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Toiletries Amnesty
Nottingham Family Donate 2000 Tubes of Toothpaste to Help Refugees
A Nottingham family, who wish remain anonymous, have donated 2000 tubes of toothpaste through Toiletries Amnesty to help refugees in the city.
The brilliant team at Nottingham and Nottinghamshire Refugee Forum have helped get the products out to the people they work with, as well as connecting other organisations in the city that can benefit from the donation too.
Nottingham and Nottinghamshire Refugee Forum is a community organisation working with and for asylum seekers and refugees in the city and county.
They provide friendship, support and advice to refugees and asylum seekers, such as assisting with the completion of forms, accessing services and activities, and generally helping them to settle in a new environment.
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Golden Age Group: The Latest in Office Design for Australia
theasianexecutive, 12 November 2020
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theasianexecutive — 12 November 2018
Australian property developer Golden Age Group embarked on one of its biggest years to date with the combined completion of three projects, announcing plans for its second Box Hill site, making its first foray into land and industrial development and launching Sky Garden, the first retail- anchored residential project of its scale in the country.
Tenacious would be one word to describe Golden Age Group and its firm foothold in the Australian property landscape. With several projects on the go spanning Melbourne and Sydney, the developer has paused to reflect on the year that was.
“We always strive to test the boundaries of our limits - we don’t do anything by half-measures,” said Golden Age Group founder and managing director Jeff Xu when asked about how the company approached 2018. “We have a habit of turning potential into progress and this year has been a prime example of our unrelenting passion for Australia’s built environment.”
Forming a partnership with retail giant Vicinity Centres, Golden Age Group launched Sky Garden this year – its 555-apartment project set across three towers to be built atop The New Glen shopping centre that is currently undergoing $460 million in extensive redevelopment. Sky Garden is the first in the Australian market to offer a retail-anchored residential development of this scale.
In July, Golden Age Group celebrated the completion of Opéra, its luxury project situated on Melbourne’s St Kilda Road. Designed by Golden Age Group ongoing collaborator and renowned architects Bates Smart, Opéra sought to celebrate Melbourne’s unique arts and cultural scene.
Emulating the elegant form and movement of a ballerina, the building’s curved exterior form instils a touch of drama and decadence. Each panel of the cold-bent glass façade is entirely unique and strategically composed to create a sweeping curve.
Circular motifs carry throughout the shared spaces in reference to the iconic glass façade; most prominent in the grand lobby that welcomes residents as they arrive. The architects sought to restore the grandeur St Kilda Road was once known for with a focus on fine materials and details.
The private amenities are concentrated on the first two floors creating a hub of activity for residents to meet and mingle. A library, parlour, dining room, kitchen and wine cellar are available for residents to use or book for private events, acting as an extension of each apartment.
Alongside these offerings is a gymnasium and sauna - custom designed with timber undulating gracefully from the floor to ceiling to form bench seats. Another feat of architectural brilliance is the state-of-the-art pool whose dark beauty was specifically designed to emulate the feeling of being in a cave. Strategic use of concealed lighting and acoustics help to achieve this unique effect.
Internally, residences are fitted with herringbone parquet flooring and veined marble benches, all designed for a community that resonates closely with art and culture.
“Location, views and quality fittings shouldn’t be a property’s key selling points – for us, they are the basic standard. What follows – lifestyle, community, elegant design solutions – are what sets Opéra, and Golden Age Group, apart from the rest,” said Mr Xu.
Elsewhere in Melbourne, Golden Age Group’s 75-storey tower Victoria One reached completion in June, achieving a 100 per cent settlement rate where residents promptly moved in to what is currently the tallest completed residential building in the CBD. Victoria One’s sparkling tea-green façade is an architectural expression of Victoria’s rugged landscape and marks a new icon for Melbourne’s skyline.
Also set to reach completion this year is Essence Double Bay, Golden Age Group’s boutique Sydney development consisting of 38 residences.
“Completing these large projects in the space of a year is a testament to our ambition. We pride ourselves on collaborating with the industry’s finest to deliver projects that push boundaries,” said Mr Xu.
Construction is currently underway for Collins House in Melbourne’s CBD, Sky One in booming suburb Box Hill, and Park One and The Harrington Collection in Sydney.
Earlier this year, Golden Age Group submitted grand plans for its second Box Hill site on Station Street, adjacent to Sky One. Located in Box Hill’s major development hub, the project will significantly contribute to the public realm, cementing the suburb’s status as a genuine alternative to the CBD for employment, investment and entertainment.
“We have identified Box Hill as a major hotspot for activity and believe in its resounding investment stability,” said Mr Xu.
“We also strongly believe in the resilience of the luxury market - we have seen ongoing demand for high-end product at our projects 85 Spring Street in Melbourne and The Harrington Collection in Sydney. The desire for prestige property in blue-chip locations will always prevail,” said Mr Xu.
In a move to further diversify its robust portfolio of residential, commercial, hotel and hospitality venues, Golden Age Group also announced the acquisition and plans for it first land development, Willow Springs in Victoria’s Rockbank, alongside a move into industrial development.
"Rockbank is the perfect opportunity to bring our reputation and expertise to the land development sector. A significant proportion of Victoria's expected population growth is predicted to be absorbed by the western fringe. As a developer, it is our responsibility to outpace that growth and facilitate the expansion of Melbourne,” said Mr Xu.
It seems that Golden Age Group has mastered the art of multitasking, as they also plan for what the new year will bring. “Following our impressive 2018, we are looking forward to some equally exciting partnerships and Australian firsts for the new year which we will share very soon,” hinted Mr Xu.
“Construction at 85 Spring Street is set to commence next year and we will also officially launch our second Box Hill project to market.” “2019 will only see us push more boundaries and reach new heights.”
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Do Unto Other Harvard Students
One of America’s most prestigious colleges may try to force its undergraduates to be more egalitarian towards one another––but not to anyone else.
Conor Friedersdorf
Brian Snyder / Reuters
At Harvard University, a faculty panel empowered to study undergraduate social organizations like fraternities, sororities, and “final clubs” has issued a controversial new recommendation: that denying official recognition to these groups is not enough—they should be gradually but totally eliminated from campus life.
Their original transgression was discriminating on the basis of gender. But even co-ed versions of these organizations ought to be verboten, according to the panel’s majority. “The Committee considered the importance of allowing our students to select their own social spaces and friends,” their recently released report declared, “but we also recognize principles such as inclusiveness and equality, which many members of the Harvard community consider of paramount importance to our mission."
Concerns about the social organizations are understandable.
For young people, a burdensome aptitude test is all but required to apply; only 5 percent of those who do so are admitted, under opaque, inconsistent standards; even as those lucky few celebrate, the rejects often report feeling excluded and marginalized; the exclusivity invariably perpetuates inequalities that last long after graduation; and those on the inside lose touch with the real world they will soon encounter.
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Wait. I’m sorry. That was actually a general description of undergraduate admissions at Harvard, not its unrecognized fraternities, sororities, and “final clubs.”
My mistake!
Here is the panel’s case against those unrecognized, undergraduate organizations:
They are “an outsized part of student life.”
They “directly and negatively influence the undergraduate experience for many students who are not themselves members.”
Their “discriminatory practices” undermine “our educational mission and principles.”
They perpetuate “social structures that discriminate based on gender, race, class, and sexual orientation.”
They “create social divisions.”
A summation of sorts comes in this paragraph:
To be sure, many students who are members of the USGSOs report a profound sense of belonging. For them, their organization offers a place where they feel “at home” at Harvard, sheltered from the typical stresses of academic life. They report making steadfast friends. Their sense of belonging, however, comes at the expense of the exclusion of the vast majority of Harvard undergraduates. Of course, that is the definition of selective-membership clubs: some belong, some don’t. However, it is the invidious manner in which such clubs form their memberships and generate their guest lists (in the case of those that host parties) that makes them incompatible with the goals and standards of Harvard University.
The faculty panel’s approach is quintessentially progressive. As they see it, the impulse among undergraduates to form exclusive in-groups is not hard-wired and ineradicable; rather, it is the result of flawed institutions affecting malleable individuals, and can be eradicated so long as authorities have the power to limit freedom of association. Thus, Harvard can assemble a mixture of America’s most ambitious meritocrats and most privileged legacy admits and induce them to live as egalitarians for four years or so, before they go off to Goldman Sachs or Stanford Law School or a Fulbright scholarship or Corey Booker’s 2020 presidential campaign.
Lest you underestimate the faculty panel’s faith in central administration, consider that its members expanded the scope of their advice to encompass all student organizations at Harvard. In their view, Harvard’s sanctioned, independent student organizations, or “ISOs,” would serve students better if they were much less independent. To “demonstrate the seriousness of Harvard College’s convictions in fostering a better undergraduate experience for our students,” they urge Harvard to evaluate the “training” and “procedures” at those organizations to ensure that all are “optimal,” by which they mean that they “follow the comprehensive set of guidelines.”
What better way to train young leaders than to assign elders to inform them of “best practices” and ensure that they faithfully “demonstrate their robust compliance”?
In contrast, the lone named dissenter on the faculty panel offered a conservative perspective. “The sanctions policies have involved a conflict between competing goods: On the one hand, respect for student autonomy and freedom of association; on the other hand, nondiscrimination and inclusivity,” he wrote. The report “strongly favors the latter over the former goods,” he continued. “I continue to favor a balance more on the side of student autonomy because I am unconvinced that the policy, when implemented, will solve the latter problems.” What’s more, he added, the faculty panel’s assessments of Harvard’s campus climate were not robust:
We have somewhat better information on student opinions from the 2016 referendum on the sanctions policy. Of the 3,042 students who voted, 1,820 voted in favor of repeal of the sanctions, 923 voted against repeal, and 299 abstained (my data come from the report in the Harvard Crimson).
The majority of undergraduates did not vote in the referendum but of those who voted 60% were in favor of repeal and 30% voted against repeal. There is a disconnect between these numbers on student opinion and the general tone of this committee’s report which emphasizes deep unhappiness among students with the social environment created by the clubs (I will use club generically for final clubs, fraternities, sororities, and like organizations). The various committees on USGSO policy, including this one, have never sought quantitative unbiased data on student opinions but have relied on selected comments of students opposed to the clubs …
There is no doubt that some students, faculty, and deans find the clubs deeply offensive but well-informed social policy requires knowledge of the full-range of student opinions. Harvard College can do better in reasoning with data.
Were I at Harvard, I imagine I would dislike the Finals Clubs with the same stubborn vehemence that I disliked even the frats and sororities that gave me free alcohol when I visited friends at USC and UCLA and UC Berkeley during my undergraduate years. But I don’t know what any social organizations are like at Harvard, which possesses a right to ban them in a way that a public institution wouldn’t, even if doing so is illiberal, as the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education argues.
I, too, tend to prefer liberal approaches; at the same time, I value diversity and experimentation among private colleges, especially when they don’t undermine the pursuit of truth. For all those reasons, I’ll refrain from opining on the best way forward. But I do want to return to the irony lurking beneath this controversy. For is there any American institution that trades on unapologetic exclusion and perpetuates inegalitarian arrangements that benefit an in-group more than Harvard?
There is a conservative defense of its approach to higher education. But that defense is at stark odds with the values the faculty panel insists are core to Harvard College. If they believe in progressivism, and prize non-discrimination, inclusion, and belonging, they could urge any number of changes in the way their institution operates.
After all, as Harvard grad Ross Douthat once observed, everyone who’s come up through Ivy League culture knows that elite universities “are about connecting more than learning, that the social world matters far more than the classroom to undergraduates, and that rather than an escalator elevating the best and brightest from every walk of life, the meritocracy as we know it mostly works to perpetuate the existing upper class.”
Harvard’s admissions office could establish a minimum academic threshold one must possess to successfully pass Harvard classes, then choose among all applicants who meet it in a lottery. Rather than flatter undergraduates about the leadership skills they will attain at Harvard, it could emphasize to them that they are no more equipped to lead, or deserving of leadership positions, than graduates of other colleges, many of whom are more wise or ethical or experienced or loyal to fellow citizens.
Jared Kushner graduated from Harvard in 2003 with a B.A. in government. (Reuters)
And so long as it is willing to make heavy-handed interventions in student social life, it needn’t stop at merely encouraging all Harvard students to socialize with all other Harvard students—it could take the radical step of encouraging mixing with non-Harvard students. Given the outsized benefits of who one meets at Harvard above and beyond what one learns there, imagine the egalitarian returns of, say, building more dorms and intermingling rooms of Harvard students with adjacent rooms rented at a subsidy to students attending nearby community colleges. Maintaining academic excellence doesn’t require any exclusivity in residential life.
Elite colleges and universities dedicate a lot of attention time, money, and effort seeking small gains in social equality among students—sometimes with good reason and to good effect! The phenomena is nevertheless strange to observe at times, given how small a problem inequality among students already attending institutions like Harvard is compared to inequality between Harvard students and the rest of America.
Within its walls, Harvard may well veer toward progressivism, for better or worse. But on the whole, I expect Harvard to remain among America’s most conservative institutions, unapologetically marshaling an endowment that stretches to tens of billions to the lasting advantage of today’s students and tomorrow’s Harvard alumni.
If you want to complain, don’t go to the Harvard Club. They won’t let you in.
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One of the Fastest Built Metro Services, Jaipur Metro has 25% Women Drivers
Post author:Surabhi Katyal
Post category:News / Quick Bytes
After being under development for four years, and an expenditure of approximately 2023 Crores, the Metro train services in Jaipur are now accessible to public. It is being hailed as one of the fastest built metro systems in the country.
Courtesy: railwaysonline
The route is 9.6 kms long from Mansarover to Chandpole with stoppage at New Aatish Market, Vivek Vihar, Shyam Nagar, Ram Nagar, Civil Lines, Railway Station, Sindhi Camp apart from the two ends. The service began on June 3 and will start daily at 6:45 a.m and last till 9:30 p.m.
There are 10 metro trains for the route, each with four coaches, that will take 131 trips in a day except for Sunday where the number is reduced to 115. The frequency in between the trains will be about 10-15 minutes depending on the peak hours, with a 10 minute difference in peak hours and a 15 minutes difference in off-peak hours.
It is expected to ferry about 1.2 lakh passengers daily, but in its initial stage, the administration is expecting 30,000 passengers per day.
The Blue line of the Metro is functional . The Phase 2 will extend the blue line to Badi Chopar from the current last stop Chand Pole.
Courtesy:railway technology.com
The fare of the metro is in multiples of five with different charges for peak and off-peak hours. For the first six months, the off-peak charge rates will be applicable. There is upto 15% discount on smart cards, rechargeable through the Jaipur Metro website or the ticket vending machines at the station. There are two tourists cards (enable unlimited trips in a day) available with validity for one day or three days. Feeder services will also be made available from the metro for more connectiviry from all 9 functional stations.
Chandpole is the only underground station on the line. The other underground station work for the remaining line is underway which will extend the services of the line to Badi Chopar, which is near the iconic Hawa Mahal. The metro is connecting housing areas (Mansorover) to commercial hubs (Chand Pole)
The security has been handed over to the Rajasthan Police, with about 789 police personnel to be working for the smooth functioning of the Metro. The latest security equipment has also been made available to the stations and personnel.
Also, about 30% of metro employees are women, which includes station controllers and train operators.
The services were inaugurated at 11 a.m. on 3 June by the State Chief Minister Ms. Vasundhara Raje along with a few other state ministers, and was made open to public at 2 p.m .
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5 Best ‘Orange is The New Black Sex Scenes’, Ranked
Yup, now it’s getting really hard to explain to my dad what I write about. But if you gotta see some topless ladies banging the poop (read it as the word starting from ‘s’ having the same meaning) out of each other, strictly for ‘research purpose’ of course, then count me in. Hell many of us perverts know sex scenes of certain series like the back of our hands but we haven’t watched a single episode (damn it! It’s just me isn’t it?).
‘Orange Is The New Black’ is a popular and a critically acclaimed series which premiered five years back. The series is still going strong. Apart from the great storyline, acting, and direction, the series brought us some of the television’s kinkiest scenes. With that said, here’s the list of top sex scenes from Orange is the New Black. All of these scenes are as hot as simmering oil.
5. Piper Shower Sex (S01 E01)
Man, did I watch this scene so many times? I have lost the count. But hold on I did that for a reason. The scene is awfully short. Just when you think you are gonna get some Taylor Schilling action. The scene ends. But wait, there’s more. If you like looking at topless Taylor then you might be in luck. As in the later part of the scene, we see her naked in the prison shower. The scene starts with Piper narrating “I love showers…….It’s my happy place” while the background song goes something like this “Ain’t nobody worried……Ain’t no smiling faces”. The first couple of seconds show Piper showering topless as Alex grabs her and SMOOOOOOOOOOCH! The next few seconds show Piper in a bathtub where she is lying on her husband’s chest. She then turns around to kiss him. That’s all the romantic part. But as I said if you love looking at topless Taylor, then there’s still hope for you. The scene goes on about 30 more seconds while Piper showers in the prison bathroom
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4. Piper and Alex Romantic/Seductive Scene (S01 E05)
Well, no surprises about who’s doing whom. It’s Piper and Alex again. This is a sexy scene. Here we have got Piper stripping for her girl Alex (Hooray!). The scene starts slowly with Piper dancing on some romantic beat. If you watch ‘So you think You Can Dance’ and by dancing you picture something like that then you might be disappointed but there will be a little part of you who will just love it (if you know what I mean). We see Piper slowly moving her booty. Damn Taylor Schilling is HOT! She then moves closer to a pole on the bed on which Alex is sitting. She does few more of her seductive moves to get Alex in the mood before stripping down to her undies. Then they chat about certain stuff about Bali as Alex asks Piper to accompany her. Later they start making out.
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3. Nichols and Morello go Oral in a Chapel (S01 E05)
Yup! Two sexy scenes crunched in one episode. That’s ‘Orange is the New Black’ for you. This time we have a change of personnel. It is horny Nichols and cute Morello (I don’t know why I think she is cute). The scene is pretty loud compared to the others. Morello moans at the top of her voice like it’s the end of the world or maybe she found enlightenment in the Chapel. We can’t be sure what it is but we can be damn sure that she found Nichols hands in her pus…Ahem!… Let’s be civilized and stick with ‘Lady Parts’ (Man! That sounded so wrong ‘stick with’). So, the scene starts with loud moans coming from Morello, it’s more like loud cries. You need to watch it understand. We see Nichols violently playing with Morello’s flower (Gosh! I need to find more metaphors), until the latter orgasms. Then we see Morello putting on her bra and telling Nichols that this was the last time because she is engaged. (Booooorrring!!! Let’s move on to the next one).
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2. Nichols and Soso: Back to the Chapel (S02 E04)
Well, we got our horny Nichols again. Hell! We have even got the same setting as the previous one. What is wrong with this Chapel? More importantly, what is wrong with Nichols choosing Chapel for sex? Has she got some indecent exposure challenge going on with the Almighty? But the other girl is different. This time it’s another cutie, the Asian chick Soso. We get some amazing view of her ti…pardon me. I meant assets in the..….er…rib cage area (What is wrong with me?)? But Soso’s moans are not as loud as Morello’s but is kinda kinky. While receiving the service from Nichols she recollects how she has done this with only one other girl and goes on and on about certain things. But we are not the only ones who are bored. Nichols is with us. She gets up to shut Soso’s mouth. But not like a normal person, just saying “Shut up!” this is Nichols we are talking about. She puts her lady parts on Soso’s mouth. I don’t know about you guys but that’s my kind of shut up.
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1. Piper and Alex Goes Hardcore (S03 E02)
The top spot isn’t that surprising. It’s going to be two of the main cast and of course one of them will be Taylor Schilling. Why wouldn’t it be? She has been giving us ‘hard’ times since season 1. Sad to say there are no nudities in this scene though. As the scene starts, we see Alex wearing a plastic bag of the sort and Piper wearing what she usually wears. Now if you have ever fantasized a cat-fight to go sexual, then you are in luck. Alex starts with a hard slap to Piper’s cheek, as she says “You Bitch!” Piper retaliates with a push. That’s enough to make them ‘Horny Af’. They start smooching each other violently as Piper is stripped down to her bra and so is Alex. Piper takes the lead and removes Alex’s lower undie and goes haywire with the latter’s ‘Katori’ (It’s Indian for you know what). Alex then pushes Piper on the ground and more kissing.
Read More: Best ‘Girls’ Sex Scenes
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Information meeting for school secretaries and caretakers in Cork tonight
By TheCork.ie on 24th November, 2015 No Comment
24 November 2015, 12pm
By Elaine Murphy
elaine@TheCork.ie
Ireland’s largest public sector trade union – IMPACT – will host an information meeting tonight at the IMPACT trade union office, Fr. Matthew’s Quay, Cork at 7pm to provide information to school secretaries and caretakers paid from grant funding to schools. A recent arbitration finding has recommended four separate pay rises of 2.5% for these workers between 2016 and 2019.
The arbitration finding by arbitrator Kevin Foley (who has been subsequently appointed Labour Court deputy chairman) has recommended that school secretaries and caretakers, employed directly by boards of management in State-funded schools, would see their minimum hourly rates increase from €10.25 to €13 an hour over the period.
The finding means that these workers, irrespective of their current rate of pay, will benefit from a cumulative pay increase of almost 11% over the next four years. Those earning less than the minimum will benefit by a higher percentage.
The finding comes after a sustained campaign by IMPACT trade union, and follows a commitment to secure a collectively bargained outcome in talks conducted in tandem with the Lansdowne Road discussions in May this year.
Caretakers and secretaries pay rates vary, as they are determined by the individual board of management of each school, and paid from the ancillary grants paid to the schools by the Department of Education and Skills. Almost all are paid below the scale paid to equivalent public service workers, including a minority of secretaries and caretakers who are paid directly by the department.
The union has commenced a series of information meetings for secretaries and caretakers. The purpose of the meetings is to inform members of the details of the arbitration findings and to outline the union’s pay strategy over the 2016-2018 period. The meetings are open to all school secretaries and caretakers.
The meetings continue this week as follows:
Cork – IMPACT office, Fr. Mathew’s Quay, Tuesday 24th November at at 7pm
Athlone – Athlone Education Centre, Moydrum Road, Athlone, Thursday 26th November at 7pm
Galway – IMPACT office, Unit 23/24 Sean Mulvoy Business Park, Sean Mulvoy Road, Thursday 26th November at 5pm
Kildare – Kildare Education Centre, Friary Road, Kildare Town, Monday 30th November at 7.30pm
Dundalk – Crowne Plaza Hotel, Tuesday 1st December at 7pm
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Opioid Lawsuit Settlements
Landmark $270 Million Opioid Lawsuit Settlement Opens Door for Dozens of Pending Cases
Purdue Pharma recently agreed to pay Oklahoma $270 million rather than face trial on charges of misleading marketing practices and misrepresentation regarding Oxycontin, according to company and state press releases. Court battles are far from over for the pharmaceutical company, which still faces 35 state lawsuits and a federal lawsuit in Cleveland involving more than 1,000 entities alleging the company withheld information about the addictive potential of Oxycontin from the public, according to experts.
Members of the Sackler family, who own the company but were not defendants in the case, will pay another US$75 million in personal funds over five years.
The family’s philanthropic efforts have recently been rebuffed by non-profit institutions – underscoring the growing unease with the main source of the philanthropic dynasty’s riches: revenue from sales of OxyContin.
Details about the talks come a day after an Oklahoma judge found health-care giant Johnson & Johnson responsible for fueling the state’s opioid epidemic in another opioid lawsuit settlement and ordered it to pay $572 million to help abate the crisis.
At issue was the way Purdue pressured doctors to prescribe opioids for all sorts of maladies.
Purdue is widely blamed for sparking the prescription opioid crisis in the United States with the introduction of OxyContin in 1996, followed by an aggressive marketing effort that persuaded doctors to prescribe it more widely and at higher doses.
In 2007, the company and three executives pleaded guilty to federal charges of misleading doctors and the public about the drugs. Purdue paid a $635 million fine.
Asked for comment Tuesday, Purdue said in a statement: “While Purdue Pharma is prepared to defend itself vigorously in the opioid litigation, the company has made clear that it sees little good coming from years of wasteful litigation and appeals.
The company has made clear for months that it was considering bankruptcy in light of the liabilities it faced from hundreds of lawsuits. Another signal came in an Aug. 19 letter to former sales representatives, warning that “there exists the possibility that Purdue may not, or may not be able to, contribute enough to fully fund all of the retirement benefits that will become payable in the future under the Plan.”
The federal case is set to begin with two Ohio counties proceeding to trial as test cases. Polster has encouraged the plaintiffs to settle with some two dozen drug companies named in the lawsuits, and negotiations have occurred even as both sides readied for trial. State attorneys general were present, along with lawyers for the federal plaintiffs, at last week’s meeting, according to people familiar with it.
They said the company’s $7 billion in payments toward the settlement would come from a combination of sources, including insurance policies, cash, assets and Purdue’s remaining product inventory.
The company would declare Chapter 11 bankruptcy and restructure as a for-profit “public benefit trust,” with the Sacklers, who have owned Purdue since 1952, no longer in control, two people said. That trust would contribute to the settlement over a number of years by selling drugs such as OxyContin and non-opioids. A bankruptcy judge would choose the trustees.
The company also would provide anti-addiction medications such as buprenorphine, naloxone and nalmefene, a medication that has not been approved but has been fast-tracked by the FDA.
The Sacklers also would contribute $3 billion in personal funds to the settlement. That could grow by $1.5 billion if the family sells Mundipharma, an international drug company that it also owns. The Sackler family paid itself nearly $4.3 billion from the sale of its drugs between 2008 and 2016, a Massachusetts lawsuit against the company claims.
This is the second big opioid lawsuit settlement in the last couple of years.
WHAT DOES THIS TEACH US?
Humans are, well, human. Some doctors have no problems taking kickbacks, bonuses, cash or gifts from disreputable pharmaecutical sales reps and the companies that employee them. Patients who are eager for pain relief trust these doctors. Until all parties are held responsibile and accountable, this practice won’t stop. Consequences to violating the trust of the patient need to be ruinous to both the corrupt big pharam companies and the complicit physicians.
Opioid addiction is especially crushing – it destroys lives, families and dreams – and the problem has been growing since 1996 at an epidemic level. In many cases, even family members are blind-sided to learn that someone they love has become addicted, despite the signs of addiction.
It also teaches us that patients must be partially accountable as well. The pain management process should start with the least dangerous remedy, including presciptions. Why ask for OxyContin when IbuProfen might do the trick?
We’ve probably not seen the last opioid lawsuit settlement, as other cases are about to be adjudicated but the message is clear’ big pharma companies that are profit hungry are going to be held accountable.
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On a visit to our partner organisation, the Palestine Wildlife Society (PWLS), we waited with part-time vet Dr Yousef Masolam at a PWLS clinic for local donkey owners.
A young boy appeared over the brow of a hill with a donkey walking reluctantly behind him. Although the white mare looked to be in fair condition from a distance, as she came closer it became clear that she needed immediate care.
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Johnnie Walker launches new 21YO whisky in Hong Kong
26th November, 2020 by Alice Liang
Scotch whisky brand Johnnie Walker is releasing John Walker & Sons XR 21, a new 21-year-old whisky, in Hong Kong this month.
Taking inspiration from the handwritten blending notes of John Walker’s grandson, Sir Alexander Walker II, who was also a master blender like his father and his grandfather, John Walker & Sons XR 21 is the latest expression from the house.
One hundred years ago in 1920, Alexander Walker II was bestowed a knighthood by King George V for his whisky making craftsmanship.
The blend contains whiskies aged for a minimum of 21 years, including some from the now silent distillery Port Dundas, built in 1811 at the highest point in the city of Glasgow. Rare grains and malts expressions were drawn from the private reserves of the house’s master blender.
Using an uncommon three-stage-blending method, a creamy core is first created using rare casks of at least 21-year-old grain whiskies from the ghost distillery – Port Dundas. Secondly, whiskies matured in American oak are introduced to add layers to this complex blend.
Finally, rich fruit, malt, and chestnut flavours are built from single malt whiskies from Speyside distilleries such as Mortlach and Cardhu.
In the official tasting notes of John Walker & Sons XR 21, the whisky has “rich creamy intense flavour, sweet honey and tempered spices come cloaked in warming smoke, citrus zest, ripened tropical fruits and caramel swirl within hints of tobacco and raisins”. The finish is “long, smooth, soothing, and showcases a subtle tapestry of peat, evolving into the deep richness of aged oak”.
The house recommends Hong Kong drinkers can pair the whisky with traditional local roasted chestnuts as a pairing to this creamy whisky.
It is now available all major retail stores in Hong Kong, priced at HK$998.
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Just as the blues had stumbled into something that vaguely resembled momentum, the international break reared it’s ugly head to grind things to a halt for a fortnight.
Now with the 40 points on the board, the question I have is: do the players and management really want Everton to try and get 7th place so we can enter Europe via the backdoor, or, will it just be a case of ‘we’re safe now, we don’t want to get injured ahead of the summer so let’s just coast our way through these last 7 games’ ?
If I’m honest, with the way the season has gone, I feel it’ll probably be the latter.
We’ve got 2 very difficult matches coming up next and if we lose both (which, let’s be honest, isn’t beyond the realms of possibility) I just can’t see the players pumping themselves back up 1 more big push over the final 5 matches. The proverbial Flip-flops will come out and with teams to play who desperately need points for survival, I wouldn’t rule out more in the way of disappointing defeats to poor sides.
Still, I’d like to think this group of players would like to prove a point or two after a disappointing campaign, so who better to do that against than the Champions elect and our (not so) loveable neighbours?
Anywa, first up, it’s Manchester City at Goodison Park on Saturday at 5.30pm (live on Liverpool TV, err, I mean BT Sports).
Looking back, it’s quite sad to think that Everton’s season, which promised so much last summer when Farhad Moshiri wielded his cheque book so freely, basically peaked against Manchester City back on the 18th of August 2017.
Wayne Rooney’s 35th minute goal in our second league game of the season put the blues ahead at the Etihad Stadium and with City already a man light following Kyle Walker’s early bath, I think we all thought a memorable victory was coming our way.
Yet, we retreated deeper and deeper as the match went on and ultimately Ronald Koeman’s men couldn’t hold on. Raheem Sterling volleyed in an 82nd minute equaliser and really, it’s safe to say it’s been all downhill from there for Everton this season.
City, on the other hand, went from strength to strength after that match as an incredible winning run followed, with Pep Guardiola’s side sweeping aside all comers, playing an eye-catching brand of football that opposition teams simply couldn’t handle.
That winning run went on and on for more than 4 months until New Year’s eve, when a weary City team couldn’t break down a combative Crystal Palace team at Selhurst Park.
That 0-0 (still City’s lone failure to score after 30 league matches), began the Mancunians only blip of the season so far as within a month of that they’d lost their first (and only) league game of the campaign so far and also suffered a shock FA Cup defeat at the hands of League 1 Wigan.
Since then though, it’s been back on the horse for Pep and his charges, with the League Cup already safely stowed in the cabinet, Champions League progression ongoing and league form maintained, having dropped just the 2 points away at Burnley since that sole defeat in January.
All of which means the sky blues arrive at Goodison Park a staggering 16 points clear at the top of the Premier League table with only 8 matches remaining.
Looking specifically at City away from home, they’ve won 38 points, having only dropped points in 3 of their 15 away matches and what’s more, they’ve scored away 34 goals, whilst only conceding 10 (with 4 of those coming in 1 match).
In terms of recent form… City are behind only Spurs in the form table over 10 matches having won 23 points and over a shorter period of 6 matches, City top the form table with 16 points.
Given the amount of media coverage they get, most readers will be familiar with City’s playing style under Pep Guardiola but for those who live under a rock, they play a fluid passing game which revolves primarily around keeping the ball for long periods.
Typically City will line up in a 4-3-3 formation, but you’ll notice their players are given a lot of freedom to find spaces in which they can receive and then pass the ball to maintain possession. From the keeper to the striker, their players are all very comfortable with the ball at their feet, as is reflected by the fact City have achieved an average of 66% ball possession this season (with a league-high average of 694 short passes completed per match).
Technically gifted midfield players such as David Silva, Kevin De Bruyne, Ilkay Gungogan and Bernado Silva are excellent when it comes to finding defence-splitting passes, so usually opposition teams will look to combat this by congesting the space between the ball and the defensive goal.
The way City combat this is by increasing the tempo, moving the ball quickly and accurately, from side-to-side as they look for somebody among the congested opposition defence to switch off, allowing one of their nippy forwards into the space where they can do some damage. Should that fail, City will look to win fouls around the penalty area, where their numerous dead-ball specialists can either shoot or deliver into the area with great accuracy.
Typically, when City have the ball, their full backs either come into the central midfield area (allowing all of the midfield to attack/the central defenders to roam forwards) or they’ll offer themselves wide to try and get to the byeline, where they can often be the spare man.
Should an opposition team look to take the game to City by pressing, their midfield players are usually that good on the ball, that they’ll evade the press and get the ball to their dangerous, pacey forwards such as Leroy Sane, Raheem Sterling, Gabriel Jesus or Sergio Aguero who can cause havoc.
While in previous seasons, City have been a side prone to defensive errors, that hasn’t been the case this season as they currently boast the best defence in the Premier League with just 20 goals conceded in 30 matches – proving, if the opposition can’t get the ball, they can’t score with it.
In those rare moments they don’t have the ball, we’ll see City operate a high press to try and get it back, which Pep Guardiola demands from all of his attacking players in order to try and force mistakes.
It’s a style of play is very hard to play against when operated correctly. But, one that requires 3 key (and expensive) elements; a team of technical ball-playing footballers who all enjoy having the ball at their feet and can accurately find their team mates, a team of hard-workers who are fit enough to press in packs to get the ball back and at least 6 or 7 attacking players in the squad with a genuine cutting-edge in the final third.
If any of those 3 elements are missing in any one game, City can struggle, but right now, having played so well this season, they’re so fine-tuned it’s hard to see a sudden off-day.
However, one potential leveller that Everton are likely to have in their favour over the next two matches is the fact that both opposition sides have a huge Champions League Quarter final tie to think about within days of their trip to Goodison.
Obviously, Manchester City of 2018 don’t have ‘weak’ teams so I certainly don’t expect a rollover job (and let’s face it, most of their ‘squad players’ walk into our first team) but with a lead of 16 points already propping them up nicely (with just a possible 24 points remaining) and a week’s match preparation disrupted by the international break, I can see Guardiola employing a degree of rotation for this match ahead of his priority, which surely has to be Wednesday night.
In terms of the City team, It’s impossible to know exactly what Pep is thinking, but I wouldn’t be surprised if it was something like the below:
Which would mean the likes of Kompany, Otamendi, Delph, Walker, David Silva, Leroy Sane and Sergio Aguero are all kept nice and fresh for Anfield on Wednesday.
Of course, the above is still a very good side (and let’s face it, we’ve seen Everton lose to much worse this season) but, it could just offer us a glimmer of hope beyond what we’d usually have against such a fantastic team.
Contrary to Popular (BT Sport) belief, Everton will be involved in this football match.
However, before I get onto the Everton approach to Man City, I need to mention that last time out Everton actually won an away game!
The blues might not have been brilliant on the day, but with an away record like ours, I think we need to take the win with both hands and focus on the positives.
Yes, Stoke aren’t great and they had ten men for an hour but, trust me when I write, teams still won’t be queuing up to go to there in a snow storm.
What I liked about that match wasn’t so much the way we played because it was clearly difficult to get going out there in poor conditions, but the fact for once, we showed some resilience away from home. I think we all thought ‘here we go again’ when we gave up a sloppy equaliser, but we went up the other end and promptly put it right.
It was the third consecutive Everton match that featured a sending-off, but more encouragingly, the third consecutive match our new Turkish hero Cenk Tosun found the back of the net.
Four goals in his past three games and all of them typical number 9 strikes; 2 towering headers, a poacher’s finish and a sharp snap-shot in the area.
I don’t know about you, but it warms my heart to see an Everton striker scoring proper number 9 goals. Whether it’s Bob Latchford, Andy Gray or Duncan Ferguson, I think we’re a group of fans who’ve grown up idolising competitive and traditional number 9’s.
Obviously, Cenk has a good while to go before he can be spoken of in the same breath as those, but slowly and surely he seems to be finding his feet in England and the goals are now beginning to flow for the lad. I’m happy for him.
Whereas a few weeks ago, we were all wondering whether he’s another dud and asking ourselves when he would be afforded another opportunity to show his worth, Cenk’s selection is now set in stone with the likes of Oumar Niasse and Dominic Calvert-Lewin fighting for their opportunities from the substitutes bench.
Can Cenk score against Manchester City? It’s certainly no formality, but I believe he can.
The problem is just going to be getting quality service into him in the penalty area against a team who control the football as well as any do in world football.
The likes of Yannick Bolasie and Theo Walcott, who have both stepped up as our creative outlets in recent weeks, will need to be at their best, if selected.
Without question, both have the pace and the ability to damage Manchester City, but they can be too prone to making the wrong decisions at key moments. If they can keep things simple and don’t overcomplicate their play, I’m sure they can create at least two or three chances for blue shirts over the course of the match.
Behind that front three, the loss of Idrissa Gana Gueye to a thigh injury looks set to afford everybody’s favourite Frenchman, Morgan Schneiderlin yet another opportunity as part of a midfield 3. I’m sure plenty would rather see Beni Baningime given a chance, but with opposition of this calibre, it’s hard to see Sam Allardyce sharing that opinion.
Schneiderlin seems likely to anchor the midfield, while Tom Davies (scorer of that fantastic goal in this fixture last season) closes down for 90 minutes and Wayne Rooney tries to use the ball as efficiently as he can.
The back 4 of Coleman, Keane, Jagielka and Baines seems likely to continue and you’d like to think that with the 4 of them having at least a week back at Finch Farm (presuming Seamus came straight back after Friday’s lone Republic of Ireland friendly), they’ll have been working hard on a way to stop Manchester City’s array of clever forwards.
The other option that Sam Allardyce might look at for this match is a back 3, which would see Ramiro Funes Mori entering the fray on the left side of the defensive trio.
I’m sure plenty will shudder if they see it named, as the last time we saw it Everton conceded 4 goals in about 35 minutes at Arsenal, however it should be said it was this system we played to defeat Manchester City 4-0 last season and our defensive options available for Saturday are much better suited to a back 3 than those deployed at Arsenal.
We know Jagielka is better than Williams, we know Funes Mori can play left sided centre half in a 3, we know Coleman is an excellent wing back and Leighton Baines, despite being on the decline, still isn’t half as bad as Cuco Martina.
If Allardyce was to go with a back 3, I suspect we’d see one of the wide men miss out (probably Yannick Bolasie), so it would be a 3-5-2 formation with Theo Walcott providing the main attacking support, playing off Cenk Tosun.
Personally, I think playing the additional pacey attacking player would give City more to worry about, so I’d stick with the 4-3-3 that’s won the last couple of games but, it’s impossible to know exactly what Allardyce is thinking, especially as he’ll without 2 of his key men in Idrissa Gueye and Gylfi Sigurdsson.
Whether it’s a back 3 or a back 4, I think it’s likely we will see an Everton side sit deep, crowd our half of the pitch and try to take a point. Sometimes it can work (like against Chelsea before Christmas) but other times you invite good teams onto you and they simply rip you apart (Arsenal in January).
If the blues do sit deep, the key for Everton will be keeping defensively solid whilst packing a punch at the other end. If Everton players make defensive errors, whether that’s taking undue risks, losing their man, not closing a man down or allowing a cross, this City team (regardless of rotation) will punish us.
My main worry for the match lies in midfield, where I feel the blues could really struggle to get a grip of the game. Wayne Rooney has been good of late but City’s midfielders are a whole other level, Schneiderlin is at league 2 standard this season and Tom Davies often struggles against the better teams.
If the Everton midfield lose the battle like I worry they will, we’ll struggle to even get our forwards into the game and it’ll probably become a question of firstly, ‘when not if?’ followed by ‘how many?’.
Whichever method the manager chooses, I suspect we’ll see a substitutes bench that isn’t loaded with quality options but consists of Dominic Calvert-Lewin (scorer for England u21’s on Tuesday), Oumar Niasse, Nikola Vlasic (scorer of 2 for Croatia u21’s on Tuesday) and back from the dead, Davy Klaassen.
Unfortunately, Mason Holgate picked up an injury on international duty so won’t be available, but on the bright side, serial clown and the player I hope is first out of the door in the summer, Ashley Williams remains suspended – *insert celebratory .gif here*
Regardless of the team Sam Allardyce selects, you’d think this will be a very difficult game for a frustratingly uninspiring and inconsistent Everton team.
City have won 26 games out of 30 this season, with only 3 draws and 1 defeat. They’re an outstanding side who are going to win the league with ease and nobody in their right mind could argue that they don’t deserve to.
However, let’s not forget, Saturday should be tough for City as well. As poor as Everton have been this season, we should arrive here with some confidence having won back-to-back games and we still remain one of the league’s better home teams. Plus, for whatever reason, Goodison Park just isn’t a happy hunting ground for Manchester City.
I don’t know why, but the blues tend to raise their game when City roll in. With a well-oiled late kick off crowd (who hopefully make things hostile) and Wednesday looming large on the City horizon, this could just prove to be a trickier game than Guardiola’s men expected.
Or at least that’s my hope. On the other hand, it could just just as easily be a 0-3 demolition job and I don’t think anybody would be that surprised.
The referee for this one is Paul Tierney.
He’s yet to take charge of Everton this season but if you want something to clutch straws with, only 9% of his matches refereed this season have resulted in an away win.
Perhaps a bigger positive omen to end on though is the fact Pep Guardiola has a worse managerial record against Everton than any other opposition side he’s come up against in his career, as despite having 3 matches against us, he’s yet to taste victory.
So that’ll do for this one, here’s hoping we remain Pep’s bogey team and Guardiola’s Everton woes continue.
As always, thank you for taking the time to read this and from everybody at The Everton Forum, have a fantastic Easter weekend!
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Economic activity in the manufacturing sector grew in December, with the overall economy notching an eighth consecutive month of growth, say the nation's supply executives in the latest Manufacturing ISM® Report On Business®.
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Topcon announces Russian manufacturing agreement
For more than fifteen years, Topcon Positioning Group has invested in Russia by locating our positioning technology research and development center in Moscow. The Topcon Technology Center employs a significant number of scientists and engineers leading research and development projects in satellite and inertial positioning technology, working with other Topcon technical centers around the globe.
Beginning this year (2016), Topcon is also partnering with the Russian manufacturer NPP IZEP OOO to build our GNSS receivers and other positioning products specifically for the Russian market. NPP IZEP OOO will manufacture products for both the Topcon and Sokkia brands of positioning and measurement instruments at their facility located in Moscow. Manufacturing quality is controlled by Topcon’s strict production management systems to ensure that locally produced products meet the high standards achieved in Topcon’s other facilities and customers receive the same quality product.
Alexander Shakh, general director, NPP IZEP OOO, said, “The plant is furnished with the most modern equipment and automated quality control system. Having production being done here in Moscow will ensure that we meet or exceed the high level of quality as the products produced by Topcon facilities in other locations.”
Eduardo Falcon, Topcon executive vice president and general manager of its global GeoPositioning Group, said, “Our state-of-the-art systems and instruments will be manufactured to assure they are ideally configured to meet, and exceed, the expectations of our Russian customers. We are pleased with our partnership with NPP IZEP OOO and the professionalism of the team, which ensures Topcon is ready to meet the growing market demand for Russian made precision products.”
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Share this Story: Man killed in front of daughter
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Man killed in front of daughter
Alex Consiglio
Donald Levy dodged two bullets and was scrambling to his car when his killer caught up and shot him execution-style in the head as his two-year-old child watched.
Levy, 30, was transported to Sunnybrook Hospital on July 20 in critical condition and died of his injuries Wednesday, Toronto Police said Thursday.
Levy was hanging out with a group of people drinking on Driftwood Crt., near Jane St. and Finch Ave., when someone tried to rob him of his gold chain.
The large chain, which had a diamond-studded cross attached, hung down to Levy’s bellybutton and was worth about $1,000.
When his killer tried to snatch it, Levy fled and his killer started firing at him, Det. Paul Worden, of the homicide squad, said Thursday.
Worden said the first two shots narrowly missed Levy as he fled towards his car, where his girlfriend and two-year-old child sat.
Levy tripped, fell to the ground by the car and his killer came around the car and fired a final shot into his head.
The gruesome murder outside the Toronto Community Housing complex at 9 Driftwood Crt. was caught on camera.
The footage, along with tips from the community, has led to “persons of interest” in the case and detectives are trying to track them down, said Worden.
Worden added the area is known to be the stomping grounds of the Driftwood Crips, a violent gang involved in past murders.
Worden said some of the people drinking that night may have gang affiliations.
“Some witnesses have not come forward because they fear retaliation,” said Worden, noting the motive for murder was theft.
Worden said Levy, of Brampton, was known to frequent the area and was also known to police.
Levy murder is the 32nd of the year.
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Boeing’s thanks, CRC’s funding, House’s budget, coal dock’s PLA…
► In today’s Seattle Times — Boeing email warns 787 tech staff of layoffs — An email from a senior manager thanked them for saving the troubled jet program, and then announced layoffs are coming. These manufacturing engineers act as a critical link between the engineers who design the jets and the mechanics who build them. SPEEA’s Ray Goforth said he’s heard from members who reacted “with anger and dismay at the dismissiveness” of the message. He summarized the note as “thank you very much, we don’t need you anymore.”
► In today’s (Everett) Herald — Qatar CEO: Boeing close to FAA approval on 787 battery — The company is “very close” to getting approval from regulators for a fix to its 787’s batteries that would let flights resume, said Qatar Airways Ltd. CEO Akbar Al Baker.
► In today’s (Longview) Daily News — Transportation chief urges lawmakers on CRC funds — U.S. Secretary of Transportation Ray LaHood told Washington state lawmakers Wednesday that they must commit hundreds of millions of dollars toward the estimated $3.1 billion Columbia River Crossing project this year or risk losing up to $1.2 billion in federal support.
ALSO at The Stand — Contact state lawmakers to urge their support of CRC
► In today’s Columbian — Rally at State Capitol urges support of I-5 bridge project — “This is the year; megaprojects require a great deal of time and money, and we can’t afford to do it all over again,” state Sen. Annette Cleveland (D-Vancouver) said at the event. Oregon has offered its share of the $3.4 billion project, while Washington legislators have yet to dedicate Washington’s $450 million share. Democrats have a majority in the House and support a transportation revenue package that would dedicate $450 million to the CRC.
► In today’s (Everett) Herald — House Democrats’ budget spend more on schools — Majority Democrats in the House rolled out a budget Wednesday that would haul in more tax revenues and spend more money on public schools than either the governor or the Republican-controlled Senate.
► From AP — House budget plan is similar to Gov. Inslee’s — Democrats in the state House proposed a budget plan Wednesday that would eliminate a variety of tax breaks to help pay for education and avoid some of the cuts to social services recently approved by the Senate.
► In today’s (Everett) Herald — House Democrats keep Dream Act alive in budget — House budget writers apparently didn’t get Sen. Rodney Tom’s memo that the Dream Act is dead this legislative session. They’ve included $100,000 for implementation of HB 1817 which would make undocumented immigrant students eligible for state financial aid.
► In today’s (Longview) Daily News — Millennium announces deal to use local construction labor if coal dock approved — Millennium Bulk Terminals officials announce an agreement to hire local union workers to build a proposed $643 million coal export dock west of Longview, solidifying the support of a major ally for its upcoming political battle with environmentalists. “I know we have some heavy lifting to do for you guys, and we’re ready,” Dave Myers of the Washington Building and Construction Trades Council at a signing ceremony at company headquarters.
► In today’s Columbian — Union worker seeks delay of civil lawsuit — A former union worker accused of sabotaging operations at United Grain Corp. during a labor dispute in December has asked Clark County Superior Court to delay the company’s civil lawsuit against him until a criminal investigation is resolved. The sabotage allegation intensified the bitter labor dispute between United Grain and union members. On Feb. 27, United Grain locked out 44 union workers. Since the lockout, picketers have stood vigil outside the entrance to the Port of Vancouver and outside United Grain’s Vancouver office.
ALSO at The Stand — Charge: Mitsui-United Grain lockout illegal (March 5)
► In today’s Columbian — More than 14,000 apply for longshore jobs at Tacoma port — A much-anticipated Tacoma longshore jobs lottery is done, but it may be as long as three weeks before the winners’ names are announced. ILWU 23 President Scott Mason said that more than 14,000 people submitted cards to become one of the 226 people eligible to become unidentified longshore casual workers.
► In The Stranger — The war on cabs in Seattle — There’s a civil war of sorts brewing within the city’s highly regulated taxi, for-hire, and limousine industry, and drivers on both sides worry that the dispute could escalate to violence. Still, if there’s one thing these drivers agree on, it’s that the city is to blame.
OBAMA’S BUDGET
► At AFL-CIO Now — Trumka: Budget cuts to Social Security, Medicare are ‘wrong, indefensible’ — The AFL-CIO President also says that while budget calls for major sacrifices by seniors and federal workers, its “revenue neutral” approach to corporate taxes means, “it fails to ask big, profitable corporations to pay their fair share of taxes.” Trumka and others also faulted the budget for failing to invest in enough jobs.
► In today’s NY Times — Obama budget opens rift for Democrats on social benefits — By his gamble in proposing budgetary concessions to Republicans on Social Security and Medicare, Obama has provoked angry supporters on his left to ask whether he is a progressive at all.
► In today’s NY Times — The President’s Budget (editorial) — The Social Security proposal remains a bad idea… it could hurt vulnerable retirees and stymie better ideas to improve the system, like raising the wage cap subject to the payroll tax. But it seems unlikely to happen if Obama holds to his demand for more revenues in exchange, given the Republican intransigence. For now, it has served its purpose — no one will be able to accuse Obama of refusing to touch entitlements, and no one can credit Republicans for being at all serious about a deficit-reduction compromise.
► And speaking of not-at-all-serious Republicans… In The Hill — House GOP campaign chief: Obama budget is ‘shocking attack’ on seniors — The head of the House Republican campaign arm blasted President Obama for including Social Security and Medicare cuts in his budget on the same day Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) welcomed them and called for more.
► From AP — Obama budget calls for $2.2 billion for Hanford — The budget calls for $521 million to empty tanks, up from $442 million in 2012. The additional money for that project comes after word earlier this year that six tanks there are leaking.
► In today’s NY Times — Broad outlines of Senate immigration agreement emerge — A bipartisan group of senators has largely agreed on a broad immigration bill that would require tough border measures to be in place before illegal immigrants could take the first steps to become American citizens, according to several sources.
► In today’s NY Times — Hope leaves the shadows at the Capitol (by Lawrence Downes) — A rally for the rights of undocumented immigrants adds heat, and pressure, to the reform struggle.
► At Politico — Poll: 64% back path to citizenship — Nearly two-thirds of Americans support a pathway to citizenship to undocumented immigrants, according to a poll released Thursday, and that number spikes to 76 percent once told what the pathway to citizenship may involve.
► In today’s Washington Post — Postal Service backs down from 5-day delivery plan — The U.S. Postal Service backed away Wednesday from its plan to end Saturday mail delivery in August, bowing to bipartisan congressional opposition that the postmaster general said two months ago he had the authority to bypass.
ALSO at The Stand — USPS backs off plan to cut Saturday service
► At Think Progress — In 18 months, nation’s first privately owned state prison has declined rapidly — In an unprecedented experiment fueled by budget concerns, Ohio sold a state prison to Corrections Corporation of America, one of the largest private prison corporations in the country, in 2011. Within a year, a state audit of Lake Erie Correctional Institute, the nation’s first privately owned state prison, found rampant abuse and abysmal conditions well below state standards. The CCA prison was given another chance to pass, but flunked another inspection four months later. Independent reports continue to illuminate filthy, broken facilities, as well as much higher rates of crime and violence in and around the prison.
► In today’s Washington Post — Survey shows huge gap between federal leaders and workers — The survey gap between Senior Executive Service (SES) members and the rest of federal workers hit a whopping 31.1 points (79.7 to 48.6) on the “fairness” question: “Arbitrary action, personal favoritism and coercion for political purposes are not tolerated.” Seems like most federal workers think those things are indeed tolerated.
► In today’s Spokesman-Review — Fewer small companies offer health insurance — Between 1999 and 2011, health insurance coverage doubled in cost, and a growing share of the nation’s workers no longer could obtain it from their employers. The lack of health coverage is particularly acute at the nation’s small employers and among those who earn lower wages. With Americans standing at the threshold of federal health care reform, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation report is intended, the authors say, to “establish a baseline” for future analysis of the federal law’s results. The law does not take full effect until next year.
TODAY’S MUST-READ
► At Huffington Post — Big Pharma pockets $711 billion in profits by robbing seniors, taxpayers — Big Pharma has been systematically price-gouging the Medicare program for seniors and people with disabilities — and raking in billions in excessive profits. The 11 largest global drug companies made an astonishing $711 billion in profits over the 10 years ending in 2012, and they got a turbo-charged boost when the Medicare Part D prescription drug program started in 2006, according to an analysis of corporate filings by Health Care for America Now.
The drug companies, of course, say they have no choice and need to charge outrageous prices to pay for research that enables them to innovate and develop new drugs that save our lives. But that’s not true. Half of the scientifically innovative drugs approved in the U.S. from 1998 to 2007 resulted from research at universities and biotech firms, not big drug companies. And despite their rhetoric, drug companies spend 19 times more on marketing than on research and development.
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PENANGITES can now hand over their household electronic waste (e-waste) to Senheng outlets in exchange for cash vouchers.
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ALTHOUGH Petaling Jaya Old Town is only a short distance from Petaling Jaya New Town, one can really see the difference in the attention given by the Petaling Jaya City Council (MBPJ).
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IN THE last three years, PPR Kota Damansara has been in the limelight for the wrong reasons – two deaths, badly maintained facilities and high crime rates.
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The Truth About Cars | Doug Drives | Editorials
Doug Drives: Is Old-School Rebadging Dead?
By Doug DeMuro on December 22, 2015
So I got up behind a Dodge Grand Caravan the other day and I started thinking about my youth. This is because, in my youth, the Dodge Grand Caravan was an acceptable vehicle to drive, and not something you were stuck with when Enterprise ran out of full-size sedans.
There are two reasons for this: 1. Back in the day, the Dodge Caravan didn’t really have any competitors, so we didn’t really know that there were better options out there. Honda had the hinged-door Odyssey. Toyota had the weird-ass Previa. It was a mess; more importantly, 2. There were so many different versions of the Dodge Caravan that you were pretty much stuck buying a Dodge Caravan even if you actively avoided buying a Dodge Caravan.
The funny thing is that back then they all looked identical. Sure, there were some color changes here and some wheel updates there, but they were the same van. Even as a young child, this was clear to me. And it should’ve been clear to their drivers because there was a Chrysler Pentastar on the steering wheel no matter which one you had. These cars were so obviously rebadged clones of one another that they couldn’t be bothered to even change the horn pad to include every manufacturer’s logo. This was the really, really disappointing era of rebadging automobiles. (Also, Plymouth had no discernible logo at any time in my life. They never bothered to think one up.)
You don’t see this crap anymore. In fact, even though I’m young myself, I chuckle when I hear people my age or younger talking about “rebadges.” I heard the other day, for instance, that the Lexus ES is a “rebadged” Toyota Avalon. This is laughable. It’s like saying that central air conditioning is a rebadged ceiling fan.
Yes, the Avalon and the ES ride on the same platform and they share mechanicals. But my God, are these two cars not rebadged. Rebadging was when General Motors had four midsize sedans in the 1980s and literally slapped different badges on each one, while simultaneously changing things like the wheel covers and the shape of the head rests. The Avalon and ES are so different that even a small child could point them out in a parking lot. “That’s grandma’s car!” he would say.
In modern times, automakers don’t really do the rebadge thing anymore because they’ve discovered that most people are just too smart for it. Back in the 1990s, when there was no Internet, you kind of had to know your stuff to know that rebadging was going on. If you were a loyal Mercury guy and you went down to the Mercury dealer to get the latest thing, you weren’t necessarily aware that the Villager was just a Nissan Quest with different wheels. You probably thought Mercury was on to something with this cool new van.
But now, there’s no hiding a blatant rebadge, so automakers have generally stopped trying it. The only real exception I can think of is the Subaru BRZ and Scion FR-S, which are so pathetically rebadged that they even share the same wheels. Even during GM’s darkest rebadge days, even when the Taurus and the Sable shared everything but tail lights, even when the Dodge Spirit and the Plymouth Acclaim could only be distinguished by a glance at their rusting trunk lid, they always changed the wheels.
The funny thing about the BRZ and FR-S is — despite the fact that this is the most blatant, pathetic, disappointing, laughable automotive rebadge since the Mercury Tracer — everyone swears these two cars are different. Have you noticed this? Seriously. Ask a BRZ guy and he will swear up and down that the FR-S is worse. Ask an FR-S guy and he will pause his video game to swear up and down that the BRZ is worse. At the same time, the rest of us go around completely unsure which is which, afraid to offend people, sort of like anyone who enters a modern college campus.
But the BRZ and FR-S are outliers; unusual cars cut from an unusual cloth. The reality of today’s world is that the majority of “old school” rebadges are completely, totally, finished. Certain rebadge-heavy brands — like Mercury, Plymouth, and Pontiac — are gone. Model lineups have been re-tooled so they don’t all have the same products. And when an automaker does share platforms, they do it in a way that the vast majority of car shoppers are totally unaware of.
Well, there is one other exception, actually: the Dodge Grand Caravan and the Chrysler Town & Country. Not that it really matters when you’re picking it up from Enterprise.
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76 Comments on “Doug Drives: Is Old-School Rebadging Dead?...”
JohnnyBquick
December 22nd, 2015 at 1:12 pm
You forgot the VW Routan!!
derekson
At least VW retuned the suspension when they put their badge on it. Though I think Chrysler may have adopted those improvements in the rest of the range at some point.
GermanReliabilityMyth
Say what you will about rebadging, but sometimes it was one way to snag a great car sold under a less-than-great marque for a song. Exhibit A: Toyota Corolla and Geo Prizm. In fact, NUMMI made for plenty of tasty deals for those in the know.
gottacook
Yes indeed. Maybe it had to do with the fact that GM never seemed to spend any money advertising the Prizm. Our first new car was a ’99 5-speed Prizm, and it was not only a great deal, it was more appealing than the factory-mate Corolla in several ways – for example, it had a flexible fixed mast antenna on the rear fender, rather than the dinky-looking type mounted on the driver’s side A-pillar of Corollas.
APaGttH
Before the end of Pontiac, a used Matrix could be bought cheaper than a used Vibe. The Matrix was an orphan, while the Vibe had more awareness. The average slob had no idea they were all Corolla wagons. After GM 86’ed Pontiac the math flipped as the Vibe is now an orphan.
madanthony
Plymouth actually did bring back the “Mayflower” logo in the mid-90’s. It’s on my “free” ’98 Voyager.
http://thenewswheel.com/behind-badge-historic-meaning-plymouths-sailboat-badge/
MrGreenMan
It took me a little while to realize that there was a connection to the little strip malls on Plymouth Road in Ann Arbor that had the boat out front.
David C. Holzman
@MrGreenMan
You can be excused for this. But if you were in Massachusetts and you missed something like this, we’d laugh at you.
Yes,I was thinking of the Mayflower logo also. I think my 96 Grand Voyager wore it – excellent vehicle.
My 1971 Plymouth had a logo that looked something like an upside down zipper pull tab.
http://www.rodshop.com.au/media/catalog/category/plymouth_emblem.jpg
NOSLucasWiringSmoke
I remember that Plymouth logo from my youth. IIRC it was concocted for 1960 to replace the Mayflower that Plymouths had worn since inception. I think it was supposed to be a rocket (similar to the Olds Rocket) since everyone’s imagination was captured by the Space Race. One automotive writer said it looked like frogs’ legs. Sometime in the 70s or 80s it disappeared and everything Mopar was Pentastarred during the K-age.
I think Chrysler only started to go back on that when the LH cars came out for ’93. Chrysler got the retro ribbon logo (which also went on Intrepids here in Canada). When the first new Plymouth models came out after that (possibly the Neon, but definitely the Breeze and redesigned ’96 Voyager) they had Mayflowers again.
December 23rd, 2015 at 4:18 pm
Check out the hood ornament on the early Plymouths:
http://www.allpar.com/cars/plymouth/plymouth-logos.php
zoomzoomfan
The last ones I can think of are the Pontiac G3 (“Wave” in Canada) and the Pontiac G5 (“Pursuit” in Canada). The G3 was an Aveo with a tiny little Pontiac badge and the G5 was a Cobalt with…a tiny little Pontiac badge. Oh, and slightly different taillights.
dant1127
I see a few of these down here in TX quite frequently. I thought some teenager was having fun with his ride the first few I saw, similar to the Chevy Sierra Z71 Escalade custom packages that drive around here.
Or the 2wd 4 door Wrangler Rubicon…
(I know, it’s real. But we can pretend it didn’t/doesn’t exist)
RustyShitboxIsTheNewFast
Aveo? You mean Daewoo Kalos?
thirty-three
The Aveo was also sold as a Suzuki Swift in Canada. Haven’t seen one in a while.
The GM and Chrysler bankruptcies helped to demonstrate that most rebadging exercises don’t work. But GM still uses it for trucks, SUVS and crossovers, including the Lambdas (Enclave, Acadia, Traverse), Silverado/Sierra, Suburban/Tahoe/Yukon and now the Colorado/Canyon, proving that old habits die hard.
Lou_BC
Pch101 – at one time the only real difference between Sierra/Silverado or Colorado/Canyon were grills and badges. The current trucks have different body work and the GM side of the equation tends to have better interiors. Under the skin the trucks are basically the same.
Since they Colorado and Canyon have the same glass and doors, the other changes can’t fool anyone.
GM really does still not know what to do with the Buick-GMC channel vs. the Chevy channel with respect to GMC.
The Lambdas have some differentiation on suspension, but I think that was in part because the GMC Acadia was the stillborn Saturn Outlook, so that the Buick Enclave is the most comfortable of them. I doubt that was planned; I assumed it was a side effect of trying to cheap out on the Saturn.
I’ve had it explained to me a few times, by GM people and by women who owned GMCs, that women just prefer the look of the GMC, even knowing it’s all the same underneath.
The sheet metal on all three are total different.
Anyone who thinks the Traverse, Acadia, and Enclave share significant slabs of sheet metal need their eyes checked.
The Traverse looks – cheap – quite frankly. The Acadia’s angular look is being aped by VW and their upcoming CUV (see the TTAC pics – the copy is stunning) and looks zero like the Traverse from any angle. The Buick is more bulbous, and looks nothing like the Acadia, and shows some family resemblance to the Chevy.
The suburban and Tahoe are meant to be alike, I don’t even understand what the confusion is there.
Disagree – Lambda is not badge engineering – sheet metal is different on all three, the Chevy interior is plastic fantastic, the Buick is completely different – some items like steering wheels shared yes.
Sierra/Silverado also have different sheet metal, different instrument clusters, interior bits etc. Yes, steering wheel is the same and hard points.
Colorado and Canyon also are different sheet metal. None of these are “badge engineered.”
The term “badge engineering” is thrown around so easily today. Chassis sharing is used across all the major makers at this point. VW econoboxes share engines and transmissions with Audi along with chassis hard points – and VW SUVs share drivelines with Porsche – the Touraeg looks more than just “sort of” a Cayenne.
Everyone is moving to global platforms that can be shrunk, stretched, and configured in multiple engine and drive configurations to make manufacturing modular and faster. MQB, D2XX, TGAP, are not examples of badge engineering – the term means far more than uses same chassis, engine, tranny and hard points.
“Badge engineering” is an informal term for the effort to differentiate vehicles with minor cosmetic changes. The term is snarky because most consumers aren’t fooled by it.
Even in the bad old days, GM would slap different grilles, taillights, interior trim, etc. onto different models in an effort to distinguish them. But those are not meaningful differences because the overall feel of the different models is largely the same.
The problem with badge engineering is that the higher badges are usually degraded by this because car shoppers for the higher-tier brands quickly figure out that they aren’t getting much for their extra money. Surely even you must know that GM did this to such excess that it ultimately contributed to the failure of the business — there wasn’t much reason to pay the premium for something that was premium in name only.
The Chevy and GMC pickups are purposely the same, just different front ends. This was to allow Pontiac-Buick-GMC dealers to have trucks to sell, kind of a moot point with the demise of Pontiac, but whatever, it facilitates the existence of the Denali line of Cash Cows.
Same goes for the Yukons and Tahoe/Suburban. The smaller SUVs are substantially different though. A Traverse is slightly longer than an Acadia and to even the most casual observer the Terrain and Equinox are different.
NoGoYo
I’m pretty sure the GMC interiors are better though. Certainly look better in the brochures.
I wouldn’t be surprised if the base Sierra interior is the one step up Silverado interior.
>just different front ends
Since 2007, you could extend that to say, “and bedsides and front fenders,” but yes, your point stands.
@NoGoYo: Looking at both GMC and Chevy’s Build & Price, it seems there’s no appreciable difference in interiors between GMC’s Sierra trim (base) and Chevy’s WT.
Until you step up to the Denali Sierra and Yukon, which are still disappointing for their price points, the only differences between the GMCs and their cheaper Chevy counterparts are badges and lighting colors.
I’m reminded of conversations I’ve had over the years about how a G37 (J30, Q50) is a “re-badged Maxima,” or the GSxx0 is “just a RWD Camry,” or that a Honda Ridgeline’s engine “powers the back wheels first.”
Interestingly, these same people seem to think that an Avalanche is something besides a chopped Suburban, and an H2 is a baby H1 instead of a Tahoe. And don’t compare a Buick Century to a Monte Carlo…
There seems to be a generation that was knowledgable enough to grow up through the badge-engineering days and take a lesson, and jaded enough to try and force this “old school car knowledge” on every car besides the ones that actually share platforms.
Convincing one of these guys that a sedan can share most mechanical bits with a sports car and so little with a “cousin” sedan is a nice way to stretch that Futility muscle.
Car websites are packed to the gills with those who confuse platform sharing with badge engineering.
The BRZ/FRS portion of this article seems to be accurate in many locations. Reminds me of 80’s Camaro/Firebird “mine’s is better” mentality.
I’ll never understand why so many consumers get caught up in it. I’m perfectly aware that my ES350 is basically a japanese-built V6 Camry in a different suit with extra bells/whistles. If you like the car (or find a great deal) why does it matter?
If anything, it just means you have more options when upgrading your car with junk yard bits :-D
wmba
Things change; since Oct 8, the ES350 has been made in Georgetown Kentucky. Read in the employees’ blog that they get a lot more welds than the Camry, some body pressings still come in from Japan, better paint, and better fitments, hence the new factory. ES350 doesn’t whiz down the same line as the Camry with quality dolloped on as it goes.
http://www.courier-journal.com/story/news/local/2015/10/16/first-us-made-lexus-comes-off-line-ky-plant/74065034/
Note, the article forgets the RX350 has been made in Ontario for years, so the ES350 isn’t the first Lexus made outside Japan.
Neither of them are my cup of tea, but Lexus does seem to care about absolute quality.
wmba, I have always wondered what was different between the two. My ’08 ES rides a bit nicer than my buddie’s ’07 Camry, but I wasn’t sure how much of that feel was simple suspension/seats & perception (placebo? Lol.)
December 23rd, 2015 at 12:07 pm
The ES is now more closely related to the Avalon than it is to the Camry (although it should be noted that all three of them, plus some other models, have shared a common platform for quite some time.)
The H2 isn’t a Tahoe and doesn’t share any of the mechanicals with one, nice try though.
So did you read any of this article, or what i read? Or did this go something akin to “blah blah Tahoe H2 ZOMG MAH TRUCK AIN’T A TAHOE” followed by a weak jab?
My statement was NOT that an H2 is a Tahoe in new skin, but that an H2 is closer to a Tahoe than an H1, and I don’t think there is any room for debate on that.
GM didn’t reinvent the SUV with the H2; they took parts of multiple platforms that worked, strengthened them, forged a frame, and bolted up some corporate bits with slight modifications for the intended application.
Don’t believe me? Take the differentials, transmission/engine options, transfer case, suspension layout, frame design, whatever you want to choose, and compare with other GM trucks/SUVs.
Kind of like, they took a Platform, enhanced it, and Shared it with a new line of “SUV/SUT” options.
If you need to further argue your case, pleas take it up with a car forum. Any forum. Pick one. I promise, others will debate
But that you for further validating my point; vehicle roots are a touchy subject for some people.
I re-read it multiple times, but it’s pretty standard issue for people that have no idea what they’re talking about to make that comparison with absolutely zero first-hand experience. Makes you feel great when you go to a mechanic and they try to say my 9.25 front diff that uses a carrier that isn’t used in any other vehicle in the world is just a normal 8.25 that they see burn up all the time and they’ll just order new seals for the 8.25, uhh no thanks I’ll do it myself.
I’m honored that you took the time to re-read my post multiple times, and I apologize. Based off of your two replies, it seems my verbiage may have left too much for assumption.
To clarify, I did not intentionally demean your H2 by classifying it as a lowly Tahoe under different sheet metal.
Instead, my initial post implied that an H2 is significantly different from an H1 (HMMWV-based mid-engine utility wagon) in mechanical parts, frame, function, suspension, and drivetrain. So much so, that the only thing they really have in common is marketing.
On the other hand, the H2 was built on a platform that evolved from a more civilized truck platform shared with vehicles ranging up to 3/4 ton trucks. This is not to imply that you can just take the body from one and drop it on another, or that your differential is small or tiny.
I could be mistaken, though. As it stands, I’ve yet to see a factory H2 with portal axles, inboard brakes, or a transmission for an armrest.
My overall mission was to express my personal difficulties that I’ve had while talking about these things with some people.
I don’t disagree with anything you said, but, as you said…
COTD
The BRZ and FR-S are the same car. They are just different trim levels. The BRZ is better equipped; the FR-S is *usually* cheaper.
FR-S owner
TMA1
I’ve read elsewhere that the suspension and handling are set up differently, with a bit more understeer baked into the BRZ, while the FRS is more tail happy. Though these differences probably come out more at the track than on the road.
Lack Thereof
That’s Car & Driver’s take on it.
Ever-so-slightly different spring rates, that give the BRZ the slightest hint of understeer and a little more forgivablity compared to the FRS.
Big Al from Oz
Rebadging I think has advanced quite a bit. Manufacturers have realised that just alternating badges between vehicles was quite obvious to the consumer.
I did read on comment by a person who claims the Silverado/Sierra and Colorado/Canyon are rebadges. I ask this person, at what level of commonality between vehicles do you consider a vehicle not a rebadge?
My BT50, like the Colorado/Canyon and Silverado/Sierra is based on the same platform as the Ford Ranger. But there are some significant difference that sets them apart.
1. Completely different sheetmetal from the window down,
2. Different steering ratios,
3. Different interior, even though the seats are the same,
4. Different levels of trim,
5. Ford has a greater selection of engines with the 2.5 I4 gas,
6. Even though the torque and power is identical between the two vehicles, the Mazda BT50 arrives at peak torque 250rpm higher.
7. Different servicing schedules.
8. Different suspension tuning, Mazda is supposed to be “sportier”. According to Mazda the “zoom, zoom, zoom” affect with the quicker steering and taut suspension (read bouncier suspension).
Are these two vehicles rebadges? They are extremely similar.
Manufacturers are a little more careful how they rebadge as to set themselves apart and offer a more unique vehicle with their nameplate.
I’ve had the same debate with my Toyota ES350 (heh.), although these 2 cars have even less mechanical differences.
Different suspension tuning, unique sheet metal/rims/interior bits, same frame/drivetrain… looks different enough, until you park a Camry and ES side by side.
Maybe, as everything that survives must do, “Badge Engineering” has evolved.
Or maybe (and what I personally find more likely) the previous recent attempts were so god-awful & lazy that any amount of effort to differentiate 2 cars is a drastic improvement, blurring the line a bit.
Until you pop the hood up or a wheel off…
You can tell that the legacy of old GM remains given their defense of the similarities between the chevy & GM pickup trucks – something along the line of “the trucks are 12% more different than the previous generation.”
jeanbaptiste
“I take my rental minivan to CarMax!” – D.Demuro
Russycle
In defense of the Merc Villager, I believe the digital dashboard-which for some reason I sort of lust for- was not available on the Quest. I don’t mind some badge engineering if it involves bringing something new to the platform. Admittedly, from the 70’s through the 90’s, it rarely did. RIP Olds/Pontiac/Plymouth/Mercury.
Erikstrawn
December 23rd, 2015 at 11:50 am
In a further defense, the Mercury Villager was not a rebadge of the Nissan Quest, but rather it was a joint venture between Ford and Nissan. If I remember correctly, Nissan assembled the drivetrain in Dechert, TN, Ford stamped the bodies in Dearborn, MI, and they were assembled at Nissan’s Smyrna, TN plant.
Ford stipulated a non-interference engine, so Nissan’s VG30E engine was fitted with larger dish pistons to clear the valves that lowered the compression ratio and the horsepower. It also has a healthier 100,000 mile timing belt instead of the 60,000 mile belt Nissan used in other applications.
philadlj
I love the Saab 9-2X more than I love the Subaru WRX, and am convinced it is better. Does that make sense? No, but love rarely does.
As an eight year old kid, I was greatly offended by rebadging when I first learned about it–that my JC Higgins bicycle was a rebadged Columbia. It gives me a bit more confidence in our species to know that rebadging doesn’t work all that well.
JEFFSHADOW
I am proud that my 1998 Oldsmobile Aurora shares a platform with the Buick Riviera from 1995 to 1999.
I realize that many people actually cannot identify 100% of the vehicles on the roads; it’s one of my innate abilities along with memorizing 17-digit VINs.
Too bad there are no more 1G3s being built anymore…
My latest arrival to the Oldsmobile Ranch is a 2003 Aurora, number 410 of the Final 500. Essentially the Best of the Last…
A 1983 Cadillac Eldorado Biarritz is here also. It was purchased from Copart in northern California for $125 and has 64,360 documented original miles. Even though the 1979 to 1985 GM E-bodies shared architecture and some powertrains, they are still readily distinguishable from one another.
My 1985 Toronado Caliente (purchased as a trade for a new 1997 LSS for $1,700) does not look like the 1983 Biarritz or the 1979 Buick two-tone Riviera we bought from my Oldsmobile dealership for $1,200.
One interesting fact is how the downsized 1986 to 1992 Toronados, 1986 to 1991 Eldorados and 1986 to 1993 Rivieras are all now seemingly “right-sized”. They certainly stand out in the crowd of plastic-festooned econojunk seen everywhere.
I just saw a Final 500 Bravada the other day while out Christmas shopping. It was cool. And I know the owner knew what he had because his plate was MY OLDS.
bball40dtw
Corey is jealous of that guy.
I’m jealous of that guy! That Dark Cherry color is bee-yoo-tee-full.
Zykotec
Badge engineering has been replaced by platform sharing, and ‘design engineering’. There are no ends to how many cars BMW VW or Audi can build on the same platform, but at least they all have the same badge. GM and Chrysler used to do this completely backwards in the 50’s and 60’s, building a whole bunch of cars that looked almost the same, while sharing almost no mechanical components at all.
gsnfan
How many differences are there between the Nissan NV and the Chevy City Express? That’s the only true rebadge I can think of today, even Hyundai/Kia and Chevy/GMC are generally different enough to be called platform sharing.
RideHeight
Dumb jerk kid, stop beginning every article with “So I..”.
There’s a world outside Facebook.
And turn down that blasted rock music! Dag nabbit, what is this, Woodstock?!
Loud music has its place. Sloppy, presumptuous informality as a supposed journalist… nuh-uh.
“I only permit certain words to be used as the start of the articles that grace my eyes. Anything else is just too sloppy.”
By any chance, have you counted the number of articles here that start with “So I…”?
I guess people who compulsively pick their noses while speaking need *someone* to defend them.
Someday this malady will have both a name and a cure.
That didn’t answer my question.
Well, instead of whining over free content how about you either:
A.) Don’t read it.
B.) Write your own piece that is superior about rebadged vans?
The hate towards Doug on this site is pretty irritating. The content is FREE. F-R-E-E. Just don’t read it or out do him with your own content.
For a non-ultra luxury car, I honestly don’t have a big issue with platform/engine sharing if the underlying, the stuff comes from good stock. Take the Cadillac Escalade for example, the Tahoe/Suburban is a well-made solid vehicle on a great platform with great engines. The Cadillacification takes something good and makes it better.
It’s one thing for a car to be rebadged and, sold in different markets but, sometimes there is no excuse. The Scion FRS/Toyota GT86 and the BRZ is the obvious one.
GM has become better and, even with the GMC Yukon, Chevy Tahoe, and Cadillac Escalade, all 3 look different but, share the same platform.
Chrysler is the only one who is still notorious for re-badging with Lancia/Chrysler (Pretty sad because, the Delta name was used in vain)
http://jalopnik.com/5760091/do-lancias-new-cars-exist-only-in-photoshop
On a more interesting note, a few years back, I had a argument with a classmate (who is on a budget) to buy rebadged cars from orphan companies like the Mercury Mountaineer/Ford Explorer, Pontiac Torrent/Chevy Equinox clone and Saab 97x/GMC Envoy/Chevy Trailblazer/Buick Rainer/Isuzu Ascender just to avoid her getting stuck with a Nissan Versa or even worse a Chevy Sonic. (The prices for orphan cars which are re-badged versions form mainstream models sell for extremely cheaper prices!)
She did not believe me and, was concerned that brands like Pontiac, Mercury, and Isuzu are dead for a reason and, parts will be hard to find for them. I explained and sent her photos explaining that GM “back in the day” was notorious for re-badging cars pre-bailout and, they made almost exact clones with different badges/features. She did not believe me because, the “badge is different” so, it has to be a “different car”!
Pete Zaitcev
What about Scion iA? Isn’t it a Mazda 2?
Interestingly enough, FIAT 124 Spyder is not an exact rebadge of Mazda MX-5. They are about as different as Lexus GX460 and Toyota LandCruiser Prado, except that they are going to sell in the overlapping markets.
Correct another modern rebadge
Right. There are noticeable differences between the GX460 and its plebeian Land Cruiser Prado cousin (suspension, AWD system, powertrain), even though they share a basic bodyshell and frame. The Nissan Patrol and the Infiniti QX80 are closer.
Indeed, Lexus has been selling a rebadged version of the Land Cruiser (which itself is a proper luxury car) called the LX 570, but for 2016, Lexus made a significant change to the LX’s sheetmetal and interior, so that it really doesn’t look like a straight rebadge of the Land Cruiser.
sgeffe
December 22nd, 2015 at 10:45 pm
Didn’t want to go through each comment first so:
1. Badge-engineering was alive and well in the 2000s at Ford: witness the 2009-2012 Fusion and Mercury Milan, damn near spitting images of each other down to the dashboards (something I realized moreso than before whilst following one home from last-minute errand-running just this evening), just like the Granadas/Mercury Monarchs (with the Lincoln Versailles being on a longer wheelbase at least some of it’s run, with the extra length in the rear doors) and Ford intermediates (Torino/Monarch, LTD II/Cougar) of the ’70s. (Only the MKZ was shaken up a little.) Mercury was always a dressed-up Ford, with a few more doodads and gewgaws not found on the more proletariat Ford cousins. Some of the lines, like the LTD and Grand Marquis pre Fox-body (and Panther — another complete lookalike — Jesus Christ, Sajeev, how could I FORGET??!!) had separate DASHBOARDS, but by the early ’80s, the Fox LTD/Marquis and Crown Vic/Grand Marq had similar dashboards, but the gauge execution was a little different, especially in the Panthers, where the CV’s horizontal affair was replaced by three distinct pods in the GM, with black-on-white lettering, a-la the Buick Regals of the day.
2. Speaking of GM: Definite badge engineering in the A, B, C, G-Bodies through the ’80s, with only dashboards and exterior/interior appointments differing. What about the (L-Body??) minivans, from “Dustbuster,” to guaranteed offset-frontal-amputation second-generation and final third. And of course, the one that made Cadillac the “Laughingstock Of The World,” the J-Body. Nice Caddy you got there — interesting name, “Cimarron” — looks the same as my ’84 Sunbird! (And the 1980 Cutlass Sedan sitting next to the 1983 Regal Custom Sedan in my family’s garage was always good for a guffaw, though the cars themselves did yeoman duty!) Probably lots of Chevy Celebritys sharing garages with Buick Centurys or Olds Cieras.
3. ChrycoDaimFiatSler: Minivans even today, and all three divisions had at least two or three if not more variants of “K” at the same time! From the original Aries/Reliant to Laser/Daytona, LeBaron/400, LeBaron/Spirit/Acclaim, New Yorker/Dy-Nasty, Breeze/Cirrus/Stratus! And the most obvious of all, the 1st-Gen Neon — same EXACT car, different badge! Whoops, let’s not forget the ’70s stuff: I can’t get all the various Monaco/Gran Fury/Satellite/Mirada/Magnum/Corrrrrrr-DOH-baah/Sebring/Newport/St. Regis permutations straight, but there was obviously the Valliant/Dart/Duster/Demon thing, followed by the Aspen/Volare (which were so similar that I recall seeing these cars with one taillight module from each model, and I may have even seen one of these with one half of the grille from each model! Then there were the M-Bodies: 5th Ave/Dippy/Gran Fury/LeBaron.
As far as whether it’s dead? Not quite — see Chevy/GMC pickups as Exhibit A: most folks seem to think that GMC was the lower, work-truck-ish of the two. I happen to think the opposite: GMC is the Mercury truck to Chevy’s Ford. (Wow, how did I make THAT happen? Who is Calvin going to piss on now??!! 8-D )
tylermattikow
Can Doug stop rebadging the same f-ing stories?
What story is this a “rebadge” of?
Jack Baruth
https://www.thetruthaboutcars.com/2015/06/qotd-whats-the-most-cynical-rebadge-of-all-time/
http://jalopnik.com/are-luxury-cars-just-dressed-up-versions-of-regular-car-1739605564
olydoug
The dealer my folks ordered the new minivan from in 1988 sold both Dodge and Plymouth and the only box my dad forgot to check was would it be a Dodge Grand Caravan or Plymouth Grand Voyager. The only things it would have changed were a slightly different grille and the badges. Ended up with a Plymouth. They did eventually offer different wheels and models but you could still tell.
pacificpom2
Dodge Journey/Fiat Freemont, but only in Australia. Fiat’s in Europe, Dodge in the rest of the world until you come to Oz. Then its a mix of Dodge and Fiat at the same dealership. Want 4 cylinders? See the Fiat side of the shop. Want diesel? See the fiat side of the shop, anything else is Dodge. The other thing that has come out of badge engineering is the same lousy customer service centres for both brands.
bachewy
Hey, we had one of those weird-ass Previas and put 180k miles on it – and it was still running great! They were sure much better than the truck-based Ford Aerostars and Windstars rusting on the lots. Don’t even get me started on the terrible build quality of GM and Dodge/Chrysler vans of the same time.
poltergeist: Needs more ridiculous fake air vents if it’s going to compete with the Supra.
FreedMike: The prototype looked good to me – I don’t see this as a bad thing.
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Nailsea members enjoy county success
Published: 2:46 PM September 16, 2009 Updated: 10:25 PM October 27, 2020
CROQUET - RYAN Cabble and Peter Dyke, both members of Nailsea Croquet Club, played for Somerset in the Inter Counties Golf Croquet Championships at Sussex Croquet Club.
The other members of the team were former Nailsea member Jim Field, who now plays at Bath, and Jonathan Isaacs, who was born in Somerset, but is now a member of Sussex Croquet Club. The team was hoping to finish in the top six of the 12 teams contesting the championship.
They started well with a 3-nil win over the combined Cornwall-Devon team and a 2-1 win over Dorset, but then faced tougher opponents and went down 3-nil to Surrey, 2-1 to Sussex and a surprising 2-1 defeat against Glamorgan. However the team finished the day with good 2-1 wins against a strong combined Gloucestershire-Worcestershire team and Hampshire.
On the first day Cabble had played extremely well and Field had played well above his usual standard, but Dyke and Isaacs played well below their potential. The overnight leaders were Surrey and Leicestershire, both with five wins out of six matches. Somerset were in the middle order with four wins and three losses, but had tough opponents to face on Sunday.
The team's first match on Sunday was against County Durham, a match that Dyke, the Somerset captain, had expected to win, but he had badly underestimated the strength of the opponents' play and the Somerset team suffered a disappointing 3-nil defeat. Things did not bode well as they now had byes for two rounds followed by matches against extremely strong teams from Leicestershire, Kent and Oxfordshire.
The captain told his team he would be pleased with one more win, delighted with two and ecstatic with three. He made use of the long break to consider what tactics to use in the afternoon. He decided that the strongest and weakest players would play the singles and the two middle players would play the doubles against Leicestershire.
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Cabble and Dyke stepped up their performance by several gears and the tactics paid off in the first match with Cabble winning his singles and Field and Dyke pulling off a surprise 7-6 win in the doubles to win the match 2-1.
In the match against Kent they used the same tactics; Cabble won his singles, but Field and Dyke were outplayed in the doubles by superb shooting and hoop-running by the Kent pair, so the match was lost 2-1. The final match was against a strong Oxfordshire team. Dyke had not played his quota of singles games, so he and Cabble played the singles. Cabble won, 7-6, Field and Isaacs won the doubles 7-5 and Dyke (handicap 3) played out of his skin to defeat Nick Butler (1) from Blewbury 7-6.
The winners were Surrey on nine wins, Kent came second with eight wins and Oxfordshire third with seven wins. Five teams finished with six wins, but Sussex had won 18 games and lost 15 and were declared fourth. Leicestershire, Somerset, Glamorgan and Gloucestershire-Worcestershire all won 17 games and lost 16, but Leistershire, Somerset and Glamorgan had defeated the Gloucestershire-Worcestershire combination so Glos.-Worc. were placed eighth and the other three were placed fifth equal.
The Somerset team had played well and the captain was delighted with the equal fifth place result, the superb performance on Sunday afternoon more than made up for the few disappointing results on the way and they have the potential to do even better in future years.
The results of Nailsea Croquet Club's August Wild Wednesday Competition are: Brian Roynon 80 points; Brian McCausland 77; Brigit Clayton 67; Carl Jones 62.
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Why a ‘North Colorado’ is not likely in the future of the United States
Lyndsie Yamrus, Assitant Opinion Editor
Hawaii was the last state to be admitted into the union back in 1959, bringing the number of states in the continental US from an awkward 49 to a nice, solid 50.
And so we have 50 stars in the American flag today- arranged uniformly and magnificently beside 13 white and red bars.
But what if the US added a new state tomorrow? 51 states? Where would it go? What would its name be? Would someone make a new flag to accommodate the extra star?
A 51st state. The idea seems just as preposterous to me as scientists deleting Pluto from our solar system. And yet, the last planet printed in any 2013 grade school science textbook diagram is Neptune. Imagine that.
So a new state isn’t so inconceivable after all. In fact, there’s talk of it, and it would be named North Colorado.
Residents of a recently growing number of rural northeastern counties in Colorado (predominantly Republican) want to secede from their home state.
The initiative began after a series of gun and environmental laws were passed by the state legislature in which these rural counties generally opposed. The counties feel sidelined when it comes to decision-making in Democratically-controlled Denver, the state capital.
The counties additionally feel that their regions have been negatively impacted by some of these decisions.
Certain counties feel as if their voices aren’t heard, and much of the problem stems from geographical isolation.
Alright, so poor planning back in earlier decades when land surveyors decided that it would just be easier to make most western states basic in shape, comprised primarily of right angles- mostly rectangles, or some type of rectangle derivative.
Take Moffat County, CO. The county is literally on the opposite side of the state in the western corner, separated from the rest of the aggravated counties by the Rocky Mountains. No wonder Denver isn’t listening: there’s a pretty large barrier in the way there.
If Moffat County disaffiliated itself, North Colorado would not be contiguous like the other mainland states. They’d have to include a bunch of other top Colorado counties in order to achieve contiguity.
Case in point: one idea is asking Wyoming to expand their borders south and annex the dissatisfied counties. But this still wouldn’t accommodate Moffat. Besides, Wyoming seems cautious and uninterested. According to many news sources, the Equality State feels as if they have other issues to focus on, as does the nation as a whole.
Wyoming is right. If North Colorado becomes a state, that means they would receive congressional representation. Washington D.C. can barely get anything done as it is.
The secession idea is intensely politically charged, but according to NationalJournal.com, Weld County’s commissioner has an idea that could get Congress on board:
North Colorado would obviously be a red state, but if we admitted Puerto Rico or Washington D.C as well, this would likely be a boost for the Democrats.
See how quickly one more state became two?
When it comes down to it, a North Colorado isn’t likely. It just isn’t realistic for many reasons. Besides, even if county residents approved the ballot initiative, they need both the Denver legislature’s and Congress’s votes.
All in all, it’s a symbolic initiative, and it represents accurately many of the foundations in which this country was built upon. These counties must know that secession isn’t likely, but they certainly were successful in getting Denver’s attention, even with mountains and miles of grass in the way.
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The fighting spirit of independent chains
By Raini Hamdi
/ Posted on 11 May, 2018 10:20
CEOs of independent hotel groups aren’t afraid of Airbnb or new soft brands launched by global hotel chains. In fact, they seem energised by the increased competition
Wanda Vista in Beijing is a Preferred member; in Phuket
Reclassifying their portfolios. Launching the right kind of loyalty programmes. Adding more resources in development and sales. These are busy days for CEOs of independent hotel groups who – far from being cowed by competition from the home-sharing economy or a slew of new soft brands launched by international hotel chains – are showing they love a good challenge. Have a look:
Preferred is 50 years old this year, but shows no signs of a mid-life crisis. A new female leadership will have none of it anyway.
Wanda Vista in Beijing is a Preferred member
In March, the first non-Ueberroth president, Michelle Woodley, was named, along with a new chief marketing officer, Kristie Goshow, and a new executive vice president corporate communications & PR, Caroline Michaud. The move was designed to harness the skills sets in key functional areas of experts outside the family, said CEO Lindsey Ueberroth.
Preferred ended 2017 with a 22 per cent year-on-year increase in reservations revenue to US$1.4 billion, and the addition of 103 new properties, validating its rebranding in 2015, where each of its 650-plus member hotels was aligned with one of five collections: Legend, LVX, Lifestyle, Connect and Preferred Residences. The idea of the exercise, said Ueberroth, was to provide a more intuitive way for consumers to search and book their lodging based on the type of luxury experience they are seeking, rather than by the ‘brand/hotel type’ way that hard brands had taught them to do.
It has paid off, not just in the increased revenue and bigger membership, but by only serving to enhance the large degree of repetitive, indistinguishable products hotel chains have in their network.
“The process of reclassification allows traditional independent hotel groups to organise themselves into meaningful collections that make it easier for a consumer to understand their diverse portfolio without compromising on individual hotel personalities,” Ueberroth told TTG Asia.
“While it is a key advantage to offer a great deal of variety in accommodation choices, authentic experiences and unique global destinations, we must also be easy to sell and easy to buy, regardless of the member’s reason for travelling. Therefore, transparency in pricing and breadth of information on these hotel choices are paramount.”
To support the differentiation of brand collections and the audience they resonate with, its loyalty programme I Prefer was enhanced through the launch of a mobile app and exclusive member rates.
“These new offerings fuelled an 84 per cent increase in stays, more than 50,000 downloads for the I Prefer mobile app (available on iOS and Android), and more than US$8 million in member rate reservations revenue for participating hotels. To-date, I Prefer has more than 2.5 million members worldwide,” said Ueberroth.
Plans are to continue enhancing the benefits and offers for I Prefer members, and to further strengthen engagement with them. At press time, details are under wraps but Ueberroth emphasised two key phrases, “true loyalty” and “gratitude”.
She said: “The consumer has been educated to expect instant gratification due to the proliferation of rewards programmes in every aspect of their daily lives, from supermarkets to healthcare. In fact, most of us will receive benefits before we have actually demonstrated any loyalty to a brand.
“Consequently, loyalty programmes must work significantly harder to deliver on their true intent – brand loyalty – especially in the hotel space where the traditional ‘earn and burn points’ model isn’t as effective as it once was. Loyalty is fast becoming a singular focus that necessitates a reward framework based around the needs ‘of one’ rather than ‘the loyal community’.”
Preferred will also relaunch its website in the third quarter. This will include a dedicated section on Preferred Residences which, according to Ueberroth grew significantly in 2017 and now has 70 members.
WORLDHOTELS
In March, WorldHotels reclassified its 350 members into three collections, WorldHotels Distinctive, WorldHotels Elite and WorldHotels Luxury, from two collections previously, WorldHotels and WorldHotels Deluxe.
Distinctive covers upscale properties, Elite upper upscale and Luxury is, well, as the name says. In general, WorldHotels members became part of WorldHotels Distinctive while members that were WorldHotels Deluxe became part of WorldHotels Elite. The very best hotels became part of WorldHotels Luxury.
“The reclassification clarifies the market positioning of our collections, so our sales team can sell our hotels to our clients with greater confidence,” Geoff Andrew, CEO of WorldHotels, said.
“Therefore, travel agents as well as guests get a better understanding of the accommodations and the services they can expect before they book with WorldHotels.”
He added: “The creation of the new collections signals that we will be taking a more focused approach to the quality levels within each segment. Hotels that don’t meet our quality standards will obviously be addressed and given the opportunity to resolve these issues. If a hotel doesn’t improve its quality standards, it is possible that it will be excluded from its collection and the overall WorldHotels’ portfolio.
“As the brand continues to grow and expand, new properties will have to continue to adhere to the standards for each collection to maintain the integrity of each.”
So is WorldHotels shifting towards the high-end? Said Andrew: “WorldHotels has always been involved with luxury, high-end properties.
“The overall WorldHotels portfolio, however, ranges from upscale to luxury and we will continue to serve all of them. Because of the upper upscale and luxury portfolio of our sister company ALHI (Associated Luxury Hotels International), we do see an opportunity to grow within the high-end market. However, this does not mean we will be shifting solely towards the high-end.”
Since ALHI parent, Associated Luxury Hotels, acquired WorldHotels in February 2017, work on leveraging the two brands has been going on in earnest. ALHI handles global sales, particularly meetings & incentives, for its membership comprising more than 250 luxury hotels and resorts, primarily in the US. WorldHotels’ portfolio, on the other hand, comprises 350 properties, many outside the US.
Andrew said WorldHotels is leveraging the luxury aspect of ALHI to elevate the overall brand of WorldHotels. ALHI too has been generating leads of clients they can’t place in their own portfolio to WorldHotels.
“Between us, we have 150-odd sales people and 600 hotels. One of the things that we’re looking at is, what services can we add that will benefit both organisations and members?” he said.
WorldHotels is targeting a massive growth from its present 350 hotels to 500 properties within the next three years. Asia-Pacific is a clear target of growth, as seen in two key promotions in April, James Koh as regional vice president of hotel development Asia-Pacific, and Ganessan Suppiah as regional vice president of sales Asia-Pacific. Both have served WorldHotels for over 11 years.
Outside Asia-Pacific, a global director of travel industry partnerships, Tim Burke, has been hired, based in Dallas, along with a regional director of sales based in Los Angeles, Fernando Carranza.
“WorldHotels is currently making significant investments to enhance its service offerings for independent hotels including the expansion of its already extensive global sales and e-commerce force along with new additions to its development team,’ said Andrew.
A new global loyalty programme, The List, will also be launched this summer, emphasising instant benefits for guests, such as an arrival ritual and upgrades on availability, and harnessing the collective marketing resources of participating member hotels.
Andrew won’t give away the details, and only said: “Guests have a new set of expectations. They expect loyalty programmes to offer greater flexibility and personalisation; they are looking for individualised value and they want more than just points.”
He added: “In hospitality, loyalty programmes will see a lot of changes within the next years. The industry needs to redefine what hotel loyalty is in order to adapt to changing consumer behaviours and hotel (members) expectations. Today, independent hotels want loyalty programmes to help them drive more direct bookings and reduce their dependency on OTAs and other third parties.
“That is why WorldHotels has been rethinking how loyalty is recognised and rewarded and will introduce a new loyalty programme this summer.”
SMALL LUXURY HOTELS OF THE WORLD (SLH)
SLH launched a new look and feel in 2015, and was the first among independent hotel chains to reboot their loyalty plan to suit today’s needs. It launched Invited, which replaced Club of SLH, last October.
Nobu Hotel Marbella, one of SLH’s newest members
Invited does reflect the pivot indie hotel groups are trying to make, from the typical point-based redemptions for free nights or upgrades offered by big-name chains, to what SLH CEO Filip Boyen described as “being more responsive to distinctive experiences”.
Guests want immediate gratification and tailored communication, he said. Points accumulation is tedious. It’s the “basics” that now count.
“No one is interested in lounge access if they have to then pay for breakfast each morning at their hotel. Our members do not want points because it takes effort to work out meaningful value. What members want is simplicity and Invited delivers just that – the more a member stays, the better it gets with SLH,” Boyen pointed out.
Three new crucial Invited offerings are:
• Hotel benefits such as room upgrades and late check-outs which members see as extremely valuable remain, but are now implemented consistently across SLH’s 500-plus independently-owned hotels.
• New and more frequently awarded benefits such as reward night vouchers, birthday gifts, recommend a friend, and small luxuries to surprise guests.
• Members are recognised not only for the number or value of bookings that they make, but for their overall interaction with the brand.
SLH figures that the new loyalty programme will also give rich insights into 400,000-strong Invited members’ travel patterns which it wants to leverage to raise the booking conversion through “highly personalised emails” and more engagements with the brand. Ultimately this will lead to greater brand loyalty from members.
Like Preferred, SLH is reaping rewards of the initiatives taken since 2015.
Said Boyen: “I’m asked all the time now about how the big hotel chains launching soft brands has affected our business – frankly, it hasn’t.
“Business for us increased 16 per cent last year, and we added 57 new hotels in places like Dubai, Havana, Panama, the US, Rome and Japan. This year we have some really exciting new hotels joining the brand, including our second Nobu Hotel in Marbella, The Sukhothai Shanghai and 7 Secrets Resort and Wellness Retreat in Lombok, just to name a few.”
Boyen said SLH’s new look and feel was not just skin deep. “We also made quality a real focus for the business and now all our hotels are inspected every year – and hotels that fail these inspections must leave the brand. This way our guests know all SLH hotels, whether a modern city centre hotel, or a historic country retreat, meet our strict criteria.”
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Copper-promoted circumneutral activation of H2O2 by magnetic CuFe2O4 spinel nanoparticles: Mechanism, stoichiometric efficiency, and pathway of degrading sulfanilamide.
Chemosphere. 2016 Jul; 154:573-582.C
To evaluate the heterogeneous degradation of sulfanilamide by external energy-free Fenton-like reactions, magnetic CuFe2O4 spinel nanoparticles (NPs) were synthesized and used as catalysts for activation of hydrogen peroxide (H2O2). The physicochemical properties of the CuFe2O4 NPs were characterized with several techniques, including X-ray diffraction, X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy, transmission electron microscopy, and magnetometry. In the catalytic experiments, CuFe2O4 NPs/H2O2 oxidation showed the best degradation performance in the circumneutral conditions that resulted from the presence of Cu(II) on the surface of the CuFe2O4 NPs. The surface area-normalized pseudo-first-order rate constants were calculated as 2.60 × 10(-2) L m(-1) min(-1), 2.58 × 10(-3) L m(-1) min(-1), 1.92 × 10(-3) L m(-1) min(-1), and 7.30 × 10(-4) L m(-1) min(-1) for CuO, CuFe2O4 NPs, Fe3O4, and α-Fe2O3 catalysts, respectively. Thus, solid state Cu(II) was more reactive and efficient than Fe(III) in the circumneutral activation of H2O2; this finding was further supported by the results regarding the stoichiometric efficiency of H2O2. The effects of experimental parameters such as the oxidant dosage and catalyst loading were investigated. The mechanism for H2O2 activation on the spinel surface was explored and could be explained by the solid redox cycles of Fe(II)/Fe(III) and Cu(II)/Cu(I). Based on the products detected, a degradation pathway via the CS bond cleavage is proposed for the degradation of sulfanilamide. The findings of this study suggest that copper can be used as a doping metal to improve the reactivity and expand the effective pH range of iron oxides.
Feng Y
Department of Civil Engineering, The University of Hong Kong, Pokfulam Road, Hong Kong.
Liao C
Shih K
Department of Civil Engineering, The University of Hong Kong, Pokfulam Road, Hong Kong. Electronic address: kshih@hku.hk.
Aluminum OxideCatalysisCopperFerrous CompoundsHydrogen PeroxideMagnesium OxideMagneticsNanoparticlesOxidation-ReductionPhotoelectron SpectroscopySulfanilamideSulfanilamidesX-Ray Diffraction
Feng, Yong, et al. "Copper-promoted Circumneutral Activation of H2O2 By Magnetic CuFe2O4 Spinel Nanoparticles: Mechanism, Stoichiometric Efficiency, and Pathway of Degrading Sulfanilamide." Chemosphere, vol. 154, 2016, pp. 573-582.
Feng Y, Liao C, Shih K. Copper-promoted circumneutral activation of H2O2 by magnetic CuFe2O4 spinel nanoparticles: Mechanism, stoichiometric efficiency, and pathway of degrading sulfanilamide. Chemosphere. 2016;154:573-582.
Feng, Y., Liao, C., & Shih, K. (2016). Copper-promoted circumneutral activation of H2O2 by magnetic CuFe2O4 spinel nanoparticles: Mechanism, stoichiometric efficiency, and pathway of degrading sulfanilamide. Chemosphere, 154, 573-582. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chemosphere.2016.04.019
Feng Y, Liao C, Shih K. Copper-promoted Circumneutral Activation of H2O2 By Magnetic CuFe2O4 Spinel Nanoparticles: Mechanism, Stoichiometric Efficiency, and Pathway of Degrading Sulfanilamide. Chemosphere. 2016;154:573-582. PubMed PMID: 27085318.
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Ferrous Compounds
Photoelectron Spectroscopy
Sulfanilamide
Sulfanilamides
Synergistic effects in iron-copper bimetal doped mesoporous γ-Al2O3 for Fenton-like oxidation of 4-chlorophenol: Structure, composition, electrochemical behaviors and catalytic performance.
Production of sulfate radical from peroxymonosulfate induced by a magnetically separable CuFe2O4 spinel in water: efficiency, stability, and mechanism.
Fenton-like oxidation and mineralization of phenol using synthetic Fe(II)-Fe(III) green rusts.
Fe3-xCuxO4 as highly active heterogeneous Fenton-like catalysts toward elemental mercury removal.
[Degradation of phenol with a Fe/cu-catalytic heterogeneous-Fenton process].
Effective mineralization of quinoline and bio-treated coking wastewater by catalytic ozonation using CuFe2O4/Sepiolite catalyst: Efficiency and mechanism.
Simultaneous degradation of the anticancer drugs 5-fluorouracil and cyclophosphamide using a heterogeneous photo-Fenton process based on copper-containing magnetites (Fe3-xCuxO4).
3D mesoporous CuFe2O4 as a catalyst for photo-Fenton removal of sulfonamide antibiotics at near neutral pH.
Nano-sized magnetic iron oxides as catalysts for heterogeneous Fenton-like reactions-Influence of Fe(II)/Fe(III) ratio on catalytic performance.
Efficient degradation of sulfamethazine in simulated and real wastewater at slightly basic pH values using Co-SAM-SCS /H2O2 Fenton-like system.
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WAWeekend: Getting High at Lake Chelan
It’s called “The Butte”. No fancy names. Not a lot of tourist-hype. Looking somewhat like a resting elephant, its highest point rises 3,835 feet (1,168 meters) to the south of the town of Chelan and Lake
Chelan.
The Scout, born and raised in this Eastern Washington town, has ‘been there, done that’ when it comes to The Butte. Maybe that is why, despite several visits a year there over the course of three decades, we’d never taken the time to explore it until a couple years ago.
The Chelan Butte Unit, as it is called in Washington State’s Department of Fish and Wildlife covers some 9,097 acres, stretching from Lake Chelan to the Columbia River. It’s home to wildlife (including big horn sheep) to wildflowers (some more than 5-feet tall as I illustrate above), with a few snakes and other critters thrown as well.
The 4.5 mile distance from town to the summit is paved for the first 1.2 miles. It becomes a narrow, dirt road which is rutted and rocky – and muddy in inclement weather, and many leave their vehicles at lower elevations. Even in good weather an SUV would be better than a conventional car, although our Camry made the drive, albeit very slowly.
Currently it’s a favorite among hikers who want to explore the trails that lead to old abandoned mines, bikers and in winter, snowshoe enthusiasts. There’s also a hang gliding group or two that use its upper peak for projecting themselves out over the Columbia River Gorge.
We had the place to ourselves the day we drove to the end of the road; the communication towers on the uppermost ridge. Parking there is off-road; no formal lots. Then it was time to enjoy the views:
To the south – the Columbia River Gorge, in both the photo above and below.
And to the north over the 55-mile long, glacier fed lake to the North Cascades Mountain range in the distance.
We told ourselves we won’t wait another decade or so to make a return visit to “The Butte”.
For You History Buffs:
The 1938 fire lookout tower that was once atop The Butte was placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1990 and in 1996 moved to the Columbia Breaks Fire Interpretive Center, just down the road in Entiat.
And did you know there was a Gold Rush on Chelan Butte in 1907? Take a look at this link – it’s mighty interesting!
If You Go:
Follow Highway 97A and at Millard Street in Chelan (between milepost 232 and 233) turn south.
Note: Parking at The Butte now requires a Washington State Discover Pass ($10 a day/or $30 annually).
For more information visit: www.discoverpass.wa.gov
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Labels: Central Washington Wine Country, Chelan, Lake Chelan, Washington road trips
Arianwen June 2, 2013 at 8:35 AM
Looks like a beautiful place for a hike!
Jackie and Joel Smith June 2, 2013 at 3:55 PM
It would make for a great hike and while in the area take the Lady of the Lake boat to the head of the Lake, Stehekin and you can really do some spectacular hikes!
Freya June 2, 2013 at 12:55 PM
It's a beautiful place for a hike. I guess it must be also friendly to children? I would love to go there myself!
Yes, I think kids would enjoy it. I'd make sure to take plenty of sun protection and warn them in the summer and warm weather days to be on the lookout for rattle snakes which also like those warm rocky hillsides.
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Apollo acquires 50% stake in Lucknow’s Medics International for ₹91 crore
Our Bureau Chennai | Updated on July 05, 2018 Published on July 05, 2018
Apollo Hospitals Enterprise Ltd has acquired a 50 per cent stake in Medics International Lifesciences Ltd, a 330-bed super-speciality hospital in Lucknow, for ₹91 crore.
The acquisition is through a primary issuance of shares by Medics for ₹91 crore to be utilised for hospital commissioning and related expenses, according to a statement.
The 3.50 lakh sq ft hospital will now be called Apollo Medics Super Speciality Hospital and will be commissioned by the third quarter of the current financial year.
“In order to strengthen Apollo’s position in the UP region, Apollo was on the lookout for acquisitions to grow inorganically and considers the acquisition as the right choice given the promoters background and expertise in healthcare services in Lucknow,” said Suneeta Reddy, Managing Director, Apollo Hospitals Enterprise Ltd.
It is estimated that the Lucknow district population of around 5.1 million has a significant shortfall of around 2,000 hospital beds.
“We believe that this strategic partnership with Apollo will add value and strengthen Medics’ position in Uttar Pradesh. There is a significant opportunity for growth in multispecialty hospitals, with the availability of quality consultants from the many premier educational health institutes,” said Dr Sushil Gattani, Founder & Chairman, Medics Super Speciality Hospital.
“Also, there is potential to develop Lucknow as a cost-effective medical value travel destination, with direct flights to the Middle East and South Asia every day. Lucknow already attracts around 5-8 per cent of its patients from Nepal,” he said.
This transaction was facilitated by Advay Capital Advisors as investment bankers.
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'Let it go!' Disney streams to virus-stricken Europe
Severine Rouby
Paris, France / Sun, March 22, 2020 / 12:30 pm
Elsa, one of the characters on Disney's 'Frozen'. (frozen.disney.com/File)
Princess Elsa from Frozen will be unleashed across Europe in her glitter heels next week as Disney launches its digital streaming platform on the continent.
With millions of restless children currently cooped up inside by the coronavirus outbreak, the timing could not have been better for the world's largest entertainment company.
The US giant is hoping its subscription of 6.99 euros a month (£5.99 in Britain) will be a small price to pay for stressed-out parents struggling to entertain their kids from dawn to dusk.
Everything from timeless classics like Cinderella and Pinocchio right up to the Marvel series, Toy Story, Monsters Inc, Finding Nemo and Ratatouille will all be on the menu.
All the Star Wars films except the most recent one and an archive of 640 episodes of The Simpsons will be among the other big draws.
Disney+ launched in the US, Canada, New Zealand, Australia and the Netherlands last November.
With its vast back catalogue, it has already clocked up 29 million subscribers despite a crowded field dominated by Netflix, Amazon Prime Video and Apple TV.
The platform will start streaming Tuesday in Austria, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Spain, Switzerland and Britain.
Belgium, Portugal and the Scandinavian countries will have to wait until the summer.
French families will have to wait a further fortnight after the government there asked Disney to hold back for fear of slowing down the internet.
Disney told AFP Saturday that it would lower the quality of its stream by a quarter elsewhere in Europe so as not to overload systems.
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Disney said it was eagerly anticipating the European launch.
"There is a lot of expectation in Europe and we are very confident," said Kevin Mayer, who is in charge of rolling out the service.
"We hope the launch will go as well as in the US, or even better, as we have been able to test the technology," he added, trying to put a positive spin on the problems the platform encountered on its first day five months ago due to high demand.
Despite appearances, with coronavirus confinement measures keep millions in lockdown, Disney said the timing is far from perfect.
The pandemic has actually cast a shadow over events, according to Mayer.
"I would have preferred circumstances to be different," the executive told AFP.
"But if we can bring a bit of joy, alleviate the suffering caused by this virus, it will be very satisfying."
Disney has stopped production on some of its live-action movies, including The Little Mermaid, amid growing concerns about the spread of the pandemic in North America, with cinemas also shutting.
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Quality not quantity
Disney+ is set to be a major streaming player with over 500 films and 300 series from the Disney, Pixar, Marvel and Star Wars universe as well as National Geographic documentaries and docu-dramas.
At almost seven euros a month, Disney+ is slightly cheaper than Netflix's basic plan (7.99 euros, or $8.60).
But despite the varied content, the Disney catalogue is not as deep or diverse as that of Netflix, the market leader with 167 million subscribers in 2019.
"We don't have the same philosophy as Netflix. We will never have as much content. We hope to privilege quality over quantity," said Mayer.
"We think that we have the best content on Disney+ and content that you can't find elsewhere," he added.
And in order to adhere to EU law, Disney+ will also have to produce programs in Europe.
"Over time our strategy is to keep exclusivity rights of Disney content even though content will always hit the big screen and we will occasionally give broadcast licenses," said Mayer.
Disney is aiming for between 60 and 90 million subscribers by September 2024.
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Klobuchar urges Biden to pick nonwhite woman as VP running mate
Sara Burnett
CHICAGO — Amy Klobuchar says she is dropping out of the running to be vice president and urging Democrat Joe Biden to select a woman of color instead.
The white Minnesota senator, who had seen her prospects fall as racial tensions swept the nation, said Thursday that 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.
Chauvin's case went to a grand jury, as was customary practice for the office at the time, after Klobuchar was elected to the Senate and had left the county attorney’s office. Mike Freeman, Klobuchar’s successor as prosecutor, has said he made “all prosecutorial decisions” about Chauvin. But critics have pointed to the lack of prosecution as a reason Klobuchar shouldn't be Biden's pick.
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. Her best finish of the primary was in overwhelmingly white New Hampshire, where she came in third.
The third-term senator had to cancel one of the final rallies of her campaign after Black Lives Matter and other activists took the stage in Minnesota to protest her handling of a murder case when she was prosecutor that sent a black teen to prison for life.
Rep. James Clyburn of South Carolina, a close Biden ally and Congress’ highest-ranking black lawmaker, said in the days after Floyd’s death that he believed it made Klobuchar a less likely pick for vice president, though he said she is “absolutely” qualified for the job.
“This is very tough timing for her,” Clyburn said.
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. The founder of She the People, a network of women of color, called news that Biden had asked Klobuchar to undergo formal vetting “a dangerous and reckless choice.”
“To choose Klobuchar as vice president risks losing the very base the Democrats need to win, most centrally women of color, and could be a fatal blow to the Democrats’ chance to win the White House,” Aimee Allison said in May.
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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Police say wind - not political rival - to blame for Brexit Party trailer crash
Matthew Nixon
Published: 2:13 PM December 6, 2019 Updated: 6:23 PM September 17, 2020
After a Brexit Party candidate lied about their car and trailer being rammed off the road by the extreme, hard left, police have confirmed the vehicle was just knocked over by the wind. Photo: Twitter - Credit: Archant
A Brexit Party candidate appears to have lied about their car and trailer being 'rammed off the road' by the 'extreme, hard left' after police said the vehicle was just knocked over by the wind.
So how bad can it get in Doncaster?
Tonight they attempted to ram my colleague off the road. Car spun, trailer smashed, driver in hospital.
How bad? #Election2019 #Doncaster #BrexitParty #LabourParty pic.twitter.com/3nuYxOAh1E
— Andy Stewart (@BrexitDoncNorth) December 5, 2019
A car and trailer with the message "Enough is enough! Vote Brexit Party" was spun off of the roads in Doncaster late last night.
The Brexit Party candidate for Doncaster North Andy Stewart announced "they attempted to ram my colleague off the road. Car spun, trailer smashed, driver in hospital.
"How bad can it get in Doncaster?"
According to Stewart. the car had been run from the road, leaving the trailer smashed and the driver - Brexit Party candidate for Doncaster Central Surjit Singh Duhre - hospitalised.
But South Yorkshire police have now corrected Stewart's claims, announcing that the trailer was tipped over by the wind, causing the car to swerve.
Before the police came to their conclusion, Stewart doubled down on his claims, adding that Singh Duhre "has a bodyguard because of death threats" and "they saw everything".
The Doncaster Free Press now confirms that police officers have told them this is not true.
"It is believed the weather conditions played a factor in this incident due to the high winds last night," a spokesman for the police said.
"The carriageway was blocked for a time before police and members of the public pulled the trailer out of the road.
"No other vehicles were involved and we received no reports of injuries."
The Brexit Party had initially confirmed the 'attack', saying: "A vehicle, believed to be a taxi, swerved into the car Mr Durhre was driving, forcing it off the road.
"It is the latest in a series of incidents and acts of sabotage, believed to originate from the town's extreme hard left."
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The taped-off scene on Lucern Crescent just before 8:30 a.m. the morning after on July 11. (Patrick Penner / Mission Record)
Man shot dead in east Abbotsford suburbs
Integrated Homicide Investigative Team called to investigate
A man in his 40s is dead after gunshots erupted a residential neighbourhood in east Abbotsford last night.
Abbotsford Police responded to reports of a shooting on the 2700 block of Lucern Crescent at 7:49 p.m., July 10.
“Investigators identified a man in his 40s who died on scene,” says a news release from the Abbotsford Police Department at 11:37 p.m. “Forensic Identification Unit Officers and Major Crimes detectives remain on scene investigating and canvassing the area for video and additional witnesses.”
People in neighbourhood-social-media groups reported hearing multiple gunshots, someone screaming, and seeing over a dozen Abbotsford Police cruisers on the street, followed by several fire trucks.
The Abbotsford Police Major Crimes Unit has handed off the investigation to the Integrated Homicide Investigation Team.
An freelance videographer who works with Black Press said that IHIT officers were present on the scene until this morning.
Several police vehicles remain on scene, and the upper end of Lucern Crescent remains blocked with yellow-police tape.
Investigators are asking anyone in the area during the time of the shooting, or has CCTV, dashcam video or other information to contact the Major Crime Unit at 604-859-5225.
Alternatively information can be directed towards Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-8477 or online at www.solvecrime.ca.
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QuickE: Govt Invites B’Wood Actors for CAA Discussion & More
Catch up on the top entertainment stories of the day.
Quint Entertainment
Updated: 06 Jan 2020, 11:40 AM IST
1. Government Invites Bollywood for Interactive Dialogue on CAA
In the light of Bollywood actors openly speaking up against the Citizenship (Amendment) Act, the Government has now invited them for a dialogue over CAA with Railways and Commerce Minister, Piyush Goyal.
“Would love to have you for this Important meeting - Dialogue over CAA with Govt. An interactive meeting on the 5th of Jan', 2020 at 8 P.M in Grand Hyatt with Piyush bhai Goyal, Railways and Commerce Minister of India. The idea behind the meeting is quite inclusive in approach and we request a participation of all the rational thoughts and different points of views pertaining to the Citizenship Amendment Act. It will be followed by a scrumptious dinner. Please come over. See you.”
Read more on The Quint.
2. Aamir Shoots ‘Laal Singh Chaddha’ Running Sequences on Painkillers
First Look of Aamir Khan in Laal Singh Chaddha
(Photo Courtesy: Twitter)
Aamir’s look and method for his upcoming film Laal Singh Chaddha had been kept a secret for a long time, till his look as a Sikh was revealed in the film’s first look. He has been working hard to look the role, and even shot for a particular sequence in the film by consuming a lot of painkillers.
According to a report in Mid-Day, the actor had to shoot for a sequence which shows the character running across India in the Forrest Gump remake. For the same, Aamir had been jogging 10-13 kilometres every day and it became exhaustive for him, due to which he had to be on a steady dose of painkillers.
3. Pics: Deepika Cuts her Birthday Cake With a Fan at Mumbai Airport
Deepika Padukone celebrated her 34th birthday in Lucknow with acid attack survivors ahead of the release of her film Chhapaak. The actor, along with her husband and actor Ranveer Singh took a flight to Lucknow early morning on 5 January. To her surprise, a fan of hers was waiting at the airport since the previous night with a cake for the star. As she and Ranveer stepped out of the car, the photographers informed her of the same and she cut the cake at the airport.
4. Deepika Joins TikTok; Records 1.2M Followers in Less Than 12 Hours
Deepika Padukone at the song launch of Chhapaak.
(Photo Courtesy: Yogen Shah)
Deepika Padukone is the latest Bollywood celebrity to join video sharing social media platform TikTok, ahead of the release of her upcoming film Chhapaak. The actor made the announcement via her Instagram stories and her TikTok account now has various fun videos. She also posted a video of Laxmi Agarwal, whose role she’ll be essaying in the film. She has also collaborated with a number of TikTok artists.
5. Hollywood Actor Rose McGowan Apologises to Iran for the Bombing
Hollywood actor Rose McGowan tweeted to Iran apologising for the US airstrike in Iraq that killed Iranian Major General Qasem Soleimani and bringing about a warlike situation between Iran and the US. In a series of tweets McGowan apologised and said that “we want peace with your nation”.
McGowan also tweeted that she “will never vote Republican. I want the Democrats to win because we are less likely to die”. Stating that it was her right and duty as a citizen to dissent, the actor went on to say that she doesn’t want American soldiers killed, “That is democracy. I do not want any more American soldiers killed. That’s it”.
Published: 05 Jan 2020, 5:41 PM IST
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Victoria creator launches mental health app
Rootd has more than 50,000 downloads since its prelaunch
Christine van Reeuwyk
On a day now famous for talking about mental health, a local app developer launches one that promises relief in your pocket. Rootd, a female-founded mental health app for those struggling with panic attacks and anxiety officially launched Jan. 30.
Greater Victoria resident Ania Wysocka was first inspired by a lack of resources that combine effective exercises and accessibility with modern engaging design, and by the need to reduce the stigma felt by those who suffer from anxiety and panic attacks.
“Rootd’s approachable and fun design helps people feel comfortable having the app open on their screen any time or place they feel they need to use it. We hope that normalizing our interactions with these type of resources will help reduce stigma,” she said.
A cute and caring but slightly disgruntled monster named Ron guides users through lessons and sessions for immediate and long-term relief. Features include lessons to understand anxiety and panic attacks, a panic button, a deep breathing tool, guided and active meditation, as well as soothing nature sounds.
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“I don’t really suffer from anxiety myself but I use it for the breathing techniques,” said Devan Chiappetta McCannel, a fan of the app and friend of the developer. Though he finds it educational as a boyfriend to someone who has anxiety. “I find it helpful to understand what they’re going through. There are lessons on what anxiety is and what causes it. It’s helpful.”
The Rootd app pre-launched on World Mental Health Day 2017 for iOS devices with limited features. About 50,000 organic downloads to date “validated” that the bootstrapped, self-funded app hit a target.
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“It showed me that it was something that people needed,” she said. The hundreds of comments buoyed both her work and spirit. They poured in from young women around the world sharing stories of how the app helped them learn to rely on partners, return to work, and in at least one case “graduated” from Rootd but still carried it as a safeguard.
“I love reading messages and reviews from users and working out how we can incorporate feedback into the app to make it even better. The need for a tool like Rootd has been validated through the number of downloads, and hearing positive feedback from users around the world shows that it’s capable of working and making a difference in users’ lives.”
Rootd is available worldwide as a free download on iOS and Android devices. Learn more at rootd.io or download the app on GooglePlay or iTunes.
“I’ve also started offering subscriptions for businesses,” she said, adding ideally she would like it to be completely free for those who need it.
c.vanreeuwyk@blackpress.ca
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Vinko’s Thoughts On…
The thoughts of a true technology versatilist
Tag: language
Top 10 Most Spoken Languages
1. Chinese (Mandarin) 873,014,298
2. Spanish 322,299,171
3. English 309,352,280
4. Hindi 180,764,791
5. Portuguese 177,457,180
6. Bengali 171,070,202
7. Russian 145,031,551
8. Japanese 122,433,899
9. German 95,392,978
10. Chinese (Wu) 77,175,000
* Source: Gordon, Raymond G., Jr. (ed.), Ethnologue: Languages of the World, Fifteenth edition
Made Up Words
There are so many words we use in the English language that we take for granted.
Over the years we have come to be accustom to various terms and phrases that are either made-up-words, made-up-phrases or brand names.
In the 1970’s and 1980’s we often use the words:
“NutraSweet” to refer to sugar substitute;
“Coke” to refer to cola drinks; and
“Coffeemate” to refer to coffee whitener.
Now with recent technological advances and its integration into our daily lives, more terms have come about.
In 2004, they came up with the term “Podcasting” (aka. “Podcast”), which is an amalgamate of the terms “iPod®” and “broadcasting”, to refer to recorded audio programs/shows for time-shift listening. While the word “iPod” itself is a made-up-word by Apple Computer, when they released their version of the MP3 player in October 2001. Similarly there is the word “Vodcast” to refer to recorded videos for time-shift viewing.
Speaking of time-shift viewing, there is also the term”TiVo“, which is a brand, company and service from the US company of the same name started in 1997. They developed the device and service for time-shift viewing of TV programs, by allowing users to record TV programs onto the built-in hard drive of the TiVo console. This made-up-word is often used in the context “I will just TiVo it” – meaning they will record the TV program and watch it at a later date, in another words, time shift the TV program in question.
There are quite many more made-up-phrases that were coined during this past decade:
“Let’s Google it” – meaning to search the web/Internet for the subject.
“I will Flickr it” – meaning to post a photo on the Internet of the subject.
“I will ICQ you” or “I will MSN you” – to tell someone that one will send a message via one of the many instant messaging (IM) services (ie. ICQ, MSN Messenger, Yahoo Messenger, iChat, GTalk, Jabber, etc.). A variation of this made-up-phrase is “I will IM you”
“Why don’t you beam it” – asking someone to send some data via IR (infrared) or Bluetooth from one mobile device to another (ie. telephone number, address, photo, ringtone, etc.).
“Let’s Wikipedia it” – meaning to look it up on Wikipedia (a multi-lingual open source encyclopedia
Some of these made-up-phrases and made-up-words are location or geo specific.
For example, in Hong Kong you may hear people use the following phrases:
“I want to doot it”
Can I doot it
These phrases mean “I want to use Octopus to pay for it” and “Can I pay by Octopus”.
The Octopus&trade card is a very successful and widely used contactless smartcard developed in Hong Kong with over 11 million cards in circulation. It is used in Hong Kong for both payment (public transport, store purchases, parking fees, newspaper stand, etc.) and non-payment (residential complex entry, business tower entry, primary school entry, etc.) transaction.
With all these made-up-words, it is also taking a lot less time for these words or phrases to be officially entered into dictionaries. In August 2005, Oxford Dictionaries officially included the word “Podcast” into their “Oxford Dictionary of English, Revised Second Edition” published on August 11, 2005, which is only 10 months after the word was first used. That is much faster than many of the other new words introduced in this edition of the dictionary; like: “eighty-six”, “fanboy” and “wiki”.
So next time you hear a word or phrase you may want to think about its origin, you never know, you may be participating in a new evolution.
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All about military bases and the Army
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How to make extra money in the military
How can I make extra money in the military?
The good news is that there are several ways you can earn extra money right now as a military family: 1) Become a freelancer. 2) Become a YouTuber. 3) Rent your home. 4) Get in the movies. 5) Become a freelance writer. 6) Sign up to run errands. 7) Become a virtual assistant. 8) Make items to sell.
Can you be a millionaire in the military?
Using just part of your military paycheck, you can retire as a military millionaire . It’s true. Becoming a military millionaire is about making your money work for you while you ‘re enlisted in the military , and it isn’t as complicated as it sounds.
Do you get more money for having a child in the military?
The military does not pay people more money because they have dependents. There is no increase in pay for getting married, or for having children . Base pay is base pay, period. In most cases, BAH is paid for the location where the service member is stationed.
Can you have a side job while in the military?
Can you have a side job in the military ? Yes, military members are allowed to have a side job ; however, you might need to receive the proper authorization from your chain of command first. Since the mission comes first, other jobs that interfere with that won’t be allowed.
What is the best age to join the military?
The Army has the highest cutoff age for new recruits at 42, which was increased from 35 in 2006. The cutoff for the Navy is 35, the Marines is 28 and the Air Force is 27.
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Can a soldier have a second job?
Federal guidelines prohibit a military member from accepting a second job as a federal employee. This is due to the 24/7 on-call nature of military service, and there IS an exception for those who are on their final leave (terminal leave) before their final out processing date or their estimated time to separation.
What is the highest paying job in the military?
Entry-Level Army Jobs With the Highest Pay Petroleum Supply Specialist. PATRIOT Launching Station Enhanced Operator/Maintainer. Air Defense Battle Management System Operator. Air Defense Enhanced Early Warning System Operator. Human Intelligence Collector. Cryptologic Cyberspace Intelligence Collector/Analyst. RADAR Repairer.
What branch pays the most?
The highest ranking enlisted Marine , Sgt. Maj of the Marine Corps Ronald Green, makes over $90,000 a year in base pay alone. Military officer pay is much higher. Newly commissioned officers make about $38,250 a year.
Is military a good career?
“It’s a hard job but there are good benefits” says one former soldier but “the army is a great career field look into it if you are looking for something out of the norm.” Many former soldiers also talk about it being “ the best experience of my life” and the fact that they work very hard but are well-respected and “get
Can a girlfriend live on army base?
To begin with, an unmarried couple cannot live on base outside of certain extenuating circumstances that would have the non-service member defined as a caregiver for the service member’s children. As a result, unmarried military couples typically live off- base .
Do you get military benefits for life?
Receive a defined benefit , which is a monthly pension for life that’s calculated based on your highest 36 months of basic pay and years of service. Receive a lump sum, which is a discounted portion (25 or 50 percent) of your retirement, paid either all at once or distributed annually for up to four years.
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Can you join the military if you have a child?
In the Army and Air Force, single-parent military applicants for enlistment must indicate they have a child or children in the custody of the other parent or another adult. The military’s refusal to accept single parents for enlistment is a valid one . The military is no place for a single parent.
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US Lawmakers Slam Government Officials Over Massive Cyber Attack
By Ken Bredemeier
Committee Chairman Rep. Jason Chaffetz (R-UT) takes his seat for a hearing of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee on Capitol Hill, June 16, 2015 in Washington, DC.
WASHINGTON - U.S. lawmakers sharply attacked government hiring and technology officials Tuesday for not preventing a cybersecurity attack that compromised personal information for millions of U.S. federal workers.
"You failed, utterly and totally," Congressman Jason Chaffetz told Katherine Archuleta, chief of the government's employment agency, the Office of Personnel Management.
"OPM's data security posture was akin to leaving all the doors and windows open in your house and expecting that nobody would walk in and nobody would take any information,” said Chaffetz, chairman of the House Oversight Committee. “How wrong they were."
No encryption
Chaffetz demanded to know why the personal information of government workers and retirees was not encrypted after the employment agency's watchdog warned last year that it was vulnerable to cyberattack. At least 4.2 million current and former federal workers, and likely millions more, are affected.
"It is not feasible in systems that are too old," Archuleta said in explaining why protections are not adequate. "I want to emphasize that cyber security issues that the Government is facing is a problem that has been decades in the making, due to a lack of investment in federal IT systems and a lack of efforts in both the public and private sectors to secure our internet infrastructure."
In the last two weeks, the U.S. identified two cyberattacks on government employee records, saying they occurred over the last several months, and perhaps began much earlier. Some officials have blamed Chinese state interests for the attack, but the attacks are said to be still under investigation.
Constant attack
Archuleta said U.S. technology systems are under constant attack from foreign governments, criminals and business interests.
"In an average month, OPM, for example thwarts 10 million confirmed intrusion attempts targeting our network,” she said. “These adversaries are sophisticated, well-funded and focused. These attacks will not stop – if anything, they will increase."
Archuleta declined to answer some questions about the scope of the attack in the public hearing. She told the members of Congress she would discuss such issues only in a closed-door, classified setting.
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by Veritas, under Blog
A penetration test, informally pen test, is an attack on a computer system that looks for security weaknesses, potentially gaining access to the computer’s features and data.[1][2]
The process typically identifies the target systems and a particular goal—then reviews available information and undertakes various means to attain the goal. A penetration test target may be a white box (which provides background and system information) or black box (which provides only basic or no information except the company name). A penetration test can help determine whether a system is vulnerable to attack, if the defenses were sufficient, and which defenses (if any) the test defeated.[3]
Penetration tests are a component of a full security audit. For example, the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard requires penetration testing on a regular schedule, and after system changes.[6]
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345,882 RUSSELL members around the world
Family spelling variants includes Rozzell, Rossell, Rowsell, Russel, Russill, Rousel, Rousell, Roussel, Roussell
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RUSSELL Family History
This is one of the most famous and noble names in British history since the Conquest of 1066, when it was a Norman introduction. The name is a diminutive patronymic and means "the son of Red", from the Old French "Rous", red, a nickname for someone with red hair, and "-el", little. In the National Biography there are over sixty entries for Russell, the Dukes of Bedford being Russells, while Charles Russell 1832 - 1900, the Lord Chief Justice of England was Baron Russell of Killowen. The third Earl Russell is better known as the philosopher Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970)...
Russell (Variants: Roussell, Roussel, Rousell, Rousel, Russill, Russel, Rowsell, Rossell, Rozzell)
English, Scottish and Irish nickname, relationship name from a diminutive of Anglo-Norman French rous(e) ‘red, reddish’, used either as a personal name or someone with red hair or a ruddy complexion. Americanised spelling of German Rüssel, from a pet form of any of the various personal names formed with the Old High German element hrod ‘renown’.
The noted Scottish author George F. Black believed that while not discounting the Norman influence, he felt the name was "most probably a diminutive of rous, 'red'," and that Chaucer's reference to 'Daun Russel' in Nonne Prestes Tale was "alluding to his reddish color."
Early bearers of the surname include: Ralph Russel, 1115 in Winton Domesday (Hants); John Roussel, 1297 in Earldom of Cornwall Accounts; Ellen Russell, 1538 in IGI (Haddon, Hunts); John Russell, 1539 in IGI (Northam, Devon); Mary Russell, 1539 in IGI (Saint Matthew Friday Street, London).
John Russell, English convict, was transported aboard the "Asia" on 1 April 1822, settling in New South Wales, Australia.
In 1891, the general population for the surname was widespread across England and Wales 28,661 with a further 7,532 in Scotland. Kent was reported as a top county for the surname with 2,613 occurrences. Deptford St Pauls was reported as a top parish with 207 occurrences.
In 1881, a less common occupation for the Russell family was Coal Miner. The most common Russell occupation in the UK was Agricultural Labourer. Agricultural Labourer, Farmer and Labourer were the top 3 reported jobs worked by Russell.
Geographically, it is a locative name for a town - Rusthall, Kent.
Gerald Russell (1928 – 2018) was a British psychiatrist who published the first description of bulimia nervosa and subsequently has Russell's sign named after him. The sign is distinguished with callus on the knuckles or back of the hand.
The noted Anna Russell (1911 – 2006), was an English-Canadian singer and vocalist comedian who was well known for her concerts playing comical musical sketches on a piano. She was also recognised for her parody How to Write Your Own Gilbert and Sullivan Opera and The Ring of the Nibelungs (An Analysis) – a humorous 22-minute synopsis of Richard Wagner's Der Ring des Nibelungen .
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Example Question #1 : Systems Biology And Tissue Types
To form a female zygote, the sperm cell must contribute which chromosome(s)?
Both an X- and a Y-chromosome
Two Y-chromosomes
An X-chromosome
Two X-chromosomes
A Y-chromosome
The necessary genotype for a female zygote is XX.
The mother will share this XX genotype (since she is also female) and will contribute one X-chromosome. The father, however, will be male and have the genotype XY. This means he has a 50% chance of passing on an X-chromosome and a 50% chance of passing on a Y-chromosome. If the zygote inherits a Y-chromosome from the father's sperm, then the offspring will be male. If the zygote inherits an X-chromosome from the father's sperm, then the resulting genotype will be XX and the offspring will be female.
Example Question #2 : Biology
What is a totipotent cell?
Stem cells from adult tissues
A cell that has the ability to form a complete organism through embryogenesis
A cell that has the ability to differentiate into any type of tissue if exposed to the appropriate chemical signals
Stem cells from the inner cell mass
A cell that has the ability to differentiate into a limited number of tissue types if exposed to the appropriate chemical signals
Totipotent cells have the ability to propogate and differentiate into any cell types, including the trophoblast. They are different from stem cells, which could be considered multipotent (able to differentiate into multiple tissue types) or pleuripotent (able to differentiate into any major tissue type, but cannot create trophoblast). The only truly totipotent cells are the first two blastomeres.
Example Question #1 : Embryogenesis
What is the "common dogma"?
All cells come from other cells
Most cells in the body contain a complete genome, despite the fact that most of the genes in the genome are not necessary for each cell's specific function
All organisms are made of cells
Cells lose genetic material over time, becoming less totipotent
Most cells contain a complete genome, but not all genes are activated in each cell. Activation of particular genes produces appropriate protein function.
Differentiation of the endoderm in a developing human embryo will eventually give the human the ability to __________.
circulate blood
produce urine
The endoderm develops into a number of internal organs, including the lung, which are vital for breathing.
The kidneys (urine production), muscles (movement), and blood vessels (blood circulation) develop from the mesoderm. The brain (thought) develops from the ectoderm.
Example Question #1 : Circulatory System
A new medication has been created that is very effective at treating brain tumors; however, the medication has a short half-life once inside the body. If the medication travels through the blood stream, which method of administration would give the medication the most time to affect a tumor in the brain? (Assume an equal dosage of the medicine is used for each potential method.)
Subcutaneous Injection
Intravenous Injection (Jugular Vein)
This question is targeting your knowledge of the circulatory system. Since the medication has a short half-life, it is necessary that it be carried by the patient's blood stream to the tumor as quickly as possible. Blood travels through the right side of the heart, to the lungs, through the left side of the heart, then to the body. Therefore, inhalation of a chemical would require the least amount of traveling (Lungs, Left Atrium, Left Ventricle, Body). Each other method of administration, including IV, would require more time to travel to the brain. For example, for the IV answer choice, the pathway would be Vein, Right Atrium, Right Ventricle, Lungs, Left Atrium, Left Ventricle, Body.
Follicle-stimulating hormone (FSH) stimulates the growth of a follicle in the ovary, a process that occurs __________.
between fertilization and birth
only before the female is born
between birth and puberty
between puberty and menopause
At puberty, the oocytes arrested at birth in meiosis I resume growth. This most often happens once a month, if fertilization has not occurred, and continues from puberty until menopause. The oocytes arrested at birth complete meiosis I, and are then arrested in meiosis II until fertilization occurs. During ovulation, the follicle ruptures and develops into the corpus luteum. Without fertilization, the endometrium is shed and the cycle continues. Once menopause is reached, this cycle ceases and most often women are no longer fertile.
Example Question #2 : Reproductive System
The hormones FSH and LH are involed in oogenesis in women. When LH surges in the ovarian cycle, what event will result?
Endometrium proliferation
Corpus luteum degradation
Follicles are stimulated to grow when FSH level rises. The follicles produce estrogen that exerts a positive feedback on LH, whose levele begin to rise. When LH levels peak on the 14th day of the cycle, the follicle ruptures, releasing the egg from the ovary and leaving the corpus luteum behind in the ovary. After ovulation, the corpus luteum secretes both estrogen and progesterone to inhibit GnRH. When GnRH is inhibited, FSH and LH will also be inhibited.
Example Question #1 : Female Reproductive Physiology
An environmental toxin has been found to directly disrupt normal gamete production in women. What tissue or organ is the toxin likely localizing to?
The most likely localization of the toxin would be to the ovaries, since this is where gamete production begins for females. For males, gametes are produced in the testes. The incorrect answers are all parts of the female reproductive system. The oviduct is where fertilization takes place. The endometrium (the lining of the uterus) is where the embryo will eventually implant.
Which of the following describes the function of follicle-stimulating hormone in females?
Promote milk production
Promote growth of immature follicles in ovaries
Stimulate estrogen secretion from ovaries
Increase basal metabolic rate
Follicle-stimulating hormone stimulates the growth of granulosa cells surrounding the primary oocyte within the ovary, which further promotes maturity of the immature follicle. Prolactin is the hormone that promotes milk production from mammary glands during pregnancy. In females, luteinizing hormone (LH) supports theca cells in the ovaries, which subsequently give rise to precursors to estrogen production. Thyroid hormones regulate metabolism by increasing basal metabolic rate.
Progesterone is primarily secreted by which of the following structures?
Spermatozoon
Secondary follicle
Corpus luteum
Primary follicle
The corpus luteum is the remnant structure of the secondary follicle after the egg is released during ovulation. It secretes progesterone following this process. The other structures do not release appreciable amounts of progesterone; the primary follicle differentiates into the secondary follicle, which in turn releases the ovum, or the egg. The spermatozoon is involved with the fertilization of the egg, and does not release any progesterone.
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Before we get into this Iron Dolls review, let's take a look at who Karen is. Karen was the female version of the 98-pound weakling. Actually, she suffered from anorexia nervosa. Until she got her disease under control, she was underweight, to the point of passing out. Had she not decided to change her life, she could have suffered from serious long term health problems.
Getting "Killer Quads" (the title of another of Karen's popular e-books for women wanting to work specifically on strengthening their legs) was not Karen's first goal. She never thought that she would compete as a bodybuilder. Her first priority was to gain weight in a healthy manner. It was only after spending some time in the gym that someone suggested she compete. She briefly covers this part of her life in the biography section of "Iron Dolls."
The majority of the book is devoted to helping women who want to look their best and be in the best possible shape. Karen Sessions' system does not offer a quick weight loss or muscle-building fix. Like anyone that has "been there and done that," she knows that the process is not easy. It takes a lot of hard work, but she gives you all the information to do it, if you are willing and committed.
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When you start trying to get in shape, you might have no idea what to do. You might join a gym for starters. You walk in feeling like everyone knows what they are doing and knows that you don't even know where to start.
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Eric Bolling Jr., son of former Fox News commentator Eric Bolling, died in Boulder County from an accidental overdose of heroin and fentanyl on September 8, 2017.
In 2016, drugs killed 912 people in Colorado, nearly 300 more than the 627 who died in auto accidents here. Preliminary numbers from 2017 suggest that the total will rise for that year to 959, fueled largely by heroin and opioid overdoses in Denver and the Colorado Springs area, each of which suffered well over 100 fatalities the previous year, and a startling number of casualties in some of the state's least populous areas.
These are among the key takeaways from "Death by Drugs: Colorado at Record High," a new report from the Colorado Health Institute.
Heroin and opioid fatalities have climbed at a fearsome rate in recent years. According to figures provided by the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment, heroin deaths in Denver went up 933 percent over fourteen years, beginning in 2002. And the heroin-fatality numbers for Colorado as a whole are nearly as shocking, with a 756 percent rise from 2001 to 2016.
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Other CDPHE stats through 2016 showed that deaths from opioids other than heroin were up 128 percent from fifteen years previous, while Denver's fatality total rose by 372 percent.
The overall numbers assembled by the Colorado Health Institute also show significant spikes. The 912 fatalities in 2016 translate to 16.1 drug overdose deaths for each 100,000 residents, an 83 percent jump from the 2001 rate of 8.8.
Granted, the 2016 death rate is only a little higher than those in Colorado during 2014 (15.7) and 2015 (15.6) — and it remains considerably lower than the national rate of 19.8 drug overdose deaths per 100,000 people. But that's hardly reassuring given the body counts in El Paso County, where 141 people lost their lives to fatal overdoses in 2016, and Denver County, site of 138 such deaths.
The numbers are lower in other counties, but because the population in them is, too, the fatality rates are actually higher than in more crowded places. A case in point is Huerfano County, where six people died from overdose in 2016 — but because there are fewer than 6,700 residents there, the death rate per 100,000 is a staggering 152.6.
Continue to see the ten Colorado counties with the highest number of fatal overdoses, followed by the top ten overdose death rates per county in the state.
A photo from our 2017 feature article "Inside Two CU Boulder Students' Struggle With Heroin Addiction."
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Counties With the Highest Numbers of Fatal Overdoses, 2016
1. El Paso County
Deaths: 141
Rate: 20.4
2. Denver County
3. Adams County
Deaths: 92
4. Jefferson County
5. Arapahoe County
6. Pueblo County
7. Larimer County
8. Weld County
9. Boulder County
Rate: 11
10. Douglas County
Mark Largay died from a fentanyl overdose on November 1, 2015, in Summit County.
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Deaths: 6
Rate: 152.6
2. Rio Blanco County
3. Las Animas County
4. Montezuma County
5. Rio Grande County
6. Conejos County
7. Fremont County
9. Logan County
10. Routt County
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Shoppers take a trip to small businesses on Black Friday ahead of Saturday
by: Renetta DuBose
AUGUSTA, Ga. (WJBF) – While many people flocked to the big box stores for deals this holiday, others filled small businesses. NewsChannel 6 went to Surrey Center where Small Business Saturday starts in just a few hours.
Perhaps it’s a cozy sweater you want to purchase to keep you warm this winter or some jewelry. Getting it during one of the busiest shopping weekends of the year can be hassle free. Just ask these ladies.
“We don’t want to deal with those crowds,” Leigh Porterfield told NewsChannel 6 while shopping with family.
Thanksgiving time brings the shopping tradition at Surrey Center for this group of women who have been doing it for a long time.
“12 years consistently. She was teeny tiny,” Porterfield said of a relative in The Swank Company. “Her favorite thing was we would go to SoHo across the street here and she would get the little glass soda bottles.”
They meet for coffee and then head to their shopping staples in Surrey Center, places such as Swank, where the customers are high and clothing prices are low.
Swank Salesperson Chaney Schumacher said the store had lots of deals.
“A few of our boyfriend and dreamer sweaters are $20. Our PIKOS are $15. We’ve never done that sale before. Our bath bombs are $4 and right now the whole store is 25% off,” she said.
Cindy Brannen was also shopping with family in Surrey Center.
“I really like to support local businesses. My husband is a businessman and I like to support local and keep the money in the community.”
Shoppers filled several other stores in Surrey Center on Black Friday. Others plan to shop on Small Business Saturday too. While you may find sidewalk sales at the big box stores, you may not find cups of coffee. It’s the little treats that stores use to keep people coming.
Schumacher added, “They know the people that work here. A lot of us are either students or have been and know the parents of kids that we went to school with or just people in the community so they know that they are going to see a friendly face when they come here. It’s smaller. We know what we have. It’s usually really organized.”
Porterfield said she comes for one reason.
“Christmas gifts.”
Amy Hattaway stood by her side and agreed.
“A lot of times it’s gifts for all of these guys. We come and they tell us what they like and mom and I sneak over to the cash register and we pack them up and put them away until Christmas and hope that they don’t remember.”
After Small Business Saturday there are two other shopping opportunities. Cyber Monday and Giving Tuesday.Photojournalist: Mark Gaskins
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ELLISS’ first collection Unconscious Clothing is an original take on sustainable fashion.
ELLISS is a new brand creating simple and beautiful ready to wear garments. The collection is designed and made in England to maintain a low carbon footprint, while the clothes aim to flatter a contemporary female shape in natural materials that are soft against the skin. Founded by Elliss Solomon, the label’s first collection Unconscious Clothing uses a mixture of velvety, vibrant colours, feminine cuts, and dreamy, painterly faces in an original take on sustainable fashion.
T: What inspired you to become a fashion designer?
E: I loved fine art when I was at school, and always knew I wanted to do something creative but I needed a more tangible direction. When you are designing a piece you are always working towards a deadline and I like that structure. Seeing how it all comes together, whether it’s in a photo-shoot, film or presentation, is the most exciting moment for me. Ideas are constantly developing and this comes from everyone involved, from the makeup to the models.
T: I would have never considered fashion as a career for myself. Although I loved playing around with my wardrobe. I was always wearing skirts as dresses, always wearing things deliberately how they weren’t designed to be worn.
E: That’s an idea that resonates with my design process. Taking a classic shape and reworking it with interesting details and print is what ELLISS is about.
T: How do you make your designs comfortable and elegant at the same time?
E: I think about what I would like to wear, and how the print could follow and flatter the shapes that the body naturally creates. I also think about the qualms that I have with my own body – one centimeter can make the difference of flattering or not. For example, the sleeveless ribbed tops extend to about halfway across the arm because I know this is an area that a lot of women are self-conscious about. I want to empower confidence in those who wear my clothes. They should make you feel comfortable in your own skin.
T:You told me that the fashion industry is the second biggest polluter in the world. If I want to become a more conscious buyer, what should I watch out for on the high street? Is it a dead end?
E: Instead of shopping to buy something on a whim, think about the purchase and whether you really love that item. So maybe you decide not to buy a dress that’s super cheap on the spur of the moment, but to wait a little longer and save up for one that’s a bit more expensive. You’ll end up having less things but a wardrobe that you really love. Vintage is great because it’s already created. That’s the main reason why I wanted to work with jersey, because T shirts and underwear bring a freshness to a vintage wardrobe. The idea with Unconscious Clothing was to design with the mentality that I wasn’t just making clothes for someone looking for an eco-tag. Hopefully ELLISS may ignite an interest – bring the idea of sustainability into consciousness.
T: It feels like there’s a sale on all the time. And with online shopping it’s so easy to get carried away.
E: It needs to come from the consumer more. I think it’s important to think about your wardrobe in a different way.
T: Your designs are subtle in their subversivism. Tell me about your political journey and how you came to this approach.
E: With ethics and animal rights, people don’t like to be put on the spot. I would rather make a subtle statement that leads people to ask questions rather than create something too in your face. I want to create something that’s positive.
T: Which materials do you use?
E: The collection is a combination of Organic Cotton, Hemp and Bamboo. Hemp is the most important fibre as it is very resilient – It grows too densely to allow for weeds so it doesn’t need any herbicides or pesticides. Hemp hasn’t always had the best reputation and ‘hempy’ has even been used as a negative word to describe some clothing but I aim to help change this. It is in fact soft and breathable – It doesn’t have to be heavy duty, it can be lightweight and delicate.
T: Describe to me some of your favourite items from the new collection.
E: I love the ‘Anna Body’, named after Anna Kingsford, who was an anti-vivisection, vegetarian and women’s rights campaigner.
T: Are all of your designs named after a person?
E: Not all, but the ones that are, are either 19th Century activists or women in my life that inspire me.
T: Where did you shoot the ELLISS campaign short?
E: We shot inside Queen’s College London, the first institution in the world to award academic qualifications to women. The gym itself has changed a lot since it was first built, but the equipment is still the original. This creates a subtle play on life now and then – how far we have come, but also the work we still have to do – in sustainability, animal welfare and women’s rights.
T: I’ve already pre-ordered the ‘-ism’ top. I love how this suffix suggests both a spiritual state of being as well as a set of principles. I can definitely see how its ambiguity might be more appealing to people. Let’s talk about casting. The majority of the people modeling your clothes aren’t models or what you would expect at a conventional fashion show. What are you looking for?
E: I wanted to represent more people who share a resemblance to the girls that we know. Orsola de Castro (founder of Fashion Revolution) described the presentation as ‘gloriously female’, which I love.
T: I thought the girls modeling looked comfortable but like they were exploring a new side to themselves as well. No one was afraid to smile. There’s that wonderful moment when Najia looks at the camera, and at first she doesn’t know she’s being filmed but then she realizes and begins to play with the camera. Those shy but also daring and playful reactions felt quite special.
E: Definitely, all of the girls are so unique and wonderful in life and on camera!
T: Which brands or labels do you admire?
E: I love the collaboration between Amelie Pichard and Pamela Anderson. They created a Vegan footwear range that is amazing!
T: That sounds great. Hopefully it’s not long until we see Vegan footwear on the high street but I imagine we still have quite a way to go. When you think of fashion in 2016, what comes to mind?
E: I do think customers are becoming more savvy about sustainable fashion and the cost to the planet of a throwaway mentality. You have to make a decision to say I’m going to be slower and change the narrative.
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Constipation: A Global Perspective
Greger Lindberg (Chairman)
Saeed Hamid (Pakistan)
Peter Malfertheiner (Germany)
Ole Thomsen (Denmark)
Luis Bustos Fernandez (Argentina)
Khean-Lee Goh (Malaysia)
Rakesh Tandon (India)
Suliman Fedail (Sudan)
Benjamin Wong (China)
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Justus Krabshuis (France)
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Constipation is a chronic problem in many patients all over the world. In some groups of patients such as the elderly, constipation is a significant health-care problem, but in the majority of cases chronic constipation is an aggravating, but not life-threatening or debilitating, complaint that can be managed in primary care with cost-effective control of symptoms.
The terminology associated with constipation is problematic. There are two pathophysiologies, which differ in principle but overlap: disorders of transit and evacuation disorders. The first can arise secondary to the second, and the second can sometimes follow from the first.
This guideline focuses on adult patients and does not specifically discuss children or special groups of patients (such as those with spinal cord injury).
1.1 Cascades—a resource-sensitive approach
A gold standard approach is feasible for regions and countries in which the full range of diagnostic tests and medical treatment options is available for the management of all types and subtypes of constipation.
Cascade: a hierarchical set of diagnostic, therapeutic, and management options for dealing with risk and disease, ranked according to the resources available.
2. Definition and pathogenesis
The word “constipation” has several meanings, and the way it is used may differ not only between patients but also between different cultures and regions. In a Swedish population study, it was found that a need to take laxatives was the most common conception of constipation (57% of respondents). In the same study, women (41%) were twice as likely as men (21%) to regard infrequent bowel motions as representing constipation, whereas equal proportions of men and women regarded hard stools (43%), straining during bowel movements (24%), and pain when passing a motion (23%) as representing constipation. Depending on various factors—the diagnostic definition, demographic factors, and group sampling—constipation surveys show a prevalence of between 1% and more than 20% in Western populations. In studies of the elderly population, up to 20% of community-dwelling individuals and 50% of institutionalized elderly persons reported symptoms.
Functional constipation is generally defined as a disorder characterized by persistent difficult or seemingly incomplete defecation and/or infrequent bowel movements (once every 3–4 days or less) in the absence of alarm symptoms or secondary causes. Differences in the medical definition and variations in the reported symptoms make it difficult to provide reliable epidemiologic data.
2.1 Pathogenesis and risk factors
Functional constipation can have many different causes, ranging from changes in diet, physical activity, or lifestyle to primary motor dysfunctions due to colonic myopathy or neuropathy. Constipation can also be secondary to evacuation disorder. Evacuation disorder may be associated with a paradoxical anal contraction or involuntary anal spasm, which may be an acquired behavioral disorder of defecation in two-thirds of patients.
Table 1 Pathophysiology of functional constipation
While physical exercise and a high-fiber diet may be protective, the following factors increase the risk of constipation (the association may not be causative):
Aging (but constipation is not a physiological consequence of normal aging)
Low calorie intake
Low income and low education level
Number of medications being taken (independent adverse effect profiles)
Physical and sexual abuse
Female sex—higher incidence self-reported constipation in women
2.2 Associated conditions and medications
Table 2 Possible causes and constipation-associated conditions
Table 3 Medications associated with constipation
Constipation is a common condition, and although a minority of patients seek medical care, in the United States alone this accounts for several million physician visits per year, while in the United Kingdom more than 13 million general practitioner prescriptions were written for laxatives in 2006. Gastrointestinal specialist help should focus on efficiently applying health-care resources by identifying those patients who are likely to benefit from specialized diagnostic evaluation and treatment.
3.1 Diagnostic criteria for functional constipation
An international panel of experts developed uniform criteria for the diagnosis of constipation—the Rome III criteria.
Table 4 Rome III criteria for functional constipation
3.2 Patient evaluation
The medical history and physical examination in constipation patients should focus on identifying possible causative conditions and alarm symptoms.
Stool consistency. This is regarded as a better indicator of colon transit than stool frequency (Fig. 1).
Fig. 1 The Bristol Stool Form Scale: a measure to assist patients in reporting on stool consistency (Reproduced with permission from Lewis SJ and Heaton KW, et al, Scandinavian Journal of Gastroenterology 1997;32:920–4). ©1997 Informa Healthcare
Patient’s description of constipation symptoms; symptom diary:
Bloating, pain, malaise
Nature of stools
Prolonged/excessive straining
Unsatisfactory defecation
Laxative use, past and present; frequency and dosage
Current conditions, medical history, recent surgery, psychiatric illness
Patient’s lifestyle, dietary fiber, and fluid intake
Use of suppositories or enemas, other medications (prescription or over-thecounter)
Gastrointestinal mass
Anorectal inspection:
Fecal impaction
Stricture, rectal prolapse, rectocele
Paradoxical or nonrelaxing puborectalis activity
Rectal mass
If indicated: blood tests—biochemical profile, complete blood count, calcium, glucose, and thyroid function
3.3 Alarm symptoms
Table 5 Alarm symptoms in constipation
3.4 Indications for screening tests
Laboratory studies, imaging or endoscopy, and function tests are only indicated in patients with severe chronic constipation or alarm symptoms.
Table 6 Physiologic tests for chronic constipation (reproduced with permission from Rao SS, Gastrointest Endosc Clin N Am 2009;19:117–39)
3.5 Transit measurement
The 5-day marker retention study is a simple method for measuring colonic transit. Markers are ingested on one occasion and remaining markers are counted on a plain abdominal radiograph 120 hours later. If more than 20% of the markers remain in the colon, transit is delayed. Distal accumulation of markers may indicate an evacuation disorder, and in typical cases of slow-transit constipation almost all markers remain and markers are seen in both the right and the left colon.
Several companies produce markers, but markers can also be made from a patientsafe radiopaque tube by cutting it into small pieces (2–3 mm in length). A suitable number of markers (20–24) can be placed in gelatin capsules to facilitate ingestion.
3.6 Clinical evaluation
Classification of the patient’s constipation should be possible on the basis of the medical history and appropriate examination and testing.
Table 7 Constipation categories based on clinical evaluation
3.7 Cascade options for investigating severe and treatment-refractory constipation
Level 1—limited resources
Medical history and general physical examination
Anorectal examination, 1-week bowel habit diary card
Transit study using radiopaque markers
Balloon expulsion test
Level 2—medium resources
Balloon expulsion test or defecography
Level 3—extensive resources
Transit study using radio-opaque markers
Defecography or magnetic resonance (MR) proctography
Anorectal manometry
Sphincter electromyography (EMG)
4.1 Scheme for general management of constipation
Table 8 General management of constipation
IBS, irritable bowel syndrome; PEG, polyethylene glycol; STC, slow-transit constipation.
4.2 Symptomatic approach
If organic and secondary constipation have been evaluated and excluded, most cases can be managed adequately with a symptomatic approach.
A graded approach to treatment is based on recommending changes in lifestyle and diet, stopping or reducing medications that cause constipation, and administering fiber supplementation or other bulk-forming agents. A gradual increase in fiber (either as standardized supplements or incorporated in the diet) and fluid intake is generally recommended.
The second step in the graded approach is to add osmotic laxatives. The best evidence is for the use of polyethylene glycol, but there is also good evidence for lactulose. The new drugs lubiprostone and linaclotide act by stimulating ileal secretion and thus increasing fecal water. Prucalopride is also approved in many countries and in Europe.
The third step includes stimulant laxatives, enemas, and prokinetic drugs. Stimulant laxatives can be given orally or rectally to stimulate colorectal motor activity. Prokinetic drugs are also meant to increase the propulsive activity of the colon, but in contrast to stimulant laxatives, which should only be taken occasionally, they are designed to be taken daily.
4.3 Diet and supplements
Dietary modification may consist of a high-fiber diet (25 g of fiber) and fluid supplementation (up to 1.5–2.0 L/day) and may improve stool frequency and decrease the need for laxatives.
There is no evidence that dietary and lifestyle measures have any effect on constipation in the elderly; fiber supplements and simple osmotic laxatives are usually an adequate approach for constipation in these patients.
In patients with colonic dilation, fiber supplementation should be avoided.
Psyllium supplements and lactulose may be appropriate for the treatment of chronic constipation.
4.4 Medication
Evacuation disorders respond poorly to standard oral laxative programs. If an evacuation disorder plays a considerable role in constipation, biofeedback and pelvic muscle training may be considered. Critical success factors are the patient’s level of motivation, the frequency of the training program, and participation of a behavioral psychologist and dietitian.
If a dietary approach fails, polyethylene glycol (17 g PEG laxative for 14 days) or lubiprostone (24 mg twice per day) can be used to promote bowel function in patients with chronic constipation.
Prokinetic agents (e.g., the 5-HT4 receptor agonist prucalopride) can be used in constipation-predominant IBS.
Simple laxative agents, such as milk of magnesia, senna, bisacodyl, and stool softeners are a reasonable choice for treating constipation.
If there is persistent treatment failure in slow-transit constipation, then carefully selected, well evaluated and informed patients may benefit from total colectomy with ileorectal anastomosis. The exceptional indication for colectomy must be established in a specialized and experienced tertiary center. Disappointing results may be seen, with fecal incontinence due to surgery and recurrent constipation, especially in patients with evacuation disorder.
Only very few patients benefit from a (reversible) colostomy to treat constipation.
4.6 Evidence-based summary
Table 9 Summary: evidence base for the treatment of constipation (adapted from Rao SS, Gastrointest Endosc Clin N Am 2009;19:117–39)
* Adapted by the present constipation guideline review team.
4.7 Cascade options for treatment of chronic constipation
The following cascade is intended for patients with chronic constipation without alarm symptoms and with little or no suspicion of an evacuation disorder. The main symptoms would be hard stools and/or infrequent bowel movements.
Dietary advice (fiber and fluid)
Fiber supplementation
Milk of magnesia (magnesium hydroxide in an aqueous solution)
Stimulant laxatives (bisacodyl better than senna) for temporary use
Fiber supplementation, psyllium
Milk of magnesia, lactulose, macrogol
Stimulant laxatives for temporary use
Psyllium or lactulose
Macrogol or lubiprostone
Prokinetics (prucalopride)
Stimulant laxatives (bisacodyl or sodium picosulfate)
4.8 Cascade options for treatment of evacuation disorders
This cascade is for patients with chronic constipation without alarm symptoms, but with suspicion of an evacuation disorder. The main symptoms would be prolonged straining, a feeling of incomplete evacuation, thin stools, a feeling of blockage, or failure of treatment for constipation with hard stools.
Dietary and behavioral advice (fiber, fluid, timed bowel training)
Therapy for chronic constipation
Surgical evaluation
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Covid-19 highlights need for community-based student housing in Africa
STAG Africa is currently developing a 2 047-bed student village at the University of Fort Hare - this is the largest student accommodation development ever undertaken by a South African public university.
A South African based company reflects on how Covid-19 will affect the student accommodation in Africa in the future
South African university students are returning to campus in a strictly controlled and phased approach. This is part of the Department of Higher Education’s plan to save the 2020 academic year, while still ensuring the safety of students. Those living in on-campus accommodation will have to adhere to strict hygiene and social distancing measures – but this is only a short-term solution. Moving forward, the design of student accommodation will need to account for the certainty of similar pandemics in the future.
“Well-designed accommodation could be key to managing the spread Covid-19 among South Africa’s student population. On-campus housing provides a controlled environment, where universities can ensure hygiene and safety protocols are adhered to,” says Sean Kenealy, Director at STAG African.
Traditionally, student housing in South Africa has been geared towards accommodating as many students as possible in dense, dormitory style housing. “A single Covid-19 infection under such conditions could yield an uncontrolled outbreak within weeks, if not days. We need to implement ways of limiting social interaction, without losing the vitally important aspect of community,” says Kenealy an established architect and urban designer.
The student accommodation group has engineered a patent pod design that replicates a home environment, with eight students per pod. Students occupy double or single bedrooms and share a common cooking and living area. This allows for the management of traffic and limits personal interactions to just eight people, versus older, institutional type student housing designs that include long passages with cubicles on each side, often with hundreds of students per floor.
Communal living is also conducive to student success. “Over 60% of learning at the tertiary level occurs outside of a lecture hall, within the communities we create on campus – this is known as the hidden context of learning. Communal spaces are where mentorship and tutorship happen. Alternative education is as important as formal education,” says Kenealy.
South Africa is already experiencing a student housing crisis, and a big part of this is not just a lack of beds, but also a lack of innovation. The current pandemic, and the possibility of future pandemics, could be the driver for new approaches to how we build student housing. “We have an opportunity now to pause and redefine the meaning of quality on-campus accommodation; this should take into account community, sustainability and affordability,” says Kenealy.
STAG African has pioneered a green, innovative alternative to world-class student accommodation. With over 10 years’ experience developing student housing, they have delivered more than 3 000 beds across Africa, including the greenest residence in Africa at Stellenbosch University. They are currently developing a 2 047-bed student village at the University of Fort Hare – this is the largest student accommodation development ever undertaken by a South African public university. For more information, visit www.stagprop.com.
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Good Research Paper About Nike
Topic: Business, Marketing, Company, Strategy, Brand, Customers, Products, Nike
The success of Nike lies in its pledge to a detailed analysis of future opportunities in meeting the requirements of the customer wants in accordance with the current trends. In addition, tapping in new segments is also a significant endeavor of Nike.
The primary focus of any business has to be the customer; marketing management has to take the lead in researching the customer and the markets, in order to promote strategies and Nike has been leading in all the mentioned fronts with aplomb.
It is imperative to delve into Nike’s historical perspective, the word “Nike” is derived from the Greek Goddess of victory and its Swoosh logo is one which instantly resonates with the brand i.e. Nike, Inc (Nike About Nike Inc, 2014).
As a brand, Nike is the world’s leading & innovative brand in athletic footwear and is omnipresent when it comes to sports of all kinds. Besides footwear, apparel, equipment and accessories are also part of the Nike range.
Nike has in essence spawned on all genres of games like cricket, football, tennis, golf, basketball to name a few, also big sports names have been the Nike brand ambassadors who are known for a winning attitude which resonates with the Nike corporate culture.
The tagline ‘Just Do It’ has in essence created an emotive connect with the target audience in view of achieving greatness through its communication. The tagline creates the determination and desire of a can do attitude.
- Determine the impact of the company’s mission, vision, and primary stakeholders on its overall success.
The values and mission are the starting point of any organization in view of their way forward both in the short and long term. This serves as a pathway to clear the hurdles in a professional and efficient manner and how it wants to be seen going forward and how it wants to be viewed.
The impact and the success of Nike started with its visionary founders Bill Bowerman and Phil Knight, laying the groundwork for a revolution in athletic footwear which redefined the business.
They believed in following the dictates of their heart, as passion comes from the heart. It was this passion that serves as the right fuel to chase their dream. It is passion that makes all the difference as you learn from their story.
Nike’s mission is “to bring inspiration and innovation to every athlete in the world. If you have a body, you are an athlete.” As a brand with a global appeal and reach the mission in essence creates an instant effect of localization with its innovative and trendy products catering to athletes of most sports (Nike About Nike Inc, 2014).
The slogan as discussed above is part and parcel of extending the mission statement and positioning it to both the consumers and the company employees to achieve greatness and efficiency in whatever they do.
As a result of Nike’s commitment to its mission statement and its amalgamation into all facets of its process and culture at Nike, has set standards in quality.
Nike infuses the best quality in its products and customers are willing to pay any price for the brand. In other words it is not only the product of Nike; the consumer is purchasing the philosophy of Nike.
The vision at Nike is to innovate and consistently increase the revenue each year, this can be gauged by the fact that Nike’s 2015 revenue target to $28-30 billion, which is up from the previous target of $27 billion (Nike Inc History & Heritage, 2014).
The shareholders have also impacted by making the mission and vision by taking care of key issues and Nike’s corporate policies. At Nike the stakeholders are a diverse mix ranging from government, civil society, shareholders and most importantly the consumers.
All the stakeholders help Nike in risk mitigation and innovation which are the key pillars in the success of Nike (Nike Biz Stockholder Engagement & Report Reviews, 2014).
The spirit at Nike in view of its vision and mission can be summed by the President and CEO of Nike Mark Parker who said that at Nike, the commitment is focused and based around innovation and that is how Nike stays ‘opportunistic, serve the athlete, reward the shareholders and lead the industry’(Nike Inc History & Heritage, 2014).
- Analyze the five (5) forces of competition to determine how they impact the company.
The 5 forces of competition given by porter are the basis on which an organization conducts an analysis on its competition and where the company stands in view of its vision and mission and most importantly how it compares with its completion both on brand and profit level (Katharina Klier, 2011).
The analysis of five forces of competition on Nike is as follows:
- Competitive Rivalry - The Industry: The main competition to Nike is from Puma, Reebok and Adidas. Due to this competition Nike focus on innovation and is keeping itself abreast with trend changes on a constant basis to keep ahead of its competitors.
Innovation is based on technological advancement and Nike has been able to give innovative products consistently thus making it a leader of industry.
In view of the globalized economy and the changing consumer’s trends many companies have focused on a niche market and numerous companies like Asics, Under Armour, Lululemon Athelitca, VF corporation among many, gives Nike competition in both footwear and apparel market (Forbes, 2013).
Thus the competition is significant and can be a hindrance both in the footwear and apparel division; however with its innovative products and processes, Nike has been a runaway leader.
- The Threat of Substitute Products: The primary threat is from counterfeit products of Nike which eats up sizeable markets and revenues especially in third world countries.
The need and wants of the footwear and apparel will grow with time however the quality of the counterfeit products have been alarmingly improving with time and this could eat up the revenues but also impact on the vision of Nike’s yearly revenues in an adverse manner.
Another impact is on Nike the brand as it’s not only about the product it’s about a promise which it delivers consistently.
- The Threat of New Entrants: The threat of entry in the footwear is relatively low due to the requirement of the facilities, however in the apparel market the threat of new entrants is there since the manufacturing set up of apparel is much lower and can be acquired.
Another aspect which needs to be taken into account is the emergence of the online space and the ease at which anybody can target a specific target market depending on their products and services.
This in essence is leading to companies having a viral presence which is helping them in saving cost and also at the same time creating a niche for themselves.
- Power of Suppliers: Due to the nature of the industry the demand will always be there for footwear and apparel products especially sports related, thus, due to Nike’s strategy of manufacturing abroad, i.e. in Indonesia, China and Vietnam, India, Bangladesh to name a few which are in essence third party contracts.
- Power Of Customers: In view of the technological advances and changing trends on a constant basis the loyalty level of consumers has far more diminished.
With choices available in abundance the buyers look out for deals and discounts. Still depending on the consumer the brand Nike has an emotive connect with its consumers and it is unlikely that they make a switch easily.
Thus the barraging power is low according to author and thus Nike enjoys immense advantage in terms of revenues due to its loyal base of consumers.
- Create a SWOT analysis for the company to determine its major strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats.
A giant like Nike have to explore and comprehend the strategic initiatives in terms of its standing in the market and the feasibility of a way forward in a profitable manner.
Thus a SWOT analysis is conducted in order to come up with different options and eventually pick the best options for the company going forward (Robert Lussier, David Kimball, 2009).
The above stated SWOT is based on the details given on the website, books referred and the general understanding of the author.
- Based on the SWOT analysis, outline a strategy for the company to capitalize on its strengths and opportunities, and minimize its weaknesses and threats.
Nike should focus on its brand name and strengthen its position through tactical strategies i.e. deals and discounts to make sure there is no switching to other brands amidst aggressive approach by Adidas and Puma.
The need to keep producing Innovative product is paramount, besides being looked upon as an organization which is environment friendly will help in enforcing an already heavy image.
The weakness should be looked into diligently as the wage issues and labor issues i.e. child labor accusations in third world countries should be dealt with in an effective manner as a company this big can be negatively positioned in the minds if these issues are constant.
The opportunities for Nike is to keep innovating in products and also create a new market segment using the online media, to keep with the trend and changes in consumers tastes. Sponsoring new teams and stars is one area which needs to be pursued, besides emerging markets should have Nike stores with grandeur like the one in UK (Robert Lussier, David Kimball, 2009).
The threats of competition should be taken into account aggressively, also tactical strategies based on discounts and deals should be strategized and the ethical issues be addressed promptly.
- Discuss the various levels and types of strategies the firm may use to maximize its competitiveness and profitability.
At Nike the strategies that utilized to maximize its competitiveness and profitability starts from Product Differentiation which in essence has helped Nike in mitigating risk as in if one product fails there are plenty to choose from for consumers (Ming Li, Eric MacIntosh, Gonzalo Bravo, 2012).
Expansion in emerging markets has also helped in both profitability and also gaining a worldwide presence and thus competitiveness.
The integration of the brand in view of sponsorship in different sports, sports events and stars has helped in gaining a strong presence in the minds of the consumers as they follow their stars and Nike being an important sports element has helped in gaining ground (Ming Li, Eric MacIntosh, Gonzalo Bravo, 2012).
- Outline a communications plan the company could use to make the strategies you recommend above known to all stakeholders.
According to the author the following is the plan:
7. Select two (2) corporate governance mechanisms used by this corporation and evaluate how effective they are at controlling managerial actions.
The governance committee was established in 2001. The primary objective to review policies, labor issues, environmental practices, diversity & equal opportunity initiatives among many others.
The corporate governance helps in maintaining discipline worldwide with a singular message in terms of operations and quality.
The managerial actions are controlled by the ethics and conduct guideline’s which is called Inside the Lines at Nike, which in essence the standard of behavior.
The managerial actions are looked into consistently in view of the ethics code both in terms of operational and strategic implementation and keep the safety and morale of the employees at a high level through constant check and balance (Nike Responsibility, 2012).
8. Evaluate the effectiveness of leadership within this corporation and make at least one (1) recommendation for improvement.
The leadership helps in cultivating a culture to help in achieving the potential at Nike in an effective manner. Also, at Nike the focus is on needs from a futuristic perspective, thus leader development is paramount at Nike.
The one aspect of leadership which the author thinks needs improvement is transparency in operations i.e. the issue of child labor and wages needed to be sorted and then explained to the general public in full detail (NikeBiz Human Resources, 2014).
9. Assess efforts by this corporation to be a responsible (ethical) corporate citizen and determine the impact these efforts (or lack thereof) have on the company’s bottom line. Provide specific examples to support your response.
Addressing impacts in the supply chain, creating value for business and innovating for a better world, Nike Inc takes pride in being an ethical company, to create a positive social and environmental change is embedded in all the stakeholders both internal and external.
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Incredibly Shrinking Avocados: Why This Year's Fruit Are So Tiny
By Alastair Bland
Published August 19, 2013 at 3:43 PM EDT
We found lots of avocados being sold six or 10 to a $1 bag in the San Francisco area. Some weighed less than 3 ounces.
What's thick-skinned and leathery, about the size of an egg, essential for guacamole and sold eight for a dollar?
No, not limes. Hass avocados. This year, anyway. These pear-sized fruits usually weigh half a pound or more. In the summer of 2013, though, hundreds of thousands of trees in Southern California are sagging with the tiniest Hass avocados in local memory — some just the size of a golf ball.
The main reason for the lemon-sized fruits, sources say, is a very unusual growing year that consisted of low winter rainfall in early 2012 (avocados spend more than a full year developing on the tree), erratic bee activity during the late spring bloom period, and lots of unseasonably cool and cloudy weather in the year since.
"I can't ever remember a season when all the avocados were this small, and that's over 30 years in the business," says , a farmer with orchards in San Diego and Riverside counties. He cites a lack of rain and late pollination back in the spring of 2012 as main factors in the little avocados.
By most accounts, the fruits are about 30 percent smaller than usual. "That means less per pound wholesale," Wolk says.
Avocados larger or smaller than what is considered normal are generally less attractive to consumers, he says, and, therefore, command less money per pound. He says about 8 ounces is the optimal — and average — weight of a California Hass. A 25-pound case of such fruits usually draws $1.20 per pound, according to Wolk. With each ounce less in average fruit size, the per-pound rate can drop by 30 cents, he says.
But the positive trade-off is that this year's crop consists of more individual fruits than usual and, in fact, will probably weigh in at more than usual. Wolk says a half-billion pounds of fruit are expected by the end of October. Most years, the California avocado harvest — 95 percent of which is of the Hass variety — tips the scales at around 400 million pounds.
, a University of California avocado specialist and farm adviser in San Diego County, says that most years, several months after pollination, high July temperatures cause many fruits to drop off the branches. That didn't occur in the summer of 2012. The resulting abundance of individual fruits on each tree, combined with low rainfall, cool temperatures and sluggish photosynthesizing, has likely caused the stunting. Bender says that in 29 years on the job he has not seen such tiny avocados as those being picked this year.
Several growers told The Salt that 2013's avocados are weighing mostly 5 to 6 ounces — but that could be a generous overestimate. We collected avocados at several randomly selected grocery stores in San Francisco, and at each location — all independent, Asian-American owned shops — we found numerous avocados, being sold six or 10 to a $1 bag, that weighed in at less than 3 ounces, and several less than 2.
"That's just ridiculous," Bender notes.
Alastair Bland / for NPR
This season's avocados are the smallest in memory. We found some that were as tiny as 47 grams.
Jim Donovan, with the , a fruit wholesaler in Oxnard, says that harvesting 2-ounce fruits is likeliest to occur toward the end of the picking season, which wraps up in the fall.
Some growers, he explains, may selectively harvest bigger avocados all season and meanwhile wait for the smaller ones to grow larger. Avocados, unlike other fruits, can continue to gain size for months until they are picked.
"But eventually the farmer can't wait any longer because the tree will drop the fruit, so they do what we call a 'strip-pick,' and take every avocado left hanging," Donovan says. These tiny fruits may draw less than half the wholesale price of normal-sized avocados. Cases of exceptionally large avocados — sometimes 14 or 16 ounces each — can also draw less per pound, he says.
Elisabeth Silva, San Diego County's agricultural crime prosecutor who deals every year in a number of avocado theft cases, says there could be foul play behind the sudden flood of tiny avos. She describes a sly method of insider theft by which harvesting crews sometimes receive orders to pick only fruits larger than a certain size.
"So, sometimes they'll put those bigger fruits in the bins and they'll skim off the undersized fruits for themselves and sell them on the side," Silva says. These, she adds, can get "laundered into legitimate commerce." She says that while tiny avocados, sold in unmarked bags, could very well be stolen, grocers generally have no role in, or knowledge of, such illicit activity.
Farmers and other fans of bigger avocados may get relief next year when industry experts expect this spring's relatively low number of newly set fruits to result in fewer but larger avocados. Meanwhile, the little avocados of 2013 won't hurt you a bit. Donovan at Mission Produce points out that size and price may be down, but that quality is just fine.
"If you're willing to cut 10 pieces instead of two to make your guacamole, then you've got a bargain," he says.
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Not everyone will survive. An ancient alien race, known only as "Reapers", has launched an all-out invasion leaving nothing but a trail of destruction in their wake. Earth has been taken, the galaxy is on the verge of total annihilation, and you are the only one who can stop them. The price of failure is extinction. You are Commander Shepard, a character that you can forge in your own image. You determine how events will play out, which planets to explore, and whom to form alliances with as you rally a force to eliminate the Reaper threat once and for all. How you wage this war is completely up to you: go into combat with guns blazing or use cover to plan a more tactical assault. Utilize your squad to full effect or take a lone wolf approach. Rain death from a distance or go toe–to-toe with enemies using devastating melee attacks. Mass Effect 3 will react to each decision you make as you play through a truly unique experience of your own creation.
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Home Players James Tedesco Blues name Origin vice-captain
Blues name Origin vice-captain
James Tedesco is Boyd Cordner’s back-up for the remainder of the series.
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BRISBANE, AUSTRALIA - JUNE 05: James Tedesco of the Blues makes a break during game one of the 2019 State of Origin series between the Queensland Maroons and the New South Wales Blues at Suncorp Stadium on June 05, 2019 in Brisbane, Australia. (Photo by Cameron Spencer/Getty Images)
NSW has named fullback James Tedesco as Boyd Cordner’s vice-captain for the remainder of the State of Origin series.
Blues coach Brad Fittler wants a designated skipper on the park if Cordner needs time to rest in game two, and the Roosters’ fullback is thrilled to be handed the new position.
“I feel privileged every time I pull on the blue jumper for NSW and it’s a tremendous honour to represent your state and all the fans who support us,” Tedesco told the Sydney Morning Herald.
“I’m very humbled to have been selected as vice-captain as there are so many champion players to choose from in our team.
“I’ll be doing everything I can to support my captain Boyd Cordner and lead by example to ensure the shield remains in NSW.”
Stevesyd June 22, 2019 At 1:55 pm
Maybe this is Fittler’s push to have Tedesco as the Kangaroo fullback but Ponga is a walkin in most eyes.
A class above Tedesco and all other fullbacks in the NRL.
Dumb and Dumber.
Back2back19 June 22, 2019 At 4:04 pm
Honestly I expected Wighton to be named vice captain.
Stevesyd June 23, 2019 At 1:11 am
No it’s an ex rooster coach so work it out.
Yes stupid he was. Ponga will be next Kangaroo FB.
Tedesco not in his class.
Back2back19 June 23, 2019 At 7:18 am
Explain how you think teddy isn’t in the same class as Ponga right now? There 2019 stats are pretty much identical, however I do agree Ponga will be the next Australian fullback and he will be arguably the best player in the game in a few years.
The winger Souths have playing fullback will never be half the player teddy is and your stain will never win a premiership while they have that dud playing fullback.
WHy do all you toothless south fans always forget to mention Souths have only made the finals 6 times in the nrl? Or how it takes 43 years to win a premiership?
It amazes me how jealous of the roosters you all are. Souths have literally had 1 good year in 46 years. You all support a loser club that depends on a kiwi to stay in the game.
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Home Elected Officials Lawmakers gavel in for the 2020 Mississippi Legislative Session
Lawmakers gavel in for the 2020 Mississippi Legislative Session
Sarah Ulmer
The 2020 Mississippi Legislative Session kicked off today. The old and new slew of Senators and Representatives made their way to Jackson to begin work, gaveling in at noon.
Governor-Elect Tate Reeves presided over the Senate while Lt. Governor-Elect Delbert Hosemann brought in the House until a temporary Speaker of the House was elected. Rep. John Read filled that role.
In the Senate, members voted unanimously to elect Senator Dean Kirby as the next President Pro Tempore and former Senator Buck Clarke as Secretary of the Senate, who is largely responsible for keeping the journal of the Senate and scheduling committee meetings.
Senator Dean Kirby Raking the Oath of Office as the newest President Pro Tem in the Senate #msleg pic.twitter.com/TP60gavh2U
— Yall Politics (@MSyallpolitics) January 7, 2020
The Senate then moved to elect Jim Armstrong as the next Sergeant at Arms, the main security guard for the Senate. Rules were presented by Rep. Hob Bryan and approved by Senators with only Sen. Norwood voting present. Minimal changes were made to the rules, including language on live-steaming in committee rooms. While it is not currently set up, it has been named as a priority of Lt. Governor-Elect Delbert Hosemann.
Two new committees were created through the approved rules to include Technology which will hold seven members from the Senate and 11 from the House, and Gaming which will have nine from the Senate and 19 from the House.
After approving Rep. Read as Temporary Speaker of the House, Rep. Richard Bennett moved to nominate Philip Gunn as Speaker. This recommendation was seconded by Rep. Cockerham and Rep. Huddleston and nominations were closed. Gunn was unanimously elected as the Speaker of the Mississippi House of Representatives. This is Gunn’s third term to serve after being elected first in 2012 and again in 2016.
Speaker Gunn taking the oath of office #msleg pic.twitter.com/0UBKeBuvEL
The House then approved Andrew Ketchings as House Clerk. Both chambers voted for new members to Management and Rules Committees before adjourning.
Speaker of the House Philip Gunn spoke with reporters just before lawmakers went home for the day, giving some insight to what he sees as major priorities for the year.
Gunn said he plans to focus many of his efforts on job creation and ending the ‘brain drain’ out of Mississippi.
“We did a summit last year on workforce development last April,” said Gunn. “That’s a broad umbrella when you say ‘job creation’ but I think that is the number one issue for people.” He also said healthcare, infrastructure, education and MDOC could be on the horizon.
Gunn said when it comes to Medicaid expansion he is still opposed to the idea. He would, however, consider ideas of reform and better ways for the program to operate.
“I’m open minded and will listen to ideas but in the traditional use of the term medicaid expansion, no I am not for that,” said Gunn.
With the recent urgent situation within MDOC’s prison system, Gunn said lawmakers could be involved in addressing issues in the future as they move forward.
Gunn particularly plans to introduce a workforce development bill for a job creation initiative and teacher pay raise. Through the summit in April, Gunn said several things came out of it that he believes could help improve the workforce in the state. One of those things is called Work Keys. This is an ACT-type assessment that high school students could take free of charge if they chose to head straight into the workforce after graduation or pursue a skilled labor career.
“Work Keys is testing for career tech type jobs,” said Gunn. “One thing we’ve done in the past is pay for the ACT for high school juniors and we are proposing we do the same thing with Work Keys.”
One top priority for Lt. Governor-Elect Hosemann is transparency and the possibility of live-streaming some committee rooms. Gunn said to his understanding that is looking to be a large expense but said he plans to see how the Senate’s investigation into that process develops and possibly adopt it for the House, as well.
“We have not really looked at the cost of doing that,” said Gunn. “Candidly, I have not had a great human cry for live streaming the committee meetings.”
Gunn reiterated that all the action that the House makes on bills is available online linked to each measure. He said live-streaming those rooms will be strictly a decision of cost.
The 2020 Session is set to last 125 days this year.
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Sore Eros’ Sickies Vol. 2: Pastoral Psychedelia and Whimsical Innocence
Shazia Hafiz Ramji Music, Reviews
Second Chants, released in 2009 and Know Touching in 2011 revealed Sore Eros’ characteristic dreamy, melodic sound led by Robert Robinson’s wavering vocals and Adam Langellotti’s layered guitar, with synth melodies and hissing percussion that is often erratic but equally harmonious. Sore Eros’ new tape Sickies Volume 2 (Sterling Silver the Alien) develops the strain of sensitive bedroom pop dipped in twee melodies and airy vocals, with harmonicas and heartfelt lyrics adding to the whimsical innocence and melancholic consistency of the album.
Side A’s opening song “In the Hay” introduces the manic, underwater shimmer that conveys the mood of the album as a whole. Meandering acoustic guitar and a soft percussive build-up tricks a sense of optimism that quickly mellows into a steady tempo and contrary lyrics: “I’m feeling blue today, I lost my needle in the hay/ I’m feeling down today, so go away, so far away.” This is interrupted by a hazy textural shift to muted but crisp electric guitar and compressed drums coupled with: “I’m feeling fine today so come along, join us all/ I’m feeling great today, let’s roll around in the hay.” The delirious uncertainty of emotion makes listening playful and reflective, defining Sore Eros’ sound – wayward, confusing lyrics complemented by contradicting melodies.
Emphatic strumming on “Cry So Slow” continues the sensitivity of “Corridors” and “Loves Up” on Side A. Vocals reminiscent of Stephen Rand of The Loneliest Christmas Tree fade into the song, drowned by swelling drums and layered with soft electric guitar whose melody is secretive and hushed. The instrumentation highlights the wistful feeling, especially towards the end where the vocals become clear and intense. Although “Cry So Slow” is memorable and equally melancholy, “In the Hay” is the song that is most similar to the soft psychedelia and novel, haunting quality of “Before Animals” on the previous album Second Chants. Listen here to both.
“Before Animals” by Sore Eros, from Second Chants (2009):
On Side B, “Headlong” delivers the listener into a cosmic space, perfect for a Miltonian Satan to wander through, vulnerable and lonely as synth intervals chime paths in space, with Robinson’s whoo-ing and wailing breaking the sparkling murk with harmonious, ghostly interference.
“Wind Taken” places the listener in the dreamy ether again, as the sprite-like vocals and familiar, compressed drums return with harmonica that seems improvised but still manages to retain a cohesive melody and mood. Declarations of awe on “Buzz Stew” (“I saw the light”) prepares the listener for more lyrical repetition in “Try To Forget” where Robinson sings: “Don’t know why, don’t know why, don’t know why, I can’t talk.” Saturated, off key guitar lines add to the charm of anxious repetition that dissolves into playful wailing and wobbly, tape-wound static.
Sore Eros’ Sickies Vol. 2 (Sterling Silver the Alien) is the sound of a soft focus dream, developing and weaving whimsical harmonies with dream-pop sensibilities and craftsmanship that allows for the instruments to gain prominence in each song at the right time. Sore Eros’ songs create something new by tweaking the familiar and not being obsessed by it; by being unwary of influence and open to experimentation.
Despite the clever palindrome for a band name, collaborations and tours with Ariel Pink, Gary War and Kurt Vile, it’s a surprise that Sore Eros hasn’t garnered a reputation for being one of the best bands in the realm of what is classified as lo-fi bedroom pop. Classify them as one may, this is an album for those everyday spaces of the in between, where we are neither happy nor sad, but try to be content with living in this space.
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DDDAS provides new approaches for combining computational, theoretical, and instrumentation data sets for high interactive testing of multiple physical and engineering hypotheses.
As articulated by Dr. Darema who pioneered the DDDAS paradigm: “in DDDAS instrumentation data and executing application models of these systems become a dynamic feedback control loop, whereby measurement data are dynamically incorporated into an executing model of the system in order to improve the accuracy of the model (or simulation), or to speed-up the simulation, and in reverse the executing application model controls the instrumentation process to guide the measurement process. DDDAS presents opportunity to create new capabilities through more accurate understanding, analysis, and prediction of the behavior of complex systems, be they natural, engineered, or societal, and to create decision support methods which can have the accuracy of full-scale simulations, as well as to create more efficient and effective instrumentation methods, such as intelligent management of Big Data, and dynamic and adaptive management of networked collections of heterogeneous sensors and controllers. DDDAS is a unifying paradigm, unifying the computational and instrumentation aspects of an application system, extends the notion of Big Computing to span from the high-end to the real-time data acquisition and control, and it’s a key methodology in managing and intelligently exploiting Big Data”
The DDDAS paradigm, and opportunities and challenges in exploiting the DDDAS paradigm have been discussed in a series of workshops, starting in 2000. The reports from these workshops, included in the present website, identified new science and technology capabilities, driven by and enabled through the DDDAS paradigm, and these include new modeling methods, algorithms, systems software, and instrumentation methods, and well as the need for synergistic multidisciplinary research among application domains researchers, and researchers in mathematics, statistics, and computer sciences, as well as well as researchers involved in design and development of instrumentation systems and methods. In addition to these workshops, through corresponding government sponsored initiatives, research efforts commenced to address the challenges and create new capabilities. As shown through the increasing body of work, DDDAS is applicable to many areas, such as civil engineering, aerospace, manufacturing, transportation, energy, medical diagnosis and treatment, environmental, weather, and climate, etc. This website presents examples of advances through DDDAS in areas and aspects identified above.
The DDDAS concept entails the ability to dynamically incorporate additional data into an executing application, and in reverse, the ability of an application to dynamically steer the measurement (instrumentation and control) components of the application system. DDDAS is a key concept for improving modeling of systems under dynamic conditions, more effective management of instrumentation systems, and is a key concept in architecting and controlling dynamic and heterogeneous resources, including, sensor networks, networks of embedded controllers, and other networked resources. DDDAS transformative advances in computational modeling of applications and in instrumentation and control systems (and in particular those that represent dynamic systems) require multidisciplinary research, and specifically need synergistic and systematic collaborations between applications domain researchers with researchers in mathematics and statistics, researchers computer sciences, and researchers involved in the design/ implementation of measurement and control systems (instruments, and instrumentation methods, and other sensors and embedded controllers).
Individual and multidisciplinary research, technology development, and cyber Infrastructure software frameworks needed for DDDAS applications and their environments are sought, along four key science and technology frontiers: [1] Applications modeling: In DDDAS an application/simulation must be able to accept data at execution time and be dynamically steered by such dynamic data inputs. This requires research advances in application models that: describe the application system at different levels of detail and modalities; are able to dynamically invoke appropriate models as needed by the dynamically injected data into the application; and include interfaces of applications to measurements and other data systems. DDDAS will, for example, engender an integration of large scale simulation with traditional controls systems methods, thus provide an impetus of new directions to traditional controls methods. [2] Advances in Mathematical and Statistical Algorithms include creating algorithms with stable and robust convergence properties under perturbations induced by dynamic data inputs: algorithmic stability under dynamic data injection/streaming; algorithmic tolerance to data perturbations; multiple scales and model reduction; enhanced asynchronous algorithms with stable convergence properties; multimodal, multiscale modeling and uncertainty quantification, and in cases where the multiple scales or modalities are invoked dynamically and there is need for fast methods of uncertainty quantification and uncertainty propagation across dynamically invoked models. Such aspects push to new levels of challenges the traditional computational math approaches. [3] Application Measurement Systems and Methods include improvements and innovations in instrumentation platforms, and improvements in the means and methods for collecting data, focusing in a region of relevant measurements, controlling sampling rates, multiplexing, multisource information fusion, and determining the architecture of heterogeneous and distributed sensor networks and/or networks of embedded controllers. The advances here will create new instrumentation and control capabilities. Advances in Systems Software runtime support and infrastructures to support the execution of applications whose computational systems resource requirements are dynamically dependent on dynamic data inputs, and include: dynamic selection at runtime of application components embodying algorithms suitable for the kinds of solution approaches depending on the streamed data, and depending on the underlying resources, dynamic workflow driven systems, coupling domain specific workflow for interoperation with computational software, general execution workflow, software engineering techniques. The systems software environments required are those that can support execution in dynamically integrated platforms ranging from the high-end to the real-time data acquisition and control – cross-systems integrated. [4] Software Infrastructures and other systems software (OS, data-management systems and other middleware) services to address the “real time” coupling of data and computations across a wide area heterogeneous dynamic resources and associated adaptations while ensuring application correctness and consistency, and satisfying time and policy constraints. Specific features include the ability to process large volume, high rate data from different sources including sensor systems, archives, other computations, instruments, etc.; interfaces to physical devices (including sensor systems and actuators), and dynamic data management requirements
Areas of interest to the AF and which can benefit from DDDAS transformative advances, include areas driven by the AF Technology Horizons, Energy Horizons, and Global Horizons reports, such as: autonomous systems (e.g. swarms of unmanned or remotely piloted vehicles); autonomous mission planning; complex adaptive systems with resilient autonomy; collaborative/cooperative control; autonomous reasoning and learning; sensor-based processing; ad-hoc, agile networks; multi-scale simulation technologies and coupled multi-physics simulations; decision support systems with the accuracy of full scale models (e.g. high-performance aircraft health monitoring, materials stresses and degradation); embedded diagnostics and V&V for complex adaptive systems; automated software generation; cognitive modeling; cognitive performance augmentation; human-machine interfaces. DDDAS provides new approaches for combining computational, theoretical, and instrumentation data sets for high interactive testing of multiple physical and engineering hypotheses.
DDDAS: ability to dynamically incorporate additional data into an executing application, and in reverse, ability of an application to dynamically steer the measurement process.
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Polish Journal of Food and Nutrition Sciences
Fatty acid composition with emphasis on conjugated linoleic acid [CLA] and cholesterol content of Pakistani dairy products
Talpur F. N. , Bhanger M.I. , Memon N.N.
The fatty acid composition of principally conjugated linoleic isomers and cholesterol content of some Pakistani dairy products (butter, cheese, yoghurt and cream) are reported. The most abundant saturated fatty acids within the dairy products studied were palmitic (C16:0), stearic (C18:0) and myristic acid (C14:0), contributing 50-55 g/100 g of total fatty acids. The oleic acid (C18:1) content was considerably higher (21.20-24.12 g/100 g of total fatty acids) than the other unsaturated fatty acids in all dairy products examined. The mean cholesterol content ranged between 91-200 mg/100 g in total fat. A positive correlation between cholesterol and fat content (r=0.6288) of dairy products was found for pooled data. Among dairy products investigated, cheese contains higher mean values (p<0.05) of CLA (9.00 mg/g) as compared to butter (8.18 mg/g), yoghurt (8.27 mg/g) and cream (8.52 mg/g) samples. In order to understand the factors that affect the CLA levels in dairy products the whole production system needs to be carefully checked, with special attention to animal feeding patterns, characteristics of milk used and different stages in processing.
cream cardiovascular disease cheese lipid yoghourt risk conjugated linoleic acid butter cholesterol content Pakistan dairy product fatty acid composition
Talpur F. N.
University of Sindh, Jamshoro-76080, Pakistan
Bhanger M.I.
Memon N.N.
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Games 83/84 Wrap-Up: NYY 6 BOS 1/BOS 9 NYY 5
(Have a day, Mr. Jones. Courtesy of The AP)
I wanted to get greedy and have the Yankees take both games yesterday after they cruised to a 6-1 win in the first half of the doubleheader, but I'll take a split. It still leaves them 1 up in the series after winning Friday night's game and still leaves them with an opportunity to take 3 of 4 with tonight's game still to be played.
Game 1 Notes:
- The Yanks got 5 in the 1st off of Beckett to kick off Friday night's game and got 4 in the 1st yesterday off of Franklin Morales on back-to-back Nick Swisher (3-R) and Andruw Jones (solo) HRs.
- They extended the lead to 6-0 in the 4th when they went back-to-back again, Jones starting it this time and Jayson Nix finishing it.
- Freddy Garcia was fantastic in just his 2nd start back in the rotation. He held Bahhston to just 1 run through 6.2 innings of work. His stuff looked good, he was efficient, and he struck out 5 and didn't give up a lot of solid contact.
- The offense got nothing against reliever Justin Germano after they knocked Morales out, but they didn't need any more. Garcia was solid, and Cody Eppley and Chad Qualls combined for 2.1 scoreless innings to finish out the win.
- The Yanks got yet ANOTHER early lead in the second game on a Mark Teixeira 3-run homer in the 1st. That's 12 1st-inning runs in this series in 3 games.
- Unfortunately Phil Hughes couldn't make the 3-0 lead stand up. He wasn't horrible last night, but wasn't as sharp as he was in previous start. He gave up a run in the 3rd, a run in the 5th, and 3 in the 6th to give the Sawx a 5-3 lead.
- Hughes' defense didn't do him any favors behind him. Errors by Darnell McDonald in the 5th and Derek Jeter in the 6th kept innings alive for Bahhston and drove up Hughes' already high pitch count.
- Boone Logan and Cory Wade combined to give up 4 more runs in the 7th to put the game out of reach. Logan looks shot at this point after being used in over half the team's games to date, and Wade still looks very hittable. He'll be back in Triple-A today.
- Jones hit his third HR of the day in the 7th, and Eric Chavez hit one in the 9th to bring the final score to 9-5. After scoring 10 runs on 0 homers on Friday, the Yankees scored all 11 in both games yesterday via the long ball. Crazy.
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Friends, family greet Mac but no sign of UDP caucus
Cayman News | 15/12/2012
(CNS): There were no members of the UDP parliamentary group to greet the premier on Friday night when around 100 friends and family members turned up at Owen Roberts International Airport on his return from Jamaica. Cayman 27 reports that Bush told the small crowd that he has no intention of stepping down and the allegations against him are politically motivated. In his first public appearance in Cayman following his arrest Tuesday morning at his home in West Bay, the premier made it clear he was not going voluntarily. Meanwhile, it is understood that a number of the UDP government and backbenchers have asked Bush to resign.
Bush was returning home after flying out very early Thursday morning to Jamaica, where he gave the commencement address on integrity at the University College of the Caribbean on Thursday night. He was scheduled to receive an honorary doctorate from the college but the UCC hadpostponed that award. Bush told the group at the airport that it was decided he will receive the doctorate here in Cayman, the local news channel reported.
Well ole Mac, Bobo, it look like they love and respect you more in Jamaica, there were all sorts of pictures and broadcasts messages of your motorcade and thousands of supporters who greeted you at the airport in Jamaica. Why did you even bother to come back and without that Doctorate? shame on them for letting you go all that way to speak on integrity, what none of them know anything about and then to let you down easy. Poor ole humpty dumpty, fell soft but still splattered !!
Sounds like your UDP members after kicking you out or jumping ship on you bobo lol! Foster’s hiring bag boys, you better apply quick lol!
Braca
Guess Ju Ju is just waiting to be Premier, a good awaited opportunity.
R.U. Kidden says:
Ju Ju? Not that's really frightening!
I am a bit confused here…the UCC postponed the issuing of his honorary doctorate there in Jamacia and Bush told the group at the Airport that it will happen here in Cayman…I guess he will issue it to himself just like how he will start his own investigation into himself…Lord help us! …maybe during his investigation he will be taken back in time and get a reality shock as to what it really happening to him! I am sure he wil have less supporters than when he arrived back from his trip to Jamaica… the UCC just confirmed that he has not been honorable in anything he has done. They could not have made a better decision than to postone it…maybe they should postpone it indefiniately!
I wonder how many (giving some the benefit of the doubt) of his entourage paid for the trip?
Some familiar faces seem to continue at the trough……it soon run dry though!!
WHAT A JOKE says:
Does bush really think anybody believes his comment that it has been decided that the Jamaican honorary doctorate will be awarded to him in Cayman ? There always has to be a made up story to soften his embarressment – talk about being in denial.
Rolston offered to pick him up and drive him home, but Big Mac declined.
My sweet.
Cheese Face says:
We really did miss an opportunity there. The other 52,460 of us really should have down up to kick his fat ass back on the plane.
We’ve missed hundreds of opportunities, and I expect we will continue o miss them. Thank goodness London is doing something cuz we sure aren’t.
What a MESS!!!
100 friends and supporter meeting him at the airport represents .006 of 1% of the electorate which equates to 99.994% of the electorate not supporting this madman dictator. This shameless man is so ridiculous that he does not have the intelligence to know how stupid and unprofessional he really is as he is the absolute laughing stock of not only Cayman but the world who follows his antics.
Yep – using the criteria set by him for OMOV, he is gone.
How intelligent is it to take the fact that about 100 people showed up at the airport as the basis to conclude that 99.994% of the electorate do not support Mr. Bush?
Do you understand what is wrong with your type of thinking?
It is the same thinking that Bush used for the OMOV referendum where he treated a non-vote as a vote against. He called for the people to come to airport to show their support for him but only 100 (or less) could be bothered.
Kmanlady says:
Sorry Guys! I was at the airport to meetsome friends coming in on the JA flight and there was a lot of us meeting friends & family.
the supporters for MAC was about 50 or less. please do not include us who was meeting our friends and family as his suppporters..
CNS: please retrack your comment of 100 or more supporters as that is incorrect.
Kmanlady
Knot S Smart says:
They dont want to perform in the circus anymore?
Thats it. I'm calling the Jordanian…
Down to 100 hard core supporters. Not a single MLA in attendance. Speaks volumes for the lack of support for Big Mac.
Mac still strong in his district of West Bay, its CG and Rollie who have to worry about whether they will win another election if they go against him in a no confidence vote.
BTW, how was it that the media knew so quickly that the premier was arrested? Looks kind of orchestrated to me.
Kool Britannia says:
We are pulling the strings very nicely thank you.
Dream on. Didn't see many if any West Bay supporters at the airport.
Yeah, that news should have been kept secret by the police. smh.
Grasping at straws, aren't you………….
Have I got a great deal on a large clock tower in London for you, my friend.
Does he have the support of the silent majority?
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Photographer Terry Richardson has been known to push the envelope with young, female models.
How A Career In Pictures Covered the Tracks of Fashion’s Most Notorious Creep
By Mateeka Lanee
There are few more dominating industries than fashion. Young people may not know how much a gallon of gas costs at the local 7-11, or who the Secretary of Defense is, but which awards ceremony did Miley Cyrus wear the Biggie and Tupac dress to? They’ll know the answer (it’s the EMA’s, by the way).
Fashion, and all of its related elements have and will continue to be the bar by which social status often is set. Price tags, fabrics, and brand monograms are, unfortunately, quick and easy “tells” that can give away a lot about a person. There’s no faster way to pick your friends than to judge them from a superficial interpretation of their socioeconomic class, age, and level of “cool.” It’s been this way in America surely since before the Pilgrims and the Indians feasted together and whispered about each others’ choice of outfits.
The problem with this, of course, is that clothing, rather than being simply an expression of oneself, is instead used as a sort of totem pole to illustrate power and influence. When poor kids start rocking Louis Vuitton, however, all traditional “tells” are tossed out the window. And when a pervert somehow earns the power and influence to turn wannabe-model nobodies into fashion somebodies, it’s not just the protege whose integrity is at stake.
Terry Richardson is an internationally recognized fashion photographer with clients ranging from Rolling Stone to Vogue. He has worked with hundreds of celebrity models and even has done a shoot with President Obama.
Starting professional work as a partner to his schizophrenic father (who studied art with Andy Warhol) in the 90s, Richardson found major career success following the first shoot he did, solo, for Vibe magazine. Since then, he has forged himself into the most prominent of fashion’s consciousness – that of imagery. Take even a glance at his impressive portfolio to see the names of both modeling giants like Coco Rocha and Kate Moss, and celebrities including Miley Cyrus and Rihanna. It’s obvious the man is talented, and no doubt hardworking. His work is often sensual, even racy. However, it has not been the final product of Richardson’s work that is most disturbing, even perverse.
In 2010, public allegations were made from various models following the release of Richardson’s solo art book, Terryworld, accusing him of sexual misconduct. Model/writer/actress Rie Rasmussen stated at Paris Fashion Week that year that Richardson’s work was “degrading to women,” stating furthermore that he “takes girls who are young, manipulates them to take their clothes off and takes pictures of them they will be ashamed of.”
Take a peek online to see reprints of some of the shots featured in the book (you can find it online for your coffee table, too, if your guests would appreciate viewing genitals with their green tea). The essence of the book is that of “American Apparel ads gone wild,” but with no apparent purpose other than shock value. At least AA is trying to sell you a good-ol’ pair of American-made shorts and knee-high socks.
Where exactly were these allegations supposed to resonate for the average magazine reader? No one, except maybe those of us addicted to America’s Next Top Model, can understand some of the hard work that goes on behind the scenes at photo shoots. Outrageous outfits and unnatural stunts can be pretty routine for models. Awkward posing? Sure. But surely no 19-year-old young model walks into a shoot expecting to be asked to give oral sex to her photographer, or perhaps worse yet, to take the camera into her own hands to shoot her photographer’s junk?
These are just a couple of the disturbing tasks models have apparently been asked to complete by Terry Richardson. In 2004, Richardson spoke in an interview with the New York Observer explaining “a lot of it starts with me saying to a girl, ‘Do you want to do nudes?’ And they’re like, ‘I don’t want to be naked,’ […] So I say, ‘I’ll be naked and you take the pictures. You can have the camera. You can have the phallus.’ ”
With a possible career startup in the balance, and a room of assistants assuring you this is totally cool and normal, how could a young girl say no?
Women’s interest website thegloss.com posted an article in 2010 with the story of a 19-year-old girl named Jamie Peck, who recalled the strange requests made to her from Richardson, including that she allow him to play with her used tampon and rub him off with her hand. Other stories, similar to Peck’s appeared online and in print, and while jarring, soon faded into meaningless babble. There was a murmured notion that, if a girl felt uncomfortable, why didn’t she just leave the shoot? Moreover, what could it mean for a handful of unknown girls to accuse an internationally respected photographer, one of the best in the fashion business, of sexual misconduct? If there isn’t a gun placed to the head of a rape victim, is it still rape?
This isn’t to say that Terry Richardson is in the same realm as a rapist. However, taking advantage of girls looking to the authority of an established fashion ingenue for guidance in their art for personal pleasure is certainly a faux pas.
Shortly after Rie Rasmussen’s outcry, several other models, many of whom are fresh-faced models looking for their “big break,” also spoke out. Several controversial editorials and interviews were printed following the debacle, a few people huffed in disgust, and then…nothing happened. Today, Richardson is almost revered by young photography and modeling hopefuls, is still booked by prominent agencies, and is still featured in multi-page spreads in the glossies. He can be seen by a new generation of young people on Tumblr, chilling with Gaga and Daft Punk. How is this possible?
What’s up for debate isn’t whether or not these allegations are true, really. Reading through interviews of Richardson talking about his “creative process” is evidence enough. The question is, how is it that he still has a career? Is it true – well, perhaps it’s true, but is it right – that a man can manipulate and sexually harass women in the workplace with no consequences?
As fleeting as fashion’s tastes may be, those in the center of its gaze can hold more power for the average citizen than most elected officials. No matter how strange or offensive its behavior (see the 80s, harem pants, and the outfits of Lady Gaga for examples), fashion whims hold the power of immediate influence all in the name of what is misnamed as “art.” Thus, Richardson also has acquired his omnipotent hold on mainstream photography. But, just because something is popular doesn’t make it right. When girls are objectified to shock and awe, it’s all of fashion culture that suffers.
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20 The Wagnerian legacy posed a challenge for Strauss. However, the inimitable musical language of the colossus Wagner had gone to the very limits of expression. To imitate him was to remain stationary. To compose operas after him meant finding a way over an immense mountainous massif The alternative was to go round the outside, by the path pioneered by Liszt: that of the symphonic poem, an opera in miniature and without the human voice. This was the form on which Strauss concentrated over the next decade or so ....
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PHOTO SUMBITTED - Two-year old Creedon Serack and his family received a bit of good news right before Christmas when they learned that a tumor removed from the young boy's tongue in mid-December was not malignant.
By Jamie Rieger
The family of Creedon Serack received some uplifting news just before Christmas when they learned that a tumor growing on the two-year old’s tongue was not malignant.
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Non-O1/non-O139 Vibrio cholerae bacteraemia in mainland China from 2005 to 2019: clinical, epidemiological and genetic characteristics
Xinyao Li, Yuanyuan Wu, Xiaojun Sun, Jianping Ma, Xiaofeng Li, Cuiping Liu, Hongxiang Xie
Journal: Epidemiology & Infection / Volume 148 / 2020
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 08 July 2020, e186
In mainland China, the clinical, epidemiological and genetic features of non-O1/non-O139 Vibrio cholerae (NOVC) bacteraemia have been scarcely investigated. Herein, we describe a patient with NOVC bacteraemia diagnosed in our hospital and present a retrospective analysis of literature reports of 32 other cases in China, detailing the clinical epidemiology, antibiotic resistance and molecular characteristics of isolates. Most patients were male (84.8%; median age, 53 years) and had predisposing factors, such as cirrhosis, malignant tumours, blood diseases and diabetes. In addition to fever, gastroenteritis was the most frequent presenting symptom. The mortality rate during hospitalisation was 12.1%. NOVC bacteraemia cases were more common in June–August, with the majority in coastal provinces and the Yangtze River basin. Only 42.4% of cases were attributed to consumption of marine (aquatic) products. Tetracycline, third-generation cephalosporins, and fluoroquinolones were the most effective antimicrobial agents, and the highest frequencies of resistance were recorded for ampicillin/sulbactam (37.5%), amoxicillin/clavulanic acid (33.3%), ampicillin (29.2%) and sulfamethoxazole (20%). Multi-drug resistant isolates were not detected. Limited data indicate that ctxAB and tcpA genes were absent in all NOVC isolates but other putative virulence genes (hlyA, toxR, hap and rtxA) were common. Ten multilocus sequence types were identified with marked genetic heterogeneity between different isolates. As clinical manifestations of NOVC bacteraemia may vary widely, and isolates exhibit genetic diversity, clinicians and public health experts should be alerted to the possibility of infection with this pathogen because of the high prevalence of liver disease in China.
Association between retinol intake and hyperuricaemia in adults
Peipei Zhang, Jianping Sun, Yan Guo, Minghui Han, Fan Yang, Yongye Sun
Journal: Public Health Nutrition , First View
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 21 May 2020, pp. 1-10
Current evidences on the association between hyperuricaemia and retinol intake remain inconsistent. Furthermore, no known studies have investigated the relationship between hyperuricaemia and retinol intake from animal food and plant food separately. This study aimed to assess the relationship between different sources of retinol intake and risk of hyperuricaemia among US adults.
Univariate and multivariate weighted logistic regression models and restricted cubic spline models were used to assess the associations of total, animal-derived and plant-derived retinol intakes with the risk of hyperuricaemia. Dietary retinol was measured through two 24-h dietary recall interviews. Hyperuricaemia was defined as serum uric acid level ≥7·0 and ≥6·0 mg/dl in men and women, respectively.
Data from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey 2009–2014 were used in this cross-sectional study.
Overall, 12 869 participants aged ≥20 years were included.
Compared with the lowest quintile, the multivariable OR of hyperuricaemia for the highest quintile intake of total, animal-derived and plant-derived retinol were 0·71 (95 % CI 0·52, 0·96), 0·76 (95 % CI 0·59, 0·96) and 0·92 (95 % CI 0·72, 1·17), respectively. The inverse association between dietary intake of total retinol and the risk of hyperuricaemia was observed in men. Dose–response analyses revealed a novel linear trend between the risk of hyperuricaemia and total, animal-derived retinol intake separately.
Our findings indicated that intakes of total and animal-derived retinol were negatively associated with hyperuricaemia in US adults.
10 - Decadal Coupled Ocean–Atmosphere Interaction in North Atlantic and Global Warming Hiatus
from Part III - Future Earth and the Earth’s Fluid Environment
By Jianping Li, Cheng Sun, Ruiqiang Ding
Edited by Tom Beer, Jianping Li, Beijing Normal University, Keith Alverson
Book: Global Change and Future Earth
Print publication: 18 October 2018, pp 131-143
Genetic and Environmental Influences on Pulmonary Function and Muscle Strength: The Chinese Twin Study of Aging
Xiaocao Tian, Chunsheng Xu, Yili Wu, Jianping Sun, Haiping Duan, Dongfeng Zhang, Baofa Jiang, Zengchang Pang, Shuxia Li, Qihua Tan
Journal: Twin Research and Human Genetics / Volume 20 / Issue 1 / February 2017
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 20 January 2017, pp. 53-59
Print publication: February 2017
Genetic and environmental influences on predictors of decline in daily functioning, including forced expiratory volume in 1 s (FEV1), forced vital capacity (FVC), handgrip, and five-times-sit-to-stand test (FTSST), have not been addressed in the aging Chinese population. We performed classical twin modeling on FEV1, FVC, handgrip, and FTSST in 379 twin pairs (240 MZ and 139 DZ) with median age of 50 years (40–80 years). Data were analyzed by fitting univariate and bivariate twin models to estimate the genetic and environmental influences on these measures of physical function. Heritability was moderate for FEV1, handgrip, and FTSST (55–60%) but insignificant for FVC. Only FVC showed moderate control, with shared environmental factors accounting for about 50% of the total variance. In contrast, all measures of pulmonary function and muscle strength showed modest influences from the unique environment (40–50%). Bivariate analysis showed highly positive genetic correlations between FEV1 and FVC (r G = 1.00), and moderately negative genetic correlations between FTSST and FEV1 (r G = −0.33) and FVC (r G = −0.42). FEV1 and FVC, as well as FEV1 and handgrip, displayed high common environmental correlations (r C = 1.00), and there were moderate correlations between FVC and handgrip (r C = 0.44). FEV1 and FVC showed high unique environmental correlations (r E = 0.76) and low correlations between handgrip and FEV1 (r E = 0.17), FVC (r E = 0.14), and FTSST (r E = −0.13) with positive or negative direction. We conclude that genetic factors contribute significantly to the individual differences in common indicators of daily functioning (FEV1, handgrip, and FTSST). FEV1 and FVC were genetically and environmentally correlated. Pulmonary function and FTSST may share similar sets of genes but in the negative direction. Pulmonary function and muscle strength may have a shared environmental background.
The Genetic Basis for Cognitive Ability, Memory, and Depression Symptomatology in Middle-Aged and Elderly Chinese Twins
Chunsheng Xu, Jianping Sun, Fuling Ji, Xiaocao Tian, Haiping Duan, Yaoming Zhai, Shaojie Wang, Zengchang Pang, Dongfeng Zhang, Zhongtang Zhao, Shuxia Li, Jacob v.B. Hjelmborg, Kaare Christensen, Qihua Tan
The genetic influences on aging-related phenotypes, including cognition and depression, have been well confirmed in the Western populations. We performed the first twin-based analysis on cognitive performance, memory and depression status in middle-aged and elderly Chinese twins, representing the world's largest and most rapidly aging population. The sample consisted of 384 twin pairs with a median age of 50 years. Cognitive function was measured using the Montreal Cognitive Assessment (MoCA) scale; memory was assessed using the revised Wechsler Adult Intelligence scale; depression symptomatology was evaluated by the self-reported 30-item Geriatric Depression (GDS-30)scale. Both univariate and multivariate twin models were fitted to the three phenotypes with full and nested models and compared to select the best fitting models. Univariate analysis showed moderate-to-high genetic influences with heritability 0.44 for cognition and 0.56 for memory. Multivariate analysis by the reduced Cholesky model estimated significant genetic (rG = 0.69) and unique environmental (rE = 0.25) correlation between cognitive ability and memory. The model also estimated weak but significant inverse genetic correlation for depression with cognition (-0.31) and memory (-0.28). No significant unique environmental correlation was found for depression with other two phenotypes. In conclusion, there can be a common genetic architecture for cognitive ability and memory that weakly correlates with depression symptomatology, but in the opposite direction.
Genetic and Environmental Influences on Cardiovascular Disease Risk Factors: A Study of Chinese Twin Children and Adolescents
Fuling Ji, Feng Ning, Haiping Duan, Jaakko Kaprio, Dongfeng Zhang, Dong Zhang, Shaojie Wang, Qing Qiao, Jianping Sun, Jiwei Liang, Zengchang Pang, Karri Silventoinen
Journal: Twin Research and Human Genetics / Volume 17 / Issue 2 / April 2014
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 27 February 2014, pp. 72-79
Print publication: April 2014
We evaluated the genetic and environmental contributions to metabolic cardiovascular risk factors and their mutual associations. Eight metabolic factors (body mass index, waist circumference, waist-to-hip ratio, systolic blood pressure, diastolic blood pressure, total serum cholesterol, serum triglycerides, and serum uric acid) were measured in 508 twin pairs aged 8–17 years from the Qingdao Twin Registry, China. Linear structural equation models were used to estimate the heritability of these traits, as well as the genetic and environmental correlations between them. Among boys, body mass index and uric acid showed consistently high heritability (0.49–0.81), whereas other traits showed moderate to high common environmental variance (0.37–0.73) in children (8–12 years) and adolescents (13–17 years) except total cholesterol. For girls, moderate to high heritability (0.39–0.75) were obtained for six metabolic traits in children, while only two traits showed high heritability and others mostly medium to large common environmental variance in adolescents. Genetic correlations between the traits were strong in both boys and girls in children (r g = 0.64–0.99 between body mass index and diastolic blood pressure; r g = 0.71–1.00 between body mass index and waist circumference), but decreased for adolescent girls (r g = 0.51 between body mass index and waist-to-hip ratio; r g = 0.55 between body mass index and uric acid; r g = 0.61 between body mass index and systolic blood pressure). The effect of genetic factors on most metabolic traits decreased from childhood to adolescence. Both common genetic and specific environmental factors influence the mutual associations among most of the metabolic traits.
Prevalence of hyperhomocysteinaemia and its major determinants in rural Chinese hypertensive patients aged 45–75 years
Yu Wang, Xiaoying Li, Xianhui Qin, Yefeng Cai, Mingli He, Liming Sun, Jianping Li, Yan Zhang, Genfu Tang, Binyan Wang, Ningling Sun, Xin Xu, Lisheng Liu, Xiping Xu, Yong Huo
Journal: British Journal of Nutrition / Volume 109 / Issue 7 / 14 April 2013
Print publication: 14 April 2013
We aimed to investigate the prevalence of hyperhomocysteinaemia (total plasma homocysteine (tHcy) ≥ 10 μmol/l) and its major determinants in rural Chinese hypertensive patients. A cross-sectional investigation was carried out in Lianyungang of Jiangsu province, China. This analysis included 13 946 hypertensive adults. The prevalence of hyperhomocysteinaemia was 51·6 % (42·7 % in women and 65·6 % in men). The OR of hyperhomocysteinaemia were 1·52 (95 % CI 1·39, 1·67) and 2·32 (95 % CI 2·07, 2·61) for participants aged 55–65 and 65–75 v. 45–55 years; 1·27 (95 % CI 1·18, 1·37) for participants with a BMI ≥ 25 v. < 25 kg/m2; 1·14 (95 % CI 1·06, 1·23) for participants with v. without antihypertensive treatment; 1·09 (95 % CI 1·00, 1·18) for residents inland v. coastal; 0·89 (95 % CI 0·82, 0·97) and 0·83 (95 % CI 0·74, 0·92) for participants with moderate and high v. low physical activity levels; 1·54 (95 % CI 1·41, 1·68) and 2·47 (95 % CI 2·17, 2·81) for participants with a glomerular filtration rate 60–90 and < 60 v. ≥ 90 ml/min per 1·73 m2; and 1·20 (95 % CI 1·07, 1·35) and 3·81 (95 % CI 3·33, 4·36) for participants with CT and TT v. CC genotype at methylenetetrahydrofolate reductase 677C>T polymorphism, respectively. Furthermore, higher tHcy concentrations were observed in smokers of both sexes (men: geometric mean 12·1 (interquartile range (IQR) 9·2–14·5) v. 11·9 (IQR 9·3–14·0) μmol/l, P= 0·005; women: geometric mean 10·3 (IQR 8·3–13·0) v. 9·6 (IQR 7·8–11·6) μmol/l, P= 0·010), and only in males with hypertension grade 3 (v. grade 1 or controlled blood pressure) (geometric mean 12·1 (IQR 9·2–14·4) v. 11·7 (IQR 9·2–14·0), P= 0·016) and in male non-drinkers (yes v. no) (geometric mean 12·3 (IQR 9·4–14·8) v. 11·7 (IQR 9·1–13·9), P= 0·014). In conclusion, there was a high prevalence of hyperhomocysteinaemia in Chinese hypertensive adults, particularly in the inlanders, who may benefit greatly from tHcy-lowering strategies, such as folic acid supplementation and lifestyle change.
Further Validation of a Chinese Version of the Obsessive-Compulsive Inventory-Revised
Gregory S. Chasson, Suqin Tang, Bradley Gray, Hongwei Sun, Jianping Wang
Journal: Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapy / Volume 41 / Issue 2 / March 2013
Print publication: March 2013
Background: There has been an increased effort to understand the nature of obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) in non-Western cultures. In particular, growing research has examined OCD in China, but there are no comprehensive instruments that measure both OCD severity and heterogeneity for characterizing samples. Aims: A validated, comprehensive measure that could be used in China would provide researchers with a useful instrument for evaluating severity and heterogeneity of OCD in a non-Western culture, allowing researchers to better understand the universal and cultural components that play a role in the nature of OCD. Method: The current investigation presents data on the reliability and validity of a Mandarin translation of the Obsessive-Compulsive Inventory-Revised (CH-OCI) using both a student (n = 1950) and clinical sample (n = 50 patients with OCD; n = 50 patients with anxiety as a comparison group). Results: Results support the factor structure, convergent and discriminant validity, criterion-related validity, test-retest reliability, and internal consistency of the CH-OCI. Conclusions: Validation of the instrument permits researchers and clinicians to measure OCD presentation in Mandarin-speaking samples.
Impact of Small Miscuts of (0001) Sapphire on the Growth of AlxGa1-xN/AlN
Zheng Gong, Wenhong Sun, Jianping Zhang, Mikhail E. Gaevski, Hongmei Wang, Jinwei Yang, M. Asif Khan
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 01 February 2011, E4.34
In this paper, using chemical etching, atomic force microscope (AFM) and High- resolution X-ray diffraction (HRXRD), we report a study of the effect of various small miscuts of (0001) sapphire substrate (<1°) and the way to further improve the material quality. A set of AlN epilayers and AlN/AlxGa1-xN Superlattices (SLs) were grown by Migration-enhanced Metalorganic Chemical Vapor Deposition (MEMOCVD) on vicinal (0001) sapphire substrates. The threading dislocation density was found to be very sensitive to the miscut angles. The etch pit density reduced to 7×106 cm-2 for normal-oriented (0°-off) from the starting value of 7×107 cm-2 for 0.5°-off. We found the surface morphologies can be easily controlled by the different substrate miscut angles. The 1-2 Monolayers (MLs) step flow morphology for normal- oriented substrate changed to step bunches of 10 MLs height for 0.5°-off substrate. Correspondingly, AFM Root Mean Square (RMS) increased from 1.52 to 9.15 Å with a 5um×5um scan. This finding may help enhance the quality of full structure UVLED material and eventually improve the lifetime of UVLEDs.
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The Monsoon Ghost Image by Tom Vater
TMGI by Tom Vater is the third and perhaps final thriller in the Detective Maier trilogy. I requested and received a digital copy compliments of Crime Wave Press in exchange for an honest review.
Vater has certainly imagined a complex protagonist in Maier, an East German man who was once a war correspondent and now works as a PI for the premiere Sundermann agency in Hamburg, Germany, specializing in South East Asian cases. However, it is his past as a journalist that catches up to Maier in The Monsoon Ghost Image.
Maier’s old colleague, Martin Ritter, an internationally renowned war photographer, is presumed dead when his boat exploded off the shore of Thailand, along with all the other passengers on board.
But not so fast—Ritter’s wife, Emilie, receives photographic evidence that Martin is alive and roaming the streets of Bangkok. Emilie, also a colleague of Maier’s during those years, hires the Sundermann Agency and specifically Maier to help find Ritter and to find out why her husband has apparently faked his own death.
It pays to realize that most of the action in The Cambodian Book of the Dead, first of this trilogy, finds Maier narrating a story in which he is in the process being drugged and/or beaten or while he is recovering from being drugged and/or beaten.
With barely a breather the following book, The Man With the Golden Mind was brutal, violent, and extremely personal for our German detective so I expected to find Maier back in Hamburg licking his wounds— depressed and reeling— but to find him a self-pitying slob reduced to drinking Campari Orange seems a harsh form of self punishment even from an author that pulls no punches.
In typical Vater fashion the case is a mere facade for something way deeper and it doesn’t take long to realize that the detective agency and particularly Maier have been manipulated into a back door scheme by a person who identifies herself only as the Wicked Witch of the East.
She soon sends them another digital image—a photograph code named the Monsoon Ghost Image that captures visual proof of a post 9/11 CIA rendition and torture of a suspected Muslim terrorist on Thai soil.
Plot spoiling actions happen at this juncture as through a sudden sharp turn of events— Maier and Mikhail twist from being the hunters into being hunted now that the detective agency is in sole possession of this damning photograph.
Ritter, the man behind the camera, has flipped to the dark side and was planning on optioning the MGI off to the highest bidder only to have it stolen by The Wicked Witch of the East and now he is looking not only to get it back but revenge as well.
In fact everyone in the picture is looking for it and will seemingly stop at nothing to get it back. As readers we are treated to a vast array of characters ranging from CIA baddies, to Thai generals, to hypnotic mind melting psychopathic doctors, to millionaire sociopaths— all with one thing in common they are all hot on the trail, if not a couple steps ahead of Maier and Mikhail.
Throughout the course of this trilogy Vater proves himself a master of plot and character—his writing is precise, satirical and right on target but what continues to shine is the author’s deep familiarity with South East Asia. He repeatedly mines that base of knowledge to evoke for his novels a stunning sense of place and richly imagined scenes.
This time, under the sure hands of Tom Vater the dark side of Thailand springs to life in vivid detail. The readers get a birds’ eye view of it all—from the back streets of Bangkok, Thai torture chambers, hedonistic party islands, sea gypsies and a millionaire’s island retreat that masquerades as a modern day Jurassic Park where men with too much money and time on their hands hunt humans instead of dinosaurs as sport.
While the island adventures of Maier and Mikhail with their sly wink at both Jurassic Park and Rambo might very well be over the top and leave one shaking their head they are nevertheless very entertaining to read.
This is another complicated twisty plot—you might need to get out that white board again—it is also a very disturbing read. The death toll is extremely high in this last entry into the world of Maier and is is filled with violence, torture, savagery, and mutilation—the extreme black of noir.
To say more would come at the expense of spoiling a great plot and that is not fair to other readers or to the author but I do as per my usual have a few more thoughts to share.
It is my thought that perhaps when Tom Vater first starting thinking of writing this trilogy it was because he wanted to highlight three moments in history and that Maier was born as a way to string his political agenda into a cohesive series.
However, it is also true that some characters seem to know their own minds and write their own stories. Maier and certainly Mikhail quickly morphed into book-stealing juggernauts that ride Vater’s taut well-crafted plots like monster trucks crashing over top of the political outrage that outlines a path below the fiction.
The Cambodian Book of the Dead is set in the Cambodia of 2001 and Vater paints a vivid picture of the country as it re-emerged from a half century of war, genocide, famine and cultural collapse. A Cambodian history lesson about the tragedy of the regime of Pol Pot, the Khmer Rouge and the killing fields. A thoughtful look at genocide, globalization, and expatriate exploitation of the local economy.
The Man With the Golden Mind is set against the backdrop of an unimaginable hidden truth—that of the secret war run by the American CIA in Laos during the Viet Nam War—A war that resulted in Laos becoming the most bombed country of the 20th century— one that was mostly covered up and barely reported by the press. It is a stunning bit of lost history that deserves seeing some daylight, a project that Vater helped document in 2008 with his brother and former wife.
The Monsoon Ghost Image is set in the Thailand of 2002 and is a tale of murder, torture, terrorism, and rendition. Riding underneath this outrageous spy thriller is a savage indictment of how the American government conducted itself overseas in a post 9/11 world.
I was curious as I read my way through this trilogy of thrillers why Vater decided to set them in 2001-2, the immediate aftermath of the 9/11 terrorist attacks. With TMGI his choice becomes clear, as perhaps, it was always on his agenda to shine a harsh light on America throughout the trilogy and in particular through TMGI— the post 9/11 conduct of the CIA.
September 11, 2001 is a day that will always be burned into my memory from turning on the TV and watching live and in shock as the second plane flew into the second tower to the horror of realizing that the jet that flew so low over my house was the one that crashed in the field in Pennsylvania. It was a tragic and horrible day.
Disturbingly what has sprung from that infamous act of terrorism is an American response that ignited two wars: The conflict in the Middle East that continues to this day and the War on Terror that also continues to this day.
In the resultant scramble to find the terrorists responsible for 9/11 and the “mythical” Weapons of Mass Destruction the American government sanctioned the CIA to use whatever means they saw fit to find justice for the American people.
The CIA saw fit to implement the practice of rendition, in other words— sending a foreign criminal or terrorist suspect covertly to be interrogated in a country with less rigorous regulations for the humane treatment of prisoners.
Tom Vater through TMGI asks the question of how low did the CIA stoop to get answers about terrorism and those mythical weapons of mass destruction and how far were they willing to go to keep these tactics a secret?
The plot for TMGI is action packed, edge of your seat, violent, deranged, outrageous and disturbing. It, horrifically, is a pale shadow compared to the truth, a reality that is still as relevant today in 2020 as it was back in 2002.
Even a brief look on Wikipedia reveals that the CIA paid two unqualified psychologists more than $80M to develop an enhanced interrogation technique that allowed for both physical and mental torture that was to be conducted in black sites on foreign soil, the hosting countries were compensated with huge payoffs for their cooperation. When this classified program started to gain public notice the CIA responded by covering up evidence and destroying documents.
Another point made by Vater is how easy it is for Americans to look away and ignore, but isn’t this true for all humans—including Germans? I do like a book that causes me to think and to take a stance for my beliefs so here goes:
As an American, who lives in the almost Midwest— these wars— unless I choose to let them, have no impact on my day to day life. In today’s America the popular vote does not elect presidents—the electoral college does. In today’s America the majority of public opinion doesn’t determine the course of justice—the ruling Senate majority does.
If I direct my focus solely towards the things that I cannot control, cannot change and where my actions have zero effect— then my mind suffers. My mind settles best through the practice of the Yoga Sutras and utilizing the tenets of Buddhism—philosophies that look in rather than without.
There is no escaping that I live in a completely globalized world that is incredibly complex—one where there are no easy answers or solutions to anything. Ancient aphorisms often stumble along this path but for the most part I trust their wisdom.
I would rather a quiet mind so I chose to pick my own battles. I chose to focus my thoughts and my actions on providing solutions to problems within my own wheelhouse where I can indeed effect change. Women heading into the technological minefield of birth need and deserve all the assistance I can muster.
Judge me as you like but sitting here at my desk in the early days of 2020— I am finding myself hard pressed to even justify defining America as a democracy anymore. Alright—alright, no need to threaten water boarding…
The Detective Maier trilogy has made for some very well spent reading time—on all fronts. I highly recommend all three—and reading them in order. One question remains will Tom Vater have more to say and continue on with this epic series or will Maier “ghost” us leaving one to forever ponder his fate.
Tom Vater Reviews
The Man With The Golden Mind
The Man With The Golden Mind by Tom Vater
TMWTGM by Tom Vater is the second thriller in his Detective Maier series. I requested and received a digital copy compliments of Crime Wave Press in exchange for an honest review.
Mr. Vater imagines a complex protagonist in Maier, an East German man who moved West after the fall of the Berlin Wall and worked the world over as a war correspondent for close to 10 years.
While reporting from Cambodia in the late nineties, the horror that was the Pol Pot regime cut way too close to the bone, so Maier left the business and returned home to Germany. Burnt out and scarred by this time spent reporting on various front lines, Maier reinvented himself as a private detective and began working for a premiere Hamburg agency. He makes his living specializing in Southeast Asian cases, the first novel saw him in Cambodia and now this new case brings him to Laos.
I read the first Detective Maier novel (The Cambodian Book of the Dead) earlier this year and couldn’t wait to dip right back into Maier’s world. It is the Fall of 2001 and we find Maier back in Hamburg barely recovered from this previous case.
The writing tone is completely different this go around and at first this threw me a little— as it is almost as if Mr. Vater is writing Maier 2.0.
Turns out there are several reasons for this:
According to Mr. Vater, he felt the Cambodian setting of the first novel and its underlying story of the inhumanity of The Killing Fields with its 50 years of war, famine, genocide and cultural collapse demanded a more somber tone.
Furthermore, during most of the action in TCBOTD Maier is narrating the story while being drugged and/or beaten or while he is recovering from being drugged and/or beaten—I believe that Mr. Vater understandably went for a more surrealistic fever dream point of view. That book as a whole and like Cambodia, itself, has a much more mystical feel.
Maier’s second outing is a great thriller, one that is all the greater for being wrapped around real mysteries and crimes. This time the action takes place in Laos, a land locked country that, in 2001, is still recovering from the chaos of the Viet Nam war.
This case is set against the backdrop of an unimaginable hidden truth—that of the secret war run by the American CIA in Laos during the Viet Nam War—A war that resulted in Laos becoming the most bombed country of the 20th century— one that was mostly covered up and barely reported by the press.
Mr. Vater is a master of plot and character—his writing is precise, satirical and right on target but what really makes these books shine is the author’s deep familiarity with South East Asia. He mines that base of knowledge to the great advantage of his readers utilizing it to evoke for his novels a stunning sense of place and richly imagined scenes.
This is a complicated read, much more complex than the previous book, and one that is full of both surprising revelations and high adrenaline non-stop action. As a reader I was propelled forward at break neck speed and while this tale is told with quite a bit of sly humor it takes a dark mind to appreciate the wit, which is one the best characteristics of such well executed noir.
It is obvious that the need to tell this story was personal for Tom Vater, it is a stunning bit of lost history that deserves seeing some daylight, a project that he helped document in 2008 with his brother and former wife. TMWTGM gets extremely personal for Maier as well and in ways that none of his prior cases have—but no spoilers. We even learn his first name and some understanding why he prefers to go by Maier.
The case revolves around a lost CIA base, a killer(s), a secret stash of gold and heroin, a legendary missing CIA file, and its keeper—Weltmeister, a German US CIA asset during the Viet Nam War who has resurfaced after spending the last 25 years in the cold.
A wealthy client, Julia Rendel, the daughter of an East German cultural attache to Laos, is seeking the identity of her father’s killer, and the truth behind his murder in Long Cheng, a CIA run secret airbase in the center of the Laotian jungle, in 1976. Maier’s boss taps him to solve this 25 year old murder.
It is a far from easy case as Julia is quickly kidnapped right from under Maier’s nose and Maier follows the trail based on what little clues he possesses from a swanky Hamburg hotel room to Vientiane, the capitol of Laos.
Also different his time around, Mr. Vater employs one of my favorite plotting styles as the action shifts from the present of 2001, as Maier attempts to both find the truth and his client, to the past of 1976 as seen through the eyes of Weltmeister.
He also uses various point of views—Maier, Weltmeister, and briefly, Sundermann, Maier’s boss all carry the narrative at some point.
Once in Laos, as Maier begins working the case, he meets one shady character after the next and as the action progresses it becomes increasingly apparent that Maier isn’t so much leading the investigation as the case is dragging Maier along by the cahonas.
His own “little head” thinking also gets him into trouble first by causing him to lose his client and second by blinding him to the hidden motives of both the client and her associate, Kanitha, a rookie journalist, who quickly attaches herself to the case and to Maier.
Over all there a lot of characters to keep track of this time around including the timely return of a colorful character from Maier’s previous case.
TCBOTB was often written with Maier being in a haze of drugs and torture where you never quite knew what was the truth and when it was just the drugs talking—it dealt with metaphor—ghosts, goddesses and white spiders. This book is more straightforward in the sense that the action comes solely from the complicated swirling plot lines—there are a lot of connections to be made between characters both past and present—a whiteboard might indeed come in handy—but it is well worth the effort.
It all combines to make a thrilling read that while literate is also steeped in the culture of Laos—both sacred and pop—all served with a history lesson that is dropped like a cherry on the top.
The golden mind of Tom Vater speaks with an individual voice making his work to stand out from the often formulaic mass of recent detective writing. Tom Vater’s work is not for the faint of heart but is indeed reading time well spent.
I look forward in meeting up again with Detective Maier and Tom Vater in Thailand for round three: The Monsoon Ghost Image.
The Cambodian Book of the Dead
The Cambodian Book of the Dead: A Detective Maier Mystery (The Detective Maier Mystery Series 1) by Tom Vater
TCBOD by Tom Vater is the first Detective Maier thriller in this series. I requested and received a digital copy compliments of Crime Waves Press in exchange for an honest review.
Mr. Vater imagines a complex protagonist in Maier, just Maier, I never did catch his first name. An East German man who moved West after the fall of the Berlin Wall and worked the world over as a war correspondent for close to 10 years.
While reporting from Cambodia in the late nineties, the horror that was the Pol Pot regime cut way too close to the bone, so Maier left the business and returned home to Germany. Burnt out and scarred by this time spent reporting on various front lines, Maier reinvented himself as a private detective and began working for a premiere Hamburg agency. While he makes his living specializing in Southeast Asian cases he has yet to return to Cambodia, but now that is all about to change.
A wealthy client, the mother of the heir to a German coffee empire is seeking to extract her rebellious son from Cambodia and bring him back to run the family business. Maier’s boss taps him for the job.
So Maier travels from Hamburg to Phnom Penh to find and bring back Rolf, easy enough job he thinks, it has been four years, perhaps enough time has passed to heal old wounds, perhaps it will be all okay, just a quick extraction—in and out swiftly. It only takes one night back in Cambodia to quickly put paid to that plan.
The story is set in 2001, just as Cambodia is re-emerging from over 50 years of war, genocide, famine, and cultural collapse. Mr. Vater, an excellent wordsmith, takes his time setting the scene through carefully executed rounds of history, fully imagined characters, and his construction results in a rich world full of mystery, mysticism, ghosts, Eastern philosophy, jungles, sweat, mosquitos, drugs, sex, and violence.
Personally, I love a book that combines good story telling with history, and the writers who take the time to develop a richly nuanced world, often by weaving truth throughout their fiction. I am never a happier reader than when I am learning something new.
The horrible truth behind this work of fiction is that the inhumanity of Cambodia’s past is far worse than any of the cruelties, tortures and violence that Mr. Vater creates for this tale.
The case isn’t so much about finding the errant heir, especially as Rolf isn’t hiding. Rolf and a business partner are running a small dive shop on the beach in Kep. Maier executed this task his first night back in Phnom Penh while hooking up for drinks with fellow journalist and some time bed partner Carissa, a woman who still has her finger on the pulse of all the major Cambodian players.
The once thriving beachside resort of Kep fell into total disrepair during the war but now it is ripe for re-development. Maier slips under cover as a potential investor to suss out more information about Rolf’s shifty business partner, as well as the former Khmer Rouge General Tep, who is spearheading a major real estate scheme surrounding an old abandoned casino complex.
Once he spends some time in Kep, Maier realizes that not only is Rolf mixed up in some shady business dealings, that he won’t leave without his Cambodian girlfriend, and that extracting her is going to be anything but easy.
A lot of behind the scenes evil is afoot as Maier sniffs out more mayhem in the form of a Nazi war criminal, a Viet Nam vet, a gay Russian gun-for-hire, girl assassins in black pajamas, orphanage managers, pedophiles, murder, more murder, drugs, torture and violence.
But this is also the story of two young girls, sisters who were separated by the cruelties of Pol Pot’s war.
Dani managed to escape Cambodia with the help of a German man who became her husband. Scarred yes, but she spent all of her adulthood living a safe sheltered life in West Germany. When Dani’s husband passes she hires a man to find the sister she abandoned and to kill General Tep who has held her hostage all these years.
Her captured sister Kaley, remains by the General’s side and he is still controlling her to this day, using her now exploit others in order to help build his burgeoning real estate empire. Kaley, a victim of the Cambodian version of Stockholm syndrome, is a beautiful woman surrounded by myth and legend, she has been force fed this story about herself for so long that she is no longer sure what the truth really is. A damaged woman whom Maier believes while worth saving is too damaged to let it happen, for some lost souls it is simply too late.
Maier meets Kaley on the beach, is quickly mesmerized by her beauty and when she asks if he can find her sister, he feels compelled to say yes. Dani and Kaley share the same mission as they both are searching for the other.
Rolf refuses to leave Cambodia because he feels it is his duty to save his girlfriend, the infamous Kaley, and take her back to Germany. At first, Maier believes this to be out of misplaced notions of love but it turns out there are deeper and darker reasons.
To say more would be to spoil the plot and that is not fair to the reader or the author. I was transported by his writing and the intricate ways he chose to show how the cruelties of Cambodia’s past shaped the events taking place in the present of Tom Vater’s richly imagined novel.
It was reading time well spent and I definitely look forward to reading the next in this series.
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4 Publications by "S. Antani"
Y. M. Kassim, K. Palaniappan, F. Yang, M. Poostchi, N. Palaniappan, R. J. Maude, S. Antani, and S. Jaeger
Clustering-Based Dual Deep Learning Architecture for Detecting Red Blood Cells in Malaria Diagnostic Smears
Bibtex, PlainText, Software, URL, Google Scholar
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title = "Clustering-Based Dual Deep Learning Architecture for Detecting Red Blood Cells in Malaria Diagnostic Smears",
url = "https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9244549"
#132: S. Candemir, S. Jaeger, K. Palaniappan, J. P. Musco, R. Singh, Z. Xue, A. Karargyris, S. Antani, G. Thoma, and C. J. McDonald
Lung segmentation in chest radiographs using anatomical atlases with non-rigid registration
IEEE Trans. Medical Imaging, Volume 33, pgs. 577-590, 2014
segmentation, graph methods, chest x-ray, cbir, registration, biomedical
The National Library of Medicine (NLM) is developing a digital chest x-ray (CXR) screening system for deployment in resource constrained communities and developing countries worldwide with a focus on early detection of tuberculosis. A critical component in the computer-aided diagnosis of digital CXRs is the automatic detection of the lung regions. In this paper, we present a non-rigid registration-driven robust lung segmentation method using image retrieval-based patient specific adaptive lung models that detects lung boundaries, surpassing state-of-the-art performance. The method consists of three main stages: (i) a content-based image retrieval approach for identifying training images (with masks) most similar to the patient CXR using a partial Radon transform and Bhattacharyya shape similarity measure, (ii) creating the initial patient-specific anatomical model of lung shape using SIFT-flow for deformable registration of training masks to the patient CXR, and (iii) extracting refined lung boundaries using a graph cuts optimization approach with a customized energy function. Our average accuracy of 95:4% on the public JSRT database is the highest among published results. A similar degree of accuracy of 94:1% and 91:7% on two new CXR datasets from Montgomery County, Maryland (USA) and India, respectively, demonstrates the robustness of our lung segmentation approach.
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S. Candemir, S. Jaeger, K. Palaniappan, J. P. Musco, R. Singh, Z. Xue, A. Karargyris, S. Antani, G. Thoma, and C. J. McDonald. Lung segmentation in chest radiographs using anatomical atlases with non-rigid registration. IEEE Trans. Medical Imaging, volume 33, issue 2, pages 577-590, 2014.
#131: S. Jaeger, A. Karargyris, S. Candemir, L. Folio, J. Siegelman, F. Callaghan, Z. Xue, K. Palaniappan, R. Singh, S. Antani, G. Thoma, Y.-X. Wang, P.-X. Lu, and C. J. McDonald
Automatic tuberculosis screening using chest radiographs
classification, features, machine learning, data mining, biomedical
Tuberculosis is a major health threat in many regions of the world. Opportunistic infections in immunocompromised HIV/AIDS patients and multi-drug-resistant bacterial strains have exacerbated the problem, while diagnosing tuberculosis still remains a challenge. When left undiagnosed and thus untreated, mortality rates of patients with tuberculosis are high. Standard diagnostics still rely on methods developed in the last century. They are slow and often unreliable. In an effort to reduce the burden of the disease, this paper presents our automated approach for detecting tuberculosis in conventional posteroanterior chest radiographs. We first extract the lung region using a graph cut segmentation method. For this lung region, we compute a set of texture and shape features, which enable the x-rays to be classified as normal or abnormal using a binary classifier. We measure the performance of our system on two datasets: a set collected by the tuberculosis control program of our local county?s health department in the United States, and a set collected by Shenzhen Hospital, China. The proposed computer-aided diagnostic system for TB screening, which is ready for field deployment, achieves a performance that approaches the performance of human experts. We achieve an area under the ROC curve (AUC) of 87% (78.3% accuracy) for the first set, and an AUC of 90% (84% accuracy) for the second set. For the first set, we compare our system performance with the performance of radiologists. When trying not to miss any positive cases, radiologists achieve an accuracy of about 82% on this set, and their false positive rate is about half of our system?s rate.
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title = "Automatic tuberculosis screening using chest radiographs",
keywords = "classification, features, machine learning, data mining, biomedical",
S. Jaeger, A. Karargyris, S. Candemir, L. Folio, J. Siegelman, F. Callaghan, Z. Xue, K. Palaniappan, R. Singh, S. Antani, G. Thoma, Y.-X. Wang, P.-X. Lu, and C. J. McDonald. Automatic tuberculosis screening using chest radiographs. IEEE Trans. Medical Imaging, volume 33, issue 2, pages 233-245, 2014.
#110: S. Candemir, S. Jaeger, K. Palaniappan, S. Antani, and G. Thoma
Graph cut based automatic lung boundary detection in chest radiographs
IEEE Healthcare Innovation Conference, 2012
registration, segmentation, graph methods, anatomical, biomedical
The National Library of Medicine (NLM) is de- veloping a digital chest x-ray (CXR) screening system for deployment in resource constrained communities. An important first step in the analysis of digital CXRs is the automatic detection of the lung regions. In this paper, we present a graph cut based robust lung segmentation method that detects the lungs with high accuracy. The method consists of two stages: (i) average lung shape model calculation, and (ii) lung boundary detection based on graph cut. Preliminary results on public chest x-rays demonstrate the robustness of the method.
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keywords = "registration, segmentation, graph methods, anatomical, biomedical"
S. Candemir, S. Jaeger, K. Palaniappan, S. Antani, and G. Thoma. Graph cut based automatic lung boundary detection in chest radiographs. IEEE Healthcare Innovation Conference, 2012.
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Scottish Young Bowlers Inter-Counties Championship qualifying round
Junior bowlers representing Fife, the West of Fife and Angus and Dundee took part in a qualifying round of the Scottish Young Bowlers Inter-Counties Championship at Duffus Park on Sunday, August 19.
Bill Chalmers Memorial Cup
Twenty pairs played in the Bill Chalmers Memorial Cup on Sunday, August 12, which saw the club's junior members team up with an adult.
The trophy was presented by Helen Chalmers, whose husband, Bill - who helped set up the junior section - died in January last year.
Helen (left) is pictured with some of the players.
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By Karen Templeton
MISSISSIPPI STATE – Mississippi’s specialty businesses are finding a quick and easy virtual connection to consumers through a newly expanded computer mapping tool.
MarketMaker is an Internet tool linking growers and producers with grocery stores, food processors, specialty outlets and food industry groups. The program also makes agricultural businesses accessible to individual consumers. University of Illinois Extension developed the software to help beef producers reach potential buyers in large cities, such as Chicago. The program was a success, and other food commodity groups quickly began using it.
Now in its sixth year, MarketMaker serves 16 states and the District of Columbia.
“The program generated so much interest because it is easy to use and can map food commodity buyers and sellers by location, size, specialty and even clientele,” said Ken Hood, agricultural economist with the Mississippi State University Extension Service. “It isn’t just for large farms and producers. It can help customers find organic and locally produced products, too.”
Led by Hood, Mississippi was the sixth state to join MarketMaker, and Mississippi is represented on the program’s governing board.
“MarketMaker gives our growers and producers a direct route to potential customers,” Hood said. “If you don’t have a hook, you can’t catch anything. MarketMaker gives ag businesses that hook.”
MarketMaker is a free service that allows its users to update and edit their business profiles easily and keep track of the clients they attract.
Hood said Mississippi’s participation in MarketMaker has increased the visibility of many of the state’s agricultural businesses.
“Lauren Farms, a prawn production farm in Leland, for example, is on the list of MarketMaker’s top 10 most visited sites,” Hood said. “We update the site frequently to feature individual businesses on the homepage and help direct potential customers to them.”
Bill Wooten, owner of Missiana Produce in Bruce, has experienced the benefits of the computerized marketing tool.
“Surprisingly, I received a call from a potential customer in the United Kingdom who was interested in having us ship him sweet potatoes,” Wooten said. “I’d say a program that can have that wide a draw is a benefit to us. We’ll keep using it.”
Hood said the website’s recent expansions benefit agritourism businesses, which includes attractions like pick-your-own farms, petting zoos, corn mazes, and farm bed and breakfasts.
“Families can use MarketMaker to find a local pumpkin patch or a pick-your-own blueberry farm,” he said. “Customers can also find restaurants in towns they are visiting. They can click on ‘restaurants’ and enter the zipcode and a list will appear with addresses and a map so everything is easy to find.”
In the next year, MarketMaker will expand to include horticulture businesses.
“The expansion is going to have an impact on Mississippi because of our large green industry,” Hood said. “Anyone who has Web access can connect to the state’s horticulture businesses. It is going to provide many new marketing avenues for nursery growers.”
As a member of MarketMaker’s national governing board, Hood was named in a recent award given to the program by the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s National Institute of Food and Agriculture.
“The next round of expansions should also be of interest to those who buy or sell feedstock from renewable energy sources, as we are looking to add the bioenergy industry,” Hood said. “Growth is always on the horizon.”
Mississippi MarketMaker is online at http://ms.marketmaker.uiuc.edu. Contact Hood at (662) 325-2155 or hood@agecon.msstate.edu for more information.
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SAILING THE DESERT
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Many have expressed surprise over this new tourism that has attracted the attention of thousands of travelers from all over the world, drawing them to Egypt throughout the year, to immerse into its deserts and spend weeks wandering through its mountains, valleys, and dunes, surrounded by kilometers of golden sand.
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Jurassic World: It’s No Wonderful Life (PG-13)
Reviewed by Sean Johnson on July 7, 2015
“Oh, my God! We finally, really did it! You maniacs….Ah, damn you! God damn you all to hell!” The righteous invective Charlton Heston bellows in the final moments of The Planet of the Apes seems similarly suited to the resurrection and public opening of Jurassic Park. Bewilderingly, though, Jurassic World (both the film and the revamped, retitled tourist attraction) opens with park operations in full swing as a matter of course—gift shops fully stocked, thousands of paying customers streaming onto the island, umbrella drinks blending in the Margaritaville™ restaurant, and nary an echo of Dr. Ian Malcolm (Jeff Goldblum) and the perfunctory mock-outrage he was oozing in Jurassic Park even before the T-rex started chewing on him: “your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could, they didn’t stop to think if they should.”
However, the conflict of Jurassic World turns on the fact that the secret to the park’s rebirth—the PR miracle of short memories—is proving to be a double-edged sword. While the general public has forgotten about those poor rich kids who were almost eaten by velociraptors, and the T-rex that got loose in San Diego, they also seem to have forgotten how impressive and wonderful it is that dinosaurs exist at all. The park supervisor, Claire (Bryce Dallas Howard), is having an increasingly difficult time courting corporate sponsors who demand sexier attractions with “more teeth.” Kayaking past stegosauruses or sitting in the splash zone as a giant mosasaur gulps sharks out of the air a la Shamu can only stimulate the twenty-first century middle class’ stunted sense of wonder for so long. The solution? The boys in the Jurassic World lab have spliced together a mysterious cocktail of genes to create a totally new species and, because park-goers can’t be bothered to learn any more complicated, properly scientific names, dubbed it the “Indominous Rex.”
Part tyrannosaurus, part raptor, and part Predator—complete with protruding barbs and the ability to rapidly camouflage—the Indominous quickly proves big enough and smart enough to bust out of its cage and start skipping lines all over the island. While Claire tries to keep the breakout quiet, her visiting nephews, Zach (Nick Robinson) and Gray (Ty Simpkins), go AWOL in the park. She turns to Owen (Chris Pratt), the ex-Navy man who works at the park turning velociraptors into bloodhounds, to find the boys before her newest attraction does.
Director Colin Trevorrow (Safety Not Guaranteed) has tweaked the Chris Pratt recipe effectively; delivering a performance that is less Andy Dwyer and more Han Solo than his Guardians of the Galaxy character, but just as winning. Owen is tough, we know, because he drinks beer and works on his motorcycle, but he is a welcome departure from the typical hardboiled badass. In fact, in one of his earliest on-screen appearances, he is ribbing the tightly wound Claire for her emblematic fear of long-term romantic commitment. An action hero looking for stable monogamy is one of the few true surprises in a movie constantly laboring to excite a bored audience and update the familiar conventions of earlier installments.
It is tempting, at points, to view Jurassic Park as an allegory of the movie’s own creation. The fourth picture in the Jurassic franchise, World represents a well-conceived dream that descended into a painful quagmire of sequels and is now looking to stage a comeback. Richard Attenborough’s John Hammond, Jurassic Park visionary and founder, has left the picture and handed the reigns to a younger generation. Likewise, Stephen Spielberg has moved from the director’s chair to being only one of six executive producers and, on screen, it is unclear how deep his involvement with the newest installment was. If our allegory of choice was the Parable of the Talents, Trevorrow and the new guard of Jurassic creatives would be caught awkwardly between the servant who risks his master’s money for gain and the one who buries his talent. On the one hand, Jurassic World plays it safe by recycling conflicts and set pieces, character tropes, even whole scenes, from the original film (Spielberg is, after all, a master who reaps where he has not sown).
On the other hand, the creative minds behind Jurassic World, like those behind the titular theme park, obviously fear that the old methods won’t work on new audiences, and have spent widely in hopes of lending them new sparkle. Mechanically, this looks like near-total abandonment of Spielberg’s physical models and animatronics in favor of CG creatures. The trade off allows for bigger, louder dino action, but subtly saps the tangible terror of the Jurassic Park creatures, which seemed to be close to, present with the characters in the realest sense. One longs for and gets little of the close-shot tension of Park’s kitchen scene or “clever girl” ambush. Dramatically, this means ramping up the death tolls from previous films (which, historically, never exceeded six or a dozen, and almost never included dinosaurs). It means throwing together six or eight dinos and a cuttlefish into a single super-species devised to tantalize ticketholders. And after going to all that trouble, Trevorrow can’t seem to conceive of his Magical-Mystery-Tour of a dinosaur doing anything more shocking than killing other dinosaurs “for sport.” That is, of course, what most five-year-olds assume about all dinosaurs, even the herbivores.
Jurassic World actually spends a good deal of time and energy humanizing the dinosaurs and exploring relationships between them. A chorus of warning voices throughout the movie urge unfeeling corporate types to think of the park’s dinosaur inmates as animals “with feelings” rather than abstract “assets.” Any who resist that way of thinking either change their minds or die horribly before the credits roll. Owen’s pack of trained velociraptors have names, distinct personalities, and fierce personal loyalties; they are presented, at moments, as the heroic extensions of the man who trained them. Owen and Claire even have an Apatosaurus die slowly and dolefully in their arms after the Indominous rex attacks and leaves it for dead. Trevorrow paints the act as the height of villainy, and it is here that Jurassic World seems to attempt a T-rex bear hug on two contradictory beliefs.
As it becomes clearer what the new I-rex is capable of, Owen begins to question the morality of creating a dinosaur hybrid. Nature, he opines, shouldn’t be monkeyed with. Hoskins (Vincent D’Onofrio), the opportunistic head of the park’s paramilitary contingent, offers the stock rebuttal that in the evolutionary process, might makes right—“struggle breeds greatness.” We get the movie’s judgment on this screed when, in the final act, a raptor interrupts another of his monologues on the same subject: “Millions of years of evolution…what did we learn? Nature is the gift that just…Oh sh—!” Elsewhere, though, Dr. Wu (B.D. Wong reprising his role from the original), the scientist behind the Indominous rex, carries the argument further. Without genetic tampering, he contends, none of the dinosaurs in Jurassic World would exist. Their resurrection required the mingling of modern amphibian DNA with the original dino-material. What is nature, then, but what man makes of it? Or, at the very least, why can man only dictate the course of nature up to a point and no further? And where is that point? The audience eventually discovers a plot by Wu and Hoskins to weaponize the Indominous species for profit, and we are saved from having to wrestle with the uncomfortable consistency of their logic. Their logic is uncomfortably consistent, though Trevorrow is intent on presenting it as the logic of villains.
Their logic is also wrong, of course, but Jurassic World is blushingly unable to articulate just why. In the current historical moment, it seems the whole world is unable (or unwilling) to articulate why. Why should the line determining what is decent, what is natural, be drawn to include the dinosaurs that existed once upon a time, but not the ones man might be able to cook up now? Why, indeed, should the genders and orientations we are born with be privileged over those furnished by preferences and procedures? How is Nature so qualitatively different from what we are able to make Nature into? They aren’t questions without answers. The answer, though, is precisely what audiences of Jurassic World—the park—and Jurassic World—the movie—grow less and less capable of: wonder.
G. K. Chesterton put these very pieces together when he wrote that, “keeping to one woman is a small price for so much as seeing one woman. To complain that I could only be married once was like complaining that I had only been born once. It was incommensurate with the terrible excitement of which one was talking. It showed, not an exaggerated sensibility to sex, but a curious insensibility to it.” To complain that I could only have twenty species of dinosaur in my theme park is like complaining that I could only marry women (let alone one woman). It is incommensurate with the terrible excitement of which one is talking. It shows, not a desire for more things to wonder at, but a curious inability to wonder at anything.
As is really the most typical—the most natural—way in the deeper things of man, Jurassic World manages to intuit what it is incapable of articulating. When the dust and the teeth have settled, the park holds no more mystique for the audience or for the characters. Owen and Claire, however, have not—as so often and so easily happens in summer blockbusters—exhausted the mystique of one another. “So now what do we do?” She asks him in the movie’s final moments. “Probably stay together,” he earnestly replies, “For survival.” There is at least one thing that is too wonderful for me, yea, which I know not: the way of a man with a maid.
Sean Johnson
Sean Johnson is an Oregonian teaching great books in Florida. He cooks almost as well as his wife, and his son’s middle name is Zossima.
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Herts Baseball Club has confirmed that 20 teams have entered this year’s Herts Spring League (HSL). This equals the record set last year. The teams come from all British baseball leagues including the National Baseball League, AAA league, AA League and A League. For a second year in a row the HSL lineup also includes an international team, and for the first time the competition will feature a team from the Under-17 League.
To match the teams more equally and create much closer contests, for the first time the HSL teams will be divided into three separate leagues based on their league ranking going into the 2012 season.
HSL – MAJORS
The HSL Majors includes teams form the NBL. The reigning NBL Champions, the Harlow Nationals (formerly the Southern Nationals), go into the competition as the top seed. They are joined by the NBL runner-up, the Lakenheath Diamondbacks, as the second seed. Entering the HSL for the first time are the London Mets led by their newly appointed manager, Fredi Vibert, who last managed the Richmond Flames ending up as the team with the best record in the regular season (19-5). The Essex Arrows and the Herts Falcons are the fourth and fifth seeded teams in the HSL Majors, respectively.
HSL – AAA
The Essex RedBacks’ impressive performance in the AAA last year makes them the favourite to win the HSL AAA section. Joining them are the always competitive Milton Keynes Bucks from the AA Midlands League, the Sidewinders, the Herts Hawks and the Cambridge Royals who were confirmed to be making the jump from the A League last year to the AAA League in 2012. For the first time ever the HSL will feature an Under-17 League team. The London Mets U17 team are the reigning U17 National Champions and it will be fascinating to see how they will fare against teams from the AAA adult leagues. The London Mets U17 team is using the HSL as a final test before the team flies to the Czech Republic for the qualifying stage on the way to the PONY Baseball Colt World Series in Lafayette, Indiana in early August.
HSL – AA
The Guildford Mavericks are the top seed in the HSL-AA section. They are joined by the Essex RedBacks II, Kent Mariners, London Marauders, Guildford Mavericks II, the two host teams, the Herts Raptors and the Herts Eagles.
Completing the lineup are two teams who enter the HSL for the first time – the Torbay Barons, a newly formed independent team, and finally the Great Britain Under-15 National Team who will utilise the HSL as part of their preparations for their international schedule this season. The GB U15 team includes players from many of the other teams in the HSL so those players will be facing their club team mates.
To view the full HSL lineup, click here.
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The HSL will be played over four weeks commencing on the weekend of 17 and 18 March and ending on 7 and 8 April. The HSL format, games schedule and venues are expected to be announced on or around 6 March 2012 and hertsbaseball.com will bring this and all other HSL news as they happen.
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GENTLE GIANT – Three Piece Suite
Alucard 2017
GENTLE GIANT –
Three Piece Suite
No jacket required: the not-so-humble emergence of gargantuan aural entity – now in glorious technicolor.
In conceptual terms, patina has always served this ensemble’s early albums well, but as antiquated as those records are – in a good way – many an aficionado wanted to see them burst in color again, and that wish is finally granted now, with Steven Wilson‘s remixes of selected tracks from GG’s first three records. Often perceived as bleaker precursors to the bright beast of "Octopus" which, in fact, was built on their foundation, the band’s self-titled debut from 1970, “Acquiring The Test” from the following year, and “Three Friends” of 1972 vintage should be seen as stepping stones of the group’s pilgrim’s progress or, as “Three Piece Suite” has it, a singular monolith – an epic edifice comprised of nine numbers from those records.
There’s not a lot of recontextualizing going on here, given the pieces’ appearance in chronological, sequential order and their choice dictated by the (un)availability of original multitracks, not by any definition of something being “best” or at least better than the rest. Yet, bundled together, these cuts create a new tapestry, supposedly (not available for review) brought into virtual reality with 5.1-imagining of it all on a Blu-ray disc alongside more prosaic transfer of the entire albums’ original stereo, that will shroud the band in a different kind of public cognizance – fleshed out with Anil Prasad’s extensive liner notes which the players themselves contributed to. Whether this ever-shifting aural picture needs a fresh perspective is a moot point, though, simply because there hasn’t been similar musical entity.
“Unique” would be the the word to describe GG: a collective that precariously, albeit elegantly, balanced between two worlds – medieval and modern – merging them in a special, spectacular way, while looking into the abyss of eternity. The group didn’t try to reach for timelessness; rather, the quintet’s oeuvre came to exist out of time. That’s what is captured on the cover of this collection with a visual representation of multi-dimensional experience allowing the listener to fly away without sitting too comfortably. That’s what is encapsulated in the ensemble’s music.
Not a lot of artists were able to marry delightful solemnity to idiosyncratic roar as the Shulman brothers – Derek, Phil and Ray – did on the first track of their first album to embark on decade-long adventure. Incorporeal, if impressive, the pregnant organ of “Giant” gives way to a Gothic kind of funk, while the walls of brass rise and fall around vocals in a powerful swirl. The translucent “Nothing At All” may contrast this attack, yet its lyrical shimmer has the same atomic energy – hinted at in a short, sharp riff, but hidden in a synthesizer whiff and heavenly harmonies, before pounding drums and dramatic, jazzy piano create a kaleidoscopic vertigo and dissolve such an acidic punch. At the same time, the heavy “Why Not?” is the riff – dipped in folksy chorus to reveal the song’s pastoral core, so bewitching in the bluesy guitar figure and polyphony which transport “Pantagruel’s Nativity” out of our world, whereas the buzz behind “The House, The Street, The Room” is as down-to-earth chaotic as only suburban commotion can be.
Unlike it, “Schooldays” is haunted by spectral ivories and lively vibes, but, perhaps, the quintet’s tentative potential is most clearly demonstrated in the predatory ripples that fill “Peel The Paint” as quiet throb opens up to chamber strings’ stasis – note Ray’s delicious stumbling between bass and violins – for Phil’s screams and saxes to shatter and Gary Green’s guitar to pierce until the tune’s kaleidoscopic splinters are left on the ground and Malcolm Mortimore’s drums kick them around. Still, whereas the elegant jazzy romp of “Mr. Class And Quality?” is more repetitively playful than truly deep, the piece’s interplay, especially at the bottom end, brings on a rock-minded excitement to unfold into a blissful pop chorale that “Three Friends” is – and that a pre-debut cut “Freedom’s Child” outlines, only to sprinkle it with a saloon sentiment entwined with symphonic sway. There’s something common between “bar-room” and “baroque” in terms of volatile discipline, after all.
This commonality can be condensed into entertainment, the action that GG provided in spades. “Three Piece Suite” is that rare intellectual sort of fun everyone has to partake in – again, to fly away without sitting too comfortably.
Tags: Gentle Giant, prog rock, Steven Wilson
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Written by:chanaka inojPosted on: 15th January 2021
"Coronavirus update: 670 new COVID-19 cases identified Thursday, total rises to 50,899"
(COLOMBO, LANKAPUVATH) – Sri Lanka confirmed four more deaths on Thursday due to COVID -19 raising the death toll from the viral disease to 251, according to health authorities.
"Sri Lanka reports four more COVID-19 deaths Thursday, toll rises to 251"
(COLOMBO, LANKAPUVATH) –All 15 Parliamentarians subjected to Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR), tested negative for COVID-19, the Parliament stated.
"All 15 Parliamentarians cleared of COVID-19"
(COLOMBO, LANKAPUVATH) – World renowned financier and a member of Rothschild family, Nathaniel Rothschild who is in Sri Lanka for a brief business tour, paid a visit to Port City Colombo on Thursday (14th)
"Port City Colombo attracts world’s top investor Nathaniel Rothschild"
LOCAL Top Story
Written by:chanaka inojPosted on: 13th January 2021 13th January 2021
(COLOMBO, LANKAPUVATH) – Airports Council International (ACI) has certified Sri Lanka’s Bandaranaike International Airport for adopting health and safety measures in response to the COVID-19 global pandemic in line with the International Airport Health Accreditation program.
"Sri Lanka’s Bandaranaike International Airport accredited by Airports Council International"
(COLOMBO, LANKAPUVATH) – A person who had arrived in Sri Lanka from the United Kingdom (UK) has been confirmed to have contracted the new variant of COVID-19.
"New COVID-variant detected in person visiting Sri Lanka"
HIGHLIGHTED LOCAL
(COLOMBO, LANKAPUVATH) – The government has received the cabinet approval to extend the agreed period for payment of salaries for private sector employees impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic conditions.
"Cabinet approves to extend the concessionary period on private sector salary payments until March"
(COLOMBO, LANKAPUVATH) – The Minister of Tourism Prasanna Ranatunga states that all travel agencies and individuals who do not follow health guidelines from the arrival to the departure of tourists to this country will be deregistered.
"Travel agencies disregarding health guidelines will be blacklisted – Tourism Minister"
(COLOMBO, LANKAPUVATH) – Parliamentarian Sivanesathurai Chandrakanthan alias ‘Pillayan’ and 4 other suspects have been acquitted and released over the murder of Joseph Pararajasingham.
"‘Pillayan’ acquitted, released over murder of Joseph Pararajasingham"
(COLOMBO, LANKAPUVATH) – Under the guidance of the President Gotabhaya Rajapaksa and Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa, the Government is successfully tackling the global COVID pandemic and building economic stability in the country, the Ministry of Finance said.
"The country is economically stable – Ministry of Finance"
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[News] 140216 C-JeS Entertainment and AVEX come to an agreement on JYJ-related matters
Posted on February 18, 2014 by Momma Cha
C-JeS Entertainment and AVEX‘s long legal battle has been resolved.
On the 16th, C-JeS Entertainment wrote on their official homepage, “C-JeS (JYJ) and AVEX has agreed to end all the legal battles we have had. C-JeS (JYJ) and AVEX will no longer meddle in each other’s affairs.“
Last year in January, AVEX was told to stop asserting their sole management rights for JYJ in Japan, and were told to pay C-JeS Entertainment 660,000,000 JPY (about 6.5 million USD) in damages.
C-JeS said, “After our win last year, AVEX appealed the ruling. In the end, through the Tokyo High Court’s mediation, we were able to settle on an agreement.“
C-JeS’ CEO Baek Chang Joo said, “We’re thankful that the Japanese judicial branch gave us the 1st ruling of securing JYJ’s Japanese promotions, and also for them for leading the 2nd agreement. With this, we have finished all fights related to the Japanese promotions. Now that AVEX and JYJ have agreed not to interfere in each others’ business, it means a lot in that JYJ’s Japanese promotions are officially confirmed as being secured legally. We are happy that JYJ’s long legal fight has all finished, and we hope to meet Japanese fans more often and closer through stages.“
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This is a momentous occasion Boys. I am so happy for you because this is one more step toward total freedom to promote and execute your projects. Always do quality work and you will be viewed as quality people. Lots of Love. Momma Cha
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Hoosiers can still receive the same great customer service by calling 317-232-4200 or 877-463-6367, or by emailing [email protected] Tuesday, October 20, 2020 - 09:03 Iowa State University Extension and Outreach Awarded $680,000 to Support Farmers and Ranchers David Brown USDA-NIFA has announced a more than $7 million grant to the North Central Region to support U. Download ppt "Hi-Res Landcover Pete Kollasch, Iowa DNR. See what our great state has to offer!. Join for free and gain visibility by uploading your research. The source aerial photos for this map service were acquired by the US Department of Agriculture from May 1967 to October 1974. Attach photos, maps, diagrams, and engineering drawings. They are not intended for accurate navigation. gov The DNR has undertaken many GIS projects focused on collecting and producing basic data on Iowa's natural resources. Iowa Elevation Tools How to use the tool Data 3m Posts derived from LiDAR More about the data. 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Gov Maps State of Iowa's Open Data site. +1 712-657-2638. Base flood elevations (BFEs) are also known as the 1% annual chance flood elevation or 100-year flood elevation. Find your new travel destination by searching for a country, city and even a street name. In 2011, Claudette Sandoval-Green built upon the original design, relocated the tree identification key within ISU Forestry Extension's web site, and updated the content and graphics under the direction of Dr. If you have any questions or concerns, please contact Tom Samson at thomas. Jon Lubke 201 W. Travel Iowa is the official tourism website of the State of Iowa, the Hawkeye State. Status map>>. The Chief Black Hawk Statue is a historic object in Lake View, Iowa, United States. Photo Information. The Map Collection contains over 150,000 aerial photographs of Iowa's counties, all available for public use. New York, When the material does melt, magma forms and moves towards the outer crust.
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SEA 21 – CIN 20: Andy Dalton was balling in throwing for 418 yards and 2 touchdowns as the Bengals nearly escaped Seattle with an upset win. Cincinnati was very well coached in this one. Russell Wilson throwing just 20 times continues to be an inexcusable approach from the Seahawks in not unleashing Wilson……
SD 30 – IND 24 (OT): The Colts showed today on the road why they’ll continue to be a tough out even with Andrew Luck retiring. Jacoby Brissett managed the game well, going an efficient 21/27 for 190 yards and 2 touchdowns. Despite a ton of cap room, Marlon Mack was a reason the Colts didn’t even place a phone call to Le’Veon Bell in free agency. Mack went off for 174 rushing yards. Adam Vinatieri finally showing his age? He missed three kicks…….
DAL 35 – NYG 17: Dak Prescott $$$$$$. 25/32, 405 yards, 4 touchdowns. Prescott’s not deserving of top-5 QB money but he’s going to get it whether it’s this season or the off-season. The talent level between the Cowboys and Giants was something else. New York was completely out-classed and the Daniel Jones clock is already starting. Saquon Barkley rushed for 120 yards on 11 carries in the loss…..
SF 31 – 17: Bruce Arians known as the QB fixer has his work cut out for him with Jameis Winston who handed a very winnable game in Arians debut to the 49ers in throwing 3 interceptions, including two-pick6’s……
TEN 43 – CLE 13: A lot of hype and the same old Browns. Cleveland got punched in the mouth in all facets.Tennessee imposed their will, dominated in the trenches and from the sidelines as Mike Vrabel & Co put on a coaching clinic against the rookie HC Freddie Kitchens. The Titans made Baker Mayfield uncomfortable from start to finish, resulting in a 3 interception game from Mayfield. Luckily the Browns get the Jets in Week 2………
BAL 59 – MIA 10: About those LaMar Jackson accuracy issues. Jackson was flawless, going 17/20 for 324 yards and 5 touchdowns. Marquise “Hollywood” Brown stole the show early with 4 catches for 147 yards and 2 touchdowns, including an 83 yard TD reception. Mark Ingram who looks born to be a Raven, rushed for 107 yards on 14 carries. It was just the Dolphins but the Ravens have an offense worth tuning in for…..
BUF 17 – NYJ 16: Josh Allen and the Bills overcame a 16-point deficit. In his first game action since January 2018, Le’Veon Bell rushed for 60 yards on 17 carries and added 32 receiving yards and a TD catch in the loss. Bell was a non-factor running the ball with his longest run being 12 yards…….
Chiefs 40 – Jaguars 26: There’s no stopping Patrick Maholmes who lost Tyreek Hill early and kept rolling along. Maholmes threw for 378 yards and 3 TD’s, while Sammie Watkins had a monster game with 9 catches for 198 yards and 3 TD’s. A Great offense with so many playmakers like the Chiefs have can turn back the clock for some as was the case with LeSean McCoy who averaged 8.1 yards per carry. For Jacksonville they lost Nick Foles to a broken clavicle…….
MIN 28 – ATL 12: Kurt Cousins threw just 10 times for 98 yards and 1 touchdown, yet, the Vikings cruised to a 16-point win. It seems like an eternity when Atlanta was an unstoppable offense…..
Rams 30 – Panthers 27: The best matchup on the 1:00 p.m. slate didn’t disappointment with the Rams holding on for a 3-point win. LAR got out to a fast start and overcame a subpar game from Jared Goff who went 23-39 for 186 yards and 1 TD/1INT. Todd Gurley rushed for 97 yards on 14 carries. That’s an impressive east coast road win to start the year for LA…..
Eagles 32 – Redskins 27: This one was setting up as the stunner of week 1. The Eagles offense, though, would eventually wake up and rally from a 20-0 deficit. Desean Jackson is back where he belongs in Philadelphia, having a spectacular game with 8 catches for 154 yards and 2 TD’s. Carson Wentz threw for 313 yards and 3 TD’s…..
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By kimyuna June 21, 2012 Categories: Kim Yu Na Tags: Kim Yuna will miss the 2011-12 Grand Prix 1 Comment
Kim Yuna will miss the 2011-12 Grand Prix Reigning Olympic gold medalist Yu-na Kim of South Korea will not compete this season,
Kim told reporters today that she is giving herself a longer break from competitive skating, saying, “After the Vancouver Olympics last year, it’s been a whirlwind of activities on top of all the preparations for competitions. I felt I needed to take a breather.”
So that is that. So now there is no Miki Ando and no Yu-na Kim this year. Chances are good we’ll get a brand new world champ this season and it will be interesting watching it. I feel like spectators are always missing out when Kim decides not to compete, however. If she does come back, I hope she does the whole season next time and not just worlds. No word yet on whether Kim is actually retiring.
Figure skater Kim Yu-na to sit out entire season
INCHEON, Oct. 18 (Yonhap) — Figure skater Kim Yu-na said Tuesday she will sit out the entire 2010-11 season but denied she was retiring from the sport.
“I’ve decided not to enter any event this upcoming season,” Kim told reporters at Incheon International Airport, west of Seoul, upon returning from her training camp in Los Angeles. “After the Vancouver Olympics last year, it’s been a whirlwind of activities on top of all the preparations for competitions. I felt I needed to take a breather.”
After winning gold in ladies’ singles in Vancouver with a record total of 228.56 points, Kim didn’t compete in any of the Grand Prix events organized by the International Skating Union (ISU) the following season. She only entered the world championships in April this year, and finished second behind Miki Ando of Japan.
Ambivalence.
Neither Kim Yu-na nor her fellow Olympic champion Evan Lysacek seem to be able to make up their minds about their futures in skating. This disappoints me more in the case of Kim because she was pretty much the only reason why I watched any of the Olympics two seasons ago. Whatever happened to the days when skaters hung ‘em up and hit the road with ice shows? We’ve come to learn that many star athletes often have deeply mixed feelings about the sports they are so good at. (Andre Agassi’s admission that he spent a good chunk of his life hating tennis comes to mind.) I think that Kim Yu-na still likes the competition and grand stage of figure skating but hates the grind required to stay there, so she literally can’t make up her mind whether or not to call it quits. And Yu-na knows that the source of her popularity and wealth depends a lot on her staying competitive. We’ll probably know for sure around this time next year. If Yu-na doesn’t skate in 2012-13, then we can be pretty certain she’s be done for good. For my own part, I’d like to see Yu-na go all in for at least one more season.
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Yes it disappoints me as well, Yuna was for me the only reason I watched any of the ice dancing with real interest, she even inspired me to go skating and take lesson’s.
Thanks for your article.
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Juicy J “The Hustle Continues” Tracklist: Megan Thee Stallion, Logic, Lil Baby, & More
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The Hustle Continues for Juicy J. That narrative has been a constant in the career of the 45-year-old legend. It only makes sense that the name of his next album shares that mentality as the Memphis veteran just revealed that his new album, The Hustle Continues, will be out in the Fall.
With the release of his new independent single “Gah Damn High” with Wiz Khalifa, Juicy J has officially come through with a major announcement about his future. His new album will be out in October and, until then, we’ve got lots of time to theorize how some of these dream collaborations will sound like.
The tracklist has already been announced and, although an October release gives Juicy J enough time to make some changes, this looks to be pretty set in stone. With fifteen new songs, the superstar rapper will be starting us off with “Best group Ever,” surely an ode to his Three 6 Mafia days. Elsewhere, he’s working with some of the hottest rappers in the game, including Lil Baby, Conway the Machine, Logic, A$AP Rocky, Jay Rock, Megan Thee Stallion, and more.
As we wait until October, listen to Juicy J’s first independent single below and check out the tracklist for The Hustle Continues up top.
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Tag Archives: British Columbia Lions
CFL, College Football HoF, NFL, NFLE
Card: Fleer 1990, Action Packed 1991, GameDay 1992
Sent: 3/17 Received: 4/5 (18 days)
See Also: Andre Ware, Air Ware
Andre sure got in a lot of great cards in his short amount of time on the starting stage in the NFL. Even after this third stab at a few more autographs, there are a few more cards I could probably nab him on.
I loved Action Packed and GameDay’s sets. Action Packed 1991 was a pretty well designed set, with that simple swoosh that goes through the left side of the image- it maximized the canvas area to focus on the player image. I also really liked the flat helmet image at the end. It’s a really underrated set, and despite the slight smudging is great to get autographed. Most of the images are indeed- action packed. This Gameday image is really nice, however one of the set’s design flaws comes forward a bit when the silver blends against the gray, the image looks a bit more flat. The Fleer 90 card was one of 4 (technically) that had a college photo of Andre in it. (The others being Topps, ProSet, and Score.) We always laughed at the fact that Fleer didn’t find a shot of Andre actually throwing the ball- but instead chose to get a shot of him pitching the ball out. All of these cards were distant set needs for me in my never ending autograph quest.
About the time that Coronavirus broke loose and some stay at home notices were put into place, Andre started signing his TTM mail after a 5-6 year absence from the game. He was initially playing catchup and then started signing some newer requests. I always liked Andre, and I hadn’t TTMed him since 2012, I decided he was ripe for the picking.
As of 2020, Ware remains the steady voice as the color commentator for the Houston Texans game day radio show.
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Ross, Alex
Card: Topps 2019 AAF Certified
Acquired: 2019, EBay
Alex Ross put up some solid numbers at quarterback with Coastal Carolina from 2012-2015. He finished his college career with 72 touchdown passes and 9,918 yards while completing 64.7% of his passes. He was not selected in the 2016 draft, and saw time in camp with the Atlanta Falcons. He then saw time in the CFL for the British Columbia Lions (2017) and the Winnipeg Blue Bombers (2018).
In 2019, Alex signed with the Alliance of American Football. He was allocated to the Memphis Express., however during the Pick or Protect QB Draft, he’d be selected with the final choice of the draft by the San Diego Fleet. The Fleet had issues from the get go at quarterback. With Josh Johnson signing with the Redskins, and Mike Bercovici inconsistent, Philip Nelson stepped in, but he too was injured.
During Week 4, Alex came in to replace Nelson at quarterback against the Memphis Express. He’d toss a score on 8 of 18 passes, going for 80 yards on the day, but threw an interception and lost 2 fumbles. He’d back up Bercovici for the remainder of the season. Currently Alex is a free agent.
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Rogers Jr., Glenn
Acquired: TTM 2019, C/o Work
Sent: 9/27 Received: 10/8 (11 days)
Glenn Rogers played defensive back for Memphis from 1988 through 1990. A speed merchant by trade, Rogers moonlighted on punt returns tallying 23 returns for 178 yards, and at defensive back wrangling in 12 interceptions for 229 yards over 33 games. After not being selected in the 1991 NFL Draft, Glenn was able to latch onto the roster of the Buccaneers for a season, where he appeared in one game.
In 1992, Glenn joined the Orlando Thunder of the World League. He’d record 4 interceptions for 87 yards, and a TD (57 yards) to lead the team, and help pace their defense towards World Bowl II.
Glenn joined the Edmonton Eskimos of the CFL after the World League folded- for the 1993 season. He stepped in as an immediate starter for the Esks over the next 5 seasons- missing just one game. From 1995 to 1997 he was a All-Canadian selection. His best season came in 1996 when Glenn recorded 49 tackles, 2 sacks, 1 fumble recovery, and 7 interceptions for 139 yards. He finished in Edmonton with 24 career interceptions. In 1998, Rogers signed with the British Columbia Lions. While with the Lions he had another outstanding season adding another 6 interceptions to his resume, but was traded to Montreal after the season. Released before the season began, Glenn played one final season in Saskatchewan in 1999 and then retired.
Glenn signed his card and wrote me a small note, thanking me for being a fan and that he was happy there were still some World League fans out there! He currently lives in the Memphis area.
WL TAC SAC FUM INT YDS AVG TD LG
9 N/a N/a N/a 4 87 21.7 1 59t
CFL TAC SAC FUM INT YDS AVG TD LG
98 303 7.0 3 31 414 13.4 1 65
British Columbia Lionsedmonton eskimosglenn rogersglenn rogers jrmontreal alouettesOrlando Thundersaskatchewan roughriderstampa bay buccaneersttm autographttm football autographWild Card WLAF 1992
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Cordia salicifolia and Lafoensia pacari plant extracts against the local effects of Bothrops jararacussu and Philodryas olfersii snake venoms
Journal of Venom Research, Volume 10
J Venom Res (2020), Vol 10, 32-37
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Raphael Schezaro-Ramos 1,2, Rita C Collaço 2, José C Cogo 3, Cháriston A Dal-Belo 4, Léa Rodrigues-Simioni 2, Thalita Rocha 5, Priscila Randazzo-Moura 1,2*
1 Laboratory of Pharmacology, Department of Physiological Sciences, Pontifical University Catholic of São Paulo (PUC/SP). Rua Joubert Wey, 290, Vila Boa Vista, 18030-070, Sorocaba, SP, Brazil
2 Department of Pharmacology, Faculty of Medical Sciences, State University of Campinas (UNICAMP). Rua Tessália Vieira de Camargo, 126, Cidade Universitária Zeferino Vaz, 13083-887, Campinas, SP, Brazil
3 Serpentarium of the Centre for Nature Studies, Vale do Paraíba University (UNIVAP). Avenida Shishima Hifumi, 2911, Urbanova, 12244-000, São José dos Campos, SP, Brazil
4 Federal University of Pampa (UNIPAMPA). Av. Antônio Trilha, 1847, Centro, 97300-162, São Gabriel, RS, Brazil
5 São Francisco University (USF). Avenida São Francisco de Assis, 218, Jardim São José, 12916-900, Bragança Paulista, SP, Brazil
*Correspondence to: Priscila Randazzo de Moura, Email: priscilarandazzo@yahoo.com.br, Tel: +55 15 997154849
Received: 05 May 2020 | Revised: 07 July 2020 | Accepted: 15 July 2020
© Copyright The Author(s). This is an open access article, published under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0). This license permits non-commercial use, distribution and reproduction of this article, provided the original work is appropriately acknowledged, with correct citation details.
Philodryas olfersii produces similar local effects to Bothrops jararacussu snakebite, which can induce misidentification and bothropic antivenom administration. Antivenom therapy is effective but has limitations regarding local damage; since plants are used in folk’s medicine to treat snakebites, we evaluated the protective properties of Cordia salicifolia and Lafoensia pacari extracts against Philodryas olfersii and Bothrops jararacussu venoms. Preparations pretreatment with both extracts inhibited > 90% the B. jararacussu venom-induced neuromuscular blockade, and 52% to 81% the P. olfersii venom-induced blockade. C. salicifolia inhibited the myonecrosis promoted by both venoms, however, L. pacari prevented only the myofilaments hypercontraction. Regarding haemorrhagic activity, C. salicifolia was more effective against B. jararacussu venom while L. pacari was more effective against P. olfersii venom. On the other hand, for oedema-forming activity the results were the opposite. Considering that both extracts prevented (to different levels) the main manifestations of both snakebites (local symptoms), we endorse further studies involving these plants as coadjuvant in snakebite therapeutics.
KEYWORDS: Neuromuscular junction, myotoxicity, haemorrhage, oedema, protective effect, antiophidic
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The Resource High speed passenger rail : future development will depend on addressing financial and other challenges and establishing a clear federal role : testimony before the Subcommittee on Transportation, Housing and Urban Development, and Related Agencies, Committee on Appropriations, House of Representatives, statement of Susan A. Fleming, (electronic resource)
High speed passenger rail : future development will depend on addressing financial and other challenges and establishing a clear federal role : testimony before the Subcommittee on Transportation, Housing and Urban Development, and Related Agencies, Committee on Appropriations, House of Representatives, statement of Susan A. Fleming, (electronic resource)
The item High speed passenger rail : future development will depend on addressing financial and other challenges and establishing a clear federal role : testimony before the Subcommittee on Transportation, Housing and Urban Development, and Related Agencies, Committee on Appropriations, House of Representatives, statement of Susan A. Fleming, (electronic resource) represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in San Francisco Public Library.
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Washington, D.C., U.S. Govt. Accountability Office, 2009
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High speed passenger rail : future development will depend on addressing financial and other challenges and establishing a clear federal role : testimony before the Subcommittee on Transportation, Housing and Urban Development, and Related Agencies, Committee on Appropriations, House of Representatives
High speed passenger rail
future development will depend on addressing financial and other challenges and establishing a clear federal role : testimony before the Subcommittee on Transportation, Housing and Urban Development, and Related Agencies, Committee on Appropriations, House of Representatives
statement of Susan A. Fleming
Future development will depend on addressing financial and other challenges and establishing a clear federal role
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Testimony, GAO-09-560T
GAO-09-560T
Federal aid to transportation
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GOP’s failed ideologies reason for loss of faith and decline in White Protestants?
Number of Protestant Americans Is in Steep Decline, Study Finds, leaving faith (and my guess as to why)
By Destro
Religion • 10/09/12 10:01:34 pm • Views: 2,852
Number of Protestant Americans Is in Steep Decline, Study Finds
By LAURIE GOODSTEIN
For the first time since researchers began tracking the religious identity of Americans, fewer than half said they were Protestants, a steep decline from 40 years ago when Protestant churches claimed the loyalty of more than two-thirds of the population.
A new study released on Tuesday by the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life found that it was not just liberal mainline Protestants, like Methodists or Episcopalians, who abandoned their faith, but also more conservative evangelical and ‘born again’ Protestants. The losses were among white Protestants, but not among black or minority Protestants, the study found, based on surveys conducted during the summer.
When they leave, instead of switching churches, they join the growing ranks who do not identify with any religion. Nearly one in five Americans say they are atheist, agnostic or ‘nothing in particular.’
This is a significant jump from only five years ago, when adults who claimed ‘no religion’ made up about 15 percent of the population. It is a seismic shift from 40 years ago, when about 7 percent of American adults said they had no religious affiliation.
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Number of Protestant Americans Is in Steep Decline? I think I know why - anecdotal on my part and why its affecting whites and not minorities and black Protestants.
I think a large part or significant part of American Protestant movement had been co-opted over the last 30 years since the 1980s by the Republican party. The Protestant movement has for the last 30 years plus been a cocktail of ideologies and theologies that somehow got linked to Republican conservative ideology.
Within this movement you had the end timers first and foremost. They were the ones that figured out that the USSR was probably linked to the anti-christ and the endtimes. Their theology grew up hand in hand with the Cold War and the Evil Empire rhetoric of Reagan and the GOP.
Then the Cold War ended and the fantasy end time scenario did not happen. That disappointment, I feel took a toll. I have several books before and after the fall of the USSR, where the same authors try and explain away why their scenarios did not happen (the Gog/Magog types are still out there but there are less of them).
Not to worry though, here comes Saddam Hussein and the Gulf War and that kept the end times scenario alive for a while for these Protestants but still nothing happened. Then 9/11 and al-Qaeda and they were back in business and then President Obama’s gets Bin Laden. That also did not fit into a scenario they had.
Then another tenet of Protestant-Republican faith got challenged, the collapse of the deregulated and low taxed economy under Bush. The Protestant movement had adopted to the GOP so well that their faith resembled the prosperity bible, where if you have faith, God rewards you with earthly riches. Yet here we have the economy robbing the American people of their jobs and savings no matter how faithful and prayerful they were. That took a toll on faith.
Last but not least, rejection of evolutionary science and other science rejection rooted in religion also took its toll.
I am not saying people who were Protestants will become atheists in the near future but I think maybe we are seeing the end of the white GOP/Protestant religious fundamentalist base. A lot has been written about the cognitive dissonance of Republicans when their theories prove unworkable or fail so maybe this is not so. That the failure of the GOP ideology is having results out there and maybe the linking of religion to the fortunes of a political party’s failing and outdated ideology is taking a toll on those faithful?
Also, I would love to see if I could chart the decline of these Protestants with the decline in GOP party membership and see if they line up.
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1 dragonath Tue, Oct 9, 2012 10:20:34pm
I know from experience that the youth groups in my former church were being co-opted by radical theology, much of it against the actual beliefs of the church.
Not everybody was an asshole, but the rot was setting in.
2 freetoken Wed, Oct 10, 2012 12:31:02am
Note that Pew's "other" category is growing as well as the bin for atheists and other non-believers.
If one looks at a bit more detail:
Image: nones-exec-6.png
One can see specifically the drop in "Protestant" has come from the two subgroups labeled as "White", while the "Black" and other "Minority" subgroups of "Protestant" have remained steady over the years.
Now, it's a bit of a forced type of categorization for Pew to do polling like this, but it does show that the general shift in demographics in the US shows up in religious self-identification.
3 The Left Wed, Oct 10, 2012 7:12:13am
I think it might be something else, namely the change in the culture in the last twenty years. 20 years ago it was STILL ok to hate or fear gay people-- but now, we know them as friends, relatives, coworkers, stars of TV shows.
Similarly, there's been a change in how evangelical christians view the environment-- younger evangelicals, studies have shown, think of the environment as something God wants them to take care of.
I liked your essay and agree with it, especially the Reagan-axis of fundamental and evangelical christians and the right, -- but I think there''s been a broader sea change in the culture that you didn't touch on.
4 Destro Wed, Oct 10, 2012 7:36:56am
re: #3 The Left
Something is going on. I read several articles about how the GOP is freaked that their party, which is a demographic party (even though it claims it is an ideological party) is shrinking which is why the voter restrictions that had been done.
I am assuming the GOP does internal polling and knows what is happening to their future better than we do.
5 dragonath Wed, Oct 10, 2012 8:04:47am
Destro, if you want to read about something that ill bug your eyes out, look up the Creation Festival. It's advertised as a more or less middle of the road thing but it attracts some of the most insane people in the movement.
But yeah, thing are changing, for the better and for the worse. People are less strident than their parents, but are less educated.
re: #5 dragonath
What's funny about creationism is that it is a Protestant American thing. Catholics, Jews and Orthodox Christians kind of work around evolution and work it into their doctrines somehow, while of course all claim that God created everything. Protestants in Europe are not like Protestants in the USA on creationism either.
8 Skip Intro Wed, Oct 10, 2012 9:12:50am
A new study released on Tuesday by the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life found that it was not just liberal mainline Protestants, like Methodists or Episcopalians, who abandoned their faith, but also more conservative evangelical and ‘born again’ Protestants.
This is excellent news, because this is the group that believes all of it's members are "saved" while everyone else is going straight to hell, the bible is literally true, down to the last period, and have long debates among themselves about what stage of the end times Great Tribulation we're now in (pre, mid, or post).
Loons all, and the core of the GOP.
weird-- I can see that there are comments here but I can't read any of them. They're not coming up. :(
10 Mostly sane, most of the time. Wed, Oct 10, 2012 10:41:28am
You need to understand the difference between the mainstream Protestant faiths and the evangelicals. My grandmother was a mainstream Presbyterian for something like 60 years. She was a PBS liberal and a social worker.
None of her children attend the Presbyterian church. Two attend no church, one is a Mormon, and one is an Evangelical.
Churches need to give people a reason to get their butt out of bed on Sunday morning, to contribute to the rummage sale, to come to the spaghetti feed, to teach that Sunday School class. If your church has stopped explaining why they are necessary, they're going to lose people.
Grandma attended because her friends were there, but she definitely saw church attendance as optional. My aunt (the last one that would self-identify as Presbyterian) sees it as being so optional she doesn't need to do it at all.
If you classify all Protestants as "fundamentalists" you are failing to understand American religion on a very basic scale.
11 Destro Wed, Oct 10, 2012 11:39:02am
re: #10 Mostly sane, most of the time.
I myself do not classify all Protestants as "fundamentalists" but the Republican party is a party deeply associated with Protestants and the rightward shift the GOP heralded did affect the non Evangelical Protestants. I feel the centrist, modernists and moderate Protestants were hurt by the GOP's relationship with religion in that if t he GOP's policies don't work what else about their faith is correct, etc. But instead of exploring other religious associations these white Protestants seem to 'drop out' of their faith.
There is no way I can prove this of course. It is just speculation on my experience within the GOP party and their religious nature and how it made me feel when I saw their ideology fail in front of my eyes.
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The Mele Decleration 2010
The declaration of the second annual meeting of the Melanesian Indigenous Land Defence Alliance, held at Mele village in Port Vila, Vanuatu, 14-19 June 2010
In response to increasing threats to customary land systems posed by the land reform agendas of international financial institutions, aid agencies, governments and elites within our own countries, the second annual meeting of the Melanesian Indigenous Land Defence Alliance (MILDA) affirms its commitment to indigenous control of customary land systems. Recognising that the threats to customary land are directed against the Melanesian Pacific as a region, our intention is to unite and organize on a regional basis, to defend the continued control of Melanesian communities over their land, sea, water, air and natural resources. We assert that the customary land systems are the basis of life and community in Melanesia.
Established in 2009, MILDA is an alliance of groups and individuals united by a shared vision, a common cause, and a commitment to working together. Our members are fieldworkers and community members, women’s representatives and mothers, fathers and grandfathers. We include church leaders and traditional leaders, academics, regional NGOs and international supporters. We first came together last year in Madang, PNG, and following from that we came together this year in Port Vila, Vanuatu. We came from Papua New Guinea, Bougainville, Solomon Islands, Vanuatu, Fiji and Australia, and were privileged to have traditional chiefs with us. We came to share experiences, stories and skills, and strategize a regional response to the persistent pressure for registration and leasing of customary land.
Land has always been of the highest value to the lives of our peoples, and so it will be for generations to come. In all Melanesian traditions, land is regarded as a non-alienable resource that cannot be parted with. The relationship which we have with our land is special and unique, and cannot be accounted for through Western systems of value. The Melanesian definition of land is inclusive. Land extends from the surface of the ground to the centre of the earth. It stretches above us to the limits of the sky. It includes the waters of our rivers, streams and creeks. It includes our oceans. The land has belonged to us – and we to it – since time immemorial.
Land is our mother and the source of life for our people. Land secures life, fosters and strengthens relationships that sustain our society. It embodies the link to our past, present and future and therefore sustains everything we do. MILDA members reaffirm the sanctity of land.
The meeting asserted the following:
1. We are opposed to any form of alienation of land from customary landowners, whether by outright sale or through leases which remove landowners’ capacity to effectively control, access and use their land.
2. We believe that the ways in which land is used and distributed should be determined by Melanesian custom, and not Western legal systems.
3. We assert the value of traditional economy, which promotes self-reliance amongst our people and communities, and we are opposed to actions and policies which encourage the dependency of Melanesian peoples on others, including the state.
4. We reject all policies which require that customary land be registered as a precondition for business or development activities, and demand that Melanesian governments cease all pressures for customary land registration, whether voluntary or involuntary.
5. We oppose all foreign programs, bribes and inducements to bring about customary land registration in Melanesia.
6. We call for a total overhauling of the current land administration in Melanesia to weed out corrupt land dealings and fraudulent titling. All customary land taken by these means should be returned to customary owners.
The Melanesian Indigenous Land Defence Alliance resolved that it will meet again next year in the Autonomous Region of Bougainville.
Mele Decleration 2010.pdf
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MOSI Bitter About Ordsall Chord
Chord strikes bum note with a rail link that will damage heritage, says museum
Written by Jonathan Schofield. Published on December 14th 2012.
AS part of the plan to improve rail travel in the North, Network Rail are proposing a viaduct to connect Manchester’s Victoria, Oxford Road and Piccadilly stations. The money is in place for the work.
However, MOSI will be objecting to Network Rail’s proposed alignment for the connection, the Ordsall Chord, as it will have a damaging effect on MOSI visitors, volunteers and income.
The investment is intended to help ease a rail bottleneck to the south of Piccadilly station and enable faster, more frequent services to run across the North of England.
The plans include a new 1km, £85m, section of track to the north west of Castlefield Junction. This will link the Castlefield Junction line with the Deal Street Junction line, connecting Manchester’s three main stations for the very first time.
The problem is this cuts across the line of the 1830 Liverpool and Manchester Railway into MOSI (The Museum of Science and Industry). The track is used for the extremely popular steam train rides in the museum, and is historically of huge importance.
But every cloud has a silver lining - perhaps.
While an element of the 1830 railway would have to be removed, the work would reveal the Grade 1 listed viaduct over the River Irwell designed by George Stephenson (click here). This would come about through the demolition of a later viaduct extension currently masking the older structure.
Mid nineteenth century extension, with single colossal cast iron column, attached to the George Stephenson Grade 1 listed 1830 viaduct and masking it. View from the north. The extension would be demolished and that crazy column lost should the Ordsall Chord proceed as planned.
For MOSI this is not a price worth paying.
The museum told Confidential.
'MOSI supports the Northern Hub project and recognises the benefits that would derive from improving the connection between Manchester Piccadilly and Manchester Victoria stations.
'However, MOSI will be objecting to Network Rail’s proposed alignment for the connection, the Ordsall Chord, as it will have a damaging effect on MOSI visitors, volunteers and income.
'Our preference would be that the Ordsall Chord be delivered whilst preserving MOSI's heritage and cultural standing, maintaining its ability to run its popular steam train ride on its current Y-shaped configuration, and maintaining MOSI's access to the mainline.
'The proposed alignment does not deliver on any of these objectives. It will have a severe impact on MOSI’s visitors, its historic site, its day-to-day railway operations, its volunteers, its routine revenue generating activity, and its fund-raising ability related to its ambition to restore and interpret the MOSI story of where science met industry and the modern world began.'
They have a point.
A huge point when it comes to preserving the alignment of the oldest passenger railway system into the oldest passenger railway station in the world. It should always be borne in mind that it was the Liverpool and Manchester railway's success that led to all global rail networks. This is epoch-making heritage here.
Confidential reckons that if MOSI has an alternative plan then it should be examined by the rail authorities with close attention.
Once you lose this sort of heritage it's not coming back.
Ordsall Chord proposed route with the Stephenson bridge peeping out behind. This cuts the MOSI line and the 1830 Liverpool and Manchester Railway line
Stephenson's bridge from the south, where it is also masked from general view by the 1840s Manchester, Altrincham and South Junction Railway viaduct
1830 viaduct as depicted shortly after opening
crisbyDecember 14th 2012.
I'd like to think they could solve the problem with a crossover like I had on my train set. But seriously, this is an important connection and it's going to be very difficult if not impossible to lift the chord high enough to give clearance. Let's hope the Inspector makes them take a long hard look at it, one suspects it hasn't been a priority so far.
Charlie HulmeDecember 14th 2012.
Too late to be objecting now, the current consultation is only about the design of the new bridge. The original 'Castlefield curve' plan from the 1970s could have been used, but I think would have meant altering the grade 1 listed 'Stephenson bridge - personally speaking (and heretically perhaps) I would have perferred that option.
And the mainline connection has, I understand, already been disconnected, the last passengers to use it were Price Charles and his entourage in 2010. Maybe they can create a new Y-shape for the internal line by reconnecting the link which existed near to the present main entrance.
DavidDecember 14th 2012.
If MOSI is so dependent on running steam train trips,it just highlights the long term failure of vision and management for this Musuem.They have the best location in Manchester for a Musuem,but they have continually failed to deliver on even their own development schemes.Now it seems they are reduced to making nimby like objection to the Chord,in the hope that they might get some financial compensation.
AnonymousDecember 15th 2012.
David, on the off-chance you have millions of spare pounds, perhaps you can help MOSI with their dreams. They need money to survive and it doesn't grow on trees... or perhaps you haven't noticed.
Their problems are largely their own fault.They have lacked effective and strategic leadership.
For a start,maybe they might consider going back to their proper name and dropping the ridiculous name change to MOSI.
Duke FameDecember 16th 2012.
Here is the problem the coalition is faced with. They deliver the finance and the plans to really make a difference to the immediate economy and the economy of this town & those in the north west for the future. It will be an investment that will help science industry and trade.
Immediately, there are complaints about some fairly unimportant issues. In the meantime, the builders who can construct the thing, the surveyors to monitor their design etc etc etc are unemployed. No other nation faffs around like us, we;re in an economic hole, this sort of investmetn is a good way to get out of it and instead, we have selfish objections ironically from someone who prefers to keep science and industry in a museum.
Jonathan SchofieldDecember 16th 2012.
Duke, who is the person who wants to keep Science and Industry in a museum? Nobody is saying that in the article or the rants. What the museum seems to be saying is can we check out the alternatives?
Also we are really not as bad with prevarication as you think. Five years ago I was doing some research work in Northern Sweden and their main super railway line had been stopped south of Umea because of some frogs. Or maybe snails. Something.
The problem was some creatures might, and it was only might, have their habitats damaged, and only damaged not destroyed, if the line went ahead.
Hence this major and totally necessary step change for a whole region was halted for years.
Which is exactly the step change that MOSI seem to want to delay.
Another TimDecember 17th 2012.
In case anyone's interested I've put an overlay of the "preferred route" on a Google map to make it easier to see where it goes - excuse me if something similar has been done already but I couldn't find anything.
http://cleveret.net/stuff/ordsallchordoverlay.htm
Slightly off topic but I'd like to know where all this leaves pedestrians and cyclists. There aren't many routes out of the city in that direction for those groups and the new line goes straight over Princes Bridge. Network Rail have an "Appendix F: Replacement Pedestrian and Cycle Bridge Location", but all it shows is a big green shape covering the whole area, which is apparently a "zone within which replacement pedestrian bridge is proposed". All rather vague and non-committal. Can anyone point me towards any more detailed information? Thanks.
If people want another route then they might explain where the extra money is going to come from.
We have a whole host of Labour MPs in this city who did nothing during the the long years of Labour rule to tackle the huge disparity in transport funding between London and Manchester.
We have a editor of this website who has also consistently failed to tackle local politicians like Stringer about this.
Jill JillianDecember 18th 2012.
What about installing a turntable at the junction of the rail lines so the line is still technically available but unlikely to be used ,then allow MOSI to run historic trams out of the rear entrance of the museum and up Liverpool Road to GMex and back again
A turntable? Are there any turntables left on the rail network in this country?
AnonymousDecember 23rd 2012.
Yes there is one presently being installed just outside York railway station, to repleace a triangle which was used by engineering trains and steam locos on the many charters that run to and from Yoek during the summer season.
AnonymousJanuary 4th 2013.
About as many as there are steam trains
Don't hold your breath folks, this project is still 'pre-application' and the Government's new, streamlined fast track major infrastructure planning process takes at least a year. There's quite a lot of info on infrastructure.planningportal.gov.uk/…/…
Jonathan, you're quite right; planning major projects takes a long time in most democratic countries, though I think you're a bit dismissive about the importance of biodiversity.
Michael JonesJanuary 9th 2013.
Is MOSI having a laugh? THey want to hold back an improvement to train times across the region so they can run Thomas the Tank Engine up the track!
There is still time to object if you don't favour this highly destructive and over-expensive plan, but you need to be quick about it! Register your objection with the Secretary of State for Transport at - transportandworksact@dft.gsi.gov.uk
PS to previous message - details from Transport and Works Act website: "Any objections to, or other representations about, the proposals in the TWA application should be sent to the Secretary of State for Transport c/o Transport and Works Act Orders Unit, General Counsel's Office, Department for Transport, Zone 1/18, Great Minster House, 33 Horseferry Road, London SW1P 4DR , email transportandworksact@dft.gsi.gov.uk. An objection or representation MUST (i) be received by the Secretary of State on or before 28 October 2013, (ii) be made in writing (whether sent by post or email), (iii) state the grounds of the objection or other representation, (iv) indicate who is making the objection or representation, and (v) give an address to which correspondence relating to the objection or representation may be sent. (If you are sending your objection or other representation by e-mail, please provide a postal address andstate "Ordsall Chord TWA Order" in the subject of the email.) " Go on - give it a go!
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The UN Just Voted Against The US On Cuba, And Nikki Haley Rips Them A New One…”The American People…
By MoveToDraft
The United Nations doesn’t have a history of being brave, moral, or even useful. But it’s not often that someone publicly calls the body out on its hypocrisy.
It wasn’t often before Nikki Haley, anyway. Now, to the delight of all freedom-loving Americans, it’s commonplace.
Haley has proven time and again that she won’t mince words with the UN whenever they oppress Israel. Or whenever they prop up evil dictators, or refuse to help Christians around the world.
If the UN makes an immoral move – when the UN makes an immoral move – Haley has been there to denounce the body, and stand for American principles.
So when the UN votes to condemn the US for enforcing a trade embargo on Cuba, as punishment for Cuba’s violations of human rights?
Well, Haley spoke again. And she was very clear – ‘the American people have spoken.’
After all, we elected Trump – and he doesn’t play around with dictators.
The Independent Journal Review reports:
The United Nations passed a resolution calling for the United States to end its embargo against Cuba and its communist regime. The resolution was adopted 191-2, with only the U.S. and Israel voting against it.
Nikki Haley blasted the world body, in the bottom-line style supporters of the former governor of South Carolina have come to admire.
IJR is being modest – the ‘bottom-line style supporters have come to admire’ hasn’t just earned Haley applause from South Carolina. Hardly.
Pretty much the whole country is giving her a standing ovation at this point.
“The Cuban regime is sending the warped message to the world that the sad state of its economy, the oppression of its people, and the export of its destructive ideology is not its fault.”
“To those who are confused as to where the United States stands, let me be clear: As is their right, the American people have spoken – they have chosen a new president, and he has chosen a new ambassador. Our principles are not up for a vote.”
“As long as the Cuban people continue to be deprived of their human rights, the United States does not fear isolation in this chamber, even if we have to stand alone.”
#cuba #uscuba #unlockcuba #unblockcuba #cubavsregime Thank you @UN US Ambassador Nikki Haley for "Speaking Truth to Power" about Cuba pic.twitter.com/m8jMxBFd4q
— Cuba Reality Check (@CubaRealityCk) November 5, 2017
Luckily for the world, the UN resolution can’t force the US to do anything. So the embargo stands.
But it’s nice to see international liberal finger-wagging met with the blunt spoken force of American principles.
Source: Independent Journal Review
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First Littoral Mission Vessel LMV Independence Joins the Republic of Singapore Navy Fleet
Posted On Monday, 30 May 2016 15:47
Naval Forces News - Singapore
The Republic of Singapore Navy (RSN) welcomed a new addition to its fleet as Littoral Mission Vessel (LMV) Independence finished its sea trials and cruised to its new home at Tuas Naval Base on 26 May. LMV Independence is one of the eight LMVs that will replace the current Fearless-class Patrol Vessels (PVs). The new ships will be more efficient than their predecessors in areas such as speed and versatility.
A unique design feature of the LMVs is the co-location of the ship's vital controls in an Integrated Command Centre. This area in the ship houses the LMV's Bridge, Combat Information Centre, and Machinery Control Room - which are usually housed in separate parts of a warship.
Picture of LMV Independence by RSN/ Chua Soon Lye
Speaking at the event, Chief of Navy Rear-Admiral (RADM) Lai Chung Han said: "It is an important milestone for the (LMV) programme. The homecoming of LMV Independence marks the conclusion of almost 2 years of the construction phase. It also marks the beginning of about 11 to 12 months of ICIT (Installation, Checkout, Integration and Testing). I think this is something we can be very proud of and something that we want to thank all involved for bringing the project to this point."
Illustration: RSN
The names of the RSN's eight LMVs are RSS Independence, RSS Sovereignty, RSS Unity, RSS Justice, RSS Indomitable, RSS Fortitude, RSS Dauntless, and RSS Fearless.
The eight Littoral Mission Vessels (LMVs) will replace the Navy’s Fearless Class Patrol Vessels. The LMVs will be able to carry out maritime security operations and safeguarding of our sea lines of communication more effectively and efficiently. Although larger in size, the LMVs with the innovative design, will be able to operate with a leaner crew size. Adopting the concept of “mission modularity”, these vessels are highly configurable and can embark on a range of mission modules to meet the specific mission needs. The first LMV will be delivered to the Navy in first quarter of 2016.
The LMV sensor suite will include:
Thales NS100 3D Surveillance Radar
Kelvin Hughes Sharpeye Navivation Radar
Stelop Compass D EO Director and 360 degrees all round Surveillance System
The LMV weapon systems will include:
An Oto Melara 76mm main gun
MBDA VL Mica surface to air missiles
Oto Melara 12.7mm Hitrole remote weapon stations
Rafale 25mm Typhoon remote weapon station
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Thursday, November 11, 1999 Published at 11:24 GMT
Campaign for Europe's carnivores
The grey wolf: They can adapt to us, if we will live with them
By Environment Correspondent Alex Kirby
The future of Europe's biggest carnivores has reached a crossroads, says the World Wide Fund for Nature.
Dr Alistair Bath from the Memorial University in Newfoundland advised WWF
It says one species, the Iberian lynx, is likely to vanish before very long. Others, like wolves, face hostility when they try to recolonise areas where they were once numerous.
Yet WWF thinks the predators should be encouraged to return, even when it means living close to people - to redress the ecological balance, and to act as a barometer of environmental health.
"You could say a carnivore like the lynx or the bear is rather like a canary in a coalmine", says a WWF spokeswoman.
"A viable carnivore population shows that biodiversity is healthy, because it means there are enough smaller prey species available for food".
Offering benefits
The carnivores, WWF says, are in conservation terms "Europe's equivalent of tigers and jaguars" - they are good for the environment, they can benefit local people by attracting tourists, and yet they often arouse local hostility.
Otters are slowly returning in Britain
The co-ordinator of WWF's Large Carnivore Initiative for Europe (LCIE), William Pratesi, says this is a crucial time.
"We have the opportunity to exploit nature. Or we can co-exist with it and leave our children the opportunity to see large carnivores in the wild."
WWF wants to enhance the prospects of five European carnivores:
the Iberian lynx, now reduced to under 800 animals in ten isolated pockets in Spain and Portugal. It will probably become extinct in the next 50 years, and WWF says that will be "a huge embarrassment to Europe"
the Eurasian lynx, largely confined to northern and eastern Europe. There are slow signs of a comeback, but the species needs sensitive management
the grey wolf, found in eastern Europe, parts of Scandinavia, the Balkans, Italy and Iberia. "Current trends are generally positive", but poaching is still a problem
the brown bear - there are 36,000 in Russia, and a further 14,000 elsewhere in Europe. Several small and isolated populations may become extinct, but the bear can withstand some human pressure
the wolverine. The largest member of the weasel family, and confined now to Russia and parts of the Nordic countries, the wolverine is under serious human pressure.
Some pressures affect all five species - habitat loss, hunting, loss of prey species, and road traffic.
Russian bear poachers are a real threat
And while most face hostility because they kill farm animals, WWF says there are benign ways to deter them.
In Italy, it has been promoting the breeding of Abruzzo mastiff dogs, used traditionally by shepherds because of their effectiveness against wolves.
Dogs are also used to guard flocks in Romania, where WWF is helping to fund a project in the Carpathians.
This is planned to be a model area to show how large numbers of wolves, bears and lynxes can live close to a big human and sheep population.
In Britain, where all the large carnivores were wiped out long ago, WWF says there is still concern over the fate of some smaller species.
It says the Scottish wild cat is endangered, and the polecat is facing renewed conflict with people when it tries to move out of its stronghold in Wales.
Only the otter is beginning a slow recovery after decades of decline.
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The CEOs of Twitter and Parler were at odds with each other Saturday, each posting on their own network about Apple’s decision to ban Parler.
Twitter’s Jack Dorsey posted a heart emoji above a screenshot of the App Store’s top download chart, where Parler had been before the ban.
“Yeah, we were number one until the fake news rage mob at Twitter and your anti-competitive friends went after us,” Parler’s John Matze said.
The chief executives of Parler and Twitter were at odds with each other on Saturday, as each posted on their own network about Apple’s ban of Parler.
After Apple banned Parler for failing to remove content promoting violence, Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey posted a picture of the Top Charts on the App Store. Before the ban, Parler had been the most downloaded app. By Saturday night, it was gone.
On Parler, CEO John Matze responded by posting a screenshot of Dorsey’s tweet and adding his own comment.
“Yeah, we were number one until the fake news rage mob at Twitter and your anti-competitive friends went after us,” Matze wrote. He added: “That’s real cute.”
Parler, which has become home to a growing number of conservative and alt-right voices, was banned from the app stores run by both Apple and Google. Both companies said the app didn’t do enough to moderate incendiary talk. “No change without bloodshed!” a Parler user wrote as the mob of Trump supporters stormed the Capitol on Wednesday.
Google banned it late Friday, with Matze saying it was a “horrible way to handle this.”
Apple followed with its own ban on Saturday, after giving the app a day to update its moderation efforts. “Parler has not taken adequate measures to address the proliferation of these threats to people’s safety,” Apple reportedly said.
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Earlier on Saturday, Matze had posted about Apple’s ban, saying Apple wanted him to put in place “surveillance” policies.
“They claim it is due to violence on the platform. The community disagrees as we hit number 1 on their store today,” he wrote. He noted that “Hang Mike Pence” had become a trending topic on Twitter, before the network halted it.
“Displaying the horrible double standard Apple and their big tech pack apply to the community,” Matze said.
On Parler, prominent users said banning it was a form of censorship.
“Apple and Google have now removed the Parler App. Welcome to political censorship! Spread the word so your fellow Americans know about this,” wrote Rep. Devin Nunes late on Saturday night.
Rep. Ken Buck wrote that Congress needed to take action against Google, Facebook, Twitter, and Apple. “Big Tech has abused its monopolistic power and has engaged in censorship,” he wrote.
President Donald Trump’s son Eric Trump on Saturday posted a picture of himself with the caption: “The MAGA movement is going nowhere. [President Trump] has created the greatest political movement in American history.”
Like Twitter, Parler users can also sign into the network on the web. But Amazon is reportedly removing the company from its Amazon Web Services. The platform may go offline Sunday night, unless it can find an alternative hosting platform, said Matze. It might be offline for a week.
Matze said on Saturday the tech firms were working together to shut down Parler.
“We are the closest thing to competition Facebook or Twitter has seen in many years. I believe Amazon, Google, Apple worked together to try and ensure they don’t have competition,” he said.
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DATSUN CELEBRATES BRAND’S 1st ANNIVERSARY IN INDIA
Datsun marked its first year in India by hosting the ‘Datsun Drive-On’ cavalcade in Delhi that saw over 100 Datsun owners coming together to celebrate the brand’s first anniversary in the market. Datsun will also celebrate the occasion with underprivileged children at 100 locations across India.
The start of the ‘Datsun Drive-On’ convoy, consisting of an impressive line-up of Datsun GO and GO+ cars, was flagged off by Guillaume Sicard, President, Nissan India Operations and Bollywood actor Ayushmann Khurrana in the capital city. The ‘Datsun Drive-On’ celebratory drive will also be hosted across seven cities including Delhi, Bangalore, Chennai, Kolkata, Cochin, Ahmedabad and Guwahati.
The convoys celebrate the first year since the Datsun GO hatchback went on sale in 2014. The celebrations in Delhi were marked by a musical performance including a jamming session with the talented Ayushmann Khurrana, with Guillaume Sicard joining him on stage.
Giving the signal for the ‘Datsun Drive-On’ to start, Mr. Sicard said, “India was the first market to begin selling Datsun products after it was announced in 2012 that the brand would be reintroduced, and we are proud to celebrate this milestone in Datsun’s history in India.
Since then Datsun has had an encouraging year both in India – where our happy customers are a testimony to this – as well as other world markets. ‘Datsun Drive-On’ is our way of showing our strong commitment towards our customers. Both Datsun GO and GO+ have been received well in India and we look forward to adding more products to our portfolio in the future.”
Talking about his association Datsun, Ayushmann Khurrana said, “I am very proud to be associated with Datsun. It is a young and dynamic brand that resonates with my personality completely. It has been a great experience today to meet Datsun owners and get to know their experiences with their cars. This has strengthened my belief in the brand”.
Conceived with the vision of “mobility for all”, the Datsun GO was made available to Indian customers in early April last year and Datsun GO+ was added to the stable earlier this year in January. Datsun vehicles are available across 176 Nissan-Datsun Dealerships and standalone outlets in India.
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You are here : AllRefer.com > Reference > World > Countries > Martinique > Martinique - People
Martinique: People
People Martinique
425,966 (July 2003 est.)
Age structure:
0-14 years: 22.8% (male 49,310; female 47,908)
15-64 years: 66.9% (male 142,242; female 142,688)
65 years and over: 10.3% (male 19,656; female 24,162) (2003 est.)
Median age:
total: 32.7 years
female: 33.3 years (2002)
Population growth rate:
0.85% (2003 est.)
Birth rate:
14.96 births/1,000 population (2003 est.)
Death rate:
6.41 deaths/1,000 population (2003 est.)
Net migration rate:
-0.06 migrant(s)/1,000 population (2003 est.)
Sex ratio:
at birth: 1.02 male(s)/female
under 15 years: 1.03 male(s)/female
Infant mortality rate:
total: 7.44 deaths/1,000 live births
male: 4.85 deaths/1,000 live births
Life expectancy at birth:
total population: 78.72 years
male: 79.27 years
female: 78.16 years (2003 est.)
Total fertility rate:
1.79 children born/woman (2003 est.)
HIV/AIDS - adult prevalence rate:
NA%
HIV/AIDS - people living with HIV/AIDS:
HIV/AIDS - deaths:
noun: Martiniquais (singular and plural)
adjective: Martiniquais
Ethnic groups:
African and African-white-Indian mixture 90%, white 5%, East Indian, Chinese less than 5%
Religions:
Roman Catholic 85%, Protestant 10.5%, Muslim 0.5%, Hindu 0.5%, other 3.5% (1997)
French, Creole patois
definition: age 15 and over can read and write
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The Northerners AKA De Noorderlingen (1992) Alex van Warmerdam, Jack Wouterse, Annet Malherbe, Rudolf Lucieer
A surreal black comedy set in a decrepit 1960’s housing development. When his mother is drawn into sainthood and the resulting frustrations of his father become too difficult to manage, Thomas, a young boy, becomes obsessed with events on the broadcast news. The liberation of the Belgian Congo is taking place and Thomas becomes Lumumba, one of the contenders as the Congo’s new leader. He is encouraged in this escapism by Plagge, the postman who reads all the mail and knows all of the bizzarre and intimate secrets of the eccentric inhabitants of the estate.
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Oil & Gas (3) - The Downstream Dilemma By Nasir Ahmad El-Rufai
The downstream parts of the oil and gas sector include all activities following the delivery of crude oil to processing plants for refining, conversion and value addition into gasoline, diesel, kerosene and petrochemicals, including transportation, storage, marketing of the finished products and associated services. The value chain entails the supply of crude oil to the refineries, primary distribution from refineries to terminals, secondary distribution to depots and distribution to retail outlets for marketing. In a country where nearly 80 percent of urban family incomes go towards food, rent and transportation costs, the prices of cooking gas, kerosene and gasoline constitute a lion share of the cost of living.
by Nasir Ahmad El-Rufai Oct 27, 2011
Unlike the upstream parts which are considered successful and relatively efficient, dominated by IOCs and private sector operations and mindset, the downstream sub-sector of the Nigerian oil industry is unanimously perceived to be unsuccessful, inefficient, and corrupt. Downstream operations also in sharp contrast with the upstream sub-sector are dominated by state-owned enterprises, government regulation and price control. On the whole, Nigeria has been the worse for it. It has not always been this way.
How did we get to where we are? Why are we not refining 2 million bpd of our production and creating refining 25,000 jobs? Should the world's 14th largest producer of crude oil be one of its largest importers of refined products? Is there a subsidy in the pricing of gasoline? Let us take a trip down memory lane and suggest some answers now and going forward.
Until 1966, the Nigerian economy was supplied with petroleum products through private sector imports by multinationals like Shell, Esso, BP and Total. Shell, BP and the three regional governments sponsored the first Port Harcourt refinery. It was commissioned in 1966 with a capacity of 35,000 barrels per day (bpd). This domestic production supplemented by imports served the nation until the early 1970s when demand outstripped supply and nationwide shortages developed.
In 1975, the Federal Military Government appointed the Oputa Panel of Inquiry to examine the root causes of the shortages of petroleum products. The panel’s main findings, which were accepted by the government were (1) national demand had outstripped domestic refining capability, and (2) local marketing companies lacked the financial resources to undertake the importation of substantial quantities of petroleum products required to augment domestic production, construct infrastructure and facilities to receive, market and distribute products to all consumption centers in the hinterland, and construct large capacity refineries to satisfy local demand.
The principal recommendations of Justice Oputa's Panel, which were also accepted by the government were that government should take over the importation of petroleum products from the oil marketing companies, expand domestic refining capacity and the product importation and reception facilities as part of a nationwide system of pipelines to facilitate petroleum products’ distribution in the long run.
The following policies and actions were then implemented as a direct result of these decisions: (a) Legislation: The Petroleum Control Decree was passed to vest the Minister of Petroleum Resources the exclusive right to import and fix the price of petroleum products. The Petroleum Equalization Fund Decree was also enacted to ensure that prices of petroleum products are the same throughout the country. (b) Oil Marketers: The Government took over majority ownership of the major petroleum marketing companies (Shell, BP, Esso, Mobil and Total) during the implementation of the Indigenization programme of the 1970s. (c) Refineries: The Government through the NNPC then under Muhammadu Buhari's leadership, expanded domestic refining capacity by contracting the building refineries in Kaduna (completed in 1980) and Warri (1978), and subsequently the expansion of Port Harcourt (1989) to a total national refining capacity of 445,000 bpd, spending about US$8 billion in the process.
A nationwide system of over 5,000 kilometers of crude oil and refined products pipeline transmission and distribution network and 23 depots were also constructed during the Babangida administration, with the first national fiber optic communications network laid contiguous with the pipelines. The NNPC also owns 9 LPG depots, which have been largely under-utilized since inception in 1995, due to the shortage of LPG from the refineries and logistic problems in the supply of imported LPG to the mostly upcountry depots.
The installed capacity of these refineries by 1989 was equal to about 140% of domestic demand. The intention of constructing the new Port Harcourt Refinery was mainly to export its output. This was achieved for only a short period. Thus, although Nigeria has an installed refining capacity of 445,000 bpd, only a maximum of about 240,000 bpd were being processed for domestic consumption since 1990.
The pricing of petroleum products moved from the market to the minister's office. In 1992, a liter of petrol (PMS) cost just 70 kobo meaning the price has increased nearly tenfold in less than 10 years. In 1994, the Abacha regime increased the price of PMS to N11 per liter but set up the Petroleum Special Trust Fund (PTF) to administer the proceeds under General Muhammadu Buhari's chairmanship as its statement of sincerity. This was raised to N20 in 1999, N22 in 2000, N26 in 2002, N39.50 in 2003, N49 in 2004 and N65 in 2007, all by the Obasanjo administration. It is therefore understandable why Nigerians see the pricing of petroleum products as a slippery slope from which they seem to lose all the time.
The problem began when our domestic refineries failed to produce at their design capacities - at ex-refinery costs determinable within Nigeria. As demand increased, we needed to import at import-parity costs determined outside our control. Hundreds of millions of dollars spent on turnaround maintenance between 1998 and 2006 have yielded no sustainable improvements in their output. The refineries now need about $400 million for revamp and retrofit to work! Why?
It appears that there are several built-in incentives to keep the refineries under-performing because that is an opportunity to sell the allocated but unprocessed crude for NNPC's account, and an opening to import refined products to make up the shortfall in domestic production! Both situations present multi-million dollar arbitrage, patronage and pay-off opportunities for those in power. For instance in 2010, the refineries received a total of 33,633,907 barrels of dry crude oil and condensate and processed a bit more into various petroleum products. The combined average refining capacity in 2010 was less than 22 percent - with Warri having the highest capacity utilization (43%), Kaduna (20%) and Port Harcourt (9%). The highest capacity utilization ever achieved was 64% in 1990, compared with 80-95% the world over!
This means out of the 445,000 bpd allocated to NNPC for domestic refining - about 162 million barrels in 2010, about 128 million were allocated to privileged parties to sell on the open market. These privileged parties, the World Bank found in 2000, pocketed about $75 million as middlemen, marketing the most sought-after, light sweet crude oil in the whole world! The third source of pay-offs and patronage is the paperwork from marketers and NNPC to PPPRA and government to claim 'the fuel subsidy', or the price differential between what are imported product prices and the approved selling prices for PMS and Kerosene. The fourth and final source of pay-offs is the paperwork to reimburse 'bridging costs' - the cost payable to transporters to freight fuel from Atlas Cove, Mosimi, and the various depots to every nook and cranny of the country to ensure that elusive price equalization. The Nigerian citizen directly or indirectly bears the burdens of all these consequential inefficiencies, and some fat cats get paid for doing nothing even when the paperwork and audits show otherwise.
In 2010, the total production by the refineries was 4,404,360 tons of various petroleum products - and PPMC itself distributed 6,353,517,990,000 liters of PMS, 668,548,000 of kerosene (HHK), 205,546,720 of aviation fuel (ATK), 879,367,550 of diesel (AGO), and 272,699,100 of fuel oil (LPFO) - 0.747 million per day. This is inadequate to meet our national demand. Comparatively, we imported 5,031,288 tons of PMS in 2010, compared with the measly 747,776 tons our four refineries combined produced - in effect we imported nearly 87 percent of our gasoline needs last year.
The NNPC through its PPMC subsidiary evacuated 4,508,4934 tons of petroleum products from the refineries and received 6,639,752 tons of imported PMS and HHK for distribution. The total quantity of PMS sold in 2010 by the PPMC, the sole importer and distributor was 9,090,469,690 - about 25 million liters daily. It is estimated that the NNPC spent $5.5 billion in 2010 to import refined products. PPMC also sold a total of 13.75 billion liters of various grades of petroleum products through depots, bunkers and coastal lifting - about 38 million liters of various products daily. Last year, 945 million liters of other petroleum products - largely naphtha and LPFO - worth about N62 billion was exported. If our four refineries can operate at or slightly above the template capacity, we would not need to import more than a modest shortfall and strategic reserve that most countries keep - just in case.
Since the 1990s, what should have become a temporary measure to import has remained a permanent policy. With the continuous depreciation of our national currency, the rising market price of crude oil, and consequential escalation of refined products prices from the markets we import, the shifting levels of imported fuel pricing has led to the contentious issue of fuel subsidy. The declared intention of the Jonathan administration to "withdraw the fuel subsidy" by decontrolling the pricing of gasoline (PMS) is the downstream dilemma facing both the citizens and the government that may have grave, even if unintended, consequences.
The arguments for and against subsidy have been well articulated by various commentators in this medium and others. There is a lot of waste and corruption around the current 'subsidy' system, and the Jonathan administration lacks the political will, executive capacity and even legitimacy to confront those benefitting from the patronage described above. After all, some of them allegedly financed Jonathan's election. It is therefore easier to eliminate the whole arrangement via 'deregulation' thereby transferring the burden to every citizen through higher food, transportation and other costs.
For me, the most compelling case against the plan to take 'N1.2 trillion subsidy' from all of us (each man, woman and child will pay about N7,150 as contribution) next year is that the Federal Government in its medium term economic plan, has promised to target between 70 and 75 percent of the annual budget on recurrent expenditure till 2015 - that is more spending on the government itself and its employees rather than build more roads, power stations and enabling environment for job creation. We must resist this new tax on the Nigerian people that will go the way $200 billion was spent in the last 4 years - on nothing we can see or feel.
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