside of the United States and Canada
83) The more than 100 nuclear power plants planned 30-40 years ago were never built in large
part due to:
A) increasing incidents of terrorism directed against nuclear plants
B) decreased demand for electricity and increased costs of safety features in construction
C) pressing demand for electricity, which required simpler coal-fired power plants that
could be built faster
D) budget constraints stemming from the 2008 recession
84) The longevity of nuclear power plants has averaged about:
A) 20-25 years due to unexpectedly high levels of corrosion and embrittlement
B) 40-50 years, longer than imagined, because neutrons tend to stabilize the building
C) 10 years, only about 25% of their expected life, due to the need for new
government-mandated safety designs
D) 40 years, as expected, due to routine maintenance and the replacement with new longer-lasting materials
85) Unlike corrosion, embrittlement results in the degradation of nuclear power plant materials
from the:
A) buildup up iron oxide after prolonged exposure to water
B) rapid expansion and contraction of super-heated and ice-cold water through most of
the pipes
C) use of highly corrosive saltwater throughout most of the water pipes
D) bombardment of materials by neutrons produced by fission
86) Nuclear power plants are especially expensive because they:
A) require the highest levels of security
B) usually cost as much to decommission as they did to build
C) have so many parts that must be coated in gold
D) are constructed of many thick layers of concrete
87) In the United States and many countries in Europe, there is renewed interest in nuclear power
plants because of:
A) a worldwide shortage of coal
B) the spotty availability of natural gas
C) concern about global climate change
D) the greatly reduced costs associated with generating electricity using nuclear power
88) In the near future, the number of nuclear power plants in the United States and throughout
the world will most likely:
A) decline
B) hold steady
C) increase
D) depend upon the price of oil
89) In Japan today, the greatest risk associated with the use of nuclear power is:
A) an earthquake and/or tsunami
B) a terrorist attack
C) the lack of sufficient nuclear fuel
D) the generation of mutations in nearby plants and animals
90) Compared to standard fission reactors, fast-neutron reactors are:
A) less expensive to build
B) less expensive to operate
C) more efficient in fuel use
D) safer, requiring less security
91) A much greater use of breeder or fast-neutron reactors would pose a greater safety risk
because fast-neutron reactors would generate greater amounts of:
A) heavy water, which can easily leak out into the local community near nuclear power plants
B) radon gas, which over many years can greatly increase the risk of cancer in the region surrounding a nuclear plant
C) plutonium, which is more easily used to construct nuclear weapons
D) lead, which is widely used in the creation of bullets and other ammunitions
92) Breeder or fast-neutron reactors generate more fuel than they use because:
A) these reactors capture the energy of extra neutrons released by 235U fissions
B) the Second Law of Thermodynamics does not apply to nuclear reactions
C) of solar collectors that invest the energy of the sun into new fuel
D) the heat that is usually released in standard reactors is mostly recaptured
93) Reprocessing of nuclear fuel:
A) requires the heavy use of lead and iron ore
B) eliminates the need for nuclear power plants
C) requires additional mining of uranium
D) reduces and reuses the stockpile of nuclear waste
94) The energy released from the sun and other stars comes from the:
A) fusion of helium into hydrogen
B) fusion of hydrogen into helium
C) fission of helium into hydrogen
D) fission of hydrogen into helium
95) Today, we are able to use nuclear fusion to:
A) power a hydrogen bomb
B) generate electricity efficiently
C) produce hydrogen for fuel cell cars
D) power jets and ships
96) Nuclear fusion reactions:
A) were used in the atomic bombs dropped on Japan in 1945
B) require conditions that are not yet cost-efficient for the generation of electricity
C) are widely used today in nuclear power plants
D) can only occur in the special conditions of the sun and stars
97) Over the past 50 years, interest in nuclear power:
A) rose, decreased, and now is increasing again
B) decreased, rose, and now is decreasing again
C) has remained high around the world
D) was high but then declined and continues to decline worldwide
98) Which of the following is a clear advantage in the use of nuclear power instead of fossil fuels?
A) Nuclear plants are cheaper to build than power plants that burn fossil fuels.
B) Nuclear power can be used today to power most forms of public transportation.
C) Nuclear power contributes less to global climate change.
D) Nuclear power generates fewer wastes with lower health risks.
99) Much of the recent increased interest in nuclear power is related to:
A) the limited supply of coal to generate electricity
B) the limited supply of natural gas to generate electricity
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Press Release11 December 2020
WTM London Proclaims Manifesto for Safer, Smarter and Greener Travel and Tourism
WTM London publishes a manifesto to guide policy-makers with concrete solutions to our present and future challenges
The document had the support from UNWTO and WTTC, plus more than 200 international leaders (public and private sector) from the tourism industry who took part in the process through a Delphi method
WTM London has declared its mission to work with governments and the private sector around the world to create a safer, smarter and greener travel and tourism industry.
The event has collaborated with ministers, key organisations, leading businesses and top academics to produce a manifesto for the next decade.
The Travel & Tourism Manifesto was developed following the UNWTO, WTTC and WTM Ministers' Summit on 9th November 2020 at WTM Virtual, along with advice from key industry experts and the UN World Tourism Organisation and World Travel & Tourism Council.
Claude Blanc, WTM Portfolio Director, said:
"The devastation of the coronavirus pandemic means we must collaborate across borders, governments and private sectors to build a better world for the travel industry.
"COVID-19's dramatic impact has demonstrated how travel and tourism are vital for economies, jobs and our wellbeing.
"The ambition of WTM London is to help create a flourishing visitor economy that has a positive impact on our planet, people and prosperity.
"The outcome of our Ministers' Summit is this fantastic manifesto - setting out ideas and actions for the next decade, to nurture a safer, smarter and greener travel and tourism sector."
Contributors to the manifesto say that spending on travel and tourism around the world will plunge by 70% year-on-year during 2020, while jobs will fall by more than a third.
They expect a long and difficult road to recovery - and global coordination is essential to hasten the rebuilding process.
Travel restrictions are not likely to be lifted fully until December 2021, and travel and tourism spending won't recover to pre-crisis levels until Q3 2023.
International business travel will be hit the hardest and is not expected to rebound fully until 2026.
By contrast, international leisure travel is forecast to surpass pre-coronavirus levels by 2024.
Along with support from UNWTO and WTTC, research partners who helped formulate the manifesto included Tourism Economics - an Oxford Economics company - and Space Global Strategy.
There was further input from leaders of trade associations such as ABTA, Advantage Travel Partnership, London and Partners, and UKInbound, as well as the bosses of prominent travel companies, such as Iberostar, Kuoni Travel UK and Sunvil Holidays.
Tourism ministers who participated in the Ministers' Summit at WTM Virtual represented countries ranging from the UK to Greece, Philippines, Jordan, Costa Rica and more.
The summit also heard from private sector panellists representing the likes of Heathrow, TUI Group, Intrepid Travel and Radisson Hotel Group.
The manifesto details five key policy areas that are crucial to revive the travel and tourism sector, shorten the recovery period and ensure long-term, sustainable growth.
The areas are:
Globally aligned travel restrictions
Global health and safety protocols
Continued government support, such as job retention schemes, grants and exemptions from taxes
Smarter, seamless travel experience
A more sustainable, resilient and inclusive travel and tourism sector - including decarbonisation and carbon removal initiatives; community engagement; and action against human trafficking and wildlife trafficking.
WTM London's Senior Director, Simon Press, said:
"The Ministers' Summit 2020 was the first major opportunity for ministers and industry leaders to explore the best ways for our sector to recover, and to develop concrete solutions to the challenges we all face.
"By bringing together 200 international leaders from our sector, we have created a manifesto to guide policy-makers as we emerge from this crisis.
"News about vaccines has already provided a boost to our sector so it is important that we have a roadmap to support our colleagues in their recovery next year and beyond."
Click here to download the WTM Travel & Tourism Manifesto.
WTM London 2021
November 1 - 3, 2021
Excel London — London, United Kingdom
Special CoverageCoronavirus: Impact on the Hospitality IndustryEnvironment & SustainabilitySafety & Security
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Mad Max delivers for World Series champion Nats without win
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Washington Nationals starting pitcher Max Scherzer throws against the Houston Astros during the first inning of Game 7 of the baseball World Series Wednesday, Oct. 30, 2019, in Houston. (AP Photo/Mike Ehrmann, Pool)
HOUSTON (AP) — Max Scherzer never had a clean inning in Game 7 of the World Series for the Washington Nationals. He finished with more walks than strikeouts and walked off the mound trailing.
Yet, Mad Max delivered in the clutch for the Nationals even without getting the win.
Boosted by a cortisone injection and the adrenaline of trying to get his first World Series ring, Scherzer labored through five innings while throwing 103 pitches. Even though the 35-year-old three-time Cy Young winner allowed seven hits and walked four, he gave up only two runs in a championship-worthy effort.
Three days after being unable to make his scheduled start at home in Game 5 when he could barely move his right arm because of an irritated nerve near his neck, Scherzer is a World Series champion.
"If you would have saw him Sunday, it wasn't good. He didn't look good," manager Dave Martinez said before Game 7. "He couldn't move."
The Nationals rallied late — their record fifth comeback win in a potential elimination game this postseason — to beat the Astros 6-2 in a World Series where the visiting team won every game.
While Scherzer never looked dominating, the incredibly intense right-hander still was throwing fastballs in the mid-90s throughout his five innings. All but one of the Astros hits against him were singles and only one runner outside the two that scored reached third base. Houston managed only a 2-0 lead before Patrick Corbin relieved Scherzer to start the sixth.
Despite plenty of hard-hit balls, the Astros left nine runners on base against Scherzer while going 1 for 8 with runners in scoring position. That kept the Nationals close enough to surge ahead late.
Scherzer finished this postseason 3-0 with a 2.40 ERA. He had 37 strikeouts and 15 walks over 30 innings in six games, five of them starts.
Washington finally got to Astros starter Zack Greinke in the seventh when Anthony Rendon hit a one-out solo homer. Two batters later, after a pitching change, Howie Kendrick made it 3-2 with his two-run shot that ricocheted off the right field pole.
Yuli Gurriel led off the Houston second with a solo homer, which was followed by well-struck singles by Yordan Alvarez and Carlos Correa — both had exit velocity over 104 mph. But they were stranded out after a popped-out bunt, a grounder and a liner.
The Astros had two more runners on with one out an inning later before consecutive flyouts by Gurriel and Alvarez.
Scherzer's first strikeout didn't come until facing his 17th batter, when he got Robinson Chirinos for the second out in the fourth before Houston stranded two more runners.
Correa's RBI single in the fifth, a slicing two-out hit off diving third baseman Anthony Rendon, made it 2-0 before Scherzer struck out Chirinos again for his final out.
Scherzer threw 58 of his 103 pitches for strikes, the 56% strike ratio his lowest this season. With four walks and three strikeouts, he ended a streak of 257 consecutive starts (regular season and postseason) without more walks than strikeouts. STATS said that was the longest such streak by any pitcher since 1920.
For all that irritation, he finally gets a ring.
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Intensive String Quartet Gala Concert, Hadyn
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Ensembles: Aeolus Quartet; Durazno String Quartet; Élan String Quartet; Matisse String Quartet; Nocturna String Quartet
Haydn: Quartet for Strings in C major, Op. 20 no 2/H 3 no 32 N/A
Composer: Franz Joseph Haydn
Ensemble: Nocturna String Quartet
Venue: Cleveland Institute of Music: Mixon Hall (Cleveland)
Recording Date: Sun 7 Dec 2008
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Haydn: Quartet for Strings in E flat major, Op. 33 no 2/H 3 no 38 "Joke" N/A
Ensemble: Durazno String Quartet
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Ensemble: Matisse String Quartet
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Gut microbes associated with diet, metabolic health
Greatest risk factors of mortality from COVID-19 identified in new findings
Katherine Rushlau
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Hospitalized novel coronavirus (COVID-19) patients have a greater risk of dying if they are men or if they are obese or have complications from diabetes or hypertension, according to a new study by researchers at the University of Maryland School of Medicine (UMSOM) and published in the journal Clinical Infectious Diseases.
For the study, the researchers evaluated nearly 67,000 hospitalized COVID-19 patients in 613 hospitals across the country to determine the link between certain common patient characteristics and the risk of dying from COVID-19.
The analysis found that men had a 30 percent higher risk of dying compared to women of the same age and health status. Hospitalized patients who were obese, had hypertension, or had poorly managed diabetes had a higher risk of dying compared to those who did not have these conditions. Those aged 20 to 39 with these conditions had the biggest difference in their risk of dying compared to their healthier peers, according to the study.
Higher-risk patients may be given the drug remdesivir earlier in their hospitalization to help prevent severe complications or may be considered for closer monitoring or intensive care unit (ICU) admission. Healthcare providers may also want to consider these risks when determining which COVID-19 patients could benefit the most from the new monoclonal antibody therapies that, if given in the first few days of the infection, can reduce the risk of hospitalization, the researchers said.
Age remained the strongest predictor of mortality from COVID-19. Overall, nearly 19 percent of hospitalized COVID-19 patients died from their infection with the lowest mortality among pediatric patients, which was less than 2 percent. Mortality rates increased with each decade of life with the highest mortality, 34 percent, among those aged 80 and older, according to the study.
The researchers also found death rates among hospitalized patients have fallen dramatically since the early weeks of the pandemic in April. This is likely due to the availability of new treatments and more knowledge in the medical community on how to properly manage and care for hospitalized patients, the researchers said.
"Older patients still have the highest risk of dying, but younger patients with obesity or hypertension have the highest risk of dying relative to other patients their age without these conditions," said Katherine Goodman, JD, PhD, study lead author and a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Epidemiology and Public Health at UMSOM, in a statement. "Doctors may want to be paying extra attention to these younger patients when they're hospitalized to ensure they detect any complications quickly."
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Katherine Rushlau is the editor of Integrative Practitioner. She brings nearly a decade of experience creating and managing content for national healthcare audiences as a digital editor and professional journalist, including serving as managing editor for a popular medical billing and coding association and as a reporter for the Boston Globe, Boston.com, and USA Today. A certified personal trainer with the National Academy of Sports Medicine, a certified fitness nutrition coach with the National Exercise & Sports Trainer Association, and a certified barre instructor, her passion for and commitment to healthy living fuels her enthusiasm for helping the integrative healthcare community.
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Computing Fellowship: System Administrator
Organization: CERN - European Organization for Nuclear Research
Location: Geneva (Switzerland)
Grade: Junior - Only open to Nationals of all CERN Member States and Associate Member States - Junior level
At CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, physicists and engineers are probing the fundamental structure of the universe. Using the world's largest and most complex scientific instruments, they study the basic constituents of matter - fundamental particles that are made to collide together at close to the speed of light. The process gives physicists clues about how particles interact, and provides insights into the fundamental laws of nature. Find out more on http://home.cern.
Diversity has been an integral part of CERN's mission since its foundation and is an established value of the Organization.
The ATLAS Trigger and Data-Acquisition System Administration team manages the ATLAS online computing infrastructure. This is a mission-critical quasi-realtime heterogeneous computing system composed by roughly four thousand interconnected computers, distributed across an underground cavern and a surface data centre. The system accounts approximately four thousands users.
The System Administration team is responsible for all aspects associated with such a large computing infrastructure, including in particular hardware upkeep and refurbishment, operating system deployment and tuning, operational monitoring and computer security. In addition they guarantee the correct functioning of the core computing infrastructure, consisting of name and time servers, DHCP relays, web servers, MySQL and LDAP clusters, gateways, storage and virtualisation systems.
The selected candidate will be fully integrated in the System Administration team, working and collaborating with the existing experts. She will share all team duties, from the day to day system operation to user support and troubleshooting, including stand-by on-call tasks. In due time the candidate will also take responsibility for specific projects, like the improvement of the monitoring and management tools and the review of the web application deployment mechanisms.
You are a national of a CERN Member or Associate Member State;
You have graduated, or are about to graduate with a university degree (BSc or MSc level in computer science,engineering or another relevant course) and have no more than 4 years’ relevant experience after obtaining your degree;
Kindly note that experience prior to the latest obtained degree will not be taken into account for the calculation of your overall years of experience.
Essential skills and experience:
Experience with the administration of Linux operating system;
Experience with Bash and Python scripting languages;
Exposure to computer hardware maintenance and troubleshooting;
Exposure to working in a multi-disciplinary and multi-cultural team.
Desired technical skills:
Knowledge of computer deployment systems like Puppet;
Experience with RHEL or CentOS operating systems;
Experience with computer security measures;
Experience with user support and troubleshooting.
Please note that CERN Staff members are not eligible to apply for a Fellowship.
CERN would very much like to benefit from your expertise, commitment and passion.
In return, CERN will provide you with:
An employment contract for between six months (minimum) up to a maximum of 36 months.
A stipend ranging from 5,281 to 6,558 Swiss Francs per month (net of tax).
Coverage by CERN’s comprehensive health scheme (for yourself, your spouse and children), and membership of the CERN Pension Fund.
Depending on your individual circumstances: an installation grant, family, child and infant allowances as well as travel expenses to and from Geneva.
2.5 days of paid leave per month.
Your Life @CERN
Get a glimpse of what it’s like to work at CERN: https://careers.cern/benefits and https://careers.cern/our-people
This is how you can apply:
You will need the following documents to complete your application:
A CV;
A scanned PDF of your most recent relevant qualification.
We recommend to add two recent letters of recommendation, giving an overview of your academic and/or professional achievements. You can upload these letters at the time of application if you have them to hand. You will also be provided with a link as soon as you have submitted your application to forward to your referees to upload their letters confidentially. Please note this must be done before the closing date.
All applications should reach us no later than 28 January 2021.
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ANIMATED FEED: MY BROTHER - Directed by Audrey Yeo
My Brother from Audrey Yeo on Vimeo.
“My Brother” is a personal tribute to the silent contributions of migrant workers globally. I grew up in the island city-state of Singapore, where encounters with migrants of countries as diverse as Bangladesh, Myanmar, China and the Philippines are part of everyday living. Many of them take on jobs that are considered by the larger public to be menial in nature. Sometimes, the differences in our cultures and socioeconomic statuses cause social friction. When we allow this to be left unchecked, it can evolve into darker displays of xenophobic behavior.
But the inability to see past differences is not just a local issue; it is an increasingly global one. From where I am now in the United States, I am beginning to see how irresponsible political rhetoric, among other factors, influences previously big-hearted populations, populations which embraced – indeed championed – diversity.
My response to this wave of sentiments is inspired by a quote I came across recently, attributed to the French composer Claude Debussy: music is the silence between the notes. The project aims to recognize the silent migrant workers’ contributions to our communities and celebrate their music between our notes.
“My Brother” is thus a metaphor for the thousands of underappreciated migrant workers we come across during our daily commute. I believe that bridges are built on bricks of commonalities and so the focus of this project is on the spaces of our shared humanity – school, families and personal dreams.
After viewing the video, it is my personal hope that you make my brother, your brother too.
We are not affiliated to any of the listed organizations, but to support migrant worker causes, do visit the link below:
http://www.migrant-rights.org/our-networks/
Created as my Senior project at Savannah College of Art and Design (B.F.A Motion Media Design 2016).
Directed by Audrey Yeo
Written by Andrew Yeo
Illustrated and animated by Audrey Yeo
Steven Mark Day
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Chip Ganassi Racing
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Pato O'Ward
Scott McLaughlin
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Championships: 6
Indy 500 Wins: 1
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Website scottdixon.com
Six-time NTT INDYCAR SERIES champion (2003, 2008, 2013, 2015, 2018, 2020).
2008 Indianapolis 500 winner.
Most wins of any active NTT INDYCAR SERIES driver (50), which ranks third all-time.
2020 was his 19th season driving for Chip Ganassi Racing, the longest tenure for any driver in team history.
Was born in Australia but is a citizen of New Zealand.
Known for love of his family. Dixon’s wife, Emma, is a former Welsh and British 800-meter track champion and they have two daughters, Poppy and Tilly, and a son, Kit.
Appointed Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit in 2012 and was New Zealand’s Sportsman of the Year in 2008 and 2013.
A five-time ESPY nominee for Best Driver, including most recently in 2019.
INDY CAR Series
2020 NTT INDYCAR SERIES 14 4 0 9 13 340 14
2019 NTT INDYCAR SERIES 17 2 0 11 11 214 14
2014 NTT INDYCAR SERIES 18 2 1 11 12 97 16
2012 NTT INDYCAR SERIES 15 2 1 8 9 456 12
2005 NTT INDYCAR SERIES 17 1 0 1 5 25 10
2004 NTT INDYCAR SERIES 15 0 0 2 10 3 12
2002 CART 19 0 0 3 12 0 12
2001 CART 20 1 0 6 10 74 15
Total 335 50 26 174 243 5941 285
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First Start
March 11, 2001 (Monterrey, Mexico)
First Win
May 6, 2001 (Nazareth)
First Pole
April 13, 2003 (Twin Ring Motegi)
NTT IndyCar Series Highlights
Started the season with wins in the first three races (Texas, GMR Grand Prix and Road America-1).
Scored his 50th INDYCAR race win at World Wide Technology Raceway, becoming the third driver to reach the milestone.
Won his sixth NTT INDYCAR SERIES championship for Chip Ganassi Racing on the strength of four wins, seven podiums and 13 top-10 finishes in 14 starts,
Finished fourth in the NTT INDYCAR SERIES Championship.
Won Belle Isle-2 and Mid-Ohio.
Recorded eleven top-5 finishes.
Won the NTT INDYCAR SERIES championship for Chip Ganassi Racing with wins at Belle Isle-1, Texas and Toronto.
Extended his Indy car record for consecutive seasons with win to 14.
Recorded 13 top-five and 15 top-10 finishes in 17 starts, both series highs.
Finished third in NTT INDYCAR SERIES for Chip Ganassi Racing, winning at Road America, which extended his Indy car record for consecutive seasons with win to 13
Won the pole position for the 101st Indianapolis 500 with an average speed of 232.164 mph, the fastest four-lap average in more than two decades.
Recorded 10 top-five and 16 top-10 finishes.
Finished sixth in NTT INDYCAR SERIES point standings for Chip Ganassi Racing with wins at Phoenix and Watkins Glan.
Claimed victory at Phoenix extended his streak of consecutive seasons with at least one win to 12, which set an Indy car record.
Won poles at Toronto and Watkins Glen.
Won the NTT INDYCAR SERIES championship for Chip Ganassi Racing, winning the title over Juan Pablo Montoya on a tiebreaker by virtue of his three wins (Long Beach, Texas and Sonoma).
Extended streak of consecutive seasons with at least one win to 11.
Won two poles, including the Indianapolis 500.
Finished third in the NTT INDYCAR SERIES championship for Target Chip Ganassi Racing, winning two races (Mid-Ohio, Sonoma) and finishing in the top five in 11 events.
Charged from last starting position (22nd) to win at Mid-Ohio.
Led only the final three laps in winning at Sonoma.
Won series championship for Target Chip Ganassi Racing, becoming 11th driver to win at least three Indy car titles.
Recorded four race victories (Pocono, Toronto-1, Toronto-2 and Houston-1) and two poles (Toronto-2 and Baltimore).
Became first driver to win the SONAX Perfect Finish Award for sweeping a doubleheader event (Toronto).
Had series-best 10 top-five finishes.
Finished third in the standings for Target Chip Ganassi Racing for the third straight season.
Won from pole and led every lap at Belle Isle.
Won for second straight year at Mid-Ohio.
Recorded eight top-five and nine top-10 finishes.
Finished third in standings for Target Chip Ganassi Racing.
Recorded victories from the pole at Mid- Ohio and Motegi, becoming only driver to win on both oval and road course at Motegi.
Won A.J. Foyt Oval Trophy for scoring most points in oval races.
Was one of three drivers running at the finish in all 17 races.
Finished third in the point standings with wins at Kansas, Edmonton and Homestead.
Recorded nine top-five finishes and 15 top-10 finishes.
Scored five total podiums.
Finished second in point standings with wins at Kansas, Milwaukee, Richmond, Mid-Ohio and Motegi.
Finished on podium 10 times.
Led 815 laps during season, more than any other driver.
Completed 2,766 of a possible 2,788 laps, more than any other driver.
Claimed season championship for Target Chip Ganassi Racing.
Won six races (Homestead, Indianapolis, Texas, Nashville, Edmonton and Kentucky) and six poles (Homestead, Kansas, Indianapolis, Texas, Kentucky and Belle Isle).
Recorded 14 top-five finishes and 14 top-10 finishes.
Finished second in point standings for Target Chip Ganassi Racing with wins at Watkins Glen, Nashville, Mid-Ohio and Sonoma.
Won three consecutive races (Watkins Glen, Nashville and Mid-Ohio).
Recorded a series best 13 top-five and 16 top-10 finishes.
Led a series-best 13 of 17 races.
Finished first or second in 10 of the 17 races.
Finished fourth in point standings for Target Chip Ganassi Racing with victories at Watkins Glen and Nashville.
Won nine top-five finishes and 12 top-10 finishes.
Was only driver to be running at the finish of every race.
Finished 13th in season point standings for Target Chip Ganassi Racing with victory at Watkins Glen.
Recorded five top-10 finishes.
Finished 10th in season point standings for Target Chip Ganassi Racing with best finish of second at Phoenix.
Earned two top-five finishes and 10 top-10 finishes in 15 starts.
Clinched first series championship for Target Chip Ganassi Racing with three wins (Homestead, Pikes Peak and Richmond).
Earned five pole positions (Motegi, Richmond, Kansas, Nashville, Nazareth).
Led all 206 laps of the rain-shortened event Richmond.
Finished 13th in CART point standings, splitting season between PacWest Racing and Target Chip Ganassi Racing.
Began three top-five and 12 top-10 finishes, including a second place at Denver.
Won CART Jim Trueman Rookie of the Year Award and finished eighth in CART point standings with victory at Nazareth.
Was 20 years, 9 months, 14 days old at time of Nazareth win, at the time the second youngest to win a race in Indy car history.
Scored six top-five finishes and completed a series-high 2,521 of a possible 2,610 laps.
Scott's Road To Indy
Competed with the team at 12 Hours of Sebring, 24 Hours of Le Mans and Petit Le Mans.
Won the GT Le Mans Class at the Rolex 24 at Daytona for Chip Ganassi Racing.
Competed n Rolex 24 at Daytona for Chip Ganassi Racing for the 14th time.
Competed in Rolex 24 At Daytona and 24 Hours of Le Mans for Chip Ganassi Racing.
Competed in IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship endurances races at Sebring and Petit Le Mans.
Won the Rolex 24 At Daytona for Chip Ganassi Racing along with Chip Ganassi Racing Teammates Tony Kanaan, Jamie McMurray and Kyle Larson.
Competed in Tudor United Sports Car Championship endurance races at Sebring and Road Atlanta for Chip Ganassi Racing alongside Scott Pruett and Joey Hand.
Competed with co-driver Rick Kelly in V8 SuperCars event at Surfers Paradise for Kelly Racing.
Co-drove prototype in two American Le Mans Series races for de Ferran Motorsports.
Finished eighth at Petit Le Mans co-driving a P2 car for De Ferran Motorsports.
Won the Rolex 24 At Daytona with Dan Wheldon and Casey Mears as teammates in the Grand-Am Rolex Sports Car Series.
Earned two Formula 1 tests with Williams-BMW team.
Captured Indy Lights championship, winning six of 12 races driving for PacWest Lights team.
Led series-high 228 laps.
Competed in first season of North American competition with Johansson Motorsports in Indy Lights, winning at Chicago, where he led every lap from the pole.
Finished fifth in championship and finished second in the Rookie of the Year standings.
Competed at Petit Le Mans driving for Doran Enterprises/Jim Matthews Racing.
Competed in Formula Vee, Formula Ford and Formula Holden in New Zealand and Australia.
Won Australian Formula Holden championship for Formula 3000, New Zealand Formula Ford Class I championship, New Zealand Formula Ford Class II championship and New Zealand Formula Vee championship (age 13).
Chip Ganassi created his own one-car Indy car team in 1990. Today, his racing empire includes entries in the NTT INDYCAR SERIES and NASCAR Cup Series
Chip Ganassi Racing's open-wheel teams have amassed 12 championships and more than 100 wins, while overall his teams can claim 19 championships and more than 220 wins.
Chip Ganassi Racing solidified its place in open-wheel racing history, becoming the first team to amass four consecutive CART championships with Jimmy Vasser (1996), Alex Zanardi (1997-98) and rookie Juan Pablo Montoya (1999).
Following a switch from CART to the NTT INDYCAR SERIES in 2003, Ganassi and driver Scott Dixon captured the championship. Dixon claimed his second title for Ganassi in 2008, while Dario Franchitti won three straight series titles from 2009-11, allowing the team to amass another four consecutive Indy car titles. Dixon won his third title with a dramatic rally in the final third of the 2013 season, claimed the 2015 title on a tiebreaker after claiming a win in the season finale, and solidified his legendary status with his fifth championship in 2018.
In 2010, Ganassi was responsible for the first American auto racing "Triple Crown" (Daytona 500, Indianapolis 500 and Brickyard 400 wins) and added the first-ever "Chip Slam" of motorsports to his resume with a victory in the 2011 Rolex 24 At Daytona (holding all four major titles at one time).
For 2020, Chip Ganassi Racing has expanded to a three-car lineup with Dixon in the No. 9 PNC Bank Chip Ganassi Racing entry, 2019 NTT INDYCAR SERIES Rookie of the Year Felix Rosenqvist in the No. 10 NTT DATA Chip Ganassi Racing entry, and Marcus Ericsson in the No. 8 Huski Chocolate Chip Ganassi Racing entry.
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Posting Art: Ruth Asawa USPS Stamps
In August, just a few months ahead of the November US election, the US Postal Service (USPS) was in the news when US President Donald Trump stated he opposed its funding as he didn't support mail-in voting. While the Coronavirus pandemic prompted many people to opt for mail ballots, Trump claimed indeed that postal voting invites fraud.
In August people in the United States also complained on social media about the mass removal of blue mailboxes in some areas. While this procedure is normal when a mailbox registers a decline in mail volume, the decision was seen as limiting the ability of some voters to send back mail-in ballots, another attempt by Donad Trump to interfere with the elections and manipulate the postal system. While Trump reassigned or displaced at least 23 USPS executives, in August the US Postal Service announced it would stop taking letter collection boxes off streets in Western states.
As the saga of the mail ballots and Trump continues, there were also some good news from the USPS - the release in August of a set of stamps celebrating Japanese American artist Ruth Asawa (1926-2013).
Asawa was born in 1926 in Norwalk, California, from Japanese parents. During World War II, her family was interned first at the Santa Anita racetrack and then at the Rohwer War Relocation Center in Arkansas.
During her internment Asawa spent her time drawing and, after getting an ID card from the War Relocation Authority, she was allowed to travel to Milwaukee where she attended college. Since no school in Wisconsin would hire someone who was Japanese even at the end of the war, she could not complete her fourth college year that was supposed to be devoted to practice teaching.
She therefore enrolled in the Escuela Nacional de Pintura y Escultura La Esmeralda in Mexico City and at the University of Mexico. Here she met Clara Porset, an innovative furniture designer from Cuba who had been at Black Mountain College where Asawa decided to move to pursue further studies in art.
From 1946 to 1949, Asawa studied with Josef Albers at Black Mountain College where she started using common materials and experimenting with wire. She was also influenced by the Black Mountain College summer sessions of 1946 and 1948, that featured among the others choreographer Merce Cunningham, artist Willem de Kooning, and architect and inventor Buckminster Fuller.
In 1959 Asawa married architect Albert Lanier and in the following decade she started making crocheted industrial wire sculptures employing a technique she learnt in 1947 while in Toluca, Mexico, where villagers made egg baskets from galvanized wire. "I found myself experimenting with wire,"’ she explained, "I was interested in the economy of a line, enclosing three-dimensional space.... I realized that I could make wire forms interlock, expand, and contract with a single strand, because a line can go anywhere."
Asawa started creating a series of spheres, cones and elongated structures that she suspended in space. More experiments followed in the '60s: Asawa moved from the geometrical shapes she found in nature - plants, snail shells, spiderwebs, insect wings and water droplets - to design ethereal structures reminiscent of radiolaria, and created large wall-mounted pieces inspired by the internal structure of a desert plant.
In addition to her wire sculptures, Asawa is also acclaimed for her large public commissions: among them fountain in Ghirardelli Square, San Francisco; the Japanese American Internment Memorial in San Jose, CA; and San Francisco State University's Garden of Remembrance, commemorating Japanese Americans interned during World War II. Asawa also established the first public arts high school on the West Coast in 1982 - renamed the Ruth Asawa San Francisco School of the Arts in her honor in 2010.
Her sculptures, spheres, hourglass shapes and elongated tubes evoking organic forms, are the protagonists of the 20 stamps (issued as Forever stamps, so they will always be equal in value to the current First-Class Mail 1-ounce price) dedicated to her.
The set of stamps features photographs by Dan Bradica and Laurence Cuneo for David Zwirner gallery. The selvage features a photograph of Asawa taken by Nat Farbman in 1954 for Life magazine, while Ethel Kessler served as art director and designer. The set of stamps is highly symbolical as race and racism played an important role in Asawa's personal story and the stamps are a testament to a woman and artist who loved travelling, sending and receiving letters, but also a symbol to migrants and people discriminated because of their ethnicity and nationality.
The Ruth Asawa stamps are available at Post Office locations in the US and online and they will hopefully be used by voters who do not have absentee ballot postage-paid (it is indeed worth remembering that in some American states it is up to the voter to pay for postage to return a mail ballot envelope to the election official).
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Fight in Mexico led to Charlize Theron/Stuart Townsend breakup
Amy Andrews
Irish actor Stuart Townsend and girlfriend Charlize Theron broke up after a major blow up on a 10 day trip to Mexico it has been revealed. The trip lasted only day and they returned and broke up. Charlize demanded the Dublin actor move out immediately
Townsend is not letting his break up with Charlize Theron slow his acting career. The Dublin actor has agreed a part in a new film with Woody Harrelson produced by Oscar winning producer Noel Pearon ('My Left Foot') according to the Sunday Independent newspaper.
The film will be shot in South Africa. Townsend who moved out of the Hollywood home he shared with Theron tells close friends he has no real idea why they broke up so suddenly. "Stuart is currently asking himself that very question. So how would anyone else know? He is obviously very sad after nine years together."a source told the newspaper.
Stuart's father, former professional golfer Peter Townsend , lives in Sweden with his Swedish wife, Sofia.
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Whale of a time
Sat, Feb 6, 2010, 00:00
Peter Barry
Sea kayaking is a sport that pays back quickly. With only a little experience you can find yourself in open water and among terrific wildlife, writes GARY QUINN
WHEN I SAW the footage of the humpback whale breaching off Hook Head last month my imagination went into overdrive. All I could think about was getting into my kayak and heading off in search of it. But that whale knows its waters well and is pretty safe from me in this particular stretch of the Irish coastline. I’ve propelled myself over a lot of water since I took to the sea, but I’m not quite ready for the twists and turns that Hook Head can offer. I am, though, a much smarter, fitter and more skilled kayaker – and have earned these traits stroke by stroke along our magnificent coast.
Training with Shearwater Sea Kayaking in Howth, in north Dublin, I have gone from being a complete novice to being able to tackle a huge range of sea conditions and have been given an incredible insight into the water that surrounds us. On guided expeditions I have kayaked with dolphins in Kerry, been amazed by the rainbow of colours that illuminate the islands and inlets that shape Connemara, and battled huge Atlantic swells beneath soaring cliffs in Donegal, as well as taking countless trips around the islands and harbours of Co Dublin. I’ve been out in thick fog and blazing sunshine, hail, rain and snow. And every trip was better for it because our coastline is so alive. I’m shocked at what I didn’t know I was missing: the seal pups and sunfish, the basking sharks and puffins, the dolphins and coral, the whales and gannets. Species after species living wild and adventurous lives just beyond our reach.
Sea kayaking is a sport that pays back quickly. With only a little experience you can find yourself in open water and among terrific wildlife. It’s almost unheard of to go around our islands and not see seals, but nothing beats how playful these animals are. There’s a great thrill in having one swim along with you, sometimes for long stretches at a time, catching your eye as if they’re thinking what you are: what a great day for a paddle.
Most kayakers try to stick to the simple mantra of leave no trace, and the boat they travel in is perfectly suited to it, creating no pollution or noise. Sea kayaks can cruise in and out of caves and coves silently and calmly, taking as much experience as the paddler can manage but leaving little to indicate they were there. They can land on islands and outcrops that have defied sailors for generations, and they can battle through weather that would leave many other craft marooned.
This also means they can get close to and among sea life very easily. Often they come straight to the kayaker. Last summer, returning from a foggy day at sea off the Kerry coast, we had a remarkable encounter: a pod of six bottlenose dolphins swam into the bay we were entering, leaping from the water, circling our boats, shooting beneath us and flashing their white bellies as the force of their dive gently rocked our boats. For close to 40 minutes we sat in awe as they chased each other and put on a display that seemed to be just for us.
We were close to a pier, and passers-by stopped to watch, some with binoculars, others with cameras, zooming in to capture a taste of what we were enjoying. Sitting in our kayaks with our ringside seats – close enough to touch – was an experience everyone should plan for.
There are many training providers around the country (see panel). Most people start with a beginner’s course, which is usually structured around two days: the first to introduce safety issues, basic boat handling and rescue drills; the second day to go out to the islands or more open sea to practise what you have learned. After that it’s a matter of keeping the momentum going, building experience, trying out more challenging water and increasing your training. At this point you can choose to follow the certification route offered by the Irish Canoe Union or to build your skills on group trips and expeditions.
During the summer, when the days are longer, most trainers provide half-day and evening courses. Some, such as Atlantic Sea Kayaking in Cork, offer moonlight paddles for groups. Sally McKenna (of Bridgestone Guides) is one of its instructors; she recommends its new Cork city paddle, a gentle introduction for beginners and improvers, on a guided tour below the bridges along the River Lee. To get close to whales you could take one of its assisted whale trips, she suggests; they load the kayaks on to a larger boat and head far out to sea, then launch the kayaks when they are close to a group.
But, she says, there is nothing to beat heading out from the coast with Jim Kennedy, who runs the company, and letting him lead you towards whales literally by the nose. Whales give off a strong smell, she explains, so finding them can often be a case of following the scent until they emerge. Really, you can’t beat an experienced guide.
'We were paddling along when we heard a cry - basking shark'
I’ve been kayaking for a few years and have seen a lot of great wildlife. Last April we were doing a trip around Árainn Mhór island, in Donegal. The weather was beautiful, so we took the chance to get around it. We were paddling along the coast of the island when we heard a big shout – basking shark. It was huge, with two fins coming up out of the water and its massive mouth wide open, taking up everything in front of it. It cruised around us for about three or four minutes, and we were able to paddle towards it for a closer look.
Even though I knew it wouldn’t harm us it was scary enough to see, given that we were in a small kayak and it was as big as it was. We were able to see right into its mouth, which was white inside. I’ve seen them breach the water in the past down in Cork, but this one wasn’t interested in us at all. It just carried on as if we weren’t there.
You don’t always get the weather in Donegal, but when you do it’s fantastic. I’ve been kayaking in Greece on two different holidays, and the caves, cliffs and sea life in Donegal would rival anything I saw there. One trip I’d like to do soon would be to Roaringwater Bay, in Baltimore, in Cork, to see if I could catch up with some of the whales and dolphins there. And you can find loads of life in Dublin, too. We see porpoises playing off Howth Head and get up close to baby seals in late summer on Ireland’s Eye. You really do need to be in a kayak for that kind of thing. It’s all there for anyone who is interested.
'I've seen 600 dolphins feeding off Cape Clear, all at once'
I’ve seen whales all over Ireland. The first place I came across them was in Cape Clear, in Co Cork. It’s a great spot, because it’s on the migration route past the country. Whales and dolphins work the continental shelf quite a bit, so they tend not to come terribly far inshore unless there is good tidal flow.
I’ve been right up beside them, watching them pass underneath the seat of the boat. Getting up close like that is incredibly impressive, no matter what kind of whale, but you do get something special when you see orcas, the so-called killer whales. When you see their fin coming towards you through the water you get a real sense of foreboding and that just about anything could happen. It’s a privilege, really, but it has always been safe.
I’ve seen orcas at the Blaskets and in Cork harbour. Sightings of other whales have also gone up, particularly in the Irish Sea. The Blasket sound can be really good for the smaller minke whales in late summer. You can get a good concentration of mackerel, and that brings in the dolphins. It can be a challenging enough place for kayaks. It’s hard to launch if the weather is up. But there are lots of easier places to get to. There’s a resident pod of bottlenose dolphins in the Shannon estuary. Kayaks are a great way to see them, too. You’re very close to nature. There’s no sense of intrusion with boats.
The whole west coast is open to all types of encounters with wildlife, right up from south Cork to Donegal. I’ve seen 600-700 dolphins feeding off Cape Clear, all at the one time. At other times along the west you’ll get leatherback turtles. Their head is as large as a big football. Sunfish are a fairly regular visitor. They can be as big as a car door or more. They’re very curious fish. If you come in slowly in the kayak you can really observe them. They don’t seem to feel any threat.
We organise our west-coast expeditions to match with migration patterns or feeding routes for all sorts of wildlife. You need to have a certain amount of experience to join a group like that, but that can be built up very easily, and it’s well worth the effort. The bird life alone can be fascinating. The whole coast of Ireland is so rich for kayaking.
You can see Seán Pierce, a Shearwater instructor, kayaking with dolphins on YouTube. Search for kayak, dolphins, Kerry
Go Contact
CorkAtlantic Sea Kayaking (028-21058, atlanticseakayaking.com).
DublinDeep Blue Sea (01-2760263, deepblueseakayaking.com). Shearwater
Sea Kayaking (086-8368736, shearwaterseakayaking.ie).
MayoSaoirse Na Mara Sea Kayaking (086-1733610, irelandwestseakayaking. com).
GalwayKayakmór (093-36097, kayakmor.com).
DonegalJustkayak.ie (074-9385903).
Gartan Outdoor Education Centre (074-9137032, gartan.com).
Northern IrelandCanoeni.com.
WaterfordSeapaddling.com (051-393314).
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Kadon Park Victorious
Versace x Euroz Obsession (OO Seven). One day old
Sire: Bloomfields Versace
Versace x Euroz Obsession. 3 weeks old
Versace. Sourced from
Vivaldi. Sourced from
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OO Seven. Sourced from
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Krack C. Sourced from
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Olympic Ferro. Sourced from
BORN 13th October 2018
SOLD! To David & Lisa Thevenet, VIC
* KEUR awarded when a stallion demonstrates excellence relative to other stallions with respect to sport and conformation traits of his offspring.
# PREF is the highest honor with respect to quality. Offspring must have a jumping index greater than 140 with reliability of at least 85%
^ STER above average conformation and movement and/or jumping. The ster predicate is awarded at studbook inspection to stallions, mares and geldings that have earned minimum of 70 points for conformation and minimum 75 points for movement or jumping.
Sired by the up and coming stallion Bloomfields Versace out of Euroz Obsession. Ferro, Rubinstein and Donnerhall are the three most important dynasties in producing Olympic dressage horses in the world at this point in history. Bred in the purple for FEI dressage, this foal will be nothing short of spectacular. Expected to mature 16.2hh
VERSACE is an exceptional young stallion, who combines the very best of Dutch breeding. He presented at the 2013 Oldenburger Saddle Licensing, where he was awarded Premium and then became Licensing Reserve Champion, with the test rider scoring him 9.5 for Rideability. Versace’s mare family was established by Huub van Helvoirt, one of the most respected breeders in Holland, responsible for breeding horses such as Jazz, Charmeur and Tango along with many of the most sought after Dutch mare families. He is a modern, elegant stallion with super conformation. He is very uphill, with a great shoulder and shape to the neck. He has 3 outstanding gaits; a graceful, lengthy walk, expressive trot with excellent mechanics, and an uphill, active canter which is very balanced. He displays this super movement both at liberty and under saddle. Versace has an exceptional character, with a very willing and happy attitude towards work.
Versace began his competition career in January 2014 where he was 4 Year Old Champion at the Boneo CDI.
VIVALDI was the Winner of the PAVO Cup in 2007 as a 5 Year Old scoring a perfect 100 points by test riders, Carl Hester and Seth Bosman. He is a stunning type who is very expressive in movement. Vivaldi was also reserve champion of his stallion performance test. In 2008 and 2009, he added triumphs in the KNHS/KWPN stallion series achieving marks of 10.0 for his trot. Vivaldi is trained to advanced level. So far, in Germany alone, 19 of his sons have now been licensed, amongst them several highly-priced premium stallions such as Cennin, Le Vivaldi, Livaldon, Van Vivaldi, Veneziano, Versace and Vitalis, and in the Netherlands, Desperado and Dream Boy rank among the best dressage sires. In 2017, in Redefin alone, he produced 3 licensed stallions, including Vivaldi’s Schufro, who was Reserve Champion and another premium stallion. With a successful contingent, Vivaldi enriched the World Championships of young dressage horses in Verden in 2014 and also in 2015, where his son Eye Catcher won the Bronze Medal of the six-year-olds. In 2015 and 2016, his son Fenix won the five and six-year-old Pavo-Cup in the Netherlands. The Pavo-Cup of six-year-olds was a real festival for Vivaldi in 2016, when behind Fenix, in second and third place, were First Apple and Fantastique, both Vivaldi progeny. In 2017, First Apple was fourth at the World Championships of six-year-old dressage horse. Vivaldi has also produced several mare winners at shows and in 2017, he was second best stallion of the FN dressage breeding valuation throughout Germany (168 points).
OO SEVEN
Has not only been competitive in Holland to Grand Prix level, he has also become an influential sire in the KWPN studbook. He has produced literally hundreds of offspring who are super competitive dressage horses in Holland – 70 of which are competitive at FEI level. 00 Seven was champion of the KWPN Performance test in 1999. He was the highest graded dressage stallion with a score for walk 8, trot 9, canter 9, ability for dressage 9.
00 Seven was Reserve Champion in the Pavo-Cup 2000 Competition of four year old dressage horses and Reserve Champion Pavo Cup 2001. He came second in the Stallion Competition 2001/2002. In 2002 he was the very convincing winner in the final of the Amev-Hippo Cup in Maastricht. In 2003 in Zwolle he won the title of best young stallion with a score of 69.66%. He went on to win the stallion competition in Den Bosch, of the VHO Trophy competition at Light Tour-level. In 2005 he was National Champion in Nijmegen and Res Champion in Eindhoven. He won in Mechelen in Int and first in Prix St George Int. CDI Hamsbeke 2006 and 2nd in the Light Tour.
Since arriving in Australia in October 2011, OO Seven has taken the dressage scene by storm! He won the PSG CDN class at the Boneo CDI (Jan 2012) with over 71%. OO Seven then followed this success with another 71% win at the Orange CDI at Bradgate Park (Feb 2012). Dressage with Stars (March 2012) was yet another success for this stallion winning the PSG and the Inter I freestyle to be the uncontested winner of the PSG Cup. The Sydney CDI (May 2012) saw more success with some outstanding results. 3rd in the CDI PSG, 2nd in the Inter I & 3rd in the Inter I freestyle.
OO Seven and David were the proud winners of their first ever GP with a score of 66% at the Hawkesbury Dressage Champs (June 2012). They followed suit at the August DNSW comp with another 66%. At their first big CDI Grand Prix show, David and OO Seven were 3rd in the GP & performed an almost faultless freestyle to finish first on 70.425%.
NSW State Dressage Champs (Aug 2012) was a huge success for OO Seven. He was 2nd in the Grand Prix with a personal best of 67% and had another win in the freestyle- this time with a massive 72.58%! This ranked OO Seven as the number one horse for the Equestrian Grand Final at Equitana in November 2013!
KRACK C competed very successfully with Anky Van Grunsven, regularly scoring over 70% at Grand Prix throughout 2002, 2004 and 2006. He is an extremely “blood type” producing beautiful long lined foals with correct hind leg and fore leg action. Numerous Krack C horses compete at Grand Prix level.
OLYMPIC FERRO
Grandsire of VALEGRO. Current #1 on FEI dressage rankings. Double world champion and current world record holder.
Sire of GLOCKS UNDERCOVER currently #3 on FEI dressage rankings
Grandsire of UTHOPIA. Gold medal winner at 2012 olympics
Grandsire of ARLANDO. currently #13 on FEI dressage rankings
Olympic Ferro competed at the 2000 Olympics and assisted his team in achieving a team silver medal, with an individual score of 74.92%. He also won team silver at the 1998 World Equestrian Games, 1999 European Championships and in 2000 he placed second in the World Cup Finals As a three-year-old he was champion of his performance test at Ermelo. His sire Ulft, (grandsire of Parzival who achieved silver at the London olympic games) is a son of the great Le Mexico, who is listed 10th on the jumping index with 142 points. Ferro's dam, Brenda, is a daughter of the Holsteiner, Farn, who is listed sixth on the jumping index with 146 points. Farn's son Nimmerdor, is listed second on the jumping index with 155 points. In addition to their dressage excellence, Olympic Ferro's offspring also make good jumpers. Olympic Ferro is currently ranked 7th on the WBNFSH World Stallion Rankings for dressage, and has previously been ranked first.
RUBINSTEIN was a multiple Oldenburg dressage champion, series winner of dressage competitions up to advanced class, and multiple Intermediare II and Grand Prix winner. Rubinstein is known as a great improver for the breed. He consistently passes on his wonderful temperament, trainability and movement.
GELBRIA competes at Grand Prix level and is a full sister to Olympic Barbria.
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ITTF Executive Committee: July update on COVID-19
The ITTF Executive Committee met on Friday 10th July 2020 to discuss the latest situation for international table tennis amidst the COVID-19 pandemic.
Upon receiving a comprehensive update report from the COVID-19 Task Force, which was set up to monitor the global situation closely, and after deliberations with key stakeholders, here are the key outcomes reached during the meeting:
• The Hana Bank 2020 World Team Table Tennis Championships in Busan, Korea Republic, will be staged between 28 February and 7 March 2021.
• Due to decreasing probability of international events being staged according to the original plan in 2020, the ITTF will therefore attempt to stage “bubble” or regionally based events during the remainder of the 2020 calendar, working around ever-changing international travel restrictions.
• The Home of Table Tennis tender process, which was postponed indefinitely in late March, has confirmed revised timelines. The tender team will be reaching out to those cities which have expressed interest in the coming days to inform them about the revised process.
The ITTF Executive Committee will meet again on Friday 28th August 2020 and will continue to provide further updates on all upcoming decisions in view of the COVID-19 pandemic.
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An Expat’s Guide to Living in the United States
The US remains a popular destination for British expats with almost 900,000 calling it home. The land of hope and opportunity, of the free and the brave, the US has something to offer everyone with its distinct melting pot of cultures, climates, landscapes and lifestyles.
I was fortunate to live in Raleigh, North Carolina during my twenties but much has changed since then.
While the US is still an economic and political powerhouse, the country’s finances have taken a beating in recent years and the cost of living has dropped on the whole, while job opportunities are not as bountiful as they once were. Your experience as a new resident of the US will therefore be life changing but not entirely without its challenges.
The Locals
Americans are a positive and outgoing people, sociable in their dealings and welcoming to any new arrival. Within hours of landing in the US, a work colleague collected me from my apartment and hosted me at his house for dinner with his family. It is this feeling of warmth and belonging that will appeal to many expats and has much to do with a widespread sense of doing what is ‘right’. US citizens believe passionately in their country and its values, regardless of any failings of the government of the day, and these values are readily shared with anyone living in the US.
While English is the most commonly spoken language, it’s estimated that a large number of US inhabitants speak a language other than English at home. With a diverse mix of people of European, African, Asian and Hispanic descent and a long history of immigration, this comes as no surprise. For many expats, this feeling of multiculturalism lends itself to feeling less isolated and not quite so different when settling in the country. It also means that the authorities are well versed in dealing with people from a range of cultures and backgrounds.
Although still recognised as the land of opportunity by many, the image of the US has taken a knock since the financial crisis. As a result, expats may not head to the US for specific employment opportunities but rather the relatively low cost of living (lower taxes and cheaper dining for example), strong work beliefs and greater ethnic diversity. The US remains the world’s biggest economy (although this could soon change) and its people continue to benefit from this status to some degree.
Better weather, better attractions, better scenery – these will likely be some of the key selling points for British expats moving to the US, with cultural centres including New York, Boston and San Francisco attracting large numbers of Brits heading to stateside. Given the much-improved weather further to the south, Florida has always been a soft spot for immigrants looking to retire in the sunshine and by the water. Whatever your destination, it’s well worth researching the city or area you plan to live in for its weather alone, as there can be a fair amount of variation in a country of this size.
The Healthcare
A major bone of contention for most Americans, healthcare deserves a mention. The US is one of the few developed nations that does not provide universal healthcare to its citizens and residents (compare this to the NHS in the UK) and this situation seems unlikely to significantly change any time soon. It’s therefore vital to purchase a medical insurance policy to protect against unexpected health costs and emergencies – you’ll need to insure for everything, including dental visits, hospitalisation, even seeing a general doctor.
On balance, the US is a great place to move to. With its variety of cities, landscapes, sports, history, culture, art, universities, corporations and improved prospects for the future, it’s a fantastic base for any budding expat.
Russell Ward is a British expat living on Sydney’s Northern Beaches where he writes about his search for a life less ordinary at www.insearchofalifelessordinary.com, one of Australia’s leading expat and travel blogs.
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Berentzen-Gruppe has posted its 2003 figures. The German drinks producer announced over the weekend that sales for the year had risen to €193.6m (US$233.9m) from €190.5m in 2002.
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Arsenal News Arsenal Rumours
Which striker should Arsenal sign this summer?
By GoonerP - 13 January 2017, 9:23
Arsenal are being linked with both Alvaro Morata and Andrea Belotti at present, but which would be better for Arsenal?
Former Gunner Paul Mariner has spoken highly of the Italian, who is currently in a amazing run of form in front of goal scoring 15 goals in his 20 Torino appearances thus far, including the opening goal in last night’s 2-1 loss to AC Milan.
Mariner said: “I like him.
“He’s 6ft 1, plays in the national team, only 23 years old, a fantastic age. I like this.
“I don’t know if it’ll happen in January but I wouldn’t mind seeing that.”
His club is adamant that he will not be sold this window, although his club also claimed that we had launched a bid in excess of £50 Million for his signature, so Torino’s supposed claims are hard to believe…
Alvaro Morata is also being linked with a potential switch to the Emirates, with a summer deal supposedly possible. Arsenal were very strongly linked with his capture last summer, and with Real Madrid using him as a back-up to Karim Benzema at present, Morata may well be eager to force a move away from the club.
The Spaniard left Real to join Juventus in 2014 and clocked up 93 appearances in all competitions before having his buy-back clause triggered and returned to his former club.
Morata has since been chosen to start only 10 matches in all competitions, and unless there is a change in his opportunities, he will likely be very unhappy with his situation.
Arsenal currently have Olivier Giroud, Danny Welbeck, Lucas Perez and Alexis Sanchez vying for a place up front, but we are still eagerly awaiting a top striker to come in and lead the line.
Should Arsenal sign the red-hot Italian this summer, or the big-match player Morata?
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DDK says:
We would need to sell players in order to accommodate a new striker, which I am fine with, just don’t see that happening though.
Ozzy AFC says:
Niether will happen, Cant see Wenger OR the board spending too much this summer its one year on one year off with these guys and though half the players they brought in this year were dross they still spent quiey a lot…for Arsenal at any rate
until we know the future of Jack Wilshere, Alexis Sanchez, Mesut Ozil before we go shopping
oh yes forgot and Arsen Wanger
Ace says:
We have Sanogo guys- CHILL!! Lol
Arsenal_Girl says:
We have Alexis, Giroud, Welbeck, Lucas, Akpom, Sanogo for CF
On wings we have Alexis, Walcott, Ox, Lucas, Welbeck, Campbell, Iwobi and Ramsey (Wenger uses him on right sometimes)
We have too many forwards, which will be Wenger’s excuse. But only Alexis is WC in my opinion. Ideally we need two more but I would settle for one more.
I would sell Campbell, Sanogo, Ramsey (prefer Wilshere) and either Theo or Ox to fund a WC forward. Loan Akpom
Top forwards include, Aubemeyang, Rodriguez, Lewandowski, Reus, Greizmann,
Dennis10Bergkamp says:
Rodriguez is not a forward, he is similar to Ozil and I dont want him.
Aubemeyang and Lewa are real strikers and something we need, Alexis is better on the wing.
Midkemma says:
I will disagree about Alexis being better on the wings.
He has brought a lot more goals to Arsenal then just scoring himself.
Last season he made 11 assists in total?
http://www.transfermarkt.co.uk/alexis-sanchez/leistungsdaten/spieler/40433/plus/0?saison=2015
This season he has already made 13 assists from a CF role.
So far, playing a CF for this season, he has made more assists and scored only TWO goals less than the whole of last season.
This makes me believe Arsenal need a top left sided attacker to compliment Alexis, Theo (when fit) was scoring goals and Alexis helped a lot with his movement and passing to create the chances for Theo.
Maybe some people think Alexis is better on the left because we have no consistent talent to play on that side?
But would that be “better for Arsenal if Alexis played on the left” rather than “Alexis is better on the left”?
Reus now comes to mind…
A real goalscoring threat that can play on the left and has the attributes to play as a CF when Alexis drops deep or moves into the left channel…
peter zhang says:
I prefer the Italian. But I don’t think the professor would buy any one.He is the stubborn one. We have missed so many good players in recent years, such as Kant, Costa,Marhrez, Suarez,De Bruyne,Coutino and Azar, etc . I have been losing my faith for Arsene. He is indulging in his old ideas. Don’t want to spend even one more penny if he believes that it is beyond its own value. I admit he is a economics professor, but we need a boss rather than a professor. He forgot the added value of the players. The best players and the champions could make more money to the club. A club with enough money and many champions must be more attractive to the best players and the fans. Sometimes spending more money means getting more money. That’s Geometric approach to growth rather than a linear growth. He is a little bit out of date. And take a look at his team,we lack the hardness and the ambition . We just have two mad dogs, Sanchez and Coquelin. Don’t expect Giroud,Ozil, Ramsey, Walcot ,Elneny and Iwobi could get the ball back, they all are not strong enough and a little bit of soft. We need some “dirty” and bloody guys to fix the balance.
ruelando says:
Other from junior players coming in i do not see Wenger making a move for anyone, much less a forward, I do believe we need a creative midfielder, one with some amount of experience, to help dictate our play, although ozil is a great player i am not amused by his moods determining arsenal play, he made a recent comment about it was the team that caused him to play so badly against Mancity and everton, when it is he who should be motivating the team to play better by showing a never give up attitude, even when things are going bad.
let me get back to the point before wondering off, i think we actually have to sell some players in order to bring in anyone, which looks rather bleak, if wenger actually sells debuchy and jenkinson which i think he wants to do, i think he has someone in mind he wants to bring in, but lets see we have at most 3 weeks to go
citrenoogeht says:
This theme of this article suggests that it is a ‘slow news day’ but anyway, Morata is so overrated and I’m extremely pleased that we not bought him in the past. Belotti on the other hand looks like there is potential there. But to reiterate, I think with the number of strikers we have at the moment (not forgetting Takuma Asano), it would be extremely unlikely that we would bring in another striker without any of the present strikers leaving.
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VH214 Paradise By The Sea at Villas of Hatteras Landing
Address: 58822 Marina Way #214 Hatteras, NC 27943
1 Bedrooms 1 Bathrooms Sleeps 6 No Villas of Hatteras Landing Westside Community
Welcome to Paradise By The Sea at Villas of Hatteras Landing by KEES Vacations
Rarely do getaways have a smaller getaway built into them, but that's exactly what you will find at Hatteras. While the Outer Banks is a place overflowing with culture and history, this village - located after driving down the sometimes pencil-thin straights of Highway 12 - is at the very bottom of Hatteras Island, itself one of the south barrier islands of the OBX. This community is one of fisherman, of sea-frosted homes and independent methods for living life to the fullest, and, firmly nestled at the end of this community, resides the Villas of Hatteras Landing.
With two full beds and queen-sized sleeper sofa, this cozy little one-bedroom condo can accommodate up to six guests with ease. Throughout the interior, pictures of sea-life have been hung to remind vacationers of the nautical history that is prolific throughout the OBX and particularly prevalent in Hatteras. Flat screen TVs adorn both the living room and bedroom to allow for comfy relaxation after a great day at the beach!
The kitchen has also been outfitted to give the impression of a home-away-from-home. Dishes, cookware and silverware are provided that will be enough to please the chef of any family. Happen to save some leftovers from one of the waterside grills or delis in Hatteras? Store the meal in the fridge and then heat it up in the microwave or mini-oven.
Restaurants are far from the only wonderful attractions found in Hatteras, however; this area never has a lack of activities to take part in! Want to learn more about its history and culture? Visit the towering Hatteras Lighthouse, or perhaps the local maritime museum which focuses on shipwrecks and the history of these storied shores. Want to get up-close and personal with the water? Take advantage of the Hatteras recreational diving scene!
There is so much more to experience around these quaint villas. Come see for yourself why Hatteras and the Outer Banks as a whole has achieved such a stunning reputation among beach-goers and vacationers alike. We hope to see you soon!
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Swiss fear rise in COVID-19 cases could overburden hospitals
Posted: Oct 21, 2020 / 07:09 AM PDT / Updated: Oct 21, 2020 / 07:09 AM PDT
A woman wearing a protective mask walks in front of a FOPH poster in front of a shopping centre in Fribourg, Switzerland, Friday, Oct. 16, 2020. Europe is at a “turning point” in the fight against the coronavirus, said Bertrand Levrat, head of Switzerland’s biggest hospital complex, acknowledging growing public fatigue over anti-COVID measures but says people must buckle down as Switzerland grapples with record daily case counts with measures like limiting the size of gatherings and stripping soldiers of weekend leave.
(Jean-Christophe Bott/Keystone via AP)
GENEVA (AP) — The Swiss health minister said coronavirus case counts and hospitalizations were doubling every week, warning of the prospect of overburdened hospitals as Switzerland has gone from one of the least-affected countries in Europe to one of the worst-hit in just three weeks.
Alain Berset made the comments after the country of 8.5 million tallied on Wednesday a record 5,583 new cases over the latest 24 hours, obliterating the previous one-day record — set two days earlier — by about 14%.
He said the government will act again if new restrictive measures announced over the weekend don’t help lower the count.
“The situation is worsening, and worsening fast,” Berset told a news conference in Bern, the capital.
“Three weeks ago, we had a situation that was among the best on the European continent,” he said. “Three weeks later, we have one of the worst situations as far as Europe goes.”
Europe has faced a punishing second wave in recent weeks and has again become one of the epicenters of the COVID-19 pandemic. It tallied a record 927,000 confirmed cases over the last week.
Based on a 14-day moving average, Switzerland now counts about 394 cases per 100,000 people, he said.
“A month ago, it was less than 60,” Berset said, alluding to a previous level at which Swiss authorities had set as a warning threshold.
He said the Swiss government would wait until next Wednesday to see if new measures can stem the spread, because it will take 10 days to determine their effect, and would tighten them if necessary.
Those measures, announced Sunday, include a requirement for people to wear face and nose coverings in all publicly accessible indoor areas, such as railway stations, airports, schools, shopping malls, stores, places of worship, libraries and hotels.
Gatherings of more than 15 people aren’t permitted in public, and new regulations were put on private events of more than 15 people. People were urged to work from home if possible.
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New Mexicans continue to cast their ballots ahead of midterms
Posted: Oct 28, 2018 / 03:52 PM MDT / Updated: Oct 29, 2018 / 06:56 AM MDT
With almost one week until the midterm elections, nearly 240,000 New Mexicans have cast their ballots.
Democrats continue to hold the lead on Republicans with about 130,000 votes.
Of the New Mexico counties, Bernalillo voters have the highest turnout rate so far.
The mobile voting unit will be up and running Monday at the Atria Senior Living Facility at Indian School and University.
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SANTA FE, N.M. (KRQE) – President-elect Joe Biden has chosen New Mexico's Democratic Congresswoman Deb Haaland to be the next Secretary of the Interior. If the U.S. Senate confirms her, she would have to leave her district seat in New Mexico. Who will replace Representative Deb Haaland for New Mexico's 1st Congressional District if confirmed by the US Senate for Interior Secretary and how would it work?
Within ten days after the vacancy occurs (which will presumably be Congresswoman Haaland is confirmed by the Senate and vacates her House seat), the New Mexico Secretary of State will call a special election:
Albuquerque elects new mayor in 2021 plus city councilors
by KRQE Staff / Jan 11, 2021
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) – The Albuquerque Regular Local Election is Tuesday, Nov. 2. In this election, voters will elect a new mayor and new councilors for odd-numbered districts (1, 3, 5, 7, and 9).
The ballot will include candidates for Albuquerque Mayor and City Council Districts 1, 3, 5, 7, and 9. The ballot may also contain other items. The 2021 election will be administered by the Bernalillo County Clerk, although public financing, campaign finance reporting, and the verification of nominating petitions for candidates will be administered by the Albuquerque City Clerk.
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Traditional Furniture vs. Contemporary Furniture
Submitted by blog-manager on Thu, 08/20/2020 - 5:21am
One of the major benefits of custom luxury home plans in Fort Wayne, IN, is that the final product will always match your personal sense of style. This is great whether you're a traditionalist or you prefer something a bit more modern. When it comes to furnishings to go along with your new home, this choice needs to be made once again. Do you want something more traditional and classic, or do you like a more contemporary approach? It's worth looking at the key differences between traditional furniture and other more contemporary options to make an informed decision. There's no wrong choice, but it's important to embrace your personal preferences so your home reflects you and your ideal design elements.
One signature characteristic of traditional design is the core material. Traditional furniture is typically made out of wood. This may seem somewhat obvious, but it's an essential characteristic. The wood tends to differ depending upon the period and available materials, but oak, maple, and mahogany are not uncommon. The result is that traditional furniture tends to be heavy, rugged, and able to endure for generations. Handcrafted pieces made from hardwood could last for generations. This is why traditional furniture sometimes becomes a family heirloom. If well-kept and preserved, it's able to endure and remain in excellent condition for quite some time.
Wood allows for some of the telltale designs that go along with traditional furniture. Common features include claw feet, rolled arms, arched backs, large feet, wooden trim, dark wood, or decorative knobs, and other carved features. The upholstery itself tends to be cloth, although leather is sometimes used. Traditional furniture tends to be ornate. It's often designed to resemble furniture that was common in the 19th century or even earlier. Early American, federal, and colonial are a few examples of American styles of traditional furniture.
Contemporary furniture tends to distinguish itself from traditional furniture quite consciously and intentionally. Contemporary furniture chooses to break ties with traditional ideals and approaches to furniture. It uses synthetic fabric or other materials not found in traditional furniture, such as steel, glass, or formed plastics. With contemporary furniture designs, function is maintained, while traditional aesthetic principles tend to be ignored. Most contemporary furniture owes its origins or influence to the Shaker style. It's a clean and simple style with basic lines. The ornate features of traditional furniture are nowhere to be seen.
For contemporary furniture, the focus is on being subtle, understated, or sleek. Metal is taken advantage of in order to craft curves, and plastics enable the furniture to be light and colorful. You won't find sofa skirts or leather-covered buttons. However, you might find tubular steel or welded wire mesh.
Neither option is wrong. If you prefer rustic or traditional architecture, you likely prefer traditional furnishings as well. The same is true if you like more modern or industrial architectural styles. Most people who want a contemporary home also want contemporary furniture. Of course, mixing and matching the two is also possible.
Ultimately, it comes down to your personal preferences or even whimsy. If you prefer sleek and clean, contemporary furniture is probably the way to go. For something more ornate, traditional furniture deliver what you want. With the best home builders in Fort Wayne, IN, you can incorporate whatever furnishings you like. Contact Lancia Homes at (260) 489-4433 if you have any questions.
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Live: Lancashire's Tier 3 lockdown reaction as row over new rules continues
Blackpool, Blackburn, Darwen, Burnley, Hyndburn, Rossendale, Pendle, Lancaster, Fylde, Wyre, Chorley, South Ribble and Ribble Valley have all been placed into the same restrictions
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The whole of Lancashire has been placed into the Government's highest Tier 3 lockdown.
The tier regime will come into effect when the national lockdown ends on December 2.
It comes despite a county-wide plea for Government to divide the county into two lockdown blocks, with a request to place Preston, Blackburn with Darwen, Burnley, Hyndburn, Rossendale and Pendle in Tier 3 and Blackpool, Lancaster, Fylde, Wyre, Chorley, South Ribble, Ribble Valley in the less severe Tier 2.
The recommendation from Lancashire was placed despite Government confirming there would be no negotiations this time around after lengthy talks with Lancashire leaders during the initial introduction of Tier 3 on October 17.
It will come as a huge blow to parts of Lancashire where infection rates have dropped off significantly, including Blackpool and Lancaster.
Just last week, Lancaster and Fleetwood MP Cat Smith said that Lancashire was not "one homogeneous block", with around 120 businesses and organisations in Lancaster signing a letter to the city council and Whitehall for Lancaster to not be grouped with more problem areas in the county such as Blackburn and Hyndburn.
Under the new system in tier one, a maximum of six people can meet indoors or outdoors; in tier two, there is no mixing of households indoors, while a maximum of six people can meet outdoors; and in tier three – the toughest – household mixing is not allowed indoors, or in most outdoor places although up to six will be able to meet in large outdoor spaces such as parks.
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All non-essential shops, personal service businesses such a hairdressers and gyms would be allowed to reopen in all tiers.
A review of each tier is set to be undertaken every two weeks, meaning that areas which manage to further slow the spread of the virus could still be moved down a tier before Christmas.
The first review of the tiers is due to take place by December 16.
We will providing you live updates via our live blog below.
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Infection rates fall again across Lancashire with no area in top 10
Coronavirus infection rates in all 14 Lancashire boroughs have fallen for the second consecutive day, the latest data has revealed.
The whole of the region will enter Tier 3 when the national lockdown ends on December 2 - and it’s hoped the ‘very high alert’ restrictions will help prevent the spread of Covid-19.
An update of the rolling seven-day rate of new cases shows that no local authority has an infection rate above the 400 mark for the first time in two months.
Hyndburn continues to have the highest rate of any borough, but this has dropped from 446.7 cases per 100,000 people to 359.1.
Four areas now have rates below the England average of 186.6, with Lancaster the lowest in the county at 102.7.
After several months, no area of Lancashire is in the top 10 infection rates with Hyndburn the highest placed at 14th.
Only Burnley, Blackburn with Darwen, Pendle and Rossendale now remain in the top 50 list of English local authorities.
Full list of Lancashire infection rates on November 27:
Hyndburn, 359.1, (291), 446.7, (362) ↓
Burnley, 334.0, (297), 392.5, (349) ↓
Blackburn with Darwen, 319.3, (478), 469.6, (703) ↓
Pendle, 317.0, (292), 419.1, (386) ↓
Rossendale, 296.6, (212), 366.5, (262) ↓
Preston, 259.2, (371), 340.2, (487) ↓
South Ribble, 207.6, (230), 239.2, (265) ↓
Chorley, 197.1, (233), 264.8, (313) ↓
Fylde, 195.6, (158), 288.4, (233) ↓
Ribble Valley, 188.9, (115), 274.3, (167) ↓
------------------------------------------------ = The average for England is 186.6
Blackpool, 181.4, (253), 284.0, (396) ↓
West Lancashire, 152.2, (174), 254.6, (291) ↓
Wyre, 136.5, (153), 199.8, (224) ↓
Lancaster, 102.7, (150), 137.0, (200) ↓
More than 1,300 people wrongly told they have Covid due to Test and Trace error
More than 1,300 people were wrongly told they had coronavirus due to a lab error with NHS Test and Trace.
The Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) said 1,311 people who took a test between November 19-23 across the UK were incorrectly told they received a positive result.
It said there was an issue with a batch of testing chemicals which meant their results were void.
A DHSC spokesman said: “Swift action is being taken to notify those affected and they are being asked to take another test, and to continue to self-isolate if they have symptoms.
“This laboratory error was an isolated incident and is being fully investigated to ensure this does not happen again.”
The DHSC did not comment on whether the error affected regional figures of infection rates.
Test and Trace has been beset with issues, with figures earlier this week revealing about four in 10 contacts of those who test positive for the virus are still not being reached.
The Prime Minister announced an extra £7 billion for Test and Trace in his winter plan on Monday in a bid to increase testing and improve contact tracing.
It takes the overall funding provided for Test and Trace this financial year to £22 billion – nearly a fifth of the entire annual NHS budget – which has been met with some criticism.
But Boris Johnson was adamant the system provided “value” for money although admitted there had been “teething problems”.
The Lancashire neighbourhoods where Covid is at its highest and its lowest
There are currently 19 Lancashire neighbourhoods with infection rates higher than 400 as the county prepares strengthened Tier 3 lockdown restrictions next week.
But there are also 27 neighbourhoods in the county with rates lower than 120 - with one area as low as 43.9 new cases per 100,000 people.
Here is Friday’s update of the rolling seven-day rate of new cases of Covid-19 for every local authority area in England.
The figures, for the seven days to November 23, are based on tests carried out in laboratories (pillar one of the Government’s testing programme) and in the wider community (pillar two).
Data for the most recent four days (November 24-27) has been excluded as it is incomplete and does not reflect the true number of cases.
A majority of areas in England (298 out of 315) have seen a fall in case rates.
Swale in Kent continues to have the highest rate in England, with 841 new cases recorded in the seven days to November 23 – the equivalent of 560.4 cases per 100,000 people.
This is down from 655.0 in the seven days to November 16.
Thanet has the second highest rate, down from 521.4 to 468.6, with 665 new cases.
Boston is in third place, where the rate has dropped from 468.8 to 453.2, with 318 new cases.
The areas with the biggest week-on-week jump in rates are Medway (up from 343.6 to 447.7, with 1,247 new cases); Harlow (up from 151.6 to 225.1, with 196 new cases); and Ipswich (up from 92.0 to 157.8, with 216 new cases).
Top 10 infection rates areas in England
Swale, 560.4, (841), 655.0, (983)
Thanet, 468.6, (665), 521.4, (740)
Boston, 453.2, (318), 468.8, (329)
Medway, 447.7, (1247), 343.6, (957)
Hull, 415.4, (1079), 702.9, (1826)
Stoke-on-Trent, 402.9, (1033), 533.2, (1367)
Gravesham, 392.7, (420), 334.8, (358)
Oadby and Wigston, 384.1, (219), 515.7, (294)
Dudley, 383.1, (1232), 538.6, (1732)
East Lindsey, 372.5, (528), 572.9, (812)
Cumbria records lowest daily cases rise this week
Cumbria has recorded another 54 cases of coronavirus in the latest 24 hour period.
It is the lowest number of daily cases recorded so far this week, following previous rises of 69 on Monday, 57 on Tuesday, 70 on Wednesday and 71 on Thursday.
It brings the total number of confirmed Covid-19 cases across the county since the start of the pandemic to 10,104.
The number of daily confirmed cases of coronavirus by Cumbria borough as of Friday, November 27:
Allerdale: 1,407 (+9), 1,439.2 per 100,000
Barrow-in-Furness: 1,955 (+10), 2,915.8 per 100,000
Carlisle: 2,602 (+17), 2,394.2 per 100,000
Copeland: 1,164 (+5), 1,707.2 per 100,000
Eden: 901 (+3) 1,691.9 per 100,000
South Lakeland: 2,075 (+10) 1,974.5 per 100,000
Lancashire records 498 more coronavirus cases - with number rising every day this week
Lancashire has recorded another 498 cases of coronavirus in the latest 24 hour period.
The number of positive tests has risen slowly over recent days despite three weeks of national lockdown, from 356 on Monday, to 361 on Tuesday, and 481 on both Wednesday and Thursday.
After recording one of the lowest increases in Lancashire yesterday with 22 cases, Blackburn with Darwen has today recorded the most with 69 positive tests.
South Ribble was the only other borough to record more than 50 infections while Ribble Valley recorded the least with 17.
The number of daily confirmed cases of coronavirus by Lancashire borough as of Friday, November 27:
Blackburn with Darwen: 9,448 (+69), 6,311.5 per 100,00
Blackpool: 5,135 (+37), 3,682.4 per 100,000
Burnley: 4,503 (+46), 5,064.1 per 100,000
Chorley: 3,614 (+33), 3,057.1 per 100,000
Fylde: 2,422 (+19), 2,998.3 per 100,000
Hyndburn: 3,729 (+29), 4,601.3 per 100,000
Lancaster: 4,078 (+28), 2,792.4 per 100,000
Pendle: 4,645 (+48), 5,042.8 per 100,000
Preston: 7,060 (+38), 4,932.4 per 100,000
Ribble Valley: 1,987 (+17), 3,263.4 per 100,000
Rossendale: 3,194 (+28), 4,468.3 per 100,000
South Ribble: 3,524 (+53), 3,180.8 per 100,000
West Lancashire: 4,553 (+20) 3,983.2 per 100,000
Wyre: 3,296 (+31), 2,940.5 per 100,000
521 more deaths and 16,022 new cases in UK
The Government said that, as of 9am on Friday, there had been a further 16,022 lab-confirmed cases of coronavirus in the UK.
It brings the total number of cases in the UK to 1,589,301.
A further 521 people had died within 28 days of testing positive for Covid-19 as of Friday, bringing the UK total to 57,551.
Separate figures published by the UK’s statistics agencies for deaths where Covid-19 has been mentioned on the death certificate, together with additional data on deaths that have occurred in recent days, show there have now been 72,000 deaths involving Covid-19 in the UK.
Primark extends Lancashire opening hours as 11 stores open for 24 hours when lockdown ends
Primark has announced which stores in the UK will be open for 24 hours when national lockdown ends on December 2.
They have also extended opening hours in all stores, with some in Lancashire trading as late as midnight.
The popular discount retailer is aiming to cater for the huge demand when stores finally reopen after four weeks of closure and with the busy Christmas shopping season ahead.
Bosses also want to help safely reduce queues by spreading shopping hours over a longer period of time.
See the full list here and how it affects Lancashire.
Lancs mum gets terminal diagnosis on Zoom after lockdown cancelled appointments
A Lancashire mum who missed out on three vital medical appointments due to the coronavirus lockdown was told she has a rare and terminal cancer on a Zoom call with her doctors.
Kimberley Eccles, from Leyland, has been given only six months to live after the aggressive Rhabdomyosarcoma spread.
The doctor described the cancer “as a ticking bomb” that needs to be addressed as soon as possible because “once it goes off there isn’t any going back”.
The disease is a rare type of soft tissue sarcoma cancer that grows in the voluntary muscles of the body, according to Macmillan Cancer Support.
The mum-of-one initially thought she was suffering from an ulcer on her face, after noticing a small growth on her cheek that was then left undiagnosed.
She was given the devastating diagnosis in August over an online video call while her seven-year-old daughter Maya was at home with her.
North West R rate now as low as 0.7
The crucial R-rate, which measures how fast coronavirus is spreading in the UK, has fallen below 1.
The figures released today shows that the North West has a R-rate of 0.7 to 0.9 making it the lowest in England.
Government scientists have said the number across the UK is now between to 0.9 and 1.0.
That means that currently every 10 people with Covid-19 pass the virus to one other person on average.
Last week the R-rate was between 1.0 and 1.1.
Because the figures come with a time lag of up to three weeks, R-rate may already be below 0.9 in England but it hasn’t yet shown up on the official figure.
Experts believe that the R number is already below 1 in some places, particularly in parts of Yorkshire and potentially parts of the north-east as well as the north-west of England.
According to a Government advisor, the Government’s new Tier 3 and Tier 2 interventions, which are due to come into effect on December 2, should keep the R number below 1 in the run up to Christmas.
24 more Lancashire hospital coronavirus deaths
A further 24 coronavirus deaths have been recorded in Lancashire’s hospitals.
The region’s hospital death toll now stands at 1,750, according to the latest NHS data.
In the last 24 hours, 10 coronavirus-related deaths were recorded at East Lancashire Hospitals, which is home to the areas in the county with the highest rate of infection.
Seven patients died on Tuesday (November 24) and three people died on Wednesday (November 25).
Blackpool Teaching Hospitals recorded five more deaths, including one on November 14, one on November 21, one on November 24 and two on November 25.
Six people died at University Hospitals of Morecambe Bay, including five on November 25 and one on November 26.
Lancashire Teaching Hospitals, which manage Preston and Chorley hospitals, recorded two deaths on November 24 while Southport and Ormskirk Hospital NHS Trust recorded another fatality on November 21.
Total coronavirus deaths across Lancashire’s five NHS hospital trusts as of Thursday, November 26:
Blackpool Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust: 414 deaths
East Lancashire Hospitals NHS Trust: 453 deaths
Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust: 381 deaths
Southport and Ormskirk Hospital NHS Trust: 238 deaths
University Hospitals Of Morecambe Bay NHS Foundation Trust: 301 deaths
House of Commons speaker asks PM to review Lancashire Tier 3 decision
Chorley MP and House of Commons Speaker Sir Lindsay Hoyle has spoken of his disappointment at the whole of Lancashire going into Tier 3.
He Tweeted:
Like many residents in Chorley I am disappointed that Lancashire will be placed into Tier 3 from 2 Dec.
We have seen significant reductions in infection rates thanks to the efforts of local people and I have therefore written to the Prime Minister asking him to review his decision.”
North West cases
There are now 300,071 confirmed cases of coronavirus across the North West, new Public Health England figures show.
The data below includes the total number of cases and overall infection rate for each area since the pandemic began. Many of these cases will no longer be active.
You can read rolling live updates on Covid and Lancashire’s place in the Tier system by looking here.
These are the number of confirmed cases of coronavirus by North West area as of November 26:
Blackburn with Darwen: 9,379
Blackpool: 5,098
Bolton: 14,764
Bury: 9,495
Cheshire East: 8,706
Cheshire West and Chester: 8,770
Cumbria: 10,050
Halton: 4,580
Knowsley: 7,718
Lancashire: 46,215
Liverpool: 23,772
Manchester: 30,482
Oldham: 14,497
Rochdale: 12,346
Salford: 13,135
Sefton: 10,392
St. Helens: 7,491
Stockport: 10,313
Tameside: 10,233
Trafford: 8,559
Warrington: 8,043
Wigan: 16,145
Wirral: 9,888
You can enter a postcode below to find out the cases near you.
Across the UK there has so far been 1,574,562 positive cases.
Of those, England accounts for 1,355,272 cases with a rate of 2,407.8 per 100,000 people.
In comparison, Northern Ireland there are 51,118 cases with a rate of 2,699.4 per 100,000 people while Scotland has 92,186 cases with a rate of 1,687.4 per 100,000 people.
Wales accounts for 75,986 cases with a rate of 2,410.1 per 100,000 people.
18 reasons you can still meet up with people in Lancashire's Tier 3 lockdown
Lancashire will enter the toughest level of the government’s new three-tier system, it has been announced.
The county will enter Tier 3 from December 2 as England’s lockdown is lifted, with the area placed on ‘Very High’ alert level.
It comes despite a county-wide plea for Government to divide the county into two lockdown blocks with a request to place Preston, Blackburn with Darwen, Burnley, Hyndburn, Rossendale and Pendle in Tier 3 and Blackpool, Lancaster, Fylde, Wyre, Chorley, South Ribble, Ribble Valley in the less severe Tier 2.
Members of the public wearing masks queue to enter shops as the UK continues in lockdown (Image: PA)
The news has come with mixed reaction from across the county, as once again strict measures are imposed upon people’s lives.
But there are still reasons why people can see one another.
Here are all the reasons you can still meet up with people in Tier 3.
Government could face ‘tough choices’ over vaccines
The Government could face some “tough choices” if the vaccine produced by AstraZeneca and Oxford University is found to be less effective than others, a former Department of Health director of immunisation has said.
Professor David Salisbury said ministers would need to think “very carefully” about their handling of the vaccine if its efficacy was lower than for other jabs such as those from Pfizer/BioNTech and Moderna.
The AstraZeneca/Oxford vaccine is currently being assessed by the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) for use in the UK.
Data from two arms of its phase-three trial, announced last week, gave a combined efficacy of 70%.
A half dose followed by a full dose was found to be 90% effective in protecting against Covid-19, according to a subset of data, but the figure was 62% for people given two full doses.
The 90% finding was based on a dosing regimen given to 2,741 people, while the two dose arm of the trial involved 8,895 people.
AstraZeneca has said it will carry out a further global clinical trial to assess the 90% dosing regimen, which it acknowledged was as a result of a dosing error.
Prof Salisbury told BBC Radio 4’s Today programme there could be issues if the 90% finding did not hold up under scrutiny.
It comes after some scientists, including in the US, questioned the validity of the data, including the fact the 90% dosing regimen was only on people aged 55 and under.
“I think this has to be unpicked and it may not be possible to do that with the amount of patients that have been recruited so far,” Prof Salisbury said.
“If this vaccine came through at truly 90% and it is a cheaper vaccine and it requires much less rigorous cold chain (storage) than the RNA vaccines (from Pfizer and Moderna), then that would be a great result.
“But if it comes through at 62% and the other vaccines that are coming through so far are 90%, then I think you have to think very carefully what do we do with a 100 million doses of a product that isn’t protecting as well as the alternatives?
“I think there are some tough choices.”
Covid controls may be eased before Christmas, says minister
Ministers have raised the prospect that some coronavirus restrictions in England could be eased before Christmas as they seek to head off a growing Tory revolt.
Many Conservative MPs reacted with fury after it emerged that 99% of the country is to be placed in the top two tiers of restrictions when the lockdown lifts next week.
There was bafflement that areas with low infection rates are facing tougher controls – including a ban on social mixing indoors – than before they went into lockdown last month.
With a crucial Commons vote looming, Communities Secretary Robert Jenrick insisted there is “every reason” to expect some areas could be moved into a lower tier when the controls come up for their first 14-day review on December 16.
“At that point we – advised by the experts – will look at each local authority area and see whether there is potential to move down the tiers,” he told Sky News.
“There were a number of places which were quite finely balanced judgements where they were on the cusp of different tiers. Those are the places that are more likely to be in that position.”
The exact rules on seeing family and friends in Lancashire's Tier 3 lockdown
Lancashire has discovered its post-lockdown fate with the entirety of the county being placed under Tier 3 restrictions.
The confirmation from Government that the whole of Lancashire will be placed into the toughest measures from December 2, when the national lockdown ends, has sparked huge controversy.
In the ‘Very High’ alert level, there are rules restricting social contact and therefore impact whether or not you can see family and friends - and where you do so.
Under the restrictions people are banned from meeting socially indoors or in most outdoor places with anybody you don’t live with, or who is not in your support bubble.
This includes any private garden and most outdoor venues.
Tough coronavirus restrictions for 99% as England faces ‘hard winter’
More than 55 million people face tougher coronavirus restrictions in England after December 2 as Boris Johnson warned any easing off could lead to another national lockdown in the new year.
Only the Isle of Wight, Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly – accounting for little over 1% of England’s population – face the lightest Tier 1 restrictions.
Large swathes of the Midlands, North East and North West are in the most restrictive Tier 3, but the majority of people – including London – will be in Tier 2.
At a Downing Street press conference, Prime Minister Boris Johnson said: “I’m sorry to confirm that from Wednesday most of England will be in the top two tiers, with the toughest measures.
“And I know that this will bring a great deal of heartache and frustration, especially for our vital hospitality sector.”
But he warned: “If we ease off now we risk losing control over this virus all over again, casting aside our hard-won gains and forcing us back into a new year national lockdown with all the damage that would mean.”
Some 23.3 million people – 41.5% of the population of England – will be in Tier 3, while 32 million people – 57.3% – will be in the second tier.
Latest Lancashire cases
Across Lancashire, 481 more people have tested positive for coronavirus in the last 24 hours.
According to Public Health England, Blackburn with Darwen has recorded its lowest daily increase for nearly two months with 22 people contracting the virus.
Preston recorded 32 cases - nearly half the number from the day before - while Rossendale recorded the most new infections with 69. This is up from the 17 recorded the day prior.
It brings the total number of confirmed cases since the start of the pandemic in Lancashire to 60,692.
The new case data includes people being tested both through ‘Pillar 1’ - which is in hospitals - and Pillar 2 - which is drive-through test centres and swabs sent by post.
The number of daily confirmed cases of coronavirus by Lancashire borough as of Thursday, November 26:
Lancaster: 4,050 (+30),2,773.3 per 100,000
South Ribble: 3,471 (+44), 3,133 per 100,000
PM facing rebellion over new rules
The decision to impose tough restrictions on 99% of England has prompted a furious reaction with Boris Johnson facing a Tory revolt over his post-lockdown plans.
More than 55 million people will be placed into Tier 2 and Tier 3 measures when the second national lockdown ends on December 2, meaning mixing between households indoors will effectively be banned for the vast majority of the country.
Only the Isle of Wight, Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly – accounting for little more than 1% of England’s population – face the lightest Tier 1 coronavirus restrictions.
Out of those areas to go into Tier 3, only eight of 119 have reported a rise in cases.
Sir Graham Brady, chairman of the influential 1922 Committee of Conservative MPs, said the decision would make it “harder” to push the measures through Parliament, while the Daily Mail suggested up to 70 Government backbenchers were prepared to rebel in a vote on the regulations next week.
He told BBC Two’s Newsnight: “By forcing so much of the country into those really tough restrictions, especially places where the rates of infection have been falling to much lower levels, I think the Government has given itself a much harder job.”
In Tier 1, the rule of six applies indoors and outdoors but in Tier 2 there will be a ban on households mixing indoors, and pubs and restaurants will only be able to sell alcohol with a “substantial meal”.
End of today's coverage
Good evening everyone.
Thank you for following today’s live blog with all the developments and reaction to today’s Tier 3 decision.
We will bring you more updates tomorrow morning where the fall out is sure to continue.
Infection rates fall in all 14 Lancashire boroughs
Coronavirus infection rates have fallen in every Lancashire borough, according to the latest official figures.
Public Health England data released this evening (November 26) shows that infection rates have fallen across Lancashire, including in Hyndburn and Burnley where there have been continuous rises this week.
Infection rates are are expressed as the number of new cases per 100,000 people.
Hyndburn continues to have the rate at 407.2 - down from 426.9 last week - while Lancaster has the lowest at 102.0.
Five areas are now below the England average of 202.4, including Chorley, Ribble Valley, West Lancashire, Wyre and Lancaster.
The number of weekly cases recorded across Lancashire in the seven days to November 22 has also fallen by 25.3 per cent from 4,450 to 3,321.
From left to right, it reads: name of local authority; rate of new cases in the seven days to November 22; number (in brackets) of new cases recorded in the seven days to November 22; rate of new cases in the seven days to November 15; number (in brackets) of new cases recorded in the seven days to November 15.
Tier 2 restrictions will hold the line but not bring cases down – Chris Whitty
Tier 2 of the latest restrictions to be implemented across large parts of England after national lockdown ends will “hold the line” but not bring cases down, the chief medical officer for England said.
Professor Chris Whitty also admitted that Tier 1 restrictions, the lightest measures which will be applied in only three areas – the Isle of Wight, Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly – could lead to an increase in infections.
At the Downing Street press conference on Thursday, he said: “Tier 1, which is very similar to the previous Tier 1, slowed things down but did not stop the rise anywhere.
“So the reason why Tier 1 at this time of year, with the current measures we currently got before we have any vaccines, is relatively limited, is almost certainly anywhere going into Tier 1 will rise and the only places that are there are places with very low rates at the moment.”
He added he would hope that “in some months to come, possibly in some weeks to come, we’ll be in a situation where more places could go into Tier 1”.
“But we should not do that until we’re confident because the experience of Tier 1 previously was, and it hasn’t really changed, is that if you’re in Tier 1, the rate starts to go up.”
Mark Harper, the former Conservative chief whip, expressed scepticism about the Prime Minister’s claim that “your tier is not your destiny”.
Mr Harper, whose Forest of Dean constituency is in Tier 2, tweeted: “Unfortunately, just after the PM said this, Chris Whitty, the chief medical officer, said Tier 2 would only hold infections level, and Tier 1 would see them go up.
“That rather suggests if you’re in Tier 2, it is your destiny – at least until the spring.”
He referred to the comments made by Prof Whitty at the briefing, in which he said: “Tier 2 looks as if it’s strong enough to hold the line, so stop things rising, but not reliably to pull things down.
“Tier 3 we think based on previous experiences is strong enough to pull things down from a higher peak.”
Tanning salon closed down for allowing customers to use sun beds in lockdown
A Lancashire tanning salon has been closed down by public protection officials for illegally trading during the current national lockdown.
Sunny Days in St Annes was ordered to closed today (November 26) after a notice was served by Fylde Council.
Bosses said they had received ‘numerous complaints’ of the salon, based on The Crescent, operating over the past few weeks since lockdown was introduced on November 5.
An investigation was launched by council and police officials who found the premises was allowing customers to use the sun beds.
The owner has now been hit with a £1,000 fine and a prohibition notice has been served.
Full report here
Here is Thursday’s update of the rolling seven-day rate of new cases of Covid-19 for every local authority area in England.
Hull is in third place, where the rate has dropped sharply from 748.3 to 460.0, with 1,195 new cases.
The areas with the biggest week-on-week jump in rates are Medway (up from 322.7 to 442.3, with 1,232 new cases); Gravesham (up from 315.1 to 392.7, with 420 new cases); and Dover (up from 212.5 to 289.5, with 342 new cases).
Top 10 infection rates in England
Hyndburn, 407.2, (330), 426.9, (346)
Tier 2 areas with higher infection rates than parts of Lancashire
The entire of Lancashire will be put into the strictest measures as the national lockdown eases next week.
From Wednesday (December 2), all 14 of Lancashire’s districts will be put into Tier 3 measures, despite most areas showing falling rates of Covid infection.
The current rate of infection is lower than the national average (208.7) in the Ribble Valley (198.7), West Lancashire (180.2), Wyre (156.2), and especially Lancaster - which has seen its rate drop to 97.2.
And with the rates in the three areas of Blackpool (210.1), Chorley (210.6), and South Ribble (211.2) being extremely close to the national average, a plea from Lancashire was put to Government on Wednesday to divide the county into two lockdown blocks, with a request to place just Preston, Blackburn with Darwen, Burnley, Hyndburn, Rossendale and Pendle in Tier 3.
This was ignored by Government, with household mixing banned indoors and in the majority of outdoor areas and hospitality venues still closed unless for takeaway or click and collect services.
It has caused backlash in a number of areas, most notably Lancaster, where leaders are ‘furious’ about the decision.
Here LancsLive has listed just some of the areas in Tier 2 with higher infection rates than parts of Lancashire
Blackpool Pleasure Beach events cancelled due to Tier 3
The boss of Blackpool Pleasure Beach has hit out against the decision to put Lancashire into Tier 3 after lockdown - claiming the government “dislikes the North”.
Amanda Thompson, managing director of the amusement park, took to Twitter to blast today’s government announcement saying the decision to put Blackpool into the strictest tier of restrictions is “totally wrong”.
Under Tier 3 hospitality sectors including bars, pubs and restaurants must close as well as indoor entertainment and tourist venues - including Blackpool Pleasure Beach’s The Globe theatre.
It means that Pleasure Beach has had to cancel their pantomime Aladdin and other events including a Christmas Grotto, Gatsby Dinner Shows in Paradise and festive dining at their White Tower Restaurant.
Read what Amanda had to say here - she didn’t hold back
"Would I encourage someone to hug and kiss their elderly relatives? No, I would not."
That was the answer from England’s chief medical officer Professor Chris Whitty who urged people “just have to have sense” and avoid hugging and kissing elderly relatives this Christmas.
Speaking at a Downing Street press conference this evening, he stressed that people should not have such a tactile approach with loved ones this festive season “if you want them to survive to be hugged again”.
Cumbria coronavirus cases total passes 10,000 mark
The number of confirmed coronavirus cases in Cumbria has past the 10,000 mark for the first time as Government bosses confirmed the whole of the county will enter Tier 2 restrictions.
The latest figures from Public Health England this evening (November 26) show another 71 people tested positive for the virus in the latest 24 hour period.
Carlisle recorded the most with 26 cases while South Lakeland, which includes the Lake District and surrounding areas, recorded 17 cases.
There were single digit rises in Barrow-in-Furness, Copeland and Eden while 16 people contracted the virus in Allerdale.
Full report and area breakdown here
What needs to be done for Lancashire to get out of Tier 3
As Lancashire absorbs the news that every corner of the county will enter the toughest Tier 3 Covid restrictions when the national lockdown ends next week, attention amongst local leaders has already turned to how their areas might escape from rules which they feel they should never have been subject to in the first place.
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Koksilah River Source: Go Camping BC
Koksilah in Summer by Genevieve Singleton
Historic photo
THE KOKSILAH WATERSHED
The Koksilah River, Xwulqw'selu Sto'lo, Watershed (the Watershed) is located south of Duncan on Vancouver Island and lies within the traditional territories of Cowichan Tribes, Malahat Nation and other First Nations.
The Koksilah River originates on the slopes of Waterloo Mountain, southwest of Shawnigan Lake. It flows eastward for approximately 44 km before discharging into the Cowichan/Koksilah estuary. The watershed area is approximately 302 square kilometres. The main tributaries of the Koksilah River are Fellows Creek in the west, and Kelvin, Patrolas, Howie and Glenora creeks, which enter the Koksilah about 4-6 km upstream of the estuary in Cowichan Bay, which it shares with the Cowichan River.
The Cowichan and Koksilah Rivers were historically connected through side-channels where Duncan is currently situated. Sh-hwuykwselu (which translates loosely to “Busy Place”) was a historical connection and intersection between the two rivers where people gathered before continuing up the Cowichan or Koksilah rivers. Today the place name Sh-hwuykwselu is still carried by a small lower tributary of the Koksilah River, and the name Xwulqw'selu is the name of a Cowichan village nearby.
Map used with permission from koksilahwatershed.org
Watershed Values
This low elevation river without a regulation structure (dam) supports over 1,100 water users, including irrigators, dairies, vineyards, and domestic households. The Koksilah River is especially valued for its:
Cultural & Spiritual significance: The Koksilah (Xwulqw'selu) Watershed is central to the identity of the Quw'utsun Mustimuhw. A prominent, multi-summit ridge seen on maps labeled as the Koksilah Ridge, or known in Hul'q'umi'num as Hwsalu-utsum, is central to Quw'utsun Origin stories. Hwsalu-utsum is where the first man, Syalutsa, fell from the sky. Hwsalu-utsum is the origin or headwaters of several tributaries that flow into the Xwulqw'selu Sto'lo (Koksilah River); including Wild Deer Creek, Kelvin Creek and Glenora Creek. There are many sacred places and cultural stories associated with this ridge as well as across the entire watershed. On the southern slopes of Hwsalu-utsum the pockets of rare grasslands have important plants with both spiritual and practical uses. The Xwulqw'selu Watershed is critically important not only spiritually and for its Origin stories, but also as an important area for fishing, harvesting plants, and hunting.
Fish & Wildlife: The Koksilah River supports regionally significant aquatic ecosystems and fish species, including chinook, coho and chum salmon as well as steelhead and resident trout. These fish populations are both culturally and economically significant to local First Nations. It is essential to the survival of many species of birds, mammals, reptiles, and amphibians.
Farms & Vineyards: Approximately 15% of the lower watershed supports a significant agricultural community including many large dairy farms as well as smaller mixed and organic farms. The pastoral landscape is a also a favorite wine-touring route and is a thriving and expanding rural tourism business.
Forest: Approximately 73% of the Koksilah Watershed is Privately Managed Forest Lands and another 6% is Crown Forestry Lands.
Recreation Opportunities: The Koksilah Watershed is home to several parks including the Koksilah River Provincial Park. It is enjoyed by many in the valley as a refreshing place to swim on hot summer days because the water temperature is always cooler than the Cowichan River. It is also used extensively by white water paddlers, particularly in the winter months.
The Current Challenge
Summer flows in the Koksilah River have been exceptionally low in recent years at times when demand for water is the greatest. This threatens the survival of resident and anadromous salmonid species and the aquatic ecosystem.
In August 2019, Ministry of Forests, Lands, Natural Resource Operations and Rural Development (FLNRORD) biologists determined that the flow levels were too low to support adequate habitat conditions. A Ministerial Order to cease using water was issued to specific water users (both surface and groundwater licensees and unlicensed groundwater users) to protect fish populations. The Order was issued on August 16th, 2019 and repealed on September 18th, 2019 when river flows increased.
Over the last number of years, FLNRORD staff, Cowichan Tribes, community members, organizations and consultants have undertaken several initiatives to better understand and encourage voluntary reductions in water use. While these initiatives have improved awareness and our collective understanding of the complex hydrology of the system, the factors affecting the flow rates are still unclear.
There is a need to better understand the relationship between water users, watershed residents and the watershed.
What is clear is that the Koksilah watershed is experiencing erratic flow levels throughout the year which is endangering the health of the entire ecosystem. , It is also clear that impacts on the watershed have been accentuated by climate change. With low elevation, the watershed is losing snow earlier and has more rain in the winter leading to more floods. The current trajectory of the Koksilah River is dire and will impact everyone in the entire watershed.
"… the flow of water in the Koksilah River has dropped below 180 litres per second and is so low that the survival of populations of anadromous and resident trout, including steelhead, in the stream have become threatened."
Doug Donaldson, Minister of Forest, Lands, Natural Resource Operations and Rural Development
Ministerial Order M280, Aug 16, 2019.
"Groundwater extraction has the most impact during low flow times of the year, when salmon depend on cooling groundwater inflows for their survival. If wells are drawing from shallow aquifers closely connected to the river, groundwater extraction will immediately reduce in-stream flows. In 2017, 2018 and 2019, in-stream flows in the Koksilah were forecast to become dangerously low, and provincial managers requested voluntary reductions in water use. In each of these years, an order to cease water diversion was under preparation in case voluntary efforts were not enough. In August 2019, a Fish Population Protection Order was issued under the Water Sustainability Act"
Gower, T. & Barroso, A.
Tapped Out: A Special Report on Water Scarcity and Water Solutions in British Columbia (2019)
Unlike the Cowichan River, the Koksilah is an uncontrolled river with no storage and as such, there are limited options available to manage flows. The only options available to us are to change our current practices around land use and water use. Most importantly, the Koksilah River is challenging all of us to work together to collaboratively identify and implement solutions that will impact us all. New collaborations and partnerships are emerging.
An informal “Koksilah drought management team” has been formed to discuss how to collaboratively make short term in-season decisions and work with water users to navigate periods of low flow. This ad-hoc group is comprised of representatives from FLNRORD, Cowichan Station’s Koksilah Working Group, BC Dairy Association, ARDCORP, and more recently Water Survey of Canada. Please see the Koksilah Working Group’s webpage for more information on this process.
In the longer term, an innovative government to government partnership has been struck between Cowichan Tribes and the FNLRORD to explore and scope the feasibility of initiating a joint Water Sustainability Planning process, an innovative new tool under BC’s Water Sustainability Act (2016).
For more information about the potential of Water Sustainability Plans, see Curran, D. and O.M. Brandes. 2019 Water Sustainability Plans: Potential, Options and Essential Content (2019) by Deborah Curran and Oliver M. Brandes, University of Victoria Environmental Law Centre and the POLIS Project on Ecological Governance.
"As one element in the modernized provincial water regime, Water Sustainability Plans are a promising tool that can enable and enhance adaptive water management and new governance relationships that express core elements of government-to-government relationships for water and watersheds, as well as address the challenges of environmental flows, sustainable groundwater management, drought planning and protecting and enhancing watershed health."
Deborah Curran & Oliver M. Brandes
Water Sustainability Plans: Potential, Options and Essential Content (2019)
This website is overseen by the Koksilah River watershed Water Sustainability Plan scoping initiative steering committee. Please enter and submit your email below to receive updates, and invites to future community meetings on water management.
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As Delhi Air Quality Plunged, 30 Alerts That Were Never Issued
Alison Saldanha,
Vehicles ply in reduced visibility in south Delhi as smog enveloped the city with a spike in particulate pollution. Over the last one month, residents of the national capital territory of Delhi should have received an alert every day, warning them that air quality readings were breaching acceptable levels.
An emergency air-quality warning system created in 2016 for the national capital territory of Delhi has failed its sole purpose: To warn citizens of hazardous levels of air pollution.
Over eight days to October 16, 2017, as Delhi’s air quality worsened, reaching 10-12 times above safe limits set by the World Health Organization (WHO), the government ignored its own plan, which also included a clean-up of the air. Officials should have, among other things, enforced pollution controls on thermal power plants, sprinkled water on roads to curb dust and curbed traffic jams.
Over the last one month, Delhi residents should have received an alert every day, warning them that air quality index (AQI) readings were breaching danger levels. Since October 8, 2017, air-quality levels crossed “poor” eight times, “very poor to severe” 21 times and “emergency” once, as they have for 48 hours to November 8, 2017, according to data from the government’s own alert system, the Graded Response Action Plan (GRAP).
“The Government had enough time to implement GRAP and systematically issue health advisories as per the action plan guidelines,” said independent researcher Aishwarya Madineni, who analysed the Central Pollution Control Board’s AQI readings. “However, the effort to create public awareness and alert the citizens to safeguard their health only happened after reaching an emergency situation.”
LG Delhi
✔@LtGovDelhi
Emergency meeting on Pollution with @ArvindKejriwal. Measures approved include ban on entry of trucks(except carrying essentials), ban on civil construction, school holidays till Week end, hike in parking fees & higher frequency of metro & buses.
6:50 PM – Nov 8, 2017
A plan ready to be implemented–except it was not
After Delhi witnessed its worst smog in 17 years in 2016, the CPCB, under directions from the Supreme Court, submitted the GRAP to address the air-pollution crisis gripping the national capital region, particularly in winter.
While the ministry of environment, forests and climate change cleared the GRAP on January 12, 2017, the plan received approval from the nodal Environment Pollution Control Authority on October 18, 2017–10 months later.
Based on national air-quality index (AQI) readings generated by CPCB air-quality monitors, the GRAP system categorises pollution levels as “good” (AQI reading of 0-50), “satisfactory” (50-100), “moderate” (100-200), “poor” (200-300), “very poor” (300-400), and “severe” (400-500). Each grade of pollution involves curbs to prevent escalation. This is how it is supposed to work:
Graded Response Action Plan, By AQI Level
Poor (200-300 AQI)
Very Poor (300-400 AQI)
Severe (400-500 AQI)
Emergency (500+ AQI)
1. Cap emissions from thermal power plants;
2. Sprinkling of water;
3. Fine visibly polluting vehicles;
4. Ensure smooth traffic movement;
5. Implement Supreme Court’s ban on fireworks and entry of trucks registered post-2005. 1. Ban diesel gensets;
2. Increase parking fee;
3. Increase metro service and fleet of buses;
4. Ban open burning of firewood and coal for heating and cooking;
5. Health advisory alert for vulnerable populations. 1. Shutdown Bardarpur power plant;
2. Cap emissions from power plants in NCR;
3. Close brick kilns, stone crushers and other polluting industries in NCR. 1. Stop entry of trucks into Delhi;
2. Alert the task force for shutting down of schools and halt all outdoor activities for children.
An AQI reading of over 500 is considered to an “emergency” and involves a shutdown of most outdoor activities. These measures are not new to authorities–they were recommended by a Indian Institute of Kanpur (IIT)-Kanpur report submitted to the Delhi government in January 2016, as IndiaSpend reported on November 10, 2016.
What the government should have done but did not
Air quality in Delhi began to dip from “moderate” to “poor” in the first week of October 2017 and proceeded to worsen.
Apart from curbing traffic, enforcing pollution standards on power plants and sprinkling water to curb dust, the government also should have made citizens aware of pollution levels using social media and mobile apps.
With the start of Diwali, air quality considerably worsened. From October 17 to November 6, 2017, the region recorded “very poor” air quality, 12-15 times above WHO limits, as we said.
On Diwali day, October 20, 2017, CPCB monitors in the national capital region recorded “severe” levels of pollution with an AQI reading of 403–16 times above WHO limits, suggesting poor implementation of the SC ban on firecrackers.
Source: Central Pollution Control Board
Over the last three weeks, government authorities, as per their own plan, should have also issued health advisory alerts for vulnerable populations or young children and senior citizens, banned use of diesel-run generators, raised parking fees, increased public transport services, and banned the use of firewood and coal.
Why GRAP cannot work unless various agencies work together
To be successful, most components of the GRAP require concerted and coordinated efforts from various agencies and bodies spread across the national capital region (NCR) and neighbouring states.
“GRAP has an ambitious set of measures under each category of alerts to be issued with action extending to Haryana, Punjab and Uttar Pradesh,” said Madineni. “Yet, the system does not mention a proper mitigation plan for addressing crop fires across the NCR states, to which the evidence clearly attributes a 25% rise in the pollution levels. The fireworks ban for Diwali was also a complete eyewash with little or no implementation bringing us to the emergency situation we are in today.”
(Saldanha is an assistant editor with IndiaSpend. Data inputs by Aishwarya Patil, an intern with IndiaSpend.)
http://www.indiaspend.com/cover-story/as-delhi-air-quality-plunged-30-alerts-that-were-never-issued-87401
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If there is a Nobel Prize for jokes, the citizenship law is India’s entry
As soon we conduct a simple cost benefit analysis of the CAA (and the ancillary NPA and NRC), it should be evident that no other explanation makes sense. Any law, that too one which involves every one of India’s 1.3 billion people, must necessarily pass this test of fiscal probity.
Written by Partha S Ghosh | Updated: February 7, 2020 11:23:24 am
The Narendra Modi government’s Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA), 2019 is just such a joke.
There is too much seriousness all around. I am as old as the Indian state, but I cannot recall another moment so rife with concern about the future of India. We have fought three wars with Pakistan (if Kargil is added, four), one war with China, faced innumerable internal challenges from Left extremism across the country, ethnic separatism in the Northeast and Tamil Nadu, even an Emergency. But never have we felt so afraid about the territorial and social integrity of the country. We seem to be infested with the microbes of tukde tukde , Urban Naxals and anti-nationals, who continue to multiply geometrically, as all bacilli do.
Hindus are worried that even “1,000 years of Muslim rule” pale against the danger posed by India’s 14-per cent-strong impoverished and demoralised Muslim minority. Muslims are worried that they will soon be thrown into Pakistan, which they rejected in 1947. Even if they dodge that possibility, RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat’s “innocent” theorisation will see to it that they call themselves Hindus. Christians are worried that Donald “Jesus” Trump will start another World War. Buddhists, observing the behaviour of their co-religionists in Myanmar and Sri Lanka, are left wondering about Lord Buddha’s sermons about peace and non-violence. In short, everyone is concerned.
Against this background, if someone comes up with a joke that makes us laugh, my kudos to them. The Narendra Modi government’s Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA), 2019 is just such a joke. If there is a Nobel for jokes, we have found India’s entry. The only fear is of disqualification: It is, we must admit, a PJ (poor joke). After all, one does not even need to read the details of the Act (though I would advise everyone to), to know that its central purpose is crystal clear: How to earn political (actually electoral) brownie points from the vast number of Hindus, the BJP’s vote bank.
Now that the BJP has exhausted almost all weapons in its arsenals (Article 370 is abolished; triple talaq has been criminalised; the Ram Temple seems to be coming soon), it must invent something new to keep distracting its hard core supporters. As soon we conduct a simple cost benefit analysis of the CAA (and the ancillary NPA and NRC), it should be evident that no other explanation makes sense. Any law, that too one which involves every one of India’s 1.3 billion people (excluding some communities in NE), must necessarily pass this test of fiscal probity. Indeed, such a test must precede deliberations over theories of international migration and the question of refugees (on which reams have been written, including many that address the Partition of the Subcontinent and its aftermath).
We can estimate the cost of the national exercise by extrapolating from NRC expenditures in Assam. To register Assam’s 3.3 crore people, the NRC cost Rs 1,600 crore and involved a work force of 50,000 officials. The estimated population of India in 2019 was 137 crore. A nation-wide CAA/NPA/NRC would thus cost Rs 66,424 crore ($9.5 billion) and involve just under 21 lakh officials. Now, add to this the huge cost in terms of money and time that millions of Indians will bear preparing documents, standing in line, returning with additional documents, and appealing against bureaucratic mistakes. Add to it the money needed to build and maintain thousands of detention centres necessary to house the roughly eight crore stateless persons likely to be so identified (extrapolating the Assam NRC’s 19 lakh “non-Indians”).
Now comes the political question. By now it is clear that 75 per cent of the so-called stateless in Assam are non-Muslims who will be granted citizenship through the CAA. That leaves about five-lakh Muslims, who are to be “de-Indianised”. Extrapolating to West Bengal, which matters most in the immediate electoral context, we arrive at about 15-lakh Muslims. Now, think over it: Just to label approximately 20 lakh Muslims in Assam and Bengal as “non-Indians”, 137 crore Indians will have to show their papers. To victimise one person, 700 others will be terrorised. Varun Grover makes enormous sense when he sings, hum kaagaz nahi dikhayenge(we will not show you our papers). If you still think that the CAA is not a joke, I pity your sense of humour.
This article first appeared in the print edition on February 7, 2020 under the title ‘Numbers don’t lie’. The writer is senior fellow, Institute of Social Sciences, New Delhi and formerly, ICSSR Natonal Fellow, and professor of South Asian Studies, JNU.
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5 Things you didn’t know about Philip Webb
Philip Speakman Webb, born January 1831 in Oxford, Webb is often referred to as the ‘father’ of the Arts & Crafts movement along with Morris. He is well renowned for his architecture – comfortable, unpretentious yet stunningly beautiful country homes, he also designed interiors too including furniture, wallpaper, stained glass and tapestries.
We thought you might want to learn more about him with our 5 lesser known facts about Philip Webb.
For his early life, Webb grew up in Oxford. He studied in Northamptonshire and trained under John Billing, an architect in Reading who specialised in traditional building repairs. He then became a junior assistant for the office of G.E. Street, where William Morris was also working, sparking a friendship that would be both personal and business for the rest of their lives. Within this office, they were working on the architecture of churches in Oxford.
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Together, Morris and Webb founded Morris, Marshall, Faulkner & Co. in 1861 and also, the Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings in 1877.
The first commission Webb had was Red House in Bexleyheath Kent. This is a really famous home because it belonged to Morris and is incredibly beautiful, yet characteristically unpretentious and informal. Designed in 1859, Webb used contrasting materials which, as with lots of their projects both together and separately, had a respect for the site and for local traditions and crafts. The style pointed towards 20th century Functionalism in the bold and frank use of materials which exposed structural elements. He also designed Standen, an incredibly stunning arts-and-crafts property with Morris interiors. Today it’s a grade 2 listed building which is owned by the National Trust, it’s well worth a visit. His style is distinct, incredibly original, his work arguably became the germ of modernism as though he took influence from the Gothic Revival movement, he didn’t let this steer him and instead, he almost mixed styles and created his own. He chose comfortable and traditional, he didn’t move too much towards the Victorian elaborate designs nor the Gothic styles, he does tend to use traditional English styles with the red brick (Red House) sash windows, Tudor like chimneys etc. but you can definitely tell his influence when you look at his work as a portfolio.
It’s known that he adored a girl in the 1860s, but it’s not known who she is and he never married. He told friend S.C. Cockerell during his later years that he could not afford to keep a wife, according to Oxford Dictionary of National Biography – if he had chosen to push forward with his own practice, that might have been different. It’s been documented that he told Dante Gabriel Rossetti that anyone who wished, “to follow art with advantage to the world and with hope of competing with art before” had “very severe in the liability of disturbance from collateral courses, such as payment, popularity – position” because whilst these were not “of necessity ruinous to art” often, they “ruin the workman.” (Webb to Rossetti, 21 May 1866, in the G. W. Taylor to Webb letters, V&A). It’s clear in these letters, what a passion architecture was, over riding everything else, including money or marriage to his unidentified love.
The latter years of Webb’s life, by 1899, he was in poor health and losing money. He couldn’t afford to build a property for himself based on his savings, and so he accepted a rental from his friend William Scawen Blunt at a low price. He handed over his architecture practice to chief assistant George Jack, he moved in Jan 1901 to Caxtons, where he spent his retirement comfortably. He continued to enjoy nature as he clearly did throughout his life, creating many of the birds and other elements of nature for Morris’s work. He developed rheumatism and so he wasn’t able to go ahead working on passion projects as much as intended during his retirement, creating artefacts, but he did lots of work on house and garden, attended SPAB meetings and in 1915, passed away peacefully.
Philip Webb may not have financially left lots, but his legacy is vast. That’s in terms of his work with SPAB, his architecture, his collaborations with Morris, much of his work for Morris & Co. and Standen is now owned by the National Trust and furniture he designs is showcased in the Victoria and Albert Museum in London.
There’s so much to learn about Webb, we absolutely loved writing this to hopefully shed more light onto his life. If you want to read more of our blogs about key figures of this era, please read more of our blog!
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LVL GOES RINGSIDE IN ROCK FERRY!
By Justin Hopper Last updated Sep 5, 2019
I’m on my way to the St. Anne’s club in the heart of Rock Ferry for my first ever boxing event. Attending with my friend and our girlfriends, my mind begins to race. Preconceptions of pumped up macho testosterone overwhelms me and I feel a little on edge. This is a story about how wrong I was….
When Mickey Allen invited me to his latest boxing event I immediately accepted the offer. Mickey is an old school legend of the Wirral boxing scene — the sensei of the Twelve Quays gyms and coach of some of the finest boxers in the region. I was at first worried about entering this raw and gritty world of fighting but what we uncovered that night was both magical and overwhelming.
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The Twelve Quays showcase on 24th August was a 15 fight extravaganza featuring Mickey’s gyms competing against rival gyms. Well matched boxers, both male and female, going head to head to fight for pride and victory. The purpose of the night was to raise money for Desire Adami, the golden boy of Wirral boxing and Mickey’s prodigy, to become professional.
The fact that so many competitors, coaches and fans had turned up to support this lad’s cause was striking — as was the atmosphere. Rather than the hostile environment I had incorrectly anticipated, we experienced an energy and buzz in the Rock Ferry hall that was uplifting and inspiring.
From the very first bell, bouts were fought with honour, grace and dignity. Winners were congratulated and losers were commiserated. We were made to feel welcome and we met some of the most honest, decent and true people around. There was no hostility here. This was a boxing community coming together for a common goal.
From our ringside table we witnessed many closely fought contests as powerful blows were exchanged and the intensity increased throughout the night. In between fights, as feel good music played loudly, we took the chance to talk to many of the people in attendance including many of the boxers.
One boxer told me: “Boxing saved my life. If it wasn’t for Mickey and training I’d be on the streets getting into trouble. Boxing and training so much I don’t have any energy left to get into trouble. Boxing has taught me self discipline too and training my mind. Boxing has saved my life.”
There were other boxers who said similar things that night and we met many new friends. A couple of the female boxers told us of their journeys — great women and true ambassadors for female boxing in the North West. During the night there was a great sense of camaraderie and collective spirit — the type I’ve rarely witnessed before.
The audience were enthralled from start to finish and all in it together to support one of the most ancient forms of entertainment of all time. Each blow was met with a clamour, but certainly not an aggressive gesture — one of encouragement and excitement. The aggression took place inside the ring, whilst outside there was nothing but laughter, enjoyment and friendship.
After a gripping night of combat, the final fight of the night was the soon to be pro Desire Adami. ‘Des’ won within the first round, much to the joy of Mickey and the home support, and it capped off an enlightening night of superb entertainment. We met many new friends and got a ringside view of what goes on in the North West boxing scene.
After the extravaganza Mickey told us: “I just want to say thank you to all the workers, paid and voluntary, for working on my boxing show and all the boxers home and away. Thank you to the supporters. I got this together with the help of brilliant people around me. A top night enjoyed by all and crucial to Desire getting to the next level.”
On the night thousands were raised for Desire’s quest to turn professional, covering his medical, living allowance, kit, equipment, diet licenses and more. Notably, the generous Sue Porter donated no less than £1,000 on the night as part of her ongoing support for Twelve Quays and North West boxing!
Thanks for a great night guys! Top man Mickey and good luck Desire — here’s to a future champion from Wirral!
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Dr. Dre's Beats Electronics Has Upended the Tech Industry
Isaac Simpson May 20, 2014
In October 2003, long before Beats by Dre headphones, Dr. Dre popped in via iChat to one of Steve Jobs' classic black-turtlenecked Apple product launches. Jobs was onstage in San Francisco, unveiling the first version of iTunes for Windows. Dre was at the studio in L.A., ostensibly working on his (still unreleased) solo album, Detox. The digital image of Dre's head floated above the stage.
Beats’ new Culver City campus has a full outdoor basketball court
“No more carrying around duffle bags full of CDs,” Dre said to Jobs. “I know a lot of kids get their new music online…so iTunes is a way for them to [do it] in a legal way.” The crowd applauded. Jobs smiled.
Ten years later, Jobs is no longer with us, but Apple is about to make Dr. Dre one of the richest African-American men in history (if not the richest). Just months after the launch of streaming-music service Beats Music, it was reported that Apple would pay $3.2 billion to acquire Beats Electronics, the company Dre started in 2008 with music mogul Jimmy Iovine. The proposed deal is the largest acquisition in Apple's history.
At press time the deal hadn't gone through, but if it does, one thing is clear: Beats is L.A.'s first bona-fide tech giant. Sure, L.A. has satellite offices of big tech companies including Google, Yahoo and YouTube, and has fostered tech startups such as MySpace and Snapchat. But this would be the biggest thing yet to happen to Silicon Beach.
Before Apple was in the picture, it was clear that Beats wanted to shift from simply a consumer electronics company to a sexy media ecosystem.
How do you become a media ecosystem? First you have to make digital technology, preferably software, which Beats started in January by launching Beats Music, a streaming-music service that shares functions with Spotify and Pandora.
Then you need a cutting-edge, high-tech campus, and Beats now has one in Culver City. Its 110,000-square-foot, $39 million, 450-employee compound sprawls over four buildings in the shadow of the Baldwin Hills Scenic Overlook. The work spaces are high-ceilinged and open, like airplane hangars, in the style that cubicle-phobic tech companies often favor. From the floor-to-ceiling panel windows rises a big green Baldwin hill; you can see hikers climbing it like tiny termites.
The campus had its soft opening earlier this month. It features a custom gym designed, in part, by LeBron James' personal trainer, Mike Mancias; a full outdoor basketball court; a Stumptown Coffee bar with a full-time barista; and — not to be outdone by Google's Bon Appetit–reviewed cafeteria — a Wolfgang Puck restaurant to serve lunch. Employees gain access to certain parts of the buildings via retinal scanner, and there's a “creative collaboration space,” with a tree growing in the middle of it, to provide inspiration.
Beats' new digs can't rival the headquarters of Apple or Google in its expansiveness or creative gadgetry; what it lacks in communal bicycles and nap pods, it makes up for in location. Instead of Silicon Valley, Beats chose to stay home and be the big fish at the WorkSpace at the Hayden Tract, an innovative development designed by experimental architect Eric Owen Moss. The location is already a cluster of hot media, tech and advertising companies, including Maker Studios, Anonymous Content, Ogilvy, Popsugar and Media Temple.
Designed by L.A. architect Barbara Bestor, the Beats campus looks fairly bland from the outside; the four Beats buildings have gray, square façades. Inside, however, Bestor's vision becomes more apparent — the aforementioned indoor trees, the wide view of the hills, the glass-enclosed atrium and wood-paneled coffee counter. A 7-foot-11-inch touchscreen greets you upon entrance, and there's a stairwell gilded in gold.
Apple is notoriously silent concerning its dealings, and the unfinished Beats deal has put a damper of silence over what should have been Beats' celebratory unveiling of its new campus. Beats' publicists demanded that anything said on a campus tour be off the record, and promised interviews with top brass failed to materialize.
In fact, buying Beats seems so wildly out of character for Apple that many wondered whether it would actually happen. That is, until Dre, in a quickly yanked Facebook video earlier this month, confirmed the news in a way that only he could.
“The first billionaire in hip-hop, right here from the motherfucking West Coast. Believe me,” an elated, drunk Dr. Dre said, pointing right into a camera operated by singer Tyrese, who was so excited that he broke out into a spontaneous Crip walk.
But not everyone is so bullish on this deal.
“Every audiophile in the world castigates [Beats headphones] for their bass-heavy frequency response,” music industry guru Bob Lefsetz says. “Jimmy [Iovine] has created nothing other than wealth. The headphones are mediocre and Beats Music is a me-too service.”
A monthly fee of about $10 allows you to stream any song from Beats Music's large library and also provides curation tools that allow for new music discovery. One neat feature allows you to generate a personalized “radio station” by completing sentences such as: “I am in the shower and feel like starting a riot with a stiff drink to punk,” or “I am at the computer and feel like drifting off to sleep with my pets to old-school hip-hop.”
Although it receives similar reviews to Beats headphones — pretty to look at, glitchy to use — many analysts believe Beats Music, not the headphones, is the reason behind Apple's interest. iTunes released its own streaming music service, iTunes Radio, last September as a part of iOS 7, and by March, it was the third most popular streaming music service in the United States. But its popularity likely was due to its integration into Apple software, and the service itself received poor reviews and hasn't really taken off.
Beats Music, meanwhile, is almost surely not profitable but has proven critical to Beats Electronics' appeal.
“Beats wanted to become a part of another platform, one that you never have to leave,” says Joe Speicher, a Columbia-trained economist and San Francisco web entrepreneur. “Beats had to brand themselves as an ecosystem in order to be acquired by a larger ecosystem.” Add in Iovine's music industry connections, plus Beats' new, tech-y L.A. location, and it becomes clear why Apple would be enticed.
All of this has happened very fast. Founded in 2008, Beats began as a small operation in an office at Santa Monica's Water Garden complex. Iovine, already well established as the Ari Emanuel of music, tapped Dre to help create a line of high-end branded headphones. Disappointed with how music was heard in the digital age (through Apple's ubiquitous white earbuds, for example), they wanted to create a high-quality product that would more accurately reproduce sound.
This is the official Beats history, in any case; according to others, Iovine is simply a marketing mastermind who saw a branding opportunity and used Dre's name to make his headphones a hip-hop fashion statement.
The fact that Beats likely does not own much in the way of proprietary technology seems to be at odds with Apple's usual acquisition model.
In any case, if the Apple deal goes through, Iovine and Dre's project will have become much more than headphones, bigger than a music app, bigger, even, than the music industry itself. One thing is clear: Silicon Beach has finally caught its first big fish.
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WATCH: Thief Steals Bus And Goes On Late Night Joyride
Shane Youll caused £2000 of damage after he stole the Stagecoach bus and crashed it into the metal railings in South Tyneside
A thief who stole a bus and went on a 10 minute joyride around South Tyneside after crashing the bus into railings has been jailed.
In a video released by Northumbria Police, Shane Youll is caught on the bus CCTV taking the single decker bus out of the depot and around the town.
He stole the bus just before 1am on 6 January and was stopped by police 10 minutes later.
Youll went on what Northumbria Police called a "joyride", mounting kerbs and smashing the bus door when he crashed into metal barriers.
After he triggered an alarm at the bus depot, police went on a search, finding him waiting at traffic lights.
Youll was jailed at Sunderland magistrates court on 19th August for 10 weeks for taking a motor vehicle without consent, driving with no insurance and driving without a licence. He was also fined £2,025 and banned from driving for 18 months.
Sergeant Nicholas Watt said, "This was a brazen theft but what is more concerning is the nature of Shane Youll's driving."
"He mounted kerbs, drifted all over the road, and crashed into a number of objects on the roadside that significantly damaged the bus."
"Thankfully nobody was injured but there is no doubt that Youll put innocent lives at risk through his manner of driving that night."
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While in her position as an Associate Professor of Voice/Acting/Text in the B.F.A. program at Syracuse University, she was awarded the Most Inspirational Faculty Award. She has coached voice and dialect in more than 70 productions nationwide. As a professional actor, she has performed with numerous repertory companies and Shakespeare festivals throughout the country.
Most recently, she has been seen in the original production of Eureka Day at the Aurora Theatre Company, The Eva Trilogy, and A Bright Half Life at the Magic Theatre and Twelfth Night at California Shakespeare Theatre. She has directed for Town Hall Theatre, TheatreFirst, Syracuse University, the Los Angeles Women’s Shakespeare Company, and the Pacific Resident Theatre Ensemble. Through her own private coaching business and as an Executive Presence coach for Springboards Consulting, she has helped numerous clients find a more relaxed, truthful, engaged, and effective way of communicating.
In addition to her Linklater Designation in 2003, she has an M.F.A. in Acting from the American Conservatory Theatre and a B.A. in Theater and American Studies from Wesleyan University.
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OUR TOWN/HAMLET
Thornton Wilder's OUR TOWN is one of the greatest plays ever written. I just cannot see how anybody could watch it and not be moved.
That is not to say that critics at the time of OUR TOWN's first production didn't have gripes. This is Robert Benchley's review from the February 12, 1938 issue of The New Yorker:
Jed Harris will probably kill me for calling "Our Town" conventional, for he has gone to a great deal of pains to make it unconventional, almost too great pains at times. He has produced it on a bare stage (which is almost getting to be old-hat by now) and he has eschewed such petty aids to illusion as props. He even refused to pass out programs until the last act, with the result that I got no program. Frank Craven, in the manner of the old Property Man in "The Yellow Jacket", moves what chairs and tables there are and draws the curtains, commenting during the action from the corner of the proscenium and telling us when to go home. In the minds of all concerned it was evidently considered a "departure," if not an "experiment."
But the fact remains that if it were not for Mr. Wilder's inspired words, "Our Town" would be just another of those series of episodes in small-town life of the early nineteen-hundreds dealing with the lives, loves and deaths of the average American of that day. It happens to be a poignant and affecting record, but playing it half in speech and half in dumb show, half with real chairs and half with imaginary lawn-mowers and string beans, adds nothing to its value. To me, as a matter of fact, it was an almost irritating affectation. The use of pantomime in such detailed routines as flapjack-making is a silly procedure at best, suited more for charades and other guessing games, and a serious script has a hard time standing up under the disadvantage of having the audience trying to guess what in the hell the characters are supposed to be doing with their hands. That several of Mr. Wilder's scenes emerge refulgent from all this sign language and wigwagging is a great tribute to his powers as a writer and dramatist. It is all very charming when the Chinese do it, but Mr. Wilder did not write a charming play and we are not Chinese.
That a great many people were not as bothered as I was by all this Ersatz is attested by the fact that I have found few who were not honestly affected by "Our Town." I was affected, too, some of the time by the slightly unfair use of "Blest Be the Tie That Binds" and other nostalgic hymns in the clinches (a ruse for which I am a sucker) and some of the time by the honest and sympathetic performances of the actors, especially Mr. Craven's (his whole soul was in it, you could feel that) and those of his son John and Miss Martha Scott, the latter, I imagine, the personification of the girl that every man fell in love with at least once when he was young. The scene in the graveyard on the hill, with the dead chatting about the weather bolt upright in their chairs and the living hiding their lack of understanding under wet umbrellas, is a haunting and genuinely imaginative piece of staging. Incidentally, there is no pantomime here.
There is no doubt that any season could count itself proud to bring forth "Our Town." For my part, I wish that I could have given my whole attention to it.
Benchley seems to think that the decision to make the actors pantomime is a director's choice, and not part of the script; that Wilder's words are good in spite of the staging.
I was also surprised that there was a play that preceded OUR TOWN that employed a stage manager character - according to Amazon, THE YELLOW JACKET was a Chinese play from 1913. But Benchley considers Wilder's use of "Chinese" techniques inappropriate.
Benchley does praise the play, and even mentions other people are emotionally affected by it - but I should hope so being one of the greatest plays ever written. But even so, Benchley still has complaints.
Speaking of which, I have a few complaints about HAMLET.
It always bothered me, in Act V Scene 1 the way Hamlet leaps out of hiding to fight with Laertes. It's mainly bothered me because Hamlet comes off as such a big baby and all-around jerk - the explanation he gives to Horatio in V2 is:
But, sure, the bravery of his grief did put me
Into a towering passion.
But it finally dawned on me what the real problem is.
Horatio says "What a king is this!" in disapproval of the trick that Hamlet played on Rosencrantz and Guildenstern in switching their names with his and sending them to be executed by the king of England, but in fact Horiatio should have said that line after Hamlet explains his behavior at Ophelia's grave.
What Hamlet did to R&G was a clever bit of business and certainly worthy of any king - after all, they colluded with Claudius to send Hamlet to his death. That Hamlet would give them stone cold payback is by-the-book royal politics.
And the contrast between tricky Hamlet and big jerk Hamlet couldn't be more obvious - Hamlet explains his graveyard behavior right after after he tells Horatio about his dirty trickster work. Obviously Hamlet CAN have self-control when he wants to. He didn't sneak a peek into the packet that R&G were carrying and then immediately attack R&G - he came up with a plan, carried it out, and until the whole pirate ship escapade happened (Act IV scene 4, Horatio gets a letter from Hamlet that describes it) had to pretend he didn't know about the conspiracy between Claudius and R&G.
Hamlet also manages to sneak back into Denmark so stealthily that only Horatio knows about it - and only because Hamlet chose to tell him. He makes a big deal about how stealthy he needs to be. So what does he do with this careful tactical advantage? He throws it completely away by leaping out of hiding in front of the entire Danish court, and not because he was beside himself over Ophelia, but rather because Laertes was a little too showy in his brotherly grief.
I might have even assumed Hamlet's huge blunder was about Ophelia if Shakespeare had just let it go without comment - but no, instead he has to actually have Hamlet provide an explanation for his stupid action that makes him sound like a petulant jerk.
If Hamlet was a serious king-type guy he would have kept his trap shut, raised an army and attacked Claudius. We already know he's loved of the distracted multitude, a fact that Claudius admits is what is keeping him from having Hamlet executed in Denmark - hence the trip to England.
And Hamlet has plenty of reasons to attack Claudius now - not only proof enough for himself, via "The Mouse Trap", that Claudius killed his father, but he discovered an actual plot against his own life. Princes have attacked reigning kings for far less than that.
So why did Shakespeare do that? Not because he wants us to think Hamlet is a lousy solidier - at the end of the play Fortinbras, who knows something about soldiering, say:
Let four captains
Bear Hamlet, like a soldier, to the stage;
For he was likely, had he been put on,
To have proved most royally:
No, I think Shakespeare needed to end the play in Act 5, and having Hamlet wage civil war on Claudius would not expedite matters. And he knows he is sacrificing the integrity of Hamlet's character in order to achieve a plot point, which is exactly why he DOES include that lame explanation for why he had Hamlet leap out and spill the beans. He had an attack of playwright's conscience.
This is "Fridge Logic" and the fact that it took me thirty years to notice it is a tribute to the rest of the play which is tightly plotted and entertaining and absorbing.
But OUR TOWN as far as I have yet discerned has no sneaky short-cuts like this. Which is why OUR TOWN is a better play than HAMLET. Which pretty much makes it the greatest play ever.
I can't look at an issue of any pre-1960s New Yorker without marveling at the inscrutability of its cartoons, so here's one from this "Our Town" review issue:
Now even given that during this time-period glasses were thought to make one unattractive ("men seldom make passes at girls who wear glasses" Dorothy Parker wrote in those days) I don't see what the joke is here. One women doesn't want to hook-up with the less attractive guy. Yeah, OK, hardy har har.
UPDATE: Hmmm... on further scrutiny it occurs to me that maybe the joke is that they look so much alike wearing similar hats, coats etc. so that the glasses are the only significant difference. That seems plausible. Maybe. I guess I missed it because I work all week long with blueshirts and they all dress as much like each other as possible so total male sartorial conformity seems completely normal to me.
The cartoon is by Syd Hoff, better known (at least better known to me) as a children's book author and illustrator. He wrote the classic Danny the Dinosaur.
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