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Tips for Valuing Your Business Assets
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If you’re contemplating selling your business, consider intangibles such as your client list, your firm’s reputation and overall goodwill.
For many business owners, the value that they’ve built into their company is more than a source of personal pride—it’s a promised gateway to a retirement they envision and the legacy they hope to leave to their family and community.
Passing through that gateway—via a sale of your company—can be a complex process. If the value of your business were limited to hard assets such as buildings, equipment and real estate, then determining what your company is worth would be a matter of straightforward accounting, says David C. Johnson, Wealth Strategist for Regions Private Wealth Management. “Things like equipment and machinery are generally identifiable in terms of their acquisition costs and depreciation on the company’s books.”
But it’s likely that your company’s true value resides in other, less visible forms. Intangible assets can be much harder to measure, but they could hold just as much or more value than the parts of your business that you can actually touch and feel.
The reality of intellectual property
When taking stock of your intellectual property, start by thinking of the things that you know that nobody else does. “Intellectual property includes everything from trade secrets to royalties you may be getting from patents or licensing agreements,” Johnson says.
Johnson warns, however, that intellectual property doesn’t hold its value forever. “It’s like an oil or gas well you’re drawing royalties from that’s ultimately going to be depleted. There’s a declining value to these things,” he says. “For example, a patent has a specific life span, and its value will depend on how much time is left.”
You can help boost the value of intellectual property by keeping careful records, Johnson says. Keep clear, well-organized information for prospective buyers about your patents, licensing agreements and other intellectual property. He also recommends protecting your trade secrets by requiring anyone who uses them to sign a nondisclosure agreement.
Goodwill, great value
The aspects of a business that fall under the heading of “goodwill” may be even less tangible than intellectual property. But they can have equally significant value.
“Goodwill is your reputation,” Johnson says. “It’s the propensity of customers to return for repeat business.” And while it is indispensable, it can be hard to gauge, encompassing your reputation for quality and service, a positive brand image, strong customer and supplier relationships, and a good standing in the community.
Valuing goodwill is easier for publicly traded companies, whose stock tends to rise right along with the company’s reputation and decline when that reputation takes a hit, Johnson says. For a privately held company the process is more nuanced. Its value is determined by how long it has been in business, the steadiness of sales growth and its profit margins. “When an expert comes in to value your company, they’re going to look at all of these things,” Johnson says.
In smaller companies, the owner’s personal reputation is often inextricably linked to that of the company, which can complicate the valuation process. Prospective buyers may worry about the company’s prospects after the owner leaves. When planning for a transition, look for ways to enhance the company’s reputation as a whole, Johnson suggests. That might mean promoting key employees to be more visible with your customers and suppliers, and in the community.
Having a company where people like to work, even after you’re gone, may also boost value in buyers’ eyes, Johnson says. “We’re at full employment in the U.S. right now, and you need to keep them ‘sticky’ to your company.” Consider benefits such as a nonqualified deferred compensation (NQDC) plan, which offers key employees cash bonuses at a later date, as a way to reward and retain them beyond the sale, Johnson says.
Making the intangible tangible
Given the complexities of valuing your business, expert help is essential. “What you really need is a certified valuation analyst (CVA) who has completed training specifically in valuing businesses. You need that to have a value you can be confident in and stand up for,” Johnson says.
Your Regions Private Wealth team can help you find the right CVA, attorney, tax specialist, mergers and acquisition advisor and other experts. “This is a collaborative effort that requires multiple disciplines,” Johnson says. Your wealth strategist can make sure all of the experts communicate regularly with one another—and with you—before, during and after the sale. That way, your business’s assets, tangible and intangible, can reach fruition in a sale that will benefit your retirement and your legacy.
Speak to your Regions Relationship Manager about:
The value of any intellectual property your business has acquired or created
How your company’s goodwill may be affected by your departure
Additional strategic factors to consider when preparing your business for a sale
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History of the Building
Programme Archives
Festival of History 2019
Robert Barton: the Wicklow landlord who became a key player in the struggle for independence, 1918-1922
Friday 18th October 2019 at 11am
Lecturer: John Dredge
Robert Barton, 1918-1922 – John Dredge
Robert Barton was a Wicklow landlord from a unionist background who was elected to the first Dáil as a Sinn Féin TD in December 1918 and played a key role in the struggle for independence that followed the election.
The time he spent as a British army officer in Richmond Barracks – where, following the 1916 Rising, he served as officer in charge of prisoners’ effects – had a profound effect on Barton’s development as an Irish nationalist.
The talk explores the development of Barton’s political views, the impact of his time in Richmond Barracks, and the important roles he played in the independence struggle that followed.
Past Inspirations
Friday 11th October 2019 at 2.30pm
Poetry reading with poet Catherine Phil MacCarthy and historian Fionnuala Walsh
Past Inspirations – Catherine Phil MacCarthy and Fionnuala Walsh
Old documents, paintings, maps and images help us trace the past and uncover our history but poets look at primary documents in a different way to historians. Catherine has been inspired to write poems about various history topics and will reads some of her history poems while historian Fionnuala Walsh contextualises the time for us.
Themes explored include the Post-Famine period, the Land League Movement, the Founding of Inghinidhe na hÉireann and the Growth of Nationalism, the Revolutionary Period & Cumann na mBan and the First World War. Daughters of the House by Catherine Phil MacCarthy was published by Dedalus Press in 2019.
Daughters of the House – Catherine Phil MacCarthy
The Housing Crisis 1915-1923
The Housing Crisis 1915-1923 – 11:00 am, Monday 7th October 2019
Lecturer: Cathy Scuffil, Historian in Residence South Central Area, Dublin City Council
The Housing Crisis 1915-1923 – Cathy Scuffil
“Going through these streets and alleys today… there is little or no evidence … that there are any of the industries left…. I found in Francis street sixty of the houses are marked ‘tenements’ and fourteen ‘ruins’..”
Alderman Tom Kelly’s description in 1909 of housing conditions in Dublin’s Liberties sets the scene for the city’s social housing situation that reached crisis point during the second decade of the 20th Century. This talk looks at how this was addressed despite the troubled times of war and revolution.
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British Golf Museum
ST ANDREWS, FIFE
Where better to find out about golf than in St Andrews, the home of golf. Using diverse and exciting interactive displays, this museum explores the history of golf from its origins to the personalities of today.
Suitable for all child ages
Fully accessible
Assist dogs allowed
Bruce Embankment, ST ANDREWS, KY16 9AB
Opening Times: Open all year, Apr-Oct, 9.30-5, Sun 10-5; Nov-Mar, daily 10-4
St Andrews Botanic Garden
Scotland, FIFE
Broughty Castle Museum
Scotland, DUNDEE
Scottish Fisheries Museum
Discovery Point & RRS Discovery
The McManus: Dundee's Art Gallery & Museum
Discover Fife
This 20-mile wide peninsula between the Firth of Forth and the Firth of Tay is an ancient kingdom, once the home of Scotland’s kings and saints. Despite its modern bridges it still seems curiously detached from the rest of the country. Travelling along Fife’s grand coastline reveals a fascinating legacy of caves, castles, and ancient fishing ports. Blend coast and countryside by following stretches of the Fife Coastal Path, or take an exhilarating trek in the Fife Regional Park.
St Andrews has a unique place in Scotland’s heritage. According to legend, the city was founded by St Regulus in the 4th century, who was carrying relics of St Andrew, patron saint of Scotland, when his ship was wrecked off the coast. Thereafter, the town grew as an important religious centre, eventually home to the largest church in Scotland, now an attractive ruin, with the powerful bishops wielding great influence over church and state. Today, St Andrews is famous for its university, the oldest in Scotland, and as a world golfing mecca. The Old Course at the Royal and Ancient Golf Club claims to have 15th century origins and to play a round on these hallowed links is many golfers’ dream.
Hotel du Vin St Andrews
Hotel du Vin St Andrews is stylish, modern and welcoming. There has been a hotel here for some years but today the Hotel du Vin group offer their own unique and popular brand of hospitality. Bedrooms are very well equipped; all have free WiFi,...
Russell Hotel
Lying on the east bay, this friendly, family-run Victorian terrace hotel provides well appointed bedrooms in varying sizes; some enjoy fine sea views. Cosy public areas include a popular bar and an intimate restaurant, both offering a good range of...
Best Western Scores Hotel
Enjoying views over St Andrews Bay, this well-presented hotel is situated only a short pitch from the first tee of the famous Old Course. Bedrooms are impressively furnished and come in various sizes; many are quite spacious. Smart public areas...
Ardgowan Hotel
The Ardgowan Hotel is ideally located just 200 yards from the Old Course Club House; the university, shops and beach are just a short walk from the hotel as well. This well-presented, family-run hotel was built in 1847 and offers well-appointed...
Dining Nearby
Playfair’s Restaurant and Steakhouse
The Playfair's Restaurant and Steakhouse is located under the reception, and the configuration means that diners can often find themselves eating close to drinkers using the bar. It all makes for a relaxed atmosphere, while linen-clothed tables in...
The Adamson
Once home to photographer and physician Dr John Adamson (hence the name), the handsome building now houses a cool restaurant with exposed bricks, darkwood tables, an open kitchen, and a bar serving up creative cocktails. The menu brings up-to-date...
The Jigger Inn
Golfing history is an all-embracing experience at this former stationmaster’s lodge on the now long-disused railway line from St Aadrews to Leuchars. It's in the grounds of the Old Course Hotel, Golf Resort...
Road Hole Restaurant
There is no shortage of five-star hotels on the Scottish golfing circuit, but for golf-mad gourmets only one do: the Old Course overlooks the cradle of the game at the world-famous links at St Andrews and will certainly keep you fed and watered in...
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Citi Global Trade Uses AI to Digitize Compliance in NextGen Project
EY and SAS collaborated to improve risk and compliance processes
New York, NY (Apr 29, 2019)
***This was originally issued by Citi on April 29 at 9AM ET***
Citi announced today a next generational project, with EY and SAS, using artificial intelligence (AI) to develop an advanced risk analytics scoring engine. The initiative was created to help streamline the time-consuming, highly manual processes associated with reviewing high volumes of global trade transactions while ensuring regulatory compliance.
"By leveraging innovation, we continue our strategic journey to drive digitization throughout our worldwide operations," said John Ahearn, Global Head of Trade for Citi’s Treasury and Trade Solutions (TTS). "We process 9 million transactions annually, and this project will help us optimize our processes from the back office to the front, by expanding the use of digitization, automation and advanced analytics.”
“This real-time solution will help us to be able to more efficiently detect transactions with potential compliance concerns up front,” said Valeria Sica, Global Head of Trade Services for Citi’s Treasury and Trade Solutions. “This solution assists in managing and comparing a large number of data points across current and prior transactions, which will provide more context and usable data to aid the decision maker in reviewing global trade transactions, which has traditionally been a very manual process across the industry.”
Citi’s Global Trade business continues to digitize its platforms and processes to optimize the latest innovation available. As a part of this strategy, Citi digitizes over 25MM trade-related pages annually with optical character recognition (OCR). The initiative will continue this legacy by utilizing Artificial Intelligence technology to automate manual processes.
Combining EY’s deep business, risk, and technology consulting experience in the financial services sector with SAS’ leading advanced analytics platform, Citi will use the new service to further digitize its trade compliance process. This project will help to eliminate time-intensive, manual processes and provide a streamlined view of risk activity and insights.
“Trade compliance is a key focus for global regulators, and this drives increasing expectations about the scope and sophistication of a bank’s controls,” said Jake Jacobson, EY US Managed Services CIO. “Many banks still rely on manual, paper-based processes, driving up operational costs and impacting the customer experience. Innovative technology helps change the game entirely.”
The new platform (powered by SAS) is intended to provide:
In-depth analysis of global trade transactions to help align bank resources. The program is scalable to handle the high volume of daily transactions.
Advanced analytics and natural language processing to better understand networks of related parties, unstructured data and customer activity over time.
Process automation that combines analytic results and trade related bank policies to help focus on trade transactions activities that may need further investigation in accordance with Citi’s escalation process for them.
“Banks face almost overwhelming scale and complexity in the trade-finance sector and in compliance activities,” said Stu Bradley, Vice President of Fraud and Security Intelligence at SAS. “SAS’ sophisticated analytics platform will help Citi drive more effective and efficient monitoring of trade transactions. The resulting performance and enhanced risk insights should lead to a better risk posture, improved response times for monitoring, and reduced operational costs.”
Citi’s Treasury and Trade Solutions division enables its clients' success by providing an integrated suite of innovative and tailored cash management and trade finance services to multinational corporations, financial institutions and public sector organizations across the globe. Based on the foundation of the industry's largest proprietary network with banking licenses in over 90 countries and globally integrated technology platforms, TTS continues to lead the way in offering the industry's most comprehensive range of digitally enabled treasury, trade and liquidity management solutions.
About Citi
Citi, the leading global bank, has approximately 200 million customer accounts and does business in more than 160 countries and jurisdictions. Citi provides consumers, corporations, governments and institutions with a broad range of financial products and services, including consumer banking and credit, corporate and investment banking, securities brokerage, transaction services, and wealth management. Additional information may be found at www.citigroup.com | Twitter: @Citi | YouTube: www.youtube.com/citi | Blog: http://blog.citigroup.com | Facebook: www.facebook.com/citi | LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/company/citi
EY refers to the global organization, and may refer to one or more, of the member firms of Ernst & Young Global Limited, each of which is a separate legal entity. Ernst & Young Global Limited, a UK company limited by guarantee, does not provide services to clients. Information about how EY collects and uses personal data and a description of the rights individuals have under data protection legislation is available via ey.com/privacy. For more information about our organization, please visit ey.com.
About SAS
SAS is the leader in analytics. Through innovative software and services, SAS empowers and inspires customers around the world to transform data into intelligence. SAS gives you THE POWER TO KNOW®.
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Libertarian Party of RI Plans "Fish-in" to Denounce Cranston Ban.
PROVIDENCE, RHODE ISLAND – The Libertarian Party of Rhode Island today denounced the Cranston City Council’s passage this week of an ordinance that defies the spirit as well as the letter of the law as declared in the Constitution of the State of Rhode Island. The ordinance bans fishing from the end of Ocean Avenue in Edgewood, adjacent to the Rhode Island Yacht Club.
“The Rhode Island Constitution couldn’t be any clearer about our rights to access the shore, fish from it, gather shellfish, collect seaweed, and otherwise enjoy what the Ocean State shoreline has to offer,” said Libertarian Party of Rhode Island (LPRI) Chairman Pat Ford. “It is incumbent upon Mayor Fung to veto this bad ordinance immediately upon receipt.”
“According to testimony, the complaints are about noise, parking, and litter. This illegal ordinance does nothing to address those complaints,” said LPRI Director of Public Policy John Fennessy, “but it does infringe upon a constitutional right of Rhode Islanders.”
Fennessy and others in the LPRI are organizing a “Fish-In” against the unenforceable ordinance. Details of the event are still developing, pending final passage or veto of the ordinance.
Citizens committed to protecting their constitutional rights are invited to visit lpri.us/fishin to sign the petition, and register for updates.
“The Cranston City Council, and specifically its president Michael Farina, have no authority to impose this ban,” said Fennessy. “As such, we, the members of the Libertarian Party of Rhode Island, challenge that ban directly. Fishing anyone?”
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Dr Rebecca Yang
College / Portfolio: Property, Construction and Project Management
School / Department: Construction Management
Email: rebecca.yang@rmit.edu.au
Campus: Melbourne City Campus
Contact me about: Research supervision
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0418-1967
Rebecca is a scholar of building, construction and distributed renewable energy who undertakes pure and applied research that can provide innovative solutions to the industry by integrating theories with cutting-edge technologies. She is the leader of Solar Energy Application Group. She is the leader of Solar Energy Application Group and the Australian expert in International Energy Agency PVPS Task 15 BIPV.
Rebecca has developed a strong and passionate commitment to industry-focused research and teaching. Her research resonates with RMIT’s vision of transforming the built environment to create sustainable and resilient cities, and her current research focuses on solar energy applications in buildings, and construction innovation.
Rebecca embed industry and cross-disciplinary collaborations in everything she does and contributes to RMIT’s reputation in global and domestic contexts through her professional roles. At the international level, in 2018 she was appointed by the International Energy Agency Power Systems Program as the sole Australian expert in Task 15 Building Integrated Photovoltaics (BIPV). She currently leads more than 30 experts from 15 countries in one of the five major research themes (i.e. BIPV digitalization) in this Task for 2020-2023. She has been invited to collaborate with many global researchers in joint publications, leading to more than 90 peer-reviewed papers. Rebecca is consistently in the top 3 of the School in H-index and citation numbers. As at July 2020, her H-index is 18 in Scopus (Scopus Author ID: 55917207400). her H-index in Google Scholar is 20 with 2207 citations (https://scholar.google.com.au/citations?user=x2U-zxwAAAAJ&hl=en).
At the national level, Rebecca has established research networks with peak bodies, SMEs, large organisations, local councils and other universities, which have provided cash and in-kind support for the seven successful externally-funded projects she leads. She also developed commercialization opportunities for our team to transfer BIPV research outcomes into a design software package.
PhD Department of Building and Real Estate, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong
Master Department of Construction and Real Estate, The Harbin Institute of Technology, China
Bachelor Department of Construction and Real Estate, The Harbin Institute of Technology, China
Committees (internal)
School Research Committee Member, 2015-2017
Committees (external)
Student Chapter Advisor, CIB (International Council for Building), 2016-Present
Organizing Committee Member, Asia-Pacific Solar Research Conference, 2020
External Committee Member, the International Research Centre for Sustainable Built Environment, Chongqing University, 2018-Present
Technical Committee Member, International Conference on Construction Project Management and Construction Engineering, 2018
Global Representative and Theme Leader, International Energy Agency Photovoltaic Power Systems Programme Task 15 Building Integrated Photovoltaics, 2018- Present
Discipline-based professional development
Trainer, Project Management for Researchers, RMIT University, 2019-Present
Small organization member (Solar Energy Application Lab), Australian PV Institute, 2020
Editorial boards and peer reviewing
Peer Reviewer, Excellence in Research for Australia (ERA), Australian Research Council (ARC), 2018
Editorial Review Board Member, Engineering, Construction and Architectural Management, SciQ1 Journal, 2017-Present
Editorial Member, International Journal of Construction Management, 2017-Present
Review Editor, Frontiers in Built Environment, 2019-Present
Jayasuriya, S.,Zhang, K.,Yang, R. (2020). Exploring the impact of stakeholder management strategies on managing issues in PPP projects In: International Journal of Construction Management, 20, 666 - 678
Weerasinghe, R.,Yang, R.,Too, E.,Le, T. (2020). Renewable energy adoption in the built environment: a sociotechnical network approach In: Intelligent Buildings International, , 1 - 18
Shooshtarian, S.,Maqsood, T.,Khalfan, M.,Yang, R.,Wong, S. (2020). Landfill levy imposition on construction and demolition waste: Australian stakeholders' perceptions In: Sustainability, 12, 1 - 15
Yang, J.,Wakefield, R.,Lyu, S.,Jayasuriya, S.,Han, F.,Yi, X.,Yang, T.,Amarasinghe, G.,Chen, S. (2020). Public and private blockchain in construction business process and information integration In: Automation in Construction, 118, 1 - 21
Wu, H.,Zhao, Z.,Xue, X.,Shen, G.,Yang, J.,Wang, . (2020). An integrated scientometric and SNA approach to explore the classics in CEM research In: Journal of Civil Engineering and Management, 26, 459 - 474
Xue, J.,Shen, G.,Yang, J.,Zafar, I.,Ekanayake, E.,Lin, X.,Darko, A. (2020). Influence of formal and informal stakeholder relationship on megaproject performance: a case of China In: Engineering, Construction and Architectural Management, 27, 1 - 27
Xue, J.,Shen, G.,Yang, J.,Zafar, I.,Ekanayake, E. (2020). Dynamic Network Analysis of Stakeholder Conflicts in Megaprojects: Sixteen-Year Case of Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macao Bridge In: Journal of Construction Engineering and Management, 146, 1 - 16
Xue, J.,Shen, Q.,Yang, J.,Wu, H.,Li, X.,Lin, X.,Xue, F. (2020). Mapping the knowledge domain of stakeholder perspective studies in construction projects: A bibliometric approach In: International Journal of Project Management, 38, 313 - 326
Shooshtarian, S.,Maqsood, T.,Wong, P.,Yang, J.,Khalfan, M. (2020). Review of waste strategy documents in Australia: analysis of strategies for construction and demolition waste In: International Journal Environmental Technology and Management, 23, 1 - 21
Shooshtarian, S.,Maqsood, T.,Wong, S.,Khalfan, M.,Yang, J. (2020). Market development for construction and demolition waste stream in Australia In: Journal of Construction Engineering, Management & Innovation, 3, 220 - 231
Supervisor Projects
Note: Supervision projects since 2004
1 PhD Completions and 1 Masters by Research Completions9 PhD Current Supervisions and 2 Masters by Research Current Supervisions
Supervisor Interests
Research focuses on sustainable building and construction, Lifestyly energy and cost analysis, Occupant behaviour, Indoor environment measurement, Risk, Stakeholder and waste management
Digital Design Workflows and Fire Safety Requirements of BIPV Projects. Funded by: Australian PV Institute - Competitive from (2020 to 2021)
Building Integrated Photovoltaics (BIPV) Enabler. Funded by: 073-Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA) R&D Grants 2018 onwards from (2019 to 2021)
Advancing residential prefabricated construction in SMEs through a trustworthy supply chain environment. Funded by: Z Knight Labs - Contract from (2019 to 2021)
Cost reduction and Deployment of Prefabricated Building Integrated Photovoltaics. Funded by: RICS Research Trust Grant 2017 from (2017 to 2018)
Streamlined Life Cycle Assessment of 5 Storey Residential Building in Parkville (2014). Funded by: Forest and Wood Products Research and Development Grant Pre-2014 from (2014 to 2014)
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Ambitious UK Companies Celebrated at Prestigious Industry Awards
The owners and directors of the UK’s 200 private companies with the fastest-growing international sales were recognised last night, 16th September 2014, at the fifth annual Sunday Times HSBC International Track 200 awards ceremony in London.
Four winners were chosen from the 200 firms featuring on the fifth annual Sunday Times HSBC ‘International Track 200’ league table. The listing ranks the UK’s private companies with the fastest-growing overseas sales and was published in The Sunday Times on 13th July 2014.
The categories for the four special awards that were nominated on the night were the International Track 200:
• manufacturing excellence award
• transformational growth award
• emerging international brand award
• fastest-growing company award
We are delighted to announce that the International Track 200 manufacturing excellence award, sponsored by The Sunday Times, was presented by the deputy business editor Simon Duke to Roger Spiers, Commercial Manager, and Rob Harris, Contracts Manager, of Severn Glocon. The company designs and manufactures industrial valves for the oil and gas industry in state-of-the-art plants in Gloucester, Stroud, Brighouse and India. It has doubled international sales to £68m in two years.
Below – Roger Spiers, Commercial Manager and Rob Harris, Contracts Manager of Severn Glocon, receiving the ‘Manufacturing Excellence Award’
Information supplied by: THE SUNDAY TIMES HSBC INTERNATIONAL TRACK 200
The Manufacturer of the Year Awards 2014 shortlist announced
Regen SW Green Energy Awards
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Overwatch's Genji Joins Heroes of the Storm
Plus a new map and Payload game mode based on Overwatch's Hanamura environment.
Steve Watts
Heroes of the Storm is still using its PTR to test the "Heroes 2.0" update, a massive overhaul of the game's free-to-play mechanics with loot boxes and loads of new cosmetic items to collect. Today the company announced that it is also adding another Overwatch hero to its ranks, along with a new Overwatch-themed Battleground.
Cyborg Ninja in the Nexus
Genji the cyborg ninja is joining Heroes, confirming rumors caught by clever Internet sleuths a few weeks ago. Genji is highly mobile, and able to jump into the fray, split apart formations, and then get out quickly. His Trait is Cyber Agility, which allows him to jump to a target area. He can also throw shurikens, deflect enemy damage for a short time, and do a Swift Strike. As a bonus, any enemies that die within two seconds of being hit by Swift Strike resets the cooldown and Mana cost so you can use it again.
His Heroic Abilities include Dragon Blade, which lets him attack in a lunge and also resets the cooldown on Swift Strike, and X-Strike, which ignites two slashes.
In my experience playing as Genji during a Heroes of the Storm 2.0 press event, Genji was by far the more challenging of the two new characters. In contrast to Cassia, who was also being shown at the event, Genji feels like a character made for high-level play. He's vulnerable to attack if a player doesn't properly use his agility, and many of his abilities have narrow areas of attack that make precision aim important. In the right hands, though, he's an assassin through-and-through.
"He's super mobile, he moves around in a way no other characters do in the game right now," said Heroes producer Kaeo Milker in an interview. "That gives him a really unique position to attack the back line. He's not all about sustained damage, but he's about getting to places other people can't get to. He's a really cool fun iconic character who happens to work really well in our game."
Finding the right Overwatch inclusions can be a challenge, Milker said, because the team tries to avoid overlap with existing characters. It wants each of the additions to occupy their own space. So while Genji was a "no brainer" in terms of his iconic brand, it was more important that he have a unique gameplay hook.
"We've had people ask, are you going to bring Widowmaker in? It's going to overlap with Nova's kit and visually it would overlap with Nova. Or, you know, Roadhog and Stitches. There's things where like, they don't have an interesting space to occupy. Genji had a lot going for him."
Cherry Blossoms and Payloads
In a bit of thematic synergy, Genji is coming right alongside a new map modeled after Hanamura, the recognizable Japanese map in Overwatch. This two-lane battleground introduces a new Payload mechanic, which is necessary to win. Players can't attack the opposing team's core directly–instead, each core can take seven hits from a missile, which is activated when a payload reaches its destinate. Both payload paths are criss-crossing simultaneously, so teams will have to escort their own while fighting back the other.
Yes, now in Overwatch, you can tell your team to get on the bloody payload.
A new boss character, the Mega Enforcer, can also damage the core, but only after your team works together to defeat it.
"Once we thought we wanted to try Payloads, we really started playtesting them and trying all different things," Milker said. "Starting with, what if each team had an attack/defend and you get your turn and then we flip it? That mixed up the game a little more than we were comfortable with. Our map objectives are really about changing the way you play. So we early on decided we wanted to have two payloads active at once."
For more on Heroes of the Storm, check out our interview with Kaeo Milker on the 2.0 update.
This Heroes of the Storm feature was conducted at a media event where transportation and accommodations were provided by Blizzard.
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Steve Watts posted a new article, Overwatch's Genji Joins Heroes of the Storm
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Amstar Cinemas in Alabaster will reopen their doors to customers on Aug. 28 after closing for months due to COVID-19. (File)
Amstar Cinemas in Alabaster reopening tomorrow
Published 8:12 am Thursday, August 27, 2020
ALABASTER – The COVID-19 pandemic has forced most people to give up traditional avenues of entertainment, one of the biggest being physically going to and sitting down to watch a movie at local cinemas.
Now Alabaster’s Amstar Cinemas has announced through hard work and patience it is reopening to the public on Friday, Aug. 28.
Some of the movies that will be available for guests on the first day of Amstar’s reopening include “Bill & Ted Face the Music,” “The New Mutants,” “Unhinged,” “Trolls World Tour,” and others.
“At the Grand Theatres and Amstar Cinemas, we have implemented significant measures to help ensure our guests and employees feel comfortable and safe at our theatres. We will be adhering to all CDC, state and local government guidance with respect to safety protocols and occupancy,” according to a press release.
Some of these measures include things like enhanced cleaning, socially distanced seating, certain safety protocols and health checks for employees.
To ensure the safety of guests Amstar has put their employees through safety training and continuously cleans high touch surface areas every half hour.
Social distancing will be carried out through limiting seating occupancy to around 50 percent and spaces between seating, with some exceptions.
“In our reserved seating locations, our ticket sales system will allow groups of guests who order at the same time to sit together. To ensure proper social distancing, the system will force a two-seat gap on either side of that group,” according to the release.
Masks are required in all common areas of the building, and may only be removed while seated in the auditorium of the theatre to enjoy snacks and drinks. Employees will be wearing masks and gloves at all times during their shifts.
Tickets for upcoming shows at Amstar Cinemas are available at Amstar cinemas.com
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Miscues sink Spain Park in loss to Hewitt-Trussville
Published 12:51 am Saturday, September 5, 2020
By GRAHAM BROOKS | Special to the Reporter
HOOVER – In a big matchup between Spain Park and Hewitt-Trussville to open Class 7A, Region 3 play, the Huskies’ defense stymied the Jaguars forcing three first-quarter turnovers on the way to a 45-13 rout on the road on Friday, Sept. 4.
“Those guys are a good football team and they’re going to win a lot of games and I still think it’s one of the better offenses we are going to see,” Hewitt-Trussville head coach Josh Floyd said. “I thought our defense played really well tonight and I thought we played super physical. We’ve had a lot of adversity this week and it’s great to see our guys be challenged a little bit and step up and make plays.”
Hewitt-Trussville racked up 475 yards of offense on just 39 plays as the large majority came on the ground. The Huskies had five touchdowns rushing in addition to the stout defensive effort.
Huskies’ running backs Armoni Goodwin and Sean Jackson both topped the century mark as Goodwin led the way with 135 yards on nine carries and Jackson finished with 118 yards on six carries. Both backs finished with a pair of touchdowns.
Hewitt-Trussville raced out to a 24-0 first-quarter lead as the Huskies’ converted points following all of Spain Park’s turnovers.
“I think that was probably the difference in the game that first quarter, but we were able to jump on them and run the ball pretty effectively,” Floyd said.
After leading 3-0, Hewitt-Trussville quarterback Cade Carruth threw a 60-yard touchdown one play after a Spain Park interception to make it 10-0.
On the next drive, Spain Park quarterback Bennett Meredith was hit and lost the ball as the Huskies recovered the ball at the Jaguars’ 32-yard line.
Hewitt-Trussville took advantage, as Goodwin raced 32 yards for a touchdown to extend the lead to 17-0.
A crucial play in the first quarter came when Carruth hit Omari Kelly for an 18-yard pass to convert a fourth-and-7 to make it first-and-goal Hewitt-Trussville. The next play, Carruth scored on a designed run up the middle to make it 24-0. Kelly was a favorite target for Carruth as he finished with 107 yards receiving and a score.
Trailing 31-0, Spain Park had opportunities to score at the end of the first half but to no avail. The Huskies forced a turnover on downs near the goal line and the Jaguars missed a 37-yard field goal just before halftime.
The biggest play of the night for Spain Park came in the third quarter when Meredith hit receiver Cooper Kelley for a 57-yard touchdown to make it 31-6 but that’s as close as the Jaguars got. The Jaguars finished with 261 total yards.
Hewitt-Trussville handed Spain Park it’s first loss of the season in dominating fashion and when asked how good this team could possibly be, Floyd said there’s plenty of potential.
“I don’t know, it’s two games but I think this group has a shot to do something special but man this region is so tough,” Floyd said. “These guys (Spain Park) could go win the rest of their games…. The key to this region is staying healthy as much as you can and just get better every week. This is one night.”
After the loss, Spain Park dropped to 2-1 (0-1) on the season and will look to have a bounce back win against Thompson on Friday, Sept. 11.
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'I think this is a moment to put a woman of color on that ticket': Amy Klobuchar withdraws from vice president consideration
Sasha Burnett / Associated Press
CHICAGO — Amy Klobuchar said Thursday that she was dropping out of the running to be vice president and urging Democrat Joe Biden to instead select a woman of color.
The white Minnesota senator, who had seen her prospects fall as racial tensions swept the nation, said she called the presumptive presidential nominee Wednesday night and made the suggestion. Biden had already committed to choosing a woman as his running mate.
"I think this is a moment to put a woman of color on that ticket," Klobuchar said on MSNBC. "If you want to heal this nation right now — my party, yes, but our nation — this is sure a hell of a way to do it."
Biden praised Klobuchar in a tweet Thursday, citing her "grit and determination" and saying, "With your help, we're going to beat Donald Trump."
Klobuchar's chances at getting the VP nod diminished after the killing of George Floyd by a white police officer in Minneapolis. Klobuchar was a prosecutor years ago in the county that includes Minneapolis, and during that period, more than two dozen people — mostly minorities — died during encounters with police.
Floyd's death last month set off days of protests across the country and criticism that as the county's top prosecutor, Klobuchar didn't charge any of the officers involved in citizen deaths. Officer Derek Chauvin, who was charged with Floyd's murder, had been involved in one of those cases, the fatal 2006 shooting of a man accused of stabbing people and aiming a shotgun at police.
Klobuchar, 60, was among a large field of Democrats who had sought the 2020 presidential nomination, running as a pragmatic Midwesterner who has passed over 100 bills. She dropped out and threw her support behind Biden before the crucial March 3 "Super Tuesday" contests after struggling to win support from Black voters, who are crucial to Democratic victories.
Even before Floyd's death, activists were pushing Biden to consider a woman of color, saying it would help build a multiracial coalition behind the Democratic ticket and motivate people — particularly younger voters — who may be underwhelmed by the 77-year-old former vice president's bid.
Others wanted Biden to choose a more progressive candidate, who could bring in support from voters who backed Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren in the primary.
Like Biden, Klobuchar disagreed with Sanders and Warren during the campaign on major issues such as health care, calling "Medicare for All" unachievable and pushing instead for changes to the Affordable Care Act.
Democrats with knowledge of the process told The Associated Press last week that Biden's search committee had narrowed the choices to as few as six serious contenders after initial interviews. Among the group still in contention: Warren, California Sen. Kamala Harris and Susan Rice, who served as President Barack Obama's national security adviser. Warren is white; both Harris and Rice are Black.
Biden has said he will announce his VP decision by Aug. 1.
Associated Press writers Amy Forliti in Minneapolis, Julie Pace in Washington, Bill Barrow in Atlanta and Ashley Thomas in Savannah, Georgia, contributed to this report.
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Genome-wide Mapping of the Nucleosome Landscape by Micrococcal Nuclease and Chemical Mapping
Lilien N. Voong, Liqun Xi, Ji Ping Wang*, Xiaozhong Wang
Nucleosomes regulate the transcription output of the genome by occluding the underlying DNA sequences from DNA-binding proteins that must act on it. Knowledge of the precise locations of nucleosomes in the genome is thus essential towards understanding how transcription is regulated. Current nucleosome-mapping strategies involve digesting chromatin with nucleases or chemical cleavage followed by high-throughput sequencing. In this review, we compare the traditional micrococcal nuclease (MNase)-based approach with a chemical cleavage strategy, with discussion on the important insights each has uncovered about the role of nucleosomes in shaping transcriptional processes. Genome-wide nucleosome positioning maps provide deep insight into the regulatory role of nucleosomes in transcriptional processes. Micrococcal nuclease (MNase) digests linker DNA in between nucleosomes while nucleosome-protected DNA remains intact. Sequencing the protected DNA allows for the determination of nucleosome positions genome-wide. The chemical mapping method relies on site-directed hydroxyl radical cleavage of nucleosomes carrying modified histones to determine the positions of nucleosomes in the genome. MNase-defined NDRs of cis regulatory elements are nucleosome enriched in the chemical map of mouse ES cells. Emerging evidence shows that such regions are occupied by ‘fragile nucleosomes’, which are lost due to overdigestion by MNase. Results in mouse ES cells illustrate that fragile nucleosomes exist in the mouse genome and chemical mapping is capable of detecting them.
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Voong, L. N., Xi, L., Wang, J. P., & Wang, X. (2017). Genome-wide Mapping of the Nucleosome Landscape by Micrococcal Nuclease and Chemical Mapping. Trends in Genetics, 33(8), 495-507. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tig.2017.05.007
Voong, Lilien N. ; Xi, Liqun ; Wang, Ji Ping ; Wang, Xiaozhong. / Genome-wide Mapping of the Nucleosome Landscape by Micrococcal Nuclease and Chemical Mapping. In: Trends in Genetics. 2017 ; Vol. 33, No. 8. pp. 495-507.
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So just what is out there beyond the Standard Model?
By esiegel on November 16, 2012.
"Other than the laws of physics, rules have never really worked out for me." -Craig Ferguson
Earlier this week, evidence was presented measuring a very rare decay rate -- albeit not incredibly precisely -- which point towards the Standard Model being it as far as new particles accessible to colliders (such as the LHC) go. In other words, unless we get hit by a big physics surprise, the LHC will become renowned for having found the Higgs Boson and nothing else, meaning that there's no window into what lies beyond the Standard Model via traditional experimental particle physics.
Image credit: Fermilab, modified by me.
But that by no means is the same thing as saying "the Standard Model is all there is." There are a large number of observations that tell us quite clearly that there's very likely more to the Universe than just the quarks, leptons, and bosons of the Standard Model. While experiments are telling us that low-energy supersymmetry and extra dimensions probably don't exist (and the LHC will either turn them up or even further constrain them towards the point of irrelevance), there are plenty of pieces of evidence that there is more to existence than these particles and their interactions.
What else is out there? Let's take a look at the Top 5 clues to physics beyond the Standard Model:
Image credit: NASA, ESA, CFHT, and M.J. Jee (University of California, Davis).
1.) Dark matter. From structure formation to colliding galaxy clusters, from gravitational lensing to Big Bang nucleosynthesis, from baryon acoustic oscillations to the pattern of anisotropies in the cosmic microwave background, it's clear that normal matter -- the stuff made out of standard model particles -- is only about 15% of the mass in the Universe. The rest of it simply doesn't have those strong or electromagnetic interactions, and neutrinos are of insufficient mass to account for more than about 1% of the missing stuff.
If dark matter is a particle -- and the way it appears to clump and cluster strongly suggests that it is -- it must be a particle beyond the standard model. Just what its properties turn out to be are currently an open question in physics, and though many candidates have emerged, none of them are particularly compelling.
Image credit: Bryan Christie Design / Scientific American & Gordie Kane.
2.) Massive neutrinos. According to the Standard Model, particles can either be massless -- like the photon and gluon -- or could have a mass determined by their coupling to the Higgs field. There's a range of what these couplings are, and so we get particles as light as the electron -- at just 0.05% of a GeV (where 0.938 GeV is the mass of a proton) -- and as heavy as the top quark, which tips the mass scales at around 170-175 GeV.
So during the last decade, when neutrino masses were constrained for the first time (via neutrino oscillations), it surprised many that they were found to be very low in mass, but to have definitively non-zero masses. Why is that? The general way of explaining this -- the see-saw mechanism -- typically involves additional, very heavy particles (like, maybe a billion or a trillion times more massive than the Standard Model particles) that are extensions to the standard model. Whether these particles exist or there's some other explanation, these massive neutrinos are almost definitely indicative of physics beyond the Standard Model.
Image credit: Universe Review, from http://universe-review.ca/R02-14-CPviolation.htm.
3.) Strong CP problem. If you switched all the particles involved in an interaction with their antiparticles, you might expect the laws of physics to be the same: that's known as Charge Conjugation, or C-symmetry. If you reflected particles in a mirror, you'd probably expect the mirrored particles to behave the same way as their reflections: that's known as Parity, or P-violation. There are examples of where one of these symmetries is violated in nature, and in the Weak interactions (the ones mediated by the W-and-Z bosons), there's nothing forbidding C and P from being violated together.
In fact, this CP-violation does occur for the weak interactions (and has been measured in multiple experiments), and is very important for a number of theoretical reasons. Well, along the same vein, there's nothing in the Standard Model forbidding CP-violation from occurring in the strong interactions. But there isn't any observed, to less than 0.0000001% of the anticipated value!
Why not? Well, pretty much any physical explanation (as opposed to the non-explanation, "that's just the funny way it is") results in the existence of a new particle beyond the Standard Model, which may be a good candidate for solving problem #1: the dark matter problem!
Image credit: John Rowe Animation.
4.) Quantum Gravity. The Standard Model makes no effort nor any claims to incorporate the gravitational force/interaction into it. But our current best theory of gravity -- General Relativity -- makes no sense at extremely large gravitational field or extremely small distances; the singularities it gives us are indicative of physics breaking down. In order to explain what goes on there, it will require a more complete, or quantum, theory of gravity.
We do not know how to make a working theory of quantum gravity. String theory is a possibility (and maybe the only viable game in town), but one thing all possibilities have in common is the existence of a new particle: a massless, spin-2 graviton. This may be the most elusive and the most fundamental of predictions beyond the Standard Model, and there's at least one (and possibly more) new particle out there if gravity can, in fact, be quantized.
Image credit: Me, over an actual picture of the Sun in an H-alpha filter.
5.) Baryogenesis. There's more matter than antimatter in the Universe, and while there's a lot we can say about why and how, we're not sure exactly what pathway the Universe took to wind up this way. There aren't necessarily any new particles that must exist to explain the matter-antimatter asymmetry, but of the four most common ways to produce it (GUT, Electroweak, Leptogenesis, and Affleck-Dine), only one (Electroweak baryogenesis) doesn't involve the existence of new, beyond-the-Standard-Model particles.
Image credit: http://www.shutterstock.com/.
There are also a whole slew of extra possibilities for new particles, including that there's one (or more) possibly associated with dark energy, there may be magnetic monopoles, grand unification, preons (smaller particles making up quarks and leptons), and the door is still open for particles from either extra dimensions or supersymmetry.
I'll leave you with two more things to consider.
Image credit: Dorling Kindersley, Getty Images.
The electron is a completely stable particle. While a free neutron will decay, a free proton is assumed to be completely stable. But it isn't necessarily completely stable. Through giant experiments involving astronomical numbers of atoms, we've determined that a proton's lifetime is greater than at least 1035 years, which is amazing.
But that's not infinite. If a proton does eventually decay, and have a half-life that is anything less than infinity, that means there are new particles beyond the Standard Model.
And one last thing...
Image credit: Matthew J. Strassler, Kathryn M. Zurek.
Even if there's nothing beyond the Standard Model, one fun prediction is the existence of glueballs, or bound states of gluons. They ought to be found in upcoming particle collider experiments, although possibly not at the LHC. If they don't exist, or fail to show up where they ought to, that's a big problem for quantum chromodynamics, or the theory of the strong interactions that's part of the Standard Model.
Keep an eye out for this one: no glueballs = something else is wrong with the Standard Model!
So that's where we are right now, and even if there's no supersymmetry and no extra dimensions, we've still got a lot more to discover. Keep your eyes and ears open, and let's all keep looking together!
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How viable a model of quantum gravity can string theory be if supersymmetry is constrained into irrelevance? Don't string theory models predict or require supersymmetry?
By laconicsax (not verified) on 16 Nov 2012 #permalink
"But that’s not infinite. If a proton does eventually decay, and have a half-life that is anything less than infinity, that means there are new particles beyond the Standard Model.
Why? Why shouldn't it just decay into its constituent quarks?
By davem (not verified) on 16 Nov 2012 #permalink
Its funny how this blog entry completely destroys Ethan's previous blog entry, where he claimed there is no new physics beyond the standard model, nada, zip, zero. Does Ethan understand the irony and contradiction in all this?
By Bob (not verified) on 17 Nov 2012 #permalink
I don't see contradiction here. What Ethan said was that we don't have access to equipment that can go past the standard model, because the energies required are beyond all our physics and there is no way to constrain let alone create the processes. Basically then, we have no idea how to go beyond the standard model. That is different from saying there is nothing beyond the standard model. This blog points to directions to go considering we ever find out how to go there. So we do know something about where to go just not really how to get there or even how to think about how to get there.
By Christopher (not verified) on 17 Nov 2012 #permalink
laconicsax,
The constraints that we place on SUSY are on the masses of the supersymmetric particles. You can always push masses in a theory up to arbitrarily high energies to cause them to couple less-and-less to the standard model particles. In the case of SUSY/string theory, you can push them all the way up to the Planck Scale, meaning you can construct a model where they exist, but are completely irrelevant for the physics of our Universe. In other words, it could be right, and have absolutely no impact on the physics of anything, ever.
davem,
For the same reason a grain of sand at the bottom of a pit won't spontaneously rise up and escape from it: a proton is a stable, bound state. Unless, that is, there's something new, like a sufficient source of external energy (in the sand's case) or a pathway that allows, say a proton to decay into a pion and an anti-lepton (such as a grand unified gauge boson). That's forbidden in the standard model, but allowed in many extensions to it.
Reading comprehension is your friend. All of the physics beyond the standard model is not the same as non-SM physics evidence accessible at particle colliders.
By esiegel on 17 Nov 2012 #permalink
In the previous post, Ethan stated in bold print "there is no need for any new physics beyond the standard model". This statement is simply in direct contradiction with the examples od dark matter, quantum gravity, etc, that are the subject if this post.
Facts please, not spin and bias.
regarding the graviton - is there any conceivable experiment that would detect it (meaning, detect quantization of gravity)? Thanks. Also, great recent series of blog posts about post-SM physics. Much appreciated, as always.
By david (not verified) on 17 Nov 2012 #permalink
Yeah, lets attack this guy for helping us to expand our base of knowledge!! Grumble....grumble....grumble.....
Great Post, Ethan! Thank You!
By Jon (not verified) on 17 Nov 2012 #permalink
Bob, there's no NEED for a ton of different things in the universe that are there nevertheless. Humans? Not needed - here anyway.
By IasasaI (not verified) on 17 Nov 2012 #permalink
How well would glueballs fit the characteristics required for dark matter?
By qbsmd (not verified) on 17 Nov 2012 #permalink
is there any conceivable experiment that would detect it (meaning, detect quantization of gravity)?
No, at least according to wikipedia:
Unambiguous detection of individual gravitons, though not prohibited by any fundamental law, is impossible with any physically reasonable detector. The reason is the extremely low cross section for the interaction of gravitons with matter. For example, a detector with the mass of Jupiter and 100% efficiency, placed in close orbit around a neutron star, would only be expected to observe one graviton every 10 years, even under the most favorable conditions. It would be impossible to discriminate these events from the background of neutrinos, since the dimensions of the required neutrino shield would ensure collapse into a black hole.
By Lotharloo (not verified) on 17 Nov 2012 #permalink
The simplest scenario possible could be supersymmetry at high energies, at worst outside the range LHC can probe indirectly.
The upshot is that it would give a dark matter candidate from simply having eternal inflation on a string background physics freeze out first a supersymmetric sector and then the standard model sector. (This is Douglas et all variant of eternal inflation.)
Much of physics would then just be “just the funny way it is” prediction* of anthropic theory, something that dark energy has hinted at since 1998. That would include the neutrino masses and baryogenesis. (I think, IIRC there are mechanisms of "bubbles" of matter respectively anti-matter proposed in inflation physics.)
Quantum gravity would then be string theory.
* The ability to make a testable prediction, as here, is of course the hallmark of a physical explanation.
By Torbjörn Larsson, OM (not verified) on 17 Nov 2012 #permalink
I forgot to ask - isn't inflation also a "top clue" to new physics?
Since it should be a scalar field like the Higgs field, wouldn't inflation have particles as well? Do they become too diluted for us to observe, or is the field never excited enough to make any?
one way would be to engineer equipment that could gather precise data on processes that happen in the Universe which have huge energy - thus mass - thus gravity output. Such as black hole mergers. Of course, then you still have to find one, but still.
The other would be to "really" measure gravitational waves, and some other properties about them directly, if possible, from those you could infer gravitons properties.
But getting it in the accelerator is impossible for us.
By Sinisa Lazarek (not verified) on 17 Nov 2012 #permalink
Please forgive any ignorance here, but isn't gravity the effect of space changing shape when it encounters matter or energy? If so then the warped shape defines the path that matter/energy follows. If this description is accurate then space would seem to be the "container" that matter and energy flow through. Why then the need for a graviton?
If I'm off the rails, please reel me back in! ;)
By Mark (not verified) on 18 Nov 2012 #permalink
In the previous post, Ethan stated in bold print “there is no need for any new physics beyond the standard model”. ...
You missed out the really important bit. Ethan preceded the bit in bold with "the results are in, and what they basically state is that ..."
So let's try to understand this, not spin it? One experiment, with a critical parameter measurement for constraining the Standard Model and its various alternate has come in and supports the basic Standard Model. Which makes no difference to all of the other experiments, facts and suppositions about the Standard Model.
It might mean that all of our current alternates to SM are wrong - in a way that the SM is not (if we accept that it is incomplete or a useful approximation - cf Principia versus General Relativity on gravity) because they are constrained away. Which means that reality is something we haven't thought of yet.
By Surreptitious Evil (not verified) on 18 Nov 2012 #permalink
Very good summary Ethan.
I've have to read it carefully later.
Physics must wait.
Packing for a holiday week, family and friends.
Have a happy Thanksbiving.
By OKThen (not verified) on 19 Nov 2012 #permalink
Here's another speculation about a possible null result: what if LIGO II doesn't detect gravitational waves (quite possible), but LISA or its successors don't either?
By ScentOfViolets (not verified) on 19 Nov 2012 #permalink
@ScentOfViolets
we have indirect confirmation of grav. waves already. Not from LIGO or LISA, but from observing binary neutron starts. Orbital decay is consistent with grav. waves predictions. So in a way we know they are there, measuring them is another story.
You may take it as a given that I'm very aware of this ;-) Don't you see where this line of speculation goes?
not sure what you are aiming at. And to what speculation are you referring to? If you want to say something, say it. Don't sidestep around it.
Lotharloo
Wikipedia is great but it will never be the last word in physics.
Regarding the possibility of directly detecting a graviton, here is one possible way.
http://www.science20.com/quantum_diaries_survivor/cdf_discovers_graviton
(I don't think the graviton has been found this way yet; but it is a possibility way) And I expect theorist to think of other possible ways. (Note: I am not an expert and I defer to expert opinion on this matter)
Ethan. Very nice summary.
Nothing else to say.
not sure what you are aiming at. And to what speculation are you referring to? If you want to say something, say it. Don’t sidestep around it.
I didn't think I was being particularly cryptic, but okay - suppose we see the sort of in-spiralling of gravitationally-bound partners that GR predicts as a consequence of gravitational waves, but that those waves are never predicted? What are the implications?
This is in the spirit of the implications of null results that annoyingly persist, despite ever larger amounts of money and effort being thrown at them.
er, substitute "detected" for "predicted".
One implication of no gravity waves is that the gravitational reaction is propogated at faster than the speed of light. That would mean that there isn't a graviton (at the very least in this case of cloe large objects). Gravity would have to be solely a reaction to spacetime curvature, inherent in the fabric of space.
By Wow (not verified) on 20 Nov 2012 #permalink
@OKThen
mmm... sorry, but that article you linked from science 2.0 is from 1st of April... hint.. april's fool. It was a joke. All science articles there from 1st of April are just jokes.
" suppose we see the sort of in-spiralling...."
don't need to suppose anything. It's been done. Heck, people got a nobel prize for it some 20 years ago!
You're being deliberately obtuse, I see, since there's no way you could have missed the logical conjunction. I see no further need to treat you as if you're being sincere. That this is the best thing you can do with your time is . . . sad.
well sorry to not be able to indulge your crackpottery. My suggestion to you... and your spare time. Go read couple of books on astrophysics. Spend couple of months/years on studying different theories. Learn about gravity, and relativity. And then, come back here, and we'll talk.
You have the nerve to call me deliberately obtuse, yet it's clear from your writing that you have no clue about what you're talking about.
p.s. even if I follow your line of reasoning, it still changes nothing.
1. we have a theory of gravity that thus far matches ALL our observations. Is it complete. No. Does the Universe really work as GR describes it. We don't know. It's all an approximation, albeit very precise one. I mean, heck, we can launch spacecraft to other planets and land them within 2km of ideal coordinate.
2. indirect effects of gravitational waves detected. Does it mean they exist. As far as theory. Yes.
3. What would happen if LIGO and LISA never detect them. Nothing. We will use GR as long as it suits our needs and nothing better comes along.
So if I were to use you attitude and rudeness.. Your question is pointless. It's like asking: "well, what if we never invent a microscope that can see quarks?" Who cares. If the math fits observation, use it. If the observation's don't fit, change the math.
Violets, I note that you discarded the answer that WAS given to you so that you could go all snooty snotbrace on SL here.
That's rather proof that you weren't asking for an answer, but trolling for something to complain about.
Sinisa
I guess it's my day to be the fool.
But I wouldn't discount experimental physicists ingenuity.
Ha ha, fooled I am
I must add that the standard model is not complete for another reason.
We don't understand why the standard model of elementary particles has three generations of quarks and leptons. The universe works just fine with only one generation of quarks and electrons.
Scientist yabber all the time about "Occam's razor"; and at the heart of physics, the standard model has triple razor blades with no clear explanation of the benefit of triple blades. At least Gillette tells you why those two extra blades give you a smoother shave.
Is the universe just being silly by having two extra generations of quarks and leptons? Does the universe have a sense of humor? The universe only needs the 1st generation of quarks and leptons. How funny is that?
Some physicists get the universe's joke.
- “If I could remember the names off all these particles, I'd be a botanist.” Enrico Fermi
- "Who ordered that?" I. I. Rabi famously quipped; when the "mu meson" muon was recognized as just a "heavy electron" with an insignificant role in the universe.
If science was as popular as politics and religion; the comedians would be joking, the auudiences would be laughing and the bookmakers would make the odds of "preons" versus "4th generation" quarks and leptons.
Some physicists think the universe is very serious.
They expect a clear headed "Occam's explanation" involving some precise preon particle physics experiment at CERN's LHC, Fermilab or an astrophysics observation.
But The Jimmy Fineman (TJF) held a different opinion in his recent interview with Physics Entertainment Today (PET)
PET, "Is there any particle physics beyond the standard model?"
TJF , "That's a stupid question. The gods not only play dice; they have "love particles". Those 1st generation quarks and leptons may be legitimate, even royalty with pomp and glitze; but they got no substance. They'll show their privates in any tabloid's paparazzi experiment."
PET, "What are "love particles"?"
TJF, "The god's "love particles." Like the 2nd and 3rd generation quarks and leptons; they're illegitimate with no heir apparent purpose; but they got a lot of substance. They mostly keep their mouths shut in the tabloid experiments."
PET, "Any predictions you care to share?"
TJF, "Those prissy preon physicists got it all wrong; my odds favor the 4th generation quarks and leptons."
PET, "Why?"
TJF, "The 4th generation quarks and leptons will keep their mouths shut until a $10 billion experiment temps them to enter the game. They don't front page like royalty; and they got more substance and fundamental integrity than even the 2nd and 3rd generation quarks and leptons. And yes, I know the gods, so my odds favor a 4th generation of "love particles"."
PET, "So what exactly are you saying?"
TJF, "There won't be any "Occam's experiment" that explains 2nd and 3rd generation of quarks and leptons with prissy preon particles. No! When the CERN, Fermilab and/or astrophysics teams put up some real money; their experiments will find the 4th generation of quarks and leptons. I will be laughing with the gods and my odds all the way to the bank."
PET, "So there you have it fromThe Jimmy; no prissy preons; it's "love particles" all the way down, at least to a 4th generation."
"Preon research is motivated by the desire to explain already known facts (retrodiction), which include
-To reduce the large number of particles...
-To explain the three generations of fermions.
-To calculate parameters that are currently unexplained by the Standard Model
-To provide reasons for the very large differences in energy-masses observed in supposedly fundamental particles.
-To provide alternative explanations for the electro-weak symmetry breaking without invoking a Higgs field
-To account for neutrino oscillation and mass.
-To make new nontrivial predictions, for example, to provide possible cold dark matter candidates.
-To explain why there exists only the observed variety of particle species and not something else" wikipedia
"What can experimentalist do to prove or disprove the existence of prions?... We are looking for a fourth generation of quarks and leptons and for some evidence that the force-carrying particles also have generations--that the W and Z bosons, which mediate the weak nuclear force, have heavier cousins... physicists are forging ahead and blazing a trail into the quantum frontier." The Universe is a Complex and Intricate Place by Don Lincoln, Scientific American, Nov 2012 pg 38-43 http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=the-inner-life-of-quar…
Before there were quarks and QCD, there were hundreds of particles known to exist, and no clear way to categorize them or explain them. Your Enrico Fermi quote comes from this period. One could easily ask if this was a cosmic joke, because why did the universe need all these exotic and ephemeral particles?
However then we discovered a smaller, simpler set of particles that explained the abundance of particles previously known with smaller constituents. The answer to "why does the universe need them?" is then obvious: they must exist as a consequence of the behavior of quarks.
Then we discovered more of those types of particles, but nowhere near as many as we had before. The picture is still, relatively, much simpler conceptually, even if the math is more difficult.
Will we discover a more fundamental rule which changes the "joke" of 3 unexplained generations of quarks into an obvious consequence of their more base nature? Maybe. Maybe not.
Sometimes our view of the universe gets more complex. Sometimes it gets simpler.
Physicists often desire to seek out the simpler view, in part for aesthetic reasons but also for the rather compelling reason that nature has on multiple occasions obliged us in revealing simplicity where there once appeared complexity.
But at the end of the day the universe is what it is whether we like it or not. It's exactly as complex as it is. But lets not anthropomorphize nature on that basis as either "serious" or "silly". Nature hates that.
By CB (not verified) on 28 Nov 2012 #permalink
Its ironic that CB tells others not to anthropomorphize nature, but goes on to claim that there are things that nature is so passionate about, in fact there are things that nature "hates". wow....
I believe the internet goes "Whoosh" for you, Bob!
Why yes, that is ironic, thanks for noticing.
hundreds? are there really hundreds of different particles?
seems like dozens is a better magnitude.
By Kevin Dowd (not verified) on 29 Nov 2012 #permalink
Well yeah -- there's a lot of ways to combine 6 quarks (5 really since top quarks decay too fast) and their anti-particles with different spins to make hadrons, and new ones were popping out of particle accelerators like crazy in the 50s.
I don't know exactly how many have been found or are possible. Go here:
http://pdg.lbl.gov/2010/listings/contents_listings.html
And click on Mesons and Baryons (the two types of hadrons, which are things made from quarks) and then imagine you didn't have any set of rules for classifying or understanding why they exist.
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Molecular Phenotyping
Mitochondrial Complex IV Assay
MITOS PLATFORM - Quantitative evaluation of Cytochrome c oxidase (COX) activity (complex IV).
Quantitative evaluation of Cytochrome c oxidase (COX) activity (complex IV).
Cytochrome c oxidase (COX) activity is used to determine the activity of the respiratory Complex IV and can represent an indicator of the oxidative capacity of the cells.
COX is the terminal enzyme complex of the electron transport system and catalyzes the transfer of four electrons from cytochrome c to molecular oxygen, which is reduced to two molecules of water.
This transmembrane complex is located at the inner mitochondrial membrane and, in mammals, is composed by 13 different subunits.
The catalytic core of this complex is composed by three subunits encoded by mitochondrial-DNA, while the remaining ten subunits encoded by nuclear-DNA are located around the core and have regulatory function.
COX activity is regulated by a wide spectrum of physiological and pathological factors and many dysfunctions are invariably associated with increased mitochondrial reactive oxygen species production and cellular toxicity.
Under normal physiological conditions, COX acts as the rate limiting step of respiratory chain and its activity is an indicator of the oxidative capacity of the cells.
Cytochrome c oxidase activity is measured by following the decrease in absorbance due to the oxidation of ferrocytochrome c (ε = 18.7 mM−1 · cm−1).
KCN is added to inhibit cytochrome c oxidase activity, which is considered as the cyanide-sensitive rate of cytochrome c oxidation.
The reduction in absorbance at 550 nm is measured using a spectrophotometer
Oxidoreductase Assays
MITOS PLATFORM - Cyt c oxido-reductase activity.
Quantitative evaluation of mGPDH: Cyt c oxido-reductase activity.
mGPDH: Cyt c oxido-reductase activity is used to determine the activity of mytochondrial Glycerol-3-phosphate dehydrogenase.
mGPDH is an enzyme embedded on the outer surface of the inner mitochondrial membrane that catalyzes the irreversible oxidation of glycerol-3-phosphate to dihydroxyacetone phosphate and concomitantly transfers two electrons from FAD to the electron transport chain.
mGPDH is a very important enzyme of intermediary metabolism and as a component of glycerophosphate shuttle it functions at the crossroads of glycolysis, oxidative phosphorylation and fatty acid metabolism.
Alteration of mGPDH function appears to be associated with several pathological states.
mGPDH: Cyt c oxido-reductase activity was measured as the increase in absorbance at 550 nm due to the ferricytochrome c reduction in the presence of cytochrome c, Glycerol-3-phosphate and KCN.
Antimycin A is added to inhibit complex III activity and the mGPDH activity is considered as the antimycin-sensitive rate of cytochrome c reduction (ε = 18.7 mM−1 · cm−1).
The increase in absorbance at 550 nm is measured using a spectrophotometer
Mitochondrial Complex I Assay
MITOS PLATFORM - Mitochondrial Complex I + III Assay
Quantitative evaluation of complex I+III (NADH: Cyt c oxido-reductase activity).
Complex I+III activity is used to evaluate the activity of the first complex of the mitochondrial electron transfer chain.
Complex I (NADH dehydrogenase) is an enzyme of the respiratory chains present in several organisms from bacteria to humans.
The enzyme oxidizes NADH transferring electrons to Ubiquinone (Coenzyme Q, CoQ), a lipid soluble electron carrier embedded in the lipid bilayer of the inner mitochondrial membrane.
Mitochondrial complex I activity (NADH:ubiquinone oxidoreductase) has been considered difficult to assay, largely because of the inaccessibility of the complex in the inner mitochondrial membrane and the insolubility of the ubiquinone.
For this reason it is preferred to evaluate the activity of the I + III complexes (NADH: Cytc oxido-reductase activity).
Complex I dysfunction alone, account for approximately half all defects in oxidative phosphorylation and variations of its activity are described in various pathologies.
NADH: Cyt c oxido-reductase activity is measured as the increase in absorbance at 550 nm due to the ferricytochrome c reduction in the presence of cytochrome c, NADH and KCN.
Rotenone is added to inhibit complex I activity, which is considered as the rotenone-sensitive rate of cytochrome c reduction (ε = 18.7 mM−1 · cm−1).
The increase in absorbance at 550 nm is measured using a spectrophotometer.
Oxidative Phosphorylation Assay
MITOS PLATFORM - Oxidative Phosphorylation Assay
Analyses of the oxidative phosphorylation system.
Analyses of the oxidative phosphorylation system is used for the characterization of mitochondrial respiratory capacity.
The oxidative phosphorylation system consists of five multimeric complexes embedded in the mitochondrial inner membrane. In addition to the complexes of the electron transport chain, there are other enzymes (dehydrogenases) able to supply electrons directly to ubiquinone. These electrons will then be transferred to complex III and subsequently to complex IV. All these enzymatic complexes work in concert to drive the aerobic synthesis of ATP. Mitochondrial and nuclear DNA mutations affecting the accumulation and function of these enzymes are the most common cause of mitochondrial diseases and have also been associated with neurodegeneration and aging.
The tests that can be done to characterize the mitochondrial respiratory chain enzymes are:
• Complex I+III
• Glycerol-3-phosphate dehydrogenase + III
• Proline dehydrogenase + III
• Complex II + III
• Complex III
• Complex IV
• Complex V
These assays can be performed in mitochondria-enriched fractions prepared from tissues or cultured cells, in tissue homogenates, or in whole cells.
Mitochondrial Toxicity Studies
MITOS PLATFORM - Citrate Synthase activity
Quantitative evaluation of Citrate synthase (CS) activity
CS activity is used to evaluate the mitochondrial content.
Citrate synthase is the enzyme that catalyzes the first reaction of the Krebs cycle and is localized in the mitochondrial matrix.
Quantitative evaluation of its activity is used to estimate the mitochondrial content which is an important indicator of oxidative capacity.
CS activity is also used to normalize other bioenergetics parameters.
Low CS activity represents a low oxidative capacity.
CS catalyzes the condensation reaction of the two-carbon acetate residue from acetyl coenzyme A and a molecule of four-carbon oxaloacetate to form the six-carbon citrate.
The hydrolysis of the thioester of acetyl CoA results in the formation of CoA with a thiol group (CoA-SH).
The CoASH reacts with the DTNB to form 5-thio-2-nitrobenzoic acid (TNB), a yellow product that is monitored spectrophotometrically at 412 nm using a spectrophotometer
Oxidative Stress Assays
MITOS PLATFORM - Acotinase activity
Quantitative evaluation of Aconitase activity.
Aconitase activity is used as a biomarker for oxidative damage.
Aconitase is an iron-sulfur containing enzyme that catalyzes the isomerization of citrate to isocitrate via cis-aconitate in the Krebs cycle.
Aconitase activity is commonly used as a biomarker for oxidative stress and has been suggested to serve as an intramitochondrial sensor of redox status.
Aconitase enzymatic activity is assayed by measuring the conversion of cis-aconitate to isocitrate.
The assay monitors the disappearance of cis-aconitate as measured spectrophotometrically
Mitochondrial Stress Tests
MITOS PLATFORM - Total reduced Thiol test
Determination of total reduced thiol content.
Total Thiol assay is used to determine the antioxidant capacity of a cells.
Thiols represent the largest part of the overall antioxidant pool in the cells and therefore play a major role in protecting against damage from reactive oxygen species (ROS) and other oxidant compounds such as reactive nitrogen species (RNS).
Then the determination of total thiol reduced of cell extracts may be a useful parameter of assessment of oxidative stress.
In cells, thiol groups exist as free cysteine, glutathione and cysteine residues in proteins. Total reduced thiol content is assayed using the thiol reagent 5-5dithiobis[2nitrobenzoic acid] (DTNB) which reacts with the thiol groups forming a mixed disulfide and the and 2-nitro-5-thiobenzoic acid (TNB) which is quantified at 412 nm.
Phagocytosis Assay
Cells are challenged with appropriate stimuli, then fluorescein-labeled bioparticles are administered to cells, and modulation of phagocytic activity is quantitatively assayed.
An intraexperimental triplicate is carried out. Moreover, three independent experiments are performed.
Prices are comprehensive of scientific support for the whole duration of the project:
• In depth analysis of scientific literature
• Sample handling and cell isolation
• Scientific operative consultancy throughout the project
• Sharing of detailed protocols used in the project
• Definition of key experimental parameters
• Data analysis and report
• Raw data delivery
Neuropathic Pain Animal Models
CHEMOTHERAPY-INDUCED NEUROPATHIC PAIN
Chemotherapy-induced neuropathic pain is one of the most serious complications associated with anticancer
drugs. It leads to a lower quality of life and dysfunction of the sensory, motor, and autonomic systems, and often causes patients to discontinue chemotherapy. Chemotherapy-induced neuropathic pain is usually misdiagnosed and undertreated, due to a lack of consensus and unclear pathophysiology, for which many mechanisms have been suggested, including mitochondrial dysfunction and various pain mediators.
To date, no agents have been shown to effectively prevent chemotherapy-induced neuropathic pain, and long-term management of pain is therefore becoming one of the most challenging aspects of treatment for neurologists and oncologists.
Pathology Model
In order to recreate in vitro the chemotherapy induced neuropathic pain model, we will challenge the primary sensory neurons (Primary cultures of DRG neurons from Sprague Dawley rats) with a well-known chemotherapeutic agent, namely vincristine.
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The following parameters will be taken into consideration:
Cell viability
Axonal degeneration
LDH release
IL1beta/TNF-alpha production
Morphological modulation
Electrophysiological properties
Diabetic painful neuropathy affects over 40% of adult diabetic patients. The pathology has been
associated with a number of modifiable and non-modifiable risk factors, including the degree of
hyperglycemia, lipid and blood pressure indexes, diabetes duration, and height. Diabetic neuropathy
affects all peripheral nerves including pain fibers, motor neurons and the autonomic nervous system.
With the exception of tight glucose control, there are no specific treatments for diabetic neuropathy, and
current therapeutical strategies are rather aimed at reducing pain and other symptoms (Options for
pain control include tricyclic antidepressants (TCAs), serotonin-norepinephrine reuptake inhibitors
(SNRIs), antiepileptic drugs (AEDs), etc.).
Primary cultures of DRG neurons, harvested from normal Sprague Dawley rats, will be cultured in
presence of high concentration of glucose (e.g. 60mM) in order to recreate diabetic condition in vitro.
Increasing evidence indicates that one of the major causes of diabetic peripheral neuropathy is an overproduction
of reactive oxygen species which leads to oxidative stress, mitochondrial dysfunction,
neuronal damage and finally apoptosis.
Neurons isolated from dorsal root ganglia (DRG) of mammals such as rodents and hamsters rendered
diabetic by treatment with drugs such as streptozotocin and alloxan have been used for study of diabetic
neuropathy.. Primary culture of DRG neurons from normal untreated rodents are now the preferred in
vitro model given they mimic events occurring in vivo and permit detailed molecular analysis.
Furthermore the use of primary cultures of DRG neurons has been adopted to obtain conspicuous data
relative to changes in morphology such as reduction in neurite extension, changes in the activity of
enzymes involved in the tricarboxylic acid cycle, electron transport chain, antioxidant systems and
molecular events involved in mitochondrial dysfunction leading to apoptosis. DRG primary cultures are
also convenient systems to trace the time kinetics of the molecular events occurring during cell death,
due to oxidative stress. Most of these events have been shown to peak between 1-3 h after treatment
with glucose due to sudden increase in ROS and associated stress. These observations concur with in
vivo studies.
The following assays will be performed:
Cytoskeletal disruption
Morphological Analysis- structural test in high content automated microscopy
Functional analysis - functional test on neuronal network electrophysiological activity (MEA
system)
Myelination Animal Models
Oligodendrocyte precursor cells will be isolated from glal feeder layer, then maturation will be induced by selected medium exposure. Oligodendrocytes maturation will be quantified of MPB-positive oligodendrocytes expressing O4. Myelination will be quantified by counting the number of myelinating MBP-positive oligodendrocytes as a percentage of the total number of MBP-positive oligodendrocytes.
10nM Adrenomedulline or 1microM Benzatropine will be used as positive controls
Rat Mouse
In vitro Neurotoxicity Testing
In vitro Cardiovascular Models
Both cardiogenic as well as septic shock in vitro models available with primary cells
Artificial Synapse Formation Assay
Neuronal Assays
MicroRNA (miRNA) Synthesis
Stem Cell Assays
Cell Invasion Assays
ILLUMINA based platform
Endothelial Barrier Screening Platform
The key mechanism of endothelial dysfunction is the imbalance of endothelium-derived nitric oxide (NO) production and reactive oxygen species (ROS) generation, resulting in a decline in the bioavailability of NO and excessive accumulation of ROS. This finally leads to oxidative stress and cellular injuries.
Endothelial cells (i.e. Human Umbilical Vein Endothelial Cells HUVEC-2 or aortic endothelial cells HAEC) will be exposed to metabolic stress (i.e. oxygen glucose deprivation) in the presence/absence of the CLIENT’s compound.
Both static and dynamic in vitro microfluidic models will be taken into consideration in order to evaluate endothelial barrier integrity.
The following quantitative parameters will be taken into consideration:
Gene expression profile: endothelial cells or aortic endothelial cells will be cultured in vitro and tested for their angiogenetic properties in the presence/absence of CLIENT’s compound. Ranibizumab will be used as control. The expression of main angiogenic molecules will be quantitatively evaluated.
Biochemical Characterization
a. Total ROS production (i.e. DCF-DA fluorescent assay)
b. NADPH-dependent superoxide formation ( i.e. Dihydroethidium (DHE) staining)
c. UV induced DNA damage: Human RPE cells will be exposed to selected oxidative stress models (UV light irradiation) in the presence/absence of CLIENT’s compounds, and morphological, biochemical, molecular as well as functional parameters will be quantitatively measured.
d. Cell viability and toxicity: (i.e. MTT assay)
e. Mitochondrial damage (i.e HCS Mitochondrial Health assay)
f. Inflammatory profile. A detailed analysis of pro inflammatory and angiogenic factor production will be characterized (i.e. IL-1α, IL-1β, IL-2, IL-4, IL-6, IL-8, IL-10, VEGF, TNFα, IFN-γ, EGF, MCP-1 etc…).
Blood Brain Barrier Screening Platform
The Blood-Brain Barrier (BBB) is a highly selective permeability barrier that separates the circulating blood from the brain extracellular fluid in the central nervous system (CNS). The Blood-Brain Barrier allows the passage of water, some gases, and lipid soluble molecules by passive diffusion, as well as the selective transport of molecules such as glucose and amino acids that are crucial to neural function
Chronic inflammatory states, as those typically occurring in aging diseases, lead to tissue degeneration and membrane permeability thus favouring immune cell crosstalk within the central nervous system. This crosstalk is crucial in the onset of neuroinflammatory events which characterize the early steps of neuronal degeneration
A model of in vitro Blood-Brain Barrier (BBB) using primary rat brain endothelial cells will be used (Maria Deli ref.). BBB will be subjected to oxygen glucose deprivation (OGD) to mimic stroke conditions and beside ROS, cell viability and eNOS functionality, BBB integrity will be evaluated.
The following morphological, biochemical and functional parameters will be quantitatively assayed:
a. Cell viability and toxicity: (i.e. MTT assay)
b. Mitochondrial damage (i.e. HCS Mitochondrial Health assay)
c. Total ROS production (i.e. DCF-DA fluorescent assay)
d. NADPH-dependent superoxide formation (i.e. Dihydroethidium (DHE) staining).
e. Inflammatory profile: a detailed analysis of pro inflammatory and angiogenic factor production will be characterized (i.e. IL-1α, IL-1β, IL-2, IL-4, IL-6, IL-8, IL10, VEGF, TNF-α, IFN-γ, EGF, MCP-1 etc…).
Morphological Characterization
a. The morphological analysis of membrane integrity will be monitored by means of confocal microscopy on immunofluorescent-labeled cells; zona occludens and tight junction will be quantitatively evaluated.
Functional Characterization
a. BBB permeability: i.e. FITC-dextran tracer.
b. Trans-endothelial electric resistance.
Multiple Sclerosis Screening Platform
One of the many open questions in multiple sclerosis research is whether inflammation in the CNS is initiated by an autoimmune attack, triggered by unidentified environmental factors, or represents a response to axonal degeneration and myelin degradation secondary to processes that are intrinsic to the CNS. Lesions characterized by microglial activation and hypoxia-like characteristics, as well as cortical lesions and the slowly progressive chronic phase of the disease, are likely driven by activated myeloid cells.
However, at present it is not clear what keeps the microglial cells activated. It is possible that the T cells found throughout the CNS of patients with multiple sclerosis provide constant stimuli, i.e. by pro-inflammatory cytokines, which activate microglia.
Pathology Platform
In order to recreate an in vitro pathological scenario mimicking MS condition, microglia cells will be exposed to detrimental challenges known to activate microglia in the neuroinflammatory scenarios leading to MS (i.e. hypoxia and LPS exposure) and functional parameters will be quantitatively evaluated.
Moreover, the effect of the CLIENT’s compound in the modulation of the detrimental scenario will be quantitatively monitored in a dose response fashion.
The following parameters will be quantitatively evaluated:
b. Cell migration: (i.e. chemotactic chamber)
c. Total ROS production: (i.e. DCF-DA fluorescent assay)
d. Phagocytic activity: (i.e. Vybrant Assay)
e. Mitochondrial damage: (i.e. HCS Mitochondrial Health assay)
f. Cytokine production by inflammatory panel on multiplex ELISA: (i.e. IL-1α , IL-1β, IL-2, IL-4, IL-6, IL-8, IL-10, VEGF, TNF-α, IFN-γ, EGF, MCP-1)
g. NO production: (i.e. Griess assay)
a. Membrane permeability (i.e. Yo-Pro1 uptake)
b. Microvesicle shedding
Cerebral Ischemia Screening Platform
Primary cortical neurons will be exposed to oxygen glucose deprivation (OGD) for 1h in presence absence of CLIENT’s compound and to reoxygenation for 24 hours as a model of cerebral ischemia.
Complicating the biological scenario, as cerebral microenvironment plays a crucial role in pathogenesis of cerebral ischemia, neurons will be put in microfluidic communication with glia from different brain areas (such as cortex or hippocampus) and then subjected to OGD and reoxygenation following the protocol described above, in presence absence of CLIENT’s compound.
After reoxygenation the following parameters will be evaluated:
Step 1 - Direct Neuronal Damage:
a. Qualitative evaluation of neuronal cytoskeletal disruption
b. Quantitative evaluation of dendritic branching
c. Quantitative evaluation of neurite elongation modulation
a. Quantitative evaluation of neuronal cell death (i.e. PI/DAPI/Calcein AM)
b. Quantitative evaluation of caspase activation (i.e. 3 or 8 or 9)
c. Quantitative evaluation of DNA degradation (i.e. TUNEL staining)
Analysis of oxidative stress
a. Quantitative evaluation of total ROS production
b. Quantitative evaluation of NO production
c. Mitochondrial membrane potential (MMP) (JC-10 dye by flow cytometry)
Step 2 - Glial Pro-Inflammatory Phenotype:
a. Quantitative evaluation of metabolic activity
b. Inflammatory cytokine production: (i.e. IL1 beta, TNFalpha, IL6)
c. Total ROS production
d. Quantification of NO production
a. Quantitative evaluation of phagocytic potential
b. Quantitative evaluation of membrane permeability
c. Quantitative evaluation of microvesicle shedding
Neuropathic Pain Screening Platform
Neuropathic pain is caused by damage or disease that affects the somatosensory system. Central neuropathic pain is found in spinal cord injury, multiple sclerosis, and some strokes. Central sensitization is an important mechanism of persistent neuropathic pain.
The modulatory effect of the CLIENT’s compound on vincristine challenged trigeminal gangliar neurons will be monitored by functional and morphological parameters. Particular attention will be given to neurite outgrowth assay, performed with a well established model of dissociated primary trigeminal sensory ganglia neurons (TG) in culture. Ganglia from young (P12) C57-Black mice will be dissociated and plated in a series of bottom imaging black 96well plates and kept in culture. At 24h after plating, cells will be pre exposed for to the CLIENT’s compound and then cells will be exposed to damaging action exerted by vincristine at predefined concentration.
At a pre-determined time after compound exposure, cells will be fixed and immuno-stained with antibodies against specific neuronal cytoskeleton marker beta-Tubulin3. Cells will be counterstained with Hoechst 33342 (Invitrogen) prior to image acquisition. The use of specific immunostaining for neuronal cytoskeleton filters neuronal process from the mixed cell populations, so neurite analysis is performed only on neurons. The efficacy of neuro-protective action exerted by the compound will be quantitatively monitored
Overall, assay that will be taken into consideration are:
a. Evaluation of neuronal viability
b. Evaluation of total ROS production
c. Evaluation of LDH release
Morphological Evaluation
a. Neurite outgrowth assay
Parkinson's Disease Screening Platform
The precise cause of Parkinson’s Disease (PD) is unknown, but there is a consensus that an inflammatory event is involved in the initiation of neurodegeneration, and that chronic neuroinflammation is a sustaining and exacerbating reason for the loss of the dopaminergic neurons.
Recent findings have revealed that the functional interaction between astrocytes, microglia and neurons govern both the sequence of inflammatory events (i.e. cascades of inflammatory mediators) and the pathological outcome (damage or absence of damage) to neurons. Among the proinflammatory molecules, cytokines play a central role in the self-propagation of neuroinflammation in PD.
In spite of the evidence indicating that inflammation might influence the pathogenesis of PD, there is considerable debate concerning which molecules are synthesized and released, how astrocytes and microglia interact reciprocally and with neuronal cells within the neurovascular unit, and how the kinetic responses and the precise connectivity of the inflammatory cascades are regulated
In order to evaluate the CLIENT’s compound modulatory activity of the neuroinflammatory events leading to dopaminergic neuron degeneration, physiologically relevant cell cultures of dopaminergic (DA) neurons will be either directly intoxicated with 6-OHDA or exposed to 6-OHDA primed glial medium. Both the direct effects on dopaminergic neurons as well as the microglial-mediated effects will be taken into consideration.
The following parameters will be analyzed:
Alzheimer's Disease Screening Platform
Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is the most common cause of dementia among ageing population. However, the mechanisms regulating synaptic dysfunction in AD are not fully understood, and require an in depth analysis of the crosstalk mechanisms ongoing during an inflammatory event, between the neuronal and non-neuronal cells present in the microenvironment, playing a crucial role in disease onset.
In order to evaluate the CLIENT’s compound modulatory activity of the neuroinflammatory events leading to neurdegeneration in AD, hippocampal neurons will be exposed to either Abeta oligomers, or to glial Abeta- primed glial medium. Both the direct effects on hippocampal neurons as well as the microglial-mediated effects will be taken into consideration.
Primary neuronal cultures isolated from Sprague Dowley rats will be exposed to Abeta oligomers in the presence / absence of CLIENT’s. The following parameters will be analyzed:
Microglia cells (i.e. BV2) will be challenged with Abeta oligomers in the presence/absence of CLIENT’s compound. The following parameters will be quantitatively monitored on glial cells:
b. Quantitative evaluation of intracellular calcium dynamics
c. Quantitative evaluation of membrane permeability
d. Quantitative evaluation of microvesicle shedding
Adhesion Molecules Detection Assay
Immunoassay testing platform for the simultaneous multi-detection of 5 soluble adhesion molecules in a single very low volume sample (2.5µl).
• E-Selectin
• P-Selectin
• L-Selectin
• Intercellular Adhesion Molecule-1 (ICAM-1)
• Vascular Cell Adhesion Molecule-1 (VCAM-1)
Animal Behavior Studies
We offer a comprehensive, multi-step characterization of the anatomical, physiological, and behavioral changes in your newly created genetically engineered models.
Panels generally incorporate:
• In-life analysis with clinical examinations, primary behavioral observations, growth curves, reproductive analysis, and cognitive analysis
• Pathology services in support of phenotypic characterization with clinical pathology, necropsy evaluations, and histopathology
• Molecular phenotyping assays utilizing quantitative PCR (Q-PCR) techniques,
• Biomarker screening via Multi-Analyte Profiles (MAP)
We can breed and maintain your genetically engineered colonies and readily transfer the offspring to our phenotyping program. Alternatively, we can receive animals for phenotyping directly from your facility.
Cell Migration Assays
We provide the following cell migration assays:
Boyden chamber assay and multiwell migration systems
Microfluidics technology-based assay
Cell Proliferation Assays
We provide evaluation of cell’s clonigenic performance, cell’s DNA synthesis and cell’s metabolic activity through:
Membrane staining (cristal violet, alamar blu, ecc)
Fluorescent-based assay
BrdU staining
Fluorescence/luminescence assay (BodiPy dUTP)
MTT assay, etc…
Apoptosis Assays
We provide evaluation of plasma-membrane permeability and DNA fragmentation and cell’s metabolic activity through:
Nuclear staining (propidium iodide, tunel)
Electrochemical gradient across mitochondrial membrane
Cytocrome C release
Annexin V
Fluorescent evaluation of phosphatidyserine
Protease activity assay (caspase 1,3,8)
Substrate for peptidase/caspase
We offer customized cloning DNA, siRNA, protocol design and implementation support and evaluation of phenotypic changes in transiently transfected cells
Cerebral Biomarker Detection Assay
Immunoassay testing platform for the simultaneous multi-detection of 5 cerebral biomarkers in a very low volume sample (35-100µl) with excellent sensitivity, precision and recovery.
The assays can be performed in two specific cerebral array:
Cerebral Array I:
• BDNF
• hFABP
• GFAP
• IL-6
Cerebral Array II:
• NSE
• NGAL
• sTNFRI
• D-dimer
• CRP
We provide customized solutions to unfold cellular complexity using a proprietary microfluidics technology, WIDE BioSCREEN™ (WBS).
WBS is an innovative multi-parametric platform for unfold cell-to-cell communication on in complex intercellular scenarios (brain, cancer, immune system, blood,liver, etc…). The technology recreates tissue/disease-like environments in vitro enabling a parallel multi-parametric analysis of the cellular response, taking into consideration a wide range of parameters which characterize the biological activity of the cells.
WIDE BioSCREEN™ enables early availability of highly predictive information on toxicology and effectiveness, a more informative biological candidates screenings, an improved lead optimization and validation process, a deep understanding of the functional role of surrounding cells in the biological effects candidate’s mediated and the dissection of molecular mechanisms involved downstream target receptor activation.
Cytokine Analysis
Testing platform for the simultaneous multi-analyte testing in normal and High Sensibility mode. The combination of highly specific antibodies and advanced chemistries enables up to 12 cytokines and growth factors to be detected simultaneously in a single very low volume sample (8.3µl).
Cytokine Immunoassay
Immunoassay testing platform for the simultaneous multi-analyte testing in normal and High Sensibility mode. The combination of highly specific antibodies and advanced chemistries enables up to 12 cytokines and growth factors to be detected simultaneously in a single very low volume sample (8.3µl).
The assays can be performed in several specific cytokine array:
Array I:
• Interleukin-1 α (IL-1α)
• Interleukin-1 β (IL-1β)
• Interleukin-2 (IL-2)
• Interleukin-10 (IL-10)
• Epidermal Growth Factor (EGF)
• Interferon-γ (IFN-γ)
• Monocyte Chemotactic Protein-1 (MCP-1)
• Tumor Necrosis Factor-α (TNF-α)
• Vascular Endothelial Growth Factor (VEGF)
Array II:
• Platelet Derived Growth Factor AA (PDGF-AA)
• Insulin-like Growth Factor 1 free (IGF-1)
• RANTES
• Eotaxin
• Interleukin 1 receptor antagonist (IL-1 Ra)
• Platelet Derived Growth Factor BB (PDGF-BB)
• Interferon inducible protein - 10 (IP-10)
• Interleukin 12p40 (IL12-p40)
Array III:
• Granulocyte Macrophage Colony Stimulating Factor (GM-CSF)
• Macrophage Inflammatory Protein - (1α MIP-1α)
Array IV:
• Matrix Metalloproteinase-9 (MMP-9)
• Soluble IL-2 Receptor α (sIL-2Rα)
• Soluble IL-6 Receptor (sIL-6R)
• Soluble Tumour Necrosis Factor Receptor I (sTNFRI)
• Soluble Tumour Necrosis Factor Receptor II (sTNFRII)
Array V:
• Interleukin- 3 (IL-3)
• Interleukin- 13 (IL-13)
• Interleukin- 12 p70 (IL-12 p70)
Capabilities:
Kit-based
Sandwich, Multiplex, ELISpot, in-Cell ELISA (ICE)
Homogenization and sonication of cell/tissue lysates
Transfection/Transduction of mammalian
Analyze serum, plasma, cells, tissues
Analyze fluorescent/chemiluminescent/chromogenic substrates
LI-Cor Odissey (In-Cell ELISA)
Ciraplex
Multi-channel, and automatic pipets
Number of samples processed in a single experiment: 50 in duplicate
Typical turn-around time: 30 days
Genotyping and Gene Expression Assays
Immunocytochemistry
We provide general staining, membrane staining, nucleic acid staining, organelle and protein staining and immunocytochemistry for:
Viability and proliferation
Customized analysis of protein expression and localization in normal or treated conditions
Customized sections prepared from specific animal models either challenged/unchallenged with specific pharmacological treatments (brain, heart, intestine (small), intestine (large), kidney, liver, lungs, ovary, spleen…)
In vitro Toxicity Testing
We provide in vitro viability and toxicity assays for quantitative evaluation of cell’s death and cell’s vitality metabolism through:
Nuclear Staining (Trypan blue/ P.I/ Hoechst/ YO-PRO)
Cellular substance release (i.e. LDH assay)
Bioluminescent assay (ATP based luciferase reaction)
Esterase substrate (i.e. Calcein-AM)
Glucose Uptake
Measurement of oxidation/reduction state
In vitro Neurodegeneration Models
We can provide in vitro models for several pathologic conditions:
BROAD SPECTRUM:
o Cytoskeletal alterations via immunocytochemistry
o Alteration of synaptic plasticity
o Tau phosphosylation analysis
o Synapsin dispersion
o Glutamatergic/GABAergic cell specific contribution
o Ionomycin/Bapta induced alteration of calcium equilibrium
EPILEPSY:
o Glutamate-induced excitotoxicity in vitro model
o Kainic acid-induced excitotoxicity in vitro model
ISCHEMIA:
o Oxygen -glucose deprivation in vitro model
ALZHEIMER:
o In vitro exposure to Ab fibrils
PARKINSON:
o MPP+ challenge of neurons
o Tyrosine OH staining
In vitro Inflammation Models
We provide Rat, Mouse and Human cell cultures in different formats (cryovials, homogenates, mRNA extracts, fixed cells).
BRAIN:
Rat and Mouse
Primary cortical astrocytes
Primary hippocampal astrocytes
Primary cortical neurons
Primary hippocampal neurons
Primary microglia
Primary DRG cultures
Primary Subventricular Zone
CANCER:
Pancreatic Adenocarcinoma
Anaplastic Large Cell Lymphoma
IMMUNE SYSTEM:
Human Monocytes
LIVER:
Human Hepatocytes
STEM CELL:
Rat, Mouse and Human
Mesenchymal (Adipose Tissue-derived MSC and Bone Marrow-derived MSC)
Neural Stem Cells (Human Glioblastoma, Skin)
Pathology Microenvironment Analysis
We have developed a multiparametric microfluidic platform (WIDEBioSCREEN) for unfolding cell-cell communication in complex intercellular scenarios ( CNS, oncology, rheumatoid arthitis, immune diseases, metabolic diseases, etc. ) There are many advantages associated with the use of this platform:
• tissue complexity is recreated and finely modulated in-vitro
• cell specific contribution in a pathophysiological context is dissected
• compensatory intracellular mechanisms are identified
• experiments are run on microscale (with very limited cell samples) and on primary cell lines
The use of WIDEBioSCREEN yields main economic benefits at different stages of drug development:
• R&D: enables rapid and informative comprehension of molecular mechanisms associated with response to candidate drug
• Preclinical : enables effective selection and ranking of the most promising candidates per indication
• Repositioning: enables cost effective repurposing of failed candidates through recreation in vitro of tissues complexity and identification of new indications.
In vivo PK/PD Studies
Our dedicated Pharmacokinetics group works closely with other operational departments to provide pharmacokinetic data for animalclinical studies in a timely fashion.
We can provide the following services:
• Non-compartmental pharmacokinetics
• Compartmental pharmacokinetics/simulations,
• Ascending dose (assessment of dose proportionality)
• Repeat dose (assessment of multiple dose linearity)
• Bioavailability and bioequivalence
• Drug interaction studies
• Pharmacodynamic and PK/PD modeling
• Input into study design, including preclinical-to-clinical considerations (allometric scaling) utilizing information from preclinical toxicokinetic studies
Our pharmacokinetic consultancy service provides advice and support for all aspects of clinical pharmacokinetics and is offered as part of a complete development program, as a full-service single-study package, or as a stand-alone service. Upon request, pharmacokinetic parameter estimation output and reports may include a comprehensive text interpretation of the data.
We provide protein purification, sample preparation, gel electrophoresis and immune assays for:
Customized cells protein isolation and quantification
Subcellular organelles preparation (exosomes, microvesicles)
Immuno precipitation
Co-immunoprecipitation
2D gel electrophoresis
Protein gel staining
Multi Cytokine release analysis (ELISA)
Morphological analysis by immunocytochemical staining
RNA Extraction and Purification
gel extraction sequencing, quantification
Signaling Pathway Analysis
We provide ad hoc analysis of signalling pathways and smart data/results interpretation to unfold complex intercellular comunication.
TUNEL Assay
Terminal deoxynucleotidyl transferase dUTP nick end labeling assay
Tunel assay for the detection of apoptotic cells in tissue sections
qPCR
siRNA Synthesis
Cell Signaling Analyses
Lead Identification and Validation
ADME/DMPK Studies
Drug Metabolism and Pharmacokinetics
Cells and Tissues
Cell and Tissue Culture
Animal Learning, Memory, and Behavior Tests
Specialized Cell-Based Assays
Animal Model in vivo Analyses
CNS/Neurology Animal Models
Immune Cell Assays
DNA Damage & Repair Assays
Cell Invasion & Migration Assays
Protein Expression Visualization
Animal Cognition & Behavior Tests
Cytotoxicity Assays
Nucleic Acid Services
DNA Services
Animal Models and Studies
Animal Models of Disease
Functional & Cell Type Specific Assays
Cell Death Assays
In vitro Disease Models
Cell Viability & Proliferation Assays
Pain/Neuropathy Animal Models
Pain/Neuropathy Animal Models Services
Enzyme Assays
Enzyme Assays Services
Biochemical Assays Services
In vivo Toxicity Testing
In vivo Toxicity Testing Services
Cellular Health & Metabolism Assays
Cellular Health & Metabolism Assays Services
Induced Pluripotent Stem Cell (iPSC) Culture
Reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction
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EPA’s PFAS Interim Strategy for Certain EPA-Issued Wastewater Permits
On November 30, 2020, the Environmental Protection Agency announced it is aggressively addressing per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) in the environment. The agency announced two steps that it states would help ensure that federally enforceable wastewater monitoring for PFAS can begin as soon as validated analytical methods are finalized.
First, EPA issued a memorandum detailing an interim National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) permitting strategy for addressing PFAS in EPA-issued wastewater permits.
EPA’s interim NPDES permitting strategy for PFAS advises EPA permit writers to consider including PFAS monitoring at facilities where these chemicals are expected to be present in wastewater discharges, including from municipal separate storm sewer systems and industrial stormwater permits. The PFAS that could be considered for monitoring will have validated EPA analytical methods for wastewater testing. The agency anticipates being available on a phased-in schedule as multi-lab validated wastewater analytical methods are finalized. The agency’s interim strategy encourages the use of best management practices where appropriate to control or abate the discharge of PFAS and includes recommendations to facilitate information sharing to foster adoption of best practices across states and localities.
Second, EPA released information on progress in developing new analytical methods to test for PFAS compounds in wastewater and other environmental media.
In coordination with the interim NPDES permitting strategy, EPA is developing analytical methods in collaboration with the U.S. Department of Defense to test for PFAS in wastewater and other environmental media, such as soils. The agency is releasing a list of 40 PFAS chemicals that are the subject of analytical method development. This method would be in addition to Method 533 and Method 537.1 that are already approved and can measure 29 PFAS chemicals in drinking water. EPA anticipates that multi-lab validated testing for PFAS will be finalized in 2021. For more information on testing method validation, see https://www.epa.gov/cwa-methods.
EPA continues to expand its PFAS Action Plan to protect the environment and human health. To date, it has assisted more than 30 states in helping address PFAS, and the agency is continuing to build on this support. Across the nation, the EPA has addressed PFAS using a variety of enforcement tools under SDWA, TSCA, RCRA, and CERCLA (where appropriate), and will continue to protect public health and the environment.
The agency is also validating analytical methods for surface water, groundwater, wastewater, soils, sediments, and biosolids; developing new methods to test for PFAS in air and emissions; and improving laboratory methods to discover unknown PFAS. EPA is developing exposure models to understand how PFAS moves through the environment to impact people and ecosystems.
EPA published a validated method to test for and measure 29 chemicals in drinking water accurately.
EPA implemented the agency’s PFAS Action Plan by proposing to regulate PFOA and PFOS drinking water, asked for information and data on other PFAS substances, and sought comment on potential monitoring requirements and regulatory approaches. The EPA anticipates proposing nationwide drinking water monitoring for PFAS that uses new methods to detect PFAS at lower concentrations than previously possible.
EPA issued Interim Recommendations for Addressing Groundwater Contaminated with PFOA and PFOS, which guides federal cleanup programs (e.g., CERCLA and RCRA) and helpful to states and tribes.
EPA is working on the proposed rule to designate PFOA and PFOS as hazardous substances under CERCLA. In the absence of the rule, EPA has used its existing authorities to compel cleanups.
EPA issued a final regulation that added a list of 172 PFAS chemicals to Toxics Release Inventory reporting as required by the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2020.
EPA issued a final regulation that can stop products containing PFAS from entering or reentering the marketplace without EPA’s explicit permission.
Additional information about PFAS at www.epa.gov/pfas or on the SCS Industrial Wastewater Pre-treatment website.
This blog references information issued from the US EPA, Office of Public Engagement.
Tags: environmental compliance, groundwater, industrial wastewater, industrial wastewater pretreatment, landfill leachate, leachate, PFAS, scs, SCS Engineers, storm water, stormwater
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Warring sides in Libya sign ‘historic’ permanent ceasefire deal, UN says
In this file photo taken on September 7, 2019, a fighter loyal to the internationally recognised Libyan Government of National Accord (GNA) fires a truck-mounted gun during clashes with forces loyal to strongman Khalifa Haftar in the capital Tripoli's suburb of Ain Zara © AFP / Mahmud TURKIA
The opposing parties in the Libyan conflict signed a deal on Friday for a permanent nationwide ceasefire, the UN said, adding that the move could become a turning point towards stability in the country.
The ceasefire accord between the two delegations of the Libyan 5+5 Joint Military Commission was reached at the United Nations headquarters in Geneva, and the UN Support Mission in Libya (UNSMIL) showed a live video of the signing ceremony on its Facebook account on Friday.
Military representatives of the internationally recognized Government of National Accord (GNA) and commander Khalifa Haftar’s eastern-based Libyan National Army (LNA) participated in the negotiations that are likely to be followed by political consultations in Tunisia next month.
The talks culminated in “a historic achievement” when the Libyan parties reached a permanent ceasefire agreement in all areas of the country, the UN said. It marks “an important turning point towards achieving peace and stability in Libya.”
Friday’s move comes after mediation led by UN envoy Stephanie Williams this week. “Your patriotism was your way forward and you were able to reach a ceasefire agreement,” she told the delegations after the signing ceremony.
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The first commercial passenger flight in more than a year from Tripoli landed in the eastern city of Benghazi on Friday, and Williams also hopes the accord reached in Geneva will allow displaced people and refugees to return to their homes.
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said in early October that “Libya’s future is at stake.” He described the peace talks in Geneva as a “rare opportunity” for peace.
Libya is split between the GNA and the LNA, which control the eastern part of the country. Haftar-led forces launched an assault on Tripoli in April 2019, which ended in June, after Turkey intervened in the conflict.
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said on Friday only time will show how lasting the ceasefire in Libya will be. “Its reliability does not seem too achievable to me,” he noted.
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Roughed up and pepper-sprayed: Filmmakers sue St. Louis police for unlawful arrest & assault
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Two documentary filmmakers are suing the St. Louis, Missouri police for arresting them during recent protests that erupted after the acquittal of a white former police officer in the killing of a black man.
Drew and Jennifer Burbridge filed the federal lawsuit on Tuesday, alleging their constitutional rights were violated by three St. Louis police officers during a mass arrest, according to the St. Louis Post-Dispatch.
Residents of Kansas City, Missouri, the Burbridges were among about 120 people taken into custody in a mass arrest on September 17, two days after a judge ruled that Jason Stockley was not guilty of first-degree murder in the 2011 death of Anthony Lamar Smith. The ruling sparked several days of protests throughout the St. Louis region.
Second lawsuit filed against St. Louis over police tactics in protests https://t.co/uKxst2x1fMpic.twitter.com/kpxNG9NySt
— STL Public Radio (@stlpublicradio) September 27, 2017
In the complaint they filed in St. Louis federal court, the plaintiffs alleged the three officers ‒ listed as John Does ‒ violated their First Amendment rights, retaliated against them for engaging in constitutionally protected activity, interfered with their right to record police officers in public places, and used excessive force to arrest them.
The protests turned unruly when some demonstrators hurled items at police and broke downtown windows. Officers pepper-sprayed protesters, and used a process known as “kettling,” in which lines of officers move protesters into a limited area. Police said they ordered the crowd to disperse and that those who failed to comply were arrested.
‘Point of action is to disturb’: Silent protesters block St. Louis City Hall
The Burbridges claim they didn’t hear an order to disperse and when the police began to converge they wanted to leave but were blocked in. The suit said police would not allow them to leave despite their pleas. Police sprayed both of them with chemical agents and threw Drew Burbridge to the pavement face-first, the lawsuit says. Once he was on the ground, two officers twisted Burbridge’s arms behind his back and repeatedly kicked him in the back while restraining his arms with zip-ties.
Even after he was restrained, according to the suit, three officers struck him all over the body with batons. During the beating, one of the officers asked, “Do you want to to take my picture now (expletive)?” according to the Kansas City Star.
The lawsuit claims Drew lost consciousness from the beating but came to when an officer lifted his head by the hair and sprayed him the face with a chemical.
Drew Burbridge said none of the officer would identify themselves, and they had removed their name tags.
ACLU filed lawsuit against St. Louis Officers' unlawful actions towards protestors. 160+ people have been arrested. https://t.co/I7NGgFywnT
— Hannah May (@hannahrosemay1) September 25, 2017
The September 17 arrests have drawn significant complaints, including a lawsuit from the ACLU of Missouri, alleging police were too forceful, taunted those being arrested, and arrested innocent bystanders. The Burbridges are seeking actual and punitive damages.
St. Louis Mayor Lyda Krewson and interim Police Chief Lawrence O’Toole on Wednesday announced they were asking the US attorney’s office to conduct an independent investigation, according to the New York Daily News.
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Why the Future of Influencer Marketing Will Be Organic Influencers
Megan DeGruttola @MeganDeGruttola
Influence has long been at the core of marketing - seeking it, amassing it, then effectively wielding it to achieve your goals. It's also, uncoincidentally, what gave rise to the influencer marketing industry.
But after riding high on the growing ubiquity of social platforms and the democratization of celebrity over the past decade, it seems influencer marketing - in the traditional sense - is in the midst of an irreversible fail from grace.
As Casey Ferrell, Vice President and Head of U.S. Monitor (owned by Kantar) said in a recent Media Post interview:
“We are at peak influencer, and it’s beginning to run its course”
And if you’ve been paying attention to the news at all this past year, it’s easy to see why.
The (Lack of) Trust Factor
As an industry, influencer marketing has become over-saturated and beleaguered by a heavy barrage of high-profile scandals and rampant reports of fraud.
We’ve seen everything from reality TV stars accidentally posting brand instructions into their promotional posts, to a beloved social influencer admitting she’s actually a CGI robot, to brands like Payless fooling influencers into paying $640 for $20 shoes and not one but two documentaries on the absolute dumpster fire that was (or wasn’t) the Fyre Festival.
And that’s not to mention the numerous reports of influencers paying for fake followers or inflating engagement rates. In fact, CNBC has reported that fake followers will cost brands $1.3 billion in influencer campaigns this year alone.
Naturally, all of this has led to a dramatic loss in consumer confidence, with only 4% of people now trusting what influencers say online. Since trust is essential to establishing credibility, which is foundational to cultivating influence, you can see why there is cause for alarm.
Real People = Real Influence
While traditional influencers may have been able to deliver the initial eyeballs brands have sought, impressions don’t equal purchases - and ‘influencers’ are far from the most influential people online.
A recent Stackla study found that people are 9.8x more likely to make a purchase after seeing a peer’s social post, as opposed to that of a traditional social media influencer.
That’s right, 79% of people say that user-generated content (UGC) highly impacts their purchasing decisions, while only 8% say influencer-created content would do the same.
Traditional influencers also fall short when it comes to engagement metrics - studies show that the greater the number of followers someone has, the lower their average engagement rates tend to be. Conversely, posts from everyday consumers tend to garner greater engagement, are seen as more authentic and more significantly influence others’ buying decisions.
Looking at all of these converging trends, I believe the influencer industry is undergoing a major shift towards not just micro-influencers, but organic influencers.
Organic influencers are the real people who already buy your products and services and create content about your brand - they’re your genuine brand advocates. They may have 5,000 Instagram followers, or they may have 50, but the size of their social followings aren’t as important as their passion, authenticity and collective influence.
By re-imagining your existing influencer programs with organic influencers instead, your brand can bypass the risk of mistrust that a growing majority of consumers feel towards paid influencers, while building loyal communities and rich libraries of impactful visuals that can really move the needle for your brand.
The Quality of Content You Want with the Quantity of Content You Need
One of the reasons why influencer marketing has become so popular with marketers is that they need content. But not just any content, they need high-quality content that fits within their brand aesthetic, while also looking authentic, and social media influencers were a great way to get it.
Except that the minute you pay someone for content, it becomes inherently inauthentic. And influencers typically only create and share a small amount of photos per campaign.
With organic influencers, the content is earned, not paid, so you never lose that authenticity factor. However, your advocates don’t always naturally create the exact type of content your brand may be seeking. By inviting your advocates into an organic influencer community, you can not only cultivate a 1:1 connection with them, but you can also open the lines of communication to help guide the types of content that they post about your brand.
For example, you could ask your organic influencers to post some winter-themed images in advance of a holiday campaign you may be preparing to launch. Want them to feature a specific product or take a selfie vs a scenic shot? Just ask, and provide examples of the types of images you want.
Many of your advocates will be excited to have direct interactions with their favorite brand, and you’ll have authentic, high-quality content to leverage in your marketing - just remember to get the rights to that content first. Plus, Stackla’s research shows that over half of consumers would be more likely to continue engaging with and/or purchasing from a brand if it shared their photos in its marketing.
By developing a passionate and engaged community of organic advocates, you can get the quality and the quantity of visuals you need for all your marketing channels — not just social profiles.
Amplify Influence Beyond Social
An often ignored but critical fact of influencer marketing is that your brand doesn’t own the influencer content.
Unless it’s explicitly agreed to during contract negotiations, brands don’t have the right to the content they just paid an influencer to create - and they can’t use it outside of the third-party platform the influencer originally posted it in. Typically, if a brand wants to use the influencer’s content outside of simply regramming or reposting it on their social channels, they need to license or purchase the copyright for that content from the influencer at an additional cost.
In today’s omnichannel marketing environment, where 63% of marketers feel pressure to continually produce greater amounts of content at higher frequencies, this is not a sustainable marketing strategy. Since modern marketers are already operating at a content deficit - every new channel, medium and niche audience requires a new set of relevant and compelling visuals - the scalability and reusability of content has become an increasingly important factor of long-term success.
Instead of paying for just one post from a traditional influencer that can only live on Instagram, tapping into your brand’s organic influencers can help you continually generate and gain the rights to a multitude of assets from a larger pool of authentic creators. Once you have permission to use your organic influencers’ content, you can exponentially increase the reach and impact of that content by featuring it across all your marketing channels.
And by putting that influential content to work at every point in the buyer's journey, you can improve all your conversion metrics, not just at the point of inspiration.
Achieving 2020 Success with Organic Influencers
For too long, influencer marketing has been focused on the wrong influencers. Today’s largest group of consumers - Millennials and Gen Z - prioritize authenticity above all else when choosing which brands they support, and their trust in traditional influencers is at an all-time low.
Smartphones and social networks have made your brand's advocates the greatest content creators the world has ever seen. Brands that adopt an organic influencer strategy as part of their 2020 plans will be able to build loyal communities, while also creating scalable, authentic content experiences that deliver a real return on investment.
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Apple TV has cooperated with Epix Entertainment to add to its breadth of entertainment solutions. The partnership saw the release of Epix Now, an inclusive subscription-based TV channel that allows you access to the biggest collection of movies and hit TV shows streamed in 4K. Wondering how to activate Epix on Apple TV? This post got you covered.
The service is available to EPIX subscribers at a monthly price of $5.99. It offers you direct access to on-demand content, which can be downloaded to your Apple TV to watch later when not connected to the internet.
Let’s see how to activate Epix on Apple TV.
What Do You Get When You Activate Epix on Apple TV
EPIX is an MGM affiliate and a top entertainment streaming channel providing the finest in classic films, original series, movies, and documentaries. You can stream the content or access it on demand via your cable or satellite provider.
With its EPIX Now app, available free of charge in the App Store, Epix subscribers can enjoy a seven-day unpaid trial and enjoy an affordable monthly package of $5.99. Why would you want to activate Epix on your Apple TV?
You will enjoy EPIX Now casting ability that lets you improve your video or TV shows watching experience by casting from your small phone screen to a larger TV screen.
Extensive range of curated collections. You can access and browse multiple titles that are uniquely selected by the qualified movie buffs staff.
An advanced search option lets you filter your search content based on target keywords, titles, crew members, actors, and more.
Browse history, which provides you with details of the content you previously searched and watched, including movie and TV show title suggestions.
What’s so Great About Streaming Epix on Apple TV
There are many perks to connecting EPIX to Apple TV. With the new EPIX Now app with the finest content-forward user experiences, subscribers are sure to have an experience like no other once they activate their Epix on Apple TV. Watch out for these amazing benefits once you pair your Epix with Apple TV:
A chance to watch a stream of EPIX live, linear channels with a finger tap
The ability to add your favorite content to curated collections, free sampling, or even personal queue.
Superior video playback and advanced search features coupled with free limited access when they activate their Epix on Apple TV.
EPIX is now open for activation with Apple TV and allows its subscribers access to multiple TV shows and movies. Want to enjoy this impressive choice of services? Activate your Epix on Apple TV first using these tips:
Download the Apple TV app and install it on your iOS or Android smartphone. The application can also be downloaded and installed on smart TVs, Android TVs, and Apple TV alike.
Once the application is downloaded and available on your device, launch it.
Navigate to the section of the app where all the channels are listed.
You will notice that EPIC is already listed as one of the core channels
Click on it to get started watching those awesome movies, shows, or documentaries.
Why Would Want to Access Epix on Apple TV?
Apple TV’s story is told expansively and to a worldwide audience. The popularity and use of this TV have grown over the years, with its benefits celebrated far and wide. Why then do people stream Epix on Apple TV?
Let’s you stream a manifold of channels
With Apple TV, you can access thousands of well-known channels, EPIC online channel included. The channels come in the form of applications that run on the Apple OS. The channels are accessible on iTunes or ESPN, and all it takes is for you to add the channels to the Apple TV.
Apple TV is designed to be extra user-friendly. It contains a few buttons and an easy design, which makes it plug-and-play. IPad and iPhone users don’t necessarily need to use the remote since they can remotely control the Apple TV using their smartphones.
Saves You the Hassle of Paid Subscriptions
With Apple TV, you won’t have to subscribe to any TV since you’re already accessing paid-for channels. For instance, when linking Apple TV to EPIX, you’re doing so because you’ve already subscribed to EPIX, so Apple TV acts to present the streamed content to target users.
Also, as with Apple TV, you’re able to access lots of online streaming services for free as there are so many online streaming services that don’t charge anything provided you have an internet connection, YouTube included.
Sets up quickly and easily
One thing you’re going to love about Apple TV is it’s easy to set up design. Nothing too much is required to get the Apple TV running. You can quickly plug it into your TV using HDMI cable and getting it connected to your home Wi-Fi. When you’re connected, you can quickly log into your Apple TV and get multiple channels by adding them to your existing channels.
Allows for streamlined mirroring
Another amazing quality of the Apple TV is its ability to be mirrored to bigger screens. If you’re watching Apple TV on your smartphone, you can mirror it to your TV to enjoy bigger and clearer videos and pictures.
It’s a matter of a single tap on your smartphone, and the video or image you’re viewing will be presented on your TV screen wirelessly. It’s good to understand the connection is seamless, and no complex set-up work is required to get done.
How to Activate Epix on Apple TV – Conclusion
The benefits of activating Epix on Apple TV are many, and the activation process is not complex, either. Our tips outlined above will guide you to activate Epix on your Apple TV in a matter of minutes, without much hassle or mistakes.
All you have to understand is that you should follow the tips outlined to avoid errors that could further complicate issues and make it more challenging to complete the activation process.
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The Canadian National Soaring Team is currently competing at the 34th World Gliding Championships in Benalla, Australia, running until January 20th, 2017. All four pilots on the team this year are SOSA members and flight instructors.
The competition time zone is 16 hours ahead of SOSA time, most race days will start at about 10pm Eastern, with results available to us in the mornings.
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Since we couldn't all travel to Australia to cheer them on in person, here's how to follow the contest online:
- Live tracking of race flights: http://wgc2017.com/live!/tracking.aspx?contestID=25893
- Airfield live radio: http://www.wgc2017.com/live!/audio.aspx?contestID=25960
- Landouts map: http://www.wgc2017.com/live!/lowcrop-outlandings.aspx?contestID=27615
- Curated list of people and teams tweeting: https://twitter.com/SOSAglidingclub/lists/wgc2017
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Canadian Team Blog, usually updated daily: http://teamcanadawgc.blogspot.com
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The Spurs and Fourth Quarters: The Worrying Trend of Faltering Late in Games
LaMarcus Aldridge and the Spurs have struggled in fourth quarters (Photo via Twitter)
By Raza Husain
A couple weeks ago, the San Antonio Spurs were riding high. They had impressive back-to-back victories over a couple of the strongest teams in the league. They handed the Milwaukee Bucks their worst defeat of the year, and proceeded to avenge a humbling loss to the Boston Celtics by crushing them in Boston.
Since those wins the Spurs have stumbled, going 4-4 in their last eight games. To make matters even worse, three of their four losses during this stretch have been by six points or less. After suffering another heartbreaking loss against the Phoenix Suns the other night, let’s take a look at why the Spurs keep shooting themselves in the foot in the fourth quarters of games.
A Sputtering Offense
In their last eight games, the Spurs have the fourth worst mark in the league in fourth quarter scoring. At a paltry 25.3 points per game, the Spurs are only ahead of the Orlando Magic, Charlotte Hornets and Brooklyn Nets. In two of their four losses during this eight game stretch, the Spurs twice had a lead going into the fourth quarter.
This year’s Spurs are no stranger to fourth quarter struggles. However, what doomed them earlier in the season (too much iso plays and too many mid-range shots) was seemingly rectified the past month by placing a greater emphasis on three-point shooting. Since the Dec. 23 game against the Memphis Grizzlies, LaMarcus Aldridge has led the way by attempting 4.7 threes per game, up from his 1.7 attempts for all games prior. He’s also shooting a career best 42.7% from downtown.
However, as great as it is for the Spurs to be looking to spread the floor more, the differences in their shooting percentages from the third quarter versus the fourth is staggering.
The Spurs have some very solid numbers in the third quarters of games. However, their percentages plummet in nearly every spot on the floor once the fourth quarter comes around.
While earlier in the season the Spurs needed to improve on their playcalling and not be so iso-heavy late in games, their three-point shooting now needs to improve if they want to close out games.
Take the recent Suns loss at home, for instance. The Spurs started the fourth quarter with a Patty Mills three-pointer. His three would cut the deficit down to three points, after being down as many as 15 earlier in the game. With momentum on the Spurs side at home, it felt like it was looking good for the Spurs to eventually take the lead. Yet the Spurs would proceed to miss their next seven three pointers, finishing 1-for-8 from downtown in the final stanza. The Suns ended up winning the game by just four points, 103-99.
What made the loss even more irritating was that the Spurs weren’t forcing up bad shots. They had solid ball movement to create open looks. In the clip below, we will see DeMar DeRozan with the nifty behind the back pass to a wide open Bryn Forbes. Forbes would also be given another solid attempt just 20 seconds later.
Sadly, despite the nice plays to generate the open looks, the end result was the same.
Mental Lapses Defensively
In between the missed shots from Forbes, we saw Kelly Oubre Jr. go coast-to-coast without a single Spurs player making any effort to get in his way. This type of lackadaisical defense so late in the game is inexcusable. The fact that the Spurs have the fifth worst defensive rating in the league in fourth quarters says it all.
In the next clip, we see the Spurs play 24 seconds of good defense, yet they fail to box out as Dario Saric gets the easy putback to make it a two possession game. These are the plays that kill you.
The Spurs are already one of the weaker teams in the league defensively so teams will always know they have a chance against them regardless of the deficit. When the Spurs do manage to play good defense, they absolutely cannot afford to have a mental lapse and give up easy points. In games where the margin of defeat has been so small, all these little plays add up and always come back to haunt the Spurs.
A Flaw in Execution or Merely A Shooting Slump?
Unlike earlier in the season when the Spurs were having all kinds of issues creating good looks in crunch time situations, Gregg Popovich and company have certainly improved the team in that regard. When analyzing the Spurs fourth quarter against Phoenix, a majority of their missed shots came from poor shooting and very little to do with the Suns defense. Even players who struggled late like Forbes were hitting a franchise record 7 three-pointers in a half against this same Suns team a few days ago. While the Spurs aren’t as good of an outside shooting team as they were that night, they definitely aren’t as bad of one as we saw in the home contest.
The Spurs have a daunting rodeo road trip coming up in a week. They don’t have the talent or defensive moxy to overcome poor shooting nights. With the Grizzlies heating up and already ahead of San Antonio in the playoff race, the Spurs will need to find their fourth quarter shooting in a hurry if they want to remain a legit candidate for the postseason.
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My Filmmaking Journey from Africa to Scandinavia
Posted 4 years ago by Michael Asonganyi
Writing about oneself is sometimes challenging because you feel like writing your whole life on a piece of paper, at the same time you see limitations in writing. You want to write only what is necessary to fit the platform or your desired audience.
My name is Michael Asonganyi and this is how I became a filmmaker in the African film industry. I was born and raised in Cameroon and at the age of 23, I moved to study in Sweden where I met my wife, a Norwegian national studying at the same University. After two years together, we got married and moved to Norway were I presently reside. I am currently studying International Social Work and most of my projects will be around societal issues that affects minority groups.
Before getting into the film industry in Cameroon, I was a cultural promoter involved in organizing many different cultural events and social activities like talent competitions within schools. In high school, I had a dance show, called The DONWOODY SHOW where young talented students who had the passion for dancing came together to compete with each other. I took this passion of cultural promotion with me to Europe, where I represented BinAm Studios in the ZAFAA AWARDS 2012 and 2013 respectively.
Coming originally from Cameroon, I had been more involved in promoting Cameroonian film projects in and out of Cameroon. In 2009, I was approached by BinAm studios who were in search of an Executive Producer. After sponsoring two of their projects, I decided to join the group. The role broadened my knowledge about film production in Africa and also exposed the challenges of filmmaking in a continent where film financing was and is still a very big challenge.
Getting involved in film making, demands unquenchable passion and vision especially in a continent where filmmaking was only for the rich who had the passion and the money to promote it. It was also only for the rich, who could afford to take their children to cinemas during weekends. Over the years the advent of cheap digital cameras and vision has put filmmaking in Cameroon back in the spotlight, while cinemas have dwindled, film production has increased.
Finding my space in the film industry and empowering myself with the know-how has also been a big challenge. As mentioned by Ellen Johnson “If your dreams do not scare you, they are not big enough”. Making films warrants passion, vision and a big dream in transforming your stories into the screen. Creating relationships and networking has been my greatest tool in the pursuit of my film making career. Recognizing networking as a tool for success in the film industry plays a big role in solidifying your platform for marketing.
Through effective networking and participation in many red carpet movie premiere events in London and Maryland, I have been lucky to attract people who saw me as a potential actor. Networking in many African red carpet film events greatly inspired me to take film roles in movies like; FLIGHT 447, FOR THE LOVE OF MONEY BY Florence Okonkwo and ABUSED by Abegail Irvring. My participation as an upcoming actor in these film projects, helped to boost my acting potential as well as help increase my passion for movie directing.
I am currently shooting my short film called KONTE in a small town in Sweden called Gavle. KONTE is a short film about a newly arrived refugee from Somalia who falls in love with a Swedish born Somalian, but will only marry her on one condition - she must be circumcised.
In filmmaking, one needs to find the motivating factor in general and inspirational drive behind each film project. And, most importantly, believe in yourself and create more and better networks.
Thank you for reading and I hope this will be of help.
About Michael Asonganyi
Michael Asonganyi is a Norwegian, originally from Cameroon, come filmmaker / Producer / Upcoming Actor .Born and raised in Limbe, South West Region of Cameroon. He attended G.H.S Limbe, G.B.H.S Fontem and later travelled aboard to further studies at Halmstad University in Sweden. Before getting involved into the film industry in Cameroon, Michael has always been a film freak and cultural promoter especially when it came to putting Cameroon at the spot lights. His turning point into getting deeply involved in the industry came in 2009, when he was approached by the BinAm Studios team as they were scouting for an Executive Producer for their upcoming projects. He did not only agreed to sponsor two of the projects, but decided to join the group as an active partner and shareholder to see that any amazing projects that done by this group (BinAm Studios) which he is now part of, to be able to stand the test of time and promote the entertainment industry at an international level. He has a Filmography of 2 feature films and 3 short films done with the group, but has been actively involved in other solo cinematic projects as the person in charge of some Cameroonian film’s Promotional packaging and Marketing at international levels. His interest in co-productions and opening up Cameroon to the international scene with other African filmmakers can be seem in his daily struggle to bring in foreign filmmakers into the country to share, exchange and discover stories from various destinations. He is member of the Organizing committee of Art City short film festival 2014. Michael Asonganyi is a highly creative and innovative Producer/Promoter and he has a quick ability to adapt to this fast pace, ever changing and pressurized film industry environment. Currently studying International Social Work in Sweden. Professional Experience: Producer / Promoter / Actor/Marketer at BinAm Studios, 2008 International representative for BinAm Studios, 2009 – Present Organizing committee member for Art City International Founder of BigFixed Studio.Currently working on his short film "KONTE".which is about a refugee from Somalia demanding his Swedish born fiancee to be circumsized before they can get married....
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In the daytime (for there will be no night there) its gates will never be closed;
Abbott's Illustrated New Testament
E.M. Zerr's Commentary on Selected Books of the New Testament
Hanserd Knollys' Commentary on Revelation
Nave's Topical Bible - Church; Gates; Heaven; Jerusalem; Night; Readings, Select; Thompson Chain Reference - Future, the; Heaven; Heavenly; Home; Night; The Topic Concordance - Jerusalem; Name; Newness;
American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Gate; Jerusalem; Light; Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Book of life; City; Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Temple; Easton Bible Dictionary - Light; Holman Bible Dictionary - Heaven; Heavenly City, the; Night; Revelation, the Book of; Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Day and Night; Door; Gate; Gate (2); Glory; New Jerusalem; Night (2); Presence (2); Star (2); Tree of Life; Morrish Bible Dictionary - Gate; Lamb; Night; The Hawker's Poor Man's Concordance And Dictionary - Gareb; Wilson's Dictionary of Bible Types - Night;
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Night; Revelation of John:;
Daily Light on the Daily Path - Devotion for April 13;
Clark on Revelation
Ellicott's Commentary
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Alford's Commentary
Norris on Revelation
People's NT
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Smith's Writings
Brown's Commentary
The gates of it shall not be shut at all - The Christian Church shall ever stand open to receive sinners of all sorts, degrees, and nations.
There shall be no night there - No more idolatry, no intellectual darkness; the Scriptures shall be everywhere read, the pure word everywhere preached, and the Spirit of God shall shine and work in every heart.
Clarke, Adam. "Commentary on Revelation 21:25". "The Adam Clarke Commentary". https://www.studylight.org/commentaries/acc/revelation-21.html. 1832.
And the gates of it shall not be shut at all by day - It shall be constantly open, allowing free ingress and egress to all who reside there. The language is derived from Isaiah 60:11. See the notes on that place. Applied to the future state of the blessed, it would seem to mean, that while this will be their permanent abode, yet that the dwellers there will not be prisoners. The universe will be open to them. They will be permitted to go forth and visit every world, and survey the works of God in all parts of his dominions.
For there shall be no night there - It shall be all day; all unclouded splendor. When, therefore, it is said that the gates should not be “shut by day,” it means that they would never be shut. When it is said that there would be no night there, it is, undoubtedly, to be taken as meaning that there would be no literal darkness, and nothing of which night is the emblem: no calamity, no sorrow, no bereavement, no darkened windows on account of the loss of friends and kindred. Compare the notes on Revelation 21:4.
Barnes, Albert. "Commentary on Revelation 21:25". "Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible". https://www.studylight.org/commentaries/bnb/revelation-21.html. 1870.
No night there.
The everlasting day
I. No natural night there. The large portion of our existence that sleep now consumes will be added to our peaceful, our blissful occupations.
II. No night of sin there.
III. No night of suffering there.
IV. No night of ignorance there.
V. No night of infirmities there.
VI. No night of mysterious providences there.
VII. No night of hindered prayers there.
VIII. No night of disappointed expectations there.
IX. No night of separation there.
X. No night of temptation there. (T. Nunns, M. A.)
No night there
In looking at the emblems employed in the Word of God, you cannot fail to be impressed with their simplicity as well as their beauty. Night is one of these.
1. It is the season of repose.
2. It is the time of evil--the season chosen for the performance of deeds of darkness and of sin.
3. And it is the time of fear. Yet notwithstanding all this I praise God for the night.
4. Night is suggestive of sorrow. This is the inevitable lot of the good on earth. But “there shall be no night” of sorrow “there!” No tears shall be shed, no hopes shall be frustrated, no disappointments felt, no friends removed, no graves opened. Night, as we have seen, is associated with deeds of darkness. And hence, when it is affirmed of the heavenly state that “there shall be no night there,” we are reminded of the perfect purity of our eternal home. Further, night is associated with weariness and fatigue. To affirm, therefore, of the heavenly world that there shall be no night there, is to declare that weariness and fatigue shall be unknown. One of the most difficult questions is that of the exact nature of the glorified body the redeemed will possess. And then, night is associated with obscurity. Its shades conceal much from our vision, and hence it has ever been regarded as an appropriate emblem of mental obscurity. Mystery surrounds us on every hand. Questions are continually arising to which we can return no complete answer. Now it is night with us. The unclouded day is yonder. (S. D. Hillman, B. A.)
I. The absence of night in the glorified church implies that there will be no sin there.
II. The absence of night implies there shall be no ignorance there
III. The absence of night implies there shall be no weariness there. Here God’s people are wearied with labours.
IV. The absence of night implies that there shall be no change there.
V. The absence of night implies that there shall be no death there. (B. W. Bucke, M. A.)
The happiness of heaven
I. The import of the representation by which this state is here distinguished.
1. Among the mansions of the blessed, there shall be no fatigue, no tendency to lassitude, and no reason for repose.
2. There shall be no hostile intrusion there; there is no reason for precaution.
3. There is no impurity and no sin.
4. But night is a season of privation; and when we are told of heaven as a state where no privation shall be, we are well reminded that no night shall be there. Do you speak of privation of society? In heaven you will have delightful and hallowed fellowship. Do you speak of privation of knowledge? In heaven, illumination will be poured upon our faculties to the utmost extent which those faculties can, by possibility, bear. Do you speak of privation of happiness? In heaven, perturbation and pain, and fear, and distress, will be removed for ever.
5. “No more death”--“no more death” to our persons: “for this corruptible shall put on incorruption.” “No more death” to our happiness; “no more death” to our attainments; “no more death” to our joy. All unchangeable, and all imperishable, and all for ever!
II. The conclusions which our contemplations of the heavenly state under this representation ought forcibly to impress upon our minds.
1. Our contemplations ought to induce preparation.
2. Our contemplations of the heavenly state ought to induce gratitude. You were the slave led captive by the devil at his will, and now have been brought into the glorious liberty of the sons of God--a liberty which is to be consummated in the skies.
3. These contemplations of the heavenly state should induce desire. And truly there is nothing--if we are preparing for such scenes as those which have now been laid before you--there is nothing which should keep your desires from heaven. (J. Parsons.)
Heaven without night
1. We are wont to associate with night the idea of weariness. Sweet to the myriad toilers in the world’s vast workshop is the coming of the still evening hour, when the tasks of day are laid aside, and tired limbs and overwrought brains draw refreshment from slumber. So benign is this provision that Scripture has included it among the special acts of Divine goodness, in the beautiful saying, “He giveth His beloved sleep.” Now, as this arrangement is not found in heaven, the inference is obvious that the denizens of that bright realm do not require its operation, and are so constituted as to be inaccessible to fatigue from any intensity or duration of employment.
2. Night is the symbol of ignorance. How often do the Sacred Writers represent the intellectual and moral blindness of men under the figure of darkness! Thus Job, describing the errors and follies of the devotees of human wisdom, says, “They meet with darkness in the daytime, and grope at noonday as in the night.” And the fearful ignorance of God and of truth, which overspread the world at the period of the Redeemer’s advent, is pourtrayed by the graphic declaration, “Darkness covered the earth, and gross darkness the people.” In this emblematic sense, a deep and cloudy night stretches over the sphere which we now inhabit. How imperfect are our faculties! How narrow the limits of our knowledge! How obscure and uncertain our researches! What barriers of gloom and mystery meet us on whatever side we attempt to push our investigations! But in heaven there will be no intellectual night. All the errors that now shade and darken our minds--all the obstacles which here impede and limit our acquisitions-shall there be for ever removed. The faculties of the soul which, amid the fogs and illusions of sense, are so restricted in their range, and so distorted in their vision, will, in that radiant world, expand into seraphic strength, and under the beams of eternal day receive a new impulse, and a right direction. The veil also, which now hangs over so many departments of Truth, will then be lifted, and we shall enter her inmost temple, and worship at her most secret shrine.
3. Night is the symbol of sin. The time which God has ordained for rest, man has appropriated to crime. All classes of the depraved and lawless look upon night as their chosen patron and protector. “The way of the wicked is as darkness.” “Men love darkness rather than light, because their deeds are evil.” When, therefore, we read of heaven as being without night, the expression evidently implies that into those holy realms no impurity can ever be admitted. “There shall in no ease enter into it anything that defileth, neither whatsoever worketh abomination, or maketh a lie, but they that are written in the Lamb’s book of life.”
4. Night is the symbol of danger. The hours in which darkness broods over the earth are peculiar for their insecurity. It is then that the robber, the housebreaker, the incendiary, and the whole tribe of depredators on property and life, steal from their lurking places, and roam abroad on their work of mischief. And then it is that perils easily avoided by day deepen and multiply their terrors. The exclusion of night from heaven may, therefore, be interpreted as a pledge that, in that secure asylum, no adversary shall assail us, and no possibility of evil ever menace our peace. The seductions of the world, and the treachery of our own hearts, will not follow us there, nor can Satan cross “the great gulf fixed” between hell and heaven to vex us with his assaults.
5. Night is the symbol of want. Sleep is the sister of death. During its reign over us, we retire within ourselves; the senses close their portals, and the soul is shut in from all its wonted delights. Communion with man and with Nature has ceased. Perception is suspended. Reason is in abeyance. Gone are consciousness, memory, hope. And even should slumber be interrupted, what a dreary blank does the eye behold! Hidden is the rich land-scape--stream, and forest, and mountain--all the grand things and the lovely on which the daylight looks. Above us may glimmer the watching stars and the silvery moon, but they only awaken regret for the nobler luminary departed. So is it that night typifies want; and the fact that heaven knows no night is a most expressive sign that it also knows no privation. Want, in one or another of its forms, is inseparable from our earthly condition. Pilgrims in the desert, we must expect to sigh in vain for much that is essential to perfect felicity. But when we reach the land of Divine fulness above, every need will be supplied. Everything around us, every scene, every object, every employment, will be adapted to exclude disquietude, and to minister delight. Every faculty, every passion, will be absorbed in adoration, and overflowing with ecstasy. And He that sitteth on the throne will bring out His treasures to augment our bliss, showering down upon our spirits all the raptures which Almighty Goodness can bestow.
6. Night is the symbol of death. There are few analogies in the whole range of sacred imagery more suited to represent death than the season of night. And thus we find it very frequently employed by the inspired writers. The Psalmist, in speaking of the removal of his friends by death, says, “Mine acquaintance hast Thou put into darkness.” Job calls death “the day of darkness,” and the grave “the bed of darkness,” “a land of darkness, as darkness itself; and of the shadow of death, without any order, and where the light is as darkness.” “Our Divine Teacher has also given us a very striking description of death under the figure of night. “I must work the works of Him that sent Me while it is day; the night cometh in which no man can work.” To beings situated as we are, it is hardly possible to form an idea of a state of existence in which death is unknown. Yet this is true of heaven. “There shall be no more death.” Oh, what a soul-ravishing announcement is this! No more death! Then hope has dawned on the midnight of the tomb; the King of Terrors is despoiled of his power, and the all-conqueror is himself conquered! No more death to our persons--no more death to our attainments--no more death to our usefulness--no more death to our joys! All are changeless and perfect. God is our portion, holiness our vesture, happiness our allotment, eternity our home. Oh, what a boon is Immortality when it thus stamps its own endless duration on all that awaits us in “the Better Land!” (Dr. Ide.)
The vision of the truth
I. Now here is seen the value of Christian principle. The Man of Sorrows is on His march for the morning; for the principles of the passion place you on the track of the dawn.
II. These principles are powers of guidance in three important--nay, momentous--questions of conduct.
1. What is seriously necessary for any soul in order, in its mortal journey, to be useful and happy? The answer is--Not to live at random, but to have an object in life.
2. What is to be my view of the world? What is the attitude of the soul of the Christian towards the mass of mankind? The optimist views it all through the medium of a rose-coloured dream. All is going onward as merry as a marriage-bell. The only objection is--theories do not alter human suffering, and to this theory facts do not square. It is impossible here reasonably to deny the darkness. It is true it is blessed to remember “there shall be no night there.”
3. There is here a revelation of the future. The eternal city is in fact the working out of the twofold Divine benediction. It is the completion and beatified result of purified characters. “Blessed are the undefiled in the way,” and “Blessed is he whose unrighteousness is forgiven and whose sin is covered.” This is the glorious end of innocence and penitence. The breaking of the dawn! It is coming, there is a land of brightness after darkness; amid all sorrow hope will yet have its triumph: “there shall be no night there”!
III. Night here, however. Why? From the absence of the sun: from the accumulation of the clouds.
1. There is sin. Wills opposed to the will of changeless goodness: wills almost fixed in evil--eyes from which all vision of brightness seems gone: hearts which seem to keep no trace of pity. Ah me!--a ruined soul, or a soul on the road to ruin, how terrible! To be growing worse instead of better: to be losing foothold, not climbing boldly on. Soul of a sinner! Pause, think twice. It is hard to imagine deliverance: hard to believe at times that God’s grace, that fresh breezes from the heavenly courts, can disperse such clouds, but it is true. Look up, march eastward; repent, cry for help, take heart; though the path be rough it is the path of the Holy Passion. The city of the saints is the land of the sunlight. “There shall be no night there.”
2. There is sorrow. Ah! who has ever read, who can ever read, the mystery of tears? But there it is. There is a home where no sorrow enters--there dwelleth no evil, “there is no night there.”
3. There is death. However it be lightened by the faith of a Christian, what thinking mind can fail to acknowledge there is the solemnity of night about the grave? Well, the dawn of eternity shall break, and death itself shall die.
IV. There are many difficulties, many sorrows; yet are there not some alleviations? Life is never altogether darkness When it is illuminated by hope. Look upward, take courage, never allow the cowardice of permanent despondency, or the blasphemy of final despair. Trust God. Surely even here are streaks in the darkness. There are quiet hours of rest and blessing; such a converse with a dear friend; such a happy day of pleasure; such evidence that the sun is there, though veiled by the vapour; such approaches of the daylight; such streaks of the dawn. To repent, heartily, manfully, thoroughly, when you have sinned; to receive trial and sorrow with loving submission, and willingly to taste the sweet “uses of adversity”; to love goodness, truth, duty, God in Christ, and by the power, the moral power of love, to help and make men better--this, this, surely, whatever happens, is to plant your feet firmly on the track of the dawn.
V. What about the future? Well, John assures us that there lies before us something beyond all words happy, which he can only convey to us by speaking of it as “a city.” Remember that in that city you will find the result of your toil and the end of your journey. (Canon Knox Little.)
Exell, Joseph S. "Commentary on "Revelation 21:25". The Biblical Illustrator. https://www.studylight.org/commentaries/tbi/revelation-21.html. 1905-1909. New York.
And the gates of it shall not be shut at all by day,.... Which does not design the free communication between the living saints on the new earth, and the raised ones in the new heaven, as some have thought, for these shall be together, and make up one body; but rather the universal collection, and free admission of all the saints from all parts into this city; though it seems best to interpret it of the safety of the inhabitants, see Jeremiah 49:31 who will have no enemy to fear, and therefore need never shut their gates; the beast and false prophet will have been taken, and cast into the lake of fire long ago; ungodly men will be destroyed in the general conflagration, and Satan will be bound in the bottomless pit during the thousand years:
for there shall be no night there; this is a reason given why it is before said the gates shall not be shut by day, since it is unusual to shut gates in the day, unless in time of war, because there will be no night in this city, and so no need of ever shutting the gates; the night time being the season for thieves and robbers, and for enemies to make their incursions, and to surprise: but here will be no night; either literally, times and seasons, as measured by the revolutions of the sun and moon, will be no more, they will not have the use they have; at least this city will stand in no need of them. The Jews sayF3Bereshit Rabba, sect. 91. fol. 79. 4. , that the world to come will be כולו יום, "all day": or mystically and figuratively, there will be no night of spiritual darkness and desertion, of drowsiness, sleepiness, and inactivity, of error and heresy, or of calamity and distress of any kind; all which are sometimes signified by night in Scripture; see Song of Solomon 3:1 Isaiah 26:9.
Gill, John. "Commentary on Revelation 21:25". "The New John Gill Exposition of the Entire Bible". https://www.studylight.org/commentaries/geb/revelation-21.html. 1999.
not be shut … by day — therefore shall never be shut: for it shall always be day. Gates are usually shut by night: but in it shall be no night. There shall be continual free ingress into it, so as that all which is blessed and glorious may continually be brought into it. So in the millennial type.
Jamieson, Robert, D.D.; Fausset, A. R.; Brown, David. "Commentary on Revelation 21:25". "Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible". https://www.studylight.org/commentaries/jfb/revelation-21.html. 1871-8.
Shall in no wise be shut (ου μη κλειστωσιν — ou mē kleisthōsin). Double negative with the first aorist passive subjunctive of κλειω — kleiō day (ημερας — hēmeras). Genitive of time. Mentioned alone without νυκτος — nuktos (by night), “for there shall be no night there” (νυχ γαρ ουκ εσται εκει — nux gar ouk estai ekei). This looks like a continued picture of heaven.
Robertson, A.T. "Commentary on Revelation 21:25". "Robertson's Word Pictures of the New Testament". https://www.studylight.org/commentaries/rwp/revelation-21.html. Broadman Press 1932,33. Renewal 1960.
By day; meaning the whole day, of twenty-four hours.
Abbott, John S. C. & Abbott, Jacob. "Commentary on Revelation 21:25". "Abbott's Illustrated New Testament". https://www.studylight.org/commentaries/ain/revelation-21.html. 1878.
THE NIGHT PASSED
‘There shall be no night there.’
What does darkness stand for? Of what is it often spoken of as a type?
I. Darkness is the equivalent of uncertainty.—Only when we see no more ‘through a glass darkly,’ but ‘face to face,’ only when the great enigma has been solved, shall we know even as we are known. And that is what St. John meant as he gazed upon the heavenly city, New Jerusalem, into which the kings of the earth had brought their honour and glory. There was no more uncertainty, no more of those trials of doubt and perplexity which beset us here. All was bright and radiant in the light which was no more attended by any shadow, because the shadows had every one been dispelled. ‘There was no night there.’
II. Darkness is suggestive of isolation.—In the night the faces of our fellow-creatures are withdrawn for a while, and all familiar objects are hidden.
III. Darkness is suggestive of weariness.—It is to recruit our weariness that gentle Night steals down and covers us with her mantle of forgetfulness and soothes all our powers to rest. But there will be no scope for this loving office of the night in that blessed home where weariness will be impossible, where work will be pure joy, because the glorified body, in which we hope to serve our God in ways which He will unfold to us there, will have left all weariness behind.
—Rev. W. H. Savile.
Nisbet, James. "Commentary on Revelation 21:25". Church Pulpit Commentary. https://www.studylight.org/commentaries/cpc/revelation-21.html. 1876.
25 And the gates of it shall not be shut at all by day: for there shall be no night there.
Ver. 25. For there shall be no night there] And so no need to fear a sudden surprise by the enemy watching his opportunity. Their day above is ανεσπερος ημερα, a nightless day, as a Father calls it.
Trapp, John. "Commentary on Revelation 21:25". John Trapp Complete Commentary. https://www.studylight.org/commentaries/jtc/revelation-21.html. 1865-1868.
And the gates of it shall not be shut at all by day: the reason of shutting a city’s gates, is either to shut out enemies, or to keep in such as are within: there will be no need of shutting these gates on either of these accounts; there will be no enemies to fear, and those that are within this city will have no need nor desire to go out.
For there shall be no night there: we do not ordinarily shut our city gates by day, but there shall be nothing but day, no night in a natural or metaphorical sense.
Poole, Matthew, "Commentary on Revelation 21:25". Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible. https://www.studylight.org/commentaries/mpc/revelation-21.html. 1685.
And the gates thereof shall in no wise be shut by day (for there shall be no night there):
"The perpetually open gates symbolize perfect safety."[59] "And there shall be no night there ..." These precious words have been sung by the saints of all ages. Darkness is a time of danger, fear, and the works of darkness; but no such things shall any longer exist at the time foretold here.
ENDNOTE:
[59] James William Russell, op. cit., p. 654.
Coffman, James Burton. "Commentary on Revelation 21:25". "Coffman Commentaries on the Bible". https://www.studylight.org/commentaries/bcc/revelation-21.html. Abilene Christian University Press, Abilene, Texas, USA. 1983-1999.
In John"s day cities closed their gates to keep enemies out, but there will be no enemies in the eternal state so the gates will remain open (cf. Isaiah 60:11). John said the city gates will never ever close (Gr. ou me kleisthosin). These kings, therefore, may enter whenever they wish. There will be no night in the New Jerusalem because God"s glory illuminates all.
Constable, Thomas. DD. "Commentary on Revelation 21:25". "Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable". https://www.studylight.org/commentaries/dcc/revelation-21.html. 2012.
Revelation 21:25. And the gates of it shall not be shut at all by day; for there shall be no night there. The design of the words is to set forth the perfect peace and security of the inhabitants of the heavenly city. How often had the gates of an ancient city to be closed, always by night, often by day! How often had measures of precaution to be taken against apprehended danger! Here there is no danger, no apprehension, no enemy to approach the gate, but happiness perfect and for ever undisturbed. The explanation of the last clause of the verse, beginning as it does with the word ‘for,’ has afforded some cause of perplexity to interpreters. Yet the explanation generally given is satisfactory. In Isaiah 60:11 the prophet, speaking of the future city of God, had said, ‘Thy gates shall be open continually; they shall not be shut day nor night.’ St. John is referring to that passage, but he could not adopt it as it stood, and he would explain why he stopped short at the word ‘day’ of the prophet He could not bring the thought of ‘night’ into connection with the New Jerusalem, for there was ‘no night there.’ There may have been something more in his thoughts. We know from John 13:30 the symbolical meaning which he attached to the word ‘night’ ‘It was night’ when Judas went out upon his errand of treachery and crime. The first clause of the verse contains the emblem of security and peace. The second assigns the reason why these shall continue undisturbed. There shall be no night there, no darkness either physical or moral, neither men nor deeds that shun the light.
Schaff, Philip. "Commentary on Revelation 21:25". "Schaff's Popular Commentary on the New Testament". https://www.studylight.org/commentaries/scn/revelation-21.html. 1879-90.
not . . . at all. App-105.
Bullinger, Ethelbert William. "Commentary on Revelation 21:25". "E.W. Bullinger's Companion bible Notes". https://www.studylight.org/commentaries/bul/revelation-21.html. 1909-1922.
And the gates of it shall not be shut at all by day: for there shall be no night there.
Not be shut ... by day - therefore never; for it shall always be day. Gates are usually shut by night; but in it shall be no night. There shall be continual free ingress; so that all which is blessed may be brought into it. So in the millennial type.
Jamieson, Robert, D.D.; Fausset, A. R.; Brown, David. "Commentary on Revelation 21:25". "Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Unabridged". https://www.studylight.org/commentaries/jfu/revelation-21.html. 1871-8.
22:5; Isaiah 60:20; Zechariah 14:7
Reciprocal: Joshua 2:5 - of shutting; Ezekiel 48:31 - General; Revelation 21:12 - twelve gates
Torrey, R. A. "Commentary on Revelation 21:25". "The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge". https://www.studylight.org/commentaries/tsk/revelation-21.html.
The gates shall not be shut at all by day (or day by day). This also is based upon the practice of ancient cities closing their gates at the approach of night ( Joshua 2:5). John says there will not be any need for such a performance, for there shall be no night there. It is his way of emphasizing the absence of night, for there will be no enemy who could enter the city any way.
Zerr, E.M. "Commentary on Revelation 21:25". E.M. Zerr's Commentary on Selected Books of the New Testament. https://www.studylight.org/commentaries/znt/revelation-21.html. 1952.
Revelation 21:25-27 And the gates of it shall not be shut at all by day: for there shall be no night there26 And they shall bring the glory and honour of the nations into it27 And there shall in no wise enter into it any thing that defileth, neither whatsoever worketh abomination, or maketh a lie: but they which are written in the Lamb's book of life.
The gates standing open continually, doth show the entrance in of the abundance of the converted gentiles into the church of the converted Jews in the latter days, Isaiah 6:10-13 even the fullness of the gentiles. { Romans 11:25-27} And the glory of the gentile nations shall be brought to the new Jerusalem; and God will glorify the house of his glory. { Isaiah 60:7-20; Revelation 21:27} All persons, whose names are not written in the Lamb's Book of Life, shall be kept out of the new Jerusalem: None but God's elect shall have an entrance admitted to them into that holy city. { 2 Peter 1:10-11; Revelation 22:14-15}
Knollys, Hanserd. "Commentary on Revelation 21:25". "Hanserd Knollys' Commentary on Revelation". https://www.studylight.org/commentaries/hkc/revelation-21.html.
Revelation 21:25. And its gates shall not be shut by day; for there shall be no night there. Revelation 21:26. And they shall bring the glory and the honour of the nations into it. The words, for there shall be no night there," intimate the reason why the day merely is spoken of, since commonly the gates of a city are to be shut during night. The words, "and they shall bring," &c. give the reason why the gates stand continually open, that the glory and honour of the heathen may find entrance into the new Jerusalem, which in St John's time was so hard a matter for faith. The fundamental passage is Isaiah 9:11, "And thy gates stand open continually, day and night they shall not be shut, to bring to thee the riches of the heathen, and their kings shall be led." Neither here, nor in the passage before us, is any respect had to rest and security, as the reason for the gates standing open. Day and night in Isaiah is as much as continually. The night, in the sense in which it is here said to have ceased, is there also brought to an end, Revelation 21:20. The difference between the two passages is merely in the letter. Revelation 21:7 is to be supplied from Revelation 21:20.
There will be no night there, namely, because the glory of the Lord shall constantly enlighten it—comp. Revelation 21:11; Revelation 21:23, Revelation 22:5, where we learn that the reason of there being no night in it, arises from the constant shining of the Lord on it. Night denotes a state destitute of blessing, such as always enters when the gracious presence of the Lord is withheld. The militant church is in this respect subjected to a continual alternation. The sad word, "and it was night," John 13:30, is often quite overlooked both in regard to the church as a whole, and to individual believers. Allusion is made to Isaiah 9:10, "Thy sun shall no more go down, and thy moon shall not withdraw herself, for the Lord will be to thee for an everlasting light, and the days of thy mourning shall be ended."
Hengstenberg, Ernst. "Commentary on Revelation 21:25". Ernst Hengstenberg on John, Revelation, Ecclesiastes, Ezekiel & Psalms. https://www.studylight.org/commentaries/heg/revelation-21.html.
25.The twelve pearl gates or doors, each three approachable from the four points of compass, shall never be shut. The twice twelve tribal nations shall ever find it day, and ever find open gates. The gates of gospel grace are ever open here on earth, the gates of the New Jerusalem shall ever be open to the dwellers of the heavenly earth.
For—Reason for mentioning day only, there shall be no night. The divine glory never remits, never dims. No revolving of the orb renders the opposite hemisphere dark. No north pole caps the arctic with ice. No glaciers chill the air, no night-shade broods with malaria, or spreads her cover over crime. Here we may read into this description the beautiful passage, Revelation 7:14-17. See our notes there.
Whedon, Daniel. "Commentary on Revelation 21:25". "Whedon's Commentary on the Bible". https://www.studylight.org/commentaries/whe/revelation-21.html. 1874-1909.
. . . “for no night (when even in peace they would be shut, Nehemiah 13:19) shall be there”.
Nicol, W. Robertson, M.A., L.L.D. "Commentary on Revelation 21:25". The Expositor's Greek Testament. https://www.studylight.org/commentaries/egt/revelation-21.html. 1897-1910.
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Exploring the historic St Peter’s Hall near Bungay with Invitation to View
PUBLISHED: 12:02 11 June 2019 | UPDATED: 12:30 11 June 2019
St Peter's Hall, Bungay
Historic Houses Invitation to View tour of St Peter’s Hall in the Saints near Bungay is refreshingly different | Words & photos: Lindsay Want
From Clare to Campsea Ashe and Wangford to Little Whelnetham, Suffolk is simply crawling with ancient ecclesiastical sites. Wealthy medieval East Anglia may have had more than its fair share of England's nigh on 900 religious houses and over the years the stone, bricks and mortar have survived to become part of great manors and country dwellings.
Maude of Ulster called today's Bruisyard Hall home, Butley Priory and The Abbey at Coggeshall speak for themselves, at Wingfield a Georgian façade hides a 13th century monastic chantry college.
Near Bungay, South Elmham Hall was once a bishop's palace. From there, across the wide fields and farmsteads of The Saints, half-moated St Peter's Hall, with its fine French stone, huge tracery windows and fancy flushwork, looks just a priory too - or at first glance anyway.
For all that glistens is not gold, unless you're talking about the internationally renowned amber ale being brewed where the old pigsties used to be behind St Peter's thatched barn.
St Peter's Hall - its name leads you down a monastic garden path, until you realise that it's just one of those weird Suffolk saints things where everything, even the village, takes its name from the local church - which happens not to be here, but a ten minute walk away down Wash Lane.
Located in the fertile farmlands of north Suffolk, with a moat stocked with mirror carp and a modern micro-brewery producing millions of pints a year, St Peter's Hall recalls self-sufficient, medieval cloistered communities, who turned their hands to farming and keeping fishponds, milling, making bricks and brewing.
Solid, stocky and purposeful, with modern windows whacked in here and there in true functional farmhouse fashion, it looks like a place that has reinvented itself over the centuries.
The gargoyle heads, tucked under the eaves with the house martins' nests, know differently, and by the delicate window tracery, stone faces crack a smile as people delight in the discovery of ancient 'scratch' sundials, without working out that they'd never tell the right time.
The mighty two-storey porch would be worthy of accompanying any medieval church tower or steeple, but what's the tombstone doing inside it, and why, as well as a bishop's chair is there a 16th century Swiss butchers' shop sign adorning its chambers?
After nibbling on delicious biscuits and nuggets of not-adding-up history over coffee by a Brussels tapestry in the Great Hall, the tour starts in earnest down in the oldest part of the house, now the Library Bar, dating from 1280.
"St Peter's Hall was originally known as Tolly's House," recounts custodian and attentive host Jill Hall. "It was a two-up, two-down back then, with the west range added in the 14th century. The Tolls family sold it to the Tasburghs in 1445 as a working farm with 600 acres.
"When the brewery set out in 1996, it used to brew its beer in here. The Great Hall came about in 1539 when John Tasburgh acquired parts of the priory from Flixton, just up the road." Suddenly, the explanation of St Peter's Hall's strange appearance falls into place.
It's debatable whether the sacrifice of 12 small monastic houses to fund Wolsey's plans for Ipswich College put the idea of the full-scale Reformation in Henry VIII's head in the 1530s, but when the nunnery at Flixton was one of them, it's not inconceivable that an ambitious Catholic gent like Tasburgh paid a good price to make his humble farm house into a more stately home.
Local bailiff and architectural salvage merchant Richard Warton, of Bungay, obliged in the 1537 demolition job.
It's entertaining to imagine John Tasburgh wandering around Richard Warton's Bungay archi-salvage showroom, selecting flushwork Catherine-wheel panels, great priory windows, carved corbels and fireplaces, maybe even the occasional bressumer beam or memorial brass.
Or perhaps he had nipped over and made a note of them in situ, so they could be delivered directly from demolished door to door? But in the 21st century, what was it that made Interbrand's John Murphy want to acquire St Peter's Hall - by then, rather neglected - as a brewery site?
"All the water for our beer comes from a natural on-site bore-hole that goes down twice the height of Nelson's Column," explains chief beer sommelier Robin Parker, standing alongside the great steel tuns inside the 'farmyard' brewhouse, on part two of the tour.
The ancient glacier water comes from a band of chalk apparently, and eight pints of the precious stuff are required to make just one pint of beer. He's proud that the brewing area is a computer-free zone, so the processes are based on old-style skill and the time-honoured tricks of his trade.
Although St Peter's now brews draught as well as cask ales, arguably it's the distinctive oval, American heritage inspired bottles that get them most recognised in the market place. "We export worldwide from this small former farm site and have a pub in London too, The Jerusalem Tavern named after the 12th century Priory of St John of Jerusalem."
Back in the Great Hall, those who have managed to leave the tasting samples and beer shop behind them, take a perch on the French choir stalls and set to on Jill's magnificent full afternoon tea.
On the wall hang carvings of brave merchants and a Byzantine looking bishop. On the window sill stand statues of be-mitred men and a Madonna and child.
Like John Tasburgh's bought-in ecclesiastical architecture and John Murphy's 18th century Philadelphian gin bottle inspiration, everything in St Peter's eclectic mix seems to have been selected and collected with devout intent - to build on a myth and create a legend.
Historic Houses Invitation to View tours offer visits to privately owned houses rarely open to the public.
St Peter's Hall, nr Bungay: June 25, July 30, Aug 27, Sept 24
South Elmham Hall, nr Bungay: Aug 22, Sept 26
West Stow Hall, nr Mildenhall: June 12, 16, July 8, Sept 26
Otley Hall, nr Ipswich: June 18, July 1, 25, Aug 23, Oct 2, Dec 12
Info & tickets: invitationtoview.co.uk
T: 01946 690823.
Tours from £16 per person incl. refreshments. Discount for Historic Houses members.
Group tours on request 01284 827087.
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Pendragon chief executive Bill Berman said: “These have been difficult decisions for the board to make and our priority now is to manage the transition to our new operating model.
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Meanwhile, holiday operator Tui said it planned to cut 166 high street stores across the UK and Ireland, which would affect up to 900 jobs. It said the decision was taken based on local market data and “predictions on the future of travel” – currently, around 70% of Tui bookings are made online.
Tui said that it would seek to move 70% of staff affected to home-based sales and services roles, and aim to relocate other employees in the remaining high street stores.
In May, the German travel giant said it planned to cut 8,000 jobs globally in an attempt to reduce overheads.
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Danville Hoots Baseball Club
Welcome to HOOTS Baseball - A Tradition of Excellence
Posted by Amelia Thornton on May 04 2019 at 05:00PM PDT
The "HOOTS" Baseball Club has established themselves as one of the top amateur baseball teams in the nation. This 'Tradition of Excellence' goes beyond our past success as a team, as we are equally proud of the accomplishments that our players have achieved at the collegiate and professional level of baseball. Consider that in the nation, only a few select teams can boast of their success as achieved by the HOOTS.
"TRADITION LET'S YOU LEAN ON GREATNESS"
2018 HOOTS Connie Mack Premier 30th Annual Josh Anderson Tournament Champion
2017 HOOTS Connie Mack Premier World Series National Finalist
2017 HOOTS Connie Mack Premier West Region Champion
2017 HOOTS Prospects Under 17 USA Premier Firecracker Champion
2015 Connie Mack West Region Finalist
2015 HOOTS "Fly With Owl Classic" Champion
2014 Connie Mack World Series, Farmington, New Mexico
2014 Connie Mack West Region Champion
2014 Connie Mack Northern California State Champion
2013 Champion "Strike Out Lou Gehrig Disease" State Cup
2012 Connie Mack West Region Runner Up, Concordia University
2012 Champion "HOOTS Fly With Owl Classic" Invitational
2012 Champion Wally Kincaid Wood Bat Invitational, Pepperdine U.
2011 Connie Mack West Region Champion, Tempe Diablo Stadium, Az
2011 Wally Kincaid Wood Bat Invitational, Southern California
2010 Connie Mack West Regional, 5th Place, Seattle, Washington
2010 Connie Mack Northern California State Finalist
2009 Josh Anderson Nevada Classic, University of Nevada, Reno
2008 "Fly With OWL Classic" Champion
2007 Sierra Nevada Classic Champion, University of Nevada, Reno
2007 3rd Place Perfect Game National Wood Bat Championship, Georgia
2003 Pepsi Challenge Tournament Champion, Eugene, Oregon
2003 Brea Holiday Classic Champion
2000 National Champion American Legion Baseball
1998, 2000, 2001 American Legion World Series
1998, 2000 American Legion Northwest Region Championship 1998, 2000
2000, 2001 Western Region Champion 2000, 2001
1996, 1999, 2000, 2001 California State Champion American Legion
1996, 1998, 2000, 2001 Northern California Area 2 Champion
District Nine Champion Eight Consecutive Years
The HOOTS Baseball Club, founded in 1991, had it's early beginning in American Legion Baseball as Danville Amateur Baseball from Post 246. Players from local high schools comprised the roster for all of the club's early years. Led by the talented class of 1996, the club won it's first American Legion State Championship in historic Yountville at Borman Field, advanced to the Championship game of the West Regional in Gillette, Wyoming and suffered a difficult loss to keep the team from their first American Legion World Series. It is here where the foundation of the club began, the standard of high achievment and committment were met, and the now curious but famous name HOOTS Baseball began.
From that 1996 season, HOOTS began a journey in American Legion Baseball that saw them achieve multiple California State Championships, three World Series appearances, and the American Legion National Championship in 2000. But, as the geography of their base area changed, and the advent of showcase baseball began, the club slowly moved from American Legion Baseball and in 2005 affiliated with Connie Mack Baseball, a division of American Amateur Baseball Congress. While a greater competitive challenge, the 2009 HOOTS won both State and West Regional Championships in Connie Mack Baseball to advance to the World Series in Farmington, New Mexico and become only the second team in fifty years from Northern California to achieve that goal.
While many players from those early years went on to successful collegiate careers and selection to professional baseball, the 2003 professional draft by Major League Baseball saw a former HOOTS player and local player, Nate Schierholz, become the second round pick of the San Francisco Giants and the 63rd pick overall. In addition, five other former HOOTS players were selected in the draft and former standout pitcher, Mateo Miramontes, who was selected by the New York Mets in the sixth round, followed Nate. Mateo was a member of the 2000 National Championship Team that set an American Legion record for lowest ERA. Overall the HOOTS Baseball Club had more players selected from one program than any amateur baseball program in Northern California. Since that year, the club has seen many players receive scholarships to advance to the collegiate level, some choosing to do so from a junior college, and several players selected in the professional baseball draft. In 2010 draft, two former 3 year HOOTS players, Josh Slatts and Nick Bartalone, were some of the highest selected players from the bay area
These accomplishments are outstanding, but it is also important to note that since 1996, over 90% of the HOOTS players go on to play college baseball. Today, players have choices, but the strength of our program has been from the local players staying home to make the HOOTS one of the top teams in the country year after year. That commitment, during the fall program and the summer schedule, has separated us from all other baseball programs. Our silent creed, "Champions Are Made When No One Is Watching" has served us well for many years. It also has led us to make a commitment to our players, to teach the game as well as give them the opportunity for exposure to college coaches and professional scouts. With that in mind, our schedule is packed with games against teams from all types of leagues that have excellent reputations. Regardless of their national affiliation, we compete where the best teams play, and our tournament schedule is outstanding.
Many players join the HOOTS from the Fall Development Program which operates on Sunday only during the off season. All players are welcome to participate. Players are selected for the HOOTS Summer teams from the fall program and by invitation from the coaching staff. Please contact Coach Don Johns at 925-820-0481, or email at don.johns@att.net for further details regarding the HOOTS Baseball Club.
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Contentious separatist protests have taken place in Hong Kong during recent months. The protesters feared that extradition to China could subvert judicial independence, something that Hong Kong values. City leader Carrie Lam agreed to suspend the extradition bill, but demonstrations evolved to include demands for full democracy and an inquiry into police actions. Clashes between police and activists have become increasingly violent, with police firing live bullets and protesters attacking officers and throwing petrol bombs. Protest action at Hong Kong international airport in August also led to hundreds of flights being cancelled. Recently in Washington, the U.S. House of Representatives passed a bill known as the “Hong Kong Human Rights and Democracy Act.” The bill requests that several government departments consider whether recent political developments in Hong Kong require the U.S. to change the region’s special trading status. This is a demonstration of support to the protesters by the U.S., therefore, mainland China is likely to retaliate against the U.S. especially amid an intensifying trade war between the two nations. In conclusion, many Hong Kong civilians feared that extradition to China could sabotage judicial independence and have retaliated with violent protests.
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SALTEX College Cup Winners to Work at Wembley
The Grounds Management Association (GMA) has announced that the winning students of SALTEX 2016’s new College Cup Competition will be given an opportunity to be volunteer groundsmen for the 2017 FA Cup final pitch preparation at Wembley Stadium.
The SALTEX College Cup, sponsored by Ransomes, is a new student-led academic test of turf management knowledge. The winning team will not only get their hands on the SALTEX College Cup, but a ‘big’ cheque, cash prize and work experience at Wembley Stadium in the run up to next year’s 2017 FA Cup and FA Trophy tournaments. This fantastic prize, which also includes two night’s accommodation near the stadium, was kindly organised by Alan Ferguson, St George's Park head groundsman, who believes that it will prove to be a highly valuable experience for the winning team.
“I see the opportunity for the winners of the SALTEX College Cup to work through a cup final weekend with the Wembley team as a once in a lifetime prize. The unique opportunity to see the Wembley pitch prepared meticulously for the final of the world’s greatest cup competition viewed by millions around the world is special. Within hours of the cup winners going off the pitch, the grounds team are turning the pitch around for the games the next day - demonstrating the challenges of what a stadium team have to deal with. The pressures the guys work under and the volume of what is expected is eye opening.
“I believe the professional game should work at every opportunity with young grounds people to make this type of opportunity available as a learning tool and we welcome the chance to be the first to do so,” says Alan.
The SALTEX College Cup competition will commence on the morning of the 2 November – the first day of SALTEX – in a conference room close to the exhibition halls. In teams of four, the students will embark on a two-hour competition consisting of paper-based multiple choice and short answer questions on turf management, plus a case study which will require a more in-depth written answer. The competition will also include live test samples for the physical identification of threats to turf health. Dan Prest, GMA learning manager and coordinator, who along with GMA head of learning Chris Gray, renowned turf consultant Alex Vickers and MD of the Turf Disease Centre Kate Entwistle are combining their expertise in putting the questions together.
The SALTEX College Cup is yet another prime example of the GMA’s dedication towards developing the future generation of the groundscare industry and CEO Geoff Webb is delighted to see others within the industry embracing the same philosophy.
Commenting on this exciting initiative, GMA CEO Geoff Webb says: “It's great to have Ransomes involved with the SALTEX College Cup, and now the staff at Wembley Stadium offering such a fantastic opportunity to the winners of this inaugural event. Initiatives like this simply demonstrate the good work carried out behind the scenes to create such an opportunity and credit for the initiative goes to Dan Prest who got the whole idea off the ground. We look forward to the competition adding to the already great mix of events at this year’s SALTEX”.
Karen Proctor, Ransomes’ marketing manager international, commented on the turf equipment manufacturer’s sponsorship of the SALTEX College Cup,
“We are delighted to be supporting this unique educational initiative, which is being introduced at SALTEX this year. Ransomes is always looking for opportunities to support the future of the turfgrass industry and we are extremely proud to be working in conjunction with the GMA to kick-start this initiative. It will provide an excellent platform for likeminded individuals at colleges across the UK to network and display their technical knowledge. Good luck to all the students taking part, the opportunity to win a once in a lifetime experience to prepare the Wembley pitch in the lead up to the final of a major competition is definitely an incentive to win!”
For more information, visit www.iogsaltex.com. College teams interested in competing should contact dprest@thegma.org.uk
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ASUU: FG Moves To Register Rival Union
The Federal Government has moved to register a rival union to the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) as it has given the committee responsible for the consideration of a request for registration of Congress of University Academic (CONUA) 4 weeks to submit its report.
This is coming as members of ASUU, who have continued with their 10-month old strike, are scheduled to resume their negotiations with the Federal Government on Friday, November 20, 2020.
This hint was given by the Minister for Labour and Employment, Sen Chris Ngige, on Thursday, November 19, 2020, when the leadership of Congress of University Academics (CONUA), led by its National Coordinator, Dr Niyi Sunmonu, paid him a courtesy visit in his office in Abuja.
While receiving a delegation of CONUA’s leadership whose membership is drawn from university lecturers opposed to ASUU, Ngige commended them for initiating the process to register the union and assured them that their application for registration as trade union would be treated with fairness and without fear or favor.
The minister expressed regret for the long strike by ASUU, saying that it had impacted negatively on the educational development of the country.
Ngige said, “We are receiving you in audience formally today in this ministry. We have the right to receive associations of persons that are workers, whether we have registered them or not, just as you have the right to apply for registration which is the lawful thing to do.
“We have the right to receive and hold meetings with you. The journey to have you registered has just started. You have done the right thing by applying and this ministry has also done the right thing by processing your registration.’’
“The review of your application for registration is ongoing. I have put up a committee to look into that review. I will ask the committee to wind up its work. We are giving them four weeks from today to turn in their report to the ministry. Part of our job here is to register unions; it is also part of our job to make sure that unions that are not functional are helped.
On his part, Sunmonu pointed out that CONUA was enjoying large followership with many universities registering more members by the day since it came on board in February 2018.
While pleading with the minister to use his good office to ensure the registration of the association as an independent academic union, he said that CONUA was established due to irreconcilable differences between its members and ASUU.
Sunmonu said, “CONUA members are not members of ASUU and we are not ready to be part of ASUU due to irreconcilable differences and modes of operation.’’
“ASUU no longer represent our interest and aspirations. CONUA fits to be described as a group of people who are independent academics and who have decided to come together to form a union committed to the advancement of education in Nigeria.”
He condemned the prolonged strike in the university system and encouraged unions to rather engage the government constructively rather than down tools every time, considering the negative effect of that on the educational system. He said that CONUA, if finally registered, would always constructively engage the government.
He said, “The government cannot see what we see and we will not see what the government sees, but when we have our mind made up in a constructive manner, we will come to a reasonable agreement to further progress our universities and for the advancement of the nation.
“We want to ensure a seamless and uninterrupted academic calendar in the university system. “This strike has done more damage than good. As academics and researchers, we are supposed to have evaluated the effect of the strike on our institutions, especially on our collective psychic.
“From the preliminary report that we have, the strike has done more harm than good to our universities. Nigerian Universities should rank comfortably with any other university in any part of the world.”
It can be recalled that ASUU has been on strike since March 2020 due to disagreement with the Federal Government over the implementation of the Integrated Payroll and Personnel Information System (IPPIS) amongst other issues, which the university lecturers said contravenes the policy on autonomy for Nigerian universities.
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Apple faces €48.5m fine from furious French
Regulators say deals with carriers went too far
Shaun Nichols in San Francisco Wed 6 Apr 2016 // 21:37 UTC
Apple is reportedly facing a €48.5m (US$55.3m) suit claiming it violated anti-trust rules in France.
A report from the local BFM Business [in French] claims that the Cupertino electronics giant leveraged French mobile phone carriers into deals that were unfairly weighted in Apple's favor.
The report claims the nation's Directorate General for Competition, Consumption and Fraud Control (DGCCRF) is filing suit in a French Commercial Court claiming that Apple took advantage of the popularity of its iPhone to push carriers into agreeing to deals that violated anti-trust laws.
According to the report, Apple is accused of, among other transgressions, pushing the local carriers into deals that see them cover Apple's costs for marketing the handsets in France and paying for repairs on iPhones the carriers sell.
The suit asks that Apple be forced to pay back a total of €48.5m (US$55.3m) in fines and rebates to the carriers. Carriers named in the report include SFR, Orange and Bouygues Telecom. The report also states that the DGCCRF will seek to have as many as 10 clauses from Apple's carrier contracts invalidated for running afoul of anti-trust laws.
Apple did not respond to a Reg request for comment on the matter.
This latest case adds to an already-long list of legal proceedings facing Apple in Europe. In addition to ongoing talks in the EU over its tax practices, Apple recently got word that regulators are going to investigate the licensing deals it has been making with record labels over a yet-to-be-announced streaming music service. ®
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WATCH: Foo Fighters invite former Nirvana bassist to the stage to revisit 'Molly's Lips' during Seattle gig
Nirvana 03/09/2018
Former Nirvana bandmates Dave Grohl and Krist Novoselic found themselves together onstage performing the Incesticide track 'Molly's Lips', the second time ever the duo have revisted the track since Cobain's death.
The reunion happened during a Foo Fighters’ gig at Seattle’s Safeco Field over the weekend.
“This is an old song, we haven’t done this song together in a long time,” Grohl told that crowd after welcoming Novoselic onstage.
Watch the performance above.
Molly's Lips was an original track by the alty rockers The Vaselines back in 1988, until the grunge gods Nirvana gave it their own spin in 1992.
Bloody good to see the boys back together, live on stage.
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SEGAL TALKS: Kris Verdonck (Belgium)
By Martin E. Segal Theatre Center | Published: May 21, 2020
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SEGAL TALKS Week Nine
Kris Verdonck (Belgium)
Monday, May 25, 2020, 12 noon EDT
Kris Verdonck
Join us for an update on the situation for theatre artists in Belgium.
As a theatre maker and visual artist, Kris Verdonck (Belgium, 1974) can look back over a wide variety of projects positioned in the transit zone between visual arts and theatre, between installation and performance, between dance and architecture. Most recently, Verdonck created the 3D video-installation ISOS with the support of the EMPAC Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. ISOS is based on the world and characters from the apocalyptic science-fiction novels of J.G. Ballard and was presented at the International Film Festival Rotterdam. Peter Eckersall also edited Machine Made Silence—The Art of Kris Verdonck, published by Richard Gough’s Performance Research Books in the UK. Rich in images, essays, and interviews the book includes drawings and sketches, opening up the creative process within the work of Kris Verdonk.
The Martin E. Segal Theatre Center is proud to announce the ninth weekly line-up of its new global series, SEGAL TALKS, which was conceived, created and curated by Frank Hentschker in March 2020. New York, US, and international theatre artists, curators, researchers, and academics will talk daily for one hour with Segal Center’s director, Frank Hentschker, about life and art in the Time of Corona and speak about challenges, sorrows, and hopes for the new Weltzustand— the State of the World. The Segal Center is the only theatre institution in NYC and the US creating original content.
Week Nine Participants: Kris Verdonck (Belgium); Aina Tur (Spain); Anne Bogart (New York, USA); Patricia Cornelius (Australia); Hoi Fai Wu (Hong Kong)
Senior Assistant Director of Programs: Cory Tamler
SEGAL TALKS: Week 9 Artist Lineup
SEGAL TALKS: Aina Tur (Spain)
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Tesla Made-in-China Model Y goes online for preorders
(Credit: Tesla China)
Tesla China’s Model Y configurator for locally-produced variants of the all-electric crossover has gone live, hinting at deliveries of the all-electric crossover starting in 2021. The update bodes well for the local rollout of the Model Y, which is poised to take on a segment far larger than that of its predecessor and sibling, the Model 3 sedan.
Recent updates to Tesla China’s official website shows that the vehicle is now open for local orders. Similar to the company’s US configurator, Tesla will be starting with two Model Y variants in China: the Long Range AWD and the Performance version. No specific date for the start of deliveries was listed, but the company did state that the start of production will be in 2021.
Interestingly enough, both locally-produced vehicles are listed with prices that are higher than their US counterparts, with the Model Y Long Range AWD being priced at RMB 488,000 (about $68,500) and the Model Y Performance being listed with a RMB 535,000 (about $75,000) price. In comparison, the Model Y Long Range AWD starts at $52,990 in the United States, while the Model Y Performance starts at $60,990.
Unlike the Model 3, which began its rollout in China through vehicles that were imported in Fremont, there has been little to no talk of sending US-made Model Y units over to China. With this in mind, there seems to be a good chance that Tesla China’s Model Y order page refers to vehicles that will be manufactured at Gigafactory Shanghai, the company’s massive electric vehicle plant in the Lingang Industrial Zone.
Tesla China’s Model Y program was formally launched by CEO Elon Musk last January, in the same event that saw the electric car maker hand over Model 3s to its first local non-employee customers. During the event, Musk proved very optimistic about China, at one point even dancing on stage in celebration of the Tesla team’s efforts at Gigafactory Shanghai.
Since then, Tesla China has been putting the pedal to the metal in the buildout of its local Model Y production facility. Dubbed by the electric car community as the Phase 2 zone of the Gigafactory complex, the Model Y facility’s construction has seen rapid progress in recent months. Recent reports have even revealed that the factory shell for the Model Y facility has been completed, despite operations being halted earlier this year due to the outbreak of the coronavirus.
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Submissions for the 2020 Festival
Submissions for the 2020 Texas Book Festival are now closed. We greatly appreciate everyone who took the time to submit their work to us. Planning for programming is ongoing, and invitations will continue to go out until early September. Thank you again for your submissions!
The 2020 Texas Book Festival will take place in Austin, Texas on November 7-8, 2020. The Texas Book Festival typically presents approximately 250-300 authors, from Texas and beyond, whose books are published in the year the Festival takes place. All authors who are invited to participate will be featured in a panel or solo session; the Festival does not feature authors for book signings only. Authors must be prepared to cover their own travel expenses to participate in the Festival.
Please read all of the following information before submitting a book to the Festival:
What are the submission guidelines?
To be considered for this year’s Festival, please send or have your publicist send us the following:
Upload or send a finished book/galley/ARC/manuscript (we prefer physical hard copies, sent via USPS, to be sent in conjunction with digital galleys or ARCs, but we understand that circumstances this year often prevent doing so). Digital copies are acceptable for the review process, but all accepted authors must provide five copies of the finished book once notified.
A press kit with author bio, marketing plan for the submitted book, review highlights you feel are pertinent, and list of previous publications. A press kit may be submitted electronically.
Topics which you are available to discuss.
Information about your or your publisher’s ability to fund your own travel to Austin.
Please mail supporting items to: Texas Book Festival, 1023 Springdale Road, Building 14, Suite B, Austin, Texas 78721
Please note: We can no longer accept hand-delivered packages. Any packages dropped off or left outside our office will remain unopened and discarded. Please submit all packages through the US Postal Service.
When should a book be submitted?
Due to shifting schedules caused by COVID-19, we have extended our submission deadline to July 1. While we will consider books published up to 18 months prior to the start of the Festival (November 7-8, 2020), priority is given to books published within the Festival year.
Who decides which authors are invited?
An Author Selection Committee comprised of publishing and book professionals considers the submissions and chooses who will be invited. The bulk of invitations go out between the beginning of May and the end of August.
What types of books are considered?
While we review all books that are submitted, our main goal is to provide an excellent and diverse mix of literature for all visitors and participating authors featuring books from the following genres:
Fiction — including all genres, such as thrillers and Westerns
Narrative nonfiction — history, biography, memoir, and essays. Nonfiction books are considered from a variety of perspectives that encourage and engage in fair, respectful discussions of history, figures and ideas.
Cookbooks and food-related titles
Children’s and YA literature
Art and architecture titles
Titles with a Texas focus and titles written by Texas authors
What types of books are not considered?
The Texas Book Festival focuses on the promotion of literature and Texas literary culture; books on the topics of self-improvement, how-to/instructional books, devotionals, or those solely of academic or religious interest will not be considered. If you are unsure whether your book falls into one of these categories, please email us at bookfest@texasbookfestival.org.
Should a self-published/printed author submit?
Self-published titles will only be considered if they meet the following criteria:
The title is bound
Printed copies can be available for our book seller to sell
A professional has edited the work
An established marketing plan has been made and is submitted with the title
A functional author website exists
The consideration for self-published titles that meet the above criteria will be the same as traditionally published books, outlined above. For the 2020 Festival, we will not accept self-published titles that exist only in ebook format.
If you are a self-published author but your book does not meet these specifications, you may be interested in applying for space one of our exhibitor booths in the Festival Marketplace.
Our main number is (512) 477-4055, but please note that our office is closed until COVID-19 stay-at-home advisories are lifted. The best way to reach us currently is by e-mailing us at bookfest@texasbookfestival.org.
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Home Metro ODEDINA BAGS NUJ'S "COMMISSIONER OF THE YEAR" AWARD, DEDICATES AWARD TO GOVERNOR ABIODUN
ODEDINA BAGS NUJ'S "COMMISSIONER OF THE YEAR" AWARD, DEDICATES AWARD TO GOVERNOR ABIODUN
THE BUSINESS PACKAGE December 12, 2020 Metro,
Commissioner for Agriculture, Dr. Adeola Odedina has bagged the "Commissioner of the year" award of the Nigeria Union of Journalists ( NUJ), Information Chapel for the various strides of his Ministry.
Odedina was given the award at the Chapel's Award and Dinner night to climax its Press Week at the OK Event Centre, GRA, Ibara, Abeokuta.
Presenting the award to the Commissioner, Chief of Staff to the Governor, Alhaji Shuab Salis, disclosed that he was not surprised at the choice of Odedina for the honour as there are visible milestone in the Ministry of Agriculture for all to see.
"I am highly delighted to present this award to you having seen the visible milestone in the Ministry of Agriculture, no doubt you have surmounted many obstacles to attain this feat, I urge you to continue the good work even as we extend the dividends of democracy to the nooks and crannies of our dear State", he said.
The Chief of staff thanked the Governor for spearheading laudable Agricultural programmes that has distinguished the state, calling for more support from stakeholders in the "building our future together mantra".
He appreciated Information Officers for tireless efforts at projecting the activities of the Prince Dapo Abiodun -led administration, charging them to sustain the momentum.
In his acceptance speech, Dr. Odedina appreciated the governor, Prince Dapo Abiodun, the Executive Council Members as well as the Agric Team 2020 of his ministry, saying all the Ministry achieved was due to their unalloyed support and cooperation.
While appreciating the NUJ, Information Chapel for the award, Odedina promised to continue the good work saying, the award will definitely spur him to do more.
Speaking earlier, Chairman, NUJ Information Chapel, Comrade Wale Olanrewaju, said the choice of Odedina for the award cannot be contested, urging his members to redouble effort at projecting the programmes and activities of the present administration.
Other awardees included, the Commissioner for Special Duties and intergovernmental affairs, Barrister Femi Ogunbanwo, Most Media Friendly Commissioner, Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Information and Strategy, Alhaji Abiodun Awere was honoured with a meritorous award,Femi Osipitan won Most outstanding Information Officer (Male) and Waliat Odemakin emerged Most outstanding Information Officer (Female).
Other awards were the best Unit (Print) which was won by OGIS, while the best Unit (Broadcast) was won by Ogun State Review, there were financial rewards of individual and unit awards courtesy of the Chief of Staff.
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When Will Marriage Boot Camp Return to WE TV?
‘Marriage Boot Camp’ is an American reality television series also known by the names ‘Marriage Boot Camp: Reality Stars’, ‘Marriage Boot Camp: Reality Stars Family Edition’, and ‘Marriage Boot Camp: Reality Stars Hip Hop Edition’. The show, which made its debut on WE tv on May 31, 2013, was inspired by a non-profit seminar called Marriage Boot Camp organized by Jim Carroll in 1994. The show is also a spin-off of the highly successful and long-running reality show, ‘Bridezillas’, also by WE tv.
As the name suggests, ‘Marriage Boot Camp’ is a show aimed at helping struggling couples to deal with their burgeoning problems, so that they can save their relationships/marriages. And it seems like the show has really struck a chord with viewers – since Season 1 first premiered on May 31, 2013, the show has seen a whopping 16 successful seasons to date.
Now, fans are curious as to whether the show will be making a return with yet another season of relationship drama. Here’s everything we know about ‘Marriage Boot Camp’ Season 17.
Marriage Boot Camp Season 17 Release Date: When Will it Premiere?
‘Marriage Boot Camp’ season 16 or ‘Marriage Boot Camp Reality Stars’ Season 14 premiered on February 6, 2020, on WE tv. After spanning 11 episodes, it wrapped up on April 16, 2020. The 16th season revolved around stars from rap and hip-hop. In fact, it was the second edition of ‘Reality Stars: Hip Hop Edition’.
As far as the next season goes, here’s the big reveal! A new season has already been confirmed. ‘Marriage Boot Camp’ season 17 aka ‘Marriage Boot Camp Reality Stars’ Season 15/ ‘Marriage Boot Camp Reality Stars: Hip Hop Edition’ season 3 is all set to release on July 2, 2020, at 9/8 c. Don’t forget to mark your calendars!
Marriage Boot Camp Season 17 Cast & Hosts
The first two seasons of ‘Marriage Boot Camp’ focused on five troubled couples each from earlier seasons of ‘Bridezillas’. In the show, the couples move into a house for 10 days in order to try and save their relationships.
After the second season, ‘Marriage Boot Camp’ severed its connection with ‘Bridezillas’, and changed its title to ‘Reality Stars’. It started focusing on couples from a vast array of reality television shows like ‘Jersey Shore’, ‘Dancing with the Stars’, ‘Big Brother, ‘The Amazing Race’, to name a few.
In season 16, (or season 14 of Reality Stars), Dr. Ish Major and Dr. Venus “Dr. V” Nicolino serve as the hosts and counselors. The cast features stars from the hip-hop world — Michel’le and Stew, Cee-Lo Green and Shani James, Bianca Bonnie and Chozus, Styles P and Adjua Styles, and Joseline Hernandez and DJ Ballistic Beats. Season 17 happens to be the third installment from the ‘Hip Hop Edition’. The hosts and counselors are Dr. Ish Major and Judge Lynn Toler. In the cast, we have Tahiry Jose, Vado, and Joe Budden; Willie Taylor and Shanda Denyce; Kurupt and Toni Calvert; Phadera Parks and Medina Islam; and Hazel E. and De’Von Walker.
What Can Marriage Boot Camp Season 17 be About?
Typically, ‘Marriage Boot Camp’ features some of the most explosive couples from reality shows coming together under one roof as they try to make their strained relationships work. For nearly two weeks, these couples are made to undertake exercises and drills in the hope that working collectively can help mend their relationships.
However, owing to some couples being in relationships which are sometimes at the point of no return, the show also sees much drama frequently – cheating scandals come to light, love triangles form, arguments break out, and couples even break up at times. However, at other times, some of these couples end up walking down the aisle, thus keeping true to the show’s name, ‘Marriage Boot Camp’.
In Season 16, five dysfunctional celebrity families set foot on the Boot Camp and reveal secrets that led to problems. CeeLo Green and fiancée Shani are together for eight years and are engaged but they are still unsure of tying the knot. Michel’le Toussaint and her boyfriend Stew have a considerable age gap while Joseline Hernandez wants a proper timeline from her partner Ballistic Beats. Styles P and Adjua Styles need their old spark back while Bianca Bonnie and Chozus’s tumultuous relationship is packed with issues, including obsessive behavior, secrets, and social media hacking. When the show returns for Season 17, you can expect a similar kind of relationship drama to unfold.
Read More: Best Marriage Movies
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Guiding Pedestrians: HAWKs in the Lead, While Pelicans and Puffins Fall Behind
By Victoria Broadus August 9, 2010
More and more cities are using HAWKS -- high-intensity activated crosswalks -- in an attempt to make their streets safer for pedestrians. Photo via wolfpix.
A few weeks ago, we published a post featuring a few ornothologically inspired pedestrian crosswalks, including pelicans, puffins, toucans, and HAWKs.
Which is best for pedestrians, we wondered?
Recently, the HAWK has been winning over an increasing number of urban planners and guiding more and more pedestrians safely across U.S. city streets. As Delaware Online reported on Saturday, a new HAWK signal over Route 72 on the University of Delaware campus, activated on Friday, adds Delaware to a growing list of states installing HAWKs. Other states with HAWKs include Georgia, Minnesota, Virginia, and Arizona, where the HAWK was born about a decade ago, in Tucson.
Delaware’s first HAWK cost about $75,000; the University of Delaware covered two-thirds of the cost and the Delaware Department of Transportation (DelDOT) paid the rest.
For a refresher, here’s how the HAWK signals work:
When not activated, the signal is blanked out.
The HAWK signal is activated by a pedestrian push button. The overhead signal begins flashing yellow and then solid yellow, advising drivers to prepare to stop.
The signal then displays a solid red and shows the pedestrian a “Walk” indication.
Finally, an alternating flashing red signal indicates that motorists may proceed when safe, after coming to a full stop. The pedestrian is shown a flashing “Don’t Walk” with a countdown indicating the time left to cross.
Until January of this year, states needed special approval from the Federal Transit Administration (FTA) to install HAWKs. But the HAWK improved pedestrian safety enough to earn its place in the most recent version of the FTA standards manual, published in January. This revision instantly provided transport planners around the country with a new and effective tool.
Data show that HAWKs improve pedestrian safety significantly. Researchers from the Texas Transportation Institute at Texas A&M University analyzed before-and-after data from 21 HAWK crossings in Tucson and found a 50 percent reduction in all pedestrian accidents, and a 13 to 29 percent reduction in all crashes at the sites.
HAWK MANIA
After activating the state’s first HAWK, DelDOT is already considering a few other spots for HAWKs. Georgia has installed a few HAWKs around the state, and according to Georgia Department of Transportation spokesman Mark McKinnon, the state is set to activate eight more in the coming week. Georgia’s new HAWK signals cost about $120,000 each and are located along two major stretches of road where pedestrians attempt to cross through several lanes of traffic.
Alexandria, Va. installed a HAWK at a dangerous T intersection where pedestrians must cross a four-lane road to reach a bus stop. St. Cloud, Minn. also installed a HAWK last year on Highway 23, where pedestrians were running through traffic to go between a public library, on one side, and a high school and park on the other. Blake Redfield, St. Cloud’s traffic systems manager, sings the HAWK’s praise, saying, “It kind of knocks your socks off from a visibility standpoint.”
Middle school students in Juneau, Alaska are also safer crossing the road after the city installed a HAWK crossing in late 2009.
Now that states don’t have to ask for special permission to install HAWKs, we’re likely to see a HAWK boom in the coming months. As drivers become more accustomed to HAWKs, the lights will be even safer; some drivers still become confused when they see the lights deactivated, since they think it means the light has lost power.
Installing a new HAWK pedestrian crossing on Route 72, on the University of Delaware campus. Image via Delaware Online.
A new HAWK crosswalk was activated on Friday on Route 72, on the University of Delaware campus. Image via Delaware Online.
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Top 100 Mondo Posters – Part One – 100-91
Terminator - Yann Legendre
Andrew F Peirce October 8, 2017
Make sure to check out the posts covering entries 100-91 and 90-81 and 80-71 and 70-61 and 60-51 and 50-41 and 40-31 and 30-21 and 20-11 and 10-1.
First things first, I know launching a top 100 Mondo screenprints list right as the CEO of the Alamo Drafthouse is in the midst of an industry wide sexual harassment scandal, is problematic. I’ll point you in the direction of my piece about the problems with Tim League and Devin Faraci right here for further information.
With that in mind, let’s take this down a notch and get personal. Film posters are a huge part of my hobby – I’ve been a lover and admirer of film screenprints for years now. When we travelled to America for the first time in 2011, we made a journey down to Austin – in part to visit the Mondo store. My first proper screenprint was Phantom City Creative’s Werewolves on Wheels poster – a print that was released on a Tuesday evening after the screening.
As you’ll read throughout these ten lists, I’ve made friends through this hobby and travelled to places I didn’t think I would just to be with folks associated with this hobby. For a bit of background on the hobby and my experience with it, give my review of 24×36 A Movie About Movie Posters a read here.
I could go on and on, but let’s let the art talk for itself. Come back each day over the next two weeks to see what prints have made it into my top 100 – and at the end, let me know what you would have put into the list.
100. Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining is a pinnacle of horror cinema. In an era when slasher reigned the horror genre, The Shining cycled along through the long hallways that make up the maze that is horror and announced itself as a force to be reckoned with. For many, this is Kubrick’s best film. For me, it’s not high on my ‘Best of’ Kubrick list, but I can appreciate its fantastic intricacies.
Mondo has created multiple Shining related prints – in fact, even going so far as to create an Easter egg laden print for the ‘documentary’ Room 237 – and it’s Kliensmith’s effort that showcases the mania that runs through Jack Torrance’s mind the best. Another Shining print will feature on this list, but it’s Kliensmith’s early Mondo work that helped cement Mondo as being a company to keep an eye on. Jack standing trapped in the maze of his mind is as apt a representation of the torturous events within Kubrick’s horror classic.
The Shining – Jeff Kleinsmith
99. Within the world of film screenprints, there may often be a desire to showcase an iconic scene. After all, our memories of the films we love are driven by iconic moments, so it’s only natural that we want to have those moments captured in print form to frame and look at daily. While Colin Trevorrow’s Jurassic World may not be the worlds most adored film about man eating dinosaurs, it does at least have some truly spectacular CGI mayhem on display.
Shan Jiang’s Jurassic World print portrays the outcome of the jaw dropping dino fight that makes up the climax of the film. The films ‘Chekovs gun’ (the aquatic mosasaurus) makes its presence known as the battle between the T-Rex and the Indominus Rex rages on. Leaping out of the water, it drags the Indominus Rex into the water, and we as the viewer are left to wonder what the heck is going on down below. Jiang’s print shows the brutal death of the Indominus Rex in superb orange and blue glory. This may not be for everybody, but for me, the way Jiang captures death of two gargantuan beasts and the downfall of the once operational Jurassic World is exactly what ten year old me dreamed I would see one day on film.
Jurassic World – Shan Jiang
98. Mondo have become well known as creating some of the finest series of prints for different pop culture properties. Whether it’s the never ending Star Wars related material, or the deep dive into the Universal Monsters series, Mondo always delivers. An almost never ending well of material was tapped with the Batman license.
In one of the almost endless Phantom City Creative Batman prints, the fan favourite villain Harley Quinn is shown in pin-up fashion straddling a falling bomb. It’s Dr Strangelove by way of Batman – and it’s glorious. There’s a certain glee in Harley Quinn’s smile that says she knows fully well the destruction that’s on its way – and she cannot wait.
Harlequinade – Phantom City Creative – Regular
Harlequinade – Phantom City Creative – Variant
97. A fair amount of the early Mondo prints either had a very Xerox-esque feel to them or appeared to be simply a photo transferred on to paper. They all have a great, independent, off the record, on the QT, very hush-hush feel to them – the sort of poster you’d expect to find stuck up at the back of your local record shop. Honestly, if this list were another 100 entries long, you’d most likely have seen more than a fair few of those entries on that list.
However, this is only 100 entries long and because of that I’ve opted to go with the best Terminator print that Mondo has released. While regular artists Ken Taylor, Kilian Eng, Jason Edmiston and Tom Whalen have all created stunning Terminator prints, it’s Yann Legendre’s doom laden print that captures the mood and fear that seeps into the seams of James Cameron’s iconic sci-fi flick. We don’t see who is pointing a gun at this woman’s face – we just know that it’s not good. If you haven’t seen Terminator, then you could think this would be just a regular story of death; but when you have seen Terminator, you know that this could possibly be any of the Sarah Connor’s in the phone book, and you know what’s coming for them. And it aint good.
Terminator – Yann Legendre
96. Just like the Terminator series, there have been many prints made for Sylvester Stallone’s iconic Rocky series. There’s another entry into that series coming up later on this list, but for now, the best print released by Mondo that helps evoke the feelings of the Oscar winning film is Cesar Moreno’s Rocky print. Here, Stallone’s Rocky is a deity – an ethereal figure who lines a print that wouldn’t be out of place on the walls of a boxing arena. The filigree and colours evoke a very Italian feel that is the natural undercurrent of Stallone’s film.
Honestly, it’s hard to pick just one great Rocky print, and if he didn’t already appear a few times later on, Olly Moss’s great print could have been in this place. However, Moreno’s likeness of Stallone is spot on and one look at this print immediately tells you the drive that’s within Balboa and the iconic Rocky theme will start ringing in your mind.
Rocky – Cesar Moreno
95. As with Yann Lagendre’s Terminator print, Delicious Design’s Rashomon feels like it could just be a photo with some fancy stuff placed on it and put on paper. But good art design can often appear simple and make you say ‘why didn’t I think of that?’ (Anybody who has looked at a Olly Moss’s work will no doubt have said, damn, why didn’t I think of that?)
Delicious Design’s work on this great Rashomon print shows the multi-tiered levels within the story that Kurosawa weaves in one of his many masterpieces. Each ring on Takashi Shimura’s face shows different shades of the same story – with a red dot right in the middle that is the truth. These ‘alternative film prints’ were designed to honour the film they’re representing, and to entice people into seeking them out. Delicious Design’s work here does exactly that.
Rashomon – Delicious Design
94. The nature of Mondo prints has the artists providing their own artistic spin on a film. Part of the drive of screenprints is to provide a genuine alternative to the often hum-drum and bland floating heads posters that litter cinemas around the world. Jock’s work since he joined the illustrious list of Mondo artists in 2011 has gone from strength to strength. Each new release is as great as the last one. Each release feels as if it is the official poster for the film it’s based on.
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This is no more evident than his work for the original Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles film. Literally oozing with neon green colours, this print had me having my own ‘Sinbad was in Shazaam’ moment when I first saw it. I was convinced that it was the official poster – that’s how good it is. The nostalgia that Jock’s work evokes is undeniable. Pair that with the pure excitement that the leaping and fighting turtles conjures, and you’ve got a winning print.
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles – Jock
93. James Rheem Davis’ work has often had a dirty, gritty feel to it. It feels like someone has photocopied a bunch of different pictures together, compiling them in to one torturous picture. His Nightmare on Elm Street provides a take on Freddy’s iconic glove that leaves a mark on your mind – seriously, take a look at that print, then close your eyes and tell me what you see.
Two white, terrified eyes. Those two eyes peering through the blades of Freddy’s glove stare directly into your soul as if they’re pleading for help. White faux-tears on the paper are paired with dark black and vibrant red colours. Close your eyes again and what do you see? Freddy’s iconic striped shirt. Davis’ work lingers in your mind like all great art should. A perfect pairing for a nearly perfect film.
Nightmare on Elm Street – James Rheem Davis
92. Tom Whalen’s work regularly pairs two contrasting colours together to provide depth in the image he creates. I’m certain that there are many of you who will be asking ‘why isn’t Frozen on the list? Why isn’t Toy Story on the list?’ and I hear your cries. I apologise. While those works are good, there is none that tops Whalen’s great portrayal of High Noon.
Here, the town has literally become a ticking clock, with Gary Cooper’s Marshall standing in the middle. If you haven’t seen High Noon, then Whalen’s print provides with you a stunning sense of unease and impending doom. The clock almost consumes Cooper, and paired with the tagline ‘the story of a man who was too proud to run’, you’re already provided with the foundations of the dilemma that drives High Noon.
High Noon – Tom Whalen
91. Jonathan Burton’s work has gotten grander and grander as he’s progressed. There is an ethereal quality to his work that makes his prints for Rosemary’s Baby and Vertigo feel truly otherworldly. With House on Haunted Hill, Burton has presented the mythic antics of William Castle in all its spooky glory.
Vincent Price sits sleekly smiling, draped in shadows. A skeleton grins in the window frame, holding up a hanging woman. Lightning cracks in the distance. All of these elements evoke the spine tingling feelings that no doubt would have occurred if you managed to see a William Castle film in its original gimmick driven format. A great poster will sell you on the film on what it promises, and Burton’s work does exactly that.
House on Haunted Hill – Jonathan Burton – Regular
House on Haunted Hill – Jonathan Burton – Variant
So that’s the first ten in this top 100 Mondo prints. Come back tomorrow to see what’s next on the list…
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Boxing Day ’88: When City Went Bananas
by Ste | Mar 24, 2012 | 3 comments
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On Boxing Day 1988 12,000 Manchester City supporters descended upon Stoke’s beautifully dilapidated Victoria Ground dressed as superheroes, penguins, oversized Andy Pandys and, in my case accompanied as I was by my elder sibling, one half of the Blues Brothers. Almost everyone, to a man, woman and child, carried with them an inflatable toy of varying types and sizes – from enormous paddling pools to crocodiles, from seven foot golf clubs to more bananas than you’ll find at Spitalfields Market and to make matters even more surreal most were lavishly decorated with tinsel or dressed in hats and club shirts.
The day is now looked back on fondly by both sets of fans – by blues because it represents the zenith of the short-lived but wonderful inflatables craze that soon spread throughout football and by Stoke because they metaphorically deflated each and every banana that chilly December afternoon with a storming 3-1 win.
Nobody likes a party pooper but when the party is being held by drunken, daftly-dressed gate-crashers in your own house I guess it’s understandable why they celebrated the victory with such relish.
With highly unusual generosity City were allocated both the Butler Street and Stoke End paddocks that day which almost ceded home advantage to the rowdy hordes who’d piled down the M6. The decision was made by chairman Peter Coates out of financial necessity but that didn’t stop widespread disgruntlement from the home fans that was made even worse when they witnessed the City team emerge carrying large inflatable bananas which they gleefully tossed into the stands.
The swollen away support did however incite a cracking atmosphere with the Victoria Ground rammed to capacity many of whom were topping up their Christmas Day booze-fest and very much in seasonal cheer. It was a feral, fizzing, boisterous cauldron the likes of which it is impossible to imagine ever being replicated at a modern-day arena.
It’s just a shame that only one team showed up.
Ex-City player Paul Lake recently told the Cutter that losing that game ranks as one of the biggest disappointments of his career (“There were guys in fancy dress as clowns…to me there were also eleven clowns on the pitch, myself included. We let the fans down badly”) but although the defeat momentarily stung – I recall dragging my blow-up skeleton through slush puddles all the way back to the car – it was ultimately only a temporary blip on a successful promotion charge that eventually led to more banana madness at Bradford on the final day of the season.
In the intervening months the bizarre fashion for taking inflatable toys to games extended to grounds right across the UK – from thousands of haddock being waved on the Grimby terraces to black puddings at Bury and hammers at…well, you can guess where. Stoke meanwhile showed that they were not averse to the fun by turning up to the corresponding fixture at Maine Road soon after and filling the away end with a multitude of blow-up Pink Panthers.
Amazingly, considering the scale in which it eventually took off, it all started with one man and a bet.
So how did it all begin, this strange, daft and joyous craze that brightened football amidst a backdrop of hooliganism, the threat of ID cards, and being banned from playing in Europe? Amazingly, considering the scale in which it eventually took off, it all started with one man and a bet.
Frank Newton visited his friend Allen Busby one day and spied a five foot inflatable banana amongst an array of novelty items. Suggesting in jest that he take it along to Maine Road Allen dared him to do so and in August 1987 for City’s season opener to Plymouth Frank duly did to general mirth from those around him. In those days City had a terrace hero by the name of Imre Varadi who would often be demoted to the bench. When Frank lifted up his banana during one match (now complete with hat, shirt and felt-tipped face) whilst the crowd were singing for Varadi’s introduction the chant quickly mutated to ‘Imre Banana’. So it was that a legend was born and soon enough ‘Imre’ had many yellow comrades all waving in unison at each game.
The craze really hit another level however at a midweek away to West Brom in October ’88, just two months before the Boxing Day trip to Stoke. From a sea of plastic yellow emerged a huge inflatable Frankenstein that we’d all seen before and we duly greeted him with his signature ‘Frankie’ chant. But then, to the far left of the paddock, materialised an equally large dinosaur. No-one was expecting that.
Lakey later confirmed to me my long-held suspicion (I’d always hoped it wasn’t a memory distorted by time) that the rumpus occurring behind one of the goals was so ferocious that the players actually became distracted during the match and were turning around to see what the hell was happening. Was it yet another kick-off staining the image of the British game? Were there going to be yet more tabloid headlines denouncing fans as yobs and animals? Well no, it was two inflatables duelling above the heads of the throng, to the goading cheering delight of all present. I suppose, in a way, animals were involved. They just happened to be plastic.
Incidentally, the fight was complicated further by a third party – a large fried egg.
The City team that takes on the Potters later today is of course of vastly different pedigree to their ’88 counterparts in almost every conceivable way and though it is difficult to imagine something as gloriously immature as the inflatable craze ever taking off again – for one thing, as far as cult heroes go I cannot think of a fruit that even remotely sounds like Zabaleta – this is not a rose-tinted mourning of a better past. The Poznan is just one example of how fans will never change no matter how much corporate dosh is ploughed into the game whilst, although the Victoria Ground is sadly no more, the Britannia is easily the most vibrant and rocking stadium around.
It was great while it lasted though and, to paraphrase Rick in Casablanca, we’ll always have Stoke. It’s just a shame only one team showed up.
BimboBob on March 24, 2012 at 8:43 am
Godzilla won I think. Never laughed as much at a game as that.
Rascal on March 24, 2012 at 1:18 pm
The paddling pool running down the sie of the end was my own personal WBA highlight. I remember bananas being confiscated at Palace away as the police deemed them rascist.
tublu on March 24, 2012 at 5:33 pm
I’d like to say I remember it well but that would be a lie. The whole day is a blur.
We pitched up early doors at a quiet country pub a few miles north of Stoke ( not a clue where ) The landlord took pity on us and opened an hour or two early and allowed us in to set up our paddling pool in his vault. about 20 of us in total, 17 ‘tourists’ in shorts, tee-shirts and sunglasses ( it was freezing but no-one cared) we also had a weetabix man, a Hamlet ( danish prince not the little cigar) and an ET.
major party, locals were ‘bemused’ it’s fair to say. happy landlord made a few quid and then I ‘think’ we went to a football match but couldn’t be certain. happy days,,, maybe.
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Walnut repaving further complicates downtown traffic
Robin Gibson
rgibson@muncie.gannett.com
A repaving project on Walnut Steet near Central HS caused traffic backups on Thursday.
The street superintendent said milling was being done that day in advance of coming rain.
MUNCIE – With all the ever-shifting detours in and around downtown Muncie, it’s begun to feel like it’s equally difficult to get in or out of that area, let alone make your way around once you’re there.
Frustrated drivers trying to avoid the road closures, as well as those just trying to get to or from Central High School, ran into still more difficulty late this week on Walnut Street just north of downtown.
Work on a repaving project limited lanes open to traffic on the busy north-south road on Thursday. The result was snarled, backed-up traffic, particularly just after Central dismissed for the day, according to Clint Hornbeck, who got stuck in traffic lined up almost to Centennial trying to pick his daughter up after school.
Hornbeck complained that the timing for such work on Walnut seemed particularly bad with school in session, as well as many people trying to avoid blocked roads downtown. “Especially with all the closed streets in Muncie, it’s already a maze,” he said.
City street department Superintendent Duke Campbell said Friday he was sorry people collecting their kids at Central had been inconvenienced by the lane closures on Thursday, but said contractor E&B Paving was “being smart and diligent” by pushing to get the work done on Thursday before rain arrived Friday and Saturday.
In advance of repaving Walnut between Wysor Street and Centennial Avenue, the contractor had to mill down the existing pavement, work originally planned for a more convenient time but pushed up because of the coming rain. “Looking at today, I’m glad he milled it yesterday,” Campbell said on Friday.
The public and the school will be notified when paving will be going on, he added.
“There’s a price for improvement, and inconvenience is one of them,” Campbell said. “It’s going to be a very nice road when its done.”
Meanwhile, road closures and detours for the storm sewer project downtown are expected to remain much the same next week, according to a release from the Muncie Sanitary District.
Contact news reporter Robin Gibson at (765) 213-5855 and follow her on Twitter at @RobinGibsonTSP.
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Covid-19: Being black does not put you at greater risk, researchers say
Tom Whipple, Science Editor | Rhys Blakely, Science Correspondent
Thursday May 21 2020, 12.00am, The Times
Research suggests that black and other ethnic-minority Britons are no more likely to die of Covid-19 than white people
TOLGA AKMEN/AFP/GETTY IMAGES
Black and other ethnic-minority Britons are no more likely to die of Covid-19 than white people after taking into account the effects of other illnesses and deprivation, documents submitted to the government’s scientific advisers show.
The finding, from research covering almost 24,000 patients admitted to hospital, came from a tranche of study papers released yesterday by the Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies, used to inform the government’s decision-making processes. However, the researchers behind the findings cautioned that they were preliminary results, and it was possible they would change when more data came in.
The documents also show that among younger people obesity raises the death rate fourfold, and for those in their fifties it more than doubles it.
They reveal that at the beginning of
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Eats of Strength
The Special Honey Way More People Should Be Using
By Monica Beyer
Published on 10/25/2016 at 12:01 AM
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You probably know honey as the sweet sludge that comes in friendly bear-shaped bottles, but you haven't lived until you've tried raw honey, a thick, high-protein spread that blows the processed stuff out of the water.
Perhaps you're a more cultured sugar connoisseur, though, and are seeking a new, more exotic honey to add to your cabinet.
Manuka honey is here to change your life. Or at least the way you treat wounds. More on that to come.
What's manuka honey, and how is it different from the regular kind?
Manuka honey comes from the other side of the world -- it's made by bees that feed mostly on the nectar of the manuka tree, which is native to Australia and New Zealand, but true manuka honey itself comes from New Zealand.
The manuka tree is also known as the tea tree, and produces a medicinal oil from its leaves. When bees use the manuka tree's nectar to make honey, the result exhibits strong antibacterial properties, which make it a powerful, functional food that could be kept in your medicine cabinet as well as in your kitchen.
Manuka honey is particularly good for wounds
While many varieties of honey have been known for centuries to help the wound-healing process, manuka seems to be particularly effective because of unique compounds present in it, one of which is methylglyoxal. Many others remain unidentified, but what's clear is that manuka is superior to your run-of-the-mill honey when it comes to treating cuts, burns, and sores.
The coolest thing about manuka honey's antibacterial activity is the promise it's shown in combating resistant varieties of bacteria, like MRSA. MRSA is a version of staph that's become resistant to quite a few antibiotics; manuka honey not only seems to reverse MRSA's resistance when used with a traditional antibiotic, but also appears to be effective on its own against other kinds of resistant bacteria.
If you don't pay much attention to public health trends or potential disasters looming on the horizon, antibiotic resistance is a real problem, because if disease-causing bacteria no longer respond to antibiotic therapy, then what the hell are we supposed to do about it? We'll return to the days when you could die from scratching your face while working in your rose garden. If manuka honey offers one potential solution, humanity may not face the apocalyptic scenarios many international health organizations have predicted about the inevitable end of the antibiotic era.
It may work for acne and other skin conditions
Those wound-healing benefits are nice, but not everyone is wounded, thankfully. Many more people have acne, though, and it seems manuka may help treating it -- along with other chronic skin conditions like psoriasis and dandruff. Just smear some on your face (after doing a small spot treatment to make sure it won't irritate you), and see what happens!
It may also work on gut issues
You may have heard of your microbiome, the trillions of bacteria that reside in your gut. Most of them are friendly, helping you digest food and regulate bodily functions. But some can lead to severe chronic conditions, most notably H. pylori, which causes stomach ulcers, and the notorious C. difficile, which creates severe gastronomic distress that ranges from diarrhea to, in some cases, death.
You probably see where this is going. While it's far too soon to say manuka honey can treat these conditions, honey has long been a home remedy for stomach ailments, and has shown promising results in fighting both the C. diff and H. pylori bacteria.
With great power comes great price (and counterfeits)
Manuka honey is, understandably, not super cheap, as the real deal needs to come from New Zealand, and from bees that actually hang around manuka trees. Counterfeit manuka honey (yes, that's a thing) has been a problem thanks to the recent uptick in interest from consumers.
There's a New Zealand organization called the Unique Manuka Factor Honey Association that publishes a handy list of accredited license holders, so you can easily check to see if you're getting robbed in the honey department or not. If you're using it for general skin treatments, you'll want something that's UMF 10+ or higher -- that stands for "unique manuka factor," and is essentially the honey's active ingredient.
Also, it tastes good
In the end, manuka honey is still honey, which means it's good for tea, toast, or eating straight from the jar.
So, if you're ready to pound some bacteria into submission, or you simply want to help get rid of a nasty cough, you may be in the market for this fancy-ass honey. Make sure you're not buying the fake stuff, and cross your fingers that more healthcare providers get in on the act. It's nice when nature gives back, isn't it?
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Monica Beyer is a writer who should really stock up on manuka honey. Follow her @monicabeyer.
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He was coached for free to become champion
HARD WORK: Mr Muhammad Muslihin Omar (centre) is one of the four students Mr Mohamed Zafar Hussein Malik (in red) trains for free.PHOTO: BERITA HARIAN
"There’s a misconception that if you teach youths how to fight, it makes things worse because they will join gangs." - Gym owner Mr Mohamed Zafar Hussein MalikPHOTO: BERITA HARIAN
Once involved in the wrong kind of fights, boxer now gets coached for free to become a champion
Danelia Chim
When he was 15, four schoolmates ganged up and beat him up so badly he had to be hospitalised for about five days.
Mr Muhammad Muslihin Omar, now 23 and a full-time boxer, looks back at that moment as the starting point of his career.
He had felt betrayed by his friends for not helping him and he decided he needed to be able to defend himself.
But he took it one step further and started fights with anyone in school who was interested. He found willing partners who wanted to prove themselves and they would fight in school and around the neighbourhood in Bedok.
Looking back, Mr Muslihin acknowledged that if he had been caught by the police then, he could have ended up in jail.
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Instead, when he was 17, his fighting spirit caught the eye of Mr Mohamed Zafar Hussein Malik, a boxer who ran the gym he frequented.
Mr Muslihin is one of the four students Mr Zafar has been coaching for free at Boxfit Gym in Eunos Community Club.
Training about five to six times a week, Mr Muslihin twice won his bouts in the boxing category at Malaysian mixed martial arts contest Ultimate Beatdown, once last November and another time earlier this month.
Mr Zafar, 37, said: "I feel that I have the ability to transform people and make them into champions."
He had undergone a personal transformation from a skinny teenager to a boxer himself. He had turned to boxing in his early 20s to get fitter before getting serious with the sport in his late 20s.
He said: "Most people retire around 30 to 34, but I'm still competing."
Since it was a dream of his to own a gym, Mr Zafar decided to buy over Boxfit Gym around eight years ago.
He said: "I have the strength to change myself drastically, so it felt like it was my destiny to help and motivate others to transform themselves as well."
But is teaching youngsters how to fight a good idea? Mr Zafar thinks it is.
He said: "There's a misconception that if you teach youths how to fight, it makes things worse because they will join gangs.
"However, they will actually become more humble and have more self-confidence."
He said youngsters choose to join gangs because they are insecure and in need of protection.
"But when I teach them how to fight, they will be able to protect themselves," he said, adding that being in the gym also gives youngsters a sense of belonging and a chance to meet people who can inspire them.
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Students build ACS(I) campus on Minecraft
A group of Anglo-Chinese School (Independent) students created a virtual campus in Minecraft as part of the school's open house activities. PHOTO: ACS(I)
Osmond Chia
Students who visited Anglo-Chinese School (Independent) for its open house activities did not set foot on the red bricks of the assembly square. Instead, they walked on digital blocks in a virtual rendition of the campus in Minecraft.
With school activities limited due to the Covid-19 outbreak, students got creative with a way to welcome potential students to their campus online.
A group of 18 students, mostly from the Robotics Technology Society, spent around 1,500 hours recreating the campus for players to tour on the sandbox video game.
Club president Aloysius Wong, 17, first conceived the idea when he saw videos other schools built online.
The Year Five student told The New Paper: “Since we had time during home-based learning, I got a group of us to start building.”
While his friends were familiar with Minecraft, where players gather materials to build structures from their imagination, they had never attempted a project on such a scale.
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Communicating via chatrooms, the group referred to Google Maps to gauge the proportions of the buildings and pictures for the details, recreating most of the main areas in school.
Aloysius said the toughest part was getting the curves of the buildings right, given the blocky nature of the games’ aesthetic.
He said: “Many times we wanted to give up because it took a long time.”
More than 500 ACS(I) students visited the Minecraft server when it was launched on June 1.
The school decided to adopt the creation as part of their e-open house activities, which began on July 4.
Mr Foo Kam Meng, director of information and communication technology (ICT) who is in charge of the robotics club, said educators are always looking into more ways to teach through games as it imparts resilience and collaboration between players.
ACS(I) plans to reuse the virtual campus for further online activities in the future.
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Beirut. The metropolis of Middle East where two worlds meet, live and collide. Eastern and western civilization have fought over this city for centuries but none managed to consume it. And for that Beirut and Beirutis are a spicy mix which I have not seen anywhere else.
A trip to Beirut had been in my plans for the past five years. George—a mate who was in the UN there, had invited me countless times. But something always came up and in his four tours there I never managed to go. “That will be my last weekend, so I will go to Beirut to farewell some friends” he said and I knew that if I didn’t go this time probably I never would, since this was the big guy’s last tour.
Veronika would go to Dubai for the weekend, so I thought “what the heck”. What better way to spend a weekend than with an old friend in the Paris of Middle East.
I booked the tickets and the next Saturday morning I boarded the plane that would make the hop from Larnaca to Beirut. Less than forty minutes later, I saw the city’s skyline on my left as we were approaching for landing. Its buildings were taller than I thought.
As I was waiting in the queue for the passport check I could feel that I was in Middle East. For a start the place had the same aesthetics, airports had back in the eighties. People talked loud in Arabic and there was this souk ambient that you find in Arabic countries. But there was also a Western essence in the air.
George greeted me and we went straight to the parking. “I rented an ‘X-Trail’. Size matters here” he said and I confirmed that in the first few seconds we spent on the road. The traffic in Beirut has a Darwinian quality. It’s the survival of the biggest. But left me wondering—since they want to squeeze four cars in three lanes, “shouldn’t they pick small cars?” The unbelievable number of Escalades and GMC behemoths says that Beirutis think they shouldn’t. It also pointed out the love that Lebanese have for anything American. Be that car, fast food or mall.
George had booked a nice room on the hotels quarter near the seafront. We gave the car to the valet, picked our luggage and… went through the metal detector to get inside. The luggage went through a security belt too. And it’s not just for newcomers. We went through the same routine every time we got in the hotel.
The Stormy Past
Lebanon has a turbulent history which includes the worst kind of conflict a country can have—a civil war. The country had two of them in the last two hundred years. The first was the “Mount Lebanon war” which was a peasant uprising of the Maronites against the Druzes. Its outcome was the massacre of the Christians in Damascus which caused the intervention of France. A small army was deployed in Syria and stayed there for almost a year.
The French left but they would come back after the First World War to establish a mandate which lasted until 1943. The years after, will be remembered as the golden years of modern Lebanon and it was at that time that Beirut got the title “Paris of the Middle East.” Jet setters and oilers flooded the cosmopolitan city which flourished with the Persian Gulf oil boom.
But unfortunately the euphoria came to an end by 1975. The Palestinian PLO which was expelled from Jordan on one side, and Maronite militia on the other started the first fights. The Sunni Muslims, Syria and Israel soon joined in and the country got into a bloody war of brother killing brother which lasted fifteen years. Hezbollah was the offspring of that war.
Beirut was divided into West (Muslims) and East (Christians). The Downtown where the hotels and commercial part of the city were located, became no man’s land.
“The bus massacre,” “The battle of the Hotels,” and “The Karantina massacre” were just a few episodes that show the atrocity of this war where almost a quarter of a million people lost their lives and another million fled the country.
A couple of blocks from our hotel, the mortar and rocket‒beaten Holiday Inn stands as a monument of the battle which took place in the area. The state probably didn’t demolish it, so that it would be a reminder of how fragile peace is in this multi‒religional and multi‒cultural country.
As I walk with George, I observe the thousands of bullet holes on the walls and I try to visualize the ferocious battles that took place there and at the Phoenician which is just opposite—a luxurious five star nowadays.
“Let’s go to the marina for lunch” he said and I agreed. It was a warm spring day, so we turned towards the seafront and walked to Zaitunay Bay. The city has a beautiful coastline which along with the rest of Downtown is well looked after. This is the cosmopolitan face of Beirut. Skyscrapers, designer’s shops and fancy restaurants. It may have lost most of the sparkle and glamour of the sixties but I could still see it. It’s on the people too. More than half of the residents speak French and almost always the are smart dressed.
George showing who’s the man
The lunch was not bad. The place was like an American dinner—no surprise, and had a nice view to the sea which was crowded with yachts. One particular made an impression on me. It was called “Bismarck”!
A ten minute walk and we were back to the hotel to pick the car. I had asked George to take me to Raouché because I wanted to shoot the Pigeon rocks—the two great boulders that stand above the sea. An iconic spot of the city.
On the way I couldn’t but notice that a big section of the route was barb wired and had watchtowers. There is this constant presence of security forces in Beirut. They drive around in Dodge patrol cars or riding Harleys and they wear grey camouflage which was confusing at the beginning since it made them look like army. They are not discreet but they aren’t intimidating either. Every time we came across them on a road block or while walking on the street, we were treated respectfully but you could see that if needed those guys meant business.
The Pigeon Rocks were visually interesting. Not my kind of sight but since it was a ten minute drive I’m glad we went. On the way back, George took me to the Blue Mosque. It’s a nice temple with blue domes. Unfortunately scaffolds and other stuff around the temple didn’t allow for a clean shot, so I raised my frame a bit higher and went for the domes and minarets instead. It was already afternoon and since George had planned a night out, we went back to the hotel for a quick shower and a change.
The night had fallen when we hit the road again. Beirut is famous for its nightlife and I was eager to explore it. It was Friday night but the streets were relative quiet. We drove past Gemmayzeh street—famous for its many nocturnal establishments and went to a cool place called “Central Station”. Apparently it is part of the train station that used to operate in Lebanon until the nineties. The bartenders wearing “sleeveless suits” were making some great cocktails and the music was great. In the meantime two friends of George joined us. Lebanese women are lush. They have Arabic beauty and European style. They are also more liberal and enjoy more rights than most other women in the Middle East.
George, Karin and Carla
It was an hour pass midnight when we said farewell to the ladies and left for Sin el Fil where George wanted to meet with his Salsa mates who were having an event in an underground joint there. Dark place. It had the disco ambient of the eighties. The dancing floor was bathed in red light and everybody was dancing or talking instead of using their phones. That was something I hadn’t seen for a long time. It was a jolly group of people, most of them in their thirties. They seemed genuinely sad for George’s departure. I had one more drink while he was setting the dance floor on fire and then we left. The trip back to the hotel through the now empty streets was fast.
Antitheses
Next morning, we met at breakfast. We had only a few hours to spare before leaving so we finished quick, got into the car and set for Yarze. I wanted to see and photograph the “Hope for peace”—a monument located outside the Ministry of Defense.
Driving through the neighborhoods of Beirut, we passed several security checkpoints. I could tell which sectors were Muslim by now. All the balconies were closed with tents from every side. The windows too, with drapes which were hermetically shut. From the power lines tens of cables started and connected to the buildings around like spaghetti. Apparently not an official addition. Hezbollah—the Shia’s dominant party and military group that acts as a state within state in Lebanon, has a presence which is discreet but still obvious inside the capital.
We got lost in the suburbs a bit, but eventually found the place. Now, I just had to find a way how to get out of the car in front of the armed to the teeth ministry of Defense and get some photos without getting arrested.
We decided with George that the best course of action would be to drop the car somewhere nearby and just walk there. And so we did by parking on small place next to the motorway. Crossing six high speed lanes was the most dangerous act of the day since the guard in front of the monument agreed to let us take some shots after we showed him our papers and he took permission from the radio.
“Hope for peace” is a colossal monument. Five thousand tons, shaped like a pyramid. It is made from reinforced concrete and several tanks and armored vehicles which are built in the structure. The gun barrels protruding out in the cloudy sky make it look as grotesque as war itself. It was at that moment that I felt the country’s history weighing on my shoulders the most. In my mind came the young people with the missing limps and scared faces that I had seen during my short stay.
I took no more than six or seven shots and we went back to the car. The sky was getting darker and the weather worsened as we were cruising the city streets on the way back to city center. We had only a couple of hours to spare for packing and a quick lunch before going to the airport. I would gladly stay at least for a couple of days more.
The queue for the first security check was almost outside the building which was why we went there four hours ahead. An hour later we got cleared and went to the airport café to kill some time.
While sitting there I was thinking that it was quite a feat for people to put everything behind and go on with their lives. And they did so by forgiving and accepting their differences thus preserving this mixture of east and west which is what gives the city its notable essence. People dressed in the last trend of vogue from one side and women in hijab on the other, people praying outside a mall. Christians, Muslims, Druzes. Beirut is a land full of antitheses. And that by itself is a very good reason to visit it. There is no other city alike.
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It was such a pleasure to share a part of my life in Lebanon with you. Thank you for reporting in such a manner.
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Aizawl Travel Guide Aizawl Trips Mizoram'S Taj Mahal
Mizoram's Taj Mahal
By George Aikara
A picture of the couple inside the memorial
Tomb of Varte with her portraits
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The spacious compound gets you b'ful views.
In most other states even I knew a place or two of tourist significance which I could head to if that feeling starts creeping in that there are better things to do while traveling than just searching for a bar and sitting down for a drink. The only things that I knew about Mizoram was
The capital of Mizoram is Aizwal. Its only when I reached there and took out my lonely planet guide that I found out its spelt as 'AIZAWL' and not 'AIZWAL'. Also its pronounced as 'eye - zol'
There might be a place called 'Dinpui' in Mizoram. This was the middle name of a friend of mine which I always found funny. She insisted that it was the name of her mother's village in Mizoram. I am not sure. Maybe it is or maybe her parents had a sense of humour.
Mizoram is a dry state. A dry state in India just means liquor at a higher price in the black market but I prefer sitting in a bar or a restaurant for a drink.
So I knew, I had to find a place or two of touristy significance when I reach in Aizawl. I took out my lonely planet guide and this place called K.V Paradise struck my attention.
A little on the outskirts of Aizawl, on top of the hill in Durtlang, a fleet of stairs take you up to a monument which has been dubbed as 'Mizoram's Taj Mahal' by the local populace there.
The story goes that when Rosanpuii Varte died in a car accident in Nov 2001, her husband Khawlhring Chhawnthuama used his entire savings and energy to create this three - storey mausoleum in her memory
The name K.V Paradise comes from the initials of the names of the couple. Khawlhring (K) Chhawnthuama & Rosanpuii Varte (V). As Khawlhring says in 'The Telegraph' article dated March 25, 2006
"The disaster of my life occurred on November 27, 2001. We were planning to go abroad. She was an enthusiastic traveller and prior to the tragedy, she had suggested we save money for the trip. We managed to save Rs 31 lakh for the purpose. But when she was gone, I found I had no use for the money. It was then that I decided to build a memorial in her name"
As quoted in that same Telegraph article
"KV Paradise was built at a cost of Rs 1 crore. The lighting alone costs Rs 6 lakh. The granite and marble flooring came all the way from Rajasthan, the specially designed tinted glasses (12 mm thick) were brought from Chennai and the spectacular fountain near the tomb was sourced from Calcutta. The three crosses on the tomb of his wife, said K. Chhawnthuama, epitomise the Holy Trinity"
Things created out of love has a way of just about pulling the right strings in your heart. Well Mr Shah Jahan, you are not the only romantic in town :)
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Sikkim is the 22nd state of India came into existence with effect from 26th April, 1975. Sikkim has been divided into four districts and each district has further been bifurcated into two sub-divisions for administrative purpose. Sikkim state being a part of inner mountain ranges of Himalayas, is hilly having varied elevation ranging from 300 to 8540 meters. But the habitable areas are only up to the altitude of 2100 mtrs. Constituting only 20% of the total area of the state. The highest portion of sikkim lies in its north west direction. A large number of mountains having altitudes of about seven thousand meters stands here with - Kanchenjunga (8598 m.), The third highest peak in the world. The high serrated, snow capped spurs and peaks of Kanchenjunga look attractive consisting of Kumbha Karna (7711 m.), Pendem (6706 m.), Narsingh (5825 m.), Kabru Dome (6545 m.), etc. A number of glaciers descends from eastern slopes of Kanchenjunga into Sikkim where snow clad line is found above 5300 mtrs. The biggest of them is Zemu, from whose snout above Lachen monastery rises the river Teesta. Teesta is the main river and its main tributaries are Zemu, Lachung, Rangyong, Dikchu, Rongli, Rangpo and Rangit which form the main channel of drainage from the north to the south. It boasts of the great mount Kanchendzonga as its crown. Ethically Sikkim has mainly three groups of people viz. Nepalis, Bhutias, Lepchas. The local language is Nepali. English is the official language. This jewel- like mountain state of ethereal beauty with an area of 7299 sq. kms , nestles in the heart of Himalayas. Cradled in the manifold splendors of nature deep within the snow clad Himalayas is Sikkim's capital Gangtok. Wrapped in mists and clouds, a garden state with an incredible variety of rhododendrons & a host of other flowers
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TUSD Superintendent Sonny Da Marto Announces Retirement
by Brandon McMillan - brandon@turlockcitynews.com
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After 38 years in education, Turlock Unified School District Superintendent Dr. Sonny Da Marto has announced his retirement.
“I’m very proud to have been the superintendent in this school district,” said Da Marto at Tuesday’s Board of Trustees meeting. “I’ve decided at the end of this year to retire.”
Da Marto has served as Superintendent of Turlock Schools for the last seven years, since joining TUSD in July of 2008. Prior to TUSD, Da Marto served as Superintendent of Burlingame School District for more than nine years.
His retirement will be effective the end of this year school year, with his last day being June 30. Da Marto joked that his retirement will be the first time in his life that he’s not in school.
“I look forward to spending some time with my 10 grandchildren and just seeing what else is out there and seeing what happens when I grow up,” joked Da Marto at Tuesday’s meeting. “I’ve never done anything but gone to school.”
Over recent years, Da Marto, as well as the rest of TUSD, has faced a fair share of criticism, most recently with the school district's drawn out labor negotiations with Turlock teachers and staff.
Last month, the Board of Trustees approved an approximately 14 percent pay raise for administration, while only giving a 5 percent raise to teachers and staff. These raises brought protests from the California School Employees Association prior to Tuesday’s meeting.
“I have nothing but respect for all of the employees of this district — the administration, the confidentials, the classifieds, the teachers,” said Da Marto on Tuesday. “Everyone that works in this district are second to none, as far as I’m concerned.”
Da Marto said he announced his resignation to the Board of Trustees two to three weeks prior to making it public on Tuesday.
“It is a delight to work with a dedicated staff whose focus has always been what is best for students,” Da Marto said in a letter to the Board, staff, and community. “For me, it has always been about the children.”
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Old Turlock says:
I thought Sonny was doing a great job. He had the teachers tow the line and finally work for a living.
Geegee says:
Hope he takes HEIDI with him
Many Thanks! says:
TUSD really did well with Dr. Da Marto at the helm. Unions were dealt with fairly and the district thrived during very difficult economic times. Best wishes to you Dr D.
The district thrived BECAUSE Turlock has always had quality teachers. Use your head.
George Robinson says:
Sonny, Good Morning,
Congratulations to you from your colleagues in San Mateo County. Thanks for your contributions over the years to the profession and your work through ACSA.
Looking forward to seeing you around more,
Thank God! says:
Finally! Now if someone can come in and clean up the administrators, especially at Medeiros. De Marto has turned a blind eye to real complaints, I bet people are shaking in their boots now that Sonny is not going to be there to protect them.
Thank God 2 says:
Those who should be shaking in their boots…..
Heidi Lawler
Gil Ogden(how did he get educator of year???)
Kea Willet
Jason Brem
Marie Peterson
Jennifer Yacoub
Laura Long
Linda Alaniz
Union scum says:
Just another supposedly gorging himself at the trough of slop called taxpayer money, and now after 38 years of gorging he gets to retire with most likely 90% of his salary. Yes people, his labor is greater than yours and he deserves to retire with all of these juicy perks and benefits that come along with being the Lackey of the thuggish financial warlords.
NoSuper4Heidi says:
Heidi is Demarto’s lap dog that knowingly negotiated with TTA and CSEA in bad faith. Knowing full well what they were planning to do after they were done. Does anyone want someone like that running the district? Someone that can look you in the eye and be that deceitful. I know I don’t and I vote.
Sue Sylvester says:
Good bye and let’s get rid of Heidi Lawler and Mike Trainer and Gill “educator of the year” too!
Sylvester says:
Good bye and let’s get rid of Mike Trainer, Heidi Lawler and Gil Ogden too!
Turlock says:
Well maybe a change is what the District needs to get back on track
Guest Parent says:
I am SO sick and tired of hearing from these union thugs about how overworked and underpaid they are. Excuse me, but what high level of training does it require to slap a piece of pizza on my son’s plate? And Julie Shipman? Puhleeze. Anyone want to publish her salary and benefits? No? Didn’t think so. Sonny was no dream, and it’s time for a change, but this situation isn’t exactly Selma.
guest superintendant says:
…you clearly work in the district office with a rant like that. Posing as a random parent. Puhleeze.
You can look at any California Public Employee’s salary at http://transparentcalifornia.com/
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Georgica Well: Final Report
Thanks to the First Annual Voss Foundation Benefit for clean water at Georgica in East Hampton, on July 3rd, 2013, 300-400 people have access to clean water in Little Liberia, a community in Little Liberia, in the rural Timbo District of Rivercess County, Liberia.
“This project is a lifesaver…,” said Little Liberia resident, Brother Abraham, upon completion.
Previously, residents got water from a creek over 14 minutes away along a narrow bush road; during the height of the dry season there wasn’t access to water for days. Voss Foundation partnered with FACE Africa and the Gunii Creek United Development Association to implement the project. Since 2011, Voss Foundation has funded fourteen clean water access points and ten latrines with FACE Africa in Monteserrado, Margibi, and Rivercess countries.
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The community of Little Liberia already had one non-functioning hand-pump, installed by an international aid organization, but assessment concluded it could not be rehabilitated. In an unusual situation, the first well we dug did not yield a sustainable water source and we had to find a new site in the community. Thanks to great work from our partners on the ground, we found a new site quickly and were able to salvage most of the original materials. The well now serves the community, school, and many people who stop in town regularly on their way to the nearby market. Community members have been trained in maintenance and a water committee of two men and two women have been selected by the town leadership to manage the well and hand-pump.
Sports Illustrated Supermodel, Ariel Meredith, hosted the first annual benefit at Georgica. Ms. Meredith told Sports Illustrated Swim Daily, “I was so honored to host the benefit for the Voss Foundation and support their mission to provide clean water to communities in Sub-Saharan Africa. Poverty, hunger and lack of access to clean water are all linked. As we support the Voss Foundation we are helping families and communities in the most essential ways. I first learned about the organization through a great friend and the more I researched on this organization I knew I definitely wanted to support and be more involved.”
A former VOSS Water Brand Manager, Kirsten Hansen, and Georgica owner Antonio Fuccio played an instrumental role in the realization of the event. When Good News Planet asked Mr. Fuccio why Georgica partnered with Voss Foundation for this event, he explained, “The Voss Foundation is an incredible charity organization that uses a grass roots approach to it’s fund raising. These are regular people doing extraordinary things.”
Georgica contributed $5,975.00 to Voss Foundation from the inaugural event, which was enough to fund the original budget for the new hand pump in Little Liberia. Voss Foundation made up the difference between the originally proposed budget and the final budget of $7,793.90, due to the unexpected costs of needing to find a new site for the well.
Between March 22 and April 22, 2014, our friends at VOSS Water chronicled the implementation of the Georgica Well in Little Liberia for their annual 31 Days to Make a Difference campaign.
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UNHCR and ITC partner to support economic empowerment for refugees
By UNHCR | 21 January 2015
The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) and the International Trade Centre (ITC) have agreed to step up joint efforts to ensure better economic and employment opportunities for the millions of refugees across the world.
The collaboration will seek to improve the livelihoods of refugees by enhancing their skill set and connecting them to opportunities linked to international trade. The Agreement was signed by High Commissioner António Guterres and ITC Executive Director Arancha González at UNHCR headquarters on Wednesday 21 January 2015.
'Building the economic potential and creating job opportunities for refugee communities is about investing in peace, security and dignity,' said Ms. González. 'By linking refugees to markets we assist these communities in retaining and using their traditional skills in a way that provides economic opportunities, and builds a market for their goods and services.'
'Empowering refugees through work and economic opportunities is key to helping people return to normal and productive lives,' said High Commissioner Guterres. 'This is an important step toward that goal.'
Co-operation between UNHCR and ITC will place special focus on interventions that aim to integrate refugees into the value chains of private-sector companies that are targeting export markets, especially sectors linked to information technology and agribusiness and handicrafts. Particular attention will be paid to women and youth.
ITC, Jarle Hetland, Tel. +41 22 730 0145, Mobile +41 759 829 180
UNHCR, Francis Markus, Tel. +41 22 739 8396, Mobile +41 73 901 1966
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Uterine fibroids are benign growths that arise from the muscular wall of the uterus. It is estimated that up to 40 percent of women over the age of 35 have fibroids, which may vary in size from less than an inch to the size of a 5-month pregnancy. During uterine fibroid embolization, small particles are injected into the arteries that supply blood to the fibroids. These particles block the blood supply to the fibroids, causing them to shrink.
University Radiology was among the first groups in New Jersey to perform uterine fibroid embolization in 1996, and we have performed more than 1,500 procedures.
Resolves symptoms caused by uterine fibroids, including heavy, painful, prolonged monthly periods, anemia, fatigue, frequent urination and pain or pressure in the hips and back.
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After numbing the skin at the hip region, your interventional radiologist will make a tiny skin nick, no larger than one-half the width of a fingernail. A small tube (catheter) is inserted into an artery in the hip and is guided into one of the uterine arteries under X-ray guidance. Tiny particles are injected into the uterine artery, which stops or slows the blood flow to the uterus and to the fibroids. The procedure is then repeated for the uterine artery on the opposite side of the uterus. The procedure takes about 1 to 2 hours and is performed under moderate sedation. You will likely spend one night in the hospital before returning home the following morning. We expect that you will resume light activities in a few days and return to normal activities 7 to 10 days after the procedure.
Chronic pelvic pain can be very difficult to diagnose and treat because it has many different and often overlapping causes. Recent advances have shown the pain may be due to ovarian/pelvic varicose veins - dilations of normal veins that allow blood to pool. The veins compensate by getting bigger, which can cause pain and aches in the lower belly, pelvic region and lower back. At University Radiology, we offer a procedure called ovarian/pelvic vein embolization, which blocks the flow of blood in faulty, enlarged veins that are causing pain. The body naturally re-directs blood to other healthy pathways.
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Can the Prime Minister hang onto power?
TOPICS:BrexitEuropean Union (EU)FeatureNewsPoliticsReview of the WeekTheresa MayUK Government
Posted By: Paul Sutton November 18, 2018
This has undoubtedly been the toughest week in a somewhat topsy-turvy reign for Theresa May.
But now, after months of negotiation with The European Union, she has returned with a draft proposal of what our future relationship with the EU may look like.
The 585-page document explains the terms of the United Kingdom’s departure whilst also including some of the financial information and details of citizens’ rights for Brits abroad and Europeans living in the UK once we leave.
We’ve made decisive progress delivering Brexit. Here is the Draft Withdrawal Agreement and Outline Political Declaration explained. pic.twitter.com/SZTxsbvCXj
— UK Prime Minister (@10DowningStreet) 15 November 2018
However, the Brexit deal that she has proposed has come under huge amounts of scrutiny from both Conservative MP’s, and those on the opposite bench of the House of Commons. Former Brexit Secretary Dominic Raab, who resigned in protest of the proposals, called the deal ‘a very real threat to the integrity of the United Kingdom’.
After the resignation of David Davis back in July, two Brexit Secretary’s gone doesn’t look good at all.
The area of the proposal he referred to in his resignation letter, will see Northern Ireland remain part of the Customs Union. This will allow for friction-less trade between Northern and Southern Ireland without a hard border, the same as it is now.
Today, I have resigned as Brexit Secretary. I cannot in good conscience support the terms proposed for our deal with the EU. Here is my letter to the PM explaining my reasons, and my enduring respect for her. pic.twitter.com/tf5CUZnnUz
— Dominic Raab (@DominicRaab) 15 November 2018
The big question is how many MP’s are against her deal?
One thing is for sure – Theresa May is struggling.
After consulting her cabinet on the details of the Brexit deal, five subsequently resigned in protest.
One of her most vocal Brexit critics, Jacob Rees-Mogg, confirmed this week he has submitted a letter of no confidence to the 1922 Committee.
The 1922 Committee is private Conservative board chaired by Tory MP, Sir Graham Brady. If he receives letters of no confidence from at least 15% of Conservative MP’s, a secret ballot will be triggered.
Members of the Conservative Party will then have the chance to vote for, or against Theresa May to continue to lead the party. If she wins, there cannot be another ballot for at least a year. But if she loses, there will be an in-house leadership election in which she cannot run.
It is not currently known how many Tory MP’s have submitted letters to Mr Brady but one of Gloucestershire’s MP’s has. MP for Tewkesbury Laurence Robertson has written on his website:
“The proposals being made do not reflect the “Brexit means Brexit” and Lancaster House stances which the Prime Minister has previously taken.”
“To me, Theresa May has thereby demonstrated that she has the wrong priorities. Although I have always held strong reservations about her leadership, I was prepared to give her time to demonstrate that she really did believe that Brexit means Brexit.”
Mr Robertson’s full statement can be read below.
Update: Brexit Negotiations https://t.co/vCnYzeMdDJ
— Laurence Robertson (@lrobertsonTewks) 15 November 2018
Will Mrs May keep her job?
Speculation continues regarding her future.
On Thursday, the Prime Minister took questions at a press conference, saying “I will see through the Brexit deal.”
How Mrs May can get this through Parliament at this stage is anyone’s guess.
A vast number of her own MP’s are standing against this deal, along with those from opposition parties.
The only vocal backer of the deal, from an opposition party is Stephen Lloyd of the Liberal Democrats. The MP for Eastbourne has said he will respect the result of the EU Referendum for his constituents.
It is likely for more MP’s to back the Prime Minister closer to the vote.
Labour need to be careful. That’s the view of Caroline Flint, MP for Don Valley. She fears a potential backlash against the Labour party if the wishes of their constituencies are not met. However, the majority of Labour MP’s are predicted to vote down the deal.
Leader, Jeremy Corbyn will vote against, and most of his party are expected to follow suit.
So can the draft agreement or deal get through parliament?
If (or when) the Brexit plan is rejected in The House of Commons, the process is essentially back to square one. If the deal does not get through Parliament, the Prime Minister will have a few weeks to amend the deal and try again.
If this is still rejected, it is possible the UK will subsequently crash out of the EU with no deal; face another General Election, or even hold a second referendum.
At this stage, she does not have enough party support to get the current EU proposals through Parliament, but this could easily change.
For Theresa May to have any chance of getting this deal through Parliament, she needs to drum up support for her EU proposals. And fast.
Otherwise, Brexit may never happen.
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Indianapolis Colts break away from Tennessee Titans, force tie atop AFC South
Jim Ayello
NASHVILLE — The Indianapolis Colts are the class of the AFC South. After walloping the Tennessee Titans 34-17 on Thursday night in Nashville, the Colts jumped to 6-3 on the season and to a tie atop the division standings.
They continue to control their own destiny, an enviable spot to be nine games into the NFL season.
While the Colts weren't bad in the first two quarters by any means, they entered intermission trailing their division rivals 17-13.
However, riding a stifling defense, a terrific two-touchdown performance from Nyheim Hines and some abysmal specials teams play by the Titans (6-3), the Colts jumped all over Tennessee in the second half.
The biggest play of the half, however, was turned it by special-teamer E.J. Speed, who blocked a Titans punt for T.J. Carrie to scoop up and score.
The defense then stepped on the Titans, constantly harassing and hitting Ryan Tannehill and not allowing star tailback Derrick Henry to beat them.
Quarterback Philip Rivers deserves credit for organizing one of the best offensive performances of the season. He finished Thursday night 29-of-39 for 398 yards and a touchdown. Michael Pittman won't be mentioned in the following paragraphs either -- there were a lot of standout performances Thursday -- but he deserves to be noted after his best game as a rookie. He notched his first career 100-yard game (101 yards) after leading the team with seven catches.
MORE:Philip Rivers passes Dan Marino for fifth place on NFL career passing yardage list
Hines showed up in Nashville as the do-it-all playmaker the Colts desperately needed. A week after the Ravens made the Colts' weapons look lackluster, Hines proved otherwise. As a runner he quick and decisive through the hole, and as a receiver, he was the tough-cover menace he's always been.
Hines finished the game with a team-high 70 yards and a touchdown on the ground and 45 yards receiving with a score. He is the first Colts player to have multiple games with a rushing and receiving touchdown since Joseph Addai in 2009.
His first score came when he knotted the game at 10 by running a flawless option route, which he took the outside, burning his defender in the process and scoring a 13-yard touchdown.
His second came on a two-yard plunge that ended up serving as the game-winner.
There have a lot of calls recently to get Hines more involved in the offense. At times, he struggled with increased opportunity this season, but Thursday night's game proves how electric he can be with the ball in hands.
Going forward, Reich is going to have to continue making a priority to do that more often.
While we're on the subject of diminutive playmakers, undrafted free agent wide receiver DeMichael Harris deserves a shoutout for making an outstanding back-shoulder grab for a 21-yard gain in the first half. Harris hasn't been heavily involved in his first three NFL games, but he's been extremely effective with his touches.
While it won't be remembered as their best performance of the season, the Colts got stops when they needed them -- none bigger than after the offense failed to convert a fourth-and-goal late in the third quarter.
The defense yielded a first down but Denico Autry's sack of Tannehill put the Titans behind the sticks and forced a punt two plays later. Though the Colts were poised to score good field position, Titans punter Trevor Daniel shanked his punt and made it easy on the Colts who capitalized with a 2-yard Hines touchdown run and grabbed a 20-17 lead.
That ended up being the difference in the game because the defense didn't give up another point after that.
Frankly, on the only drives the Colts gave up points, they did so by shooting themselves in the foot with penalties. The most egregious came on Rock Ya-Sin's 17-yard pass interference flag in the second quarter put the Titans at the 1-yard line. DeForest Buckner was flagged for a roughing the passer a few plays later, and that set up a Jonnu Smith touchdown run.
Without the penalties, the Colts defense may have fared even better.
Darius Leonard won't be happy that Henry exceeded 100 yards (103) -- just the second time the Colts have given up 100 rushing yards to a player under Matt Eberflus (Henry both times) -- but that surely won't prevent him from celebrating a solid all-around performance for the defense.
What will be an untold story of this game was the Titans total collapse on special teams. Daniel's shanked punt was only the beginning. After their next drive stalled, someone on Tennessee's punt coverage unit forgot to block E.J. Speed, and he came up with one of the biggest momentum-turning plays of the game. Speed blocked the punt, T.J. Carries scooped it up and returned it six yards for the touchdown, putting the Colts up 27-18.
The touchdown was the Colts fifth defensive or special teams touchdown this season, breaking a tie with the Ravens for most in the NFL.
The Titans' collapse didn't end there. Stephen Gostkowski missed a 44-yard field goal early in the third quarter that would have brought the Titans back within one score. Instead, the Colts took advantage of the opportunity my marching down the field and effectively ending the game with Jacoby Brissett's two-yard touchdown run on a quarterback sneak.
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Jim Carrey and New Girlfriend Ginger Gonzaga Make Their Red Carpet Debut at Golden Globes 2019 Party
By Nicholas Hautman
Jim Carrey and Ginger Gonzaga attend the Showtime Golden Globe Nominees Celebration at Sunset Tower Hotel on January 5, 2019 in West Hollywood, California. LISA O'CONNOR/AFP/Getty Images
Jim Carrey found love on set! The actor is dating his Kidding costar Ginger Gonzaga, his rep confirms to Us Weekly.
Golden Globes 2019 Red Carpet Fashion
The new couple made their red carpet debut at the 2019 Showtime Golden Globes Nominees Celebration in West Hollywood on Saturday, January 5. Carrey, 56, sported a long black suit jacket and pants over a white shirt, while Gonzaga, 34, wore a low-cut white dress and heels. The pair were all smiles as they held hands at the event.
The Ted actress documented the night with a series of photos shared on her Instagram page. She captioned one snap with her beau: “Most partial to this talented nominee. #goldenglobes.” (Kidding scored two Golden Globe nominations this year: best TV musical or comedy and best actor in a TV musical or comedy for Carrey.)
Jim Carrey and Ginger Gonzaga attend the Showtime Golden Globe Nominees Celebration at Sunset Tower Hotel on January 5, 2019 in West Hollywood, California. Gregg DeGuire/Getty Images
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Prior to working together on Kidding, Gonzaga had a recurring role on I’m Dying Up Here, which Carrey executive-produced.
The pair later attended the 2018 Golden Globe Awards together on Sunday, January 6.
Jim Carrey and Ginger Gonzaga arrive at the 76th Golden Globe Awards at The Beverly Hilton on January 6, 2019. Trae Patton/NBC/NBCU Photo Bank
The Bruce Almighty star was previously married to actress Melissa Womer from 1987 to 1995 and his Dumb and Dumber costar Lauren Holly from 1996 to 1997. He later dated Jenny McCarthy from 2005 to 2010 before being linked to Cathriona White on and off from 2012 until 2015, when the makeup artist died at the age of 30 from a prescription drug overdose.
Celebrity Golden Globes PDA
A month and a half before Carrey and Gonzaga went public with their romance, the comedian told Radio Times that he had not given up on love. However, he admitted that he lives “an isolated life.”
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Object[ed]: Shaping Sculpture in Contemporary Art @ UMOCA (SLC: Aug 26-Dec 17)
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UMOCA Presents Object[ed]: Shaping Sculpture in Contemporary Art
MAIN GALLERY: AUG 26 - DEC 17
LEEZA MEKSIN WALKTHROUGH: AUG 26 | 6 PM
OPENING RECEPTION: AUG 26 | 7 PM
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Analog Inside, Detail, 2014. Image Courtesy of Regina Rex Gallery
Salt Lake City, UT - The Utah Museum of Contemporary Art (UMOCA) is thrilled to present the upcoming Main Gallery group exhibition, Object[ed]: Shaping Sculpture in Contemporary Art.
Object[ed] is the the amalgamation of six regional and international artists that employ sculpture to illuminate the realms of objectivity and subjectivity. Reframed with linguistics derived from the orthodox medium of structure, this show curated by Rebecca Maksym dismantles and redefines traditional notions of three-dimensionality.
Caught between elements of architecture and landscape while simultaneously defying architecture and landscape, this exhibition examines sculptures symbolic exclusion. Form, space, and process are reimaged, redacting objectivity and subjectivity within the medium. Featured artist, Leeza Meksin will be present prior to the reception for a walkthrough of her work in the exhibition. Creating site-specific work for UMOCA's interior and exterior, she will discuss the complexities of donning architecture in drag.
Through defying traditional modes of sculpture, Object[ed] as a whole expands notions of objecthood, through altering materials and practices. Illuminating both realms of painting and sculpture, art history is viewed anew with altering material, space, and process. Focusing on traditional structures of culture, history, and form this exhibition provides a new perspective for interpreting the conceptual and political arena. Object[ed]: Shaping Sculpture in Contemporary Art is an exhibition of dualities, between production and consumption, objectivity and subjectivity, the exterior and interior. Orthodox systems of structure are both celebrated and deconstructed.
Participating artists: Olga Balema, Caitlin Cherry, Lizze Määttälä, Leeza Meksin, Tove Storch, Gili Tal
Join us for the opening reception of Object[ed]: Shaping Sculpture in Contemporary Art on AUG 26 | 7 - 9 PM. UMOCA also presents the isolated environments of Andrew Rice's (re)Structured; Berna Reale's political performance-for-camera, Singing in the Rain; and artist-in-residence, Cara Krebs' solo exhibition, Sehnsucht.
Light refreshments will be provided, and beer and wine will be available for $5, and live entertainment will be present. Admission is a suggested $8 donation.
About the Utah Museum of Contemporary Art
The Utah Museum of Contemporary Art has been an award-winning aesthetic force and community leader since it was established in 1931. Located in the heart of downtown Salt Lake City, UMOCA encourages exploration into what it means to exist in today's world through art that inspires imagination, stimulates thought, and transforms society. The Museum connects people around the contemporary art practice of Utah and beyond to shape an engaged and thoughtful global citizenry. UMOCA strives to be a place where all points of view, experiences, and ages feel welcome to explore the pressing issues of our time through socially relevant art exhibitions and programming.
UMOCA is a five-time recipient of funding from the Andy Warhol Foundation and is a 2015, and now 2016, recipient of the National Endowment for the Arts' Art Works grant award.
UMOCA is a 501c3 institution that is supported by public, foundation, and corporate gifts. Your contribution in any amount is greatly appreciated, and admission is a suggested $5 donation.
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Syria’s not our fight
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Richard Carnes
It has been four months since we began an in-depth national discussion about Syria.
Has the metaphorical “red line” been crossed? Should we send troops? If so, which ones? Should we send weapons? If so, who should we send them to?
Support a murderous fascist dictator or radical Islamist fundamentalists?
Hmmmm, so many choices, so little time.
Back in April, I stated unequivocally that not a single American life should be put on the line for Syria or any other country, for that matter.
And here is why: On Sept. 11, 2001, 3,000 Americans were murdered in cold blood on American soil.
Instead of going after those who attacked America, President Bush (who ran for president because “God told him to”) attacked Iraq because “God told him to.”
As of last Sunday, 4,486 Americans have died in Iraq and 2,264 in Afghanistan, bringing the total to 6,750 dead American soldiers overseas in retribution for the 3,000 who died within our borders.
And lest you think this is some sort of petty partisan bashing, 265 in Iraq and 1,634 in Afghanistan is the body count under Obama’s watch.
I don’t care who is in charge — the Americans are just as dead, and we spent over a trillion dollars for the privilege.
Einstein once said, “The world is a dangerous place, not because of those who do evil, but because of those who do nothing about it,” and I could not agree more.
However, there is simply no good end game in Syria. With Al Qaeda, Hezbollah, Sunni and Shiite extremists, Russia, Iran and the Taliban all involved, there is no side to choose in such an obvious quagmire.
Whether Assad knows better than to use chemical weapons against his own people is certainly up for debate, but the so-called rebels would happily sacrifice innocent citizens to make their point and draw Americans into their hopeless impasse.
They’ve done it plenty of times in Iraq and Afghanistan, so why wouldn’t they use the same tactic here?
It’s what they want in order to fuel anti-American sentiment around the globe.
The atrocities in Syria are truly horrific, but those sitting around on the short chairs enjoying their little tea parties and yelling for the president to take action are the same who will condemn him the moment he takes action.
They can yell and scream all they want about Benghazi, but that pales in comparison. (FYI: another 200-plus Americans have died since Benghazi, but somehow those four are more important?)
Or do you think this is our problem because of the price of a gallon of gasoline? Where do you think the money comes from to pay for these pointless military actions?
More debt.
Our failed attempts at helping Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, Egypt, etc., to think and choose for themselves (Democracy! Hell yeah!) has only resulted in our being hated and distrusted by the majority of countries on the planet.
We’re having a hard enough time trying to fix our own problems, so why in the world do we think we can fix theirs, especially if that “fix” is paid with American blood and money?
If we can take action that does not risk a single American life (more than are already at risk around the globe), then I’m all for it. But until then, no American parent should have to understand why their son or daughter had to die fighting in a country that was not actively threatening the United States.
Richard Carnes, of Edwards, writes weekly. He can be reached at poor@vail.net.
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A Family Torn by Marijuana
Arrested Mom Still 'Baffled' by Teen's Anger
By Fern Shen
Washington Post Staff Writer
Friday, December 31, 1999; Page B01
Plenty of teenagers get yelled at by their parents for staying out late and lying about where they've been. Plenty are told by their fathers to apologize to their mothers. But when it happened to Kerry Tucker last August, the Takoma Park teenager lashed back in a singular and devastating way.
The 16-year-old marched down to the Takoma Park Police Department clutching photographs of her mother's basement marijuana garden and turned her in.
A fight over Kerry not showing up at a driver's education class was what precipitated her actions, says her mother, Kathleen Marie "Kitty" Tucker.
But the teenager never anticipated the consequences of her approach to the police, her mother said -- that her parents would be arrested, that her father, Robert Jason Alvarez, would lose his high-level job at the U.S. Department of Energy or that a judge would order Kerry to have no contact with her parents, forcing her to stay with family friends.
Still, Tucker, 55, acknowledged in an interview in her attorney's Rockville office yesterday that Kerry had been "really angry" and said she is "still baffled" over why her daughter did what she did.
Perhaps, Tucker speculated, her daughter was getting a double message -- schoolteachers saying drugs are bad, while at home, her mother was smoking a home-grown marijuana joint three times a day for migraines and a neuromuscular disorder and telling her children that marijuana has gotten a bad rap in this country.
"I tried to teach them there is more evidence of danger from alcohol and tobacco and drugs like speed than from marijuana," said Tucker, a lawyer and anti-nuclear activist who pursued the case of nuclear whistleblower Karen Silkwood.
At a recent dinner party, Tucker recalled, she heard Kerry telling someone that people of her generation are "really, really angry" and "I got my hopes up, thinking I would finally learn what the problem was." But she never explained it.
And the therapy sessions that were supposed to start the family down the road to healing their wounds are off to a rocky beginning. Tucker said her daughter never showed up at the first family counseling session her parents scheduled, fearing the therapist would be biased toward the adults, since she had seen them already.
"I just do not understand '90s children," said Tucker, whose intense blue eyes matched the aqua in the scarf she wore yesterday.
The issue that is contorting the Takoma Park family is playing out in the shadow of the larger debate that is unfolding across the country, as increasingly vocal advocates push for the legalization of marijuana for medical uses.
A half-dozen states, including the District of Columbia, have approved referendums allowing the medical use of the drug. The District law has been overturned by Congress.
The Clinton administration has opposed such laws on the grounds that the medical use of marijuana should be dictated by science, not politics, and it has warned doctors of possible sanctions if they invoke such referendums. But some presidential hopefuls are staking out a position on the side of limited legalization. Vice President Gore, for instance, seemed to depart from the administration's position this month when he said doctors should have greater flexibility to prescribe the drug for medical uses.
While the highly politicized debate rages on, Maryland currently has no medical marijuana legislation on the books (although a Baltimore County legislator plans to introduce such a measure in the upcoming session, and Tucker hopes to testify on it).
So when detectives came to Tucker and Alvarez's Takoma Park home and were hit by a waft of marijuana the minute Tucker opened the door, what followed was inevitable. Montgomery County police charged each with marijuana possession and manufacturing, as well as conspiracy to manufacture and possess marijuana. Police had found 69 plants, grow lights, rolling papers and marijuana stored in cannisters and boxes in the master bedroom.
Kerry Tucker was finally allowed to come home in September, under the unusual condition that no one talk about the drug cultivation or arrest. And earlier this month Kitty Tucker and Alvarez were each able to plead guilty to a single misdemeanor, and received six months' probation, a $150 fine and a 10-day jail sentence, suspended.
Kitty Tucker said yesterday that she has been growing and using marijuana for years to help with the pain from migraines that were diagnosed when she was in her thirties.
"I remember I was organizing the National No Nukes Conference in Kentucky in 1978 and I just burst into tears during it," she recalled. "The pain was awful."
Other problems followed: depression, pains that shot out in spasms from her spine to her body and limbs.
Tucker has seen a host of physicians and been told that she also suffers from fibromyalgia, a neuromuscular disease, and from chronic fatigue immuno-deficiency syndrome. A few years ago, she qualified for Social Security disability status based on her illness.
Tucker said the suicide several years ago of her son from a previous marriage deepened her misery. "He was in a drug and alcohol treatment program, and we thought that he was improving, but then he stepped in front of a train," she said
Said Tucker of her marijuana use: "I initially started smoking it when I felt like I was dying. It gave me hope. . . . I mean, it helped me feel good enough I could get up and empty the dishwasher."
Tucker said her husband didn't use marijuana because, as a federal employee, he was subject to random drug tests.
Despite the arrest and its aftermath, Tucker is unrepentant about her use of the illegal drug. She said she's angry at her daughter and only angry at herself "because I failed to teach her why I was using it."
Tucker says, she worries she hasn't conveyed to her daughter her strong feelings about the drug's long history of use by other cultures, its "mellow, contemplative, creative" uses by her '60s-era generation and its merits when compared with tobacco or alcohol.
"If I were the one making the laws," Tucker said, sitting besides a stack of 16 books about cannabis, "marijuana would not be outlawed."
These days, the family is trying to get Kerry into a new private school. Alvarez is writing and consulting.
Kitty Tucker said she always tried to be discreet about her marijuana use, only smoking it mostly when she was alone or around "people I trusted.
"I never thought I would have to worry about my own family."
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'Kamala Pecan': Kentucky shop names ice cream after Harris
By - Associated Press - Tuesday, November 17, 2020
LEXINGTON, Ky. (AP) - A Kentucky ice cream parlor known for naming its treats after people in the news has introduced a flavor named after Vice President-elect Kamala Harris: Kamala Pecan.
Crank & Boom Craft Ice Cream said in a Facebook post last week that the company had been planning to call a limited-time treat Caramel Pecan, but decided to change the name after Harris was elected vice president.
Owner Toa Green said that the flavor is not a political statement, but intended to be a “celebration for women everywhere, especially women of color, who are getting their seat at the table that so many have fought for before us.”
“As an Asian American, 1/2 of an interracial marriage, and the daughter of immigrants, seeing that my story and the story of so many other women in this country could look like this, means more to me than I could ever express,” Green said.
Kamala Pecan, a salted caramel ice cream flavor swirled with candied pecans and salted caramel sauce, will be available for pickup beginning on Friday at one of the company’s locations in Lexington.
The ice cream parlor has previously named flavors after officials in Kentucky, including Gov. Andy Andy Beshear, news outlets reported.
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People in Hertfordshire are set to find out on Thursday what restrictions will be placed on the county when England comes out of lockdown.
The country will return to a three-tiered system on December 2 and there is a chance Hertfordshire could face tougher restrictions after lockdown than before.
Hertfordshire had been in tier 1 before the full lockdown was imposed, but was on the verge of moving into tier 2.
Case rates have dropped over the last week, but most districts in Hertfordshire remain higher than what they had been under the tier system in October - and all ten districts are over 100 cases per 100,000 people.
Government data shows there were 1,720 new cases in Hertfordshire in the seven days to November 19, which is down from 2,009 for the previous seven days.
There were 1,381 new cases in the county in the last seven days of October.
Boris Johnson will set out on Thursday which tiers authorities will fall into, with it being expected that more areas will be placed in a higher tier than before lockdown.
Where could Hertfordshire end up on December 2?
Fortunately, it is very unlikely that Hertfordshire will end up in tier 3, with rates much, much lower than in current coronavirus hotspots in Kent and Hull, as well as other parts of northern England and the Midlands.
The highest weekly rate in Hertfordshire is currently in Broxbourne, where an infection rate of 208.7 was recorded in the seven days to November 20.
And nine of the 10 areas across the county, including Watford, St Albans, Hertsmere, and Three Rivers saw drops in cases rates in this time period - only Dacorum saw a small rise from 126 cases to 129.9.
Today's case data published on the Government dashboard collectively recorded the fewest number of cases across Hertfordshire for weeks, with some districts recording cases in single figures.
This looks to be a step in the right direction and suggests that lockdown may have brought levels of coronavirus down across the county - but a prolonged period of data is needed to see the true impact.
Public health officials in Hertfordshire have given no indication about which tier they expect the county to fall into but director of public health Jim McManus suggested last week there was a “window of opportunity still” to avoid tougher restrictions.
But ultimately, the government will decide - Whitehall sources have told the Daily Mail that “very few areas” would be placed in tier 1 restrictions when lockdown ends.
Boris Johnson outlining the new tier system in a press conference Photo: PA media
Despite good news from today's dashboard, Hertfordshire still has a higher rate than other parts of the country.
Taking the latest data and whispers from Downing Street into account, the most likely outcome is Hertfordshire will start post-lockdown in tier 2 - which would see a ban on households mixing in any indoor settings.
But The Mail also reports that the tier system will be reviewed by the government every two weeks, to establish whether local authorities need to have stricter or more relaxed measures.
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Troy Amdahl: 'Invest in the Dreams of Those You Love, Even If Their Dreams Are Different Than Yours'
By Kayla Kunkel
Published November 7, 2019 at 6:08am
For years, a man in Chandler, Arizona, was always against decorating for Christmas before Thanksgiving, much to the dismay of his Christmas-loving wife.
But when he decided to put his wife’s joy ahead of the “ambiguous social norm” to which he so tightly clung, he said his only regret was that he had not done it sooner.
Troy Amdahl and his wife, Kristen, have been in each other’s lives from the beginning; they went to kindergarten together and to senior prom.
“We’ve been together our whole life and she’s been super supportive of me pursuing all my dreams and just an amazing person to be with my whole life,” Amdahl told The Western Journal.
She supported him when he decided to retire from his job when he was only 42 years old to pursue writing.
Amdahl is the author of several books about life balance, which he calls “Oola.” Through his research, his own perspectives have changed.
“As I’ve gotten older, I’ve just relooked at things and sometimes where I dig my heels in, I ask myself ‘Why? Is it that important?'” he told The Western Journal.
So as the holiday season approached, he knew that the annual debate of when the Christmas tree would be put up was coming, but this year he questioned his own stubbornness in the debate.
One incredibly important thing he says he’s learned in his life is “to invest in the dreams of those you love, even if their dreams are different than yours.”
He thought the perfect opportunity to bring his wife unexpected joy would be while they were out of town and their house was under renovation.
Amdahl contacted the people renovating their home and asked if they would be willing to help him “deck the halls,” before they came home.
In years past, he said they celebrated the season by decorating a 3-piece tree from Target, but to make the surprise more magical he wanted to step it up.
“This year, just because she’s so flippin’ sweet, I thought we’d surprise her with just going all out,” he said.
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So the people helping him with the surprise set up two trees: an undecorated “Charlie Brown-ish” tree reserved for the kids’ ornaments, and a large, “Pinterest” tree.
Amdahl said he and his son felt so much joy watching Kristen react to the Christmas trees.
He said when she walked in the door and saw the first tree, she started crying, but when she saw the other tree, “she just lost it.”
Thankfully their son was there to capture a photo of the magical moment.
Amdahl posted the photo on his Facebook page on Friday and it quickly went viral.
“By her reaction, my only disappointment is that I didn’t do this years ago,” he wrote. “Heck, if it makes someone I love this much, this happy, it can stay up all year as far as I’m concerned.”
Kristen replied in a comment, “Troy, you are the sweetest husband ever💕 This was definitely on the top ten list for surprises in my entire life! I love you😍🎄😍”
The post resonated with many people on social media, a large majority of whom, Amdahl noticed, tagged loved ones as if to say “Step it up.”
But Amdahl recognizes that his wife would’ve similarly tagged him just five years ago.
“I love the spirit behind it,” he told The Western Journal of his now-viral post. “Instead of looking at what they want, it’s causing people to look at the people they love and say ‘What can I do to bring joy into the people I love?'”
“That’s what I write about, that’s what I believe in and that’s what I practice in my own life: Let’s work on relationships and let’s work on investing in those we love. That’s how we build a community, a family community and a better world.”
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35 Bizarre Things You Can Be Taxed On
By Carrie Kirby on 19 December 2016 1 comment
Once the Yuletide log burns out and the New Year's ball drops, it's soon time for a less-joyful annual tradition: Calculating how much money you owe the Internal Revenue Service.
We all know that Uncle Sam takes a share of our earnings, but have you considered other events in the past year that you may owe taxes on? You might be surprised at all the ways Uncle Sam can lighten your wallet.
Note: I'm not an accountant. Consult a tax professional for advice on your personal situation.
1. You Caught a Baseball
You are the lucky fan who catches a historic home run ball from the outfield bleachers. The not-so-lucky part? The IRS could hold you responsible for the resale value of the ball as soon as it hits your glove — even if you weren't planning to sell it.
2. You Found a Pot of Gold
You finally found the cache at the end of the rainbow. Or maybe you found a stash of rare baseball cards hidden in the wall of your home during a remodel, or a treasure chest while scuba diving in a shipwreck. Under the same regulation that applies to the baseball, the treasure trove rule, that windfall is taxable to you the first year that you find it. Sadly, this means that you may be forced to sell all or part of your find even if you wanted to keep it.
3. You Held Up a Liquor Store
It doesn't matter if you got it illegally: Stolen money or property should be reported, lest a tax evasion charge be added to your legal woes when you get caught. Says the IRS, "If you steal property, you must report its fair market value in your income in the year you steal it unless in the same year, you return it to its rightful owner."
4. You Accepted Hush Money
The IRS is blunt on this one: "If you receive a bribe, include it in your income."
5. You Dealt in Illegal Goods
If you made money dealing drugs or by any other illegal form of self employment, the IRS requires you to report it on Schedule C.
6. You Hit the Jackpot
Yes, you have to pay taxes on your lottery prize. Yes, if you have been buying lottery tickets all year, you can also deduct the expenses. But you have to keep a diary of wins and losses, and the IRS has specific instructions on how to do that.
7. You Stuck the Landing and Won Gold
It's estimated that Michael Phelps will owe $55,000 to the IRS on his Rio winnings — the medals and the cash prizes that come with each are taxable. Many other Rio champions will get off scot free, however. That's because Congress recently passed a law to exempt Olympians from "victory taxes" — but only for athletes who earn a million dollars a year or less. Phelps earned an estimated $12 million in endorsements alone in 2016, so he doesn't get that break.
8. You Got a McArthur Genius Grant
It would feel great to win this $625,000 no-strings stipend, or the approximately $1 million that comes with the Nobel Prize. That good feeling won't protect you from the tax bite, though. You're required to pay taxes on all such awards — unless you have them directly transferred to a recognized charity. That's what President Obama did with his 2009 Nobel Peace Prize winnings.
9. You Are Gifted
Usually, the presents you unwrap over the holidays come to you tax-free, but there are some exceptions. Cash or a gift card from your boss is taxable as a fringe benefit. A hostess gift you receive as a thank-you for having a sales party in your home is taxed as miscellaneous income. Personal gifts, though, are generally safe from the tax man.
10. You Airbnb'd Your Pad
Just like regular rent payments, money you earn by hosting Airbnb guests is counted as part of your gross income. The exception: You don't have to pay if you live in the home and rent it out for two weeks or less per year.
11. You Got Your Social Security Check
It may seem nonsensical that the government pays people and then collects tax money on those payments, but that's how it goes. However, SSI, or disability benefits, are not taxable.
12. You Divorced Well
Alimony you receive from your ex is taxable income, but child support payments are not. For this reason, it's important to know how payments are categorized in your divorce settlement.
13. You Won a Scholarship
If you win a grant that covers your tuition and books, that's tax-free. But if it pays for room and board or travel, pay up.
14. Your Fantasy Football Team Won the Super Bowl
If you win at least $600 worth of cash and prizes from a business operating a fantasy sports league, they'll file a 1099-MISC with the IRS. But even if you win less or your league is informal, you are still supposed to pay on your winnings.
15. Triple 7s Came Up
Just like with the lottery, the IRS gets a cut of your casino winnings once they surpass the amount you document losing. Usually it's a flat 25%.
16. You Spun the Wheel of Fortune
It's simple enough to pay the tax if you win a cash prize, but if you win a car or vacation, you still owe tax on its value — which can be tough to pay if you didn't also win cash. Because of this, it's often wise to take the cash equivalent of a prize if offered.
17. Your Debt Was Forgiven
The IRS is very specific about this: If a debt is cancelled as a gift to you — for example, if Grandpa says, "Merry Christmas, you no longer owe me for that time I bailed you out!" — you don't have to pay taxes. Otherwise, you do.
18. You Traded a Haircut for Cigarettes
This may surprise you, but if you receive goods or services in exchange for services you render, the IRS expects you to include the value of those in your gross taxable income.
19. The Boss Lets You Take the Ice Cream Truck Camping
If you drive your company car to work and home, or use it on weekends, this is a taxable fringe benefit and you should be tracking and reporting your personal miles.
20. Your Bitcoins Doubled in Value
Bitcoin is a virtual currency that is represented by computer code, but it can be used to buy real goods and services. So of course, the IRS considers gains in this or any other virtual currency taxable. It's considered a capital asset like stocks and bonds, so if you buy Bitcoins low and sell them high, the difference is your profit. But it can be even more complicated than that: If you create new Bitcoins by mining, you have to count those as income, too.
21. You Got a Blogger Freebie
If a widget maker sends you their SuperWidget 2000 to review and you get to keep it, you just received a taxable payment. However, you don't owe taxes on the market value of the product — just what the company agrees it's worth. Make sure to put an agreed-upon value in your contract.
22. You Sold Stuff on eBay
If you occasionally sell your kids' outgrown clothes on eBay, you won't owe taxes because you most likely took a loss on the items. But if you create a resale business on eBay, you better believe you have to report your profits.
23. You Had a Yard Sale
Like eBay, most yard sale transactions are not income producers, but if you're one of those people who holds a sale every weekend and resells stuff at a profit, do the right thing.
24. You're a Child Entrepreneur
Starting a small business, whether it's dog walking or selling handmade items, can be a great activity for a tween or teen. But don't expect them to be IRS-exempt just because they're kids. If the business earns more than $400, file a tax return.
25. You Set Up a GoFundMe Campaign
This is one of those tricky gray areas. If you start a crowdfunding benefit for someone in need, the donations should be considered personal gifts. But if the gifts run into the large numbers, the crowdfunding site may file a 1099, reporting the transaction to the IRS. A word to the wise: If you are setting up a crowdfunding campaign for a needy friend, make sure it's in their name so you don't end up wondering if you need to pay taxes on money you handed over to them. And consult an accountant before going down this route.
26. You Asked for Spare Change
There are differing opinions out there over whether quarters dropped in a panhandler's cup are considered earned income or a gift. Since panhandlers tend to live below the poverty line, they probably wouldn't owe any income taxes, either way. A more pressing issue for many would be whether the panhandling counts as earned income, qualifying recipients for the earned income tax credit, which could lead to a cash payment from the IRS even if the panhandler pays no taxes.
27. You Received Punitive Damages
Court settlements vary in their tax treatment. If you get a settlement in court to compensate you for a physical injury or emotional distress stemming from an injury, the money isn't taxable. But if you get paid for emotional distress not tied to an injury, or you receive punitive damages, you have to pay.
28. You Cashed in Your Life Insurance Policy
If you die, your beneficiaries probably won't be taxed on your life insurance payout. But if you cash it in while you're alive? Any profit you made on the policy — that is, the value in excess of premiums paid — is taxable.
29. Your Champion Pug Had a Litter
Whether you breed your dog as a business or a hobby, money made selling puppies is taxable income. However, it's also not cheap to breed and raise puppies, so once you deduct stud fees and all those vet bills, you may not actually show a taxable profit for your prize pups.
30. You Put on the Red Light
Just like dealing drugs, if you sell your body in a jurisdiction where that's illegal, you still have to report the income on Schedule C. In fact, smart high-earning prostitutes declare their income to put themselves into the position to buy a house or get credit.
31. You Couldn't Get Out of Jury Duty
If you got $15 for sitting on a jury, that's taxable income, even if you turn it over to your employer. However, if you did turn it over to your employer, you also put in a deduction for the same amount on your tax form so your gross income will remain the same.
32. You Got a Tax Refund
Last year's state and federal refunds are taxable in some situations.
33. You Exercised Stock Options
This is one that has gotten a lot of tech workers into financial hot water. If your company gives you stock options, that's not a taxable event. But when you exercise the option by purchasing stock in your employer at a discount, that is a taxable event even if you don't sell the stock right away. This can go bad if the stock declines in value after you exercise the option, because now you may owe the IRS more money than you can raise by selling the stock.
34. Your Landlord Is Paying You to Get Out
In rent-controlled areas with high demand, such as San Francisco, it's common for landlords to buy tenants out. This is often referred to as a relocation assistance. This is taxable, but whether to treat it as regular income or a capital gain is dicey, so you may need professional help with that one.
35. You Are an Undocumented Worker
Despite a common belief that undocumented immigrants don't contribute to society with tax dollars, anyone working in the U.S. is legally required to pay taxes, papers or not. And they do pay. Studies show about half of people working illegally are paying income tax, resulting in about $12 billion per year in state and local revenue.
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The Brokin Yolk
By Seema Dhawan
Brunch Brothers
Delicious things come from the fusion of cultures at The Bro’Kin Yolk in the northwest community of Evanston. Brothers Gilbert and Jeffrey Carlos own and operate the brunch spot, and they spent months planning its menu, which brings together Filipino dishes that reflect their family background with Western brunch standards.
The restaurant is named for its central components: brothers, kin and eggs. The eatery has had customers queuing up since the day it opened in August of 2015. The food is locally grown and so fresh that the restaurant doesn’t own a freezer. And yet, the amount of food served is a bit mind boggling. On weekends alone, the eatery goes through over 350 kilograms of potatoes, and 3,000 eggs.
Another testament to the brothers' winning food formula, the restaurant was featured on The Food Network's hit program You Gotta Eat Here in its first year of business.
We try not to make anything bland. - Jeffery Carlos, co-owner
The mini homemade Belgian waffles can be ordered as an appetizer or as dessert. Photo by Seema Dhawan.
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Jeffrey works in the kitchen and is the man behind the unique flavours at The Bro'Kin Yolk. He started as a dishwasher in the restaurant industry and worked his way up, eventually training to become a chef. Gilbert managed pubs around the city for years, and in 2015 the duo decided it was time to open their own eatery.
Kin is at the heart of everything at The Bro'Kin Yolk. The staff, local suppliers and customers are part of the family, says Gilbert. "We kind of want to feel like you're entering our kitchen, where you can be one of us and be part of our family," he says.
The brothers' mom is often at the restaurant. The brothers grew up around the kitchen table, saying her cooking had a big influence on the the food dishes they now serve. "Her cooking was amazing," says Jeffery. "I think her food just influenced me to expand on it.”
The love of food she has imparted upon her sons is apparent in The Bro'Kin Yolk dishes. The restaurant's adventurous flavour combinations are heavenly. Entrees include Spanish chorizo bowls, waffles served with fried chicken spiced with paprika, garlic powder and chillies. The eggs Benedict selection includes a bacon Benny topped with Broxburn tomato, kale, roasted garlic hollandaise and house-cured bacon. Cured with a mixture of sugar, salt, soya sauce and paprika, the pork-belly, this tosino-style bacon is popular in Spain and the Philippines. “We give our bacon a little bit of a caramelization,” says Jeffrey. “People just really enjoy the flavour.”
Another popular dish is the short rib hash, a bed of duck-fat potato hash browns topped with slow-cooked short ribs, peppers, onions and two sunny side up eggs. The dish recalls the home-cooked Filipino breakfasts Gilbert and Jeffrey enjoyed as a child. “We try not to make anything bland,” adds Jeffrey.
Though the restaurant’s fusion dishes are its culinary calling card, the farmer’s breakfast plate, which includes eggs, that lovely house-cured bacon, sausage, duck fat hash and toast, is also a bestseller.
The Bro'Kin Yolk staff prepare and serve a mountain of brunch dishes daily. From left to right, Jeffrey Carlos, Kara Leblanc, Alex Molton and Gilbert Carlos. Photo by Seema Dhawan.
Sweet and Savoury
Answering to the sweet or savoury dilemma faced by brunch goers, The Bro'Kin Yolk mini waffles can be ordered as an appetizer or dessert, and are served with house-made sauces that include drunken berry compote as well as decadent lavender white chocolate.
The eggs Benedict selections (including a vegetarian option) are also served on these Belgian-style waffles, giving the dish a unique texture. “It just has that sweet and savoury context, and it goes really well together,” says Gilbert.
"People love how different and unique our menu is,” he adds. "Everyone leaves full."
Brothers Jeffrey (left) and Gilbert grew up in kitchen and say their mother's cooking influences the food they serve. Photo by Seema Dhawan.
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Eradicating AIDS: The Battles Ahead
By Alok Panda in Health and Life
7th March, 2013
By Alok Panda:
Acquired immune Deficiency Syndrome- AIDS, one of the world’s most dreaded diseases, and a pandemic associated with increasing social stigma and economic burden has been in news recently. The disease caused by the Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV), severely compromises the immune system of the patient and has consumed some 30 million lives since its emergence in the eighties, according to the UN data (2009). Not only does the disease degrade the health of a person, but the mental trauma, social stigma and economic burden associated with expensive treatment of the disease further complicates the issue and calls for the urgent need for its eradication.
The recent news of a baby girl from Mississippi who was born infected with HIV, transmitted to her from her mother and was subsequently declared cured after following the standard Anti-Retro-viral treatment, is highly welcoming news and may represent a breakthrough in the treatment of this deadly disease. Although, this isn’t the first documented case of complete cure of HIV, which was achieved in an adult in Germany through bone marrow transplant, each such case increases our confidence and faith that this deadly virus which has since destroyed several lives can definitely be overcome. These cases represent the war we have won, however the battle remains to be fought courageously.
For one thing, the battle against HIV/AIDS has to be fought from several fronts. As from the medical front, currently the best treatment available against AIDS is the use of Anti-Retro Viral (ARV) drugs. These drugs target the virus during various stages of its life cycle, thereby slowing their takeover of the cells of the Immune system. However, these drugs are quite expensive and can have severe side effects, although they have been documented to increase the life expectancy. Until an effective cure for the disease comes out, it is expected that the availability of the ARV’s be made to everyone who has the infection and further steps should be taken to ensure their mass production and to prevent the selected pharma companies to make a cash-cow out of them i.e. marketing them as generic drugs. The role of the people’s representatives i.e. the Government becomes crucial in this regard. These steps will at least lead to lessening the mental burden of the already suffering infected persons.
Further, it is said that “Prevention is better than Cure”. The best front to fight the disease comes from preventing it. The modes of transmission and the science of viral transmission is quite well known for some time, therefore, it remains an utmost priority to disseminate the information. It is said that “knowledge is power” which cannot be truer in the case of HIV prevention. The role of sex education to young adults and to vulnerable population (sex workers, men having sex with men) becomes much important in this case, as unsafe sexual contact- both heterosexual and homosexual is the leading causes of the infection. Not only education, but promotion of safe sex practices such as the use of condoms, their proper usage, promotion of monogamous relationships, information regarding the risks of intravenous Drug usage etc. will go a long way to address the situation.
Next comes the Social stigma associated with the disease. Dissemination of information is crucial in this regard too. First of all it has to be brought into the knowledge of people that HIV isn’t a communicable disease, so the general outcast of people suffering from the infection is no less than discrimination. Talking of discrimination, the social stigma associated particularly with the Gay and Transgender community needs to be addressed, as person belonging to these community form a significant chunk suffering from the infection. Although diversity in sexual orientation needs to be protected and equal rights given, but even if this is not done, at-least decriminalization of the acts needs to be promulgated and people belonging to the community made comfortable, so that it becomes easier for both the health practitioners as well for the concerned individuals to seek information for their problems and get treatment. Furthermore, religious doctrine of certain religions as Islam and Christianity, stipulating the non-use of contraceptives, particularly the use of condoms as unnatural, needs to be addressed. This becomes particularly essential in case of Africa, where AIDS has reached epidemic proportions. Although difficult, it will definitely pay off in the long run to take the religious leaders into confidence in reducing new HIV infection cases.
Even though we have won few wars against the monster virus, the battle isn’t over yet. It is in our own wisdom to eradicate this disease and make life a bit easy for all of us.
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An ambassador and trained facilitator under Eco Femme (a social enterprise working towards menstrual health in south India), Sanjina is also an active member of the MHM Collective- India and Menstrual Health Alliance- India. She has conducted Menstrual Health sessions in multiple government schools adopted by Rotary District 3240 as part of their WinS project in rural Bengal. She has also delivered training of trainers on SRHR, gender, sexuality and Menstruation for Tomorrow’s Foundation, Vikramshila Education Resource Society, Nirdhan trust and Micro Finance, Tollygunj Women In Need, Paint It Red in Kolkata.
Now as an MH Fellow with YKA, she’s expanding her impressive scope of work further by launching a campaign to facilitate the process of ensuring better menstrual health and SRH services for women residing in correctional homes in West Bengal. The campaign will entail an independent study to take stalk of the present conditions of MHM in correctional homes across the state and use its findings to build public support and political will to take the necessary action.
Saurabh has been associated with YKA as a user and has consistently been writing on the issue MHM and its intersectionality with other issues in the society. Now as an MHM Fellow with YKA, he’s launched the Right to Period campaign, which aims to ensure proper execution of MHM guidelines in Delhi’s schools.
The long-term aim of the campaign is to develop an open culture where menstruation is not treated as a taboo. The campaign also seeks to hold the schools accountable for their responsibilities as an important component in the implementation of MHM policies by making adequate sanitation infrastructure and knowledge of MHM available in school premises.
Read more about his campaign.
Harshita is a psychologist and works to support people with mental health issues, particularly adolescents who are survivors of violence. Associated with the Azadi Foundation in UP, Harshita became an MHM Fellow with YKA, with the aim of promoting better menstrual health.
Her campaign #MeriMarzi aims to promote menstrual health and wellness, hygiene and facilities for female sex workers in UP. She says, “Knowledge about natural body processes is a very basic human right. And for individuals whose occupation is providing sexual services, it becomes even more important.”
Meri Marzi aims to ensure sensitised, non-discriminatory health workers for the needs of female sex workers in the Suraksha Clinics under the UPSACS (Uttar Pradesh State AIDS Control Society) program by creating more dialogues and garnering public support for the cause of sex workers’ menstrual rights. The campaign will also ensure interventions with sex workers to clear misconceptions around overall hygiene management to ensure that results flow both ways.
Read more about her campaign.
MH Fellow Sabna comes with significant experience working with a range of development issues. A co-founder of Project Sakhi Saheli, which aims to combat period poverty and break menstrual taboos, Sabna has, in the past, worked on the issue of menstruation in urban slums of Delhi with women and adolescent girls. She and her team also released MenstraBook, with menstrastories and organised Menstra Tlk in the Delhi School of Social Work to create more conversations on menstruation.
With YKA MHM Fellow Vineet, Sabna launched Menstratalk, a campaign that aims to put an end to period poverty and smash menstrual taboos in society. As a start, the campaign aims to begin conversations on menstrual health with five hundred adolescents and youth in Delhi through offline platforms, and through this community mobilise support to create Period Friendly Institutions out of educational institutes in the city.
A student from Delhi School of Social work, Vineet is a part of Project Sakhi Saheli, an initiative by the students of Delhi school of Social Work to create awareness on Menstrual Health and combat Period Poverty. Along with MHM Action Fellow Sabna, Vineet launched Menstratalk, a campaign that aims to put an end to period poverty and smash menstrual taboos in society.
As a start, the campaign aims to begin conversations on menstrual health with five hundred adolescents and youth in Delhi through offline platforms, and through this community mobilise support to create Period Friendly Institutions out of educational institutes in the city.
Find out more about the campaign here.
A native of Bhagalpur district – Bihar, Shalini Jha believes in equal rights for all genders and wants to work for a gender-equal and just society. In the past she’s had a year-long association as a community leader with Haiyya: Organise for Action’s Health Over Stigma campaign. She’s pursuing a Master’s in Literature with Ambedkar University, Delhi and as an MHM Fellow with YKA, recently launched ‘Project अल्हड़ (Alharh)’.
She says, “Bihar is ranked the lowest in India’s SDG Index 2019 for India. Hygienic and comfortable menstruation is a basic human right and sustainable development cannot be ensured if menstruators are deprived of their basic rights.” Project अल्हड़ (Alharh) aims to create a robust sensitised community in Bhagalpur to collectively spread awareness, break the taboo, debunk myths and initiate fearless conversations around menstruation. The campaign aims to reach at least 6000 adolescent girls from government and private schools in Baghalpur district in 2020.
Read more about the campaign here.
A psychologist and co-founder of a mental health NGO called Customize Cognition, Ritika forayed into the space of menstrual health and hygiene, sexual and reproductive healthcare and rights and gender equality as an MHM Fellow with YKA. She says, “The experience of working on MHM/SRHR and gender equality has been an enriching and eye-opening experience. I have learned what’s beneath the surface of the issue, be it awareness, lack of resources or disregard for trans men, who also menstruate.”
The Transmen-ses campaign aims to tackle the issue of silence and disregard for trans men’s menstruation needs, by mobilising gender sensitive health professionals and gender neutral restrooms in Lucknow.
A Computer Science engineer by education, Nitisha started her career in the corporate sector, before realising she wanted to work in the development and social justice space. Since then, she has worked with Teach For India and Care India and is from the founding batch of Indian School of Development Management (ISDM), a one of its kind organisation creating leaders for the development sector through its experiential learning post graduate program.
As a Youth Ki Awaaz Menstrual Health Fellow, Nitisha has started Let’s Talk Period, a campaign to mobilise young people to switch to sustainable period products. She says, “80 lakh women in Delhi use non-biodegradable sanitary products, generate 3000 tonnes of menstrual waste, that takes 500-800 years to decompose; which in turn contributes to the health issues of all menstruators, increased burden of waste management on the city and harmful living environment for all citizens.
Let’s Talk Period aims to change this by
Mobilising young people between the age of 18-35 to become ‘Eco-Period Champions’ by making the switch to a sustainable menstrual alternative and becoming advocates for the project
All existing and upcoming public institutions (pink toilets, washrooms, schools, colleges, government offices, government buildings) across East Delhi to have affordable provisions for sustainable menstrual product options
Find out more about her campaign here.
A former Assistant Secretary with the Ministry of Women and Child Development in West Bengal for three months, Lakshmi Bhavya has been championing the cause of menstrual hygiene in her district. By associating herself with the Lalana Campaign, a holistic menstrual hygiene awareness campaign which is conducted by the Anahat NGO, Lakshmi has been slowly breaking taboos when it comes to periods and menstrual hygiene.
A Gender Rights Activist working with the tribal and marginalized communities in india, Srilekha is a PhD scholar working on understanding body and sexuality among tribal girls, to fill the gaps in research around indigenous women and their stories. Srilekha has worked extensively at the grassroots level with community based organisations, through several advocacy initiatives around Gender, Mental Health, Menstrual Hygiene and Sexual and Reproductive Health Rights (SRHR) for the indigenous in Jharkhand, over the last 6 years.
Srilekha has also contributed to sustainable livelihood projects and legal aid programs for survivors of sex trafficking. She has been conducting research based programs on maternal health, mental health, gender based violence, sex and sexuality. Her interest lies in conducting workshops for young people on life skills, feminism, gender and sexuality, trauma, resilience and interpersonal relationships.
A Guwahati-based college student pursuing her Masters in Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Bidisha started the #BleedwithDignity campaign on the technology platform Change.org, demanding that the Government of Assam install
biodegradable sanitary pad vending machines in all government schools across the state. Her petition on Change.org has already gathered support from over 90000 people and continues to grow.
Bidisha was selected in Change.org’s flagship program ‘She Creates Change’ having run successful online advocacy
campaigns, which were widely recognised. Through the #BleedwithDignity campaign; she organised and celebrated World Menstrual Hygiene Day, 2019 in Guwahati, Assam by hosting a wall mural by collaborating with local organisations. The initiative was widely covered by national and local media, and the mural was later inaugurated by the event’s chief guest Commissioner of Guwahati Municipal Corporation (GMC) Debeswar Malakar, IAS.
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Universal Orlando theme parks to reopen on June 5 with limited capacity
Universal Studios Florida, Islands of Adventure, and Volcano Bay water park will all reopen
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By: Matt Papaycik
ORLANDO, Fla. — Universal Orlando Resort theme parks will officially reopen to the public in just two weeks after being closed for months due to the coronavirus pandemic.
The resort announced on Twitter Friday that Universal Studios Florida, Islands of Adventure, and the Volcano Bay water park will welcome guests starting on Friday, June 5 with limited capacity.
We're getting ready to re-open!
Universal Studios Florida, Islands of Adventure and Volcano Bay will welcome guests beginning 6/5. Everyone must follow UOR and CDC guidelines: https://t.co/5IA1TCnsfX pic.twitter.com/2pnrg2Lxkr
— Universal Orlando Resort (@UniversalORL) May 22, 2020
According to Universal's website, all staff members and guests will be required to wear face coverings, will get their temperature checked upon arrival, and will be asked to maintain at least a 6-foot distance "between your travel party and others."
In addition, floor markings throughout the parks will help maintain social distancing between guests, Universal said.
The parks will operate during these hours once they reopen on June 5:
Universal Studios Florida: 9 a.m. - 6 p.m.
Universal’s Islands of Adventure: 9 a.m. - 6 p.m.
Universal’s Volcano Bay: 10 a.m. - 5 p.m.
Universal CityWalk Orlando, the resort's entertainment complex which partially reopened last week, will be open from 8 a.m. to 10 p.m. daily.
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Earlier this week, officials from SeaWorld Orlando said they're aiming to reopen "sometime in June."
Walt Disney World has not announced its target reopening date, however it's now accepting reservations for its theme parks and resorts starting on July 1.
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Wyoming farmers land $10.4M to protect sage grouse
July 1, 2011 by Dustin Bleizeffer Leave a Comment
The U.S. Department of Agriculture announced on Thursday it will provide $18.2 million to three western states to conserve sage grouse habitat through the Grassland Reserve Program. Wyoming’s share will be $10.4 million.
Idaho will receive $5.5 million, and Utah will receive $2.3 million.
Greater sage-grouse (click to enlarge)
“USDA and its partners are taking a proactive approach to maintaining large and intact grazing lands that support healthy sage-grouse populations,” Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack said in prepared statement. “GRP will provide these states with another tool to conserve this at-risk species and also protect important ranch lands.”
This is on top of $17 million the state received from USDA’s Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) program earlier this year.
Wyoming Gov. Matt Mead issued this statement: “I am pleased that the federal government is backing up its words of support for our sage-grouse plan. Our plan is an effort to keep sage-grouse off the endangered species list. Because private property owners often bear the costs of species protection it is good to see funds provided to offset some of the costs associated with protecting a species.”
The chair of the Sage-Grouse Implementation Team, Bob Budd, said this is a voluntary program and that it targets the right areas. “The funding specifically would go to deal with fragmentation,” Budd said. “The US Fish and Wildlife Service identified fragmentation as the number-one threat to sage-grouse habitat in the west.”
In June, Gov. Mead re-issued a Freudenthal-era executive order continuing the “core areas” plan to restrict development in prime sage grouse habitat in Wyoming. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service recently commended Wyoming for its “core areas” sage grouse plan and said it is an integral tool in protecting sage grouse and avoiding a listing of the bird under the Endangered Species Act. However, the FWS also warned that the effectiveness of the plan depends on the scientific accuracy of determining prime habitat locations and actual implementation of restrictions to protect the habitat.
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ELECTIONS COMMAND FOR ZRP
The Zimbabwe Republic Police has set up a National Elections Command as it gears up for the forthcoming harmonised elections. The election date is yet to be announced. The Herald has it on good authority that Senior Assistant Commissioner Erasmus Mukodza has been appointed by the ZRP to head the National Elections Command.
He will be based at the Police General Headquarters and his team will assess the situation on the ground countrywide before, during and after the harmonised elections. The team will soon tour all the country’s 10 provinces to assess the ZRP’s state of preparedness for the elections.
The setting up of the National Elections Command comes after President Mnangagwa urged the police to play a pivotal role in ensuring that the elections were held in a peaceful and conducive atmosphere characterised by effective policing.
President Mnangagwa made the call while officially opening the Criminal Investigations Department (CID) New Headquarters and Forensic Science Laboratory in Harare last month. “Allow me to reiterate that we are going to have free, fair and credible elections,” he said.
“As the country’s law enforcement agency, we, therefore, expect you to play a pivotal role by contributing to the building of a conducive atmosphere that begets such a desired outcome, through efficient and effective policing. Government would thus do everything in its power to ensure that you are ready to adequately police the forthcoming plebiscite.”
President Mnangagwa urged the police to deal diligently and decisively with all forms of political violence.
Police Commissioner-General Godwin Matanga is on record saying the ZRP will not tolerate any form of violence whether intra-party or inter-party.
So far the country has witnessed gruesome acts of violence within the MDC-T, which have left some officials in the opposition party seriously injured. The fights were over who takes over from the late MDC-T leader Mr Morgan Tsvangirai, who died last month.
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Best Practices for Designing UI Overlays
Oliver Lindberg Oct 13, 2019
Drop-down menus, keyboards that slide up and lightboxes are all examples of UI overlays. UI overlay is a very powerful design solution that has many uses. The tasks that users are trying to perform are becoming increasingly complex, and overlays can really help to take off the pressure. Sometimes initiating an overlay is unavoidable, and they’re especially great for error reporting, security approvals, data capture, as well as supplemental interactions. They range from the informative to the frustrating, however, so we wanted to dig a little bit deeper and find out what best practices you should keep in mind when working with modals and overlays.
First, let’s look at some of the dos and don’ts:
The dos
Use modals for focus and things that are going to benefit the user.
Use overlays to take the pressure of a complex user interface (UI) (e.g., advanced controls, complex choices with multi options, explanations and help text, support stuff needed quickly).
Place keyboard focus on the first interactive element inside the modal and trap it within the modal’s content.
Allow users to close modals (by clicking outside of them and with explicit ‘close’ buttons), unless action is required to move forward.
Restore focus on the triggering interactive element when the modal is closed.
Include documentation for overlay and modal components in your design system (as done by Australian health insurer nib: overlay and modal).
Check out Google’s penalties for obtrusive interstitials.
The don’ts
Don’t use modals unless their content requires 100 percent focus.
Don’t cover up content that is contextually relevant to the modal/overlay being displayed.
Don’t use overlays to just sell something.
Don’t create a modal that only appears when you’re trying to leave.
Don’t rely on a single way to close. The escape key and outside clicking need to work as well as an “X”.
Don’t put modals inside of modals. Don’t focus too much on JavaScript and use lightweight CSS where possible instead.
Don’t ignore accessibility guidelines.
Never disrupt the user journey
Contextual information in Duolingo, designed to be a lot less obtrusive, gives the user key information about potentially small things, and doesn’t get in the way but pulls focus.
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“Ensuring that overlays are not disruptive to a smooth and fluid user journey can come down to using the right interaction at the right time,” says Karl Randay, head of design at digital customer experience studio 383. “Understanding how people think when they’re following a process or trying to complete a task is crucial in knowing when and how to include overlays as a method of a potentially forced interaction. Make it clear what to expect when you click on something and what happens next in each interaction,” he says.
One way to set the right level of expectation is by using simple, humanized language, Karl says. Reduce the language around a complex task and use carefully crafted copy and button labels. Decide when to use overlays as a subtle means of capturing user attention or when a full-screen change is necessary.
Choose your overlay wisely
As a user navigates a digital product or service, there can be a number of steps that they follow, events that they trigger, and inputs that they complete. “Keeping someone’s focus on content and interactions normally requires the use of a full screen change, dedicating the full attention of the UI to the task at hand,” Karl says.
“In the event that something happens that requires the user’s sudden attention, further user input is required, or additional contextual information is needed, use modal and overlay panels instead, which allow for additional functionality or messaging while still keeping a sense of context for where the user is in the background.”
Choose the type of overlay wisely because it can be a quick way to disrupt and provide a disjointed and unnatural experience during what could otherwise be a fairly natural flow.
Explore the psychology behind user behavior
Periscope is a great example of conditional user requirements. This is what happens when you gracefully design for failure. All of these things need to be taken care of for the user to complete their task.
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Using a bit of cognitive science and understanding users’ habits is also a quick way to determine when and how to utilize overlays.
“If a task and UI feel vaguely familiar or relatively easy to understand, a user will move through it quicker,” Karl suggests. “This is called cognitive fluency — familiar tasks require considerably less mental effort. A user is more passive and kind of drives on autopilot until they encounter something they didn’t expect or an error, at which point they switch to conscious thinking and pretty much hit a brick wall.”
When we’re on autopilot, we’re capable of thinking of up to 11 million decisions per second. Contrastingly, our fully conscious state sits at only 40 decisions per second. “So switching from autopilot to the fully conscious state is the equivalent of the force it takes to propel a well-strapped-in crash test dummy through the wall of a tank.”
Familiarity can be a good way of ensuring the user can quickly get to grips with what it is you’re saying to them. “This can involve everything from the position of the buttons, adopting styling and sizing — from the underlying UI and common design patterns to emulating more relatable objects during complex tasks — breaking up a credit card number into blocks of four, and designing the user interface around the physical object. It’s a simple way to use the heuristic real-world reference for something as an easier way to break apart the experience of having to fill-in a form — as nobody likes to do that.”
Overlays used for failure and error reporting
Use of the default iOS chrome in the Hodinkee app gives users a choice of size, while still giving a sense of context for the situation they’re choosing in.
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It’s not enough to just tell the user that something is broken. It doesn’t help you understand what has happened or what you can do to fix the problem and get back to what you were doing.
A classic example of not designing for failure is the 404 error page, Karl explains. “Even the term 404 is an engineering reference that has found its way into common language, thanks to the overabundance of this technical cul-de-sac. You can use overlays and modal windows to highlight a potential issue, but they need to be clear, and cut through any technical terminology to clearly describe what’s happening.”
Also, present a range of options so that the user can make the best decision to fix the situation and return to their original path or journey. These don’t need to be exhaustive, but they do need to take into account what might have been the intention of the user when their journey stopped — so exercising common sense and ensuring there’s always a way to close the dialog is really important.
Consider the impact
One thing to remember when designing for overlays is the impact they are given in different situations.
“On mobile, there is considerably less screen area, so any interstitial window is going to be much more noticeable than on desktop,” Karl warns. “Ensure that anything important gets noticed, especially while navigating visually complex screens.”
Karl recommends the use of semi-opaque colored layers between the overlay and the underlying UI. Make sure that the layer is opaque enough so that the overlay takes user focus, but not so opaque that you totally break the visual connection with the underlying experience.
Overlays have received a lot of bad rap over the last years, and a lot of it deservedly, but they can also benefit the users and help provide focus for complex tasks. Use the principles and guidelines covered above to make sure you’re helping your users and not frustrating them.
With thanks to Karl Randay for his help on this article, and to Eric Eggert, Dylan Smith, Laurie Jones, Benjamin Hollway, Daniel Filler, Joe Leech, Eric Bailey, and Scott Cole for their suggestions of the dos and don’ts.
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Midmorning on a sunny July Saturday, 16 rowers—along with a few of their spouses and a dog—made their way to Harsha Lake in Cincinnati’s East Fork State Park for the inaugural Alumni Row.
“Two years ago we began a newsletter to increase communication among the current team, parents, alumni and fans,” says undergraduate Elizabeth Spitznagel, one of the event’s organizers. “This row is a continuation of our outreach to alumni.” The lake, site of the crew team’s daily practices during the fall and spring seasons, welcomed rowers who ranged from the Class of 1989 to the Class of 2007. Instead of strenuous drills, however, rowers shared memories, put lineups together and took three boats out on the water. After about an hour of scrimmaging, they headed to shore for a lunch of hamburgers and hot dogs.
“Everyone loved it, and we got wonderful feedback,” Spitznagel says. “This event will definitely be repeated next year.”
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MEN’S SWIMMING: Bulldogs dive into new year
Harry Browne 2:41 am, Nov 03, 2016
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After the departure of two high-caliber competitors, the Yale men’s swimming and diving team will look to a new senior class and a bevy of talented freshmen to power its 2016–17 campaign.
Former captain Brian Hogan ’16 and Kevin Stang ’16, both of whom competed at the United States Olympic Trials in Omaha this summer, will no longer race in the Kiphuth Exhibition Pool, having graduated last May. This season, a smaller senior class led by captain Alex Goss ’17 will lead the challenge against defending Ivy League champion Princeton and powerhouse Harvard, looking to improve on last season’s fourth-place finish at the league championship meet.
“Being elected captain has been a huge honor and a responsibility that I haven’t taken lightly,” Goss said. “Moving into this season without last year’s seniors will be a challenge, but it’s one my teammates and I are excited to take on.”
Last season, despite an impressive 8–3 dual meet record, the Bulldogs were unable to match the firepower of Harvard and Princeton. The Tigers, who finished No. 23 in the final College Swimming Coaches Association of America poll last season, have not lost to the Elis in a dual meet since 2005. Yale’s drought extends even longer against the Crimson, which last fell to the Bulldogs in 1992.
However, the 2015–16 season featured many positive points as well. Kei Hyogo ’18 felled two school records, lowering the mark in the 500 and 1650 freestyle. Moreover, the Elis improved upon their previous finish at the NCAA championships, rising to 33rd after finishing 39th in 2015.
Several successful swimmers, including Hyogo, return from last year’s team. In the sprints, Yale will rely on Oscar Miao ’17, one of just seven seniors on this year’s roster, who is coming off a season that saw him twice win dual meet titles in the 50 free. Joining Hyogo in the middle distances is Scott Bole ’19, who finished seventh at the conference championships in the 200 freestyle as a freshman and will look to enter the upper echelon of Ivy League swimmers during his sophomore campaign.
Yale will also welcome an intriguing Class of 2020 this year, many of whom have already made names for themselves within the swimming community. Max Bottene ’20, a nine-time National Interscholastic Swimming Coaches Association All-American, will swim freestyle and backstroke. Swimming butterfly will be Ryan Huizing ’20, who joined Hogan and Stang in Omaha, Nebraska this summer for the Olympic Trials.
The Elis also bring on two-time NISCA All-American Chris LaBella ’20 to dive with Anthony Mercadante ’17 and Wayne Zhang ’18.
Yale will once again face tough competition in the Ivy League, as Harvard and Princeton both return some of their best swimmers. The Crimson return all four members of their Ivy League-winning 200 freestyle relay team. Crimson captain Eric Ronda was fourth in the Ivy League in the 200 breaststroke and also qualified for Olympic Trials. Meanwhile, over 63 percent of Princeton’s championship meet scoring last year came from nonseniors, a group which will be augmented this season by a whopping 14-man freshman class. Against these formidable foes, the Bulldogs will be hard pressed to claim their first conference crown since the 1971–72 season.
With scrimmage and intrasquad meets already in the books, Yale will kick off its Ivy League campaign this weekend in Providence against Brown. The Bulldogs trounced the Bears 211–89 last season and have not fallen to Brown in over 15 years. That said, Saturday’s meet will be the first true test for the Eli freshmen, so there remains an air of uncertainty. Head coach Tim Wise said he was eager to see how they would respond to the pressure that college swimming poses.
“The challenge is the clock,” Wise said. “The clock doesn’t care that they’ve got a problem set. The clock doesn’t care that their homework kept them up late. The clock just keeps running, and that’s the challenge that swimming at Yale provides.”
Yale has amassed 1092 wins since its first season in 1899.
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POSTECH opened its doors in 1986 as the first research-oriented university in Korea to educate the brightest minds in the country and lead the transition of Korea’s higher education from dissemination to creation of knowledge. Since its establishment 30 years ago, POSTECH has taken on numerous challenges and innovations to revolutionize the culture of and raise the bar for scientific research in Korea. As such, the past three decades represent the proud history of POSTECH, which has marked a meaningful milestone in the community of higher education and science/engineering in Korea and has since grown into one of the top universities in Asia. Now, POSTECH is poised to take another leap forward over the next three decades: driven by the open and fearless spirit to tackle the unknown, it will serve as a flagship university that proposes a new role for value creation in society. We at POSTECH will continue to dedicate ourselves to our mission—providing the finest education and fostering talented youth into leaders equipped with a comprehensive and essential skill set for the future. Also, we will further build upon the research excellence POSTECH has achieved thus far to make direct contributions not only in expanding boundaries of scientific knowledge but also in leading the socio-economic progress of the country and region. The founding tenets of POSTECH aims to serve the nation and humanity through education, research, and industry-academic cooperation. Going forward, we will spare no efforts to open a new path of value creation through continuously ensuring “devoted education,” “outstanding research,” and “robust job and business creation” and to develop into a top global university that proudly represents Korea.
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Yuri's Night Global Livestream
Watch the replay of the 5 hour 2020 event
Breakdown of 5 hour broadcast:
0:01:57 – Introduction to the Yuri’s Night Webcast by Robert Picardo of The Planetary Society.
0:04:45 – Gray Bright launches us into the show!
0:10:40 – Loretta Whitesides introduces Canadian Astronaut Chris Hadfield to talk about self-isolation.
0:30:14 – Loretta introduces video greetings from NASA Astronaut Jessica Meir on the Space Station.
0:32:35 – Jared Head and Cariann Higginbotham of TMRO.tv join Loretta to introduce SUPERCOLLIDER gallery & Nicole Stott to talk about the intersection of spaceflight and art.
0:48:38 – Jared & Cariann introduce the Test Shot Starfish team who make music for engineers and artists.
0:53:55 – Test Shot Starfish explain their collaboration project with Matt Sharpe and The Rentals.
1:03:53 – NASA Astronaut Scott Kelly interviews the Grateful Dead’s Bob Weir and they discuss the current pandemic, isolation, memories of Apollo, and who Bob would spend his isolation time with.
1:32:34 – Dr. Sian Proctor reminds us to work together, be inclusive, and connect with others this Yuri’s Night.
1:33:55 – Tim Dodd aka Everyday Astronaut talks about how the past, present, and future of spaceflight is exciting and takes questions from the chat room.
1:52:43 – Loretta introduces a video greeting by NASA Astronaut Megan McArthur (sorry, due to a glitch, flip your screen for this).
1:55:23 – Loretta talks with South Korean Astronaut Soyeon Yi about her experiences on the International Space Station and celebrating Yuri’s Night here on Earth.
2:17:51 – Loretta speaks with NASA Astronaut Cady Coleman and her husband Josh Simpson about Cady’s spaceflight experiences and Josh’s glassblowing artwork.
2:37:47 – Cariann talks with Rod Roddenberry, son of Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry about the history of Star Trek and parallels between Star Trek & our world.
2:50:47 – Greeting from Peter Diamandis, founder of the XPRIZE Foundation about threats to humanity and the great promises for humanity in our future.
2:57:08 – Jared talks to Rick Tumlinson, founder of SpaceFund and the EarthLight foundation, about Gerard O’Neill to introduce a trailer for the upcoming documentary “The High Frontier”.
3:06:23 – Jared interviews Kelvin Manning, Assistant Director for the NASA Kennedy Space Center about NASA’s future missions. He closes out at 3:13:51 with his own rap recap of what NASA is working on – awesome!
3:15:48 – Loretta interviews former JPL rocket scientist and current Girl Scouts of the USA CEO Sylvia Acevedo about how she got from a young girl scout to where she is today.
3:23:45 – Loretta and Bill Nye talk about the Planetary Society, rocket physics problems, and more.
3:34:17 – Bill Nye is joined by actor Cas Anvar who plays Alex Kamal on The Expanse TV series about how climate change and human actions impact the planet.
3:47:55 – Cas Anvar talks with Dr. Tanya Harrison from Planet Labs & Dr. Sian Proctor about how the climate is being affected by the COVID-19 pandemic and what that tells us about humanity’s impact on the Earth.
4:13:45 – Athena Brensberger aka @Astroathens interviews Dr. Kirby Runyon, a planetary geologist, about the missions he is excited about that are in the works to explore the solar system & beyond.
4:23:38 – Actor Robert Picardo, aka the EMH Hologram on Star Trek: Voyager, joins Athena & Kirby to talk about government advocacy for space missions, Star Trek parallels to modern technology, and where sci-fi meets science.
4:40:30 – Loretta presents the “Spirit of Yuri’s Night” award for 2020 to Duran Duran, represented by keyboardist Nick Rhodes for their amazing concert at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center to celebrate the 50th Anniversary of the Apollo 11 flight.
4:48:54 – Loretta presents the best photos sent in by live webcast viewers of their own costumes and closes with a great music video by Public Service Broadcasting called “Gagarin”.
4:56:24 – Goodbyes and credits from the hosts – thanks for watching and we’ll see you in 2021!
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Buy Apple (AAPL) Stock on Analyst Optimism Heading into 2020?
Apple AAPL closed up over 1.4% Thursday after a Citi analyst predicted the iPhone maker to outperform this upcoming holiday season. Citi analyst Jim Suva is optimistic about Apple this holiday season and sees the firm’s pricing strategy and recent demand trends driving an improved Christmas quarter.
The analyst’s prediction led him to raise his price target by 20% from $250 to $300, and he reiterated a “buy” rating on the stock. The bump the stock received adds to its over 71% run in 2019 helping it outpace Microsoft’s MSFT 49% run. AAPL stock has climbed about 11% since its fourth quarter report, when it posted top and bottom-line beats.
While this is a remarkable run for the tech titan, should investors expect the company to keep this up to end the year?
Wearables Pick Up iPhone’s Slack
Wall Street has worried about the decline in iPhone sales, with iPhone revenue down 16.7% in fiscal 2019. Wearables and accessories have picked up the iPhone’s slack. Wearables, Home, and Accessories sales surged over 40% in fiscal 2019, which helped make up for the decline in iPhone sales.
The recent surge in popularity for Air Pods has helped drive the boost in the wearables segment, as Apple has had to scramble to keep up with demand. Air Pods were not initially a hit with consumers when they hit the market in late 2016. At the time, users were hung up on the loss of the headphone jack on the iPhone 7 and thought that the new wireless headphones were too expensive at $159.
Air Pods soon began to gain steam and became a leader in the category. The sudden rise in popularity prompted Apple to introduce its second-generation Air Pods, which added the hands-free operation of the "Hey Siri" feature.
Apple went on to introduce its Air Pods Pro in October as Amazon AMZN released its own wireless headphones called Echo Buds. The new Air Pods Pro drove demand even higher, which has caused Apple to enlist extra manufacturers in China to meet the demand.
Air Pods shipments are already expected to double year over year to more than 60 million units in 2019, according to Bloomberg. The recently released Air Pods Pro are expected to drive much of this growth.
Apple Looks to Revitalize iPhone Sales
iPhone sales still comprise about 54% of its net revenue, so addressing declining sales remains vital. In a research note to investors this week, J.P. Morgan analysts, led by Samik Chatterjee, predicted that Apple will launch four new iPhones next fall, all of which will support 5G connectivity and feature OLED displays.
This projected lineup could potentially give iPhone sales a boost as Apple can pack the more advanced features into two higher-end phones and still have two other 5G capable iPhones with more moderate features at a lower price. This pricing model could potentially help Apple’s new iPhones reach a larger audience.
Services Growth
On top of Wearables, Apple’s services business has been a key growth driver and a focal point for CEO Tim Cook. The services business was once again a catalyst in fiscal 2019 as sales grew over 16% to reach $46.3 billion.
The success seen in the services segment was driven by the 450 million paid subscriptions across its services ecosystem, which is up from 330 million in the year-ago quarter. The growth Apple has seen from its services segment has made the business all the more important to sustaining its long-term growth.
In fiscal 2019, services accounted for about 18% of Apple’s total revenue, which is up from the 15% it contributed in fiscal 2018. Apple has looked to sustain its services growth with the launch of its Apple Card, Apple News+, Apple Arcade, and its own streaming service, Apple TV+, all in 2019.
Apple’s new streaming service is largely seen a strong competitor to Disney DIS and Netflix NFLX in the streaming space. Apple TV+ will become more competitive as Apple garners a larger content library. The growth of this segment will be paramount to Apple’s long-term expansion.
Our Q1 Zacks estimates call for Apple to see a net revenue rally of 4.1% to $87.74 billion and an earnings jump of 8.4% to $4.53 per share. iPhone sales are forecasted to drop a slight 1.3% to $51.3 billion and wearables are projected to surge 28.1% to $9.36 billion.
Apple’s services segment is anticipated to make an 18% gain to $12.8 billion in the first quarter.
Looking ahead to fiscal 2020, estimates project a 10.9% bottom-line hike to $13.18 per share and for net sales to reach $275.09 billion for a 5.7% jump.
Apple currently trades for about 20X its forward earnings, which is slightly above the industry average of 19X. The stock also pays out a quarterly dividend with a 1.16% yield. This isn’t exactly an income investor friendly payout, but it certainly adds to the overall value of owning a company that has outperformed the industry in 2019 and for years.
Apple’s gone on a remarkable run despite its cash cow’s recent decline because of the success of its other categories. Its Air Pods have caught fire with consumers and its services business has grown into its second biggest revenue generator.
However, investors should look out for how Apple plans to address its eroding iPhone sales with its new iPhone launches in 2020. Despite its iPhone sales troubles, the company looks poised to continue its top and bottom-line gains and sits at a Zacks Rank #3 (Hold).
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Last Call For The Reach To Impeach, Con't
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In newly disclosed text messages shared with Congress, the top U.S. diplomat to Ukraine at the time writes to a group of other American diplomats that "I think it's crazy to withhold security assistance for help with a political campaign.”
The exchange, provided by former U.S Special Envoy to Ukraine Kurt Volker as part of his closed-door deposition before multiple House committees Thursday, shows what appears to be encrypted text messages he exchanged with two other American diplomats in September regarding aid money President Donald Trump ordered to be held back from Ukraine.
In the exchange, obtained by ABC News, the concerns are expressed by Bill Taylor, the top U.S. diplomat to Ukraine. Gordon Sondland, the United States Ambassador to the European Union, responds to Taylor, saying that charge is "incorrect," insisting the president has been “crystal clear no quid pro quo of any kind”.
Sondland then suggests to the group take the conversations off line, typing “I suggest we stop the back and forth by text.” It’s unclear if the conversation continues, based on the material obtained by ABC News.
Sondland, a hotelier and Republican megadonor, contributed over $1 million to the president’s inaugural committee before eventually being nominated and confirmed to the top role as the United States representative to the European Union. .
Taylor is a career foreign service officer who has served as the top diplomat in Kyiv since May, when Ambassador Marie Yovanovitch was recalled by the administration. Yovanovitch had been smeared by President Trump’s personal attorney Rudolph Giuliani for months as blocking Ukrainian investigations into corruption -- an allegation the State Department at the time called an "outright fabrication" that "does not correspond to reality."
But Trump referred to Yovanovitch as "bad news" in his controversial July 25 call with Ukraine’s President Zelenskiy.
The texts came just days before the White House released the military assistance to Ukraine -- almost $400 million from the State Department and Pentagon meant to boost the U.S. partner against Russian aggression.
The US diplomat to Ukraine certainly thought there was quid pro quo going on. The guy who donated a million bucks to Trump to buy himself the ambassadorship to the European Union said "No it's not, also let's stop texting about this."
These idiots are so bad at this it's funny.
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Orange Implosion, Con't
So we've reached the point in the Ukraine/Biden cycle in Trump's behavior where he simply does whatever Democrats are accusing him of doing in order to 1) normalize it for future repetition and the "so what if he does it?" defense from the GOP and 2) dare Democrats to actually do anything about it, which so far they have done absolutely nothing that seems to be discouraging him.
President Donald Trump urged another foreign government to probe Joe Biden and his son Thursday, saying the Chinese government should investigate the former vice president and son Hunter Biden over the latter's involvement with an investment fund that raised money in the country.
"China should start an investigation into the Bidens because what happened in China is just about as bad as what happened with Ukraine," Trump told reporters outside the White House.
While Trump said he hasn't requested Chinese President Xi Jinping investigate the Bidens, the public call mirrors the private behavior on which Democrats are partially basing their impeachment inquiry — using the office of the presidency to press a foreign leader to investigate a political rival.
It is "certainly something we can start thinking about, because I’m sure that President Xi does not like being on that kind of scrutiny, where billions of dollars is taken out of his country by a guy that just got kicked out of the Navy," Trump said Thursday of asking China to probe the Bidens. "He got kicked out of the Navy, all of the sudden he’s getting billions of dollars. You know what they call that? They call that a payoff."
The remarks come amid a tense trade war with China. The president, discussing progress on negotiations with Beijing on a possible trade agreement just moments prior to his remarks about the Bidens, told reporters that "if they don't do what we want, we have tremendous power.”
Chinese officials will be in Washington next week in another attempt to revive talks, Trump said.
So for almost two weeks now Trump defenders have been able to say "You can't prove he actually requested Biden be investigated, it's hearsay, it's not admissible in a court of law, Trump deserves full due process" even though all of that is 100% garbage.
And here Trump is on an idle Thursday not only saying Ukraine should investigate Joe Biden, but that China should too and hey, trade talks are coming up, that would definitely help.
No wonder then the call for impeachment is growing. The best Democratic inquiry is to shut up and let Trump impeach himself on national TV.
Americans by a 45%-38% plurality now support a vote by the House of Representatives to impeach President Donald Trump, a USA TODAY/Ipsos Poll finds, as allegations continue to swirl around an embattled White House.
By a similar margin, 44%-35%, those surveyed say the Senate, which would then be charged with holding a trial of the president, should convict Trump and remove him from office.
The survey of 1,006 adults, taken Tuesday and Wednesday, underscores the perilous situation the president finds himself in as House committees subpoena documents and prepare to hear testimony into accusations that he pressured the leader of Ukraine to investigate a political rival, then tried to hide the account of their phone conversation.
This was before today's massive public admission of a criminal act by Trump.
He's this close to the dam breaking and the impeachment and removal happening, and it's about to catch Mitch McConnell in a vise if he tries to ignore the impeachment vote and refuses to hold a Senate trial.
It won't work.
Trump is damning himself.
The Orange Implosion continues.
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Ukraine In The Membrane, Con't
It seems every day there's new damning information coming out about the Trump regime, Ukraine, and the effort to create dirt on Joe Biden out of shadows and tweets, plus the effort to discredit and even prosecute the Mueller probe investigators.
Former Trump campaign chairman and now convicted fraudster felon Paul Manafort represents the perfect merging of the Ukraine storyline and the Mueller probe, as Manafort was campaign runner for pro-Russian Ukrainian presidential candidate (and Putin stooge) Viktor Yanukovich. Wouldn't you know it, Trump "legal eagle" Rudy Giuliani apparently thought it would be a good idea to tap Manafort's "expertise" on Ukraine while he was behind bars.
In his quest to rewrite the history of the 2016 election, President Trump’s personal attorney has turned to an unusual source of information: Trump’s imprisoned former campaign chairman Paul Manafort.
Rudolph W. Giuliani in recent months has consulted several times with Manafort through the federal prisoner’s lawyer in pursuit of information about a disputed ledger that would bolster his theory that the real story of 2016 is not Russian interference to elect Trump, but Ukrainian efforts to support Hillary Clinton.
The alliance, which Giuliani acknowledged in an interview this week with The Washington Post, stems from a shared interest in a narrative that undermines the rationale for the special counsel investigation. That inquiry led to Manafort’s imprisonment on tax and financial fraud allegations related to his work in Kiev for the political party of former president Viktor Yanukovych.
Giuliani’s effort is gaining traction on Capitol Hill. Sen. Charles E. Grassley (R-Iowa), chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, and Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.), chairman of the Homeland Security Committee, have announced their renewal of an inquiry into any coordination between Ukraine and Democratic Party officials.
Manafort, who is serving a 7½ -year term in a federal prison in Pennsylvania, has continued to express support for Trump, and Trump has never ruled out giving him a pardon.
Trump’s push on a July 25 call to get Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to investigate the matter, and also probe former vice president Joe Biden, triggered an impeachment inquiry in the House. Many of the accusations Giuliani has been making about Ukraine recycle those that Manafort’s team first promulgated.
Giuliani joined Trump’s legal team in April 2018 to help defend the president against special counsel Robert S. Mueller III’s probe, and the former mayor said he launched his own investigation into Ukraine late last year, which led him to consult with Manafort. He said he has not spoken directly to Manafort in two years.
“It was that I believed there was a lot of evidence that the [Democratic National Committee] and the Clinton campaign had a close connection to Ukrainian officials,” Giuliani said, noting that he was never advocating for a pardon of Manafort. “It was all about Trump. I don’t think I could exonerate Manafort.”
Manafort’s lawyer, Kevin Downing, did not respond to a request for comment.
This is the grand 2020 plan, to exonerate Trump now by blaming all the Ukraine stuff on Hillary, and to try to destroy Joe Biden so he can't win in 2020 and Trump gets a second term.
It won't work unless we let it.
StupidiTags(tm): Biden, Clinton Derangement Syndrome 2.0, Criminal Stupidity, Executive Stupidity, GOP Stupidity, Legal Stupidity, Paul Manafort, Rudy Giuliani, Trump Regime, Ukraine, Wingnut Stupidity
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The World Trade Organization has ruled $7.5 billion in new Trump tariffs on EU imports, including on Irish whiskey, over the EU's illegal support of Airbus.
A vintage WW II B-17 bomber crashed at a Connecticut airport killing seven and closing Bradley International Airport for several hours as fire crews responded to the resulting blaze.
Indonesian President Jokowi says nationwide protest will "not deter" his reform agenda as students clashed with police armed with teargas in Jakarta.
Republican Marco Rubio and Democrat Mark Warner are behind a bipartisan effort to warn tech giants they need to stop "deepfake" videos spread on social media ahead of the 2020 elections.
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ZDF Enterprises welcomes Caroline Kusser as agent for drama programs in worldwide French-speaking territories
Mainz, 3rd February 2015
With immediate effect, Caroline Kusser is ZDF Enterprises' new sales agent for drama programs in all French-speaking territories. Since January 2011 Ms. Kusser was Senior Vice President, North America, for Red Arrow / SevenOne International in Los Angeles. Her duties as such included the establishment of the newly opened Los Angeles-based representation of the group; building and maintaining relationships to US networks, TV channels and production companies for both scripted and unscripted programs; selling scripted and unscripted formats to the North American Market.
Prior to this, Caroline Kusser worked as Regional Sales Director and International Format Acquisitions for Red Arrow / SevenOne International, Munich/Germany, and in various positions in the International Sales Departments of Bavaria Media Television, peppermint GmbH and Beta Film GmbH.
ZDF Enterprises' COO Fred Burcksen: "We have long been following Caroline Kusser's distinguished career are now very pleased to welcome her onboard our sales team. We particularly prize her expertise in program distribution in French-speaking territories as well as her ease in cross-cultural environments and in building up long-term relationships with international clients."
Caroline Kusser
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