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SpecialChem Introduces New Service Platform on Adhesives and Sealants
SpecialChem, an online service on specialty chemicals, has introduced a new platform entirely dedicated to adhesives and sealants. This free, online gateway at www.specialchem4adhesives.com provides technical information/data and expert advice, assisting visitors to the platform in solving various adhesives issues. SpecialChem chose the Fall Convention of the Adhesive and Sealant Council (ASC) in Pittsburgh to introduce the service platform to the worldwide market.
Free Technical Services for Formulators and Applicators
According to Bernard Hasson, CEO of SpecialChem, "We have identified a strong market need in the adhesives and sealants industry for a full-range provider of online technical resources that will both assist formulators when selecting ingredients as well as rapidly solve the many technical issues encountered while formulating or applying an adhesive." In addition to formulators and applicators of adhesives, adhesives manufacturers and industrial designers will also find the site beneficial.
Features of the site are developed to solve any technical problems encountered by adhesives and sealants industry professionals including additional technical data or expert technical advice to solve key technical issues.
Technical Developments and Trends. www.specialchem4adhesives.com offers comprehensive product and equipment news, as well as highly specialized technical articles to alert formulators about new developments in their specific areas of interest.
Extensive Formulating Databases. The site provides a unique set of proprietary databases of raw materials, providing more than 10,000 technical data sheets, from more than 260 suppliers covering polymers, tackifiers and additives. By indicating key criteria, the system generates a list of appropriate raw materials with their technical specifications.
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Edward M. Petrie, author of the Handbook of Adhesives and Sealants published by McGraw-Hill in October 2000, has joined the SpecialChem adhesives team as a technical editor and member of its expert network.
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First Industry Successes
After three months of running services, over 2,000 formulators and applicators are regularly using the platform, and this number is increasing. The first statistics issued on the use of www.specialchem4adhesives.com clearly show that SpecialChem's range of services fulfill industry technical needs.
More than 1,200 raw materials searches are successfully performed every month in the additives, tackifiers and resins databases. Each time industry professionals need raw materials information, they are one click away from a clear overview of which products can be used in a specific application as well as direct access to technical data.
SpecialChem4Adhesives has already helped more than 400 formulators and applicators in solving specific technical problems. An expanding network of experts is always providing an accurate technical solution to any adhesives and sealants issue such as formulating, product development, standards and approvals, and troubleshooting.
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Getting to Diversity and Inclusion: Authenticity, Accountability and Action
October 4, 2019 by Majbritt Rijs
Written by: Majbritt Rijs & Yumi Prentice
“Diversity and inclusion – It’s the trend,” everyone says. And every conference, every industry award, every professional organization you can swing a cat at will have something dedicated to a subject that one short decade ago barely existed outside the ivory towers of academia and the underworld of rights activists. This modern brand of equality and rights is newer than YouTube and Facebook, and yet it’s already as ubiquitous.
And so, it should be, because it’s about bloody time. Especially now when rights are being taken away from other groups faster and more furiously than ever before.
Calling it a trend is dangerous. Diversity and inclusion aren’t like facial hair or designer pet-carrier bags; it’s the inalienable right of all people and a fundamental requirement for a progressive, civilized and equitable society. It matters, a lot.
As marketers and advertisers, we shape the world around us. We may think that we reflect reality, and we do, but we also create it. The people we showcase and the way in which we represent them tell our audiences what society deems right, and wrong.
But don’t take our opinion as read; listen to the someone who is more special – customers.
They think ads matter, in ways we as advertisers and marketers may not always consider. In our recent edition of Project Eden, where we canvass 2000 consumers from across the UK, people told us that advertisers and brands have the power to change how people see themselves and others.
They also said that ‘the people brands put in their ads tell me who the brand thinks are valuable and important’ and a third said they believe that ‘ads influence how we treat other people’. The campaigns we create are social signifiers of other people’s value and place in society, whether we like it or not.
Clearly, this stuff matters. Morally and, if that doesn’t compel us, financially. Our findings that one in four Britons say ‘sexist brand advertising puts them off buying from that brand’ should resonate.
We have more power than we realize, and with power comes responsibility.
How are we doing, overall? Not great. Despite the ASA’s recent ban on ‘harmful’ gender stereotypes in advertising, presently, as an industry, we’re not always hitting the mark. Despite the rhetoric, industry panels, and abundant diversity and inclusion initiatives, our research raised some worrying, if unsurprising, statistics.
Women are twice as likely than men to say that they feel ashamed of their body based on what they’ve seen in ads recently. But men suffer too: one in five men belonging to minority groups say that advertising they’ve seen recently has made them feel excluded.
Overall, there’s room for improvement: fewer than 1 in 10 Britons say the ads they see make them feel good about themselves. If a campaign doesn’t make viewers come away feeling good about themselves, can we really chalk that up as a successful campaign?
So how ought we deliver on that responsibility?
Firstly, to deliver on it in any credible, meaningful and sustainable way, the industry must first change from within. We’ve got a long way to go in the advertising business, but the good news is that we are moving forward. The #TimesUp movement erupted in January 2018 in response to the #MeToo crisis, and the need for systemic change after decades-long abuses in the entertainment industry and beyond. #TimesUpAdvertising came to life two months later, with 180 C-suite women in the advertising business aimed at discussing and addressing the industry’s pervasive problems with sexual harassment and gender inequality. This is absolutely significant because any real delivery on diversity and inclusion needs to start with a fundamental and systemic upheaval of the system.
We believe that there is no better time to be in this business than right now, because the angst is no longer simmering underground. Instead, we’re at a critical inflection point that we’ve never seen before, where the agencies, advertisers and consumers are all demanding real change
Often people use the words diversity and inclusion interchangeably, but the reality is that they are completely different, and one doesn’t lead to the other. We must hold ourselves accountable to diversifying our talent pool – initiatives and organizations in the US like the 3% Movement, Free the Bid, and #SeeHer have not only galvanized so many agencies and advertisers, but have found ways for companies to operationalize those hiring and procurement practices into HR and finance.
Of course, we’ll likely lose the very talent we’re fighting to bring in if we continue to treat them like shit. And that includes everything from harassment to making other groups conform to an industry built around the lifestyle and values of the old-school patriarchy. This is where inclusion is so vital; we can never achieve real change in how and what we communicate, until we can see, hear, value and respect perspectives and experiences that may be totally different from our own – and learn how to turn those into the sorts of campaigns that are much more resonant with a society that is urging us to show them that we see them, and we respect them.
Brands now, more than ever, must appeal to audiences whose purchase decisions are increasingly made based on shared values in what the brands not just say they stand for – but demonstrate they stand for.
And demonstrating this, through action, means representing everyone and portraying them honorably and with respect: giving them an equal share of voice, power and status, something that is sadly still lacking.
Whilst the actual stats vary, the story today is pretty clear. People in ads are white and middle class, unless there is a specific role that is stereotypically associated with people of color, in which case they are included. Mostly we use men in our ads, unless we’re talking about sex, or parenting, in which case we bring in a woman. People with disabilities? Gay people? Transgender people? The latter two are useful during Pride but they aren’t regular participants in ads about investing for retirement or buying a new mobile phone or doing anything, dare we say it, “normal”.
Tokenism cannot be underestimated as a problem. It undermines D&I efforts and generates cynicism. A Lloyds Banking Group study last year found that while BAME representation in advertising has grown from 12% to 25% over the past 3 years, just 7% of ads positioned people from the BAME community as the sole, or main protagonist, and 3 in 5 ads still feature all or mostly white people.
Our own research validates this: Fewer than 10% of people have recently seen ads that they feel include people from all walks of life and groups across the UK. Most people said they couldn’t see themselves, or their friends and families in the ads they’ve seen, and this was even more marked for LGBTQ+ and people with disabilities.
It’s been proposed that younger audiences feel at home in YouTube, tic toc and Instagram because they see themselves more thoroughly and realistically represented, and because without commissioning editors’ unconscious biases, more freedom and individuality in content can emerge. Whilst we don’t know if that’s true, those channels certainly are full of far more raw, imperfect, diverse and authentic people than traditional broadcasters’ content. They showcase and give a voice to what we have come to think of as the ‘normal different’ groups that are so often disenfranchised.
“Normal different”? Yes, because, let’s be honest, middle class / educated / straight / non-disabled white cis males are no longer (if ever they really were) the singular majority: They are just the group that have through history held the power. If you allow for the crossover of minority status and all the many ‘other’ groups out there, this traditional ‘majority’ demographic is no more or less prevalent than the other groups that have so long been marginalized.
Across the world there are more people of color than whites, and even in traditionally white countries now there are more millennials of color today than ever before, and this will continue to be the case.
Likewise, statistics for the prevalence of disabilities might surprise you (they did us), and they demonstrate the point aptly: according to the most recent UK government figures more than one in five people in the UK have a disability. We haven’t counted but we don’t think 20% of the people in British campaigns have disabilities.
We’re being harsh, yes, but the truth is, by and large, campaigns today don’t represent the real world around us. Not fairly. Not ubiquitously. Not authentically. We should all be adult enough to acknowledge that and to listen to audiences and what they want.
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Released in the UK on DVD this week.
It’s the song that brings ultimate hope to so many… often in the midst of life’s most challenging moments. Amazingly, the song was written in mere minutes by MercyMe lead singer Bart Millard. In reality, those lyrics took a lifetime to craft.
Although he found faith at a young age, life wasn’t easy for Bart. He leaned into an active imagination and his love of music as escapes from a troubled home life. As he grew older, Bart turned to football in hopes of somehow connecting with his abusive father. But a career-ending injury – combined with the vision of a teacher who saw unlimited potential – set Bart on a musical pathway.
Chasing a dream while running from broken relationships with his father and Shannon, his childhood sweetheart, Bart hits the road in an old, decrepit tour bus with his new band MercyMe – named for his grandmother’s favourite expression. With the guidance of a grizzled music-industry insider, the band begins a journey none of them could ever have imagined.
Directed by the Erwin Brothers (October Baby, Moms’ Night Out, and Woodlawn), I CAN ONLY IMAGINE stars J. Michael Finley, Madeline Carroll, Trace Adkins, Priscilla Shirer, with Cloris Leachman and Dennis Quaid.
A gripping reminder of the power of forgiveness, I CAN ONLY IMAGINE beautifully illustrates that no one is ever too far from God’s love – or from an eternal home.
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Xentrix - Bury the Pain (2019)
Style: Thrash Metal
Release Date: 7 Jun 2019
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It's Thursday and I haven't reviewed anything this week yet from an old band who crawled out of the woodwork with their first release in forever. I guess that means that it's time for the new Xentrix album, which they're releasing no less than 23 years after its poorly received predecessor, 1996's Scourge. I'm a fan of British thrash and enjoyed their Shattered Existence debut, so I can happily say welcome back, folks!
Well, it's mostly a welcome back. This new Xentrix, who split up in 1997 and again in 2006, are led by guitarist Stan Howard and drummer Dennis Gasser, a pair of founder members. However, the other two aren't here, though they did rejoin when the band reformed in 2013, only to leave again. Paul MacKenzie (bass) and Chris Astley (vocals/guitars) are replaced respectively by Chris Shires and Jay Walsh.
With that said, this sounds good, but it's structured oddly. From the very beginning, it's old school technical thrash with all the benefits of modern production. The band are clearly capable but there's something lacking in a few of the early songs. A couple in and I realised that they're a little too clinical, great technically but not so great on attitude. And it's the songs rather than Andy Sneap's excellent as always production.
Relistening, there are moments of attitude in there, especially during the title track which opens up the album, but the songs are unable to maintain it throughout. As The Truth Lies Buried shifts from clinical to urgent four tracks in, though, the album starts to feel ready and, sure enough, it kicks into a high gear with Let the World Burn, a blister of a song featuring plenty of in your face attitude. It's very reminiscent of Testament and that's a sound that works well for the band and for Jay Walsh's voice too, which also hints at Lemmy at a couple of points.
If it never gets better than Let the World Burn, the album generally keeps that urgency through its second half, as if it had lit up a lightbulb above the collective heads of the band. The Red Mist Descends follows suit, albeit a little more restrained at points, and so does World of Mouth. A couple more songs in and we start to wonder why we ever wanted more attitude. It's here in wild abundance!
They leave the other stormer until the end, so that Evil by Design can wrap up the album with emphasis, leaving us wanting more so that we loop right back to the beginning and play the whole thing again. Rinse and repeat. It's a good approach.
If the energetic songs make the album, some intricate intros deepen it. The best surely begins and ends The One You Fear, a neat interplay between two guitars, but there's atmosphere in the intro to The Truth Lies Buried too. The other variance I really enjoyed here was the mosh part in the middle of Evil by Design; it keeps the attitude of the rest of the song but slows it down considerably and ought to have the pit really moving. In between, the guitarwork is great throughout, with plenty of solid riffs and neat solos.
All in all, this isn't the best Xentrix album that it could be, but it's a strong album with a couple of really impressive tracks and a bunch of other good ones. Given how poorly fans took to their previous change of direction with Kin and Scourge, they should return in droves for Bury the Pain, which is old school and blistering. Like I said, welcome back, folks!
By Hal C. F. Astell at June 13, 2019
Labels: 2019, thrash metal, UK
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Hover House / Naf Architect & Design
© Noriyuki Yano / Nacasa & Partners
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Hiroshima-shi, Japan
Architects: Naf Architect & Design
Area Area of this architecture project Area: 446 m²
Photographs Photographs: Noriyuki Yano / Nacasa & Partners
Text description provided by the architects. Rice fields surround the site, with natural riches around such as a national park, a pond of Junsai -a kind of waterweeds threatened with extinction- and bamboo trees. Stretching out east and west, the site bends like a Japanese character with its corner facing north.
Roads are on both northwest and south sides; the former is higher than the latter by 1 to 1.5 meters. Not to mention the natural environment, to take advantage of the height differences is the key to enhance the potential of this building.
For the fear of water damage caused by the rice fields and ponds around here after rain, the main approach of this building was taken from the higher road. The entire building, which has a widespread deck terrace, is held up altogether to 1.3 meters from ground level by using steal skeletons, and thus, under-floor-space can be used as open space like a pilotis. Since the ground always has a lot of moisture, it is best to get cross breeze in the space. The use of a lifted concrete base makes ventilation even better.
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There is no question about this. Manchet was the “best bread” in most of Early Modern England, with a comparable bread considered “best” in Continental Europe, as well. This will have been the case for hundreds of years. Precision is not possible, as documentation is so scarce, but there is no reason to suppose the concept of a small white loaf or roll made with flour “as white as snow,” a phrase we can pretty reliably attribute to Gervase Markham as an editor of the 1616 English edition of Maison Rustique.
Manchet was understood to be a small loaf or rolls with a fine crumb. The dough is relatively stiff. It was too stiff to knead with hands. It was kneaded with the baker’s feet or with a break. I speculate that it was kneaded to the point the dough oxidized, further lightening the crumb.
There were at least two grades of manchet: manchet, and fine manchet. The primary difference seems to have been in the flour. Regular manchets were made with a standard high grade white flour. Fine manchets were made with that high grade white flour re-sifted to only keep the whitest portion of the flour. The whiteness of the flour was issured by the use of white wheat, this is not a what species. White wheat are wheat varieties that produce a seed that has a light colored bran coat. Today, most wheat is “red” wheat, but “white” wheat has a significant niche market. Today, it is used to make a whole wheat flour that looks much lighter than a whole grain flour made with a standard red wheat.
If you are grinding your own flour for manchet, then start with white wheat and then dampen it with water to bring its moisture content up to 15%. After milling, sift twice through a 300 micron screen, but the second time, take care to stop sifting as soon as the flour stops being snow white.
The flour for manchet weighed one pound per wine quart – this is one pound avoirdupois per what is now the American quart measure. That is the weight of stone ground flour hadn’t sifted through a 300 micron screen. Today’s commercial white flour weighs a little more than one pound per quart. Its particle sizes are smaller, so it packs tighter.
There are several recipes for Manchet, most of them published between 1575 and 1615. I selected this by Thomas Dawson, 1594, one of the first bread recipes published in English because it has the most precise ingredient list — so no guessing at the basic structure — and it is also a direct dough system — you just put all the ingredients together, mix, knead, let rise, shape and bake. So, it is a good recipe for the workshop setting.
The Making of Fine Manchet, The Good Hus-wifes Handmaide in the Kitchen, Thomas Dawson, 1594
Take half a bushel of fine flower twice boulted, and a gallon of faire luke warm water, almost a handful of what salt, and almost a pinte of yeast, then temper all these together, without any more liquor, as hard as ye can handle it: then let it lie half an hower, then take it up, and make your Mancheetts, and let them stand almost an hower in the oven. Memorandum, that of every bushel of male may be made five and twentie cast of bread, and every loaf to way a pounde before the chesill.
100% white flour
58.3% water
1% – 1.5% yeast (the ale yeast used in the recipe was sufficient to leaven the bread in half an hour!)
.6%-2% salt (the period recipe calls for “not quite” a handful of white salt. Given information extraneous to that instruction my own “not quite” a handful weighed .6% of the flour called for in this recipe. The amount of salt is not intrinsic to the meaning of manchet — one might say that more or less salt doesn’t alter its soul. I usually make bread with 1.5% salt. Many people prefer 2%. Work out the ratio salt to flour in one of your favorite bread recipes and use that.
Ingredient weights.
500g white flour (if you mill and sift your own the white flour should weight around 16 ounces per quart)
291g warm water
5g – 8g dried yeast depending how how fast you want the dough to rise, so this correlates with your climate on the day you are baking. This number is not critical to the recipe. A standard yeast packet is 7.5g.
3g – 10g white salt. If you are making this bread for a period performance where you need the taste to be the same as it was in 1600, then I advise keeping the salt in the range of .6%, the 3g with the 500g flour. Otherwise, go for up to 10g as that is what you, your friends, and family are likely to prefer.
Mix the ingredients and let the dough rise, covered, until double in bulk. Form into 1 pound loaves or into rolls. William Harrison, writing in the 1570s mentioned manchets that went into the oven at 8 ounces and came out at 6 ounces. We have little information on how manchets were shaped. The information we do have is probably for the larger loaf size. Form the dough in to a ball. Gently flatten it. Then, run a razor around the dough’s waist and using a knife, make a circle of 6 knife stabs in the top. Bake in a slow oven — 105C or 225F. The bread should bake for roughly an hour. The crust should not brown.
Published by William Rubel
I am an author who writes about traditional food and foodways. My book, The Magic of Fire (2002) is about hearth cooking. I have written an introductory history of bread, Bread, a global history (2011) and am currently writing a history of bread for the University of California Press. Other areas of interest include wild mushrooms, and specifically the treatment of Amanita muscaria in the historic record. I also write about Early Modern British Gardens, and for a more general audience, I write for Mother Earth News on bread, gardening, and more. I have an ongoing research project into the smoke-cured fermented milk of the Kenyan Samburu tribe. I am a co-director of the Samburu Lowlands Research Station, Lengusaka. I am the founding editor (1972) of Stone Soup, the magazine of writing and art by young people. View all posts by William Rubel
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ISIS a Response to Conditions Where State has Collapsed, MGIMO Expert Says
Staunton, June 30 – ISIS is an adaptive response to territories where the state has collapsed and which have to get by “without the state as a form of organization of society” and thus present themselves as opponents of the state as such, according to Nikolay Silayev, a specialist on security in the Caucasus at MGIMO.
It thus poses a threat to any place where the state is weak or can be described as having failed, he continues, but it is ever less of a problem in the North Caucasus where he says the state is recovering. In his view, “the state is always stronger than any bands” at least in the long run (kavpolit.com/articles/kavkaz_2020_vozvraschenie_gosudarstva-17893/).
ISIS is “not what we are accustomed to understand by the term ‘state,’” Silayev says. Rahter “it is a new type of uprising organization” that perhaps can best be described by saying it is “post-modern.” It “actively hands out franchises to the leaders of radical Islamists beyond the borders of the Near East and the latter quickly unite to this movement.”
“In other words,” he says, “this is an anti-system movement to the extent it brings together people who are not included or do not want to be included in contemporary society and the world economy.”
“Radical political Islam is good as the institutional framework for the new statelessness,” Silayev continues, because “in radical Islam there simply is no category of the state, and shariat law functions as the regulatory base.” In certain respects, it is even “neo-liberal” because it seeks to reduce the state to as little as possible, although it provides no normal property guarantees.it
“In an economic crisis,” when the state cannot collect as much in taxes as it did and thus must cut back services, “ISIS looks stronger because it does not link itself to many things which are part and parcel of contemporary nation states.” It “doesn’t support infrastructure, education, health care or social security … “in general this is a medical economic state.”
Silayev says he does “not believe that an ordination territorial state will be formed out of ISIS,” as some think given that ISIS barbarians—and that is what they are, he argues -- will destroy the defenders of a state and then become the state itself only to be overthrown in turn by new barbarians.
Asked about the case of Varvara Karulova who sought to join ISIS and how dangerous that makes ISIS for Russia, Silayev replies that too much is being made of her case: “When one girl from a good family unexpectedly falls into the network of ISIS, then a hullaballoo is raised; but when hudnreds if not thousands of guys from the North Caucasus do so, the [Moscow] press is silent.”
That means that ISIS does pose a threat to the North Caucasus, Silayev continues, but for the time being, it doesn’t threaten the Russian Federation as a whole.
The Shaman Who Stood His Ground against Russia’s Oil Companies
Staunton, June 30 – Sergey Kechimov, a Khant reindeer herder and shaman, has been charged with threatening Russian oil workers with a gun when their work appeared certain to contaminate the holy lake of which he is the guardian. He is now at risk of a lengthy jail sentence, according to a write up on Snob.ru (snob.ru/profile/29449/blog/94445).
In what appears to be almost a scene from Edward Topol’s now-classic novel, “Red Snow,” and something that is certain to attract broader notice at this time of mounting environmental disasters in the Russian Federation, the shaman’s actions and the Russian authorities’ response are indicative of a growing problem there.
As Mariya Favorskaya writes, the shaman has lived next to Lake Imlor his entire life and protected it as best he can for the numerous other Khants who come there to conduct the rites of their animist faith. But now, that lake is under threat from Russia’s oil industry which “year after year” has come closer to this ancient but surviving world.
What the oil workers have brought, the Snob.ru journalist says, is “toxic contamination, trash, and fires.” They’ve destroyed the pastures of the reindeer, and most local people have retreated from the onslaught of new workers who have come to develop the Surgut area’s oil industry and others who have followed in their wake.
But Sergey has decided to remain to protect the lake against the oilmen and the poachers. He is the last person living on its shores, and he takes his responsibilities to nature and his gods very seriously, Favorskaya reports. Last September, he shot a dog that came with some oilmen and befouled the lake.
That was the beginning of the shaman’s real problems. Several days later, some officials appeared and demanded that he sign a document in Russian, a language he speaks poorly and almost cannot read. Then it turned out that by signing, he had acknowledged threatening to shoot the oilmen and steal money from them.
For his action and admission, he is now threatened with two years in prison when his case comes up for a hearing on August 17. Local people believe, Favorskaya says, that the oil workers simply want to use this case to intimidate the Khants and then take all of their land away from them.
Kechimov has a public defender who promises to protest the entire proceeding because Sergeyy was never shown the charges translated into his own language. Meanwhile, the local Ob-Igor peoples webpage is seeking to mobilize support: 93 percent of its visitors support Kechimov against the oilmen (vk.com/mooun.hmao?w=wall-17147709_3601%2Fall).
The oil and gas company he’s up against, Surgutneftegaz, has big plans for Lake Imlor. It estimates that under the lake itself are more than a million tons of oil, and it has no intention of losing access to that even if it has to destroy the focus of local culture and the life of the Khant shaman.
There have been oil leaks from the firm already, but worse, the company has built roads in a place where until a few years ago, there were none. As a result, poachers, hunters and fishermen have all arrived and left destruction behind, showing absolutely no respect for the taboos around the lake.
Under Russian law, of course, the Khants don’t own the lake, although it has been designated a natural preserve. Instead, because all oil and gas is state property, Moscow can hand it over to the oil company and clearly intends to do just that. The shaman’s attempt to stand his ground is thus likely to fail, and he probably will be railroaded into prison.
And thus will be destroyed yet another important cultural site in the Russian Federation, all in the name of feeding the export pipelines and enriching those around Vladimir Putin.
‘Moldova has Left Russia’s Sphere of Influence,’ ‘Nezavisimaya Gazeta’ Says
Staunton, June 30 – Local election result in Moldova show that Moldovans are disappointed in the Customs Union and do not want Russia as “a big brother,” according to Svetlana Gamova of “Nezavisimaya gazeta.” Instead, they highlight the continuing importance of geopolitics in Moldova and the fact that that country “has left Russia’s sphere of influence.”
In today’s paper, reporting on the Moldovan election results announced yesterday, Gamova, who head the Moscow paper’s “department on countries of the near abroad” said that the results showed that earlier public opinion polls had been wrong producing many unexpected results (ng.ru/cis/2015-06-30/1_moldavia.html).
In Chisinau, where a third of Moldovans live, a representative of the pro-European Liberal Party was elected mayor rather than the candidate of the pro-Russian Party of Socialists, a pattern that was repeated in smaller cities and towns across the country, according to the Moscow journalist.
“All Moldovan voters see Moscow as being behind the socialists,” she writes. “Last fall, when the leaders of the Socialist Party appeared on television meeting with Vladimir Putin in Moscow that helped them get into parliament and become the largest fraction.” But Russia’s failure to provide a market for Moldovan products has led to massive disappointment.
That disappointment in Moscow is so profound, local political analyst Andrey Andriyevsky says, that while some in Moldova may call for closer ties with Russia even in the future, “one can say with a great degree of certainty that these parties and politicians will no longer guide Moldova either at the local or the national level.”
According to him, “the Socialists made a mistake by constructing their program in parallel with the Soviet past and this played against them. Just as did their constant counterposing of Russian to the European Union. Moldovans were disappointed in the EU earlier,” but now they are disappointed in Russia.
Being disappointed in both, Viktor Stepaniuk of the Popular Socialist Party says, “Moldovans today want to remain between the unions (east and west) and at the same time work with the one and the other.” That reflects the fact that “in every Moldovan family there is someone working in Italy or Spain and someone else working in Russia.”
To the extent he is right, that would suggest that while Moldova indeed has left Russia’s sphere of influence, it has not yet joined the EU’s, largely because the latter has not reached out to it and helped integrate its economy with the Western one.
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iQFoil – The Olympics 2024 and beyond
We are extremely proud and excited to share with all of you the news that the Starboard iQFoil has been selected as the 2024 Olympic Equipment, replacing the RS:X equipment after the 2020 Olympic Games. The iQFoil concept is the fruit of many years of windsurf foiling equipment development, but developing the equipment to running a successful Olympic Campaign are two very different stories. The story of our iQFoil proposal has, above all, been one of great teamwork with a common goal of making the future of windsurfing more exciting and sustainable for the generations to come.
While big changes like this one are always daunting, it has been very encouraging to see especially some of the most successful RS:X sailors pushing to help bring about this Olympic windsurfing revolution.
The Olympics is the sporting pinnacle and the iQFoil project also goes beyond the Olympics. We’ve seen foil racing unite PWA racers, Formula Racers and Olympians. Next for us is to go mainstream.
With iQFoil equipment appealing and affordable not only to professionals but also the weekend windsurfer, our next goal will be to create a foil racing platform at the local level.
In the meantime, to get all of you as excited as we are about this change, we would like to introduce to you some of the key players of the iQFoil campaign and try to answer some of the questions you might have while we are at it.
Meet the People Behind the iQFoil:
Remi Vila, you have campaigned and developed windsurfing equipment for the Olympics since 2002. As the chief designer of Starboard’s racing boards and the iFoil 95, you led the technical choices for the iQFoil package. You needed to achieve foiling from 6 knots while keeping the equipment as simple as possible. What were your ideas in selecting each item and what are their design highlights?
For the iQFoil to become the official Olympic equipment, it was a long journey which started as far back as 2002 when we made a proposal to replace the Mistral. To be able to achieve this goal now with the iQFoil is simply amazing. (Actually, one of 2002 prototypes were similar to the iQFoil concept – see photo below).
During the last 3 years, we have been developing boards delivering the highest possible racing performance for our riders on the PWA world tour. Starting from there, the key was to improve the early take-off. We wanted to make it possible to take-off before planing and were able to achieve this with our revolutionary very-deep side-cutaways: reducing the wet surface and thereby minimizing water suction. At the same time, our design was developed to be as aerodynamic as possible so that when the board flies, it feels smoother and more stable when you hit the gusts.
The most difficult part was to make an affordable top-end full carbon package that can race from 6 to 35 knots whatever the sea conditions may be. Different racing formats will be used for light and super-light winds and more classical course racing formats will be used from 8 knots to medium-strong winds. But our next challenge was to provide a way to decrease power for stronger winds without having to change the sail size. The solution was to keep the same wings but reduce foil power by moving back the front wing with the 95 Plus fuselage. By simply adding one fuselage to the package we were able to extend controlled flight in winds up to 35 knots (on moderate sea conditions). For additional safety and to make sure that we cover particularly wavy conditions we added the fin.
We ended up with an affordable package that brings high levels of performance in every condition and can race in all conditions. During the World Sailing Olympic Trial in Torbole in September, the iQFoil proved that it was suitably tailored to meet One Design demands. So between the different components like the fuselages 115 Plus and 95 Plus with their multiple tail wing trims, fin plus regular rig trim, you have many different trim settings to play with and to fit your style and body weight. Let’s bring the fun again to the Olympic scene and beyond.
A prototype from Starboard’s 2002 Olympic Proposal.
Gonzalo Costa Hoevel and Svein Rasmussen after the official announcement at the World Sailing Conference in Bermuda.
Svein Rasmussen, you are not only the owner, founder and CEO of Starboard but also have represented your country at the Olympic Games in 1984 and won the Mistral World Championships in 1983. Bringing innovation and quality to the world of windsurfing has been your mission statement since the founding years of Starboard, but while Starboard’s designs are currently leading the Constructors’ titles in the slalom and wave disciplines, revolutionising Olympic Windsurfing must still feel pretty incredible even to you. What are your initial feelings about this accomplishment?
It’s been good fun to work with such an amazing project started by Tiesda You. The depth of this campaign goes beyond those who we usually hear about. When Sarah Kenny the Chair of the World Sailing Events Committee, spoke up on behalf of windsurfing at the World Sailing mid-year meeting in London, she created a chance for the sea trials to be held in Torbole. Dina Kowalyshyn, head of the equipment committee at World sailing was instrumental in persuading nations worldwide about her findings that the iQFoil concept being the best choice for the Olympics.
I would not have been here at Starboard today if it not for the co-inventor of windsurfing, Jim Drake, so cheers to Jim for having created Windsurfing in the way we know it, he would have been stoked to see us all fly. At times I felt in between “Mission Impossible” and “Groundhog Day” but with so many good spirits fighting for bringing Olympic windsurfing to the front line of our sport, it was in the cards that we underdogs could make it, as long as we are united. On behalf of our Tiki brand, I thank Jean Louis Colmas from New Caledonia, the creator of our Tiki spirit.
What is your message to all the young sailors who are just getting started with the RS:X or moving through the BiC Techno class?
I hope that RS:X riders will enjoy the transition to foiling and that the level of excitement will make the journey of windsurfing an even better one. Techno riders can keep on enjoying windsurfing and be sure that it’s only getting better as they grow into the Olympic class.
I ended my Olympic carrier in 1984 when we were told that we had to use div 2 boards for the next Olympics in 1988, that was after having been sailing the Windglider without a harness for 4 years. Now that we have cutting edge gear to ride in the following Olympic games it has never been a better time to get into competitive windsurfing.
Tiesda You, you are the founder of Starboard Foils, brand manager for Starboard Windsurfing and the lead designer of the Starboard Race foil that made foiling in the Olympics a possibility. Having tried, tested and developed Starboard’s foiling equipment we would like to know: what is your favorite feature of the iQFoil Equipment?
Foiling is silent and smooth so it’s not physically pounding on your body. Yet from just 6 knots, you are already flying and racing. iQFoil is also easy by virtue of its simplicity: with one board, one sail, one boom, one foil, one fin, you can race with your friends every weekend or go for gold every quadrennial. There’s never been such a uniting opportunity in windsurfing so, in the long run, that’s the most exciting part about the iQFoil project. On a personal note, to see the Race foil win the PWA title, then the World Championships and eventually the 2024 gold medal will be immensely satisfying. Definitely a highlight of my design career.
Tiesda You and Per Andersson developing Olympic board prototypes in Pattaya 2002.
What is special about the iFoil foil?
The iQFoil foil is an upgraded version of the Starboard Race Plus. Like the Race Plus, it uses our patented High-Efficiency Foil Geometry, which means that the front wing is positioned further forward to allow the tail wing to run at a much more streamlined angle. Having both wings more aligned with each other gives you more speed and a lot more control in high winds. For light winds, there’s a tail wing angle adjustment system that allows you to increase tail wing angle, giving you extra power when you need it. It is also supplied with our new iQFoil 95cm mast, which is an extra-stiff version of the standard 95cm mast. It’s built from a fusion of 44 layers of ultra-high modulus carbon. It gives the highest level of control. As Remi mentioned, there are two fuselages in the box: the 115 Plus fuselage and the 95cm version. The iQFoil foil set is available in both Carbon and Aluminium versions, where the aluminum version is recommended for the Youth division.
The first Race foil, with the breakthrough long fuselage concept and the upwind/downwind racing geometry: the founding concept that made foiling in the Olympics a possibility.
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Hi Ben Severne, your brand “Severne” has been one of the first windsurfing brands to develop foil specific sails and was at the forefront of foil sail development from the very beginning of foiling. For the iQFoil package more concretely you have created the HyperGlide Olympic one design Sail, which is a one size sail to match all wind strengths. What were the most important design aspects while developing this very specific sail? What are your initial thoughts and feelings about windsurf foiling becoming the new Olympic class?
We’re stoked with the outcome of this project. It allows us to put on display the latest within windsurfing technology. And most importantly, give the Olympic windsurfers the tools to truly perform at their best with lightweight, responsive gear.
The HyperGlide series has been the dominant sail in foil racing with Gonzalo Costa Hoevel winning the 2018 World Title, and Matteo Iachino and Amado Vrieswijk all fighting for the 2019 world title.
We always design from a windsurfers perspective. With this background and knowledge base, we knew that an Olympic version would require significant improvements.
Firstly, we had to make sure the Hyper Glide Olympic would become the toughest weapon out there able to withstand countless hours of rigging, racing, and pumping. To ease the stress on the mast, the luff curve was reduced, and more reinforcements have been added making the sail capable of handling the biggest of loads. New XL cams help distribute the tension in the sail and improve the rotation.
User-friendliness was a focus point when we were writing up the design brief of this sail. Everyone agreed, that a sail like the HyperGlide Olympic should be light in the hands, responsive and allow for you to focus on your sailing for hours without wearing you out.
Ultimately, the final outcome was a sail with a redistributed shaping expanding the wind range and giving that lighter feel in the hands.
We’re excited to be following the development of the iFoil class!
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Gonzalo Costa-Hoevel, in recent years, we’ve known you mainly from racing on the PWA slalom world tour and, of course, as the first official PWA Foil World Champion in 2018. While you have been one of the lead testers and designers in the iQFoil equipment development, from board, foil, fin and sail, you have also taken on a prominent role in campaigning for this Olympic Campaign. What have been the challenges you have faced in the last few months and where does iQFoil go from here?
The last two months were very intense and very different from what I am used to. I had to get out of the water and enter the politics world! We had the sea trials in Garda where we presented all our equipment. We had been working very hard on this equipment and we knew it was all very good but now it was going to be scrutinized by a lot of racers and World Sailing-appointed experts. After their positive evaluation, our next and final step was the World Sailing meeting in Bermuda where everything was going to be decided. I’ve never imagined that on a 10 day trip to Bermuda I would have never left the hotel! I assisted in all the meetings I could and learned a lot! I talked a lot to the MNAs providing information and explaining to them why foiling was the way to go. So the meeting was successful, we passed all the votes in a very good way and now we have foil in the Olympics! A lot of work coming up, structuring the class and organizing the calendar for next year. iQFoil will be big!
World Sailing President Kim Andersen and Gonzalo Costa Hoevel shake hands after a successful campaign in Bermuda.
You have been racing on equipment very similar to the iQFoil over the past couple of years. How would you describe the difference between RS:X sailing, slalom sailing and iqFoil?
It’s super different to RS:X, a lot closer to slalom but still quite far away from it. Foiling is very unique and spectacular. It’s more like standing on a balance ball at the gym than going full effort on a press bench. It opens a new dimension, it’s like your first planing experiences, you don’t want to stop. I’ve been foiling along with people of 15 to 50 years old, and all going very similar on speed, many different weights too, a much wider range of racers can do it and this is great for the sport.
Dorian Van Rijsselberghe, being double Olympic Gold Medallist on RSX, people are wondered why you would support the change? Your letter to World Sailing changed everything and it was an eye-opener for many, World Sailing called to Sea Trials after it. Please let us know how important is this for you and how does it feel to be one of the key players on this important change in windsurfing history?
The reason I supported the change is that I felt that windsurfing needed it. As a sport, if we want to stay in the Olympic Games, the change just needed to happen. We need to adapt, we need to be sexier, we need to go faster, and the foil achieves this.
I’m very happy that we managed to put in a strong group effort to get foiling in. And I’m stoked that my letter made it possible for World Sailing to open up to look to new options and beyond the horizon of what they knew. So being part of all that was very nice. I’m glad I was able to help and push the sport in an exciting new direction.
Antonio Cozzolino, you’ve played an instrumental role in the iQFoil project since the early days and you were part of the team who took it over the finish line. Being an Olympic RS:X sailor, what has driven you to play such a prominent role in changing the future of Olympic windsurfing? What are your feelings after this new milestone and what is your message to all the RS:X sailors out there today?
Well first and foremost, foiling is really just a whole lot of fun. But then, we saw what the equipment could do. We saw its potential. The potential not only for the racing but more broadly what it could do for the sport, for participation, for growth and the opportunity it presented for spectacular media footage. And from that, came the vision. That vision has been the driving force behind everything we have done.
Being a current campaigning RS:X sailor offered a necessary perspective in terms of what would work and what wouldn’t. Part of what has lead me to be so prominently involved I guess is my day job! Commercial law is my background and this project involved assessing many competing considerations as well as the writing of many submissions. But what ultimately drove me to be so involved is simply that I believed in what we were doing.
I’m immensely proud of what we’ve done together in getting this through, it is phenomenal really. We will have changed windsurfing history in a positive way and that’s pretty special.
To the RS:X sailors? Well they’re all my friends, and most actually already do a lot of foiling anyway so they know the fun that lies ahead. But I want to thank them actually because the large majority supported this change and it is because of that that ultimately we were able to get this through. And to the ones who are still apprehensive, fear not, fun and exciting times to come!
Hi Aaron Mcintosh, congratulations. You were a professional windsurfer up until 2001, involved with Americas Cup, Olympic Tornado Catamaran, Star Class, Etchell Class and currently the Olympic coach for the Netherlands, with back to back gold medals with Dorian van Rijesselberg. You inspired the project into motion, reaching out to Tiesda at Starboard to look at foiling in the Olympics on January 25 2018. What do you feel will be the impact of foiling on the Olympic Windsurfing community?
“If you want to predict the future, you create it”. We know we have reshaped the future of Olympic Windsurfing, it’s brought windsurfing back into the mainstream and made it cool again. The racing format will be challenging and dynamic for the sailors, engaging and exciting for media and public, we need that. It has ignited the Olympic dreams of so many more windsurfers and sailors to the class already. It’s all about the next generation of windsurfers – iQFoil is for them. It’s so exciting and the feedback already is inspiring.
Marina Alabau, you are 5 x World Champion and Olympic Gold Medalist on the RS:X equipment but most recently we have seen you only foiling. How do you feel about the iQFoil becoming the New Olympic Class equipment?
I feel super excited about iQFoil equipment. I am so happy about this radical change in the Olympic class! It will be much better for all the sailors and the spectators so, in my opinion, it is a big step forward. As an athlete, it’s much more easy to sail, both in low wind and strong wind. The range, it’s as big as the RS:X but the riding is way easier. I am super happy because compared to the RS:X where the ideal weight range for girls was between 57 to 60 kg, the iQFoil will open the range much more. I just love it! I am very, very excited to see the foil in the Olympic community.
The IQFoil project is dedicated to Jim Drake and Per Andersson, two valuable contributors who helped us reach this milestone today.
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Madison Startups: Stemina Prepares for Commercialization
by Tech Council | Sep 15, 2017 | NEWSROOM, Tech Council News
Stemina Biomarker Discovery is preparing to go to market in early 2018 with its autism diagnostic test panel, the company announced recently.
According to a release, Heiner Dreismann, the former head of Roche Molecular Diagnostics, has joined Stemina’s board of directors to help with the commercialization strategy.
“Neurological disorders like autism and schizophrenia, which have historically been defined based on behavioral findings, are now recognized to be comprised of a variety of metabolic and genetic subtypes,” Stemina CEO Elizabeth Donley said in a statement. “We expect that our approach will provide important information for diagnosis and more precise treatment as well as opportunities to collaborate with drug developers on targeted therapies and clinical trials.” Read the full story here.
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Do you believe in lucky charms? While in Iraq, US Marine Logan Thibault finds a photo, half buried in the dirt, of a woman. He carries it in his pocket, and from then on his luck begins to change. Back home, Logan is haunted by thoughts of war. Over time, he becomes convinced that the woman in the photo holds the key to his destiny. So he finds the vulnerable and loving Beth, and a passionate romance begins.
Sprecher: Holter Graham
Travis Parker has everything a man could want: a good job; loyal friends; his dream home in small-town North Carolina. In full pursuit of the good life, he believes that a serious relationship with a woman would only cramp his style. That is until Gabby Holland moves in next door. Despite Travis's attempts to be friendly, she seems to have a chip on her shoulder about him.
Fuzzy and predictable!
Von Paula Am hilfreichsten 06.01.2015
Autor: Stephenie Meyer
Sprecher: Jake Abel
When Edward Cullen and Bella Swan met in Twilight, an iconic love story was born. But until now, fans have heard only Bella's side of the story. At last, listeners can experience Edward's version in the long-awaited companion novel, Midnight Sun. This unforgettable tale as told through Edward's eyes takes on a new and decidedly dark twist. Meeting Bella is both the most unnerving and intriguing event he has experienced in all his years as a vampire.
waste of time
Sprecher: January LaVoy, Ron McLarty
Two couples. Two love stories. One epic tale. Ninety-one-year-old Ira Levinson is in trouble. Struggling to stay conscious after a car crash, with his mind fading, an image of his adored - and long-dead - wife Ruth appears. Urging him to hang on, she lovingly recounts the joys and sorrows of their life together - how they met, the dark days of WWII and its unrelenting effect on their families. A few miles away, college student Sophia Danko's life is about to change.
A very nice and sweet story....
Von r8a8 Am hilfreichsten 26.01.2014
Sprecher: Johnny Heller
Denise Hilton, a young single mother, is driving through Edenton, North Carolina, when her car skids off the road during a storm. With her is her four-year-old son, Kyle, a boy with severe learning disabilities for whom she has sacrificed everything. When volunteer fireman Taylor McAden finds her she is unconscious and bleeding, but when she wakes an even more chilling truth becomes clear: Kyle is gone.
Autor: Delia Owens
Sprecher: Cassandra Campbell
For years, rumors of the "Marsh Girl" have haunted Barkley Cove, a quiet town on the North Carolina coast. So in late 1969, when handsome Chase Andrews is found dead, the locals immediately suspect Kya Clark, the so-called Marsh Girl. But Kya is not what they say. Sensitive and intelligent, she has survived for years alone in the marsh that she calls home, finding friends in the gulls and lessons in the sand.
Mehr davon, bitte!!!!
Autor: Elle Kennedy
Sprecher: Jacob Morgan, CJ Bloom
Everyone says opposites attract. And they must be right, because there’s no logical reason why I’m so drawn to Colin Fitzgerald. I don’t usually go for tattoo-covered, video-gaming, hockey-playing nerd-jocks who think I’m flighty and superficial. His narrow view of me is the first strike against him. It doesn’t help that he’s buddy-buddy with my brother. And that his best friend has a crush on me. And that I just moved in with them. Oh, did I not mention we’re roommates?
Perfect story and narration!
Von SaB!ne Am hilfreichsten 11.07.2020
Sprecher: David Aaron Baker
Jeremy Marsh is the ultimate young New Yorker. He's also an expert on debunking the supernatural. When he receives a letter from Boone Creek, North Carolina, about ghostly lights appearing in a cemetery, he can't resist driving down to investigate. Here, in this tightly knit community, Lexie Darnell runs the town's library. Disappointed by past relationships, she is sure of one thing: her future is in Boone Creek, close to all the people she loves.
Liebegeschichte
Von maddy22 Am hilfreichsten 05.03.2008
Sprecher: Sean Pratt
In the fall of 1984, high school students Amanda Collier and Dawson Cole fell deeply, irrevocably in love. Though they were from opposite sides of the tracks, their love for one another seemed to defy the realities of life in the small town of Oriental, North Carolina. But as the summer of their senior year came to a close, unforeseen events would tear the young couple apart, setting them on radically divergent paths.
Von Amazon Customer Am hilfreichsten 23.03.2012
The Seven Sisters, Book 1
Autor: Lucinda Riley
Sprecher: Emily Lucienne
Maia D'Apliése and her five sisters were all adopted as babies. When their father dies each of them are given a clue to their true heritage - a clue which takes Maia across the world… Rio de Janeiro, 1927, Izabela Bonifacio convinces her father to allow her to accompany him to Europe. There, in the heady, vibrant cafés of Montparnasse, she meets ambitious young sculptor Laurent Brouilly, and knows at once that her life will never be the same again…
nice story but narrator could be better
Nights in Rodanthe
Sprecher: JoBeth Williams
Reeling and desolate, Adrienne Willis needs space to rethink her life after her husband leaves her for a younger woman. Fleeing everything, she jumps at the chance to look after her friend's guesthouse in the coastal town of Rodanthe, North Carolina. But there is a storm heading for Adrienne, in more ways than she can imagine. Stranded and isolated as the weather closes in, Adrienne has only one guest: Paul Flanner, a man running from his own shattered past. Taking refuge, Paul and Adrienne have only each other.
Twilight: Twilight Series, Book 1
Sprecher: Ilyana Kadushin
When seventeen-year-old Isabella Swan moves to Forks, Washington to live with her father she expects that her new life will be as dull as the town itself. In spite of her awkward manner and low expectations, she finds that her new classmates are drawn to this pale, dark-haired new girl in town. But not, it seems, the Cullen family. These five adopted brothers and sisters obviously prefer their own company and will make no exception for Bella.
Fast schon ein Klassiker.. für Romantiker
Von reineanne Am hilfreichsten 31.08.2009
Sprecher: Rebecca Lowman
When a mysterious young woman named Katie appears in the small town of Southport, her sudden arrival raises questions about her past. Beautiful yet unassuming, Katie is determined to avoid forming personal ties until a series of events draws her into two reluctant relationships. Despite her reservations, Katie slowly begins to let down her guard, putting down roots in the close-knit community. But even as Katie starts to fall in love, she struggles with the dark secret that still haunts her….
Furchtbare Schnulze
Von Maria Am hilfreichsten 19.04.2017
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Fritsch Chiari und Partner ZT GmbH Vienna
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Norbert Rabl ZT GmbH, Graz
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Façade planning
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Akustik / Schallschutz
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Future Art Lab
Urban planning:
The new building for the Future Art Lab will complete the development of this special campus, which is reminiscent of Anglo-American models and is unique for Vienna. On account of this, and due also to it location at a prominent position, this building has a special importance, which makes it possible to especially accentuate the canon of the buildings on the campus at this point.
On the other hand to exert a particular dominance here would be inappropriate. A moderate height, integration with the neighbouring buildings in terms of volume, and spatial and functional references to the central open area, the “campus” in the literal sense of the term, appeared important. The building is seen as a pavilion which makes a gesture of opening towards the middle of the university and which can also respond to urban references.
The result is a free-standing, embedded building which can very much be understood as an apparatus, an appliance for playing, composing and experimenting with and on film and music.
The internal organisation is based on the requirements in terms of function and building acoustics, and the aim is to give each institute the greatest degree of compactness combined with maximum exposure to daylight.
For reasons of acoustics the Institute for Electro-acoustic Music and Composition with the large halls (the Klangtheater (sound theatre), and the recording hall) which form its nucleus is placed at basement level, along with a generously sized foyer zone. Through a sunken courtyard its teaching spaces receive sufficient natural east light. The institute’s administration rooms are also east-facing and are located on the ground floor as is the main foyer.
In terms of floor area the Film Academy is the largest institute with the greatest number of rooms that must be lit naturally. It takes up the entire 1st floor, which, in accordance with the building regulations, is also the largest in area. To generate more facade area for daylight a wing is folded inwards, creating a large terrace as a side effect. The Art House cinema is placed so that the public can access it directly at ground floor level. The lower level of the cinema is directly connected with an intermediate level inserted in the void of the basement. At this point a direct pedestrian connection to the neighbouring Building G is possible
The recessed 2nd floor, the roof level, is reserved for the Institute for Keyboard Instruments, which in terms of floor area is the smallest but which has a relatively high proportion of areas that must receive
daylight. It, too, is grouped around its nucleus, the concert hall. In terms of ceiling height the concert hall exploits the roof volume allowed by the building regulations, and it is naturally lit.
Circulation:
In the southeast there is a double flight staircase with a goods lift that connects all the areas to which heavy items must be transported with the delivery bay. The main staircase is a spatially composed circulation and encounter zone which relates to the campus and the city and brings students and teachers to the institutes and interested members of the public to the halls. If you take the route downwards you pass the seminar area of the Film Academy to arrive in the Klangtheater of the Institute for Electro-acoustic Music and Composition. If you take the route upwards you reach the centre of the main level of the Film Academy. Continuing along the stairs you have crossed the building on the diagonal and arrive at the concert hall with a view outside. The main staircase is flanked by a glazed passenger lift that allows all levels to be reached barrier-free. Despite the routes across the building each institute can be closed off, while the halls that are accessible to the public and their foyer zones are kept accessible. Both staircases are designed as escape stairs with all the necessary measures such as glazing, sprinkler systems, fire protection curtains or pressure ventilation. As they are positioned in such a way that all areas can be easily evacuated, two staircases are sufficient.
Building acoustics:
For all rooms and halls with exacting acoustic requirements a space-in-a-space building method is proposed. The load-bearing reinforced concrete structure is completely separated from the structure (also solid) that forms the interior space, and is carried by a mass-spring system. The three biggest producers of sound, the Klangtheater, the recording room and the Art House cinema, are positioned independently of each other at basement level so that no structure-borne sound can be transmitted to other parts of the building. The loads of the concert hall, which, of course, is also built according to the space-in-a-space method using the mass-spring system, are transferred through the building and down to the foundations by a separate structure, so that here, too, no adverse effects can arise. The entire Institute for Keyboard Instruments is placed on its own floating reinforced concrete slab, independent of the primary reinforced concrete slab.
All the rooms with exacting acoustic requirements are separated from each other by solid walls of the requisite thickness.
To meet the stringent demands with regard to soundproofing buffer areas, such as corridors and intermediate rooms, are used. For example: the concert hall is separated by a less acoustically sensitive corridor area from the recording spaces below it, which is essential to achieve the level of soundproofing required. As regards acoustics door constructions often represent weak spots but that is not the case here, as sufficient room for door air-locks is planned in order to achieve a very high standard of sound proofing.
Room acoustics:
For the room acoustics two fundamental construction principles are taken into account: diffusion and sound damping in a space. The requisite diffusion is achieved by means of suitable acoustic wall and ceiling claddings, for example concave elements. This creates sound focuses and offers a basis for good audibility. In those spaces that are used for research and teaching, variable acoustics are employed to allow an experimental experience of different room acoustics. In large areas of the building the degree of sound damping in the rooms can be changed by means of sound-absorbent curtains.
The concert hall is fitted with solid wood elements on the walls and ceiling that reflect sound back into the public. These elements also function as their own “resonating bodies”. The floor is a heavy wooden floor. In order to be able to control the reverberation time acoustically highly effective and movable textile elements or curtains are envisaged for a defined zone between the top edge of the wall elements and the ceiling elements.
In the Art House cinema an absorbent lining is envisaged for all the main surfaces, ensuring good audibility of loudspeaker sound. In addition the floor has absorbent perforations through which the intake air can rise silently.
The Klangtheater is a space for experiments and is therefore completely equipped with sound-absorbent blinds that are fitted at a sufficient distance to the inner shell of the space-in-a-space construction and ensure maximum variability of the room acoustics.
Clearly, all these measures listed are not made at the cost of the usable floor area but are located within the construction thicknesses.
Building services:
The building services must meet highly complex demands in terms of room and building acoustics. Very large ventilation cross sections are required in order to serve the halls at extremely low air speeds. This is the only way of ensuring that the building services plant operates almost completely silently. On the other hand it is essential that the individual halls be served separately in order to make the transmission of sound between the halls impossible.
Building physics – facades:
As the internal loads (heat sources) are very large, it is most important to reduce the entry of (solar) energy from outside. This is achieved by the extensive use of sun protection louvers that also play an important, form-shaping role in the architectural design. On the north facade facing towards the campus a second glass plane with a sun protection coating is used, as here, too, solar energy can enter from the east and west. This also gives the building’s principal elevation a strikingly open appearance.
The high proportion of solid building parts, necessitated by the acoustic concept alone, allow the internal heat balance to be well managed.
Fitting-out:
Parquet floors in the halls and practice rooms, carpeting in the studios and offices, epoxy resin floors in the circulation areas. Walls are skim coated and painted. Exposed service runs on the ceiling slabs without suspended ceilings, as is commonly found in experimental culture buildings. The walls and ceilings in the halls are described under the room acoustics concept.
Structural system:
The structural and constructional system is strongly shaped by the requirements of the building acoustics. Flat reinforced concrete ceiling and floor slabs are envisaged, the principal load-bearing and bracing element is the box-shaped primary structure of the halls. Other loads are transferred by reinforced concrete pin-ended columns. Projecting areas are carried by angled columns in the floor above.
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Bandago Rental Van an Accessory in Deadly NC Shooting
The Mercedes Sprinter has been impounded by police and may take as long as six years before it can be returned to the rental fleet, after all trials and appeals have been concluded.
NC Police Arrest Kids Over Rental Vehicle Thefts
Forty-six vehicles, worth collectively around $1 million, were stolen from 17 dealerships and one Enterprise.
North Carolina Airport to Move Rental Car Lots
Piedmont Triad International Airport plans to relocate its rental car storage lots because of the position of its new control tower.
Go Rentals to Open New North Carolina Location
This location, like the others, will have its own special fleet of vehicles, hand-picked and chosen specifically for this climate and the traveling conditions.
Raleigh-Durham CONRAC Eliminates Rental Shuttles
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Wilmington International Airport Receives Funding for Rental Car Maintenance Center
The New Hanover County Board of Commissioners voted unanimously to advance a $4.5 million loan to the airport to build a new rental car service maintenance center. Construction is set to begin in May and finish in December.
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In Wallace Stevens’s poem “The Snow Man” (1926), nature’s indifference to humanity is perceived as if through the lens of nature itself rather than human eyes. The snowman is not human but made in human form, permitting him an intimation of perception. Dan Peterman’s installation La Plage (Plastic Bones) involved a similar double perspective, its “bones” constructed from uniform chunks of recycled plastic. Each module widens slightly at each end, yielding a form that would fit snugly in the palm of your hand. The recycling process has given a synthetic material the patina of nature, making it seem simultaneously organic and man-made.
Peterman tiled these objects over the floor of two of the gallery rooms. The density of the structure held them in place, but they shifted slightly as you stepped on them, a physical equivalent of the perceptual disorientation of being unable to quite identify the material you were walking on. In the first room, the tiling was tightly packed and almost rigid; in the adjoining space, it loosened to resemble the weave of a canvas. Although the modules looked like they might be coarse bars of soap—mostly gray, punctuated by bright red or turquoise—they clicked together like bricks. The reference to Carl Andre’s modular floor works was obvious, but so was Peterman’s variation on them. Andre’s natural materials-travertine marble, copper or basalt-are translated into man-made units by industrial cutting and tiling. Peterman reversed the conceit: a manufactured material acquired natural characteristics through the recycling process. To paraphrase Jackson Pollock’s famous remark, we are also nature, and our technologies-which invent synthetic polymers, make functional objects out of them and ultimately reduce the used objects to this residue-can be defined as natural systems to which basic molecules have been submitted.
Of course, the module, as distinct from its material, is Peterman’s, and he gently coaxed symbolic resonances out of its cartoonish resemblance to a dog’s bone. Forming a surrogate parquet (over the real parquet of Klosterfelde’s interior), the tiling suggested the gray surface of a shingle beach, in which pebbles, ceramic shards and bone are indistinguishable. Peterman has pitched plastic—the most modern of materials and notoriously non-biodegradable—as a metaphor for fossils, relics of life with an antiquity beyond our imaginative grasp. He thus effectively humanizes a material that Norman Mailer once characterized as anti-human and cancer-inducing, even making it synonymous with our bodily substance.
If the bone form was humanizing, it also suggested mortality. The third room of the gallery was empty except for a few bone towers, apparently constructed by the gallerist’s children. Liberated from the tile structure, the plastic appeared more morbidly skeletal, a material we have made and have no more use for, but which will nevertheless outlast us all.
Photo: View of Dan Peterman’s installation La Plage (Plastic Bones), 2011, post-consumer reprocessed plastic; at Klosterfelde.
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Do Social Enterprises Need Impact Investing? Views from Europe
Last year, Ashoka’s Germany Director, Felix Oldenburg, took on – and took apart – impact investing as we currently know it, challenging it on a few specific points. Now, we share a telephonic debate between Oldenburg and Johannes Weber, founder of Social Venture Fund, the first pan-European social venture capital fund, who contests Oldenburg’s assumptions to push forward the dialogue on our much-discussed, much-anticipated new space of impact investing.
In May, Mark Hand and Nikhil Dandavati (of First Light Ventures) highlighted some gaps in the impact investing industry including its relative youth, the as-of-yet lack of a “transparent set of definitions, parameters, or goals,” and that it “has yet to deliver on its promise of combining financial return and social impact.” Today, we take the enterprise perspective on the debate by focusing on whether most social enterprises need impact investing, and if so, how much.
Social Venture Fund, one of the only major social investors in Germany, invests between 500k to 1.5 million euros in social enterprises that are in their expansion stage. After I asked why are there so few impact investors in Germany, Weber explained “social problems are different here – as opposed to some BoP solutions in India, for example, it’s harder to generate returns from addressing social problems in Germany.” But there are enterprises that can generate returns; in fact, Social Venture Fund has in the last two years invested in three social enterprises with the aim of scaling social impact, generating financial returns for its investors, and finding socially-viable exits for these companies. The fund itself is structured like a social enterprise to remain dedicated to its mission. When I asked if he has a problem finding investable social entrepreneurs, Weber replied that he didn’t, but if he wanted to grow the fund, they would face a weak social entrepreneur pipeline.
Improving the Pipeline: Better Incubation or Paradigm Shift?
To begin with, this “broken pipeline” issue is something that Oldenburg sees as one of the major challenges facing impact investing, if the industry wants to scale. In accordance, the recent Monitor/Acumen fund report cites a “lack of sufficient absorptive capacity for capital. This means there is an imminent lack of impact investing opportunities into which large amounts of capital could be placed at investors’ required rates of return.” In short, this means there are few enterprises that can – or see the need – to handle a large impact investment. And even for those social enterprises that can, the rate of return demanded by the “impact” investors is often too expensive for social enterprises struggling toward profits.
The weak investment pipeline points to one of two issues: a. a need to create more mechanisms to make social entrepreneurs investor-ready, or as Oldenburg (pictured left) believes, b. the fact that many social enterprises would not be best served by shifting from traditional social sector funding sources, such as grants, to impact investments.
If we need more ways to prepare entrepreneurs, ironically, the best organizations in the position to build them – the impact investors themselves – find it costly to create incubator programs. Weber explains, “Most (social) venture capital firms set up an incubator but tend to withdraw after a while since it’s not their core business.” If the latter problem is true and the truly transformative social innovations are inherently not profitable, then that’s a much bigger issue. That would require a significant paradigm shift away from impact investing for impactful social enterprises to survive in the coming years.
The Most Innovative Enterprises: Ripe for Donations or Investments?
Because of the inability of many enterprises to access impact investments, we are starting to see a stark divergence between philanthropy and investing. Oldenburg believes that many system-changing enterprises see a conflict with impact investing and are seeking donations, as compared to social enterprises (e.g. BoP product businesses) that can scale quickly and are a better fit for impact investing.
“Impact investments are good for commoditized, proven goods, not the intangible or radical – those work better if you give away the idea so that it can be replicated across the world. These are two different types of enterprises with two entirely different logics, but impact investing will treat both of them as the same,” he explains. Oldenburg believes that unless we come up with the right patient funding mechanisms for the system-changing enterprises (which are inherently more difficult to scale using the logic of organic business growth), impact investing will risk putting too much pressure on these enterprises and making them “dumb down” their models to become more easily profitable and scalable.
“Right now, social entrepreneurs are forced to be schizophrenic to cater to the divergent demands of donors and investors—no social entrepreneur can play that game. A viable core business is great, even noble,” Oldenburg said. “But scaling up often requires a mix of capital. Foundations and investors have to work together to creatively come up with better products in order to get the right investment proposition for the most innovative enterprises.” UK's Social Impact Bond is one such example of an innovative funding mechanism that counters impact investing.
Weber disagrees that the system-changing enterprises need donations and that it is up to the funders to create mixed capital for scale. “You can grow quickly only if your business model works,” he asserts. “We see many enterprises seeking donations simply because they haven’t thought hard enough about their business models and have a lack of big thinking. These entrepreneurs need to think harder and seek advice in order to make their enterprises investable and then scale to have hundreds or thousands benefit. If an entrepreneur stays dependent on donations, he will have to dedicate a large part of his time on ongoing fundraising activities, which could reduce his efficiency. If he is capable of getting an investment he should do so, since real scaling is only possible with investment.”
Also, he believes that impact investing has more leeway to fund innovative ideas. “So much philanthropy goes into things that don’t have the capacity for a system change, and moreover, the donors often make the NGOs do what the donor programs want done. Impact investing gives so much more autonomy and asks the entrepreneur what she or he needs to do in order to scale up.” He cites Germany Tops Up, one of his investees that allows shoppers to give their change as donations when they check out of a store and has scaled to 4 million transactions with more than 250,000 euro donated in its first eight weeks, as a radical idea that would not have scaled on donations.
Examples of Scale
Let’s look at a couple of concrete examples to think through the effect of impact investing on very innovative ideas.
Oldenburg cites Maria Montessori, who grew her preschools through open network growth and changed early childhood education as we know it today, and Aflatoun, a child social and financial education organization that scaled across the world. Since neither could have been considered enormously profitable models in their early days, Oldenburg explains that “impact investing would not have let these enterprises grow the way they did.”
“We are investing in a nursery school right now – sustaining 40 of these on donations would not have succeeded,” counters Weber (pictured right).“It’s hard to tell what would have happened to Montessori with impact investments, but all we know is that the impact investing space is going to be big, with some estimating that it will be a $4 billion market. Right now, people are looking for the growth stories, but we haven’t proven ourselves yet since the space is young. But growth is only possible with investment.”
Oldenburg concedes: “I love impact investing. Don’t get me wrong. If only it could challenge itself to adapt to the needs of social entrepreneurs.”
“I strongly believe that most social venture capital funds go to great lengths in order to support social entrepreneurs not only with money but with infrastructure, knowledge and their network. There are many examples of successful social enterprises that have benefitted greatly from this kind of support.” Johannes concludes.
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Iran tanker seizure: Images of captured British-flagged crew released
duration 22 July 2019
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image captionAn Iranian official was photographed speaking to some of the 23 crew members on the Stena Impero
Iranian state media has released images of crew members on a British-flagged tanker that was seized in the Gulf.
Video footage and a photo appear to show cooks preparing meals and crew members being briefed by an Iranian official onboard the Stena Impero.
A meeting of the government's emergency Cobra committee has been held after Downing Street called the seizure "unacceptable and highly escalatory".
Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt told MPs it was an act of "state piracy".
media captionJeremy Hunt calls the seizure of the Stena Impero as “state piracy".
It comes amid reports that ministers are considering freezing Iranian assets.
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image captionCrew members on the British-flagged vessel are Indian, Russian, Latvian and Filipino
image captionThe tanker was seized by Iran in the Gulf on Friday
The images, published by Fars and Irib news agencies, appear to show some of the 23 crew members - who are Indian, Russian, Latvian and Filipino - holding meetings and monitoring their computer systems.
During one "meeting" a uniformed crew member tells others: "Don't look at the camera."
Making a statement to MPs in the Commons, the foreign secretary announced plans for the UK to help to develop a maritime protection mission in the Gulf.
Mr Hunt said he spoke with a "heavy heart" but if Iran continued to act as it had, it would have to accept a "larger Western military presence" along its coastline.
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The protection force to be created by European countries would not include the US because, Mr Hunt insisted, Britain was not part of President Trump's policy of "maximum pressure" on Tehran.
US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo told Fox News the "responsibility" fell to the UK "to take care of their ships".
Earlier, Downing Street had repeated its calls for Iran immediately to release the tanker that was seized on Friday. Theresa May had chaired a Cobra meeting to receive updates, discuss security in the area and consider how to react.
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image captionChancellor Philip Hammond insisted the UK had not taken its "eye off the ball" over the seizure of the tanker
image captionIranian press said the crew had been taken off the ship for "questioning"
media captionA Royal Navy frigate can be heard warning Iranian armed forces, before the oil tanker is seized
On Sunday, ministers denied domestic politics meant the government had taken its "eye off the ball".
The detainment of the Stena Impero marks escalating tensions between the UK and Iran, coming weeks after Britain helped seize a tanker carrying Iranian oil.
On Friday, the Stena Impero was seized by the Iranian Revolutionary Guard in the key shipping route of the Strait of Hormuz after Tehran said it was "violating international maritime rules".
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Video released by Iran's Revolutionary Guard-affiliated Fars news agency appeared to show the moment the tanker was raided.
media captionFootage released by Iran's Revolutionary Guard-affiliated Fars news agency appears to show Stena Impero being seized
A recording emerged of radio exchanges between HMS Montrose and Iranian armed forces vessels moments before the tanker was seized.
The Iranian vessel can be heard telling the British frigate it wants to inspect the Stena Impero for security reasons.
Iran's state-run IRNA news agency said the tanker was captured after it collided with a fishing boat and failed to respond to calls from the smaller craft.
Mr Hunt said it was illegally seized in Omani waters and forced to sail into Bandar Abbas port in Iran.
The seizure of the Stena Impero comes two weeks after Royal Marines helped seize tanker Grace 1 off Gibraltar, because of evidence it was carrying Iranian oil to Syria in breach of EU sanctions.
Mr Hunt said the Grace 1 was detained legally, but Iran said it was "piracy" and threatened to seize a British oil tanker in retaliation.
Could the Royal Navy have done more?
Former Cabinet minister Iain Duncan Smith told the BBC there were legitimate questions over the British government's actions, after HMS Montrose was too far away to stop the ship's seizure.
He said the detention of the Grace 1 tanker carrying Iranian oil two weeks earlier ought to have served as a warning that British vessels in the Gulf needed protection.
The Tory MP said he understood the US had offered the UK "assets" to support its shipping and they were not taken up.
"This is a major failure and the government has to answer that charge very quickly indeed," he said.
Former commander of UK maritime forces Rear Admiral Alex Burton said the size of the Navy's fleet had limited the UK's ability to act.
"There is no doubt that the size of the Navy since 2005 - reduced from 31 frigates and destroyers to now 19 - has had an impact on our ability to protect our interests around the globe," he told BBC Radio 4's Today programme.
US Central Command said it was developing a multinational maritime effort in response to the situation.
Defence minister Tobias Ellwood said it was "impossible" to escort each individual vessel.
He said the situation required "international co-operation" and suggested more money should be invested in the Navy if Britain wanted to continue to play a role on the international stage.
What happened to the tanker and its crew?
The Stena Impero is still being held in the port of Bandar Abbas, in southern Iran.
The tanker's Swedish owner, Stena Bulk, has made a formal request to visit the crew members.
They had all been taken off the ship for "questioning", Iran's Press TV reported.
On Monday, the Iranian embassy in India told Reuters news agency that the crew, including 18 Indian nationals, were in "good health" and remained onboard the tanker.
A relative of one Indian crew member, who did not want to be identified, told the BBC on Sunday the family was concerned and had not received any messages from him since the vessel was detained.
But they said the family was being kept well informed by the Swedish company and felt reassured about diplomatic efforts to free the ship after meeting company officials on Sunday.
Although the crew and owners are not British, the Stena Impero carries the UK flag.
"Historically speaking it means that the UK owes protection to the vessel," explained Richard Meade, from maritime publication Lloyds List.
What about other UK ships in the area?
Maritime analysts said as many as eight UK-flagged tankers are currently stranded in the Gulf, inside the Strait.
Richard Meade, editor of Lloyd's List, said other British ships have been diverted and can no longer pick up cargo within the Gulf because of a warning from the government.
The longer the advice stays in place, the more likely it is that ships will decide to reflag - adding to a 30% drop in UK flagging over the past 12 months, Mr Meade said.
Most ship owners cite Brexit uncertainties as the main reason for reflagging, he added.
What has Iran said?
Iran's foreign minister Javad Zarif tweeted on Saturday that the UK "must cease being an accessory to #EconomicTerrorism of the US".
He said Iran guarantees the security of the Gulf and the Strait of Hormuz, and insisted its action was to "uphold international maritime rules".
Iran's ambassador to London has warned the UK against escalating tensions, tweeting: "This is quite dangerous and unwise at a sensitive time in the region."
media captionWhy does the Strait of Hormuz matter?
What's the background to tensions in the Gulf?
Relations have been deteriorating between Iran and the UK and US.
In April, the US tightened sanctions it had re-imposed on Iran after withdrawing from a 2015 nuclear deal.
The US blamed Iran for attacks on tankers since May, which Tehran denies. On Friday, the US claimed to have destroyed an Iranian drone in the Gulf.
The UK government has remained committed to the deal, which curbs Iran's nuclear activities in return for the lifting of sanctions.
However, the UK's help in seizing the Iranian tanker Grace 1 infuriated Iran.
Last week, the UK said Iranian boats also attempted to impede a British oil tanker in the region before being warned off by HMS Montrose. Iran denied any attempted seizure.
International reaction
The White House said Friday's incident was the second time in more than a week the UK had been "the target of escalatory violence" by Iran.
On Sunday, the Foreign Office confirmed Mr Hunt spoke with his French and German counterparts, who have both condemned Iran's actions.
France's Jean-Yves Le Drian and Germany's Heiko Maas agreed that safe passage through the Strait of Hormuz is a top priority for European nations, while avoiding any possible escalation.
Diplomatic solution 'will be complicated'
A diplomatic solution to this crisis is going to be complicated, not least because Britain's relationships with its traditional partners - the US and the Europeans - are under strain.
Diplomatic pressure - action at the UN or tough economic sanctions - requires the building of a coalition.
France and Germany have given London rhetorical support. President Trump is standing beside his British ally.
But the US and the EU are fundamentally at loggerheads over the fate of the nuclear deal with Iran and what many European capitals see as a thinly disguised US policy that seeks regime change in Tehran.
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Students from Birmingham City University were recently the first in the world to trial a new and innovative computing exam designed to fill a gap in the IT skills market.
Created in partnership with organisations from several countries, Birmingham City University’s School of Computing, Telecommunications and Networks (CTN) was selected to be part of the pre-release testing phase of the ‘Linux Essentials’ exam programme, which prepares the next generation to acquire and develop skills required to succeed in the IT sector.
The ‘Linux Essentials’ programme is an entry level, international exam, designed as a stepping stone to gaining advanced computer skills and has been developed by the Linux Professional Institute (LPI). LPI provides a global framework, industry leadership and services to enhance, develop and further lifelong professional careers in computer technologies. The LPI certification programme is designed to certify the competency of IT professionals and Linux Essentials is aimed at providing students with a first step onto this path.
Students at Birmingham City University sat a trial version of the ‘Linux Essentials’ exam as part of the development process, ahead of the programme release this summer in Europe, the Middle East and Africa.
CTN Lecturer and LPI Academy lead Stephen Murphy, said: “Last year, as part of a visit to Birmingham City University, LPI announced that the exam was in the development stage and invited us to take part in that process. Since then we have submitted exam questions and taken part in several aspects of exam development and evaluation, including the world's first trial sitting of the exam with Birmingham City University students”.
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Federal inquiry into flying fox management
The Australian Government has announced a short inquiry into the management of flying foxes in the eastern states of Australia. Eurobodalla Council will be making a submission based on its recent experiences.
Councils in New South Wales were informed yesterday that the Australian Government will conduct a short inquiry into the management of flying foxes in the eastern states of Australia.
The House of Representatives Standing Committee on the Environment and Energy is accepting written submissions by this Friday, 18 November, and will focus on how the species can be managed at a regional scale, how flying foxes are listed and delisted as a threatened species, streamlining regulations, and the success of management actions such as dispersal.
Mayor Liz Innes says despite the short timeframe, Eurobodalla Shire Council will be making a submission to the inquiry based on its experiences to date.
“Our staff have started work right away to make a submission, with the focus on our recent experience and the impact on our community with the flying foxes in Batemans Bay earlier this year.”
“Any changes to managing the species and regulatory frameworks could have significant impacts on the way Council approaches the management of flying foxes in Eurobodalla in the future,” she said.
“This inquiry could be of immense significance to us and to other local government areas facing the challenges of managing flying foxes in urban and residential areas.
“Eurobodalla Council has clearly learned some valuable lessons during the dispersal project and we will certainly be advocating on behalf of our community to ensure these lessons are not forgotten.
“If our experience can help other communities deal with the impacts of flying foxes then we welcome the opportunity to be part of this inquiry.”
The committee’s terms of reference are:
the circumstances and process by which flying-foxes are listed and delisted as threatened species at both the state and Commonwealth levels
the interaction between the state and Commonwealth regulatory frameworks
strategic approaches to managing species at a regional scale
opportunities to streamline the regulation of flying-fox management
the success or otherwise of management actions, such as dispersal of problematic flying fox camps.
Individuals are also welcome to make submissions against one or more of the terms of reference. All details available:http://www.aph.gov.au/Parliamentary_Business/Committees/House/Environment_and_Energy/Flyingfoxmanagement
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Toyota Supra concept looks like a daring black diamond
The body of this sports car gets dozens of sharp edges, reminiscent of the delicate work of a jeweler. So those who find the appearance of the original Toyota Supra A90 a little boring can take a closer look at this alternative design.
The sports car Toyota Supra A90 through the efforts of the Flat Hat 3D Studio has received a very effective exterior, which instantly attracts attention and remains in memory for a long time. The faceted body of the sports car resembles a gem that has been in the hands of a jeweler.
The truth of elegance is a little in it: it is replaced by brutality and power. This is what the next Batmobile might look like. Sharp corners in the exterior may remind many of the Tesla Cybertruck electric pickup. However, this experience of the creators of this sports car was inspired by a completely different car: the world’s most expensive SUV Karlmann King, presented by the Chinese company IAT several years ago.
Not much remains of the original Supra: the shape of the bonnet and the slightly pointed nose. The headlights have given way to sleek LED units, and the wheel arches have become more massive and acquired a quadrant shape. Visually, they are successfully combined with off-road tires.
The concept’s stern is geometric headlights linked by an LED strip.
But the slightly “humped” roof resembles a pickup truck Elon Musk.
Earlier on the web showed an unusual render for the new supercar Toyota. The designer used the developments of the car 20 years ago and added a modern look to them. The appearance of such a model is hardly worth waiting for, but it turned out interesting.
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The Avon Bulbs Snowdrop List
There are few other businesses that offer such a range of Snowdrops for sale. It is the culmination of many years of collecting, maintaining, cosseting, twin scaling and nurturing that Alan Street, the head nurseryman at Avon Bulbs, has put into the collection. The number of snowdrops offered has grown year on year. It might be said that snowdrops are all the same with white petals and green foliage but the keen eye can spot the differences between habit, size, markings and time of flowering.
Planting Dormant Snowdrops
Do not delay the planting of dormant snowdrop bulbs, the sooner they are planted the better. If planting them directly into the ground consider their position as outlined below. We recommend using the smallest size of aquatic mesh pots so containment and identification will be made easier, this being filled with an improved soil based potting medium and a little extra sharp sand around each bulb. Label carefully and water very sparingly until the autumn. If planting in pots these should be plunged to keep the roots safe from extremes of heat and cold. If growing under glass (which can only be recommended for a very limited time) give plenty of ventilation at all times and preferably move the pots outside to a shady spot after flowering to prolong the growing season.
Planting Snowdrops "in the green"
All snowdrops (Galanthus species and cultivars) prefer cool, moist conditions in the spring and a surprisingly dry summer dormancy in the shade. Aim to provide a spot for them in good angled Spring sunshine where the rain can reach them when you plant them but also somewhere that will be more shaded in summer and where the soil will be drier due to the umbrella effect of the leaves above shedding the rain away and the roots of the trees and shrubs drawing away most of the remaining moisture. Dig a deep but narrow planting hole probably 4-6" deep (10-15cm) (an asparagus trowel is a great implement for the job) loosening the soil at depth and introduce your snowdrop into this at a depth slightly greater than it was previously planted (where the stem turns green!) Firm in and water the soil remembering to label the spot. If planting more than one of the same variety, plant the next about 4" (10cm) away ideally. They will clump up in time.
A Glossary of Snowdrop Terms
Flowers -
Apex - The part of the flower closest to the ovary.
Base - The part of the flower furthest from the ovary.
Claw - The narrowing or restriction close to the ovary, particularly to the outer segment.
Scape - The (leafless) flower stem.
Spathe - The extension to the flower stem above the point that the pedicel emerges (modified leaves).
Inner Segments - The inner ring of 'petals' closest to the centre of the flower.
Outer Segments - The outer ring of 'petals'.
Ovary - Where the seeds eventually form, the swollen organ between the pedicel and the flower.
Pedicel - the connection between the ovary and the scape on which the flower is held.
Poculiform - indicating that all the petals are of the same dimensions.
Inverse Poculiform - where the outer segments appear to be missing and have been replaced by segments of equal length that look much more like large inner segments, as in Trym and the Trym- like varieties (also known by some as pterugiform - like a Roman legionaries' skirt).
Leaves -
Applenate - (as in G. nivalis) the leaves emerge from the ground flat to one another.
Plicate (or Explicative) - (as in G. plicatus) the leaves are described as emerging from the soil in an applenate arrangement but with the edges folded back on themselves.
Convolute (or supervolute) - (as in G. elwesii) the emerging leaves are rolled, one within the other as they emerge through the soil.
Glaucescent - with a thicker layer of wax over the surface leading to a greyness in colour.
Glaucous - the wax layer even more thick than glaucescent and as a result the leaf colour often increasingly grey.
Hybrid - parentage of more than one species (as indicated by the leaf arrangement).
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Avonlea Blog
In a recent flurry of tweets, Sarah Polley criticized the series for a kissing scene when she was 14.
This is a photo of Treat Williams and me. I was thirteen or fourteen. So he was around 40. It was an episode of ‘Avonlea’ and my character was in love with him and we had a kissing scene. WTF?! Someone just reminded me of this…
Sarah initially confused kissing the 41 year old Treat Williams, from the episode 'Moving On' (Sara and the Marshall in the US), with her onscreen kiss with Jaimz Woolvett from the Season Five episode 'Enter Prince Charming.' While she recalled the episode with the aging Marshall Zac Morgan as creepy, she was also appalled by the "gross" kissing scene with 26-year old Woolvett.
And here is a photo of Jaimz Woolvet and I. I think around the same time. So I'm around 13 or 14 I think. He's 26. Another kissing scene. What on earth??? This is all coming back to me now... Super creepy Road to Avonlea stuff... Was this legal???
I'm having some kind of former actor Twitter meltdown... Excuse me... but this is so gross...
Sadly these incidents would still rank very low on my list of many damaging and inappropriate things that happened while making that show... but still...
Polley later deleted her tweets and apologized for confusing the scenes.
I also owe the producers of Avonlea an apology for confusing a creepy scene without a kiss for a creepier scene with a kiss. Sorry I didn’t properly identify which scene was unethical. I’ll come up with a more well researched list of terrible experiences in the future...
It's likely Sarah will find more questionable scenes from Road to Avonlea in the future. Polley has a history of criticizing the series. In one interview she called Avonlea a "sugary sweet horrible kid's show."
Did you find Sarah's kiss scenes gross and inappropriate? And what does that say about an equally young Gema Zamprogna (Felicity King) kissing a much older Michael Mahonen (Gus Pike)? Let me know in the comments below.
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As much as I like Sarah, I hate how much she criticizes the show. I still think "Moving On" is a rather good episode and important Sara's development as a character. On the other hand, I'm not a fan of Sara's "love interest" in season five so I can't be objective about that. Call him creepy all you want. Also, Sarah's last tweet "apologizing" sounds rather backhanded. But in the end, I just can't dislike her. I admire her for speaking her mind and have appreciated her work since leaving Avonlea. I hope she will give a better account on her time during the show, then maybe I could understand why she hates it so much.
Regarding Gema and Michael, I still think the huge age difference is pretty weird. However, I was able to forget it quickly while I was bingeing the show. Michael thankfully looked pretty young for his age.
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After the phenomenal response to his debut merengue-techno releases - NO WAR IN THE SUMMER (Iturnem) - AGAINST THE WINTER (Mbelektronics) - and - RETUN TO THE SOURCE (Intec) - Montreal's DJ Preach began touring the globe, exploring new cultures and music to add to his repertoire. Noted for an ability to balance his own deep musical training with the ephemeral needs of the dance floor, Preach excels at injecting emotion and energy into the rhythmic, sometimes formulaic genre of techno music. Although he is only twenty-four years old, the ambitious, hard-working DJ, producer and label manager has become a key player in the continuing success of techno music in clubs and gatherings the world over. With a slew of critically acclaimed releases for respected techno imprints including INTEC, Session, Primate, Zync, Symbolism, Mbelektronics, Ascend and Iturnem, Phillip Babin's prolific production pace has allowed him to rise meteorically within the ranks of techno's international elite. Named as "the man to watch in 2005" by Carl Cox and recognized as Marco V's favorite producer, Preach's tracks are regularly charted by such dance music glitterati as Paul Van Dyk, Mauro Picotto, Green Velvet & Chris Liebing, to name but a few, and his passionate DJ sets have taken dance floors by storm across North and South America, Europe, Scandinavia and Japan. Achieving widespread production and DJing success with relative ease, 2005 sees Preach achieving yet another milestone: the establishment of his own label, Relic Recordings, as a home for his own recordings and mixes, and as an arena within which he can continue his collaborations with like-minded electronic music artists. Preach's most recent releases, Shizzle (produced with Marco G for Yin Yang Records) and Relic Silver's Funk Around the World, reached #1 and #4 respectively in Mixmag's techno chart, and his upcoming bookings include Amsterdam's Dance Valley, Serbia's Exit Festival 05, Arnhem's Free Your Mind Festival, Madrid's Fabrik, Fraga's Florida 135, and Barcelona's D'Asco Festival. MovieBekijk hier een filmpje van Preach op Awakenings 11-02-2006.
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Consumer Electronics Association Extends Support to New UAS “Know Before You Fly” Safety Campaign
Written by AZoRoboticsJan 8 2015
The Consumer Electronics Association (CEA)® announced its support of the new UAS safety campaign, “Know Before You Fly,” today during the 2015 International CES®. The campaign provides prospective operators of unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) with the information and guidance they need to fly safely and responsibly.
The effort is being spearheaded by the Association for Unmanned Vehicle Systems International (AUVSI), Academy of Model Aeronautics (AMA) and the Small UAV Coalition in partnership with the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA).
“Unmanned vehicles have the potential to create new businesses and new jobs and give consumers unprecedented remote access to our skies. They also will improve and protect lives,” said Gary Shapiro, president and CEO of CEA. “Drones already are helping emergency and disaster management programs, national weather service tracking and traffic management programs among others. And here at the 2015 International CES, we have an entire Unmanned Systems Marketplace featuring innovations in small, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) and other systems that are revolutionizing how we capture and monitor our world. In short, drones are not just for fun, they are an economic game-changer—one that will transform the way we do business. We look forward to working with the FAA as it provides timely, innovation-friendly regulatory guidance.”
The campaign comes as CEA debuts the Unmanned Systems Marketplace at CES, and as more and more consumers and businesses are seeking to use unmanned systems technology. Fifteen UAV companies will be at CES – almost four times as many as last year—covering 7,600 square feet in LVCC, South Hall 2. Additionally, CEA’s Innovation Policy Summit will feature a panel entitled Drones: Consumer Technology Reaches New Heights on January 8, 11:30-12:30 PM, in which drone experts will explore commercial and consumer market opportunities, and address issues about safety and privacy.
CEA market research expects 2015 to be a defining year for unmanned systems, and the category is ideally positioned for steady growth. According to CEA projections, the global market for consumer UAVs will approach $130 million in revenue in 2015, increasing by more than 50 percent from 2014; with unit sales of consumer UAS expected to approach 425,000, an increase of 65 percent. Including the accompanying services, the market for drones could easily exceed $1 billion in just five years’ time.
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“We are thrilled to have CEA support the campaign and help spread the word about safe and responsible flying,” said Michael Toscano, President and CEO of AUVSI. “The ‘Know Before You Fly’ campaign fills a critical education gap. We want to ensure that all prospective operators—from consumers to businesses and public entities—know what they should and should not do with an unmanned aircraft.”
As the founding organizations of the campaign, AUVSI, AMA and the Small UAV Coalition represent the vast majority of UAS users and manufacturers. The founding organizations hope the campaign will help ensure the safety of the skies for all aircraft, both manned and unmanned.
“AMA serves as the nation’s voice for approximately 175,000 modelers and 2,400 flying clubs around the country. Our members have been flying model aircraft safely for nearly 80 years,” said Bob Brown, President of AMA. “As a co-founder of the campaign, we want to take this opportunity to share our expertise with people who are new to the technology. Flying model aircraft is a fun and educational experience. We want to ensure it’s done as safely as possible.”
“We are thrilled by the excitement and enthusiasm around UAS. Many consumers are looking to buy them for personal use. And, many different industries—from agriculture and oil and gas to the movie industry and real estate—are also looking to use the technology. But often times people are unaware of the existing safety guidelines,” said Michael Drobac of the Small UAV Coalition. “Our hope is that this campaign will make that information more accessible to the legions of flyers taking to the skies.”
The campaign plans to team up with manufacturers and distributors to inform consumers and businesses about what they need to know before taking to the skies. The campaign includes a website, educational video, point-of-sale materials and a digital and social media campaign to ensure that prospective operators have the information and guidance on what they need to know before they fly a UAS.
"Safety is the FAA’s top priority and we are pleased to join AUVSI, AMA and the Small UAV Coalition in spreading the word about ways to fly safely and responsibly,” said FAA Administrator Michael P. Huerta. “The ‘Know Before You Fly’ campaign is critical in helping us maintain the safest, most efficient aerospace system in the world.”
For more information, visit www.knowbeforeyoufly.org or follow the trend online with # #KnowB4UFly.
Source: http://www.ce.org/
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News & eventsNewsroomBAE Systems completes classic Hornet deeper maintenance contract
BAE Systems completes classic Hornet deeper maintenance contract
13 Feb 2014 2014-02-13T01:00:00+01:00
Williamtown, Australia: BAE Systems has concluded its decade-long maintenance and modification support of Australia’s F/A-18 Classic Hornet fleet ahead of plan.
Together with its engineering partner L-3 MAS Canada, the company has completed the Hornet Maintenance and Modifications Support Contract.
The contract delivered deeper maintenance and significant structural refurbishments, ensuring the Classic Hornets remain an important element of the Royal Australian Air Force’s (RAAF’s) air combat capability until the Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) comes into service.
BAE Systems Australia Director Aerospace Steve Drury said the company was proud of the enhanced capability it had produced while delivering the Commonwealth real savings.
“This has been a major program of work for our company that started in June 2003. In that time, our skilled workforce maintained 65 of the RAAF’s 71 Classic Hornets and completed over one million hours of maintenance,” Mr Drury said.
“We also contributed significant savings to the Defence Strategic Reform Program. Working closely with the RAAF and L-3, we delivered a seven per cent cost reduction on Hornet deeper maintenance in recent years and improved aircraft availability.”
Mr Drury said this was another example of BAE Systems’ commitment to working collaboratively with the Commonwealth to provide more efficient services at a reduced cost.
“By establishing a culture of continuous improvement within our business, we achieved faster throughput, safer production and reduced waste – without compromising on quality.”
Mr Drury said delivery of this highly successful contract ensured BAE Systems was well positioned to pursue long term sustainment work on the Joint Strike Fighter at Williamtown, when the aircraft comes into service in 2018.
“Our significant presence at Williamtown is built on our fast jet sustainment expertise. With our established capabilities, we are ready to provide in-country support of the RAAF’s next-generation JSF,” he said.
Kaye Noske Aerospace Communications Manager BAE Systems Australia
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3 days to cancel mortgage app
By Holden Lewis Holden Lewis's Twitter profile
Aug. 17, 2010 /
Regulators want to give you the right to cancel a mortgage application within three days and get a refund of the fees you paid.
The little-noticed proposal was included in a 930-page document that the Federal Reserve published Monday in the Federal Register. Here’s the proposal; it’s a 6.9-megabyte PDF file.
The Fed’s Proustian tome is a catch-all document that finalizes some rules proposed a year or more ago, clarifies a few regs, proposes some new ones, and revises some rules to correspond with the new Dodd-Frank financial reform law. Among other things, the Fed instituted a rule, set down in Dodd-Frank, that bans mortgage brokers from charging fees to borrowers while also receiving rate-based commissions from lenders.
For consumers, the most far-reaching provision is the Fed’s proposal to institute what would be a three-day shopping period, in which consumers could apply with two or more lenders, pay various fees, and then cancel all but one of the applications and get most of their money back.
The Fed’s document reads:
For closed-end loans secured by real property or a dwelling, the proposal would require a creditor to:
Refund any appraisal or other fees paid by the consumer (other than a credit report fee), if the consumer decides not to proceed with a closed-end mortgage transaction within three business days of receiving the early disclosures (fees imposed after this three-day period would not be refundable); and
Disclose the right to a refund of fees to consumers before they apply for a closed-end mortgage loan.
That’s at the top of Page 6, if you’re consulting the original document.
The proposal means you would be able to apply with multiple lenders within three days and pay fees for a credit report, an appraisal and maybe rate lock. Then you could decide which loan to proceed with, and cancel the other applications. The lender would refund all fees except for the credit reports.
The Fed makes it clear (pages 38-39) that it’s making this proposal so it will be cheaper and easier for consumers to comparison-shop: “Mortgage loans are complex transactions, and thus the proposal would allow consumers time to review the terms of the loan and decide whether to go forward without feeling financially committed due to having paid an application fee.”
This will inconvenience borrowers who are in a hurry. Lenders won’t hire appraisers until at least three days after application. That will slow things down. The Fed acknowledges this, and says that the freedom to shop outweighs the inconvenience of delaying an appraisal by a few days.
Some 11 million homeowners can cut their mortgage payments with refinancing
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Home MMA News Dana White Dana White drops timeframe for UFC fights on ‘private island’
Dana White drops timeframe for UFC fights on ‘private island’
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UFC President Dana White is determined to keep his international fighters busy during the coronavirus pandemic. The obvious obstacle he faces is getting those fighters to their fights amid the growing travel restrictions associated with the pandemic.
Earlier this week, White surprised the sports world when he announced his planned solution to this issue: he’s working on securing a “private island” where he will allegedly be able to promote fights.
Ignoring the fact that pretty much every island on earth falls under the jurisdiction of some country, and that most countries have banned public gatherings and closed their borders, it certainly sounds interesting.
Speaking on ESPN’s Get Up! on Wednesday, White opened up on this surprising plan, and even dropped a timeframe for the first UFC fights on his private island.
“We’re still working on getting that deal done, which we’ll have done this week,” White said of his island plans. “If I keep putting on fights only in the United States with United States talent, I’ll run through all my talent very quickly. This is a global sport, we do lots of fights internationally, and we had a lot of fights scheduled internationally. Those will continue.
“I have an island that we can fly everyone right into — hopefully by like, mid-May,” White added, dropping the timeframe for his island fights.
White then shared his belief that the coronavirus pandemic and its resulting restrictions could be a part of our lives for quite awhile. Despite this possibility, he intends on keeping things moving — even if other sports organizations fail to do so.
“It doesn’t look like this thing’s ending anytime soon,” White said. “You listen to what a lot of these politicians are saying, they’re taking about the NFL not going in September.”
What do you think of Dana White attempting to promote UFC events on a private island?
This article first appeared on BJPENN.com on 4/8/2020.
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Home MMA News Jorge Masvidal Jorge Masvidal comments on “trippy” close encounter with Kamaru Usman at hotel
Jorge Masvidal comments on “trippy” close encounter with Kamaru Usman at hotel
On Monday, UFC welterweight champ Kamaru Usman and his challenger Jorge Masvidal nearly came face-to-face at their hotel in Abu Dhabi.
See this tense moment below:
Close call 😬 #UFC251 pic.twitter.com/t75zOCcH0a
— ESPN MMA (@espnmma) July 7, 2020
Speaking on SportsCenter on Tuesday Night, Masvidal reacted to this near-miss with Usman.
“I didn’t know about it until they showed me the video, and that was pretty (expletive) trippy, man,” Masvidal said (via MMA Junkie). “That was a little surreal, because I have great peripherals, but I just happened to look right at my phone, and I had just gotten my eyes dilated, as well, so I had those funky glasses on. So I really couldn’t see that well and, man, it just happened. …
“The bigger part of me wishes I had run into him. Just had a ‘hello, how are you’ type thing, you know? Nothing crazy.”
Considering the animus between Masvidal and Usman, it’s probably for the best that they didn’t cross paths this week. Masvidal, after all, has made no secret of his disdain or the welterweight champion.
“I’m happy, more than anything, because I get to break this guy’s face, then get paid for it,” Masvidal told ESPN’s Ariel Helwani shortly after the Usman fight was made official. “Have you not seen him speak, how he speaks about everybody? Everything’s just negativity and downplaying people.
“A wise man said this quote to me, and he broke it down in a much better way than I can break it down, but listen: [Some people say] ‘I’m going to dim your light to make mine brighter.’ No, I’m just going to make my light as bright as I can,” Masvidal continued. [Usman has] constantly been throwing disses at me for awhile. I just don’t believe anything he says. I know the coward that he is.”
“I’ve known this guy for quite some time in South Florida. He’s a guy who was coming up, asking for pictures [with me] four or five years ago. Now you’re this thug life guy? I don’t believe it, man.”
Jorge Masvidal agreed to fight Kamaru Usman on just six days’ notice, stepping in when the champ’s originally slated opponent Gilbert Burns tested positive for COVID-19.
Who do you think will come out on top when they collide at UFC 251?
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Adani Group Chairman Gautam Adani. (Photographer: Abhijit Bhatlekar/Bloomberg News)
Adani Group, Airports Authority Of India Ink Pacts For Managing Three Airports
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Feb 14 2020, 3:51 PM Feb 14 2020, 10:50 PM February 14 2020, 3:51 PM February 14 2020, 10:50 PM
Adani Group inked agreements with the Airports Authority of India for the management, operations, and development of Ahmedabad, Mangaluru and Lucknow airports.
The concession period is 50 years from the commercial operation date, Adani Enterprises said in a filing to stock exchanges. "Today, as we sign the concession agreements for Mangaluru, Lucknow and Ahmedabad with the AAI, its the beginning of another historic journey catering to India's exponential airport infra demands," Adani Group chairman Gautam Adani said in a tweet.
Three subsidiaries of the group -- Adani Ahmedabad International Airport Ltd, Adani Lucknow International Airport Ltd, and Adani Mangaluru International Airport Ltd -- have signed concession agreements with AAI.
Over the past 30 years, @AdaniOnline has catered to critical demand gaps in India. Today as we sign the concession agreements for Mangaluru, Lucknow & A'bad with @AAI_Official, its the beginning of another historic journey catering to India's exponential airport infra demands.
— Gautam Adani (@gautam_adani) February 14, 2020
Also read: Adani Joins India’s Dollar Bond Frenzy With $1 Billion Sale
In 2018, the government decided to privatise airports at Lucknow, Ahmedabad, Jaipur, Mangaluru, Thiruvananthapuram, and Guwahati. It was for operation, management and development of these aerodromes through public-private partnership model.
Adani Enterprises Ltd. won the rights to run these six airports after a competitive bidding process. In a tweet, the AAI said the concession fee would be utilised for the maintenance and development of brownfield airports along with RCS-UDAN and other greenfield airports.
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Cadillac ATS 2.0T vs. BMW 328i – Head 2 Head
Home » Videos » Cadillac ATS 2.0T vs. BMW 328i – Head 2 Head
September 27, 2012 / 1 minutes read
On this episode of Head 2 Head, Motor Trend’s Jonny Lieberman pits the all-new Cadillac ATS against the car it was built to compete with, the dominating BMW 328i. Jonny uses test data to illustrate how similar these two cars are and then takes them out for a true drivers test on one of his favorite California back roads.
The first compact Cadillac joins the midsize segment to take on BMW’s top-seller, the 3 Series and the Mercedes-Benz C-Class.
Cadillac ATS will be offered with both rear-wheel and all-drive options, and the company describes it at “nimble, fun and quick,” traits typical of a midsize, sport and luxurious car.
The 2013 Cadillac ATS with the new turbocharged 2.0-liter four-cylinder engine produces 272 horsepower and 260 lb-ft of torque. The tested model comes equipped with a six-speed manual transmission.
With its 240 horsepower and 255 lb-ft of torque, the BMW 328i looks to be at disadvantage here, but as have seen in recent Dyno tests, the 2.0 liter turbocharged engine comes underrated from the factory.
Weight wise, the bimmer clocks the scale at 3409 lbs, slightly skinnier than the ATS with its 3433 lbs.
So which one takes home the win in this comparison? Let’s have a look.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=tq__8kTTbBA
Cadillac ATS 2.0T
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23 responses to “Cadillac ATS 2.0T vs. BMW 328i – Head 2 Head”
Impressive numbers from a 2-L four-cylinder Cadillac engine.
the cars weigh the same and the BMW 2.0L four cyl (supposedly) has less power, yet walks away from the Cadillac by 0.5 sec 0-60, and 0.3 sec and 2mph in the 1/4 mile. So, unless I am missing something, wouldn’t the numbers be more impressive from the BMW engine?
DCT1 says:
Yes, except that both engines are virtually identical when tested on a dyno. BMW has underrated their engines for years. Not that there is anything wrong with that.
steelydan says:
the ATS may be comparable performance-wise, but it’s still a fat, bloated, and ugly, which is typical of an american car.
Tullius says:
Uhh… the cars weigh roughly the same. I think you are just mouthing a bunch of stereotypes about American cars
i’m not talking about weight–i’m talking about appearance. the caddy looks like it needs a year or two of jenny craig.
Add the fact that Cadillac uses engines developed in Europe by Saab which they drove into bankruptcy. Otherwise, they would still use v6 engines or bigger with week performance. Just my opinion.
The 2.0T is a brand new engine (it’s not the same 2.0T used in the Buick turbo, which was a SAAB engine). The 2.5 is a brand new engine. The 3.6 V6 is one of the most power dense V6’s on the market. None were designed by Saab. What’s “week” performance?
Bring on an A4 or C-Class and have the pathetic 3 series ass kicked.
fredyschiftan@aol.com says:
They already lost ! you fool go and learn ! The VW with the rings of Auto Union was developed just like the Cadillac for years trying to reach the 50/50 balance of the BMW and they put so much money to reach them, just to learn later it was not enough, there are more elements to the 3 series than just trying to copy a car, enough said go back to school and learn before you make a fool of yourself !! The 3 series has no rival because they invented IT !!!!!
They lost? Performance-wise they leave no chance to your BMW, asshole. So go hang yourself, idiot.
asdfghjklö says:
No, you are delusional. Your pathetic Audi had lost years ago, because
even the e90 beat the shit out of then new A4 and C class, little wonder
that F30 is many times better then? Go and burn yourself, idiot.
admit it, you’re just an effing hater. go hang out at the m-b or audi threads instead of being a dick.
In my honest opinion, the Cadilac is the best looking American design in years. It’s the engineering excellence that’s not up to scratch.
We already have a BMW !! we dont need more copycats , when are they going to stop with making these carbon paper copyes. (AUDI VW . Mercedes .Cadillac etc etc) seems to be they are so desperate and dont know where to start and end!!!
when you’re the top dog (BMW), everyone wants to knock you off of that spot.
If BMW is top dog, then you’re from another planet, idiot!
to quote an old saying, “you can’t handle the truth.”
pinhead.
best looking american design? then that doesn’t say much about american car design.
bgdc says:
Hmmm. As the owner of a 2013 F30 Sport-line, gotta say it’s a fine, big sedan. But it doesn’t excite me. Haven’t driven the ATS yet. Worried i’ll like it more…
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The Lusty, Texas Collection 15
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Emily Anne Bancroft doesn’t see herself as a woman worthy of one man’s love, let alone two. Yet the hunger growing inside her for Mel Richardson and Connor Talbot can’t be denied. It’s up to those two private dicks to prove to her they’re, all three, meant to form a Lusty kind of family.
Soon, she’s discovering that not only is she worthy, but she truly needs them both. And just when they have her where they want her, they discover this ménage lifestyle requires something from them they’re suddenly not sure if they can give.
Matters are further complicated by the sly conniving of Emily Anne’s ex-boyfriend, and a case the men have been working on for the Lusty Town Trust. They’ve finally found the man who stole the Rhodes sisters' inheritance. He’s living on the outskirts of Divine, Texas. And he’s more unbalanced, and deadly, than anyone could ever have imagined.
Cara Covington is a Siren-exclusive author.
another winner from an amazing author.. seeing Emily Anne become self assured.. watching her men fall more in love with her and revisiting old friends from Lusty.. this book has it all.. you can't help but laugh and cheer for them. and we get to hear about some new family members.. making us want to meet them and hear their stories too
This needs to be 5 with many pluses behind it!!!!
I love the "Lusty Series" is one of my favorites and I have to say this book has become my favorite. Meeting Emily Anne Bancroft, Connor Talbot, and Melvin Richardson in previous "Lusty" books just peaked your interest in these three people and you just hoped that Cara (Morgan Ashbury) would write a story for each of them one day. Putting them together in a menage was wonderful.
Seeing Emily Anne grow into a confident and sexy young women throughout this book was so exciting to see. The struggle the guys go through to form this relationship with Emily Anne was so believable and written so well.
This book has a cross over with Heather Rainier's "Divine" series book "Lucy's Revenge", so check out that series too.
Cara (Morgan Ashbury) knocked this one out of the park!! Love the story and will be re-reading this story (and this series) for many years to come. Highly recommend this book and series by a very talented and lovely writer!
JK Maxwell
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Emily Anne closed her eyes and relaxed against the divan as she battled not to feel embarrassment. Fat and frumpy. With those two careless words he’d opened up most of her deepest wounds. She’d believed he loved her, in his way. She’d believed he had accepted her just as she was.
Man, was I ever wrong, on both counts. Her mother had told her that even she could do better than Billy J. Now there was another thought that just needed to git. Especially in light of that disturbing phone call from her mother who had wanted, of all things, for her to give Billy J another chance.
I’ll give him a chance, all right. A fat chance.
She and her mother had just had the worst tussle over the phone, and it galled her that it was over her loser ex-boyfriend.
But she’d stood up to her mother, stood her ground, and let Irene Georgina Bancroft know, in no uncertain terms, that she would not be manipulated or cowed.
Emily Anne blinked when she opened her eyes. She calculated that she’d been sitting just letting her thoughts wander long enough. “I think I’m dry.” She checked her watch, amazed that a half hour had gone quickly. Even just resting here, on this lovely divan and listening to the female chatter around her had been a soothing balm.
“I think you are, too,” Chloe said. She came over and, even though Emily Anne could do so herself, eased the tissue out from between her toes and slipped her sandals onto her feet.
Emily Anne got to her feet and looked down at her toes, poking out from her sandals. Just looking at those ten twinkling, bright digits made her feel better.
They said, “Here’s a woman who values herself.” That was very important. For too long, Emily Anne hadn’t been a woman who valued herself enough.
But now she was, and she did, and there would be no going back to the way she used to be.
No, sir, not ever.
Giving the conversation with her mother one last thought, she looked back down at her very self-confident toes.
So no, Momma, I willnot give that miserable excuse for a Texan man, Billy J, another chance and that, by damn, is that!
“Boy howdy, Emily Anne, I don’t know who you’re thinking about, but my money’s on you, girl. You go get ‘em, girlfriend.”
Emily Anne blinked, and looked around at all the women looking back at her. She’d had no idea she’d appeared so fierce. She didn’t even mind that she’d let her emotions show, either. This was Lusty, these women were her friends, and she was safe. “Don’t you worry about it none. If that miserable worm ever shows up here, you can be sure that I will.”
She nodded her head once, just to prove she meant it. Then she waved to everyone, paid for her pedicure—money well spent—and pulled the door open with perhaps more energy than necessary.
“God, I love a woman who’s burning with passion, don’t you, Connor?” Melvin Richardson said.
Emily Anne gasped, because she hadn’t even seen the men leaning back against the building, bracketing the door. But there they were, two of the most sinfully delicious men she’d ever laid eyes on in her entire life.
She remembered the first time she’d set eyes on the two. Mel, with his close-cut dark hair and sexy barely there goatee, and eyes that could smile so bright you didn’t even need a light to see by. Then Connor, his hair just slightly lighter and longer and looking tousled as if he just got out of bed. But, oh, such a serious man he was and so very deliberate in his actions. When Connor Talbot looked at her she felt he could see clear down to her soul.
Both men had seemed larger than life to her the first day she’d seen them, that day they’d walked into Lusty Appetites to meet with Chloe and Carrie Rhodes. They were the two private investigators who’d been hired by the Lusty Town Trust to try and locate the man who’d stolen the Rhodes sisters’ inheritance just after they’d been orphaned.
In the time she’d gotten to know them, she’d come to realize they were men like no others she’d ever known. If she had to characterize them, she would say that Mel was the lover, and Connor the fighter. Mel seemed more at ease, more laid back. Connor, she had no doubt, would be a very dominant man—and maybe a very dominant lover.
Emily Anne looked from one to the other of them. She’d been holding them both at arm’s length, doing her best to keep them dangling, as the old women used to say. And they’d proven themselves because they had not been easily discouraged, or chased away.
“I do indeed.” Connor Talbot stepped forward, and gently stroked her chin with one finger. “Angel eyes, you look as if you’re getting ready to do battle. Lead the way. We’ve got your back.”
We’ve got your back. It occurred to Emily Anne right then and there that she’d been making these two men pay for the transgressions of another.
Maybe it was time to take an entirely different approach.
Emily Anne sighed and let her head fall back against Connor’s chest. Shivers swept her from the pleasure of having her breasts held and her nipples licked. The other night she’d wondered if it had been an aberration, her reaction to this kind of foreplay. But this was twice, now. Mel’s gentle touch proved to her that she could get pleasure from this part of her body, after all.
“You taste so damn good, woman.” Mel lifted his head and met her gaze. “I can’t wait until I can taste all of you.”
She understood what he meant. They’d mentioned it before, where they intended to put their mouths on her. Her cheeks heated, her fair complexion betraying her once again. Then she focused on his gaze and the emotions so open to her. She couldn’t deny the passion or the truth she saw on his face.
“I bet she tastes sweeter than anything. She smells sweeter than anything.” Connor nuzzled the side of her neck and kissed the shell of her ear. He inhaled deeply. “I can smell your arousal, angel eyes. You make me so damn hard. I feel like I’ve wanted you forever.”
“The two of you make me feel beautiful and desirable. You make me feel sexy, when I never felt any of those things before.”
“You’re all of those things, baby, and more. Let us show you.” Mel leaned forward and laid his lips on hers.
Emily Anne’s eyes drifted shut. He kissed her with such sweet passion that she nearly wept from the beauty of it. His tongue, firm and determined, explored her mouth and coaxed her tongue into a slow and sultry dance.
One hand cupped her cheek as Mel continued to woo her with his lips. She leaned into him, her mouth open wide for him, her body and spirit both ready and willing to accept anything he offered, to give anything he asked.
Connor’s hands stroked down her arms, then around to her front. His thumbs brushed the underside of her breasts before his hands slid down. She felt his fingers settle on the snap to her jeans and she sighed into Mel’s kiss when Connor opened that snap, and slid the zipper down.
Connor kissed a trail down her back, his lips following the trail of the jeans and panties his hands pushed down her body. He placed a string of kisses across her bottom. He paused just long enough to lift each foot so that he could slip off her sneakers and socks. Then he pushed the clothing off her, tossing it out of the way.
When he rose to his feet again she was completely naked and quivering with need.
Mel released her lips and Connor tilted her head up and back and mated his mouth to hers.
One man’s lips and tongue seduced hers while another man’s hands caressed and petted her, and Emily Anne felt everything inside her begin to melt. Her nipples peaked, impossibly tight, awakening an invisible connection she’d never guessed existed between those pebbled points and her clit.
Mel fastened his mouth on her nipple and sucked. She couldn’t hold back her tiny groan of pleasure, neither could she stop her hips from giving a seductive roll, her body’s way of begging for more.
“You’re so hot and spicy.” Mel placed little kisses over her breasts.
Connor lifted his mouth from hers. “Hot and spicy, yes. Are you juicy, too, sweetheart?”
“Why don’t we see?” Mel held her gaze as he slid one hand down her body, a slow and sultry slide that would bring him to her cunt.
Lord have mercy, my pussy lips are trembling in excitement for him!
Mel slid his hand over her slit, and then rubbed back and forth as he let his fingertips penetrate her just a little. He sucked in a breath and then whispered, “Baby, you’re so hot and wet for us.”
Connor placed little butterfly kisses on her neck and shoulder. Emily Anne closed her eyes in reaction to the seductive thrill that gave her. Then she opened her eyes and looked at Mel just as he lifted his fingers to his mouth and sucked on them. He closed his eyes as if what he tasted was the purest, most intoxicating treat, ever.
Emily Anne’s heart began to pound in her chest at the same time that an army of butterflies fluttered in her belly. She licked her bottom lip and wondered how much longer her legs would hold her.
“Precious, you’re sopping wet. You’re ready for us, aren’t you? You want us.”
“Yes.” In fact she thought she might just die on the spot if somebody didn’t do something soon. “Yes, I want you both. Please don’t make me wait much longer.”
Connor stepped back. Mel lifted her in his arms and laid her on the bed, setting her in the middle of the large expanse.
He tented her, lowered his head toward her, and kissed her. Hard and wet and wanton, this kiss tasted of urgency. She sampled a hint of her own essence as well as his hunger on his lips and shivered. No man had ever wanted her like this, not ever.
He lifted his lips from hers and she realized he was still fully dressed. But before she could comment on that, he kissed a trail down her body, starting with her cheeks, then her shoulders and breasts. Finally he settled down between her thighs and gave her pussy a long, lovely lick.
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BORGWARNER COMPLETES ACQUISITION OF GUSTAV WAHLER GMBH & CO. KG
BorgWarner Expands Product Leadership in Exhaust Gas Recirculation Technologies
Auburn Hills, Michigan, April 1, 2014 – Global powertrain supplier BorgWarner finalized its acquisition of Gustav Wahler GmbH & Co. KG. A producer of exhaust gas recirculation (EGR) valves and tubes as well as engine thermostats for both on- and off-road applications, Wahler’s customers include leading automotive manufacturers from around the world.
“The addition of Wahler complements our current EGR valve, cooler and tube technologies while expanding BorgWarner’s product portfolio to include thermostats. With its global locations, the acquisition strengthens our product leadership position and enhances our ability to offer customers advanced technologies with localized manufacturing,” said James R. Verrier, President and Chief Executive Officer, BorgWarner. “As emissions regulations become more stringent and drivers require more fuel economy, demand for EGR technologies is expected to continue to grow. BorgWarner is positioned to deliver.”
BorgWarner announced the acquisition of all shares in Wahler on December 20, 2013, and completed the acquisition on March 1, 2014. Events to welcome Wahler’s 1,200 employees in Germany, China, Brazil and the United States began the same week. Wahler will join the BorgWarner Emissions Systems business. BorgWarner will maintain the Wahler name as a product brand in the aftermarket.
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Facebook Acquires 'TheFind', An Online Shopping Curation Site
Facebook Acquires ‘TheFind’, An Online Shopping Curation Site
Govind Singh Last Updated: May 30th, 2015 Social Media Marketing no comments.
Facebook, the social networking giant is heading towards giving users a richer online shopping experience. The company's aspirations are now visible as it has acquired shopping search engine TheFind.com. The deal was announced on Friday without disclosing the financial commitments behind it.
The acquisition has finally got the shape after series of discussions between Facebook and TheFind. This is a huge push the facebook gets as the social network was always keen to give its users search and shop facility through its interface.
TheFind is a shopping search engine with 500 million products indexed across 500,000 stores. The aquistion will help Facebook users to personalize their shopping experience based on Facebook likes. TheFind also has a product ranking engine that delivers search result for popular products and stores for each search.
The Announcement Reads:
For the last nine years, we've worked hard to bring you a shopping experience that's easy, efficient and fun - searching all the stores on the web to find just the right products you're looking to buy.
We are now starting our next chapter by combining forces with Facebook to do even more for consumers. Facebook's resources and platform give us the opportunity to scale our expertise in product sourcing to the over 1 billion people that use the platform.
Key members of our team are joining the company and will be working hard to integrate our technology to make the ads you see on Facebook every day better and more relevant to you. Unfortunately, this means we will be taking our search engine offline in the next few weeks. Thank you for your loyalty and for making this a fun journey for all of us! - TheFind Team
Experts believe that the buyout will be a big boost to Facebook’s digital advertising business. The irony is that Facebook miserably failed to establish it as a shopping and search platform in addition to its the biggest social network status. Facebook, in 2013, tried to make the headway in search by introducing the Graph Search, but all went in vain.
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Class action alleges electricity giants fudged supply numbers for profit
Law firm Piper Alderman has launched a class action on behalf of all Queenslanders against two of the State's leading electricity giants.
The action alleges Stanwell Corporation and CS Energy engaged in "bidding games" designed to artificially create scarcity of supply of electricity and to spike energy prices for their own profit.
Stanwell and CS Energy control around 70 per cent of the electricity dispatched in Queensland.
Allegations of market power abuse by the two giants to manipulate the price of electricity have previously been investigated by the Queensland Productivity Commission, the Australian Energy Market Commission, the Australian Energy Regulator and the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission in 2017.
The law firm's class action will seek to recover compensation for anyone who purchased electricity in Queensland in the period between August 2014 and December 2019.
"This case is about abuse of market power," says Piper Alderman head of dispute resolution and litigation Greg Whyte.
"Stanwell and CS Energy have used their position to unlawfully manipulate the wholesale cost of electricity and that has driven up the prices paid by all Queensland businesses and customers," says Whyte.
"It's had a devastating effect on the Queensland economy. We are trying to stop that behaviour and recoup the losses that illegal conduct has caused."
The litigation is fully funded with all costs underwritten by LCM, a subsidiary of Litigation Capital Management.
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Power Moves | Karla Otto Announces Co-CEOs, Valentino Names Chief Brand Officer
By Rachel Deeley January 16, 2020 12:29
This week, Karla Otto is succeeded at her eponymous PR label by co-CEOs, while Valentino appoints its first chief brand officer.
Isabelle Chouvet, Alexander Werz and Karla Otto | Source: Courtesy
Workplace & Talent
LONDON, United Kingdom — BoF compiles the most important professional moves of the week.
Karla Otto names co-CEOs amid management shakeup
Karla Otto has announced that she will become chairwoman of her eponymous PR label, with Executive Director Alexander Werz and K2 Co-Founder Isabelle Chouvet named her successors as co-chief executives. Chouvet will also remain chief executive of The Independents, the holding company for K2, Karla Otto and Dubai-based agency The Qode.
Valentino names chief brand officer
Alessio Vannetti, who stepped down from his role as Gucci’s global communications director in September 2019, has been appointed Valentino’s first ever chief brand officer. Effective March 1, 2020, Vannetti will report to Valentino Chief Executive Stefano Sassi.
Hudson’s Bay appoints president
Hudson’s Bay Company has appointed Iain Nairn president of Hudson’s Bay, effective January 12. Reporting to Hudson’s Bay Company Chief Executive Helena Foulkes, Nairn replaces Alison Coville, who exited the company in February 2019. He joins from Swedish stationer kikki.K, where he was chief executive.
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Yoox Net-A-Porter has named Nisreen Shocair chief executive of its Middle East division. Shocair joins the company from Dubai-based home shopping channel HSE24.
Zadig & Voltaire hires president
Zadig & Voltaire has appointed Rémy Baume president. Baume joins the company from Kidiliz Group, which makes childrenswear lines for Kenzo, Paul Smith and Levi’s, among other brands. He replaces Jean-Jacques Guével, who was named chief executive of Balmain in December 2019.
Harper’s Bazaar editor-in-chief steps down
Glenda Bailey has stepped down as editor-in-chief of Harper’s Bazaar, after 19 years at the helm of the publication. She will stay on at Hearst as a global consultant for the magazine’s international editions. A successor has not yet been named.
LOVE magazine names co-editor-in-chief
Ben Cobb has been appointed editor-in-chief (men) at LOVE magazine by Editor-in-Chief Katie Grand. Cobb joins the magazine from Another Man, where he stepped down as editor-in-chief in October after 10 years at the publication.
Totême taps CEO from McKinsey
Johanna Andersson has been named chief executive of Totême, a role previously held by Founder and Creative Director Elin Kling. Andersson joins the company from McKinsey & Company, where she co-led the Scandinavian apparel, fashion and luxury goods hub.
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California Governor Gavin Newsom wants tech giants like Facebook and Google to pay "Data Dividends." | Source: REUTERS / Mike Blake / File Photo
California Might Force Silicon Valley to Pay ‘Data Dividends’ – How Will Google & Facebook Respond?
September 23, 2020 UTC: 12:27 PM. February 13, 2019 UTC: 11:36 AM. by Mark Emem
A little over four weeks since being sworn into office, California Governor Gavin Newsom has already started making enemies in the tech sector – specifically with Silicon Valley powerhouses like Google and Facebook.
Gavin Newsom is Already Making Enemies in Silicon Valley
In his inaugural State of the State Address given on Tuesday, Governor Newsom revealed that a proposal was being developed with a view toward ensuring that internet users profit from the data obtained from them by online platforms, according to The Sacramento Bee:
“California’s consumers should also be able to share in the wealth that is created from their data. I’ve asked my team to develop a proposal for a new Data Dividend for Californians, because we recognize that your data has value and it belongs to you.”
Newsom did not provide any details on how the Data Dividend proposal would work. This includes such details as to how the users of the various platforms would get paid – as well as how the amount that each user would be paid would be determined.
Want Maximum Data Dividends? Spend More time on Twitter
While the Data Dividend plan might be resisted by tech giants, it would most certainly be welcomed by users. Assuming payments for one’s data were to be based on a percentage of each platform’s average revenue per user (ARPU), the payouts would vary considerably. Consequently, one of the most profitable platforms for users would be Twitter.
Earlier this week, CNBC reported that Twitter’s ARPU was $9.48. This was more than $2 larger compared to its nearest competitor Facebook whose ARPU was $7.37. Messaging pioneer Snap did an unimpressive $2.09. For the worst returns on data, however, users would have to look no further than Reddit. This is based on the most recent quarterly results.
https://twitter.com/Anthony/status/1095320332867694593
How Will Facebook, Google, & Twitter Respond to Newsom’s Plan?
While tech firms are yet to respond publicly to the Data Dividend proposal, it’s unlikely that they would support it. For one thing, most of the free online platforms have built their business models on monetizing data which they obtain freely. Asking them to pay for a resource they have been getting for free will most likely not come easy.
If their reaction to the enactment of the California Consumer Privacy Act is anything to go by, expect heavy lobbying. This is with the intention of either killing the proposal or watering it down. The California Consumer Privacy Act was signed into law in 2018 and is expected to rein in data collection practices.
After a last-minute frenzy in the legislature, California Gov. Jerry Brown (D) on Thursday signed the California Consumer Privacy Act into law, setting tough new restrictions on how Facebook, Google and other tech giants handle Californians’ personal data. pic.twitter.com/PgVRHFfQHT
— MayGodProtectTheUS (@saziz01b) June 29, 2018
Turning Data Dividend Proposal into Reality Will Not Be a Walk in the Park
In the case of this particular privacy law, lobbying groups representing the likes of Google and Facebook have already begun efforts aimed at tinkering with the law which takes effect in 2020. The two tech giants made notable donations to the California Chamber of Commerce before the law was enacted. The California Chamber of Commerce was in a coalition that was against the privacy law, according to The Washington Post.
The Data Dividend proposal, however, has more at stake compared to the California Consumer Privacy Act. You can definitely expect stiffer resistance from the tech giants.
Gavin Newsom Image from REUTERS / Mike Blake / File Photo
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See Photos of the Tesla Model Y
The Tesla Model Y is a new electric crossover arriving in 2020 that's based on the Model 3 sedan.
The Model Y is the newest electric offering from Tesla. Based on the Model 3 sedan, it's a taller crossover with a more spacious interior. It offers a bit less range and performance than the Model 3 but is otherwise mechanically similar. Tesla CEO Elon Musk claims that Model Y deliveries will begin in fall 2020. See full info on the Model Y here and click through for more photos.
Offered in Standard Range, Long Range, Dual Motor AWD, and Performance forms, the Model Y's price ranges from $40,200 to $61,200.
Range estimates vary from 230 miles up to 300 miles, a bit less than the Model 3's range due to its larger size and worse aerodynamics.
It comes standard with a single electric motor providing rear-wheel drive. All-wheel drive capability, provided by a second front-mounted motor, is optional.
The top Model Y Performance claims a zero-to-60-mph time of 3.5 seconds.
Black is the only standard color, with other options, including red, blue, white, and gray, costing between $1500 and $2500 extra.
The interior is similar to the Model 3's, with a large 15.0-inch touchscreen dominating the dashboard and few other physical controls.
This is what the cargo area looks like with the second and third rows of seats folded down.
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Cory Booker: Ralph Northam Must Resign After Arousing ‘Racist Violence’
Joshua Caplan
Newly-announced presidential candidate Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ) joined a chorus of 2020 White House hopefuls in calling on Gov. Ralph Northam (D-VA) to resign after a photo surfaced featuring him and another person in blackface and Klu Klux Klan attire.
“These images arouse centuries of anger, anguish, and racist violence and they’ve eroded all confidence in Gov. Northam’s ability to lead,” Booker wrote on Twitter. “We should expect more from our elected officials. He should resign.”
These images arouse centuries of anger, anguish, and racist violence and they’ve eroded all confidence in Gov. Northam’s ability to lead. We should expect more from our elected officials. He should resign.
— Cory Booker (@CoryBooker) February 2, 2019
Northam admitted Friday that he appears in the 1984 medical yearbook photo on his designated page showing one individual in blackface and the second wearing a KKK robe and hood. Northam, who acknowledged that explosive photo is “clearly racist and offensive,” would not reveal which costume he was wearing. The website Big League Politics first reported on the photo, and was later confirmed by the Virginia-Pilot and the Washington Post.
“This behavior is not in keeping with who I am today and the values I have fought for throughout my career in the military, in medicine, and in public service. But I want to be clear, I understand how this decision shakes Virginians’ faith in that commitment,” he said in a statement.
Joining Booker in calling for Northam’s resignation were Democrat presidential hopefuls Sens. Kamala Harris (D-CA) Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY), along with former Obama-era HUD Secretary Julian Castro. “There aren’t two sets of rules for our friends and our foes: Right is right and wrong is wrong,” Gillibrand said. “Americans deserve to be respected by their leaders, and racism cannot be excused in our government or anywhere else. Having seen the photo, I believe Governor Northam should resign.”
https://twitter.com/SenGillibrand/status/1091529491032072192
Politics2020 Democratic Presidential PrimaryblackfaceCory BookerKKKRalph NorthamVirginia
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S House in Urban Zone
Sharing with you guys our latest completed residential project, S House, as featured in Daphne Osena-Paez’ webisode of Urban Zone. Thank you Daphne for providing a platform for us to share our ideas and spread our ideas on “Filipino Rennaisance”. Mabuhay!
Designing houses in the Philippines can be frustrating a lot of times for us. Since we practice contextual architecture, we do not believe in ‘themed’ residenial developments but instead believe in an architecture that is designed specifically for the place its going to be built, the climate there, and should reflect the culture and identity of the people using it. For this project, for instance, the lot is located within a strictly Mediterranean-themed development. We understand the whole point of having rules and restrictions in a subdivision which is essentially to achieve harmony within it. But since the village had a mediterranean theme, and houses there had little or no eaves, we were being restricted to have a maximum of half a meter for our eaves! This doesn’t make sense at all in a tropical climate because we need eaves and canopies and different architectural contraptions to be as long as they can be to protect our fenestrations from heat and rain (which happens to hit the house horizontally when combined with strong winds).
We essentially designed the house as if we weren’t governed by the theme. We designed it to be honest to it’s site, climate, condition, and client’s pramaters. We started off with the idea that as an owner or designer of a private house, we will never have control over the urban condition that surrounds our property. One day, it may look good, the next day, it may deteriorate because of lack of maintenance. The theme of the village, for example is something we cannot control, more so the attempt of the other homeowners to build a Mediterranean house but most often ending up wth a very poor and tacky copy.
Given this fact, we proposed a house that’s defensive. A house that’s inward looking, and whose back is faced towards the street, and whose spaces all are oriented towards it’s own controlled environment, in this case a courtyard in the heart of the house. By doing this, the spaces between the street and the courtyard become transitory barriers that protect the controlled environment within from being degraded by the uncontrollable harshness that our urban jungle creates such as noise from traffic, pollution, undesireable views, etc. We used public spaces such as circulation areas as visual and auditory buffers that protect the private spaces from the outside world.
We proposed a house with projecting canopies to ensure the interiors from direct heat gain. We realized that if we push back the building line a bit back relative to the allowable building line, we can have longer eaves and canopies. In combination with this, we made sure that cross ventilation occurs throughout the house. The plans of the house are not deep, therefore making it easy for wind to exit through another opening as soon as it enters. Even walls that open up to an internal hallway have transom windows, to allow wind to cut through. There is no room in the house whose windows are only on one wall effectibely funneling the wind to cut across the entire length of all rooms.
We proposed a house whose general form is still oriented towards the courtyard, articulated with a series of walls that act as if they were hugging and shielding the internal environment of the house from the outside world, made even more expressive by arraying these fins in shifting angles.
We proposed a house that is honest with its materiality – concrete is shown as concrete – raw and unpainted. Wood is shown with all of its grains and knots. Glass is kept as transparent as it can be. The imperfections of all of these materials remain unhidden.
We took a chance on the design as we believed that it represented the client’s preferences, and the cleint ended up believing in the design so much as well. We submitted the plans to the subdivision with our fingers crossed. Despite the theme, and with a little push and a bit of argument, we had the design approved. Ever since it was built, the village has now been revising their regulations. The mediteranean theme has slowly been eased out as they realized that it was only a market-driven trend and there are now lesser and lesser people wanting to buld their house in such theme, especially after seeing that an honest house can turn out to be much more beautiful and expressive of who they are than themes that developers set. To cause things to change for the better, some rules should really be aimed to be broken.
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Ban Shark Fin Trade and Consumption in Richmond Hill, Ontario, Canada
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Each year up to 73 million sharks are killed primarily for their fins, threatening open ocean sharks with extinction. Their fins are used in shark fin soup and other dishes.
Shark finning is an unsustainable, wasteful, and inhumane practice where sharks are finned alive or landed on fishing vessels, their fins sliced off and their bodies thrown back into the sea, to suffocate, bleed to death, or be eaten by other animals. By discarding the body and keeping the fins, fishermen kill far more sharks, making the hunting ruthlessly efficient.
Although sharks have existed for over 400 million years, in recent decades, many populations have faced steep declines due to rampant exploitation. Their slow reproductive rates make them extremely vulnerable to extinction. The disappearance of these apex predators causes dangerous imbalances in marine ecosystems worldwide. The decline in shark species will inevitably cascade through the food chain, leading to the loss of additional fish populations. Unless the rising demand for fins is curbed, shark populations and our ocean will be in great jeopardy.
Given the myriad and unsustainable threats that sharks face, we must take action to ensure these animals will remain an integral part of our oceans. Eliminating the shark fin trade and consumption removes one of the biggest impediments to the continued survival of endangered shark species.
As noted by Councillor Kristyn Wong-Tam – City of Toronto, “Shark finning is a quickly fading Chinese cultural practice. It’s not cultural in any way, and if it was to be categorized as cultural, I can tell you there’re certain things that we would do culturally that we don’t do anymore - We no longer bind women’s feet in Chinese culture. We also don’t have multiple wives and that is not part of what Chinese culture is today.”
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Title Recommendations based on Rick Sanchez
Beavis and Butt-head are juvenile delinquents. Beavis likes to consume as much sugar as possible, channel his alter-ego "Cornholio," pick his nose, and start fires. Butt-head's favorite activities include telling Beavis to shut up, slapping him, insulting him, making prank calls, and talking about chicks. With no adult supervision and complete apathy towards school, there's little for them to do but hang out with each other and make fun of music videos.
Explore incredible places far from the Mushroom Kingdom as you join Mario and his ally Cappy on a massive, globe-trotting 3D adventure. Use amazing abilities like the power to capture and control objects, animals, and enemies to collect Power Moons so you can power up the Odyssey airship and save Princess Peach from Bowser's wedding plans.
American Vandal is a true-crime satire that explores the aftermath of a costly high school prank that left twenty-seven faculty cars vandalized with phallic images.
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Experience the magic of Harry Potter's first 4 years at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. LEGO Harry Potter: Years 1-4 combines the first four Harry Potter books and films in an interactive fun-filled videogame. Players can build the adventure from Privet Drive to the Triwizard Tournament through new LEGO gameplay elements like magical building and spell-casting. Select from over 100 playable characters including Harry Potter, Ron Weasley and Hermione Granger. Experience the wonder of Hogwarts: attend lessons, mix potions, fly on broomsticks, and complete tasks to collect LEGO studs and relive the adventures like never before with tongue-in-cheek humor and creative customization unique to LEGO videogames
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Raised in a poverty-stricken slum, a 16-year-old girl named Starr now attends a suburban prep school. After she witnesses a police officer shoot her unarmed best friend, she's torn between her two very different worlds as she tries to speak her truth.
Stan Smith lives in Langley Falls, Virginia, with his wife Francine, two kids, a human-turned-fish that talks, and an alcoholic alien. Stan is a gun-toting, freedom-loving, lefty-hating American who is often at odds with his more progressive children. He gets along fairly well with Francine, but that's primarily because Stan tends to use his high-level CIA gadgets to tamper with her brainwaves.
Diagnosed as schizophrenic, David has been in and out of psychiatric hospitals for years. But after a strange encounter with a fellow patient, he's confronted with the possibility that the voices he hears and the visions he sees might be real.
The Twilight Zone is the first of two revivals of Rod Serling's acclaimed 1950/60s television series of the same name.
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Will there be a new UK Patent Box?
The Finance Act 2012 introduced the UK Patent Box whereby, for accounting periods beginning on or after 1 April 2013, a company may elect for so much of its profits as arise from the exploitation of relevant patents to be brought within the new tax regime which, in broad terms, aims to reduce the effective rate of corporation tax on such profits to 10%.
The UK Patent Box has met with significant opposition from many other States, including Germany.
The UK Patent Box also threatened to become a significant obstacle to the international political consensus that is required to pursue the OECD Base Erosion and Profit Shifting (BEPS) project which project aims, by December 2015, to come up with a series of proposals for significant reform of the international tax rules.
Against this background, and following discussions between the UK and Germany, on 11 November 2014, HM Treasury announced that the current UK Patent Box will be closed.
Further entrants to the UK Patent Box will be barred from June 2016 and, after allowing for a five year transition period for companies already within the UK Patent Box regime, all tax benefits from the existing tax regime will cease to be available in June 2021.
As part of the OECD / BEPS project, there will be ongoing discussions that seek to reach consensus amongst G20 and OECD countries concerning a new preferential tax regime for intellectual property.
Germany and the UK intend to submit their joint proposal for a new tax regime to the OECD Forum on Harmful Tax Practices at its meeting on 17-19 November 2014.
There are several critical issues concerning the design of the new tax regime that will need to be resolved in order arrive at a new tax regime that is workable for companies, workable for tax authorities and which also achieves the all-important international political consensus.
However, the aim is to reach agreement during 2015 as part of the OECD / BEPS project. Only after that agreement is reached will the UK be able to introduce a replacement, new UK Patent Box that is compliant with the new rules.
The main restriction on any new UK Patent Box compared to the current UK Patent Box is that tax relief under the new regime will require that substantial R&D activity is undertaken in the UK, with the amount of UK tax relief limited by reference to the amount of expenditure incurred on UK R&D.
There is currently very little detail available, but the Treasury announcement of 11 November 2014 suggests that, in addition to the R&D expenditure which a company itself incurs, there could be a formula which would permit, to a limited extent, related party outsourcing or acquisition costs to be included within qualifying expenditure.
For companies that have elected into the UK Patent Box or intend to do so, the window of opportunity to benefit from this tax regime is now time limited (see above).
However, it is to be hoped that the UK, together with Germany and other G20 and OECD countries, will be able to agree a new preferential tax regime for intellectual property that will continue to provide support and encouragement to companies that undertake R&D and exploit patents.
This article was written by Ian Wood.
For more information please contact Ian on +44 (0)20 7203 5124 or ian.wood@crsblaw.com
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‘NCIS’: Michael Weatherly May Not Be Permitted to Return
Josh Lezmi
Ever since Cote de Pablo appeared in the season finale of NCIS — returning to her career-catalyzing role as the former Mossad Agent Ziva David — one question has been lingering across fans’ minds: Will Michael Weatherly reprise his role as Tony DiNozzo across from his former love interest?
While on NCIS, Michael Weatherly and Cote de Pablo boasted one of TV’s most famous slow-boiling romances as Tony DiNozzo and Ziva David respectively. Eventually coined “Tiva,” the duo’s relationship was fraught with equal parts heart and humor.
Former ‘NCIS’ star Michael Weatherly | Photo by Tony Barson/FilmMagic
Though Michael Weatherly’s return (at least in the form of a small cameo) may make sense narratively (and in terms of the show’s relationship dynamics), he may not be wanted on the NCIS set as the moment.
Given Michael Weatherly’s current public image and CBS President Kelly Kahl’s recent statements concerning Bull’s renewal, Michael Weatherly may not be permitted to return to NCIS, even if he wants to.
The drama surrounding Michael Weatherly — and CBS President Kahl’s recent insensitivities concerning his actions — could negatively affect the network’s top-rated show
According to TV Guide, Eliza Dushku’s harassment allegations against Michael Weatherly included a “documented incident involving Weatherly asking her to visit his ‘rape van,’ filled with all sorts of lubricants and long phallic things as well as mocking his own prior sexual harassment training by shouting the words ‘yellow card.’”
CBS has been forced to defend its renewal of Bull once again. However, this time, the CBS president may not have considered the ramifications her financially-driven justifications would inspire.
CBS President Kahl told reporters at the Television Critics Association that the decision to renew the show came down to, in some part, the show’s continued success despite the harassment allegations. Kahl stated:
“It’s a show that does very well. It’s a very popular show. More than 10 million people watch every week. Michael is loved by our audience and even after these allegations came out people continued to watch…”It’s a popular show that we want to keep on the air. And it’s a very good show as well.”
While we all know the showbiz industry’s predominant focus is on money, Kahl blatantly disregarded the severity of Weatherly’s actions by focusing on the show’s continued success. Kahl virtually argues that because people kept watching, the network didn’t feel the need to stand up against such inappropriate workplace behavior and hold Weatherly responsible for his blatant sexual harassment.
These statements and Weatherly’s actions have been met with such backlash that a severe drop in Bull’s upcoming season’s ratings is expected.
Why ‘NCIS’ showrunners would likely prevent Michael Weatherly’s return
Bringing Michael Weatherly back to NCIS, while the network is under fire for his actions would not be wise. First off, fans will see this as a plea for forgiveness, as he returns to a lovable role, in an attempt to escape the new predatorial image he has created. The obvious MO: Tony DiNozzo was lovable, and so is Michael Weatherly, remember?
If Michael Weatherly returns to NCIS, the network will risk complaints from its fanbase, which, with Cote de Pablo’s return, would only diminish all the hype the season sixteen finale built. When it comes to Michael Weatherly, don’t expect the NCIS showrunners to hold the door open for his reentrance.
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Week of June 8: Racial Justice, Deep Phone Canvassing & Energy Affordability
As CUFA strives to build a world were everyone is able to meet their basic needs, we ask: what can we do to build the power we need to win?
How should CUFA respond to the moment we're in? Please watch "Making Meaning of This Moment: Forging an Abolitionist Strategy for Defending Black Communities," by Movement for Black Lives, a national network of Black-led organizations. Watch the recorded webinar here and learn about M4BL's week of action here.
Each summer, CUFA recruits new members through a door-to-door canvass. This year, we are embarking on a phone canvass that will emphasize building a deep, listening relationship with the people we are calling. Learn about our plans for recruitment this summer at our Deep Canvassing Orientation tomorrow, June 9, at 5:00 PM. Sign up here for instructions to join via Zoom.
Sign up to join us at for our Energy Affordability Action Team this Thursday, June 11, at 5:00 PM. We have joined a statewide coalition working to push for a statewide moratorium on energy shut offs. Help us make it happen, and help us win clean, affordable energy for all.
Racial Justice: This past week, the world has witnessed unprecedented mass action for racial justice. It spurred a conversation amongst CUFA's leadership about how we rise to the moment. We know that the issues we work on affect communities of color deeply and that racial injustices make it hard for people of color to meet their basic needs. Last week, CUFA released this statement on racism. This week, we hope to further the conversation about how we can engage and support the movement for racial justice. Please join the conversation on our Wednesday CUFA Community Chat. If you are a CUFA Member, watch your email for details on how to join the chat.
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Tommy Boy And The Blacklist Actor Brian Dennehy Is Dead At 81
Mike Reyes
Published: Apr. 16. 2020 10:53 AM
Throughout his storied career, actor Brian Dennehy has had a fantastic resume of characters who were iconic presences. In turn, the man himself was quite iconic when it came to his works on stage and screen, giving modern moviegoers another familiar face to look out for. It’s in the light of Dennehy’s stellar works that we sadly must announce that the actor, known for movies such as Tommy Boy and recent TV guest spots such as his appearances on NBC’s The Blacklist, has just passed away at the age of 81.
TMZ reported that Brian Dennehy, most recently seen playing Dominic Wilkinson, the grandfather to The Blacklist protagonist Elizabeth Keen, died of natural causes on Wednesday night in Connecticut. Dennehy was also known for many other roles in movies like First Blood, the F/X series,and the ‘90s comedy classic Tommy Boy. He also had an extensive TV resume that saw him play guest spots on Koljak, MASH and even 30 Rock.
Starting his professional life as a stockbroker for Merrill Lynch, Brian Dennehy would eventually break onto the acting scene in 1977 through a series of acting gigs. Sheriff Will Teasle would be his earliest calling card, as the first film in the Rambo franchise, First Blood, would see his character go head to head with Sylvester Stallone’s John Rambo himself.
Able to play a hero or a villain in equal turn, Brian Dennehy’s stage output would become more prolific in the later phase of his career, with two Tony Awards eventually coming his way for Best Lead Actor in a Play. One came from his 1999 run in Death of a Salesman, and another from his part in Long Day’s Journey Into Night in 2003.
Interestingly enough, one of Brian Dennehy’s most memorable roles from recent years has to have been that of Django, the disapproving father in 2007’s Ratatouille. Fittingly, one of the coolest anecdotes to ever be told about Brian Dennehy had to come from comedian/Ratatouille co-star Patton Oswalt, as he discussed an encounter he had with the actor during the Batman Begins premiere.
If anyone was asked how they remembered Brian Dennehy, a lot of different scenarios would come to mind. His life as a veteran character actor, his dynamic stage presence and being a television fixture all certainly come to mind. But, as Patton Oswalt showed in his stand-up story, Dennehy was also known as a pretty relaxed guy who knew the highlights of having the sort of career he richly enjoyed throughout the duration of his life.
We here at CinemaBlend send our sincerest condolences go to Brian Dennehy’s family, as he is survived by his wife and five children.
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(CNN Business) —
Asian markets were mixed Friday while China held steady on its new benchmark lending rate.
Hong Kong’s Hang Seng (HSI) Index was last up 0.4%, while South Korea’s Kospi gained 0.2%. But Japan’s Nikkei 225 (N225) and China’s Shanghai Composite lost 0.3% and 0.1%, respectively.
The People’s Bank of China didn’t adjust its one-year loan prime rate (LPR), which stands at 4.15%. The five-year LPR also remained steady at 4.8%.
A Chinese bank employee counts new 50-yuan notes with a money counting machine at a bank counter in Hangzhou in China's eastern Zhejiang province on August 30, 2019, as the Peoples Bank of China issues the newest 2019 edition of the fifth series of the yuan notes.
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The LPR, which banks charge corporate clients for new loans, is a new benchmark that China introduced in August. It hopes the rate will gradually replace the existing fixed benchmark lending rate, and do a better job in passing on lower rates to borrowers in the corporate sector.
One consideration: While the Chinese economy is still under pressure, recent government data indicated that momentum picked up last month. The recent US-China trade truce — while still not a comprehensive deal — is also helping sentiment.
China’s central bank has tried to help its slowing economy by cutting benchmark rates. But the bank is also careful not to flood the market with too much money. It still has to consider other issues, like rising consumer inflation triggered by the country’s pork crisis. African swine fever has ravaged China’s pig population, driving up pork costs.
While the lending rate is on hold for now, more cuts could still be on the horizon, wrote Julian Evans-Pritchard, senior China economist at Capital Economics, in a research note Friday.
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BCS restructure will bring it up to date
The British Computer Society (BCS) wants to focus less on three elements of its name: British, computer and society.
Karl Flinders, Emea Content Editor, Computer Weekly
Published: 03 Jun 2009 15:26
These are the words of the BCS president Alan Pollard speaking on the organisation's restructuring plans. He says the BCS needs to better reflect its membership by having a larger proportion of members with practical, rather than academic skills.
The 53-year-old organisation's own research shows it is seen by many as a technical ivory tower with computer scientists as members.
Major restructure
It is planning amajor restructure in September in a drive to broaden its membership. It wants to appeal not only to traditional IT professionals, but also to people who use IT in their work and who need to understand how technology can be used in business.
The charity, which represents and qualifies IT professionals, has 70,000 members. But the figure represents only about 5% of the BCS's potential membership, says CEO David Clarke. The number of people who use IT in their profession is growing rapidly, and many of them could benefit from joining the BCS, he says.
"These are people who are working in business whose job is to implement business solutions, knowing the IT capabilities. This reflects just how important IT is to business today. You cannot do anything without technology," says Clarke.
The BCS will change its Chartered IT Professional qualifications in September to increase the practical skills component.
Keeping up with change
Professor William Scott-Jackson at Oxford Strategic Consulting says the reorganisation is needed to reflect the changes in the IT industry. "The distinction between people who do things with computers professionally and those who use computers in their profession is becoming less clear."
Philip Treleaven, professor of computing at University College London, is no longer a member of the BCS, but he says the bigger the BCS membership the better. "It is a trade-off between academics and professionals, and it is important to get a balance."
Adam Banks, senior vice-president Technology Office at Visa, says it is essential for the BCS to attract a cross-section of the technologically trained to its membership.
"The era of computing being a science that existed primarily in academia and research labs is long behind us. With society's reliance on technology as high as it is, computing has become a global business and any society that seeks to provide standards and certifications needs to be representative of the industry it covers," he says.
The BCS wants to grow. The volume of traditional IT jobs is growing more slowly than newer business-focused IT jobs. The computing sector is still in its infancy, so despite the BCS's 53 years, it is definitely not too old to change.
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Singapore employees want more support for remote working
Singapore workers faced challenges in accessing internal company resources, spotty connections and had to use their personal devices for business while working remotely
Aaron Tan, TechTarget
Published: 16 Dec 2020 10:00
Singapore employees are coming to terms with remote working even as they struggle with technological and productivity challenges, a study has found.
According to Dell Technologies’ inaugural Remote work readiness (RWR) index, 84% of employees in Singapore felt that they were prepared for long-term remote working, though the blurring boundary between business and personal lives was a significant concern for 35% of respondents.
Conducted by market research firm Kanter across seven Asia-Pacific (APAC) markets, the study also revealed that employer support for remote working remains wanting.
In terms of technology resources, the surveyed employees faced the greatest challenge in accessing internal company resources when Singapore implemented a partial lock-down in April 2020.
They were also hindered by the instability of their remote networks, including internet bandwidth, and had to contend with using personal devices for work, posing IT security risks to their organisations.
Against this backdrop, nearly half of Singapore respondents felt that their employers were not doing everything they could to support effective remote working.
“Employees had to pivot to a remote work arrangement overnight, and it is not surprising that they have concerns about long-term remote work,” said Eric Goh, vice-president and managing director for Singapore at Dell Technologies.
“The good news is that employees are ready to continue working remotely, but they hope to see greater support from their employers,” he added.
According to the study, about four in 10 employees in Singapore wanted employers to provide productivity equipment or tools and ensure they get access to internal company resources.
In terms of human resources (HR) support, Singapore employees cited the lack of in-person communication as a top challenge, in addition to gaps in team engagement, learning and development, and outdated policies for remote working.
To successfully manage long-term remote working, over half of Singapore employees surveyed wanted best-practice training for remote working, learning and development sessions (46%), and team engagement initiatives (45%).
“Work today is no longer anchored to one place and time,” said Goh. “Instead, it is focused on outcomes. Forward-looking employers must be ready to help their employees realise both their professional and personal roles effectively regardless of where they will be working – this is work redefined.”
According to the 2020-2021 TechTarget/Computer Weekly IT priorities survey, investments in remote working and cyber security have become easier to justify than before as more companies come to terms with managing a remote workforce.
The survey, which polled 265 IT decision-makers across APAC, found that remote working enablement initiatives had accelerated since the start of the pandemic (40%), along with security and risk management as cited by a third of respondents.
These investments were needed as APAC firms sought to keep their businesses going amid the pandemic, with other investments on the horizon that will enable them to take advantage of new opportunities that have emerged.
Key to the latter are capabilities to improve productivity, with 38% of respondents planning to enable more automation around technology management so that employees can focus their attention on innovation and value-added initiatives.
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Modernising its infrastructure and putting digital at its core has given Singapore’s Government Technology Agency the agility it needs to respond to the Covid-19 pandemic.
Malaysia’s AmBank Group is tapping open source, DevOps and data science to improve customer service and develop bespoke services for a broader market.
Indonesia’s Bank Mandiri has built a big data platform to track transactions and monitor the health of its workforce, among other big data analytics initiatives.
Australia’s ANZ Bank now runs 30% of its internet banking services on Red Hat OpenShift in a move that has energised developers and paved the way for more automation.
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Concurrent Resolutions (H.Con.Res. or S.Con.Res.) 110 (2007-2008) Senate Committee : Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions House Committee : Energy and Commerce
1. H.Con.Res.393 — 110th Congress (2007-2008) Supporting the goals and ideals of "National Sudden Cardiac Arrest Awareness Month". Sponsor: Rep. Pickering, Charles W. "Chip" [R-MS-3] (Introduced 07/22/2008) Cosponsors: (109) Committees: House - Energy and Commerce | Senate - Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Latest Action: Senate - 10/02/2008 Referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. (All Actions) Tracker:
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2. H.Con.Res.331 — 110th Congress (2007-2008) Supporting the goals and ideals of National Women's Health Week, and for other purposes. Sponsor: Rep. Hinchey, Maurice D. [D-NY-22] (Introduced 04/17/2008) Cosponsors: (114) Committees: House - Energy and Commerce | Senate - Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Latest Action: Senate - 05/19/2008 Received in the Senate and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. (All Actions) Tracker:
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3. H.Con.Res.302 — 110th Congress (2007-2008) Supporting the observance of Colorectal Cancer Awareness Month, and for other purposes. Sponsor: Rep. Granger, Kay [R-TX-12] (Introduced 02/25/2008) Cosponsors: (124) Committees: House - Energy and Commerce | Senate - Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Latest Action: Senate - 04/01/2008 Received in the Senate and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. (All Actions) Tracker:
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4. H.Con.Res.299 — 110th Congress (2007-2008) Supporting the goals and ideals of National Cystic Fibrosis Awareness Month. Sponsor: Rep. Markey, Edward J. [D-MA-7] (Introduced 02/14/2008) Cosponsors: (106) Committees: House - Energy and Commerce | Senate - Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Latest Action: Senate - 07/16/2008 Received in the Senate and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. (All Actions) Tracker:
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5. H.Con.Res.230 — 110th Congress (2007-2008) Supporting the observance of Breast Cancer Awareness Month, and for other purposes. Sponsor: Rep. Brown-Waite, Ginny [R-FL-5] (Introduced 10/10/2007) Cosponsors: (129) Committees: House - Energy and Commerce | Senate - Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Latest Action: Senate - 10/30/2007 Received in the Senate and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. (All Actions) Tracker:
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6. H.Con.Res.163 — 110th Congress (2007-2008) Expressing the sense of Congress in support of further research and activities to increase public awareness, professional education, diagnosis, and treatment of Dandy-Walker syndrome and hydrocephalus. Sponsor: Rep. Wilson, Heather [R-NM-1] (Introduced 05/24/2007) Cosponsors: (105) Committees: House - Energy and Commerce | Senate - Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Latest Action: Senate - 09/22/2008 Message on Senate action sent to the House. (All Actions) Tracker:
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7. H.Con.Res.134 — 110th Congress (2007-2008) Expressing the sense of the Congress that there should be established a Bebe Moore Campbell National Minority Mental Health Awareness Month to enhance public awareness of mental illness, especially within minority communities. Sponsor: Rep. Wynn, Albert Russell [D-MD-4] (Introduced 04/30/2007) Cosponsors: (89) Committees: House - Energy and Commerce | Senate - Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Latest Action: Senate - 06/02/2008 Received in the Senate and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. (All Actions) Tracker:
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About Wi3347
Millennium parking services/Gladstones claim form - PCN Metropole Chambers, Swansea
Wi3347 replied to Wi3347's topic in Private Land Parking Enforcement
Based on advice I've got from other sources I will be submitting a much more detailed defence as it appears the advice to submit a 2 line defence is proving fatal in some cases. As it was in my other thread. You may get a sympathetic judge who has had enough of these parking companies and is on your side. You may get what I had where the judge said what I submitted as my witnesses statement should of been in place of defence as the claimant had loads of time too pull apart the basic 2 line defence in so many ways that by the time we got to my WS the damage was already done
thinking of putting in there that they are claiming for additional monies they are not entitled to and not explaining how they have arrived at that figure.
the initial online defence im going to submit tomorrow is The whole claim is denied in its entirety for a number of reasons which will be expanded upon in my witness statement should this claim be allocated to the small claims track. 1. The defendant was not the driver of the vehicle on the date of the contravention. 2. The claimant is required under schedule 4 of the Protection of freedoms act 2012, to adhere to a number of strict requirements set out within that act in order to transfer liability to the registered keeper and has failed to do so, therefore the defendant is not l
Excel/BW claimform - PCN Swansea SA1 2012
Im receiving mixed advice around appeal. Will update when i make a decision. I think its shocking the judge allowed the advocate to speak when i made it so blatantly clear that she has no rights of audience and the fact he missed the whole line of my WS where i denied being the driver. absolutely shocking.
bwlegal
I'm not sure tbh. I could ring the court and find out? I have emailed the BMPA help desk. Will update when I get a response
Everything that was in my bundle was submitted to the courts and to BW in time. The judge had it in front of him he just refused to give them any attention as "findings in other cases are not binding upon me" was what he said. my original 2 line defence stated i was not offered a contract so there is no breach of contract for me to answer. which i believe fulfils CPR 16.5.3 and in any case 16.5.4 is applicable as it clearly states when the claim is for money the defendant requires it to be proved. how the judge said that was not a valid defence and im still taken to admit i r
no one else was present from excel or BW, the person that showed up was from another law firm that is a member of the CILEx. I took with me a direct quote from the CILEx website that states clearly "members do not have any extra rights and have to be under the supervision of a solicitor" the judge had no interest in this. glossed over it. I also took with me a stated case Ellis V Larson where the judge said "being instructed by is not the same as under the supervision of and as the other person did not attend for their WS to be cross examined the judge said rights of a
for defence at this stage im going for: 1. The defendant was not the driver of the vehicle on the date of the contravention. 2. The claimant is required under schedule 4 of the Protection of freedoms act 2012, to adhere to a number of strict requirements set out within that act in order to transfer liability to the registered keeper and has failed to do so, therefore the defendant is not liable in this matter as he was not the driver of the vehicle. I dont think there is any point mentioning that a contract was never offered because the signs are prohibitive (permit holders only)
I only have 11 days left before an appeal has to be in so i cant wait too long. Yes he did. He seemed a bit insulted someone from outside the legal world had come into his court and questioned the credentials of someone. When he asked her to respond to my challenge she stated she had been a practising paralegal for 10 years and presented many cases in court including Swansea courts. I think the judge thought it he doesnt allow her to speak then serious questions need to be asked as this woman has presented cases in his own court many times when she wasnt allowed to.
can someone give me some advice of how to appeal please? ive looked everywhere on line and it says appeal in writing but doesnt say where to or if there is a certain form i have to fill in or if i just write a letter in? Thanks
I got that feeling from the outset but I was surprised he was so blatantly against me and wasn't even willing to look at the stated cases let alone take them into consideration. Then the fact he had a go at me for not denying I was the driver when that was something HE missed in my statement. Any advice for an appeal? And what's your opinion of chances of success? I know it's down to the judge on the day but just gut feeling
Not sure What do you mean by that? I'm going to appeal on the grounds that the judge made his decision based on the fact I didn't deny I was the driver in my statement because I did neny it in my witness statement clearly in point 2. How he missed that I don't know. But it appears to be bad advice to only submit a 2line defence as the attitude was "why didn't you say any of this before? Why are you only mentioning it now?"
Was a total disaster at court today. The judge found for the claimant and I am going to appeal. I followed all the advice on here to the letter and almost all of it was deemed incorrect or irrelevant by the judge. I wore a suit, turned up on time, was polite to everyone. The representative from the claimant was a solicitors air from another law company instructed by BW legal. She was not a solicitor. She came over to me and said "lets have a little chat over here, didnt ask if i wanted to talk just tried to be sneaky about it . I asked her if she was a registered s
I will look into this one more over the coming days but after the spanking i just had at court over submitting a 2 line defence i will be putting more for the defence of this. Such as deny i am the driver and quoting some CPR rules. The judge was not willing to accept anything in court that I had'nt mentioned in my defence at the first opportunity.
Court in the morning and I'm feeling positive. I'm sure I have everything I need. In summary The case is pre pofa so that cannot be relied on It's for them to prove who was driving. They have zero proof. that should be enough in and of itself. They have provided a letter saying excel have permission to park at the site. But it doesn't have an address on. it is evidence of nothing because it doesn't state where excel can enforce parking. I have a stated case that the witness statement submitted by BW is not even evidence as it states the person wri
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Even high-income consumers are feeling squeezed by credit card debt
Here are some ways to lighten that load
Mark Huffman Reporter
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On the heels of a LendingTree study that found a majority of Americans entered the year feeling financial stress, another survey points to consumers’ growing financial angst.
In an analysis of Federal Reserve Data, OnlineLoans reports that 10 percent of respondents think they are losing ground financially. Nearly half of consumers who say it’s difficult to get by say they’re doing worse than their parents were at that age.
The flip side of that, however, is that an overwhelming majority -- 75 percent -- say they’re living comfortably or doing okay. That flies in the face of the LendingTree study, issued last week, which found that 60 percent of people are carrying a debt load that causes them stress.
The credit card squeeze
But the latest study doesn’t focus on income; it notes that some high-income households struggle due to spending. And there’s a single factor that plays an outsized role in both studies -- credit card debt.
“Even though the current U.S. economic climate is quite strong, Americans still struggle to afford their standard of living, and many are not prepared for an unforeseen emergency,” the authors write. “Seventeen percent of Americans said they couldn't pay some bills this month. And the biggest culprit was the credit card bill, which 7 percent of the survey pool – including 4 percent of those living comfortably – pointed to as a major concern.”
Outstanding credit card debt passed the $1 trillion mark a year ago and is beginning to catch up with student loan debt. While most consumer interest rates have fallen since then, credit card interest rates have not.
An often-overlooked tool in reducing this debt is applying for a balance transfer card with an introductory low-to-no interest rate. Until the end of February, Navy Federal Credit Union is offering its nine million members an introductory rate of 1.99 percent on new purchases and transferred balances.
Justin Zeidman, manager of credit card products for Navy Federal, says what makes the firm’s offer attractive to debt-strapped consumers is the fact there is no balance transfer fee that is charged by most balance transfer cards.
“A lot of people look at a 0 percent APR on a balance transfer and assume that it’s free,” Zeidman told ConsumerAffairs. “In reality, if you’re transferring a $5,000 balance to a card with a 4 percent balance transfer fee it’s costing you $200 just to move the money.”
Zeidman says it’s also important to read the fine print and see what the rate adjusts to once the introductory period is over. Chances are good that there will be a balance remaining on the card once the introductory period expires, so the rate you pay after that is important. But paying off as much of your balance as possible at a rock bottom rate can have a profound psychological effect.
“Seeing your interest charges rack up at a much smaller pace creates a greater sense in the consumer’s mind of being able to get out of debt, to see that light at the end of the tunnel,” Zeidman said.
ConsumerAffairs has checked out some other balance transfer credit card offers here.
Mark Huffman
Mark Huffman has been a consumer news reporter for ConsumerAffairs since 2004. He covers real estate, gas prices and the economy and has reported extensively on negative-option sales. He was previously an Associated Press reporter and editor in Washington, D.C., a correspondent for Westwoood One Radio Networks and Marketwatch.
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FTSE Closes Flat Following Brexit Extension
Fiona Cincotta April 11, 2019 6:03 PM
The FTSE, lagging behind its European counterparts, closed on the flatline as gains in airlines and house builders were battling against loses in the heavyweight mining sector.
The UK avoiding a no deal Brexit after being granted a six-month extension to Article 50, has boosted the Brexit sensitive stocks on the index.
Airlines and house builders, the sectors which have been negatively impacted by fears of a no deal Brexit, climbed higher.
House builders were also boosted by data showing that house prices improved in March for the first time since July last year. With the prospects of a no deal Brexit kicked 6 months down the road the likes of Persimmon and Berkley Group were moving higher.
The pound was largely unmoved by the prospect of a 6-month extension to Brexit. Trading steadily versus the dollar, pound traders have become numb to the unfolding drama in Brussels and Westminster. Whilst a 6-month delay, takes the UK back from the brink of a chaotic no deal, it certainly doesn’t resolve the situation.
After rebounding from below 6600 at the turn of the year, the FTSE continues its ascent. Whilst the avoidance of a no deal Brexit is lifting the UK index, continued uncertainty could weigh on sentiment. This means that the FTSE could struggle to push through resistance at 7500 or 7560. On this downside near term support can be seen at 7376, before 7330.
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Japanese inflation on the upside
Japanese official data showed that Japan's national CPI was at +0.3%, much higher than +0.1% expected.
This morning, Japanese official data showed that Japan's national CPI was at +0.3%, much higher than +0.1% expected. On its side, core CPI was flat on year in July (vs +0.1% expected).
From a technical point of view, on a daily chart, USD/JPY is capped by a declining trend line and stands below its 50-day moving average (in blue). Readers may therefore consider the potential for further weakness below horizontal resistance at 108.15 as the nearest support would be set at July 31 bottom at 104.15 and a second one would be set at horizontal support at 102.40 in extension.
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Become A Mad (Tech) Scientist With Arduino, Hack The Planet
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This piece was written by the people who run the Cracked Store to tell you about products that are being sold there.
If you love taking things apart and then reassembling them into a hodgepodge of calamity like Sid from Toy Story, then you might be interested in this Arduino Enthusiast E-Book Bundle. Arduino is an opportunity to take your inner Frankensteinian tendencies into the electrical realm, and this collection will guide you through that process.
What Is Arduino?
Arduino is a microcontroller, which is just another term for a simplified computer on a single integrated circuit. Think of it like a digital brain that you can program. It takes a variety of electrical inputs through an array of digital and analog pins, so you can make use of optical sensors, buttons, motors, and other electrical components. Writing code to process input data and control mechanical parts is done with a simple free editor, and compiling it onto the device is as easy as plugging in a USB cable and hitting play. Becoming the hero AND the villain of your own science fiction film has never been so easy.
Why is it so popular in the maker community?
Arduino is hardly the only single-board microcontroller out there, but what makes it stand out is its accessibility. Arduino assumes that you aren't trapped in a time vortex in 1996 and that you already own a computer. This allows it to stay cheap and avoid a complex operating system setup. Arduino also lends itself well to larger-scale projects needing multiple interfaces, which would be otherwise infeasible with more expensive boards. That said, we do apologize to all of those poor souls who were accidentally trapped in the Portal of Ceaseless Screams and No Computers on their way to see Space Jam. You are not forgotten.
What can you build with it?
What CAN'T you build with it, you jock?
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With such an open-ended platform, you're really only limited by your imagination. You can take sensor input from almost anything to create interactive systems with real-time data monitoring, mechanical movement, and wireless communication, or just keep it simple with hobby electronics projects.
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Home Gaming Gamescom Hands-on – Burnt by Need for Speed Heat
Gamescom Hands-on – Burnt by Need for Speed Heat
By Sam Spiller
It has been 25 years since the first Need for Speed was bestowed upon us gaming petrolheads. EA’s signature racing franchise has been around since 1994 and in that time, has been on opposite ends of the spectrum when it comes to overall quality. It hit its zenith in the mid-2000s with a collection of titles that I am still, very patiently, waiting for EA to remaster (the studio representative just laughed when I asked him that question). But in recent years, we seemed to have hit a period of stagnation. Need for Speed Rivals has left little to no impression upon arrival. The 2015 title made gains in offering a more customizable experience a la Underground, but it was then overtaken and overshadowed by the clunky execution of Payback. Points for not including Spike, minus points for compromising your overall gameplay in the form of limited play options and a story that went nowhere at a tire-melting speed.
There were many similarities shared between NFS 2015 and Payback. A few too many. Sure, Ghost Games has every right to rework a formula that it thinks yields positive results, but the consequence of that has been a franchise that is slowing losing its identity and the prospect of new and unique installments. Hopefully, with the 25th anniversary, the studio would be compelled to deliver something special. Something that could stand out from all the rest.
AAARGH.
Need for Speed Heat has hit the tarmac suddenly and at full throttle. EA is gearing up for a November release and the announcement trailer was only dropped a week ago. Check it out:
The trailer didn’t impress me. It showed off a colour scheme, narrative, and gameplay that was too reminiscent of the 2015 game. The bad accents didn’t help either. It’s like… we’ve been here before.
That feeling got even worse when I sat down and had a good look at it. Immediately I was facing a user interface lifted straight from three years ago. The customisation is all there and players still have a multitude of extensive options for when it comes to modifying a Mercedes-Benz AMG GT. Different colour headlamps and window tints, rims, skirts and spoilers. The visual elements such as decals and sponsorship logos are all here and are in line with other arcade racing titles. But it remains the exact same layout and navigation as 2015, and it just feels so…safe.
From Ventura Bay and Fortune Valley, we are now ruling the roads of Palm City. A Miami-inspired metropolis where racers can engage in both legal and illegal automotive activity. By day you take part in the Speedhunter Showdown series. By night, you are engaging the 5-0 in road combat that leaves no lamppost or golf cart upright. Beyond this, not much else has been revealed. Progression is marked by the unlocking of new vehicles and custom icons, with also earning the good ‘ol in-game currency to purchase further unlockables and raise your reputation from the impound lot it probably sprouted.
Despite feeling like a rehash, Heat does sport some terrific visuals. The colours are crisp and the world details are of a new level when compared to the previous games. Vehicular damage and collisions have also been improved. Every knock is satisfying, and T-boning a cop’s cruiser hasn’t felt this good since the days of Most Wanted. the cars look great and thanks to a new mobile app launched in conjunction with Heat, you can spend your commutes from work putting a new set of wheels together that you can show off when you get home. It’s a neat little addition.
Driving wise, it’s like riding the same bicycle, or, car. I have had problems with the Frostbite engine from the start as it compromises the handling and weighting of your car and can make it too rigid and heavy. Case in point, dodging pedestrians and objects in the road used to be much easier in the road, and the way in which players experience speed has a slightly delayed effect. Given that Frostbite has been the norm since the Golden Turkey that was Need for Speed: The Run, it’s something that we have to live with.
But I could forgive how Need for Speed: Heat drives if it was simply a different game. All I can say is that, it feels like we’ve been here before. In both the map, its design, and the atmosphere. Not to mention dialogue that is just becoming insulting.
Watch this space. I’m not done with this game.
Sam Spiller
When I'm not here ranting about Ready Player One, or why we haven't had a good Need for Speed game since 2010, you can find me over at the Weekend Argus.
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Archive > Issue 58 > In a world of water, food for thought
In a world of water, food for thought
by Owen Matthews
by Caroline Eden
Hardie Grant Publishing
Owen Matthews reviews Black Sea: Dispatches and Recipes Through Darkness and Light, by Caroline Eden (Quadrille, £25)
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The finest books of literary travel are more than just journeys through space and time – they are also love letters from the author to a place. Caroline Eden’s wonderfully lively journey around the Black Sea is by turns witty, wry and wise – but above all it’s a profoundly loving portrait of the cultures, landscapes, food and people of one of the world’s most fascinating regions.
Eden is clearly deeply influenced by the writing of Jan Morris – a debt she acknowledges in her opening quotations – and, gloriously, not only shares Morris’s deep fascination for the history that lies beneath the surface of places but also echoes her constant playfulness. Neal Ascherson, in his magisterial 1995 study of the same region, made a deeper scholarly dive into the Black Sea’s past. Eden instead chooses to put the contemporary life of the places she visits at the forefront, interspersing interviews with locals with a lively travelogue and gorgeous full-page photographs by Theodore Kaye (such as the Black Sea turbot in the Odessa fish market below, and the view from a konak in Çamlıhemşin above). Most interestingly, Eden dots her narrative with recipes from every city and country that she visits, from Odessa to Trabzon.
The result is a wholly original and vibrant new format. One can read about the decadent glory days of Odessa while munching on marinated mushrooms inspired by Nikolai Gogol’s short story ‘Old World Landowners’. The strange meeting of down-to-earth Balkan-Slav cultures with the freewheeling culture of the open sea is illustrated by a hearty Bigos stew enjoyed by the Polish national poet (and Black Sea coast exile) Adam Mickiewicz. Istanbul – whose culinary culture is shrewdly and accurately described by Eden as being heavily based on the
Black Sea coast immigrants who now dominate it – is represented by such recipes as citrus-cured mackerel with gherkins and the legendary fish soup of the Karaköy Balıkçısı restaurant, inspired by the cuisine of Ardahan, near the Georgian border, homeland of the owner. Each recipe is exquisitely illustrated with photographs by Ola O Smit.
But Black Sea is much more than a cookery book. The Black Sea is famously the place where, Ascherson believes, the concept of civilisation and barbarism was born as early Hellenic traders and colonists first met the peoples of Asia. The fault line persisted, as the sea marked the border between the Western Christian and Eastern Muslim world, and later the capitalist and communist blocs. And yet, despite the wild diversity represented by Ukrainians and Circassians, Romanians and Turks, Italians and Georgians, the sea facilitated an extraordinary mélange of cultures. Disputes over the meaning of community, nationhood, history and culture have manifested themselves in millennia of dramatic conflict, yet the sea has always united more than it has divided the peoples who inhabit its shores. “Wedged between ocean and land, all of these Black Sea destinations have something of the frontier about them,” writes Eden, “something setting them apart from their host countries.”
Eden has Morris’s light touch with history; her thorough research is worn lightly. She quotes Vladimir Jabotinsky, Mendele Mocher Sforim and Mark Twain on Odessa; Bedri Rahmi Eyüboğlu, Mikhail Bulgakov and Lord Byron on Istanbul; Rose Macaulay and Julien Bordier, squire to Baron de Salignac, French Ambassador to Constantinople, on Trabzon.
She travels thoroughly, seeking out the Russian rooftop churches of Istanbul’s Karaköy, the half-timbered mansions of the tea-farmers of Trabzon and authentic Jewish restaurants in the backstreets of Odessa. And she writes wonderfully. The courtyards of Odessa’s old city, “communal spaces, more than a veranda but less than a terrace, are where the spirit of Odessa… hangs most heavily,” she writes. “In the summer, families fill them, spreading out at long food-filled tables, gobbling down cutlets, pouring tea from enamel pots and vodka from decanters while 10-litre bottles of kompot rest with dogs in the shade. This is where the spicy smell of yellow acacia fills the air, tangling up into grape vines and travelling down into the dank, deep-sunk wells and old mazes of catacombs where the souls of long-gone partisans, smugglers and criminals live on.”
On a luminous evening near Trabzon she watches “little ships slowly returning to shore, tugging frothy white cables of bubbles behind them, jogged by land and sea winds. On nearby boulders solitary women, lost in problems, love and thought, looked out to sea, and pairs of young boys lolled like seals on the smooth rocks, resting and chatting in the last of the sun”.
Eden’s research turns up some charming surprises. Who knew that the classic Italian song ‘O Sole Mio’ was in fact written in honour of Odessa in 1898 by a Neapolitan composer, Eduardo di Capua, who had arrived in the city with his father, an orchestra violinist? Or that the Black Sea boasts an “infamous mad honey, known as deli bal, made from the rhododendron flowers that flourish in the damp Black Sea climate”? Ingesting too much is said to cause everything from blurred vision and respiratory problems to muscle paralysis, severe arterial hypotension and even death. Eden digs up a paper by William John Hamilton, the English geologist and President of the Royal Geographical Society, who researched deli bal in the 1840s. The ancient geographer Strabo (a native of the Black Sea town of Amasya, ancient Amaseia) recounts that the Heptacometae, “the wildest of the tribes who inhabit the mountains to the east of Themiscyra [near modern-day Samsun on the Turkish Black Sea] destroyed three squadrons of Pompey’s troops, by placing on the road cups of maddening honey, produced on the highest branches”.
Eden’s book is a triumph, a journey through a region of many cultures but with a shared quality of light, “an almost celestial glow, an extra layer of luminosity, a brilliance permeated by the weight of history, environmental bearing and devoutness”.
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Ford reiterates support for lockdown measures as Ontario posts another record number of COVID-19 cases
Chris Fox, Web Content Writer, CP24
Published Friday, November 27, 2020 10:16AM EST
Last Updated Friday, November 27, 2020 2:55PM EST
Premier Doug Ford is expressing confidence in the lockdown measures that have been taken in Toronto and Peel, even as the province posts another record number of new COVID-19 infections.
The Ministry of Health says that there were 1,855 new cases of the disease caused by the novel coronavirus confirmed on Thursday as well as another 20 deaths, 13 of which involving residents of long-term care homes.
That is a sizeable increase on the previous daily record of 1,588 cases but it coincides with a massive jump in testing. The province’s labs were able to turn around 58,037 individual tests on Thursday, which is nearly 10,000 more than the previous high of 48,488 that was set back on Oct. 8.
As a result, the ministry says that the positive percentage for the last 24 hours was actually 3.7 per cent, which is the lowest it has been in more than a week.
Speaking with reporters during his daily COVID-19 briefing on Friday, Ford conceded that the jump in new cases is alarming but said that the number do not yet reflect the lockdown that went into place in Toronto and Peel on Monday.
“We are confident. Anywhere around the world when they have measures like this they see the numbers go down. You know there has been a lot of celebrations over the last couple of weeks and we will have a better idea if this is working or not as we move forward. But I truly believe it is working because how can you put a number on us not doing it,” he said. “If everyone was just out there not following protocols and guidelines it could be a lot worse.”
Today’s record number of new cases represents a 25 per cent increase from yesterday’s number (1,478 new cases) and pushes the seven-day average up to 1,489.
That number had stood at 1,372 at this point last week and 1,355 one week prior (Nov. 13) as cases temporarily flatlined following a significant surge at the beginning of November.
But they may be rising again.
Of the new cases confirmed on Friday, more than half involved residents in either Toronto (494 new cases) or Peel (517). York had 189 new cases, Halton had 130, Durham had 65 and Hamilton had 82.
The hotspot for infection outside the GTA was Waterloo with 74 new cases.
Meanwhile, just four of Ontario’s 34 public health units reported no new cases at all. As recently as this summer more than half of Ontario’s public health units were regularly reporting no new cases.
“It is not necessarily just because of the increase in the number of tests that we are seeing the increase in the number of cases. We expected that there would be an increase (in cases),” Health Minister Christine Elliott acknowledged during Friday’s briefing. “Since Peel and Toronto were put into lockdown it is going to take probably two full weeks before we start to see some of those numbers go down. We are still seeing the results from some of the events that have happened and some of the celebrations that have happened in the last few weeks.”
Record number comes following release of new modelling
The latest numbers come one day after the release of new modelling, which seemed to suggest that the province is no longer following the dire trajectory it appeared to be on earlier this month when officials warned that we could be at 6,500 daily cases by mid-December.
The new modelling laid out three scenarios for future case growth, one that would see Ontario hit 2,000 daily cases by the end of December, another that would see it get to 4,000 daily cases by that point and a third “worst case scenario” that would see Ontario reach 9,000 daily cases.
Speaking with CP24 prior to the release of the latest numbers on Friday morning, Infectious disease specialist Dr. Issac Bogoch said there is “evidence that perhaps we are maybe flattening the curve” but he said that the position we are in is “precarious” given the extraordinarily high number of new cases we continue to see.
“There may be early, early signs that things are levelling off. If so fantastic. But on the other hand we really are walking on a tightrope here. Because if we do see increased growth we will be stretching our healthcare system and we know how dangerous that can be,” he said.
The modelling released on Thursday warned that the province will have more than 200 COVID patients in intensive care units by December in any scenario, threatening the ability of some hospitals to perform elective surgeries and procedures.
In the data released Friday, the ministry said that there are now 151 COVID patients in ICU units, including 101 people that are breathing with the assistance of a ventilator.
The number of people in the ICU peaked at 264 in April but that was with all hospitals suspending elective surgeries and procedures, something the province is hoping to avoid this time around.
“While it great that we are not shooting up with exponential growth it is hard to absorb these numbers of new cases per day,” Bogoch warned on Friday. “This is still going to have a significant impact on the healthcare system and there is still a lot of people that are going to get sick.”
Following the release of the latest data on Friday the province also moved five regions into new levels in its colour-coded framework for COVID-19 restrictions.
Windsor-Essex will be moved into the red zone as of Monday while the Haldimand-Norfolk Health Unit will be moved into the orange zone. The Hastings Prince Edward Public Health, the Lambton Public Health and the Northwestern Health Unit will all be moved into the yellow zone.
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Home / Business News / The pandemic has upended the TV industry's $20 billion in upfront deals, and it could give advertisers more control over future ad buying
The pandemic has upended the TV industry's $20 billion in upfront deals, and it could give advertisers more control over future ad buying
The coronavirus has postponed the annual $20 billion TV upfronts, when advertisers commit to long-term deals with networks to lock in cheaper ad rates and secure inventory ahead of the fall.
Big ad agencies say they plan to ask for more custom deals throughout the rest of the year.
The lack of live sports has caused advertisers to sit on budgets until the leagues resume. Two media buyers said that they are most concerned about the return of college football because they will not be able to run ads in games that are canceled or postponed by universities.
Some sports advertising is tied to the time of year, so a postponed sports schedule might be a hard sell for some advertisers.
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The coronavirus has put TV productions and live sports on hold — and given advertisers a shot at changing the decades-old way they've bought TV ads.
In typical years, TV networks would be hammering out $20 billion in upfront deals with big advertisers.
But with economic concerns about the pandemic, agencies are creating deals on a case-by-case basis for clients and asking networks for customized ad packages, said two media buyers.
Upfront deals used to be negotiated over a few weeks. This year, talks are stretching into months, said David Campanelli, chief investment officer of Horizon Media.
Advertiser Perception recently found that advertisers expect to spend 33% less on upfront TV buys this year compared to last year. Fifty percent of the 150 agency staffers and brands interviewed said that digital video including over-the-top advertising could replace the reach of linear TV.
Mike Law, president of Dentsu Aegis Network's Amplifi, said he expects to see ad buys structured around calendar years instead of networks' schedules and options to move money around during the year and measurement tools that track what actions consumers take after seeing ads like going to a store or website. This year's deals could also be a linchpin to changing future deals, he said.
"You're going to have a real mixed bag of dealmaking over the next six to nine months," he said. "Then, do we fall back into a more traditional cycle next year or does this continue where there's a lot more kind of flexibility and fluidity in how our upfront deals are constructed?"
The cost of TV ads is decreasing
Another pain of the pandemic for networks is that it is causing their scatter prices to fall as advertisers slash their budgets and more people watch TV at home.
Lower ad prices are one of the biggest benefits of the upfronts for advertisers, who like to lock in prices months ahead of time to avoid a volatile marketplace.
Upfront prices are typically cheaper than ad prices in the so-called scatter market, where ad campaigns are sold incrementally. TV data firm SQAD reported that scatter ad prices dropped 39% during April.
Campanelli said that there's still value in buying ads through the upfronts, though.
"If it took a global pandemic to get scatter pricing even close to upfront pricing, it means that upfront pricing is the place to be," he said. "Yes, every advertiser wants flexibility, but you have to exchange some of that flexibility for securing that locked-in, efficient pricing."
Advertisers' sports budgets are on hold
The upfronts aren't the only problems for TV networks. Networks are also grappling with the loss of live sports that traditionally bring in billions of dollars for them.
Companies that typically advertiser around those events have mostly sat on those dollars, and with leagues planning for fewer games than in a regular season, it's unclear how much of those ad dollars will get spent, Campanelli said. For example, the NBA is exploring a truncated regular-season schedule.
The initial return of live sporting events like NASCAR and a celebrity golf tournament boasted high ratings for Fox and Turner Sports. Amplifi's Law said that he does not expect those ratings to continue, though as stay-at-home orders loosen up.
In addition to networks, colleges could lose more than $4 billion from a lost fall football season, ESPN reported. College football also spans the major networks including ABC, CBS, Fox, NBC, ESPN, and Turner Sports.
In addition to running ads during the games, advertisers also sponsor content outside of the game, like recap and talk shows.
Law also said that it's unclear if a later sports schedule will attract the same kinds of advertisers that leagues and networks are used to, which could make it harder for networks to sell inventory. About 20% of sports dollars come from advertisers who run seasonal ads around sports. For example, a retailer that typically promotes a Father's Day sale in June might not want to run a back-to-school ad in September, he said.
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Teams start to receive WorldTour and Pro Continental licenses
By Cycling News 05 November 2015
Official UCI confirmation to come late November, early December
The 2015 LottoNL-Jumbo team kit (Image credit: dcp-bertgeerts@xs4all.nl)
The WorldTour and UCI Women’s WorldTour logos for 2016 (Image credit: UCI)
Caja Rural Seguros RGA (Image credit: Tim de Waele/TDWSport.com)
Two Wanty riders discuss how they thought Jans had won. (Image credit: Ruta del Sol a Sol/http://www.rutadesolasol.es)
Team Marseille 13 KTM at the sign on (Image credit: ASO)
Though official confirmation from the UCI is still pending, several teams have announced the licenses they have received for the 2016 season.
17 teams register for 2016 WorldTour
Over the past couple of weeks, the UCI has been evaluating the teams that submitted applications for WorldTour and Professional Continental licenses for 2016, and deciding whether they are fit to assume their desired status. These audits, carried out in collaboration with Ernst & Young, evaluate the administration and finances of the teams, such as their sponsorship agreements and proposed budgets.
The UCI has confirmed to Cyclingnews that a first batch of teams to have received WorldTour and Pro Conti licenses will be officially announced later this month, while the full and final make-up of the 2016 professional ranks will be confirmed by the middle of December.
That said, some teams have passed their audits and have taken it upon themselves to communicate the news directly. LottoNL-Jumbo took to Twitter to provide confirmation that they've retained their status in the WorldTour, while Caja Rural issued a statement outlining their continued Pro Conti status. The Androni-Sidermec team also tweeted with pride that it had again secured Professional Continental licence.
"Caja Rural-Seguros RGA will be a Professional Continental team for another season," read a statement from the Spanish outfit, which has enjoyed a highly successful 2015. "The team has once again secured its registration, passing each and every test under the economic, administrative, and ethical audit."
There will also be at least two teams stepping up from Continental to Pro Conti, with the Brazilian team Carrefour Funvic Soul Cycling Team announcing their registration, along with Delko Marseille Provence KTM, both with new sponsors and evolved names for the coming year.
"We have the pleasure of announcing the registration of the future Delko Marseille Provence KTM team with the UCI as a Professional Continental team for next year," said the French team. "Our thanks go to all our current partners for the support they’ve offered us to this point and to our future sponsors who have allowed us to take things to the next level. 2016 will therefore be a year of sporting challenges, with a new squad to be composed of 16 riders."
Belgian outfit Wanty Groupe Gobert were another Pro Continental team to retain their status.
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Kinnelon school bus driver accused of groping girls will remain in jail after collapse
Svetlana Shkolnikova
A Kinnelon school bus driver who collapsed during court last week will remain jailed on sexual assault charges, after a judge rejected his lawyers' challenge of the evidence against him.
Thomas Thomasevich, 70, joined an online court proceeding Wednesday after falling ill during an April 29 hearing. He had crumpled onto a bench at the Morris County jail while listening to his hearing via a videoconferencing system and was hospitalized for a few hours after the collapse, said John Bruno, his defense attorney.
Bruno said the collapse was caused by a medical condition but would not be more specific.
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Thomasevich is accused of inappropriately touching two girls under the age of 13 during games of hide-and-seek on his bus between October 2019 and January 2020. Bruno and his law partner, John Latoracca, disputed the accuracy of a police statement describing the alleged assault, arguing that there were discrepancies between the report and statements from the alleged victims and witnesses.
But Judge Stephen Taylor on Wednesday said the evidence and the police statement corroborated one another. He refused to reconsider Thomasevich’s detention and also declined to consider fears of contracting the coronavirus in jail as a factor for possible release.
“I certainly acknowledge the defendant’s age and, because of that, his susceptibility to severe consequences if he contracts COVID-19,” Taylor said. “But I haven’t been provided with any evidence that the defendant currently has COVID-19 or, if he did, that the Sheriff’s Department and jail personnel could not adequately provide medical attention.”
Thomasevich was denied release during an initial court hearing in February due to the risk he might flee or pose a danger to the community.
Students told police that Thomasevich would bribe them with candy and doughnuts to keep them quiet about the “touching game,” according to court documents.
The Oakland man is charged with four counts of sexual assault, two counts of endangering the welfare of a child and six counts of abuse and neglect of a child. He worked for the First Student Bus Company in Butler.
Svetlana Shkolnikova covers local news and Superior Court in Morris County for NorthJersey.com. For unlimited access to the most important news from criminal trials to local lawsuits and insightful analysis, please subscribe or activate your digital account today.
Email: shkolnikova@northjersey.com Twitter: @svetashko
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Moto e4 and Moto e4 Plus unveiled with Snapdragon SoC, 4G VoLTE
02:49 pm GMT+0530 • June 19, 2017
There is a new feature packed smartphone for the budget-minded users. Lenovo-owned Motorola unveiled the next-generation android smartphones under its Moto E family – the Moto e4 and Moto e4 Plus. Well, the e4 represents the 4th-generation of Moto E smartphones. Though both are budget-friendly mobiles, they pack some powerful hardware like Snapdragon chipset, 2 GB of RAM, expandable storage, up to a 13-megapixel camera, 4G with VoLTE support and even massive battery power of 5000 mAh.
Moto e4 Features
Budget-friendly is not an excuse for going cheap, that’s why Moto e4 comes with a smooth metal finish. It almost resembles the design of recently launched Moto G5 or even the Moto Z2, but luckily without the back camera bump. On the front, you have 5-inch HD 1280×720 display with 2.5D curved glass on top. Below the screen, you have the home button which also houses the fingerprint scanner. It even has the water-repellent nano-coating that saves you phone from accidentally water splashes and rain.
Coming to the internal parts, the Moto e4 is powered either by a 1.4 GHz Quad-core Qualcomm Snapdragon 425 or Qualcomm Snapdragon 427 processor, depending upon the market the phone launches. However, the processor is coupled with 2 GB of RAM and 16 GB of internal storage.
As for photography, the Moto e4 got an 8-megapixel autofocus rear camera. It features f/2.2 aperture, 71-degree lens and single LED flash support. On front for selfie lovers, the mobile comes with a 5-megapixel camera with same f/2.2 aperture and 74-degree lens. In addition, you also get a front single LED flash support, making your selfies glow and extra beautiful. Connectivity-wise, the mobile support 4G LTE that works with every Indian telcos 4G band. The mobile also supports VoLTE for making HD voice and video calls. Other connectivity options include 3G and 2G networks, WiFi 802.11a/b/g/n and Bluetooth 4.1 LE. Finally the mobile packs a 2800 mAh removable battery at back.
Moto e4 Specifications
5-inch HD 720p display (1280×720)
1.4 GHz Quad-core Qualcomm Snapdragon 425/Snapdragon 427 processor
Android 7.1, Nougat
Water-repellent coating
8 MP back camera and 5MP front-facing camera (flash support for both)
4G LTE, VoLTE, 3G, 2G, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth 4.1
2800 mAh removable battery
Colour options – Licorice Black and Fine Gold
Moto e4 Plus Features
Now to the much feature packed Moto e4 Plus, which has the same smooth metal finish. The mobile flaunts a 5.5-inch HD 1280×720 display with 2.5D curved glass on top. It also comes with water-repellent nano-coating that saves you phone from accidentally water splashes and rain. For colour choices, you get to choose from Iron Gray and Fine Gold colours.
Under the hood, the Moto e4 Plus is powered by a Quad-core 1.4 GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 427 processor coupled with 2GB of RAM. For storing all your media files the mobile carries either 16GB or 32GB of internal storage. You can further expand the storage with the help of microSD card.
There is an upgrade over the camera as Moto e4 Plus comes with a 13-megapixel autofocus rear camera. If features f/2.0 aperture, 78-degress lens and Single LED flash support. For selfie addicts, the mobile carries a 5-megapixel fixed focus camera. It features f/2.2 aperture, 74-degree lens and single LED flash support. As for connectivity, the mobile support 4G LTE along with VoLTE. Other connectivity options include 3G, 2G, Wi-Fi 802.11a/b/g/n, and Bluetooth 4.1 LE. The mobile runs on the latest Android 7.1.1 Nougat OS with almost stock UI. Another big plus point for the mobile is the massive 5000 mAh removable battery that company claims to offer up to 2 days of usage on a single charge.
Moto e4 Plus Specifications
5.5-inch HD 720p display (1280×720)
1.4 GHz Quad-core Qualcomm Snapdragon 427 processor
16GB/32GB internal storage
13 MP back camera and 5MP front-facing camera (flash support for both)
Both Moto e4 and Moto e4 plus have only been launched in US. As for pricing, the Moto e4 is priced at $129.99, that’s approximately Rs 8,381. Whereas the Moto e4 Plus gets a price tag of $179.99 or approximately Rs 11,606. Motorola/Lenovo is expected to launch both mobiles in India in the coming week.
Key spec
Phone spec
5-inch/5.5-inch HD display (1280x720)
1.4 GHz Quad-core Qualcomm Snapdragon 425/427 processor
up to 13MP, single LED flash
5MP single LED flash
4G LTE, VoLTE, 3G, 2G, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth 4.1 LE
Water-repellent coating, Fingerprint scanner
up to 5000 mAh removable battery
Mi Smart Band 5 with all-new women health tracking, PAI, 11 workout modes, heart rate monitoring & water-resistant.
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Get To Know Artist Jeremy Fish – Death Wish Coffee Company
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Get To Know Artist Jeremy Fish
By Abdullah Wali — Oct 27, 2017
Jeremy Fish is a Saratoga bred, San Francisco-based artist who has made a career out of taking all things cute and making them, well... weird. In the 2000s the 'Silly Pink Bunnies,' a group started by Jeremy and his skateboard friends, started as a way to poke fun at gangs and have an excuse to cause some mayhem. It's now become a full-blown staple of his artwork with Silly Pink Bunnies popping up all over San Francisco including most recently a giant crowd-funded bronze bunny statue that now stands guard in front of the new Haight Street Art Center.
Of course, there are several reasons why we love Jeremy but possibly the greatest one is his drive. Below read our interview with Jeremy and see part one of something we've been cooking up with him.
Tell us a little bit about your background. When did you first realize you could make a career out of art?
My family is all from upstate New York for generations. My Mother, Father, and Sister all attended SUNY Albany. I was only ever any good at art class growing up, so it was either off to art school, or continue parking cars and bussing tables in my hometown. I moved 3k miles to San Francisco for art school and skateboarding. Through a friend I skated with, I was able to land a job screen printing artwork in the skateboard industry after I graduated from art school. That was officially the day I realized I could make a career out of art.
Can you pinpoint a pivotal moment that changed the trajectory of your career?
In the early 2000's I was invited to participate in a series of group shows around Europe. I was able to travel extensively, share my work with a large new audience, and make friends with some interesting European artists. Through some of those relationships, I am fortunate enough to continue to show my artwork in galleries in many of those cities and countries around the world to this day.
Your work is described as ‘where cute and creepy meet’ what does that mean?
I enjoy the tension created by two great tastes that don't taste great together. Something so cute it attracts you and so creepy it repels you. It is that push and pulls that I strive for in my drawings.
When you want to make a new collection, where do you start? What’s the most difficult part?
Concept. To put your foot down and decide on a concept, is always the most difficult part of starting something new. Once I have a concept I am in love with, it makes the ideas, research, and the sketches flow like water.
What is a typical workday like for you?
Climb out of bed, pet my cat, and brush my beard. Go to Caffe Trieste (the oldest espresso bar on the West Coast), respond to emails, and wait for the wife to wake up. Run errands, gather supplies, take meetings, and eat food during daylight hours, draw and paint in the night time when life and the world is quiet.
Why did you want to collaborate with Death Wish?
Because Death Wish was smart enough to hire my lifelong homeboy Thomas Dragonette. Also because I grew up in Saratoga Springs, and I am very proud to see a successful independent young business from the area that has nothing to do with horses, old rich people, funky water, or organized crime.
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More CCTV images released in Isle of Dogs Russian banker shooting
Published: 5:55 PM July 23, 2012 Updated: 8:34 AM October 14, 2020
The Russian banker shot by a wouldbe assassin as he arrived home to his apartment block on the Isle of Dogs in March has been speaking about his ordeal.
German Gorbuntsov was hit several times moments after getting out of a cab at the entrance to the eight-storey block in Millwall’s Byng Street, near Canary Wharf.
He is recovering in hospital four months on—but talks of his “uncertain” future.
“They found six bullets inside me,” he said. “I was badly injured and badly affected.
“I have serious internal damage to my body and still haven’t seen a single doctor who is absolutely convinced it will be fine.
“I will make it—but I will be disabled. My future is uncertain.”
The 45-year-old banking magnate who owned banks in Russia and Moldova remains in a stable condition.
“This has changed my whole life,” Mr Gorbunstov added. “The worst feeling is that guy shot me and probably very much hoped he had killed me.”
He was speaking as Scotland Yard released more CCTV images in their appeal for witnesses.
The images show a suspect on camera at Canary Wharf station minutes before and minutes after the shooting at 7.30pm on March 20.
He is seen on the Jubilee Line platform, as well as coming up the escalator. He was also seen wearing a hooded top in Manilla Street, close to where Mr Gorbuntsov was shot.
Detective Chief Insp Russell Taylor, from the Homicide and Serious Crime Command, said: “A hooded top similar to the one the man is seen wearing was found in bushes nearby, along with a gun and a fake black leather bag.
“A man is seen leaving the station with a bag minutes before the shooting and later seen getting back on the platform without the bag shortly after the shooting.”
The suspect, white, 6ft tall, slim, was wearing a dark hooded top when he was seen running from Byng Street through Bellamy Close towards Marsh Wall.
Detectives are also appealing for the cab driver who took Mr Gorbuntsov to Byng Street from Bishopsgate on March 20 to come forward.
The gun used in the shooting, a 9mm Makarov pistol, was discovered in bushes in Marsh Wall near the corner of Manilla Street.
Police are urging witnesses or anyone with information to call the incident room on 020-8721 4868, or anonymously Crimestoppers on 0800-555111.
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Boxing: Buglioni looking to prove big threat
Published: 2:12 PM November 22, 2018 Updated: 8:52 AM October 14, 2020
Frank Buglioni hits out (pic Natalie Mayhew/Butterfly Boxing) - Credit: Archant
Frank Buglioni says a win over Fanlong Meng will re-establish him as one of the biggest threats in the light-heavyweight division.
Former Repton amateur Buglioni takes on undefeated Meng for the IBF Inter-Continental title at the Casino de Monte-Carlo this Saturday, live on Sky Sports in the UK and DAZN in the US.
Chinese amateur star Meng, touted by man as one of the best boxers in China, has racked up 13 straight wins since turning professional in 2015, picking up the WBO Oriental and IBF Inter-Continental titles along the way.
However, Buglioni feels the former Chinese National champion is yet to be tested in the paid code and is confident of taking the IBF ranking belt back to north London with him on Sunday morning.
“I have a very tough test in Fanlong Meng,” admitted Buglioni. “He’s a 2012 Olympian and has a solid amateur record. As a professional I don’t think he has been tested much yet, so this will be his acid test. I’m looking forward to upsetting the party and taking his belt and his undefeated record.
“Meng likes to keep things at his own pace and keep his opponents at range, but I’ll be constantly moving and creating angles. I’m fitter and sharper than I’ve ever been and he won’t be able to keep me off all night.
“Throughout my career I’ve always done well against southpaws and I’ve always enjoyed fighting and sparring them, be it amateur or pro, and my record against them is very good. I’m heading into the fight with a lot of confidence.”
Former World title challenger Buglioni has been busy rebuilding in the gym and sees Saturday’s fight as a golden opportunity to fire his name back into world title contention once more.
“The light-heavyweight division is buzzing and a good win over Meng will re-establish me as one of the top guys out there. A win would certainly put me back at the top of the pile domestically and possibly Europe too, I won’t be far off world level.
“I’m very pleased with my progress since the Callum Johnson defeat. I’ve built upon the mistakes I made in that fight and I’m looking forward to putting on a real show and proving myself once again.
“I’ve had some fantastic sparring all throughout this camp, including James DeGale. I’ve made some massive improvements in the gym and I think that has been due to such good quality sparring. The guys I have worked with have kept me on my toes really put it on me.”
Buglioni’s British title reign was ended by a shock first-round stoppage loss to Callum Johnson at The O2 in March.
Johnson’s victory was swiftly rewarded with a shot at IBF light-heavyweight champion Artur Beterbiev, but his world title attempt ended in a fourth-round knockout.
Buglioni believes the Lincolnshire man was just moments away from being crowned a world champion, though, and has taken confidence from his rival’s performance.
“I think Callum was very unlucky against Bertebiev,” added Buglioni. “I don’t think he realised how much he hurt him in the second round. When he caught him with that shot, Bertebiev’s legs weren’t there. If Callum had jumped on him then he’d be a world champion right now.
“Callum proved that the guys at the top of the domestic scene can mix it at world level. They just need to have the belief in themselves and give it everything they have. I’m fully focused on Fanlong Meng but I know what a win could lead to.
“A shot at a world title is the dream and you never know what is around the corner, I just need to keep on winning. I’d love a shot at any of the world champions, but I like fighting southpaws and if an opportunity to fight Adonis Stevenson arises then why not?”
Buglioni’s clash with Meng is part of a huge night of action in Monaco, with the main event seeing dangerous Russian Denis Lebedev defend his WBA cruiserweight world title against undefeated American Mike Wilson.
WBA super-flyweight world champion Kal Yafai aims to maintain his undefeated record when he makes the fourth defence of his crown against Mexico’s former world title challenger Israel Gonzalez.
Fresh from a shock win over highly-touted heavyweight prospect Martin Bakole, America’s Michael Hunter steps in to face Russia’s Alexander Ustinov and Kazakhstan’s Rio Olympic gold medalist Daniyar Yeleussinov faces Marcos Mojica in his fifth professional contest.
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Hockey: East London have tons of fun at 25th anniversary event
Published: 1:05 AM August 4, 2016 Updated: 8:44 AM October 14, 2020
Action from East London's 25th anniversary event (pic: ELHC) - Credit: Archant
Club host clubs from across Europe in celbratory competition
Twenty-four teams from across east London, England and Europe descended on the Lee Valley Hockey & Tennis Centre last week to help celebrate East London’s 25th anniversary.
In honour of the occasion, the club hosted the celebratory event across three days, with teams taking part in eight-a-side matches while there were also social events on all three nights.
Several trophies were handed out at the end of the weekend for their efforts both on and off the pitch.
Blackpool Hockey Festival were awarded ‘Best Tweet’, ‘Best Photographer’ went to Sally Bentar, ELHC Einsteins were named ‘Most Sociable Team’, while Navan collected the ‘Best Fancy Dress’ prize.
As for the on-pitch awards, Karlsruhe won the Shield after a 2-0 win over Dom Tyler’s ELHC in the final, but the Trophy was shared following an exciting goalless draw between Old Willies and Boozerinas.
“It was a weekend that summed up what ELHC is all about — hockey and socialising with friends new and old,” said tournament director Daniel Goodacre.
“Thank you to everyone involved; the players, the umpires, the photographers, the volunteers and the spectators.
“And a special thankyou to the event organisers, Char Tyler, Emily Quin, Mark Princey and Mikey P, who put so much effort into making it a success.”
The club are also hosting a 25th anniversary dinner on August 19 and more information can be found on the club’s website.
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The Girl Beneath the Sea
By Andrew Mayne
Read by Susannah Jones
Andrew Mayne Brilliance Audio 9781542009577
The Underwater Investigation Unit Series: Book 1
1 Format: CD
For a Florida police diver, danger rises to the surface in an adventurous thriller by the Wall Street Journal bestselling author of The Naturalist. Coming from scandalous Florida treasure hunters and drug smugglers, Sloan McPherson is forging her own path, for herself and for her daughter, out from under her family’s shadow. An auxiliary officer for Lauderdale Shores PD, she’s the go-to diver for evidence recovery. Then Sloan finds a fresh kill floating in a canal—a woman whose murky history collides with Sloan’s. Their troubling ties are making Sloan less a potential witness than a suspect. And her colleagues aren’t the only ones following every move she makes. So is the killer. Stalked by an assassin, pitted against a ruthless cartel searching for a lost fortune, and under watch within her ranks, Sloan has only one ally: the legendary DEA agent who put Sloan’s uncle behind bars. He knows just how deep corruption runs—and the kind of danger Sloan is in. To stay alive, Sloan must stay one step ahead of her enemies—both known and unknown—and a growing conspiracy designed to pull her under.
For a Florida police diver, danger rises to the surface in an adventurous thriller by the Wall Street Journal bestselling author of The Naturalist.
Coming from scandalous Florida treasure hunters and drug smugglers, Sloan McPherson is forging her own path, for herself and for her daughter, out from under her family’s shadow. An auxiliary officer for Lauderdale Shores PD, she’s the go-to diver for evidence recovery. Then Sloan finds a fresh kill floating in a canal—a woman whose murky history collides with Sloan’s. Their troubling ties are making Sloan less a potential witness than a suspect. And her colleagues aren’t the only ones following every move she makes. So is the killer.
Stalked by an assassin, pitted against a ruthless cartel searching for a lost fortune, and under watch within her ranks, Sloan has only one ally: the legendary DEA agent who put Sloan’s uncle behind bars. He knows just how deep corruption runs—and the kind of danger Sloan is in. To stay alive, Sloan must stay one step ahead of her enemies—both known and unknown—and a growing conspiracy designed to pull her under.
Author Bio: Andrew Mayne
Andrew Mayne is the star of A&E’s magic reality show Don’t Trust Andrew Mayne and has worked for David Copperfield, Penn & Teller, and David Blaine. With the support of Johnny Carson, Mayne founded a program using magic to teach critical thinking skills in public schools for the James Randi Educational Foundation, and his Wizard School segments aired nationwide on Public Television. He lives in Los Angeles.
Available Formats : CD
Publisher: Brilliance Audio
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Collars & Cuffs Vol. 1
By K.C. Wells, Parker Williams
Type Bundles
Words 344,518
When Leo Hart and Thomas Williams opened a BDSM club in Manchester back in 2002, they had no idea what they were creating. Because Collars & Cuffs has grown into more than a club—it’s become a family.
Most men who join do so hoping to find a connection, though even those who aren’t looking are surprised when the connection finds them. Collars & Cuffs men come from all walks of life: from a Dom who thought he would never find love again, to men whose past hurts still linger, to a young man who desperately needs someone to understand him. But there is one thing that will always be true: together they are stronger, and some bonds cannot be broken.
See excerpt for individual blurbs.
Cover Artist: Alexandria Corza
Series Collars and Cuffs | Books One - Four
Genres Contemporary Romance / Erotic Romance / Gay
4.5 Fabulous Stars
on Sep 15, 2016 06:09
Reviewed by Meredith for Diverse Reader
Collars & Cuffs Volume One by KC Wells and Parker Williams has the first four books of this series: An Unlocked Heart, Trusting Thomas, Someone to Keep Me, and A Dance With Domination.
All four of these books are special because they deal with Doms and submissives that are all members of Collars & Cuffs; a BDSM club in Manchester England.
The first two books are the owners of the club stories. An Unlocked Heart is Leo’s story. A broken hearted lonely Dom who never thought he’d find the love of a submissive ever again. Until Alex. I LOVED this one! I originally read it a long time ago and as emotional and touching as it was, I knew this was the beginning of a crazy ride!
What is really interesting is book one and book four deal with a common pain. Both Doms who lost their subs. I thought beginning the volume and ending a volume on the same note was pretty interesting.
Book two is the other co-owners story and I will say Trusting Thomas is my favorite of the four. I enjoyed all the stories, I did. But Trusting Thomas really stuck with me out of all of them.
Each story is their own. But as each book progresses the “family” grows and when you get visited by characters of books past, it’s awesome. I love that past characters aren’t forgotten and we see them throughout. So don’t be sad when one book ends and another begins. You’ll be living with these guys for the duration.
All in all this is a great BDSM series. It’s emotional, suspenseful, and the angst varies by book. All the characters are fabulous and there isn’t a pairing I don’t love.
If BDSM is your thing and you love a great romance with it. Collars & Cuffs is a series for you.
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Huge pileup in Portugal as touring cars crash in street race
Seven-car smash triggered by team mate squabble.
THE FIRST of three World Touring Car Cup races at Portugal kick started in spectacular style, after a huge pile-up involving numerous cars occurred during the opening lap.
Triggered by a first lap squabble for the lead between Sebastien Loeb Racing team mates Rob Huff and Mehdi Bennani, the crash ended up completely destroying the pair’s Volkswagen Golf racers — with the engine from Huff’s car being torn away from the chassis.
With the coming together between the two front-runners happening on the narrow city streets of Vila Real, the sizeable crash blocked the road and most of the field ended up involved in the carnage to some degree. In total, seven cars would be immediately taken out of the race, with another forced to retire during the restart as a result of damage sustained in the initial pileup.
Despite the crash writing off both Sebastien Loeb Racing cars, none of the drivers suffered from major injuries, though a winded Rob Huff did need assistance when getting out of his destroyed Volkswagen TCR.
The World Touring Car Cup crash at Vila Real isn’t the only tin-top motorsports event as of late to make headlines due to spectacular crashes. Three drivers in the DTM German touring car series were disqualified after crashing into race marshals and pit crews at a race in Hungary.
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Start of F1 season delayed by coronavirus
For the second year running, the coronavirus has forced changes to the beginning of the Formula One season.
Singer reveals All-Terrain Competition Study
L.A. restomod outfit Singer has revealed its All-Terrain Competition Study (ACS), a Dakar-ready, high-stanced modification of a Porsche 911.
Carlos Sainz Karting embroiled in racism scandal
Rally legend Carlos Sainz has become entangled in a racism scandal due to the use of blackface in a video posted by his karting business.
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Hands on: Microsoft Lumia 950 and 950XL
The Lumia 950 and 950XL pack the power of a PC and great cameras, but can they revive windows phone?
By Malarie Gokey October 6, 2015
Malarie Gokey/Digital Trends
Microsoft’s Lumia 950 and 950XL match flagship Android phones spec for spec, but Windows 10 Mobile may be too little, too late.
It’s been a long time since Microsoft unveiled a flagship Windows Phone. The wait is over.
The Lumia 950 and 950XL sport true flagship specs, killer cameras, and Windows 10. These two Lumias are the first phones from Microsoft to run the latest version of Windows, even though the new OS has been spinning on many laptops and PCs for a while now.
The question isn’t whether the new phones are any good — of course they are. There’s a far more interesting question to consider here: Can Microsoft’s Lumia 950 and 950XL convince Android and iPhone users to switch over? We went hands on with the new phones briefly to find out just how good they are.
Classic in plastic
When Microsoft bought out Nokia to start selling phones under its own brand name, the company didn’t really rock the boat style-wise. The Lumia 950 and 950XL are more of the same with their matte, plastic bodies. At the event, we saw black and white versions of the new Lumias, which looked simple and elegant. Lumia smartphones are classically Scandinavian in style, and you’ll either love them or hate them. The plastic back is sturdy and seamless, but it does pop off so you can change the battery if need be.
Lumia smartphones are classically Scandinavian in style, and you’ll either love them or hate them.
The new Lumias are slim and light to handle, and although the Lumia 950XL sports a whopping 5.7-inch screen, you’d never guess it was that big when you hold it. Both are quite comfortable to hold, and they’re not slippery the way some glass and metal phones are. Microsoft went for matte plastic, too, so fingerprints won’t be an issue. We wish more phones were so adept at staving off fingerprints. there’s also a dedicated camera button, which is something that’s been on most Lumia phones and some Android phones.
So far, we’re not seeing bright-colored versions of these flagship Windows Phones, which is a bit of a bummer. Microsoft’s specs sheets do hint that other color options may exist, however — maybe won’t be able to buy them Stateside. Who knows? Maybe carriers will announce their own colors.
Finally, a high-spec Windows Phone!
Microsoft released scores of mid-range Windows Phones in 2015, but not one true flagship. The Lumia 950 and 950XL attempt to fill the shoes of other great Lumias like the Nokia 1020 and 1520, and they aim to compete with the best that Android and iPhone have to offer. Indeed, the spec sheet reads about the same as any Android phone from 2015.
The Lumia 950 and 950XL both sport Quad HD screens with resolutions of 2,560 × 1,440 pixels, though the 950 sports a smaller, 5.2-inch screen and the XL a 5.7-inch screen. The screens appeared bright and luminous, and with Windows 10 gracing the screens, the Lumia 950 and 950XL looked positively radiant. Although most high-end Android phones have Quad HD screens, the two Lumias are more high-res than the iPhone 6S and 6S Plus, and that’s nothing to sneeze at. There’s also 32GB of storage to start and it’s expandable via a MicroSD card.
RAM was not mentioned, but the two phones seemed fast, likely due to the Qualcomm Snapdragon 810 (950XL) and Snapdragon 808 (950) processors powering them. These are the same processors you’ll find in the Moto X Style, LG G4, OnePlus 2, and more, so the new Lumias are just as powerful as your leading Android flagship. Microsoft would argue that its phones are even more powerful, thanks to Windows 10 and the cool Continuum feature, which allows your phone to power any monitor as if it were a full PC, while leaving your phone fully independent and operable.
It’s arguable whether being able to turn your phone into a PC is actually something you’d want to do, but in emerging markets where most people have only one device, it could be very useful to have a full-powered Windows machine in your pocket. We’ll need to fully test out the Lumia 950 and XL before we make a firm judgement on that front.
As for the battery, the smaller 950 sports a 3,000mAh pack and the Xl has a 3,340mAh battery inside. Both support fast charging via USB Type-C or wireless charging, if you’re into that.
Crazy detail from a smartphone camera
Windows Phone built its reputation for making amazing smartphone cameras with the Nokia’s Lumia 1020. Following in that tradition two years later, the Lumia 950 and XL have killer cameras that produce images with absurd amounts of detail. When you zoom into a photo taken with the 950’s PureView camera — 20-megapixel sensor, Zeiss optics, OIS, and triple LED natural flash –you can see every pore, every individual eyebrow hair, and even stubble in high quality.
No other smartphone camera captures this level of detail. You may not be able to tell the difference when you look at an image without zooming in, but as soon as you start to hunt for specific details more clearly, you’ll understand what I mean. The image quality is just different. Microsoft told me this has to do with a combination of things: Obviously the sensor is important, but so is the camera software.
The Lumia 950 and XL understand what kind of picture you’re taking, and the phones react to your environment and the subject. So if the light is good, but your subject is a boisterous child in a ball pit, the Lumia will adjust its own shutter speed, ISO, and so on to capture the shot you need without that characteristic motion blur. There’s no need to adjust settings and fiddle around with manual mode, either. The phones just figure it out for you. Take the magician who was on site manipulating cards quickly in his hands. The Lumia 950 didn’t miss a beat — it caught the shot, and there was no blur.
No other smartphone camera captures this level of detail.
The flash on the Lumia 950 and XL is also pretty neat — it tries to match the tone of your skin to look more natural. Sadly, it doesn’t work on the front camera, so your selfies will still be flash-less, but shots taken with the back cam look more realistic, even in low-light. We saw some sample pictures that looked quite decent, considering the lighting conditions. Of course, all this bears more testing, so we’ll let you know if the 950 lives up to this promise in real-life testing or not.
So far, the camera is the main differentiating feature that makes the Lumia 950 and its big brother interesting, but is it enough to revive Windows Phone?
Sadly, we think not. While Windows Phone has some dedicated fans who really love the platform, and Windows 10 undoubtedly brings some cool cross-device functionality to the Lumia 950 and 950XL, the core problems Windows Phone has always faced still linger. Most new apps won’t ever make it to Windows Phone, and some old apps still aren’t available on the OS. It’s hard to convince Android and iPhone users to switch to Windows Phone after all these years, especially when the specs sheets — and prices — are so very similar.
Is a great camera and the lure of Windows 10 cross-device connectivity enough to justify spending $550 to $650 on a Windows Phone? Probably not, and Microsoft knows it. That’s why Surface announcements were the focus of the show — Microsoft still has a hold on computing, but it came to the game too late to capture the smartphone market. The world’s already divided into Android and iOS users — BlackBerry and Windows Phone are on their way out.
But keep this in mind: The Lumia 950 and 950XL aren’t lousy phones — far from it. In fact, they’re pretty great. But as the saying goes, timing is everything.
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"I want to grow oranges in the Arctic!"
The IntersectionBy Chris MooneyJuly 4, 2007 5:49 PM
The Bush administration climate "policy" is a sham and an embarrassment. The number of abuses against science--and of power--that we've seen on this topic over the past six years is overwhelming. Sometimes, though, one choice quote can capture it all far better than a laundry list of well-documented misbehaviors. A choice quote like, say, this one from a recent Rolling Stone expose on Bush and climate:
One e-mail exchange about the study underscores just how many industry foxes were guarding the climate henhouse. When Matthew Koch (a White House energy adviser who today lobbies for API) saw the study, he wrote to Cooney (the former API lobbyist who is now "corporate issues manager" for ExxonMobil) and CC'd O'Donovan (who now works for Shell Oil). "What??!!" Koch wrote in mock disbelief at the study's claim that the planet isn't really heating up. "I want to grow oranges in the Arctic!"
Note to special interesty-type people who dismiss or deny global warming: When working in government, resist the urge to include what you really think in emails that will inevitably be retrieved later. It makes you look like....well, I'll let readers fill in that blank (provided they can avoid profanity).
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Polyamide wax
A bioaccumulation study (to method OECD 305) has been considered not to be feasible to conduct.
However, as the experiment log Kow of the substance was determined to be >6.5, indicating that the substance has potential for bioaccumulation, a further assessment of bioaccumulation has been made, which is detailed below.
A BCF of 43700 value has been calculated by EUSES (based on the physico-chemical properties of the substance entered, with log Pow stated as 6.5). This calculated BCF and molecular weight (681, based on the main component) indicate that the substance should have a high bioaccumulating potential. However, the length of the molecule (stated as ca. 50 Å) and the very high potential log Kow indicates that the substance may not be bioavailable (too long to pass the membranes), which is discussed further below.
Molecular size and weight:
Information on molecular size can be an indicator to strengthen the evidence for a limited bioaccumulation potential of a substance. One parameter for molecular size is the maximum molecular length of a substance. If this length exceeds 4.3 nm (43 Å), it is assumed that the substance disturbs the entire interior structure of the lipid bilayer of cell membranes and therefore does not accumulate to a significant amount, i.e. has a BCF value lower than 2000 L/kg.
The stated length of the molecule (based on the main component) is 50 Å indicating that the accumulation of the substance may not be significant.
However, it should be noted that folding of long linear structures may alter the length of the molecule of the substance, which renders it easier transferable across cell membranes. Therefore, the criterion for molecular length should only be used in a weight of evidence approach for bioaccumulation, along with other relevant data.
If the substance has a molecular weight higher than 700 g/Mol this is an indicator that the BCF is below 5000 L/kg. Two of the main substance components have molecular weights approaching 700 (664 and 681 respectively) and one has a molecular weight substantially over 700 at 962.
Log Kow:
The experimental log Kow of the substance was determined to be >6.5. Based on the screening criteria for bioaccumulation (log Kow >4.5 indicates potential for bioaccumulation) the substance has the potential for bioaccumulation. The assumption behind this is that the uptake of an organic substance is driven by its hydrophobicity. The substance is not known to bioaccumulate by a mechanism other than passive diffusion driven by hydrophobicity.
At log Kow values between 4 and 5, log BCF increases linearly with log Kow. However, at very high log Kow (>6), a decreasing relationship between the two parameters is observed. The aquatic BCF of a substance is probably lower than 2000 L/kg if the calculated log Kow is higher than 10 (i.e. a log Kow >10 is taken as an indicator for showing reduced bioconcentration).
Based on the high log Kow of the substance (>6.5), the log BCF may potentially not increase linearly depending on the value of log Kow. Therefore, bioaccumulation may not be significant for the substance based on log Kow.
Modelled (QSAR) for log Kow and BCF:
Based on the above information, the bioaccumulation potential of the substance is not certain. Therefore, estimations of log Kow and BCF were made for the three main substance components using computer programs.
log Kow Estimations:
An initial estimation of log Kow (Pow) was available as part of the experimental determination of the partition coefficient (refer to partition coefficient section of dossier) . Based on the structure of the main component in the substance, with the highest percentage present, (N,N'-1,6-hexanediylbis(12-hydroxyoctadecanamide)) calculation of the partition coefficient from the structural formula was performed using the Rekker calculation method (using a computer program, PrologP version 6.0).
The Pow was calculated to be log Pow 12.9 using the Rekker calculation method.
Further estimations of log Kow were made for the three main constituents using the following programs available in the EPI Suite program (v 3.20) (developed by the US EPA).
- Kowwin (v1.67): estimates octanol-water partition coefficient
- Bcfwin (v2.17) - estimates bioconcentration factor (BCF) and also log Kow as the program calculates BCF based on log Kow.
The estimates are summarised below and the raw data attached.
Table: Estimated log Kow values
Substance component
Log Kow: (Kowwin (v1.67)
Log kow: (Bcfwin (v2.17)
N,N'-1,6-hexanediylbis(12-hydroxyoctadecanamide) (CAS No: 55349-01-4)
Stearyl hydroxystearyl hexanediamine
bis(Hydroxystearyl) Hydroxystearyl hexanediamine
The predicted log Kow is greater than 10 for all three components for every estimation method. As stated above a calculated log Kow of 10 or above is taken as an indicator for showing reduced bioconcentration and the aquatic BCF of a substance is probably lower than 2000 L/kg.
Based on this information, the Bcfwin (v2.17) program was used to calculate BCF values for the three main components. Estimates were run using the estimated log Kow values, but also on intermediate log Kow values ranging from the experimental result to the predicted values (log Kow values of 6.5, 7, 8 and 10 were selected). This was done to try and predict a worst case BCF value and to see any effects on bioaccumulation with decreasing log Kow.
The results are summarised below and the raw data attached.
Table: Estimated BCF values
Log Kow
BCF: (Bcfwin (v2.17)
Based on the predictions for BCF using the Bcfwin program, for all three components the highest predicted BCF value was 1549, when the log Kow was given as 7.
Apart from the increase in BCF values from log Kow 6.5 to 7, these predicted BCF values follow the trends based on log Kow discussed above i.e. at high log Kow there is a decreasing relationship between log BCF increasing with log Kow and the aquatic BCF of the substance components are lower than 2000 L/kg using calculated log Kow of 10 and above, indicating reduced bioconcentration of the substance.
The predicted BCF values of 3.162, using the estimated log Kow values indicate bioaccumulation is not significant for the substance components.
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Álvaro Noboa asks Lenín Moreno to comply with the measure ordered by the Human Rights Committee
Lenin Moreno takes the lead to do changes in “Alianza Pais”
To the presidential agenda that was already scheduled for today in Guayaquil was added an additional activity: the extraordinary session of “Alianza Pais”. The call was made by Lenín Moreno yesterday as president of this movement and seeks to replace those who tried to get him out of that directive and called the meeting on December 3
At the meeting called for 4:00 pm today in the cooperative “Balerio Estacio” there will be another national convention and there will also be a pronouncement on the popular consultation promoted by the president.
Yesterday, the vice president in charge, María Alejandra Vicuña, said she will not attend the convention that Gabriela Rivadeneira and Ricardo Patiño convened for Sunday December 3 in Esmeraldas, because it is not a formal meeting.
Support from drivers association
She received the support of the Federation of Professional Drivers of Ecuador for the Government and the consultation. She said that several organizations are asking the Constitutional Court to resolve with the greatest speed the request for consultation. “We are all waiting for a statement that we are very confident, confident, will be favorable.”
Xavier Salazar, secretary of the Federation, urged the Court to speak up in the shortest time possible, he said they support the government and asked to be considered in housing plans and also that reforms should be processed to the Organic Law of Transit and Transportation.
Pozo delays the decision
The president of the National Electoral Council, Juan Pablo Pozo, yesterday suspended the session that was convened in Guayaquil, to analyze the conflicts between the top executives of the “Alianza Pais” movement. (I)
Source: https://www.eluniverso.com/noticias/2017/11/23/nota/6493699/lenin-moreno-toma-delantera-cambios-alianza-pais
Judge denied change of judicial measures for Estefano Isaías and Mauricio Neme, investigated in the Odebrecht case
Special protection for Correa has been denied
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EnglishClub : Learn English : Reading : Recommended : Age 8-12
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Recommended Reading for English Learners
These are popular chapter books for young readers. Many of these can be enjoyed by all ages and are fun to read aloud.
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl
A small group of children win an adventure into the mysterious chocolate factory. Their chaperones are shocked by the eccentric tour guide.
Charlotte’s Web by E. B. White
A young girl adopts a baby pig and becomes attached to her barnyard friends.
Dear Dumb Diary (diary series) by Jim Benton
Jamie Kelly tells her diary everything about middle school.
Diary of a Wimpy Kid (diary series) by Jeff Kinney
Greg Heffley is a middle schooler who is always getting into trouble. He confesses his worst experiences to his trusty diary.
Fudge (series) by Judy Blume
A funny series about a young family. The main character starts out in fourth grade. His classmates are memorable characters.
Goosebumps (mystery) by R. L. Stine
A children's horror fiction series. Features the supernatural world.
Harry Potter series (fantasy) by J. K. Rowling
A fantasy series about a wizard and his friends and foes.
James and the Giant Peach by Roald Dahl
A funny adventure about a child who finds a family in the most unexpected place.
Journey Through Oz by L. Frank Baum
An adventure of a young girl who gets swept away in a tornado. The story features Dorothy's imaginary friends, including the Scarecrow, the Tin Man, and the Cowardly Lion.
Little House on the Prairie (series) by Laura Ingalls Wilder
A series about a young American family living on a farm in Minnesota. Set in the 1870s and 80s.
Magic Treehouse (series) by Marie Pope Osborne
A fantasy series about two young American children who go on adventures, missions, and quests. They often travel back in time and learn interesting history.
Nancy Drew (mystery series) by Carolyn Keene
A series about a young female detective who solves mysteries.
Ramona (series) by Beverly Cleary
A funny series about a young elementary school girl and her friends and family.
Stuart Little by E. B. White
Adventures of a talking mouse who is born to human parents.
A funny tale about an illiterate giant who befriends a young orphan. Lots of word play. Fun for pronunciation and sentence structure practice.
The Dragon’s Egg by Alison Baird
Ai Lien's special stone from China turns out to be a dragon's egg. The girl and the dragon enjoy some fun adventures together.
The Hardy Boys (mystery series) by Franklin W. Dixon
American teenage boy detectives work together to solve mysteries.
The Trumpet of the Swan by E. B. White
A swan is born with a voice. His life changes when he learns to play the trumpet.
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Public Release: 25-Oct-2018
Non-invasive stent monitoring techniques tested
University of Barcelona
IMAGE: Barcelona researchers team from the Research Institute Germans Trias i Pujol (IGTP), the Biomedical Research Networking Center on Cardiovascular Diseases (CIBERCV), the University of Barcelona and the the Universitat Politècnica... view more
Credit: IGTP
Researchers from the Research Institute Germans Trias i Pujol (IGTP), the Biomedical Research Networking Center on Cardiovascular Diseases (CIBERCV), the University of Barcelona and the the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya have created a new field probe to detect in a non-invasive and non-ionizing way the presence of metallic stents as well as their potential structural failures through microwave spectrometry (MWS). Results were published in the journal Scientific Reports.
Coronary artery disease (CAD) is the main cause of death in developed countries. It is usually caused by atherosclerosis, characterized by accumulation of cholesterol and other fatty substances in artery walls that can create coagula such as angina or heart attack. Treatment for CAD comprises changes in the lifestyle to modify coronary risk factors and several drugs, but when coronary obstructions are important, it is necessary to carry out a revascularization treatment through percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) or coronary surgery.
PCI is a minimally invasive procedure which involves balloon dilatation in the obstructed area, and the introduction of a small stent. In some cases, and over time, the coronary stent can fail due a restenosis process, that is, proliferation of cells in the vascular wall that ends up blocking the vessel, or due a thrombosis process, when a stent obstruction occurs due the formation of a thrombus. Several phenomena have been related to a higher risk of these failures: a fracture process of the stent metallic structure can happen; in other cases there can be a lack of contact between the artery wall and the stent (incomplete stent apposition); and in other cases an incomplete expansion of the stent can occur, reducing its thickness.
There isn't any available technology to detect in a non-invasive way such phenomena like fracture, incomplete stent apposition or incomplete expansion, even the presence of restenosis. "Invasive techniques like coronary angiography, intravascular echography and optical coherence tomography are expensive and cannot be used on all patients with coronary stents", states Carolina Gálvez Montón, first author of the article and member of the IGTP and CIBERCV. In addition, these techniques are complex and require specific equipment which is not available in all hospitals.
"The MWS probe consists on a small device that produces electromagnetic waves similar to the ones in a mobile phone and which detects modifications that occur in that wave due to the stent" says Ferran Macià, UB researcher from the Magnetism Group of the Department of Condensed Matter Physics of the UB.
In order to test this new probe, researchers "carried out the stent subcutaneous implantation in a murine model where we detected the presence of devices as well as restenosis-derived changes and fracture through variation of resonance frequency, common in microwave absorption spectra, which reflect the occurrence of changes in the length and the diameter of the stent", says Gálvez-Montón. In particular, the study included five control animals, with a subcutaneous stent implantation simulation, and ten experimental animals in which a metallic stent was introduced in the interscapular region. Basal measurements were carried out before and after the stent implantation on the days 0, 2, 4, 7, 14, 21 and 29 of its monitoring. In addition, five animals from the experimental group were analyzed through MicroCT in the same study time periods. After 29 days, three animals were subject to a stent fracture.
As a result, since the stents colonized with fibrotic tissue as a natural response to its subcutaneous implantation, the new probe detected significant differences of its content from its basal implementation to its 30 days of monitoring (restenosis). Finally, researchers could differentiate through microwave spectrometry those stents that were fractured to the ones that were still complete.
In short, according to Antoni Bayés Genís, researcher from the IGTP and CIBERCV, "we need more studies to verify these results and we think it is necessary to move these experiments to a pre-clinical model in animal models that are similar to humans, and if corroborated, this technology should be validated in a small cohort of patients".
"We are working on the technological aspects that will allow us to conduct pre-clinical experiments and their implications in a future clinical application", says Joan O'Callagan, researcher in CommSensLab (UPC), "this involves, among other things, the development of devices with the ability to detect stents at increased depths and detection techniques that tolerate the movement of stents in coronary arteries".
Article Reference:
Carolina Gálvez-Montón, Gianluca Arauz-Garofalo, Oriol Rodriguez-Leor, Carolina Soler-Botija, Susana Amorós García de Valdecasas, Flavio David Gerez-Britos, Antoni Bayes-Genis, Juan Manuel O'Callaghan, Ferran Macià, Javier Tejada. "Ex vivo assessment and in vivo validation of non-invasive stent monitoring techniques based on microwave spectrometry". Scientific Reports. (2018) 8:14808 |
DOI:10.1038/s41598-018-33254-9
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YOUNG, PATRIC
AX Armani Exchange Olimpia Milan 28 Center
Height: 2.09 Born: 1 February, 1992 Nationality: United States of America
Index rating 32 Galatasaray Istanbul vs. Panathinaikos Athens 3/27/2015
Points 24 Galatasaray Istanbul vs. Panathinaikos Athens 3/27/2015
Offensive rebounds 5 Olympiacos Piraeus vs. Cedevita Zagreb 10/15/2015
Defensive rebounds 9 Olympiacos Piraeus vs. Limoges CSP 11/5/2015
Total rebounds 14 FC Barcelona vs. Galatasaray Istanbul 2/12/2015
Assists 2 Olympiacos Piraeus vs. Anadolu Efes Istanbul 4/21/2017
Steals 4 Galatasaray Istanbul vs. ALBA Berlin 1/22/2015
Blocks 5 Olympiacos Piraeus vs. Limoges CSP 11/5/2015
Minutes 33 Galatasaray Istanbul vs. Panathinaikos Athens 3/27/2015
Played college basketball at University of Florida (2010-14).
Signed for the 2014-15 season by New Orleans Pelicans.
Moved to Turkey in December'14 signed by Galatasaray Istanbul.
Moved to Greece for the 2015-16 season, signed by Olympiacos Piraeus.
Moved to Italy for the 2017-18 season, signed by Olimpia Milano.
Has been member of the US U-18 and U-19 National Team.
Won the gold medal at the 2010 Americas U-18 Championship.
Played at the 2011 World U-19 Championship.
2014-15 Galatasaray Liv Hospital Istanbul 17 148 8.7 59/97 60.8 0/1 0 30/50 60 109 15 11 13
2015-16 Olympiacos Piraeus 5 54 10.8 20/28 71.4 0/0 0 14/21 66.7 25 6 2 13
2016-17 Olympiacos Piraeus 30 82 2.7 29/58 50 0/1 0 24/39 61.5 72 9 4 11
Totals 52 284 5.5 108/183 59 0/2 0 68/110 61.8 206 30 17 37
Averages 52 284 5.5 108/183 59 0/2 0 68/110 61.8 4 0.6 0.3 0.7
2010/11 Florida 37 126 3.4 50/90 55.6 0/0 0.0 26/37 70.3 139 21 12 31
2011/12 Florida 37 378 10.2 162/262 61.8 0/0 0.0 54/91 59.3 238 18 41 30
2012/13 Florida 37 374 10.1 153/261 58.6 0/0 0.0 68/139 48.9 232 34 32 58
2014/15 Galatasaray 24 252 10.5 108/161 67.1 0/0 0.0 36/59 61.0 190 20 19 20
2015/16 Olympiacos 5 38 7.6 16/21 76.2 0/0 0.0 6/10 60.0 29 5 1 3
2016/17 Olympiacos 28 140 5.0 54/91 59.3 0/0 0.0 32/44 72.7 82 10 14 17
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Posts filed under 'Uganda'
1973: Tom Masaba, Sebastino Namirundu, and 10 other Uganda Fronsana rebels
1 comment February 10th, 2014 Headsman
On this date in 1973, 12 actual or supposed Ugandan guerrillas opposing the Idi Amin dictatorship were shot in groups of one or two at various places around the country — having been condemned just days before in military trials for terrorism and assassination plots.
The Fronasa rebel movement was a new player on the Uganda political scene, and it drew a ferocious government response. Idi Amin’s regime was reluctant even to dignify its opposition by naming it, but it certainly made no secret about the punishments. “The public are to attend,” said the official announcement, ominously. (London Times, Feb. 8, 1973.)
“The execution by firing squad that has been carried out today is a real lesson to the people of Uganda to know that involvement in guerrilla activities means loss of life,” a military spokesman explained, unnecessarily. (Times, Feb. 12) Just to make sure the public turned up thoroughly for the lesson, the shootings were filmed and televised.
There’s an extensive photographic series of at least one set of executions — that of Tom Mabasa and Sebastino Namirundu in Mbale. It’s viewable here. Per the image captions,
Masaba and Namirundu were interrogated, stripped naked, fitted with short white aprons and tied to their execution posts. Masaba, who was accused of being a terrorist, was reported to have said, “Let those, like me, who are killing innocent people in the country, come out and report to the authorities.”
The book Battles of the Ugandan Resistance contains an account of Namirundu’s capture. According to the author, Namirundu was a mere bystander whe Ugandan troops arrived to his area trying to arrest rebel leader (and present-day Uganda president) Yoweri Museveni. Museveni gave them the slip, but as soldiers rudely searched houses, the teenaged Namirundu made a panicked run to get away from them, which act was taken as self-incrimination and led him to the stake.
1945: Giovanni Cerbai, partisan - 2020
1726: Margaret Millar, infanticide - 2019
1938: Vladimir Antonov-Ovseyenko, Winter Palace stormer - 2018
1956: Elifasi Msomi, witch doctor - 2017
1854: John Tapner, the last hanged on Guernsey - 2016
1945: Anacleto Diaz, Philippines Supreme Court Justice - 2015
1892: Four anarchists in Jerez - 2013
1794: Jacques Roux, the Red Priest, cheats the guillotine - 2012
2011: Rashid al Rashidi, Mousa mosque murderer - 2011
1952: Liu Qingshan and Zhang Zishan, the first corruption executions in Red China - 2010
1956: Wilbert Coffin - 2009
1905: Samuel McCue, mayor of Charlottesville, Virginia - 2008
1913: Antonio Echazarreta, defending Matamoros
1942: Partisans by the Sonderbataillon Dirlewanger
1964: Nguyen Van Troi, Viet Cong urban guerrilla
1941: Sixteen Yugoslav partisans and one German soldier
1976: Costas Georgiou and three other mercenaries in Angola
1946: Public Execution in Debica
1946: Cristino Garcia, Spanish Republican and French Resistance hero
Entry Filed under: 20th Century,Capital Punishment,Death Penalty,Execution,Guerrillas,History,Power,Public Executions,Shot,Soldiers,Uganda
Tags: 1970s, 1973, february 10, fronsana, idi amin, mbale, sebastino namirundu, tom mabasa
1886: Twenty-two Uganda Martyrs
4 comments June 3rd, 2013 Meaghan
(Thanks to Meaghan Good of the Charley Project for the guest post. -ed.)
On this date in 1886, thirteen Catholic men and boys, as well as nine Anglican Christians, were burned alive in Buganda, a kingdom in modern-day Uganda. Most of them pages at the royal court, they had been martyred for their faith.
The kingdom of Buganda came in contact with Europeans in the 1860s; Arab traders had been doing business there a few decades before that. Christian missionaries arrived in Buganda in 1879. In the next few years many court officials converted.
King Muteesa I tolerated Muslims, Catholics and Protestants and played them off against other for political gain, but his sixteen-year-old son, Mwanga II, who ascended the throne in 1884, was a different story altogether. He saw Christianity as a serious threat to his authority and cracked down on its influence.
Mwanga expelled many missionaries ordered converts to renounce their faith on pain of death. He had James Hannington, the Anglican Bishop of Eastern Equatorial Africa, executed in October 1885.
Between 1885 and 1887, Mwanga ordered the deaths of 45 Christian men (22 Catholics and 23 Anglicans). Collectively they are known as the Martyrs of Uganda. Most of them were young. (One of the boys who would die on this day was all of fourteen years old.)
Joseph Mukasa was the first of the Martyrs to die. A page and personal attendant to King Muteesa, he became majordomo after Mwanga took the throne, and had permission to criticize the king. He had converted to Roman Catholicism in 1882. Mukasa had strongly urged Mwanga to spare Bishop Hannington’s life.
For his pains, Mukasa was himself executed and his body burned only two weeks after Hannington. The chief page, Charles Lwanga, became majordomo in his place.
That very same day, Lwanga went and got himself baptized. He was a Catholic catechist, and he anticipated the cup he was about to quaff. The Dictionary of African Christian Biography records:
The following day, the king assembled all the pages and demanded under pain of death that they confess their Christian allegiance. All of them, Catholic and Anglican, except for three, did so. Mwanga was baffled by the solidarity and constancy of the young Christians, but hesitated to carry out his threat to kill them all. Several times in early December the king attempted to intimidate his pages, in spite of visits from the Catholic and Anglican missionaries. On one occasion, Lwanga exclaimed that, so far from helping the white men to take over the kingdom, he was ready to lay down his life for the king.
After the fire in the royal palace on February 22, 1886, Mwanga moved the court temporarily to his hunting lodge at Munyonyo on the shore of Lake Victoria. Here Lwanga continued to protect the pages … and to prepare them for possible martyrdom. By this time, Mwanga had obtained the consent of his chiefs for a massacre of the Christians. Meanwhile, Lwanga himself baptized five of the most promising catechumens. On May 26 … the pages entered the royal courtyard to receive judgement. Once again, they were called upon to confess their faith. This they did, declaring that they were ready to die rather than to deny it. Mwanga ordered them all, sixteen Catholics and ten Anglicans, to be burnt alive at Namugongo.
Several of the condemned were killed before the main event. The oldest, Matthias Kalema, aged about fifty, was dismembered alive and pieces of him were roasted before his eyes. He died slowly and horribly over the course of three days, finally expiring on May 30. Three others collapsed during the march to the execution site in Namugongo and were killed on the spot.
One of them, however, was inexplicably spared at the last possible moment. Denis Kamyuka was pulled away from the fire by some of the soldiers. It’s worth noting that Kamyuka appears to have been among the youngest of the group, around thirteen or fourteen; perhaps his executioners took pity on him for this reason. It is from his testimony that we know the details of what happened to his friends.
Everyone prayed and recited the catechism on the way to their deaths. Each of the pages were bound and wrapped up in reeds before being placed alive in the bonfire. The exception was Mbaaga Tuzinde, the son of the chief executioner; his father, who had pleaded for him to renounce his religion and offered to hide him, ordered that he be clubbed to death before being put into the flames.
Charles Lwanga, their leader, was burned separately from the others and was allowed to arrange his own pyre. As the executioners taunted him he said, “It is as if you are pouring water on me.”
In 1888, Christian and Muslim converts deposed King Mwanga in a British-backed uprising and put his brother on the throne in his place. Mwanga got his crown back in 1889 after he agreed to turn partial control of Buganda to the British East Africa Company. In 1897, however, he declared war on the British and attacked them. Trounced within weeks, Mwanga fled the country and was deposed in absentia. He returned with an army, but was defeated again, this time for good, and exiled to the Seychelles. In the final years of his short life he converted to Anglicanism. He died in 1903, aged 35.
The 22 Catholic converts who were martyred in Uganda during Mwanga II’s reign were beatified in 1920. Denis Kamyuka was present at the ceremony.
The site where the Uganda Martyrs were burned is now a holy shrine, a 33-acre site marked by a distinctive conical building. Every year on this date, pilgrims come there to commemorate Uganda Martyrs Day.
Re-creation of the burning on-site at the shrine. (cc) image from Christian von Schack.
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2008: A son, all in the family
2 comments October 3rd, 2010 Headsman
On this date in 2008, Abura Apalalu of Longorinyangai village, Namalu Sub-county, in Nakapiripirit District of Uganda convened a traditional (but illegal) tribunal to try his two sons for raping their sister.
Apalalu found the youths guilty and condemned his own flesh and blood to death … after which they were both beaten by fellow-villagers, one of them fatally.
The incident illustrates the challenge of getting people in the Karamoja region, where traditional systems are used to serve justice, to conform to the rule of law as enshrined in Uganda’s constitution.
Last year alone, according to the UPDF 3rd Division spokesman, Capt. Henry Obbo, five people were hanged on orders of the Karimojong traditional clan court sitting at Namalu in Nakapiripirit District.
Nakapiripirit District Community Development Officer Michael Edikoi says under the traditional justice system, a person who kills is supposed to be killed. “You are told to dig two graves, one for the person you have killed and the other for yourself. Then you are forced to bury the dead before being stoned to death and buried in the other grave next to your victim,” he said.
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In the bombed-out ruins of Cologne, Hanno Dasch is king.
Director of the most successful black market operation in post-war Germany, Dasch has kept his clients supplied with goods so extravagant and rare that they were almost impossible to find even at the height of Germany's conquests.
Nobody but Dasch, his enigmatic daughter and the war criminal he keeps as his bodyguard know how he does it.
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A disgraced American Army officer, Nathan Carter, is recruited to approach Dasch and to ingratiate himself with promises of stolen army supplies.
As Carter moves further and further into the labyrinth of Dasch's world, it soon becomes clear that the black market ring has already been compromised, but by someone even more dangerous than the Russians.
Carter stumbles upon a counterfeiting ring, with whom Dasch has unwittingly gone into business, which seems to have been created with the sole purpose of destroying the Soviet economy, something it could easily do with the superlative quality of the forged bills it is producing. With Carter caught in the middle, and facing the danger that his cover might be blown at any moment, a race begins between the Russian and American spy agencies to uncover who is responsible, before the situation escalates to war.
The year is 1949. In the bombed-out ruins of Cologne, Hanno Dasch is king. Director of the most successful black market operation in post-war Germany, Dasch has kept his clients supplied with goods so extravagant and rare that they were almost impossible to find even at the height of Germany's conquests.Nobody but Dasch, his enigmatic daughter and the war criminal he keeps as his bodyguard know how he does it.None of this has escaped the attention of Allied Intelligence, who face not only the systemic corruption of a country where everything is in short supply, but the growing threat of Stalin's KGB.Fearing that Dasch will soon expand his business to include dealings with Russia, and invite the further meddling of Russian agents in the west, the CIA sets in motion an undercover operation to infiltrate and, ultimately, destroy Dasch's empire. A disgraced American Army officer, Nathan Carter, is recruited to approach Dasch and to ingratiate himself with promises of stolen army supplies. As Carter moves further and further into the labyrinth of Dasch's world, it soon becomes clear that the black market ring has already been compromised, but by someone even more dangerous than the Russians.Carter stumbles upon a counterfeiting ring, with whom Dasch has unwittingly gone into business, which seems to have been created with the sole purpose of destroying the Soviet economy, something it could easily do with the superlative quality of the forged bills it is producing. With Carter caught in the middle, and facing the danger that his cover might be blown at any moment, a race begins between the Russian and American spy agencies to uncover who is responsible, before the situation escalates to war.
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The Devil is in the Definitions for Federal Consumer Data Privacy Safeguards
September 28, 2018 / Katherine Armstrong /
The Senate Commerce Committee held a hearing “Examining Safeguards for Consumer Data Privacy” on September 26, which included testimony from tech industry executives.
Senator John Thune’s opening statement noted that with the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) have put the issue of consumer data privacy squarely on the Congress’s doorstep. “The question is no longer whether we need a federal law to protect consumers’ privacy,” he said. “The question is what shape that law should take.”
The witnesses at the hearing were:
• Len Cali – AT&T
• Andrew DeVore – Amazon
• Keith Enright – Google
• Damien Kieran – Twitter
• Guy Tribble – Apple
• Rachel Welch – Charter Communications
Each witness provided an opening statement describing their company’s approach to privacy and outlined, in a general way, their proposals of what federal legislation should look like. Seventeen senators had a short time to ask questions.
The witnesses generally support a comprehensive U.S. privacy law that incorporates principles of transparency and consumer choice and that should include state preemption provisions. All generally agreed that the Federal Trade Commission is the best federal agency to enforce a new law, which presumably it would do through a rulemaking. Although the industry leaders seemed to agree that the FTC should have enough resources for enforcement, there didn’t appear to be consensus on whether the FTC should have more enforcement authority and what it would entail.
Several senators asked questions about the GDPR and CCPA. With respect to GDPR, most of the witnesses indicated that the burden of compliance was significant with one witness stating that “hundreds of years of human time” that has been invested in GDPR compliance. Several witnesses noted that the GDPR compliance obligations will squeeze out the small or middle-sized companies and that only large companies can afford to comply with GDPR. There was little specific discussion about CCPA.
When asked whether any of the companies would exit Europe or California because of the new laws, they all said no. One senator said that it appears that the “devil is in the details” when it comes to supporting a new regulation. When asked which provisions of the GDPR and CCPA should be part of a U.S. law, there was no response.
Given the time constraints of the hearing, the witnesses did not go into specific detail with respect to how personal data should be defined or what constitutes the sale or disclosure or personal data.
There will be at least one more hearing before the Senate committee, which will include testimony from Alastair Mactaggart, the California real estate developer who funded efforts behind the proposed ballot initiative that led to the CCPA, and Andrea Jelinek, the EU’s chief regulator for the GDPR and head of the Austrian Data Protection Authority.
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Children in tears as women fight in playground on first day back to school
Fight in school playground leaves pupils in tears
Primary school pupils were left distressed and crying yesterday after two women started fighting in the school playground.
Police were called to Ysgol Mair school in Rhyl yesterday after reports that a fight was happening. It happened near the nursery entrance with some children arriving for school for the first time and others returning after their six week Summer holiday.
Parents used social media to express their anger at the behaviour of the two women and their shock at the bad language being used in front of the children arriving at school.
A statement from Denbighshire Council said: “We were aware of an altercation between two women on the school grounds this morning and our understanding is that the matter was not connected in any way to the school.
However, the council does not tolerate any unacceptable anti-social behaviour on any of its school grounds. The matter is now in the hands of the police.”
A similar story appeared in Wales Online here
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Army’s internal social web grows with Twitter-Feedly hybrid
Written by Cory Bennett
Aug 8, 2013 | FEDSCOOP
The Pentagon is growing its own Internet within the Internet.
Behind the Defense Department firewall, the Pentagon has created versions of several popular social networking platforms — YouTube became milTube, Wikipedia became milWiki, LinkedIn became milBook.
And this week, milWire — some hybrid of Feedly and Twitter — joined the mix. The Army described the new site as a news aggregator. But it also allows users to follow individuals or topics, the way one might follow a Twitter user or subscribe to a specialized RSS feed.
“With milWire, people can choose to follow me, specifically, or a topic, in general,” said Teri Centner, a contractor working as a knowledge engineer for the Joint Staff J-6, said in an Army press release. Centner posts to milWire weekly. “So, in this way the audience for my posts is self-selected, but people from across the department can read what I post, even if I’ve never met them — that’s powerful.”
Sequestration, cybersecurity, arts and music and education are examples of the 15 topics to which DOD employees can subscribe on milWire. Users can post content relevant to these topics that they’ve written, or post hyperlinks and embedded videos.
MilWire is integrated with the rest of the Pentagon’s social sites, which it collectively calls the milSuite. So content posted to milTube or milWiki, for example, can be cross-posted to milWire, helping the different military services cross-pollinate.
“Anything that helps the members of the DOD share ideas and information is beneficial, especially if it can cross the boundaries of components and specialties,” Centner said.
But milWire is not yet integrated with external news sources, a fact DOD has not overlooked. The team working on milSuite is looking to add a milWire feed that aggregates a number of outside defense news sites.
“We’re trying to find the best way to integrate external information into the site, since we want the community’s contributions to still be front and center,” Tom Curran, product director for milSuite, said in a press release.
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Home » Bridging the gap
By Keith Nunes
The phrase “sports nutrition” conjures images of bodybuilders and marathoners. As interest in the category has broadened marketers have introduced a new phrase, “active nutrition,” to
communicate the benefits of the products to a more diverse audience. Two companies, Hormel Foods and Post Holdings, have made significant investments in the category during the past year with an eye toward reaching the active nutrition audience.
This past July, Hormel Foods, Austin, Minn., acquired CytoSports Holdings, the manufacturer of Muscle Milk, for $450 million. The company’s product line includes ready-to-drink (R.-T.-D.) beverages, protein-based powders, nutrition bars and energy chews.
“Muscle Milk products will serve as a growth catalyst for our Specialty Foods segment, providing this division with a leading brand in the high-growth sports nutrition category,” said Jeffrey M. Ettinger, chairman of the board, president and chief executive officer at Hormel Foods, at the time of the acquisition. “The acquisition of CytoSport expands our offerings of portable, immediate, protein-rich foods, and broadens our appeal with younger consumers. Muscle Milk premium protein products further enhance our balanced business model.”
Post Holdings, St. Louis, has made two acquisitions in the sports, active nutrition category. In December 2013 the company acquired Dynamatize, a manufacturer of protein powders, bars and nutritional supplements under the Dymatize and Supreme Protein brands. The business’s products are sold in the sports nutrition supplement and nutrition bar categories.
Then in February of this year, Post acquired the PowerBar and Musashi brands from Nestle for $550 million. The brands are sold in the sports nutrition supplement and nutrition bar categories.
“If you look at the categories these companies play in, they are very much core sports nutrition,” said Chris Schmidt, consumer health analyst for Euromonitor International. “While Muscle Milk is best known for its mass-friendly R.-T.-D.s, the Pro Series and powders are a substantial part of its portfolio. Muscle Milk’s pre-workout, B.C.A.A. (branched chain amino acids) and creatine formulations are just as advanced and focused on the core users (bodybuilders, elite athletes, etc.) as any other core-only brand.
“Dymatize is one of the most core-user-focused brands in sports nutrition, even if they have recently been pushing beyond the bodybuilder demographic into more lifestyle-fitness (with the Pursuit Rx line for Crossfit/competitive fitness users).”
But by rebranding the category as “active nutrition,” it appears both companies are intent on expanding their market.
“’Active nutrition’ is simply a more approachable term than sports nutrition, which still has a bit of a ‘hardcore’ connotation for average consumers,” Mr. Schmidt said. “Active nutrition essentially presents the same products in the light of a healthy, fitness-focused lifestyle, as opposed to products specifically designed to increase athletic performance. Within an ‘active nutrition’ branded environment, there will be more focus on convenience formats, bars, R.-T.-D.s, chews, gels, etc., and more of a focus on protein, as protein remains the most ‘food-like’ ingredient in the sports nutrition universe.”
Euromonitor estimates that the retail value of sales of sports nutrition products in the United States, which the market research firm defines as the aggregation of vitamins and dietary supplements, sports nutrition and weight management categories, to be $8.8 billion. A clearer picture of the market comes into focus when sports drinks ($18.7 billion), energy drinks ($27.6 billion), and energy and nutrition bars, excluding bars tracked under the sports nutrition category ($2.9 billion) are added together.
Powders remain the most common sports nutrition product format, across both protein and non-protein products, Mr. Schmidt said. Ready-to-drink protein drinks are expected to be the fastest-growing category through 2018 with a 10% compound annual growth rate. The R.-T.-D. beverage format also is gaining favor in non-protein products, especially as companies like VPX/Redline Sports Nutrition and Performance Beverages, and Optimum Nutrition, try to attract more casual users to the pre- and intra-workout usage occasions.
Mr. Schmidt added that R.-T.-D. protein beverages are expected to be the fastest growing category and will top $1 billion in global retail sales by 2016.
“The massive rise of protein’s healthy halo in general has greatly expanded the market for high-protein foods,” he said. “Simultaneously, there is a significant shift in how consumers in the U.S. and other developed markets view health and fitness. They are taking a much more active role and beginning to realize that silver bullets don’t work.
“Diet and exercise regime change are necessary, and supplements can be a helpful boost, even if they’re just used as substitutes for less healthy indulgence foods. Convenience has certainly played a role in expanding the demographic, as demonstrated by the growth of Protein R.-T.-D.s and, as the slew of natural launches (like) CorePower, Muscle Milk Organic, etc., in the last three to five years shows, producers are increasingly looking to the general health and wellness packaged foods industry for inspiration and consumers to poach.”
Dan Grazaitis, a food scientist with TIC Gums, White Marsh, Md., said health and wellness trends continue to penetrate the beverage category as consumer demand drives growth for nutritionally fortified products.
“Subsequently, product developers are challenged with creating innovative, consumer-friendly beverages that maximize nutritional value without negatively impacting sensory attributes,” he said.
Meghan Wahlin, business development manager of sports nutrition for Glanbia Nutritionals, Fitchburg, Wis., noted that the expansion of protein into the mainstream demonstrates that it is no longer a niche product for a niche audience.
“Whether derived from whey or milk, protein’s popularity crosses all demographic boundaries and continues to soar,” she said. “In a highly scrutinized market, protein is a well-recognized and accepted macronutrient, and lifestyle diets such as paleo and vegan help to drive its success.
“While some food brands that were once cutting edge are now introducing products that trend toward a more mainstream consumer market, other established companies are capitalizing on the protein craze. This has led to the innovation of products such as protein-fortified pancake mix, cereal, ice cream and granola bars, all of which now appeal to mainstream consumers looking for additional protein in their diets.
“Additional ingredients such as creatine and amino acids are also enjoying a shift into the mainstream as the benefits they offer to the sports nutrition category are becoming increasingly recognized. During a workout, creatine plays a vital role in the provision and transfer of energy, offering more power and strength for high intensity performance.
“Amino acids, meanwhile, essential for growth, protein synthesis and nutrient transportation, contribute to the maintenance of lean muscle and aid the building of muscle mass during a workout, as well as cell repair in the recovery stage.”
Product development challenges
The issue companies like Hormel Foods and Post Holdings face in trying to take traditional sports nutrition products, those whose core users may overlook the organoleptic properties of an item in exchange for a proven functional benefit, to an active nutrition audience is product quality.
“The main challenge when formulating ingredients for use in the sports nutrition sector is creating products that not only deliver functional and formulation benefits, but also offer sensory appeal,” Ms. Wahlin said. “Taste and texture are significant properties. If an R.-T.-D. or bar doesn’t taste good, it won’t sell, so manufacturers need to focus on creating a product with desirable sensory qualities.
“Various challenges arise when working with protein ingredients. They can confer a bitter taste in beverage applications and generate a ‘hockey puck’ outcome in bars.
“In addition, ingredients such as creatine and amino acids are insoluble and can negatively affect a product’s organoleptic properties. At Glanbia Nutritionals, we’re set up well to respond to each of these challenges.”
Glanbia has developed its PepForm technology to address the solubility issue.
“By binding specific amino acids to whey peptides, the ingredient platform facilitates improved utilization and high nutritional value in a soluble and highly bio-available form,” Ms. Wahlin said. “We also have a dedicated Flavor Artistry team that is expert in working with the complexity of proteins, enabling us to deliver products that are not only functional but that also offer an appealing, clean flavor profile.”
Texture is also an issue in developing sports nutrition items.
“TIC Gums now has an expanded selection of stabilization solutions for ready-to-drink beverages with the new Ticaloid Pro series,” Mr. Grazaitis of TIC said. “These blends are used to stabilize a range of protein concentrations and prevent sedimentation of other difficult-to-suspend ingredients, such as vitamins, minerals and cocoa powder.”
For higher dairy-based protein systems or systems with increased suspension requirements, TIC Gums offers Ticaloid Pro 432, which allows product developers to achieve suspension requirements for protein and prevent sedimentation of additional ingredients.
Mr. Grazaitis added that reformulation of products to achieve greater mass market appeal will not be a simple process.
“Sometimes manufacturers are under the misconception that gum systems that work in their current formulation will work just as well in a new formulation,” he said. “Many times a simple 1:1 replacement will not yield a satisfactory end-product.
“An example is when replacing or adding to traditional (dairy) proteins with non-traditional (soy, pea, almond…) proteins. Each protein type reacts differently depending on processing environments, other ingredients within the formulation and even packaging.”
While health and protein may be two key components of sports nutrition, Mr. Ettinger of Hormel sees additional opportunities in convenience.
“Clearly nutritious, this product line is designed with high protein, low carb and that’s a core appeal of the product line,” he said Sept. 3 in a presentation at the Barclays Back-To-School Consumer Conference in Boston. “And then clearly an on-the-go based item, so whether it’s an after workout item or a breakfast replacement item, it is again an item you can just carry with you and you’re ready to go.”
Clean label remains a key trend in the category, but Ms. Wahlin emphasized that product formulators must be careful to not trade a shorter ingredients panel for functional benefits.
“With the health and wellbeing trend becoming more and more prevalent, we are seeing increased demand for cleaner labels in the development of sports nutrition products,” she said. “The primary concern among consumers, however, is the product’s effectiveness. While each brand is different and provides varying advantages, manufacturers need to ensure that the functionality and high performance benefits of a sports nutrition product remain their top priority and are not compromised.”
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Tyson Foods to “transform agro-protein capabilities in Kazakhstan”
10 Dec 2019 --- Tyson Fresh Meats, the beef and pork subsidiary of Tyson Foods, has agreed to collaborate on a project that could lead to the construction of a modern beef processing plant in Kazakhstan, with an initial anticipated harvest capacity of 2,000 head per day. The agreement with the Republic of Kazakhstan and private holding company Kusto Group is projected to help provide an annual agricultural economic benefit to the country well in excess of US$1 billion.
“We are delighted to welcome Tyson Foods to Kazakhstan,” says Prime Minister Mamin of Kazakhstan. “Tyson is a food company with the expertise necessary to help Kazakhstan jump-start the transformation of our agro-protein capabilities and help us create an ecosystem that will increase our beef herd size and establish conditions to support thousands of new high-quality jobs in the country. We look forward to a long and mutually beneficial collaboration.”
Click to EnlargeThe Kazakhstan government is looking to expand and modernize its agriculture, beginning with meat production.“This opportunity supports one of our growth strategies to expand Tyson’s global business, and we look forward to bringing our expertise and capabilities to the country of Kazakhstan,” says Steve Stouffer, President for Tyson Fresh Meats.
Kazakhstan is the ninth largest country in the world by geographic area and has identified the livestock and the multi-protein export industry as a key growth market, notes Tyson Foods. The country has an established beef industry which serves the domestic population with exports to the region. The agreement with Tyson and Kusto is part of a broader initiative by the Kazakhstan government to expand and modernize its agriculture, beginning with meat production.
Tyson Foods officials have traveled to Kazakhstan, while the nation’s Prime Minister along with other government officials have been to the US to visit Tyson headquarters, including one of the company’s major beef complexes. The Kazakhstan-founded Kusto Group, based in Singapore, has an existing subsidiary with a leading position in beef production in the country.
“Tremendous potential”
“At Kusto, we believe in the tremendous potential of Kazakhstan to transform into a global agricultural player, helping provide first class products for consumers around the world,” says Yerkin Tatishev, Chairman of the Board of Directors at Kusto. “Together with Tyson Foods, we are taking a first step in that direction today with our beef operations and look forward to getting underway.”
US-based Tyson Fresh Meats currently operates beef plants in Nebraska, Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, Texas and Washington. The company reports that its beef business generated US$15.8 billion in sales in fiscal year 2019.
In its recently issued fourth quarter and fiscal 2019 results, Tyson Foods outlines sales growth of 6 percent to US$42.4 billion, driven mostly by chicken-related acquisitions and increased pricing in the beef and prepared food segments.
In a recent earnings call, CEO Noel White commented on the food giant’s recent grappling with a Kansas slaughterhouse fire and African swine fever (ASF) in China. In spite of setbacks, the executive notes significant expansion for the company’s meat business following the inauguration of a new processing facility, with significant export opportunities on the horizon.
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Barricaded gunman surrenders after 12 hour standoff in Detroit
UPDATE (5:30 p.m.): The barricaded gunman has surrendered to Detroit police and is in custody ending a 12-hour standoff.
According to FOX 2's Taryn Asher, the resident is a 54-year-old man, who is facing multiple charges, including felonious assault for firing at police officers.
Earlier on Wednesday police and members of SWAT remain in a Northwest Detroit neighborhood several hours after the man became hostile with his family and then barricaded himself inside.
Officers were called to the home in the 15 thousand block of Sorrento Avenue just after 5:30 a.m. Wednesday. Family members were able to escape safely from the home, and told officers a 54-year-old man is still inside with weapons.
The man was refusing to surrender and the family said he has a mental condition.
"He's in some troubles with state of mind," Commander Elvin Barrensaid. "(We're) trying to get him admitted to hospital to deal with bizarre behavior at which time he got upset and caused situation to occur."
Police spent several hours trying to negotiate with the man and lure him outside using a loud speaker. Detroit Police Chief James Craig even stopped by to help in those negotiations along with help from family members.
"The negotiations range from introducing the voice of (his) daughter, granddaughter. I had chance to plea with subject to come out." Craig said.
As time continues to pass, the man has only gotten more aggressive and one point he even fired a shot one of the teams. Detroit police responded by using chemicals and even having DTE cut power to the home.
Detroit Police remain on scene with assistance from Michigan State Police and Wayne County Sheriff.
FOX 2 will continue to update this story with more information as it comes in to our newsroom.
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Steve Gibson has support of 'many clubs' with key Championship meeting taking place today
Middlesbrough's chairman wants the financial conduct of Aston Villa, Sheffield Wednesday and Derby County investigated
Middlesbrough chairman Steve Gibson will air his financial anger and concerns at a crunch meeting of all Championship clubs at Nottingham Forest's City Ground today.
As reported last week, the Boro supremo is calling on the EFL to investigate the financial conduct of Aston Villa, Derby County and Sheffield Wednesday , who Gibson believes are attempting to bypass the new profitability and sustainability rules by unfair means.
Gibson is putting pressure on the EFL, which hasn't been invited to today's meeting, to conduct an independent review and wants rules enforced and sanctions imposed on rule breakers.
Gibson will step up his battle at today's meeting and, according to a fresh report in the Telegraph, has the support of "many clubs" who share the Boro chairman's anger at the financial conduct of certain second tier clubs.
Boro boss Tony Pulis was quizzed on the issue last week and explained Gibson's stance, saying: "Steve and the football club have stuck by the rules of the EFL. If you're doing that, you expect everyone else to do it. If they don't, you expect them to be punished.
"If they're not punished, you want to know why. That's what Steve wants to find out."
Boro chairman Steve Gibson (Image: Simon Moore/Focus Images Ltd)
Villa boss Dean Smith last week insisted they had nothing to be concerned about, claiming that the club's chief executive was adamant they are "fully compliant".
Derby boss Frank Lampard was also pressed on the matter, saying: "If you ask me can I go through the accounts and understand them, I couldn't. It is kind of not my job, but of course it is massively important for the club.
"As far as I know we put in our financial year (accounts), and we were compliant as of last week."
Gibson and the supporting clubs want increased financial transparency, with the Boro chairman also calling for accounts submitted to the EFL to be detailed and open for other clubs to examine. At present, clubs are only required to submit basic accounts with some details kept confidential.
Steve Gibson (Image: Peter Reimann / Teesside Live)
The Boro boss wrote a letter to the EFL detailing his concerns.
While Gibson has been forced to cash in on star assets such as Adama Traore and Ben Gibson in the last 12 months to ensure Boro balance the books, the chairman is furious at what he believes are breaches of financial regulations elsewhere in the division.
In an EFL meeting in March, Birmingham City were docked nine points for breaking spending rules. At that meeting, Gibson was said to have made a 'robust' intervention against sides who wanted the rules retrospectively relaxed.
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Friends of Animals wins victory for northwest Colorado wild horses
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Mike Harris, director, Wildlife Law Program; 720.949.7791; michaelharris@friendsofanimals.org
Friends of Animals has won a battle with the Bureau of Land Management to protect wild horses in northwest Colorado. The BLM has agreed not to undertake any further removals of wild horses without first completing additional analysis under the National Environmental Policy Act.
“Friends of Animals has taken away what amounted to a blank check to perform roundups without any environmental review or public notice and we will push to ensure that the BLM considers the true devastating impacts of wild horse roundups before it goes back to roundup horses again,” said Jennifer Best, assistant legal director for FoA’s Wildlife Law Program. “We are committed to fighting for these horses every step of the way.”
Friends of Animals initiated its lawsuit back in 2015 after a violent, frightening, inhumane helicopter roundup of up to 167 wild horses from the West Douglas Herd Area was already underway. Friends of Animals later adopted a three-month-old filly orphaned by that roundup. We call her Moxie and she is now thriving at our primate sanctuary in Texas with two other wild horses who have formed a band with her.)
BLM’s initial decision included language indicating that BLM could come back and roundup more horses for several years as part of its extinction plan. “This is significant because under the original decision, BLM had authorized round-ups as needed over the next five years,” said Michael Harris, director of FoA’s Wildlife Law Program.
The BLM has never really publically examined the emotional, physical or social impacts to wild horses subjected to helicopter roundups on federal public lands. The intricate physiological events that occur during a wild horses fight or flight reaction to a helicopter round up suggest that these are assaults against wild horses and are not humane as the BLM maintains, and Friends of Animals believes this violates the Wild Horse and Burro Act of 1971.
Friends of Animals, an international animal protection organization founded in 1957, advocates for the rights of animals, free-living and domestic around the world. www.friendsofanimals.org.
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MG Motor’s ZS EV: India’s first electric internet SUV now comes at Rs 19.88 lakh
MG Motor aims to accelerate the adoption of eco-friendly and next-generation mobility solutions in India.
In today’s fast-paced world, having a car that can provide high-speed connectivity along with all the comfort is nothing less than icing on the cake. MG (Morris Garages) Motor India has lifted curtains off its ZS EV at Rs 19.88 lakh (ex-showroom, New Delhi), for customers who have booked the car before midnight on 17th January 2020. While the ZS EV Excite can be taken home for Rs 20.88 lakh, the ZS EV Exclusive comes with a price tag of Rs 23.58 lakh.
Looking at the specifications, the carmaker shared that it “has introduced the MG eShield, which provides privately-registered customers with a free-of-charge 5-year manufacturer warranty for unlimited kilometres on the car and 8 years/150k km warranty on the battery.” The electric Internet SUV Each ZS EV carries an on-board cable to charge the vehicle anywhere, anytime.
For a period of 5 years for privately-registered cars, MG Motors claims to be offering round-the-clock roadside assistance (RSA) along with 5 labour-free services. The ZS EV comes at a running cost of sub-Re 1 per km. In addition to this, you can even get maintenance packages for 3 years for paying Rs 7,700 extra.
“The ZS EV is a globally-successful product that operates at the intersection of an EV’s sustainability, an SUV’s practicality, and a sports car’s performance. It comes with best-in-class features and tech capabilities at a compelling price point,” said Rajeev Chaba, President and MD – MG Motor India.
“We are confident that this unprecedented value proposition will incentivise more consumers across India to go electric. We will continue to strengthen the Indian EV landscape, as we offer the best of EV technology and act as the catalyst for the country’s nascent EV market by providing a complete, end-to-end ecosystem,” added Chaba.
In order to accelerate the adoption of eco-friendly and next-generation mobility solutions, MG Motor India is constructing a 5-way EV charging ecosystem in partnership with domain-leading players for bring an EV revolution in the country.
MG Motor’s ZS EV will hit the streets across Delhi/NCR, Ahmedabad, Mumbai, Bangalore and Hyderabad, starting January 27.
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OnePlus Z tipped to have a Qualcomm Snapdragon 765 processor for 5G support
Earlier reports suggest that the device will be powered by MediaTek processor
Image Courtesy: Max J
As we already know that OnePlus Z is expected to arrive in July this year. There have been lots of rumours around the Oneplus upcoming device. Earlier the device was said to get launched alongside the company’s latest OnePlus 8 and OnePlus 8 Pro device. However, OnePlus Z could not make off. Recently the live images of the device were shared by a website and now we came across some more details about the smartphone through the same tipster who declared the timeline for the OnePlus Z launch.
Earlier reports claimed that to cut down the cost of the OnePlus next smartphone the company will go for a MediaTek processor instead of a Qualcomm for 5G connectivity. But now the tipster Max J shared another image of the OnePlus Z revealing that the device will continue with the Qualcomm processor and the handset will be powered by Qualcomm Snapdragon 765 SoC with 5G support.
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— Max J. (@MaxJmb) May 1, 2020
A previous report of 91Mobiles in association with Ishan Agarwal also revealed even before Max J could that the OnePlus 8 Lite will be coming in July this year. Moreover, they also opened up about the pricing as well as the expected specifications of the smartphone. Those who are unaware of OnePlus next service is tipped to be the Lite variant of its latest OnePlus 8 smartphone. But some other reports claim that the company will begin where it left OnePlus X in 2015. That is how it will be called the OnePlus Z.
Coming back to the specification and pricing details the OnePlus 8 Lite? OnePlus Z is said to come with a price tag of GBP 400 (approximately Rs 37,500). The Indian pricing might differ for the other countries therefore it could cost lower in the India market.
In terms of specifications OnePlus 8 Lite is suggested to come with a centrally placed hole-punch for the selfie camera and the display is said to feature a 90Hz refresh rate. The Lite variant is reportedly to have a MediaTek chipset, which may be the Dimensity 1000 SoC. Moreover, it is expected to sport a 6.4-inch AMOLED display with an in-display fingerprint sensor.
According to the reports the smartphone will run on Android 10 OS. For imaging, it is expected to feature a triple rear camera sensor with a 48MP primary sensor, a 16MP secondary lens, and a tertiary 12MP sensor. It is rumoured to get a 4,000mAh battery with 30T Warp fast-charging support. The device will be offered in two variants of 8GB + 128GB and 8GB + 256GB of RAM and storage options.
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The gentleness and self-control of God-led people is God’s personality coming thru them. Christ was never prideful. David was never prideful. King David danced in the streets when God’s Word came back to His people. He danced to God and wrote songs. He prayed to God and read the Word. He searched for God and sought His lead. He kept God’s precepts in his heart and repeated them over and over—all the words, all the thoughts, all the activities. That is what you are to be doing. You should want to be like King David. You should want to be like Christ, who by the age of 12 could teach about the Words of God and could discuss the Scriptures. He actually could take on some of the arguments and interpret the Bible. He knew God, and he knew what God meant in the Word. You should never want to imitate those doing the wrong things, people being arrogant, disobedient or boastful. Follow those who follow Christ!
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IPRU-INV 13.1 APPLICATION, GENERAL REQUIREMENTS AN...
IPRU-INV 13.1 APPLICATION, GENERAL REQUIREMENTS AND PROFESSIONAL INDEMNITY INSURANCE REQUIREMENTS
IPRU-INV 13.1.1R 01/09/2016 RP
This chapter applies to a firm which is a personal investment firm as set out in the table below1.
1Type of personal investment firm
Application of this Chapter
A personal investment firm which is an exempt CAD firm
13.1, 13.1A, 13.13 and 13.14
A personal investment firm which is a category B firm1
13.1 and 13.13 to 13.151
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IPRU-INV 13.1.2G 30/06/2016 RP
This chapter amplifies threshold condition 2D1 (Appropriate1 resources) by providing that a firm must meet, on a continuing basis, a basic solvency requirement and a minimum capital resources requirement. This chapter also amplifies Principles 3 and 4 which require a firm to take reasonable care to organise and control its affairs responsibly and effectively with adequate risk management systems and to maintain adequate financial resources by setting out capital resources for a firm according to the regulated activity or activities it carries on.
Although financial resources and appropriate systems and controls can generally mitigate operational risk, professional indemnity insurance has a role in mitigating the risks a firm faces in its day-to-day operations, including those arising from not meeting the legally required standard of care when advising on investments. The purpose of the rules in this section is also to ensure that a firm has in place the type, and level, of professional indemnity insurance necessary to mitigate these risks. This includes, in the case of a UK firm exercising an EEA right, cover for breaches of obligations imposed by or under laws, or provisions having the force of law, in each EEA State in which the firm carries on business.
General capital resources and solvency requirements
A firm must at all times:
have and maintain capital resources at least equal to its relevant capital resources requirement1; and
be able to meet its liabilities as they fall due.
Capital resources: general accounting principles
IPRU-INV 13.1.4AR 30/06/2016 RP
1Unless a rule provides otherwise, a firm must:
recognise an asset or liability; and
measure the amount of that asset or liability,
by using the accounting principles it applies in preparing the firm's reporting form in (2).
The accounting principles are referred to in:
the Notes for completion of the Retail Mediation Activities Return (RMAR) (under the heading “Accounting Principles”) in SUP 16 Annex 18BG for a category B firm; and
the Guidance notes for data items in FSA032 (under the heading “Defined terms”) in SUP 16 Annex 25AG for an exempt CAD firm.
Requirement to hold professional indemnity insurance
A firm must take out and maintain at all times professional indemnity insurance that is at least equal to the requirements in this section from:
an insurance undertaking which is authorised to transact professional indemnity insurance in the EEA; or
a person of equivalent status in:
a Zone A country;
the Channel Islands, Gibraltar, Bermuda or the Isle of Man.
[Note:
Article 4(3) of the Insurance Mediation Directive]
An exempt CAD firm is not required to effect and maintain professional indemnity insurance unless it chooses this option (see 13.1A).
Comparable guarantee
A firm is not required to effect or maintain professional indemnity insurance if a bank, building society or an insurer provides the firm with a comparable guarantee.
If the firm is a member of a group in which there is a bank, building society or an insurer, the firm's comparable guarantee must be from that bank, building society or insurer.
A comparable guarantee means an enforceable, written agreement on terms at least equal to those required by IPRU-INV 13.1.9R to 13.1.13R, as appropriate.
Relevant income
The term "relevant income" in this section refers to all income received or receivable which is commission, brokerage, fees or other related income, whether arising from the firm's permitted activities or not, for the last accounting year prior to inception or renewal of the professional indemnity insurance policy ("the policy").
The policy must incorporate terms which are appropriate and must make provision for cover in respect of any claim for loss or damage, for which the firm may be liable as a result of an act or omission by:
the firm; or
any person acting on behalf of the firm including employees, appointed representatives or its other agents.
Limits of indemnity
IPRU-INV 13.1.10R 30/12/2015 RP
If the firm is an IMD insurance intermediary, whether or not it is also an exempt CAD firm, the appropriate minimum limits of indemnity per year are no lower than:
EUR 1,120,200 for a single claim against the firm; and
EUR 1,680,300 in the aggregate.
[Note: Article 4(3) of the Insurance Mediation Directive]
If the firm is an exempt CAD firm that maintains professional indemnity insurance under 13.1A.3(1)(b), the appropriate minimum limits of indemnity per year are no lower than:
[Note: Article 67(3) of MiFID and article 31(1) of the CRD (see also IPRU-INV 13.1A.3R2)]
If the firm is both an IMD insurance intermediary and an exempt CAD firm that maintains professional indemnity insurance under 13.1A.4(1)(b), the appropriate additional limits of indemnity to 13.1.10R per year are no lower than:
EUR 500,000 for a single claim against the firm; and
EUR 750,000 in the aggregate.
If the firm is not an IMD insurance intermediary or an exempt CAD firm, then the following limits of indemnity apply:
if the firm has relevant income of up to £3,000,000, no lower than £500,000 for a single claim against the firm and £500,000 in the aggregate; or
if the firm has relevant income of more than £3,000,000, no lower than £650,000 for a single claim against the firm and £1,000,000 in the aggregate.
IPRU-INV 13.1.14G 30/12/2015 RP
Article 4(7) of the Insurance Mediation Directive requires the limits of indemnity to be reviewed every five years to take into account movements in European consumer prices. These limits will therefore be subject to further adjustments on the basis of index movements advised by the European Commission.
If a policy is denominated in any currency other than euros, a firm must take reasonable steps to ensure that the limits of indemnity are, when the policy is effected (i.e. agreed) and at renewal, at least equivalent to those denominated in euros.
A firm should consider whether the overall cover is adequate taking account of 13.1.22G(2) and whether the firm should seek additional cover or legal expenses insurance. (Legal defence costs are costs of defence against claims that fall under the terms of the policy.)
The cover provided by the policy should be wide enough to include the liability of the firm, its appointed representatives, its tied agents, employees and its agents for breaches under the regulatory systems or civil law. If the firm operates outside the United Kingdom then the policy should cover other regulatory requirements imposed under the laws of other countries in which the firm operates.
Policies providing for more than one firm
If the policy provides cover to more than one firm then:
The relevant income for calculating the limits of indemnity is that of all the firms named in the policy combined;
each firm named in the policy must have the benefit of the minimum limits of indemnity as required in this section; and
each firm named in the policy must notify the FCA1 if the aggregate cover in the policy falls below the minimum limits of indemnity.
Limits of indemnity – additional requirements
In addition to the specific requirements in
13.1.9R to 13.1.13R
, the policy must make provision for the following:
for a firm with relevant income of more than £6,000,000, the aggregate limit identified in the table below:
Relevant income is (£)
Minimum aggregate limit of indemnity
full retroactive cover in respect of the kinds of liabilities described in 13.1.9R for claims arising from work carried out by the firm, or on its behalf, in the past; and
cover in respect of Ombudsman awards made against the firm.
The policy must not be subject to conditions or exclusions which unreasonably limit its cover (whether by exclusion of cover, by policy excesses or otherwise).
The policy must not:
exclude any type of business or activity that has been carried out by the firm in the past or will be carried out by the firm during the time for which the policy is in force; or
exclude liabilities which are identified or crystallised as a result of regulatory action against the firm (either individually or as a member of a class of authorised persons);
unless the firm holds additional capital resources, in accordance with 13.1.23R.
The FCA1 considers it reasonable for a firm's policy to exclude cover for:
specific business lines if that type of business has not been carried out by the firm in the past and will not be carried out by the firm during the life of the policy; or
specific claims that have been previously notified to the firm's insurer and claimed for under another policy.
The FCA1 does not consider it reasonable for a firm's policy to treat legal defence costs cover as part of the limits of indemnity if this reduces the cover available for any individual substantive claim.
Additional capital resources - exclusions
The amount of additional capital resources that a firm must hold as a result of an exclusion under IPRU-INV 13.1.21R1 must1 be calculated by referring to the firm's relevant income in the following table:
Relevant income £000s
Minimum additional capital resources
£000s
(Notes 1 and 2)
Note 1 - For firms with relevant income of more than £10m but up to £100m value y is calculated by relevant income/ £10m.
Note 2 - The calculation of a firm's capital resources is set out in sections 13.1A to 13.151 (see IPRU-INV 13.1.1R1 for application of these sections to an exempt CAD firm or1 a category B firm1).
The firm should hold additional capital resources in excess of those minimum amounts set out in the table in 13.1.23R where the required amounts of additional capital resources provide insufficient cover, taking into account the firm's individual circumstances.
Excess level
The policy must not make provision for payment by the firm of an excess on any claim of more than £5,000, unless the firm holds additional capital resources, in accordance with 13.1.27R.
IPRU-INV 13.1.26R 30/12/2015
The reference to "excess" is to the highest excess level required to be paid under the policy unless that excess relates to a type of business that has not been carried out by the firm in the past. In those circumstances, the reference is to the next highest excess level required by the policy applicable to a type of business that has been carried out by the firm in the past.
Additional capital resources - excess
The amount of additional capital resources that a firm must hold where the policy's excess on any claim is more than £5,000 must be calculated by referring to the firm's relevant income and excess obtained in the following table:
All amounts are shown in £000s (Notes 1 and 2)
Relevant income is
Excess obtained, up to and including
Note 1 - For firms with relevant income more of £10m but up to £100m value y is calculated by relevant income/ £10m.
Note 2 - The calculation of a firm's capital resources is set out in sections 13.1A to 13.151 (see IPRU-INV 13.1.1R1 for application of these sections to an exempt CAD firm or1 a category B firm).
Notification requirements
A firm must notify the FCA1 immediately if it becomes aware, or has information which reasonably suggests, that any of the following matters in relation to its professional indemnity insurance has occurred, may have occurred or may occur in the foreseeable future:
professional indemnity insurance cannot be obtained within 28 days of the inception or renewal date;
professional indemnity insurance is cancelled;
the amount of aggregate cover is exhausted;
the firm commences business lines for which it had not obtained cover;
the firm is relying on a policy cover for more than one firm; or
the firm is relying on a comparable guarantee provided in accordance with the rules in this chapter.
1For the purposes of the provisions relating to professional indemnity insurance, “additional capital resources” means readily realisable own funds or capital resources under IPRU-INV 13.15.3R, depending on the type of firm1.
1The FCA1 expects items included in own funds or capital resources under IPRU-INV 13.15.3R, depending on the type of firm,1 to be regarded as “readily realisable” only if they can be realised, at any given time, within 90 days.
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The Handbook of Heroes
Fair Share
In an ideal world, everyone in your party is a loot communist. The caster gets the scrolls, the warrior gets the beat stick, and the skill monkey gets the trombone of invisibility (or whatever random absurdity the skill monkey wants to claim this week). In other words, the right loot goes to the right person, never mind the value. You’re a team after all, and those sweet, sweet magic items are there to help you all succeed, whether or not one of you happens to have 10% more wealth-by-level. Besides, you can always make up the difference in raw currency. That’s what gold is for; it evens out the disparity if one of you happens to stumble over a belt of significantly better stats. Besides again, you’ve got a GM at the head of the table who will (in that aforementioned ideal world) provide magic items tailored for the rest of the party. My theory goes that, if you’re patient, everything will even out in the end.
The alternative is to be “perfectly fair” by selling off everything and dividing up the profits. Sounds great on paper, but it’s super inefficient in practice. In D&D 3.X you only get half value for your loot, meaning you get more bang for your buck by sticking with whatever happens to fall in your path.
Then of course there’s players like Fighter. They’re the reason that you’ve got to invent a party charter and give out shares like you’re the goddamn Pirates of the Caribbean. And I don’t think I have to tell you why that’s a pain in the ass.
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I had an artificer once. Charged the party what it cost me to make the items plus 10% to help defray xp costs, and mostly used the extra cash to craft utility or party buff items while largely saving my own share for personal toys. Given enough time and the right feat or three to reduce crafting expenses, you can sell all your loot and wind up with a little more than you started with, and what you do have is tailor made to suit your party members needs.
If anybody really wanted something out of party loot, it counted towards their share at what it would have cost me to craft it (without the +10%) unless I couldn’t make it yet, in which case it counted for what we would have sold it for.
I had a lot of spreadsheets. But it was fun milking the crafting system for all it was worth, and it was nice to have a character that could make the whole dang party OP without overshadowing anybody.
Colin Stricklin
I came into the hobby in the last days of 3.5, so I never had to deal with the hit to XP. Did the bump in gold make up for the hit in level?
Shozurei
03/23/2019, 4:22 am | # | Reply
At the session before last, when our characters got back to town, the GM had an NPC running a traveling animal shop. My character Irlana the Hunter bought 3 baby piggies and stuck around to see what else was there. The NPC brought out a baby Thunderbird and started up an auction for it. Our Fighter (who’s a lot nicer than your Fighter) really wanted it and started bidding, but eventually got outbid by a noble NPC. So Irlana started bidding and won the baby Thunderbird for 200k gold. The GM asked if I could afford it and was stunned when I showed him how much I had. It’s nearly 3 mil in gold. He couldn’t believe it and the other players had to remind him of when he used to just chuck a bunch of gold at us and that I spent a lot less than everyone else so it built up.
That’s like… 10.18 palaces worth of baby bird. Your economy is bananas!
03/24/2019, 12:40 am | # | Reply
Yup. There have been jokes about Irlana’s massive wealth.
ThePassionateGamer
Late reply, I know but I had to smile because I have a very strong imagination and in my mind instantly a picture poped up. Something like picturing your character at the auction going something like this “Just let me get my portable hole wallet out to get you the 200.000 GP.” 😉
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08/25/2019, 12:03 pm | # | Reply
The main party I got into playing DnD with had one player who was totally a That Guy type. He was the sort of person who played like Fighter, save his character was a Cleric. One who actually cast spells so infrequently that another player who hadn’t looked too closely at the rules legitimately didn’t realize clerics were primary spellcasters until much later, when she was thinking of building a divine champion PC herself.
Anyways, HE was the sole reason the party had to wealth charter things, and while most of the party was pretty good at ‘items-go-to-who-benefits-from-them-the-most’ he would always insist on claiming whatever items were best with him instead, meaning he and whoever else wanted it would have a roll off for it.
Anyways, skip ahead to campaign conclusion and their divying up final loot hauls, and one thing the party found was an (Epic, because the whole party was level 30-something at this point) Elven Greatbow. No one in the party was an elf, and if you weren’t an elf the bow was just an okay-underwhelming-for-it’s-level magic bow. No one really needed it, but one character said she had an idea what do with it and asked if she could pay it’s worth from her share of the loot to have it. The entire rest of the party said ‘sure’, they had no issue with that. Except That Guy. He insisted he should have it, even though he couldn’t use it, and it was abundantly clear he was just planning to sell it.
So the two players rolled off for it and she won the bow instead of that guy.
The GM in question was a bit of an old-school gamer, he was literally older than all the players (by enough decades he was the same age as some of the player’s parents) and he’d been playing DnD since first Ed. As a DM he wasn’t a bad guy, but he was a bit of a munchkin, with a hobby of intentionally building ridiculous and powerful enemies that half the time the party needed to rely on his similarly ridiculously built GMPCs to take out. One of the parties allied NPCs was a nuetral-selfish magic item Craftsman who was also epic levels, and had followed an obscure (and long) feat tree so he could make Epic magic items without having to pay Epic prices, instead using the non-epic price chart for calculating costs.
He was also an Elf. And had taken full levels in the prestige class Order of the Bow Initiate, so for this NPC archery was practically a religion.
The character who won the roll off took the (Epic) Elven Greatbow and traded it (along with whatever esoteric materials he might need) to the NPC for everything he was willing to make her in exchange for it.
She ended up getting her full equipment set and a backup set of her equipment made from White Dragonhide. The rest of the party thought she was clever as hell for thinking of that, and That Guy was especially pissed because he clearly hadn’t thought of that and had just been planning to sell the Bow for itsbgold value on the open market.
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The 2018 Winter Olympics Figure Skating Schedule Is Here
Start keeping an eye out for those sparkly costumes.
By Caroline Picard
We're calling it: Figure skating is about to reach a fever pitch in the United States in approximately T-minus 23 days. The 2018 Winter Olympics in PyeongChang could introduce the world to the next Kristi Yamaguchi, Michelle Kwan, or Nancy Kerrigan, and you won't want to miss it.
NBC has already revealed the competition schedule for the entire games, and a lot's about to go down almost every day for nearly two weeks. First up, let's get a refresher if you haven't heard the word "triple axel" since Sochi.
Figure skating is divided into four disciplines: ladies' singles, men's singles, pairs, and ice dance. Each of the singles competitions includes a short program and a free skate with all of those breathtaking jumps and spins. The pairs competition also combines two parts, but men and women work together to achieve gravity-defying stunts like overhead lifts, throw jumps, and death spirals.
Ice dancing measures another set of skills, asking partners to perform intricate steps on ice in time to music. This occurs in two rounds: short dance and free dance.
The team event — introduced in 2014 — combines the four disciplines into one, kind of like gymnastics. Six athletes from each of the 10 qualifying countries will skate their hardest in their respective event. Based on each individual's rankings, teams will earn an assigned number of points toward a collective core.
How to Watch or Stream the Olympics
Skating fans can watch all of the competition live each night during on NBC or on NBCOlympics.com and the free NBC Sports app. While competitors will rise and shine quite early to compete at 10 a.m. Korean Standard Time, viewers halfway around the world can catch everything in primetime. All scheduled times listed below are Eastern Time.
8 p.m.: Team Event: Men's Short Programs
9:45 p.m. Team Event: Pairs' Short Programs
Nathan Chen will skate on behalf of the national team in team event, along with married couple Alexa Scimeca-Knierim and Chris Knierim. They're the only pair skaters from the U.S. at the Olympics this year.
8 p.m.: Team Event: Short Dance
9:45 p.m.: Team Event: Ladies' Short Program
11:40 p.m.: Team Event: Pairs' Free Skate
"You want to do the best that you can because this is another shot at a medal," figure skater Gracie Gold told reporters during the team event's debut in Sochi.
Bradie Tennell competes in the Ladies Free Skate during the 2018 Prudential U.S. Figure Skating Championships on January 5, 2018 in San Jose, California.
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Monday, February 12 — Medals Awarded
8 p.m.: Team Event: Men's Free Skate
9:45 p.m.: Team Event: Ladies' Free Skate
11:40 p.m.: Team Event: Free Dance
Following three days of competition, three lucky teams will receive gold, silver, and bronze.
8 p.m.: Pairs' Short Program
The United States' pairs team is no stranger to setbacks: After Knierim broke his leg in 2014, Scimeca-Knierim suffered a life-threatening illness this summer that required three surgeries. Despite that, they're one of three couples in the world currently performing a quad lift twist.
Thursday, February 15 — Medals Awarded
8 p.m.: Pairs' Free Skate
It's the first time since 1924 that the U.S. won't have multiple pairs competing at the Olympics, minimizing the country's chances at making the podium.
8 p.m.: Men's Short Program
Adam Rippon made U.S. Winter Olympic history by becoming the first openly gay man to qualify for the games. He's also one of the oldest men competing, and his signature move is called the "Rippon Lutz."
Nathan Chen skates in the 2018 Prudential U.S. Figure Skating Championships on January 7, 2018 in San Jose, California.
Saturday, February 17 — Medals Awarded
8 p.m.: Men's Free Skate
The first skater in history to land five different quadruple jumps in a single program, American Nathan Chen is the odds-on favorite to win gold this year.
8 p.m.: Ice Dance Short Dance
After an Olympic debut in 1976, ice dancing's ballroom-inspired routines have caught on fast. Dancers don't perform throws and jumps because they usually maintain contact the entire time.
Tuesday, February 20 - Medals Awarded
8 p.m.: Ice Dance Free Dance
Siblings Maia and Alex Shibutani (a.k.a. the "Shib Sibs") are favored to secure the bronze for Team USA, adding to their collection of three world championship medals.
8 p.m.: Ladies' Short Program
Don't miss the "quiet assassin." At just 18, American Karen Chen (no relation to Nathan Chen) says shes "not scared to attack" whatever she does, including this year's games.
8 p.m.: Ladies' Free Skate
Out of the three American women competing, 19-year-old breakthrough Bradie Tennell has the jumping power to earn the most points. That said, Russian, Japanese, and Italian skaters are posed to finish higher, with Canadian Kaetlyn Osmond the current favorite to get the top spot.
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Why do powerful men not understand the meaning of consent?
By Lou Stoppard 11 April 2018
In light of the Facebook data scandal, our columnist Lou Stoppard questions why the world's most powerful men have such difficulty understanding consent
I’m sticking with the tech theme for my column this week. Why? Because everyone is still really, really mad at Mark Zuckerberg. Some men just can’t stop messing up, can they? When will they learn that you can’t just take things without asking permission? In this case millions of people’s data. Yesterday, 10 April, Zuckerberg was hauled in front of Congress where he admitted various grave faux pas, from failing to act on Russian interference in the US election - “one of my greatest regrets in running the company is that we were slow in identifying the Russian information operations in 2016” – to taking information from unwitting users. We’re back to that key issue that has caused the downfall of many other powerful men – consent.
I’m amused and intrigued by the outrage around this illegal data harvesting. It’s bittersweet timing that coverage of the scandal has run in tandem to the news that two Ulster rugby players have been cleared of rape. The defense argued that the accuser had willingly engaged in group sex. That she’d just repeated information she’d read about rape, when telling her friends what had happened the next day, rather than drawing on her own experiences. That she’d lied. They accused her of sending texts that were too jokey to suggest she was really hurt. Women in Ireland and beyond have taken to the streets and social media to declare ‘I Believe Her.’
"Are you sure you didn’t actually want all your information taken?"
Still, coverage of the trial – which echoes numerous past sexual assault trials and highlights exactly why women don’t go to the police, as it’s them, not their attackers who are put on trial - and subsequent protests has been far outstripped by endless reportage around the data harvesting. There have been outraged think pieces, investigations into the effect of social media on our wellbeing and endless petitions demanding that Facebook get better and, simultaneously, that we all quit Facebook. I’ve realised that men can understand consent when it comes to their data. They’re really pissed off when someone takes their email address or text message content without asking. They should channel that understanding into their behavior towards women.
Could Zuckerberg mount a defense that we users had all been willing – that we’d implied we’d wanted him to take our data. Of course not. If your information was stolen, no one would blame you for signing up to the platform in the first place. They wouldn’t say you were asking for it, simply because you were present. They wouldn’t look through your profile and blame you for being an over-sharer. You were willing to share that photograph of you in your trunks on holiday in Mykonos, so are you sure you also weren’t willing to have the content of your private messages taken? Seems like you were pretty…um…open. You once posted a picture of the inside of your flat, after getting that new rug, you’re basically inviting people in! You were asking for it, weren’t you? You did, after all, sign up to 'This Is Your Digital Life', the app which allowed the harvesting. Are you sure you didn’t actually want all your information taken?
"It’s social media that has encouraged us to see ourselves and others as commodities".
Ah…consent. That should be the word of the year. With all this in mind. I think it’s high time we all had a social media detox. In fact, perhaps a wider internet detox, she types ironically, given that this is a digital column. Like Jeremy Deller, I Blame the Internet. Not for everything, but for a lot. It’s easily accessible internet porn that has, in part, encouraged men to see women as objects and to speak about them in the way those Ulster players did – “love Belfast sluts,” they joked the next day - and it’s social media that has encouraged us to see ourselves and others as commodities. In the end, no means no - and I think it’s high time we all said no.
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All the trends to watch out for CES 2019
By GQ Staff 7 January 2019
The Consumer Electronics Show i.e. CES 2019 is set to take place starting January 8 till January 11 in Las Vegas. Every year, the CES brings with itself an array of the hottest new pieces of gadgets, be it from a tech giant or a start-up. Major keynotes are expected to come from Samsung, LG and Sony, among others. However, this time, like every other year, Apple opted out of CES, but did mock user privacy on Android phones with a giant ad on a building in Las Vegas that reads, "What happens on your iPhone, stays on your iPhone." Sadly, every other device at CES over powered Apple's attempt to be relevant, like it has in the sales sector as well. Here are the biggest launches from CES 2019:
CES 2019 saw a lot of developments in the processors department. On Sunday, AMD i.e. Advanceed Micro Devices unveiled the Ryzen 3000 mobile chips, which target mobiles as well as Chromebooks. The Ryzen 3000 has six variants. The high-end Ryzen 3750H chip is based on 12nm process and has 2.3/4.0GHz bass/boost frequency, 10 GPU cores and about 1400Mhz GPU frequency. Whereas the lowest-end of the variants i.e. the Ryzen 3300U chip is based on 12nm process and has 2.6/3.6GHz bass/boost frequency, 3 GPU cores and upto 1200MHz GPU frequency. With its new chips, AMD has promised a battery life of 10 to 12 hours for notebooks, and the chips also support 4K HDR resolution. Previously, Chromebooks only came with Intel or ARM-based processor, but with their new chips, plenty of Chromebooks equipped with AMD chips have been announced. The HP Chromebook 14 and the Acer Chromebook 315 are among these.
Meanwhile, Intel is expected to dive into the 5G world, and according to some reports even launch a new graphics card.
As for Qualcomm, the company is reported to give out more information regarding the 5G rollout. Their announcement is also expected to touch on the devices that will be powered by the Snapdragon 855 processor.
CES 2019 seems to have a theme for mobiles, which is foldable phones. After Samsung showcased the prototype for its first foldable phone a few months ago, it is expected to showcase and launch the final version of the foldable phone. In addition, brands like Royole, LG and Xiaomi could also unveil their own versions of the foldable phone. Sony is also expected to give a glimpse of a 5G Xperia phone, or its budget Xperia L3 phones.
Keeping aside the launch of AMD's new chips for laptops, CES 2019 looks like it will bring in an exciting time in terms of PCs. Asus is reported to be launching a high-end 10-inch Chrome OS tablet. Whereas LG is reported to showcase two new Gram laptops, out of which one has a 17-inch screen, and the other one is a 2-in-1. The 5G effect is also being expected to trickle down to laptops and notebooks. Makers will mainly focus on the privacy of users, big displays and a better battery life.
Televisions will be taking the cake at 2019's CES. The biggest and most talked about TVs come from Samsung, with it revealing a 75-inch TV made entirely of modular micro LED panels, that act like individual tiles of self-emissive Micro LEDs. It doesn't require a backlight, so it is incredibly thin. The Micro LED modules are made of two pieces. The first is a back plate, which comprises a hook that enable it to attach to other modules like a lego. The second part is the display, that is connected to the back plate magnetically. The pricing for this TV is still unknown and it will only go out for retail after a couple of years. Samsung also announced that its TVs will now take commands from Google Assistant and Amazon Alexa if you have a supporting smart speaker. Even if you don't, the TV will come equipped with Bixby. The TVs will also support iTunes movies and television shows through a smart TV app.
Companies are also rumoured to showcase TVs that are 8K content ready. LG has already confirmed this. The company may even showcase the rollable TV, which was put on display at last year's CES. The company will also be launching a slew of new OLED models, out of which one is 88-inches.
At CES 2019, Canon is rumoured to unveil its latest PowerShot G7 X Mark III, which will possess a new image sensor as well as a larger zoom range. It may also launch the G9X Mark III.
Another field that will get some major developments at the CES 2019 is gaming. Let's start with the HP Omen X Emperium. Nvidia labelled this as the "Best F**king Gaming Display" when it kicked off the project last year. And now, standing at 65-inch, this monitor has achieved what it set out to. Tut has a sound bar built-in, a 144Hz refresh rate with the frame rate matching your PC's Nvidia graphics card. LG is also set to reveal two new ultra monitors, out of which one is 49-inch UltraWide monitor and the other is a new 144Hz UltraGear gaming monitor. Talking of Nvidia, the company will unveil its GeForce RTX Mobility graphics card. Samsung is also set to showcase three new monitors. One is a 32-inch curved 4K UHD monitor, the second is an ultra-wide gaming monitor with Dual QHD resolution and the third is called a Space Monitor. The USP of the latter monitor is that it takes up almost no space on your desk. It comes with a clamps that attach to the edges and the height is adjustable. It comes in two variants; one is 27-inches and offers a QHD resolution whereas the second one is 32-inches and offers a 4K UHD resolution.
If you were wondering if cars from futuristic films and television would ever become a reality, CES 2019 is here to make your dreams come true. Automation giants are now coming out with their versions of the electronic car. Audi will bring forth its E-Tron electric SUV, and Mercedes-Benz is also expected to launch the EQC electric SUV. Byton will present the M-Byte electric SUV and Nissan will unveil the Leaf E-Plus, whereas Harley Davidson is also expected to release its electric motorcycle. Another electric concept by Mercedes-Benz, the Vision EQ Silver Arrow, will also make its debut at the CES 2019. Futuristic concepts like Bosch's autonomous shuttle service, or Mercedes-Benz's autonomous Vision Urbanetic, or Honda's autonomous multipurpose vehicle, or Hyundai's Elevate, which is a vehicle that has wheels attached to its leg to conquer any environment will also make appearance. In fact, it is rumoured that prototypes of a number of flying cars will also be on display at the CES 2019.
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Why should you be selected?
I work hard to provide comprehensive, holistic, well-researched information on a wide variety of topics within sustainability and social justice. As well as promoting sustainable fashion I also try to answer difficult questions (e.g. what to do about palm oil or how ethical is Amazon – that piece took me a full week to write!), unpack complex issues (such as cultural appropriation or hidden slavery in supply chains), and always provide action points for moving forwards. I believe I’ve gained a strong reputation in the sustainable world for providing thorough work through an intersectional lens, that really helps people learn and understand the issues we’re facing. I try at every opportunity to use my voice for empowerment, compassion and to inspire action, but I also try and do it in a way that feels accessible and open to all, acknowledging and talking about how we need large and small scale change for a better world. I believe I’m a good writer, but I also believe I’m a trusted one.
What are your greatest professional accomplishments?
Recent sustainability accomplishments: speaking at Cambridge University and NEONYT Berlin, finishing the Amazon article and having that be shared so widely, working with United Bank of Switzerland’s sustainability team. As an artist: Working with the American Embassy in Finland, giving a lecture on collaboration at the American Resource Centre, being nominated for ‘most mesmerising performance’ at Gothenburg Fringe Festival, headlining ‘Poetry Moon’ festival in Helsinki, headlining shows in London, Melbourne, Paris and Newcastle, working with students in Colorado and performing with Battle Born Las Vegas, running my own arts festival in East London.
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Completing my masters degree and paying my loan back in the same year! Moving to Cornwall only knowing one person and managing to create a whole life for myself and find community, being maid of honour at my friend’s wedding in Tokyo, being able to travel as much as I have, and sticking through some tough mental health situations.
What work have you done to promote women’s empowerment?
Obviously sustainable fashion inherently promotes female empowerment as its a female dominated industry, but I’ve also focused a lot of time on mental health and intersectionality, which I think are vital to truly empowering everyone who identifies as a woman.
What is it about Purse for the People that you find inspiring?
I’m very passionate about craftsmanship, tradition and conservation, which I think Purse for the People truly embody. I love that you promote sustainable and slow methods within the rainforest, which is vital for biodiversity and our climate, while also supporting artisans who are harvesting these products and keeping their crafts alive. I also love anyone using natural materials over synthetic alternatives.
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Lifting up the voices of anyone who identifies as a woman, especially those with minority/marginalised identities who often are overlooked. Respecting and revering indigenous cultures, uprooting oppression in all its forms, creating an atmosphere of freedom, safety and joyful expression.
What work have you done to promote sustainable living or environmental justice?
It’s basically everything I dedicate my time to! Whether it be writing blog posts, public speaking, or even performance and art installation. Everything I do is focused on educating, inviting discussion, changing perspectives and bringing more people into the sustainable world in a way that feels tangible, actionable and not overwhelming.
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Sarasota lawyer elected to state ethics commission
The Florida Ethics Commission has elected Sarasota lawyer Morgan Bentley as its chairman for the next two years.
Bentley was unanimously selected at the commission’s meeting July 26. He was appointed by then-House Speaker Larry Cretul in 2010 and reappointed by Speaker Dean Cannon in 2012.
A partner with the Sarasota firm of Bentley & Bruning, P.A., Bentley, a Democrat, unsuccessfully challenged Nancy Detert for the District 23 Florida Senate seat in 2008. He has handled several high profile legal cases in Sarasota, including representing several investors swindled by Ponzi schemer Art Nadel.
Edwin Scales III was unanimously elected as vice chairman of the ethics panel. Scales founded his law firm Edwin A. Scales III, P.A. in Key West in 2000.
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Home » HITECH Act News » Data Security and Breach Notification Act Introduced in Senate
Posted By HIPAA Journal on Dec 4, 2017
The Senate is to vote on a national data breach notification bill – the Data Security and Breach Notification Act – that aims to standardize breach notification requirements across all states. Currently there is a patchwork of data breach notification laws across the United States, each with different reporting requirements. If passed, the Data Security and Breach Notification Act would replace state laws.
While there is a clear need for national standards to ensure all consumers are equally protected regardless of where they live, all previous attempts to introduce nationwide standards for data breach notifications have failed.
The Data Security and Breach Notification Act was introduced by Sen. Bill Nelson (D-FL), with the bill co-sponsored by Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) and Sen. Tammy Baldwin (D-WI).
Sen. Nelson first introduced the bill in 2015, and introduced a revised version a year later, both of which failed. Announcing the bill, Nelson highlighted the recent Uber data breach, which saw the names, phone numbers, and email addresses of more than 57 million customers and the names and driver’s license details of 600,000 U.S drivers exposed. Uber became aware of the breach in 2016, negotiated with the hackers and paid them $100,000 to destroy the stolen data, and attempted to coverup the breach. Details of the breach were only recently made public.
Following the announcement of the Uber breach, the massive Equifax breach, and other major breaches that have resulted in considerable harm to U.S. consumers, it is hoped that this time around the bill will progress.
Sen. Baldwin said, “The recent data breaches, from Uber to Equifax, will have profound, long-lasting impacts on the integrity of many Americans’ identities and finances, and it is simply unacceptable that millions of them may still not know that they are at risk, nor understand what they can and should do to help limit the potential damage.”
If passed, the Data Security and Breach Notification Act would require notifications of data breaches to be issued to state authorities and breach victims within 30 days of the discovery of a breach.
The breach reporting requirements of the Data Security and Breach Notification Act are tougher than those in most states, as are the penalties for concealing a data breach. Executives of companies that knowingly conceal and fail to report a data breach would face up to five years in jail.
Financial institutions covered by, and in compliance with, the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act will be deemed to be in compliance with the Data Security and Breach Notification Act, as will organizations that comply with Section 13401 of the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) Act, or 1173(d) 19 of title XI, part C of the Social Security Act, with respect to data covered by section 13401 of the HITECH Act or the HIPAA Security Rule.
The bill also calls for the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to develop a new set of security standards that business can follow to help prevent data breaches.
“We need a strong federal law in place to hold companies truly accountable for failing to safeguard data or inform consumers when that information has been stolen by hackers,” said, Sen. Nelson. “Congress can either take action now to pass this long overdue bill or continue to kowtow to special interests who stand in the way of this commonsense proposal. When it comes to doing what’s best for consumers, the choice is clear.”
Author: Steve Alder has many years of experience as a journalist, and comes from a background in market research. He is a specialist on legal and regulatory affairs, and has several years of experience writing about HIPAA. Steve holds a B.Sc. from the University of Liverpool.
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The FDA has approved the emergency use of an experimental antibody drug President Donald Trump was given when he had COVID-19 last month. The one-time, IV-delivered drug is a combination of two concentrated antibodies that can help prevent the infection from worsening in patients with mild-to-moderate symptoms. Drugmaker Regeneron says it might also reduce virus-related hospitalizations in high-risk patients. But the product is in short supply because it's made by living organisms at a biological pace that can't be sped up. Regeneron says it will have enough for 300,000 patients to get it through a federal government allocation program by January. Source
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Great British Life > Food And Drink
A traditional chocolatier in Scarborough
Published: 12:15 AM March 17, 2010 Updated: 5:25 PM December 17, 2020
There's no better time than Easter to try the eggs crafted at one of the country's oldest chocolate factories, as Annie Stirk discovers on her tour of the county in search of Delicious Yorkshire.
Bonnet’s of Scarborough has been a familiar landmark in the town since it was established in 1880 by Louis Bonnet. The original shop was on St Nicholas Street, but it has been a firm fixture on Huntriss Row since 1960, with its distinctive shop frontage and candy coloured window display. The display changes with the seasons, and at Easter it’s a feast of chocolate eggs of all shape and sizes, wrapped in cellophane and decked out in pretty ribbons.
There is also a cosy tea room and restaurant, and behind all this a warren of corridors leading to Scarborough’s best kept secret – Bonnet’s little chocolate factory. You know you are getting close when the sweet heady smell of chocolate hits you. Bonnet’s has been in the Fairbank family since 1959, and it is John Fairbank who now owns this little slice of chocolate heaven.
Originally from Huddersfield, the Fairbanks used to love their regular trips to Scarborough on the breezy Yorkshire Coast and when Bonnet’s came up for sale, John’s father Lewis Fairbank, jumped at the chance to buy this iconic piece of Scarborough history.
As a young boy, John often helped out in the chocolate factory and fondly remembers how he learned the specialist art of hand dipping chocolates at the tender age of 12. ‘It was quite a responsibility being trusted with dipping and coating almonds and other fondant centres in delicious warm melted chocolate,’ said John. ‘It really is a very precise craft, but fortunately I had the best teacher in town – Dolly – she trained at Rowntree’s. Dolly was fantastic and the best hand dipper I have ever come across.
‘That’s the secret really; a good chocolatier needs a cool hand to be able to check the temperature of the chocolate. The skill of hand dipping is not to get too much chocolate on the fondant centre – or you are in trouble.’
Since the days of Dolly the Dipper many of the specialist chocolate processes are now mechanised, but you still need a good eye to make sure the texture of the chocolate is just right. Like most craft skills you need a good eye and a feel for the product, something that comes with years of experience but which also requires a bit of artistic flair.
Luckily John’s background has helped, his mother and father both attended the Royal College of Art and John himself was a student at the Royal Academy. He even managed to combine lecturing at Scarborough Art College with running the business.
Alongside the Easter eggs Bonnet’s also produce a whole range of traditional English cream chocolates, with evocative and old fashioned flavours such as Lily of the Valley, Violet, Rose and Lavender. Shepcotes, the long established family owned business in Driffield, supply all the top quality handcrafted edible decorations, such as sugar flowers and stars. Shepcote’s decorative roses in particular, are one of their signature products and in fact were used to decorate Princess Anne’s wedding cake in 1973.
After many years in the business John is still fascinated by the chocolatier craft skills. ‘I find it exciting looking back at the history of chocolate and seeing how all the old flavours are becoming fashionable once again,’ he said.
‘But we do try to move with the times and create innovative and contemporary flavour matches. We have produced a delicious chocolate with an infusion of rosemary, chilli and cardamom – it is pretty special.’Bonnet’s is not all about chocolate though, the cafe and restaurant is much loved by residents, visitors and tourists alike, and long serving loyal staff are the cornerstone of the business. John remembers them all well.
‘There was another Dolly, then there was Vida, Gertrude and of course the lovely Effie – she was a very delicate creature, who just seemed to float around the caf�,’ John said.
Perhaps drawn in by the aroma of chocolate or being able to sit discretely enjoying a cuppa, many big stars of stage and screen have been through the door at Bonnet’s.
When the Oscar nominated film Little Voice was being filmed in Scarborough, Bonnet’s became a bolt-hole for its stars – Michael Caine, Jane Horrocks and Ewan McGregor, all loved the quiet charm of this Scarborough treasure. John insists that he wasn’t a bit star struck.
‘I didn’t make a fuss of them. I made sure I gave Michael Caine a table round the corner so he wouldn’t be disturbed. He was a really nice bloke who liked to chat and he always had a good bit of banter with the girls while he tucked into his plate of delicious Scarborough fish and chips,’ said John.
It is easy to see why everyone loves Bonnet’s – it is unpretentious, comfortable and easy with itself. Some of the cast of The Royal, Heartbeat, Coronation Street and Emmerdale, also regularly pop in for a cuppa and a snack.
Scarborough is full of tradition and Bonnet’s is very much a part of the town’s proud history, and as we head towards the first Bank Holiday break of the year, there couldn’t be a better place to enjoy the bracing sea air, coastal scenery – and perhaps a bit of celebrity spotting – than Bonnet’s.
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