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American Nomad
Metal Maidens
Amber Manson
Jaded Jenn
Killer Kay
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13 questions with Blood of Lilith
Written by: Valerie Vanian
Blood of Lilith = Lisa, Amber, Tiffany
Resident Rock Star: Introduce yourself:
Amber: “We are Lisa, Amber and Tiffany. Lisa is our Lead Singer/Guitarist, I play Drums and Tiff is on Bass.”
Tiffany: “Amber and I also get to play with Backup Vocals now and again.”
RRS: Where are you from?
Amber: “I am from Denver, where we are based out of.”
Lisa: “I'm originally from Fort Walton Beach, Florida. I moved to Denver in 2010 for a short time but moved back again in 2016.”
Tiffany: “I am originally from Lubbock, Texas, but have been in Colorado a little over 7 years.”
RRS: How did you meet?
Amber: “Lisa and I met over 10 years ago when a friend of mine brought me to their band house and we clicked, we have been best friends ever since. My now husband also was in Alabama Lie Detector with Lisa.”
Tiffany: “At some random metal show, a few years ago, I met Lisa. We can't ever remember.” (Laughs) “Which then I met Amber through Lisa.”
RRS: Were you in bands previously?
Tiffany: “This is Amber and I's first band, Lisa is our veteran. I actually joined the band after Lisa and Amber had started forming it.”
Lisa: “I've been playing since I was 9 but started playing in some bands in High School. In 2010, when I lived in Denver the first time, I was in Denver-based band Alabama Lie Detector. Then in 2011-2014 I was in Fort Walton Beach-based band Holding God Hostage. In 2014-2015 I was in a cover band in Fort Walton Beach called Runaway Jane. After moving back to Denver, I was in Denver-based band Viperwitch from 2017-2018.
RRS: How long have you been performing as Blood of Lilith?
Amber: We have been together for about 9 months, or so.”
Lisa: “Due to how the world is right now, with COVID, we haven't had any in-person “LIVE” performances, which has made it hard for a newer band.”
RRS: How did you get the name Blood of Lilith?
Amber: Lisa and I threw around a few names before settling on Blood of Lilith. We believe Lilith is the ultimate symbol of female empowerment. She believed that women and men were created equal, all the way back to biblical times.”
Lisa: “I feel it is fitting, since we are an all-female band trying to make it in a male-dominate world, anything boys can do, we can do.”
Amber: “Also, Metal as Fuck!”
RRS: How would you describe you sound?
Lisa: Our sound is very diverse. We could fall into a few different categories. Metalcore, a little sludge metal, hardcore.”
Amber: “Even Pirate metal!” (Laughs) “We are a smorgasbord of metal.”
Tiffany: “Like a metal buffet, a little bit of everything.”
RRS: What bands influence you?
Lisa: I feel like guitar-wise I have some Black Label influences, some Lamb of God, some punk influences like Brody Dalle, even influences like Alestorm."
Amber: “Definitely."
Tiffany: “I definitely have some numetal bass influences, some funk too but honestly, I have been influenced by everything from Motley Crue to Dream Theater. We even have songs I feel have some Children of Bodom type influences and we also even do a Killswitch cover.”
RRS: What is your favorite song to perform?
Amber: “Personally I like playing 'Paradise'. It is fun as fuck, and we all get down on it.
Lisa: “I love 'Paradise' too, but I also love playing 'Blood of Lilith' too, because it is brutal as fuck.”
Tiffany: “Mine is 'Shield Maiden'. It's just a fucking epic story and it just pumps you up.”
RRS: How has the current COVID restrictions affected your group?
Lisa: “We have been unable to play our first live show. We want all our friends and family to be able to experience this with us and would be devastated if someone couldn't get in due to capacity restrictions.”
Tiffany: “We definitely want everyone to be safe, including ourselves, but we also want to come out with a bang, so right now it's just not been doable.”
RRS: What do you have upcoming?
Amber: “We are actually hitting the studio to record our second release, 'Shield Maiden'. Which we are also recording a video for by the end of the year. So, keep an eye out around the beginning of the New Year for that release.”
Lisa: “We will be continuing to work on music videos after the new year. We hope after that the COVID situation gets better so we can actually hit the stage.”
Tiffany: “This is a very strange time right now, so we feel that even having videos and recorded music is the best way to get our stuff out there if we can't play venues until the shit in the world has settled down.”
RRS: Do you have a message for your fans?
Amber: We want to thank our fans for the support we have received thus far.”
Lisa: “You can support us by sharing our music, subscribing to our pages, we are even working on merch that you can get your hands on soon.”
RRS: Where can fans follow you online?
Lisa: “YouTube for sure”
Amber: “Facebook, Instagram. Also, in the process of getting our Spotify up and running.”
Online: linktr.ee/BloodofLilith
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Strong and Resilient: Supporting Western Conservation Communications
by: Deborah Frey Love | May 13, 2020
Photo: Amy S. Martin, courtesy of Grand Canyon Trust
In early March, seemingly a lifetime ago, Alastair Lee Bitsói and I were excitedly preparing for Utah Diné Bikéyah to host the Advisory Board meeting of the Western Communications Hub (the Hub)* in Salt Lake City, Utah. The Hub, which supports non-profit organizations in advancing high-priority communications efforts, received 44 compelling project proposals and the board was tasked with selecting just six to fund. This work is perhaps more important now than ever as in-person communications have screeched to a halt, making digital communication vital to the ongoing work of so many organizations. I have the honor of managing the program for Resources Legacy Fund. Alastair is a member of the advisory board and spokesman for Utah Diné Bikéyah.
Alastair Lee BitsóÍ, Utah Diné Bikéyah, Hub Advisory Board member
As COVID-19 was just beginning to emerge as a global pandemic, we made the early decision to cancel our in-person meeting, and instead conduct it virtually. I remember wondering if we were exercising a ridiculous abundance of caution. Little did we know that by the time our meeting was held on March 13, Alastair himself would be presenting with COVID-19 symptoms, and after being denied multiple times for testing, was finally diagnosed as COVID-19 positive. At the time, none of us knew how devastating this invisible respiratory virus would be to his Diné people and the greater Navajo Nation, which the Washington Post just reported has one of the highest death rates in the world. Heartbreakingly, our most vulnerable populations are proving to be at greatest risk from this pandemic, and our Indigenous communities tested, once again.
We had no shortage of things to discuss that fateful day in March. The Hub Advisory Board— consisting of experts in the fields of communications, digital outreach, and grassroots advocacy—have consistently supported marginalized communities telling their own stories. In determining which organizations to fund, priority was given to projects that raise the voices of Indigenous and underrepresented communities, and employ creative digital strategies to empower diverse voices for conservation. After much deliberation and thoughtful discourse, the following six grantees were chosen to receive a $30,000 Western Communications Hub grant:
Storytelling for Alliance-Building to Protect River-to-Ocean Ecosystems
The nonprofit Natural History Museum and the Lummi Nation of the Pacific Northwest will be partnering to gather stories from Indigenous leaders and others that bring attention to the need to protect interconnected salmon ecosystems from the Lower Snake River in eastern Washington to the Salish Sea and Bristol Bay, Alaska. Grant funds will enable the Natural History Museum to produce and promote a digital gallery of interviews, writings, audio, and video featuring the voices and perspectives of Lummi, Umatilla, Yup’ik and other local leaders, scientists, and historians on threats to salmon populations, the orcas, and the environmental and economic future of the West. The goal is to break through entrenched positions on environmental issues and cultivate the ground for new collaborations.
Protecting New Mexico’s Outstanding Waters
Amigos Bravos, the New Mexico Acequia Association, and Climate Advocates Voces Unidas are collaborating to increase awareness among the public and policy makers about the importance and vulnerability of New Mexico riverways. The nonprofits are launching a multimedia and public outreach campaign with this grant, elevating the stories of Hispano farmers and ranchers and Native communities in Northern New Mexico concerned about their rivers. One of the outcomes will be an interactive storymap about the risk of development and federal deregulation to New Mexico water users and ecosystems.
Amplifying Indigenous Voices to Protect the Grand Canyon’s Little Colorado River
Grand Canyon Trust has long been an advocate for rural and Native communities disproportionately impacted by development and resource extraction in the Four Corners region. In October 2019, a developer submitted proposals to build multiple dams on the Little Colorado River within a half mile of Grand Canyon National Park that would destroy sites sacred to Navajo, Hopi, and nine other Tribal nations. This grant will allow the nonprofit Trust to work with Native videographers and editors to gather and promote online videos of Indigenous perspectives from affected tribal members, including activists, traditionalists, and community leaders. Trust staff will serve as curators of the video project, providing technical support, a digital platform, and access to media outlets, but will minimize their editorial role so viewers may experience the first-person stories unfiltered.
Reclaiming Indigenous Narratives to Heal our Mother Earth
Utah Diné Bikéyah has been instrumental to the creation and protection of Bears Ears National Monument—an Indigenous-led effort to protect ancestral territories and cultural landscapes like Bears Ears, a place of healing, reciprocity, and cultural practices among Indigenous people of the Diné, Hopi, Zuni, Ute, Paiute, and Puebloan Peoples. In 2017, President Trump illegally reduced protections for Bears Ears National Monument by 85 percent, and left the remaining areas vulnerable to environmental and cultural damage. Litigation brought by Utah Diné Bikéyah, sovereign tribes, conservation and recreation groups, and others, is now pending. Using Indigenous storytellers and filmmakers, the nonprofit will produce 10 videos about Bears Ears, which will be created to promote cross-cultural healing through the amplification of Native voices across Utah Diné Bikéyah’s extensive social media networks. (Note: Advisory Board Member and Utah Diné Bikéyah Communications Director, Alastair Lee Bitsóí, did not participate in the review or discussion of this proposal.)
Activando Nuestra Conciencia Ambiental (Activating our Conservation Mindset)
Hispanic Access Foundation (HAF) connects Latinx communities with opportunities to improve their lives and create an equitable society. HAF recognizes that Latinos have been an integral part of the history of our public lands, yet Latino access to public lands and representation of their cultural heritage and connection to these lands are not always equitable or shared with the public. HAF is launching a 12-month communications initiative with this grant that utilizes both human behavior and strategic opinion research to build and activate an online community of advocates willing to take action on public lands conservation and climate change, and share their own stories and motivations to inspire action.
Empowering Western Native Voices through Digital Storytelling
Western Native Voice, an Indigenous-led non-partisan social justice organization, is partnering with NdigiDreams, a woman-owned and Indigenous-focused consulting and training company, to host a three-day workshop to train tribal community members from across Montana in digital storytelling. Each participant will create a brief video to be used in advancing public policy objectives around conservation of Montana’s land, water, and wildlife. In partnership with the Montana Outdoor Heritage Project, which RLF helps to lead in Montana, Western Native Voice will then work with over 40 conservation organizations and businesses to disseminate these first-person narratives, using the power of digital storytelling to educate the public and policy makers about critical conservation issues facing Indian Country.
Alastair, I am relieved to note, is now fully recovered, and has set up a GoFundMe campaign to assist his Diné and Navajo communities ravaged by COVID-19.
As the effects of this pandemic continue to take a toll on our daily lives, we hope that the stories that will emerge as a result of this grantmaking will shine a light on the link between healthy communities and healthy landscapes, and perhaps redefine the new “normal,” where equity, conservation, and climate resilience are prioritized for the long-term health and security of people and the planet.
* In 2019, the Hewlett Foundation established the Western Communications Hub at Resources Legacy Fund (RLF) as a five-year program to bolster the effectiveness and inclusivity of storytelling and communications strategy toward conserving the ecological integrity of the North American West for wildlife and people.
Deb Love, RLF Intermountain West Director, oversees the Western Communications Hub. She can be reached at dlove@resourceslegacyfund.org.
Categories: News & InsightsTopics: Social Equity Western Conservation
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Jurassic Park for Sega CD Was the Best Jurassic Park Game You Never Heard Of
By Josh Wirtanen October 3, 2014
Back in the 1990s, Sega thought it was unstoppable — unstoppable enough that it launched an absurdly overpriced add-on to the Genesis called the Sega CD. The charm of the Sega CD was that it had Sonic CD and two Lunar games. The downside, however, is that there was very little else on the console that was even remotely worthy of your time.
One of the most tragically overlooked exceptions to that rule was Jurassic Park, a Myst-like adventure game that helped you learn factoids about dinosaurs that Michael Crichton totally made up.
The hook was that you had twelve real-life hours to solve puzzles and get off Isla Nublar before it got nuked to Oblivion.
This was no walk in the park (pun intended? You decide). Some of the puzzles were quite difficult, and you were oftentimes forced to solve them while being stared down by a crabby triceratops that was ready to charge you at the slightest perturbation.
And even when there were no dinos nearby, there was a timer that was constantly ticking down, and any time you traveled to a new area, the clock would subtract a chunk of time to compensate for your travel time.
In a world where retro game classics are available in digital format for just about any device with a screen on it, I’m a bit sad that Jurassic Park for Sega CD hasn’t eeked its way onto any download platforms. It was pretty obscure, and I know better than to get my hopes up, but there’s a part of me that sincerely hopes to play this one again without eBay-ing another Sega CD.
Josh Wirtanen
I write about gaming and technology, make adorable pirate folk music, and draw monsters. That's really all I do. Ever.
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The Adventures of Tintin: The Best
Awwww yeahhhh...
Just to let everyone know, I’m about to rave about how good this movie is. I’m already gonna give this a 10 out of 10, no worries. I’m gonna give this best animated film of 2011. As if there was any competition. I’ve been reading Tintin graphic novels since I was a wee lad. This stuff, pardon my French, is my shizz. I love Tintin and his trusty wire fox terrier, Snowy. Captain Haddock is hilarious with his alliterative swear words. The mysteries are fun and engaging for all ages. And this movie EPITOMIZES everything that was good about the comics. I can’t think of a single book/comic/graphic novel that completely translates a movie from the work that you loved. (If you can refute this statement, post one. You can’t, but you can try.)
From the amazing minds of Steven Spielburg and Peter Jackson, the story of the ace journalist/detective Tintin comes
Tintin and Haddock, on the adventure.
straight from the first comic. The meeting of Haddock. Flawless. I felt I was re-reading the first graphic novel. Page for page. In 107 minutes, I was taken into a world I could completely believe in. A world I wished I existed in since I was 9. Now this has been a ridiculously good year for Spielburg. He directed The Adventures of Tintin and War Horse. One is a heartwarming story about a horse getting Oscar buzz, the other is an amazing story about the greatest hero of all time, and it was judge by its earnings in America. Come on, are you serious? Let’s see… Oh my, it made a measly $10 million domestically. It floundered here in the U.S. Hmmmm… $270 in foreign box offices? It just looks to me as if people abroad (where Tintin originated) appreciate it far more than those here who lack a bit of ecclesiastical appreciation. I’m not blaming anyone, it just goes to show we need to publish and distribute more Tintin comics here.
How great does that look? Bell and Serkis, experiencing innovation.
Back to Spielburg. (Sorry Peter.) Along with these great directing jobs, Spielburg executively produced 4 T.V. shows (one of those being Terra Nova, getting some buzz there, the other big one, Falling Skies) and a series of big blockbuster movies. Those being Cowboys and Aliens (need to see), Transformers 3 (eh… no), Real Steel (big no), and Super 8 (HELL YES). Toss in War Horse and Tintin and you got a sextuple threat right there. I’d call that a year of bank. But I guess that’s not to try to detract from Peter Jackson’s contribution. Jackson has The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey two parter to look forward to releasing. That’s gonna do just as well as the LOTR series for shizzle.
What other names can I boast about related to this movie? Well, there’s John Williams on the orchestra chops. Check out about every single Spielburg/Lucas movie and you’ll find J. Williams name tagged on there. Anybody who can cinematically sweep me off my feet with a recognizable build, that’s gold right there. AND THE VOICE ACTORS. That’s just think about that for a second. Voice actors. I know they’re acclaimed actors, but they use their voices to bring this movie together. And a bunch of great names to talk about in relation to their characters.
There are no words for how incredible this is.
Jamie Bell as Tintin. Right there. That’s a big name with some great roles attached to it. The boy of Billy Elliot among other great English roles this guy has taken? Fantastic. I used to do my own English accent in my mind to pretend I was Tintin, but now Jamie Bell’s voice will forever signify and epitomize who Tintin is. Andy Serkis and Captain Haddock. PHENOMENAL. I’ve never known an actor who can throw out a cacophony of voices and make them all sound legitimate. His drunken Scottich drawl is just exactly what Haddock ordered. His buffoonery and hijinks really carry the story along, as Tintin and his levelheadedness truly get them out of some sticky situations. Here, get this. Daniel Craig AS THE BAD GUY. Who saw that coming? Playing the nefarious Sakharine/Red Rackham, Craig really steps it up by expanding his acting chops inside a recording booth. Nick Frost and Simon Pegg as the Thompson twins? I’ll take some of that. They were funny in the comics and in the movie as well. Spot on. Toby Jones as Silk the pickpocket? I thought at first that he would be Professor Calculus when I first saw him, but that wasn’t the case. (Professor Calculus was supposed to be in Red Rackham’s Treasure, but only introduced.) Even Mackenzie Crook, side star of the Pirates series as the wooden eyed lackey and star of The Office (U.K.), offered his voice as Tom, one of the lackeys of Haddock’s former crew. And, get this as well, even Cary Elwes, star of Saw 1 and The Princess Bride, lends his voice as a minor character! (Look for him as a pilot on the biplane!) Everyone English wanted to get in on the action of Tintin!
Let’s talk about the animation! This new age of 3-D digital animation is just phenomenal. Anything can be done with today’s technology. I would give this movie and the recently made L.A. Noire game the tops for this category of innovation. When you can make iconic cartoon characters seem real and RESEMBLE the voice actors who play them? Kudos. I will give a standing ovation to that. The amazing attention to details with shadows and minor costume effects and the tiniest of details is just mental. You have to really care about the work you’re doing to be that good. And I’m sure all the people that worked on this movie were.
There are so many great comedic/fast paced action sequences in this movie as well! The scenes on the Karaboudjan ship and the flashbacks to the Haddock/Rackham fight were epic (and I don’t use epic lightly). And the final chase scene at the end are the epitome of badass. Even the final battle between Haddock and his ancient rival are just too amazing. Bravo on all accounts of action.
Just. Fantastic.
I gotta tell ya, there is just no end to my love of this movie and Tintin and all his adventures. I hope they make a movie for every single graphic novel. The start up of every story is great. Tintin stumbles on some piece of history and it ties him into a dangerous adventure that will test his mind and body. He should be every young man’s hero and role model. And speaking of young children, I was happy to see how many parents took their children to see this movie. It’s age appropriate and wonderful for the entire family, young and old alike. It has everything and leaves you wanting more. The entire time. I can’t get over it. A
Tintin 4 Life.
perfect, flawless 10 out of 10. Best film of 2011? Maybe… Tintin will tell.
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Home » Craft » How one easy adjustment called the Dutch Reach could save bikers’ lives.
How one easy adjustment called the Dutch Reach could save bikers’ lives.
It’s called getting doored. And it hurts.
Imagine that a cyclist is riding along calmly when an unsuspecting driver or passenger opens their door. The cyclist has little to no time to adjust, sending them crashing into or over the door.
GIF via Wins & Fails Vlog/YouTube.
It happened to longtime cyclist Derek Cuellar of New York on Sept. 23, 2016.
“A man opened his door right as I was passing and I ran directly into the door,” Cuellar said over email. “My bike suffered minor scratches as my handlebar and shoulder took most of the damage.”
Despite a bruised shoulder and dinged-up bike, Cuellar was able to continue his commute that day. And while getting doored is a painful rite of passage for many urban cyclists, it doesn’t mean it’s not a life-threatening issue.
Cuellar is one of more than the estimated 50,000 cyclists who will be injured on the road this year.
That number may be even higher; hospital records indicate that only a small percentage of bicycle-accident-related injuries are reported or recorded by police. In the U.S., more than 700 cyclists die in accidents with motor vehicles each year.
It’s scary. It’s tragic. And in many cases, it’s preventable.
But there’s an easy way for drivers and cyclists to share the road, and it’s called the Dutch Reach.
Popularized in the Netherlands, where cyclists make up 30% of daily commuters, the Dutch Reach is a concept taught in Dutch driver education, and it’s an easy adjustment that could save a life.
If you are a driver or driver-side passenger in a right-side-of-the-road country, you probably naturally open the door with your left hand. However, with the Dutch Reach, you reach across your body to open the door with your right hand, which momentarily forces your body to turn and face backward. If you’re getting out on the passenger side, simply open the door with your left hand instead of your right.
GIF via Outside Magazine/YouTube.
That simple twist allows you to see cyclists, cars, or pedestrians you may have otherwise missed. The maneuver make take a few repetitions to get used to, but a little awkwardness is worth it to prevent a potentially catastrophic accident.
If anyone knows about sharing the road, it’s the Dutch.
Cycling has long been a popular form of transportation in the Netherlands. But as cars boomed in popularity in the 1950s and ’60s, cyclists were quite literally pushed aside. Cars edged out bicyclists (on roads that were not built for automobile traffic) pushing riders toward curbs, resulting in thousands of collisions.
In 1971 alone, 3,300 people, including more than 400 children, were killed in bicycle accidents in the Netherlands. People took to the streets to protest the senseless incidents. This coupled with the oil crisis of 1973 led to serious changes in transportation policies across the small nation.
Slowly, progress was made. Car-free Sundays eventually led to car-free city centers and eventually the dedicated cycle routes many Dutch cities are known for. Today around 180 people are killed in cycling accidents in the Netherlands each year. Considering that residents bike more than 500 miles per year on average, the figure (while devastating) is surprisingly low.
Drivers, cyclists, and pedestrians need to share the responsibility of keeping our roads safe.
Cyclists don’t always obey traffic laws and sometimes go dangerously slow or fast in areas they shouldn’t. But drivers aren’t guilt-free in this regard, either. Parking and driving in bike lanes, shifting without signaling, and driving while distracted or at dangerous speeds make cycling a risky proposition.
Whether you’re on two wheels, four, or in a fresh pair of Keds, all of us need to pay attention, watch where we’re going, and look out for one another. On the road and in life, we’re all in this together.
Read more: http://www.upworthy.com/how-one-easy-adjustment-called-the-dutch-reach-could-save-bikers-lives?c=tpstream
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Nike Classic Cortez SE OG
8 users: 4.5 / 5
Base model:
Nike Classic Cortez
Verdict from 8 user reviews
10 reasons to buy
This sneaker never goes out of style, numerous users have praised.
The Nike Classic Cortez SE OG is a comfortable pair to walk in even for a long period of time, many reviewers have shared.
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The lightness of this shoe was enjoyed by many reviewers.
Many like that this pair is easy to clean.
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This model comes with extra laces.
Many like that this pair is reasonably priced.
Many say that they would recommend this pair to their friends.
Nike offers this is several colorways.
The majority of the critics said that the Nike Classic Cortez SE OG runs narrow.
Few users complain about the tightness around the toe area.
In 2016, Nike announced the re-birth of their first design masterpiece. The Nike Classic Cortez SE OG features its ageless profile with a touch of freshness.
With its minimalist design, durable materials and unwavering comfort, this shoe easily turned into an everyday essential sneaker. A must-own for people who are into OGs.
The Nike Classic Cortez SE OG is available in men’s and women’s sizes. Nike inserted foam midsole to deliver superb support and comfort. Also, this sneaker uses the conventional lace-up closure system for a snug fit.
Nike Classic Cortez SE OG Style
This model features a low-top premium leather upper with bold accents to highlight the retro branding. This sneaker is highly suitable for the casual fashion as it flaunts clean and simple design. Many wearers sport their Classic Cortez SE OG with activewear, jeans rolled up, joggers, shorts and tees or polos. Meanwhile, some ladies don this with their minis, dresses, and legging. Buyers can almost wear anything with the Classic Cortez OG.
The eye-catching big Swoosh on both sides completes the overall look of the Nike Classic Cortez OG. This fat belly Swoosh in contrasting color amplifies the retro vibe of this classic pair.
Nike Classic Cortez SE OG History
In 1968, the Corsair was launched as a long distance running sneaker that was designed by Bill Bowerman. After four years, it was reintroduced as an official Nike product and named it Cortez. It features a lightweight sneaker with one-piece foam like midsole with herringbone pattern outsole. The simplicity and the unfussy profile made a remarkable impression to the majority of the masses.
More than 40 years in the market, the Cortez is still demanded by the younger generations. This sneaker has undergone several re-imagining and re-designing over the years. In the modern market, the Cortez is not used as a running sneaker but also as a streetwear.
The comfort of the Cortez lies in its thick rubber midsole. It has an elevated heel to help decrease the injuries, especially the Achilles tendon strains. The popularity of the Cortez was further elevated when it was used by the main character in the award-winning film the Forrest Gump.
The Cortez has seamlessly transitioned from running sneaker to a casual shoe. In 2016, the revival of the Classic Cortez was launched in the market. It has been seen in the street being worn by the younger generation street fashionistas.
This Classic Cortez SE OG gained popularity through the movie Forrest Gump that was released in 2004. It was worn by the titular character when he ran from the Alabama to the Southwest. Gump also wore this during the famous scene when he was sitting on the bench reflecting about life and chocolates.
It has a wedge EVA midsole that adds cushioning and lightness.
The low-top collar allows the wearers to maximize the range of motion.
It has a herringbone-pattern rubber outsole for a durable traction.
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Random Public Journal
Tag: Henry Kissinger
April 2, 2016 - Saturday April 10, 2016 - Sunday Jeggit Politics, Society, Wealth and Power
Kissinger is the Proof that Power doesn’t Need Democracy
For the most part the real power-brokers of today remain behind the scenes, or in the White House hidden in plain sight. Such people are the custodians of real power, and are the people responsible for the longer term strategic ambitions of the state.
April 1, 2016 - Friday April 9, 2016 - Saturday Jeggit Abortion, Society, US Foreign Policy
Kissinger, US Global Domination, and Population Control
Abortion, as a means of population control, was high on Kissinger’s agenda. He mentions abortion 44 times in the 123 pages, strongly indicating his opinion that this should be pushed on the Developing World, but, unfortunately for him, Section 114 of the Foreign Assistance Act (1964) prohibited the use of US foreign aid funds to “be used to pay for the performance of abortions as a method of family planning or to motivate or coerce any person to practice abortions.”
Jason Michael McCann
Scottish journalist and blogger based in Dublin. Writing on politics and society. Columnist for iScot Magazine and author of the Random Public Journal.
Jeggit
Building Jerusalem: An Insight into English Exceptionalism January 9, 2021 - Saturday
Brexit Scotland January 4, 2021 - Monday
In the Presence of Mine Enemies December 30, 2020 - Wednesday
The Brexit Dreadnought December 15, 2020 - Tuesday
Concerning Tendency December 1, 2020 - Tuesday
Welsh Independence is Trending November 3, 2020 - Tuesday
‘Who am I to Judge?’ October 25, 2020 - Sunday
Capitalism and Neoliberalism: What’s the Difference?
Building Jerusalem: An Insight into English Exceptionalism
Time to Ban the Orange Order
Alex Massie and Keeping Catholics Out
Populism and Democracy in Scotland
Brexit Scotland
Jeggit on Twitter
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Episode 53 The Final Match of the Qualifiers
On the next day, every match in the C block but the last was over. The last match was scheduled after lunch.
After lunch, when they reached the arena, they could see a lot of new faces. Most likely, they came from the other blocks.
Amongst them, you could find Aruna and co.
「Try your best, Seiya-kun」
「We passed to the final block」
「Let’s meet in the finals」
It seems that Aruna, Glenn, and Connie advanced to the final block.
「Ah, I will work hard」
Seiya left these words and headed inside the barrier together with Yua and Lily.
Once inside, the three confirmed their strategy once again. The announcement followed soon after.
「It is starting」
Said Seiya, hearing the announcement.
「I’m counting on both of you」
「Un!」
Seiya separated from them and moved independently.
At this point, Seiya was already using『Mantle of Light』, although very weak. It was his countermeasure against their surprise attack.
Seiya moved through the treetops. It looked like he wasn’t using any magic to do that, so the participants and the bystanders were quite amazed.
While moving through the treetops, he found a figure of a person. It was the silver-haired girl, Elen.
She was holding the ice blade, Bliss, and was scanning the surroundings.
Seiya stopped and observed her. In the end, he couldn’t find anyone else around her.
However, he was able to confirm that she was the decoy very soon. If it was anyone else but Elen, he wouldn’t have been able to figure it out.
But as long as it is Elen, the story is different. Seiya already defeated her once. That’s why, if Seiya saw her, he would have relaxed his guard and attacked her.
Seiya speculated as such.
「Trying to make your opponent lower your guard, troublesome strategy」
If Seiya guessed right, Sunir came up with this plan. The plan that was built on confidence to be able to deal with Seiya.
However, he decided to thwart their plans.
Seiya jumped from the tree and landed in front of Elen.
Once she noticed him, she took a stance with the Bliss, but Seiya didn’t summon the Hollins.
「Is it okay to not summon your weapons?」
「Regretfully, I’m too afraid of the girls hiding over there」
「I do not know what you are talking about」
Without looking at Elen, he summoned the Hollins, while watching the grass by the side.
When he tried to summon the Hollins, suddenly, the brown-haired girl jumped out of the grass and fired a spell.
「Now, with my power『Arms Block』」
In the next moment, the Hollins, that was supposed to land in his hands, turned into dust.
Elen’s Bliss crumbled too, but she didn’t panic and summoned it anew.
The brown-haired girl who destroyed his weapon and Elen stood before him.
「So your countermeasure was to destroy my weapon?」
「That’s right. I had properly watched your previous fights. As the result, the theory that you can’t use any spell of the water attribute was born」 [1] 「I see」
Seiya didn’t use any spell in the previous matches. He only used a pure mana attack in the first match and fought with the Hollins, wrapped in the water mana, the rest of the time.
In other words, they mistook Seiya for a magician that couldn’t cast spells and thought that once the Hollins was destroyed they will be able to win.
「Such an amusing fellow. Come to think, what is your name? 」[2] 「I didn’t introduce myself, isn’t it? I’m Pikarunina Edelrunanits. It might be hard to pronounce, so you can call me Pika」
The brown-haired girl said as such and smiled.
「I see. Let me tell you something good. Your theory is right. Without those twin swords, forget about casting spells, I can’t even control my mana properly」
Unrestrainedly lied Seiya. Without being aware of this, Pika made an understanding face.
「So we were right. Will you retire then? 」
Pika asked Seiya as if it was natural to retire in this situation. However, he had no intention to retire.
「But you can’t do any…..」
「Pika!」
「Sorry, that was a lie」
While Elen was screaming her name, Seiya suddenly accelerated and moved to her front. In the next moment, his hand penetrated the area around her heart. [3]
Pika became dust as she was and retired. Elen, who was left behind glared at Seiya.
「As expected you reacted to my movements. With this, your trump card should have been rendered useless, am I right? 」
「True. But I’m different from before. This time, I will definitely scatter you」
The curtains were lifted for the battle of Elen and Seiya.
On the other side, Sunir stood before Yua and Lily.
「Greetings, Yua-sama. I do not want to fight Yua-sama if possible」
「Too bad……It’s impossible…..」
「I see. Tonight’s wind in my palm『Creastnuts』」[4]
When Sunir cast her spell, a whip appeared in her hand. With this whip, she immediately assaulted Yua and Seiya.
Yua and Lily dodged the whip by retreating backwards.
「Lily, continue to hide your power for now…..」
「All right!」
Saying so, Yua created the rapier Yuriel.
「I gathered a lot of intelligence on you, Yua-sama. Please give up」
「Impossible…..」
Sunir tried to coil the whip around her foot, but she jumped and deflected it with Yuriel. However, the whip suddenly bent and wrapped around Yua’s foot while she was still midair.
Once she caught Yua, she pulled her closer. But Yua twisted in the air and lunged at her, trying to pierce with the Yuriel.
Sunir released her foot and moved to the side to avoid the attack.
「As expected of Yua-sama, but I won’t lose」
(Say no to content thief!)
Sunir cast a spell with her free left hand.
「Maiden of the wind, blow and dance upon this land『Wind Fang』」
The strong wind assaulted Yua, but she cut it in two and came attacking Sunir.
Sunir channeled the wind mana into her whip to harden it and accepted her strike.
And the moment they collided, she dispelled the effect and made the whip coil around the Yuriel, stealing it from Yua’s hand.
「Yua-sama, you should be aware. You have bad compatibility with me. I also know your spells and fighting style. You won’t be able to break my wind attribute with your light attribute」
Sunir told her to give up, holding the Yuriel in her left hand.
「Yuriel」
Yua created the Yuriel once again.
As she was told, Lily watched everything from far away. She didn’t even consider the possibility of Yua losing and wasn’t worried in the least.
Yua attacked with the Yuriel, but she accepted the blow with the Yuriel in her left hand. Two Yuriels scattered sparks once collided.
At the same time, as she received the blow with the Yuriel, Sunir attacked with the whip in her other hand. However, Yua successfully blocked it with『Wall of Light』.
Sunir let go of the Yuriel and leaped backwards to create some distance.
「『Triple Length』」
Towards retreating Sunir, Yua casted『Triple Length』and extended Yuriel.
And with the elongated Yuriel, she pierced Sunir’s thigh. At that moment Sunir a painful expression.
Yua dispelled『Triple Length』, put power into her legs, accelerated, and pierced Sunir’s heart.
After being pierced by the Yuriel, an astonished expression appeared on her face.
「Why? Yua-sama didn’t fight like that before」
Sunir was surprised at the fighting style she didn’t see before. Before, Yua was fighting by moving at high speed and using martial skills. But today, it was different
However, Yua saw Seiya fighting in the Great Dalis Canyon and found it suiting her.
「Thanks to the person I love…..」
「To this man?」
Sunir became dust and vanished.
With the Hollins being destroyed, Seiya fought Elen, who wielded the ice blade Bliss, bare handed.
Seiya could create the Hollins any time, but he never did so. The reason is, he anticipated the final block.
If there are other people capable of building theories like Pika, it might become needlessly harder. That’s why he wanted to spread some misunderstandings around.
「Even if you do not have a weapon, are you still going to only dodge?」
Said Elen towards Seiya who was dodging all of the Bliss’ blows. Right now, Seiya didn’t have a weapon, but by using weak『Mantle of Light』he was able to cope with her movements.
But of course, you can’t win by dodging.
「All right, I’m about to fight back」
「I won’t lose」
Elen was on guard against Seiya. Still, it was meaningless.
There are differences between Seiya, who experienced the Great Dalis Canyon, and Elen, who grew up in the academy.
It is the attitude towards the battle.
Elen, who was fighting in the academy, thought that if she lost, it is fine to try harder next time.
However, Seiya, who had been through the real life and death fights, didn’t have such thoughts.
At this point, the victor was decided.
In the next moment, Seiya strengthened 『Mantle of Light』for a second and cut her neck with bare hands.
「Eh!?」
Elen wasn’t able to comprehend what happened. She was just surprised at her line of sight getting lower and scattered into dust, thus retiring.
The people outside the barrier didn’t seem to understand what happened. However, the teachers, Seran and Najenda, although weren’t able to see, still felt something.
But the looks they were giving him didn’t contain any positive emotions. It was the opposite, they were blaming him.
Seiya, who didn’t know anything, looked towards the approaching aura.
「Seiya….」
「Seiya!」
There, he found Yua and Lily.
「How was it on your end?」
「Big sister beat her!」
「I see. With this, we are in the final block」
Just like that, they advanced to the final block.
Somehow, I want him to summon Gedo-chan, for giggles. ↩
About time, the brown-haired girl is too long. ↩
If it was real, that would have had some different connotations. ↩
Ideas? クレアスナーツ. ↩
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Campskunk
RVing Adventure: Escape…
RVing Adventure: Escape from Yosemite!
Anyone can take beautiful photos here.
We were noodling up US 395 in California's Owens Valley east of the Sierras, enjoying the dry climate and lack of crowds, when The Tour Director (that would be my charming wife) decided she wanted to pop over the mountains and go to Yosemite, so the bus driver (that would be me) snagged a couple of nights at a Forest Service campground right outside the park, and over the pass we went.
What the heck, I say to myself. The children are still in school where they belong for another couple of weeks, it looks like a couple of good days before it starts raining, so let's go.
It's cold up here at 9,945 feet.
The pass in question is Tioga Pass, highway 120 from Lee Vining on 395 over to the park. It tops out at 9,945 feet, where there's a entrance booth. All we had to do is wave our Senior Pass at the ranger, grab the offered map, and we were in. We crossed beautiful high country with spruce, fir, pines, and then the redwoods started popping up. We were really in the Pacific coastal ecosystem.
Around and down and up and across we drove – these are 30-35 mph roads with no guardrails, so you really couldn't make good time even if you wanted to.
Deer, coyotes, and a few birds and squirrels were on Tuolumne Meadows up at 8,000 feet, and the campground was still closed, which is good because there's snow all over the place up this high, even in mid-May.
El Capitan – Roadtrek for scale.
The Yosemite Valley floor itself is down at 4,000 feet, and the action was hot and heavy as we arrived. Scads of bus tours, hipsters from the Bay area outfitted in the latest floppy hats, high-tech walking sticks, and titanium water bottles, real backpackers carrying everything they'd need for the next month in their gigantic packs, families with little babies, it was a zoo.
I was nearly impaled on a selfie stick more than once. But even all this human activity was dwarfed by the immensity of the landscape. Ordinarily, crowds bother me, especially crowds of city folk. Here, it hardly registered. All I had to do is look up, and the people just disappeared. Whatever you want to call it, in Yosemite Valley you are in the presence of… something.
We sent the day wandering up and down the valley, and headed to our campground as it got late, with a 350ish pound bear crossing the road in front of us as we went back up to 7,500 feet to get out of the valley, and back down to 5,000 where our campground was near the town of Fish Camp.
Up again early, and a quick look online thanks to my handy satellite internet dish shows disturbing news – a big storm system is coming out of the Gulf of Alaska to hit California, with snow forecast down to 5,000 feet tomorrow.
Everyone else is oblivious – there's no cell coverage in the area, so almost nobody has any way to get online. I tell the campground host to give the second night of our spot to some deserving tourist, and that we will head out of the area after spending a day in the valley again. I know we need to be over the pass by dark unless we want to wait for them to plow all this spring snow, and we will be waiting in the rain with several thousand other stranded visitors, none of whom are very well prepared – not a pleasant prospect.
Mariposa Grove. I need a special sequoia lens for these shots.
We hit Mariposa Grove on the way in, which is near the south entrance and where the highest concentration of sequoias and Japanese tourists can be found, and spent another wonderful day on the valley floor. By 3 p.m. we decide it's time to head out.
We fill our tanks with incomparable Yosemite mountain water and hit the road. It's slow going as the park floor's traffic slows to a crawl, because word about the weather is getting out and people are on the move. In addition, there are multiple flagmen and one-lane sections on the highway – there's a limited season for road repair in Yosemite, and it's in full swing.
It took us an hour just to get out of the valley. We follow a Class A towing a Jeep who knows what he's doing. He sets a good pace but takes no chances. Neither do we. The margin for error is gone – can't afford any kind of delay now. Clueless Rent-an-RV drivers are headed the other way, into a dismal week of being marooned once the snow hits.
A gnarly tree near the top on our way out. Many had no branches at all on the north side. And I thought I had a rough winter.
Up and over the pass, and the clouds are really moving in, looking ominous.
As we get back down on the eastern side and drive up 395 toward Reno, we see a cluster of stern-looking highway patrolmen at 108, the Sonora pass road. They are closing the passes because they don't want to be up there rescuing tourists in T-shirts and flip-flops in the foot of snow that's coming.
We later learned that they closed Tioga Pass an hour or so after we skedaddled over it. Those are the only two ways out of town, so it's a good thing I had satellite internet and paid attention to the weather.
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"campskunk" is a blissfully retired former public servant who has left the challenges of how to run the government to younger and less cynical hands, and wanders the continent in his Roadtrek Class B RV with his wife and cat. In addition to his work in the public sector, he has also at various times been a mechanic and delivery driver, skills which come in handy in his new role. Because his former job involved the forensic evaluation and sometimes the subsequent detention of some not-so-nice people, he uses the name campskunk instead of his legal name on the Internet. His was not the type of job where customer service feedback would be welcome.
Walt Huemmer says:
Wow nice report. Awesome you got out in time.
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https://rocketswire.usatoday.com/2018/01/04/houston-rockets-nene-knee-injury-orlando-magic/
Nene suffers bruised knee, leaves Rockets game against Magic
Sean Highkin
Rockets backup center Nene has been in and out of the lineup throughout the season with various injuries, and he suffered another one on Wednesday night in the Rockets’ win over the Orlando Magic. Nene left the game with a bruised right knee:
Nene is out with a bruised right knee for the Rockets.
— Jonathan Feigen (@Jonathan_Feigen) January 4, 2018
Nene’s status for Thursday’s game against the Warriors is yet to be decided, but odds are he won’t play.
Skip Bayless predicts Rockets will trade James Harden before opening night
After eight productive seasons with the Rockets, James Harden wants out of Houston, but it remains to be seen if the organization can find a suitable trade partner to make a blockbuster deal happen or is willing to part ways with the former NBA MVP.
Harden's reported list of preferred destinations includes the Brooklyn Nets and Philadelphia 76ers. While many neutral fans who would love to see what would happen with Harden in Brooklyn, ESPN is reporting the Rockets are "expanding trade discussions" with other contending teams.
For now, Harden says he's "focused on being here" in Houston...
Austin Rivers laments Houston's lack of size to Anthony Davis
For the undersized and center-less Houston Rockets, rebounding became a problem of increased significance during their series loss to the Los Angeles Lakers in the second round of the 2020 NBA playoffs.
In a Game 1 victory, the Rockets drew even with Anthony Davis, LeBron James, and the larger Lakers on the glass, 41-41. Even in a close Game 2 loss, they kept the rebounding margin competitive at 41-35.
But in the next three games — all losses — the rebounding totals (43-30, 52-26, and 50-31) quickly got out of hand, all in favor of the Lakers....
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One of the oldest known cave paintings has been found in Indonesia
By Richard Nagpe January 13, 2021 Science 0 Comments
Inside a cave on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi, scientists have found one of the oldest known artistic depictions of a real-world object or organism. It’s a painting of a warty pig, an animal still found on Sulawesi, that was rendered on the cave’s back wall at least 45,500 years ago, researchers report January 13 in Science Advances.
The discovery adds to evidence that “the first modern human cave art traditions did not emerge in Ice Age Europe, as long supposed, but perhaps earlier in Asia or even in Africa, where our species evolved,” says study author Adam Brumm, an archaeologist at Griffith University in Brisbane, Australia.
At least two, and possibly three, other partially preserved pig paintings appear on the cave wall near the newly dated figure. All of the painted pigs in the Sulawesi cave appear to be confronting each other in a scene of some sort, says archaeologist Iain Davidson of the University of New England in Armidale, Australia. Similarly positioned, painted animals dating to roughly 30,000 years ago or more appear in scenes in France’s Chauvet Cave, says Davidson, who did not participate in the new study.
On the ceiling of a small chamber in another Sulawesi cave, the researchers found a large pig painting — like the others, executed in red or dark red and purple mineral pigments — that dates to between 32,000 and 73,400 years ago. At least two other poorly preserved paintings of unidentified animals are located on the chamber’s ceiling and wall.
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The team considers it likely that Homo sapiens, rather than a closely related species such as Homo floresiensis (SN: 6/8/16), painted on the Sulawesi cave walls.
Like a painted hunting scene from at least 43,900 years ago previously found in a separate Sulawesi cave (SN: 12/11/19), minimum age estimates for the pig paintings are based on measures of radioactive uranium’s decay in cauliflower-like mineral growths that formed in thin layers over and underneath parts of the depictions.
Uranium-based dating of ancient cave art has drawn criticism (SN: 10/28/19). For instance, Brumm’s group dated three mineral layers partly covering one of the pig paintings to estimate its minimum age. The layer closest to the painting was slightly younger than the two layers above it, the opposite of what would be expected if the layers had formed one after the other. Those topsy-turvy dates raise doubts about the accuracy of the painting’s minimum age, says archaeologist João Zilhão of the University of Barcelona.
A mix of slightly older and younger age estimates can result from gaps that form in successive mineral layers, Brumm’s team says. Averaging the dates of multiple layers provides a reasonable, possibly understated minimum age estimate for the underlying art, the researchers contend.
Ultimately, cave art such as the pigs on islands in Southeast Asia and Australia, and probably Sulawesi as well, may be shown to date to as early as around 60,000 to 70,000 years ago, says archaeologist Peter Veth of the University of Western Australia in Perth. That’s when H. sapiens first settled the region, probably bringing mainland cave art traditions with them rather than suddenly inventing the practice on isolated islands, he suggests.
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UK slammed for ‘bribery’ inaction *(take note Shell)
International watchdog gave Government a dressing down over bribery
The Government was slammed in a damning report for its “continued failure” to meet its international obligations on tackling “foreign bribery”.
An international watchdog called for swift measures to introduce foreign bribery legislation in Britain and to “establish effective corporate liability for bribery as a matter of high priority”.
The demands are made in a 75-page inquiry report by the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development’s Working Group on Bribery.
The OECD, the only international body enforcing anti-bribery accords, launched a review of UK anti-bribery measures in the wake of the decision of the Serious Fraud Office in 2006 to drop an investigation into BAE Systems over an arms deal with Saudi Arabia. The result is a hard-hitting condemnation of Government failure to implement the OECD “Anti-Bribery Convention”, due in force nearly nine years ago.
The report said: “The Working Group is disappointed and seriously concerned with the unsatisfactory implementation of the Convention by the UK. The continued failure of the UK to address deficiencies in its laws on bribery of foreign public officials and on corporate liability for foreign bribery has hindered investigations.
“The Working Group reiterates its previous 2003, 2005 and 2007 recommendations that the UK enact new foreign bribery legislation at the earliest possible date.”
The report expresses strong regret about the “uncertainty” surrounding the UK’s commitment to establish an effective corporate liability regime in line with the Convention, as recommended in 2005.
The report acknowledges measures taken by the UK Government to strengthen the fight against foreign bribery, including allocating “significant” funds and national jurisdiction to a specialised City of London Police unit dealing with foreign bribery investigations.
And it notes the UK’s first convictions of an individual for foreign bribery in international business transactions came only last month. The Government also has introduced an “anti-corruption strategy” to improve and strengthen UK foreign bribery laws and structures.
However, the report states “reforms are urgently needed and should be dealt with as a matter of political priority. Recent cases have also highlighted systemic deficiencies that make clear the need to safeguard the independence of the Serious Fraud Office and eliminate unnecessary obstacles and prosecution”.
*Headline comment in brackets added by John Donovan
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Tagged: BAE Systems · Bribery · Corruption · Press Association · Shell
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Arrow launches $460 mln takeover bid for Pure Energy
PERTH, Dec 22 (Reuters) – Arrow Energy Ltd (AOE.AX), an Australian coal seam gas producer, has offered A$673 million ($460 million) for fellow coal seam gas firm Pure Energy Resources Ltd (PES.AX) as it looks to boost its reserves.
Australia’s coal seam gas sector has seen a seen a number of multi-billion dollar deals earlier this year as several gloal energy majors, struggling to secure access to conventional oil and gas resources, target coal seam gas as a new feedstock for liquefied natural gas plants.
Arrow Energy, which already owns 19.9 percent of Pure Energy, said the offer is A$2.70 in cash plus 1.21 Arrow shares for every Pure share. Pure has recommended the offer.
The total consideration of A$5.40 per share represents an 81 percent premium to Pure’s last traded price of A$2.98 on Dec. 19 and a 147 percent premium to its one-month volume weighted average share price, Arrow said in a statement.
Shares in Pure Energy jumped 55.7 percent to A$4.64 by 0325 GMT, indicating that investors were not expecting a higher offer. Arrow’s share fell 6.85 percent to a one-week low of A2.04.
The cash component of the offer will be funded via a combination of Arrow’s existing cash reserves and proceeds from the firm’s recent 30 percent sale of its Australian upstream interests to Royal Dutch Shell (RDSa.L).
Arrow Energy said the proposed acquisition would boost its uncontracted proved and probable (2P) gas reserves to more than 2 trillion cubic feet (tcf), which will be sufficient to support a proposed 3 million tonnes per annum liquefied natural gas project that it is involved in as well as existing gas sales agreements.
Arrow is being advised by Wilson HTM Corporate Finance. ($1=1.464 Australian Dollar) (Reporting by Fayen Wong)
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Tagged: Arrow Energy · Australia · Coal-seam Gas · Gas · Oil
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Indian Jute in Australian Museum Collections: Forgetting and recollecting transnational networks
Andrew Hassam, University of WollongongFollow
Hassam, A. 2011, 'Indian Jute in Australian Museum Collections: Forgetting and recollecting transnational networks', Public History Review, vol. 18, pp. 108-128.
Indian jute sacking played an essential role in Australian life for over 150 years, yet its contribution to Australian development and its Indian origins have been barely recognised in Australian public collections. What has Australian history gained by this erasing of jute from public memory? Wool, sugar and hop sacks are displayed in public collections as evidence of an Australian national story, but their national dimension depends on the cultural invisibility of jute and jute's connections to the stories of other communities in other places. Developing an awareness of the contribution of Indian jute to the development of Australia requires an awareness not simply that jute comes from India but that the construction of national identity by collecting institutions relies on forgetting those transnational connections evident in their own collections. Where jute sacks have been preserved, it is because they are invested with memories of a collective way of life, yet in attempting to speak on behalf of the nation, the public museum denies more multidimensional models of cultural identity that are less linear and less place-based. If Indian jute is to be acknowledged as part of 'the Australian story', the concept of an Australian story must change and exhibitions need to explore, rather than ignore, transnational networks.
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The Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership is a trade deal between America and the European Union being negotiated entirely behind closed doors. What we know about it comes from leaks and Freedom of Information requests but it’s enough to give us plenty to worry about.
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The effect of Acremonium coenophialum on the growth and nematode infestation of tall fescue
C. P. West, E. Izekor, D. M. Oosterhuis, R. T. Robbins
The presence of the endophytic fungus Acremonium coenophialum Morgan-Jones et Gams in tall fescue (Festuca arundinacea Schreb.) induces toxicity when this grass is grazed by cattle; however, there is evidence that removing the endophyte reduces the stand vigor and longevity of fescue. A field trial was conducted to determine the effects of water supply and the presence of the endophytic fungus on plant growth, drought tolerance, and soil nematode populations in 'Kentucky 31' tall fescue. The design included two factors, level of endophyte infection (0 and 75%) and irrigation regime (none, low, and high). Where water deficits occurred, herbage yield and leaf area were lower, and percentage dead tissue and canopy minus air temperature were greater in endophyte-free compared with endophyte-infected fescue. Soil populations of Pratylenchus scribneri and Tylenchorhynchus acutus were substantially higher in the noninfected than in the endophyte-infected plots. The endophyte apparently confers drought tolerance to Kentucky 31 tall fescue, and this effect may be at least partially mediated through enhanced resistance to soil-borne nematodes.
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leaf area
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West, C. P., Izekor, E., Oosterhuis, D. M., & Robbins, R. T. (1988). The effect of Acremonium coenophialum on the growth and nematode infestation of tall fescue. Plant and Soil, 112(1), 3-6. https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02181745
West, C. P. ; Izekor, E. ; Oosterhuis, D. M. ; Robbins, R. T. / The effect of Acremonium coenophialum on the growth and nematode infestation of tall fescue. In: Plant and Soil. 1988 ; Vol. 112, No. 1. pp. 3-6.
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Boilerplate and the Impact of Disclosure in Securities Dealmaking
Jeremy McClane
Capital markets dealmaking, like many kinds of business transactions, is built on a foundation of copied and recycled language what many call boilerplate. Regulators and the bar periodically call for less reliance on boilerplate, but despite these pressures, boilerplate remains a fixture of ever-growing securities disclosures. This Article explores why boilerplate persists and how it affects investors, showing that boilerplate may have a more complex role than commonly recognized. This Article does so by developing a theory on the effect of boilerplate in securities disclosure-a context that is little studied despite a wealth of literature on boilerplate in other settings--and analyzes disclosure empirically using language processing techniques on a dataset of initial public offering disclosure spanning twenty years, from 1996 to 2015. The data shows that in the aggregate, the use of boilerplate is associated with some efficiency gains. For example, 10% more boilerplate in IPO disclosure is associated with a savings of $65,000 in legal fees, on average, controlling for other relevant factors. But the measurable gains are generally outweighed by boilerplate's information-related costs: greater use of boilerplate is associated with several indicia of information asymmetry that see issuing firms give up as much as $5 to $6 million in the market on average for each additional 10% of their disclosure that consists of rote recitations. Greater use of generic boilerplate language is also related to greater incidence of securities litigation and is associated with lower readability of already complex registration statements. The evidence points to the conclusionthat, whether through its content or its signaling effect, boilerplate disclosure in the aggregate represents greater costs for IPO issuers and does little to advance the goal of better informing the investing public.
In addition to discussing implications for law and policy, this Article addresses a puzzle raised by the data: Why do securities issuers continue to use boilerplate when it has the potential to lose them money, draw litigation, and buck regulatory pressure? Theory developed in legal scholarship provides a number of possible answers. The explanation most consistent with these findings is that boilerplate serves as a substitute for information production, meaning that issuers can obscure sensitive information or shortcut due diligence if they are willing to pay the price for doing so.
Jeremy McClane, Boilerplate and the Impact of Disclosure in Securities Dealmaking, 72 Vanderbilt Law Review 191 (2019)
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Colloidal Silver Blues
By Mark Hanna • 16/06/2016 This post was syndicated from Honest Universe - View original source
Don’t be fooled, colloidal silver sprays and creams won’t benefit your health.
In the continuing trend of the New Zealand media advertising ineffective health products as though it’s news, stuff.co.nz has published an article pushing colloidal silver for treating infections and skin conditions.
The article quotes a naturopath and sales representative from Skybright Natural Health, a company that sells colloidal silver products, saying that:
Ionic colloidal silver is anti-bacterial, anti-fungal and anti-viral. It supports the immune system when the body is under attack and micro-organisms cannot build up resistance to it.
It’s also completely safe for every single person in the family to use, babies included.
Lorelle O’Halloran
What the article doesn’t tell you is that there’s no evidence colloidal silver can do any of that. And we’ve known this for quite some time. In 1999, the FDA issued a rule on colloidal silver stating that:
all over-the-counter (OTC) drug products containing colloidal silver ingredients or silver salts for internal or external use are not generally recognized as safe and effective and are misbranded.
Over-the-Counter Drug Products Containing Colloidal Silver Ingredients or Silver Salts | Final rule by the FDA
And despite that rule being 17 years old now, the state of the evidence remains unchanged. America’s National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health (NCCAM) has a rather succinct “bottom line” on colloidal silver products, last assessed as up to date in September 2014:
How much do we know about colloidal silver?
There are no high quality studies on the health effects of taking colloidal silver, but we do have good evidence of its dangers.
What do we know about the effectiveness of colloidal silver?
Claims made about the health benefits of taking colloidal silver aren’t backed up by studies.
What do we know about the safety of colloidal silver?
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has said that colloidal silver isn’t safe or effective for treating any disease or condition.
Colloidal Silver | NCCAM
Colloidal silver has been on my radar for quite some time now. Here in New Zealand, it’s been promoted for various conditions: predominantly infections and skin conditions, but also extending as far as cancer. The evidence for its efficacy is equally absent for all of these claims.
I’m aware of three New Zealand companies that have been challenged on their colloidal silver health claims via complaints to the Advertising Standards Authority: Colloidal Health Solutions, Salud New Zealand, and Liquid Pearl. None of these advertisers were able to provide evidence to support the health claims they were making. (For full disclosure, I gave advice to the complainants for two of those complaints.)
In 2013, I got in touch with another company promoting colloidal silver products in New Zealand, “Health House”. I wanted to know what evidence they had to back up the claims they were making. In particular, I wanted to know if they had any evidence that came from the product being tested in vivo, i.e. in a living organism.
Low quality evidence
Much of the evidence used to back up health claims about colloidal silver products comes from in vitro testing, as opposed to being tested in people or animals. This is dangerous; many many potential new drugs may appear effective in in vitro tests but then turn out to be ineffective or worse, unsafe, when tested in animals or people. So if we rely on this low quality evidence to make health decisions, we run the risk of using ineffective and/or harmful products.
Unsurprisingly, the response I received from Health House was that that they don’t have any credible evidence to back up their claims. As well as telling me this, they also decided to send me a list of (anonymised) customer testimonials.
In my opinion, this is a very deceitful tactic. Relying on incredibly low level evidence to back up health claims, and promoting them alongside testimonials which can be both misleading and very convincing, is not an ethical way to promote a healthcare product or empower patients to make informed decisions. That said, it is also a very common tactic among promoters of colloidal silver and other ineffective health products.
Using health testimonials in advertising is prohibited in the Medicines Act for this very reason, although that provision is hardly observed and barely enforced.
Colloidal silver sold at low concentration
As well as saying colloidal silver can treat various conditions, promoters like Skybright also claim it is safe. In her quote for the stuff.co.nz article, Ms O’Halloran even said it was safe for use on babies. As far as I’m aware, that’s essentially true, but with one big caveat. The reason it’s true is that it’s only legal to sell colloidal silver in New Zealand if it’s at too low a concentration to have any effect.
In 2003, then Minster of Health Annette King answered a question about colloidal silver from Rodney Hide (quoted in part):
Rodney Hide: is Medsafe permitting colloidal silver manufacturers and promoters in New Zealand to distribute material containing therapeutic claims; if so, why; if not, what has it done to stop such distribution?
Annette King: No. Distributing material containing therapeutic claims for colloidal silver products would breach the Medicines Act 1981… Colloidal silver products containing less than 10 parts per million of silver do not need consent to distribute under the Medicines Act providing no therapeutic claims are made. Therefore, once references to therapeutic claims have been removed and as long as the product contains less than 10 ppm of silver, there is nothing to prevent these products being advertised again.
5463 (2003). Rodney Hide to the Minister of Health | New Zealand Parliament
Even if colloidal silver was able to treat infections, at a concentration as low as 10 ppm it would be surprising if it had any effect. Luckily, those effects you’ll be missing out on include your skin turning permanently blue.
I’m not joking. It’s called argyria. Your skin turns blue and stays that way, and it can be caused by taking too much colloidal silver. It looks like this:
Paul Karason, probably the most famous sufferer of argyria caused by colloidal silver.
More cases of harm caused by colloidal silver can be found documented on the website whatstheharm.net. One sufferer of argyria caused by colloidal silver, Rosemary Jacobs, has written about the dangers of colloidal silver and the ignorance of some naturopaths promoting it.
While legally sold colloidal silver products aren’t likely to be harmful, there is a real potential for harm if you’re going to make your own colloidal silver. DIY “make it yourself” colloidal silver kits aren’t hard to find for sale online, including on sites like Trade Me. I honestly do worry that someone is going to read that it’s safe for babies, and wind up using some colloidal silver someone made at home which is far more concentrated than 10 ppm.
On a lighter note, it just so happens that my favourite bit of New Zealand pseudoscience comes from an ad for Skybright’s colloidal silver cream, so of course I just have to share it here. When you see as much quackery as I do, it helps to be able to laugh at it on occasion.
In the listing for Skybright colloidal silver cream on the NetPharmacy website (it’s a real Auckland pharmacy, not just online), the promotional text explains:
when cells become infected with a bacteria they lose a positive electron and become negatively charged
Skybright Colloidal Silver Cream | NetPharmacy
0 Responses to “Colloidal Silver Blues”
Anaru Toia says:
Is this a scentific peice or an opinion peice? How about you scientists (or is it bloggers) do studies to back up your claim or the claims of othets you’re referencing.
Mark Hanna says:
Hi Anaru, thanks for commenting.
I’ve tried to be pretty clear regarding which parts of my article have been based on fact and which are my opinion. I also try my best to always provide links where appropriate. Is there any part of my article in particular that you think is unclear?
When it comes to why I don’t do studies on colloidal silver myself, I don’t think it’s a good use of my time or money.
I think a more relevant question would be why those who make a living from selling colloidal silver products (or any of the many other health products sold in New Zealand that aren’t supported by evidence) don’t fund studies to find out if the claims they make are really true.
I assumed you would be interested in doing a serious study seeing as you’ve taken the time to write the article.
The don’t be fooled headline suggests some certainty but your peice clearly state there have been no high quality studies.
This just stinks of personal bias which is not very scientific at all. Perhaps even less scientific than the evidence to support it.
I do appreciate the response though.
Conducting a clinical trial is quite an undertaking, being an activist and hobbyist science communicator it’s not something that I have the resources or expertise to undertake. Colloidal silver isn’t the only thing I’ve written about for which health claims that aren’t supported by evidence are made either. My goal with this article is more to help people avoid being misinformed by companies like Skybright, who make health benefit claims about colloidal silver products which aren’t backed up by evidence.
Although it’s true that there’s no good evidence either way due to a lack of studies, in my view there’s also little plausibility that these products can have any positive health effects. Particularly given the miniscule 10 ppm maximum dose at which they may be sold in order to not contravene the Medicines Act, I’m comfortable in saying that any colloidal silver products legally bought here is not going to provide any health benefit.
James Hutchinson says:
Interesting article – thanks for posting. Something that has been on my radar/concern for a while, since a few of my friends and family have used colloidal silver formulations for a long time and seem to find them useful (not sure how much of this is actual benefit vs placebo effect etc). How does this link in with evidence relating to the antimicrobial properties of silver itself? You could expect or extrapolate that topical formulations of colloidal silver could be effective – is there any evidence for this or has it been formally tested?
Thanks James. I think the matter of silver really having antimicrobial properties is part of the “danger” of colloidal silver. What looks like a grain of truth makes it much harder to dismiss out of hand than something like homeopathy or “quantum reflex analysis”.
To my knowledge, which is aligned with the conclusions drawn by NCCAM, there simply isn’t any high quality research that’s been done on the health effects of colloidal silver. Particularly at the low concentrations it’s available legally in New Zealand, I expect any perceived result is likely to be attributable to the various confounding factors that make health testimonials so unreliable.
The placebo effect, as you’ve mentioned, is one of these. But there are also other things to consider such as confirmation bias and regression to the mean.
Misleading promotion of health products can essentially fall into two categories:
1. Claims that are not supported by evidence, and there is no quality evidence one way or another (although the plausibility of the claim may vary)
2. Claims which go against the best available evidence.
Colloidal silver falls into that first category, which I don’t think is as unethical as the second. But making health claims without a solid justification for doing so, especially when standing to benefit financially from the claim, is still unethical.
Who knows, maybe one day there will be high quality evidence about the health effects of colloidal silver which let us draw reliable conclusions about whether or not it’s effective (and effective enough to justify its safety profile) for any particular treatment. But I’m not holding my breath on that one.
Thanks Mark, very helpful!
In many ways, it reiterates the important role that we have as a scientific community to synthesise and communicate validated information on the claimed benefits of health products. This is especially important for those in your first category where there is little evidence as yet to actively disprove claims, but where those that stand to gain financially from selling these products exploit the naivety of there customers with bold marketing claims – this isn’t always sinister, as I suspect that many of those who sell and market products like colloidal silver probably sincerely believe that it works.
We can of course help by providing accessible and understandable information on the evidence to the public – as the marketeers have shown, persuading consumers with the right information in the right way is probably a key to reducing demand and changing the game.
Michael Edmonds says:
Anaru,
If someone claims that a particular substance has medical properties surely it is up to them to prove their claims not up to other people to disprove them?
Would a drug company be allowed to put a drug onto the market and leave it up to the consumer to prove whether it works or not?
What does the FDA have to do with NZ?
They’re an internationally recognised and very credible regulatory body. Colloidal silver isn’t going to be less ineffective when used in New Zealand than it is when used in the USA.
Alison Campbell says:
Another for your collection, Mark: https://www.facebook.com/pg/ephraimhealth/shop/?rid=226723874006753&rt=6
Apparently claims that the stuff doesn’t work are just bought & paid for by the pharmaceutical industry, according to a fairly prolific commenter on that particular page.
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Revenue-Driven Surgery Drives Patients Home Too Early
May 12, 2012 ScienceBlog.com
Revenue-driven surgery and poor planning drive some surgical patients home too early, concludes a pair of logistical studies conducted by researchers at the University of Maryland’s Robert H. Smith School of Business.
The studies show a correlation between readmission rates and how full the hospital was at the time of discharge, suggesting that patients went home before they were healthy enough.
The researchers recommend better planning and other logistical solutions to avoid these problems.
The studies appear in the two most recent issues of the peer-reviewed journal Health Care Management Science:
“The impact of hospital utilization on patient readmission rate” http://ter.ps/sj
“Examining the discharge practices of surgeons at a large medical center” http://ter.ps/sk
“Discharge decisions are made with bed-capacity constraints in mind,” says University of Maryland Professor Bruce Golden, the Smith School’s France-Merrick Chair in Management Science, who conducted the research with Ph.D. student David Anderson and other colleagues.
“Patient traffic jams present hospitals and medical teams with major, practical concerns, but they can find better answers than sending the patient home at the earliest possible moment,” Golden adds.
In the studies, Golden and Anderson tracked patient movement at a large, academic medical center located in the United States.
They found that patients discharged when the hospital was busiest were 50 percent more likely to return for treatment within three days. This indicates recovery was incomplete when patients were first released, the researchers say. The study tracks occupancy rates, day of the week, staffing levels and surgical volume.
Surgeons and hospitals are incentive-driven to perform as many surgical procedures as feasible, Golden says.
“The hospital has to maintain revenue levels to meet its financial obligations. Surgeons are working to save lives and earn a livelihood. It’s what they do,” he explains. “If the hospital says ‘sorry there are no beds available,’ there’s a lot of tension and pressure from both sides to keep things moving.”
These problems are much more likely at large hospitals, which tend to provide more advanced, specialized surgeries not accessible at smaller, community institutions,the researchers say. Patients often have to travel a great distance for the procedures, so hospital delays become expensive for both them and the care providers.
The study findings cover surgical discharge data from fiscal year 2007 covering more than 7,800 surgery patients who collectively spent 35,500 nights at the facility.
“This gives us a good snapshot of the pressures at work in a busy non-profit hospital,” Golden adds. “Other institutions may handle the challenges somewhat differently, but the pressures are widespread and these results call for some introspection.”
BETTER LOGISTICS
“Too often, the biggest problem is that hospitals just don’t plan ahead, and this is what gets them in trouble” Golden says. “There are logistical alternatives to sending a patient home too soon.”
He suggests that surgeons use checklists before discharging the patient. “They know better than we do what questions should be asked – questions that would force the surgeon to think about whether they were discharging the patient for the right reason.”
Recently, for example this checklist approach has been used successfully to reduce hospital bacterial infections, Golden points out.
Also, he suggests that hospitals increase the flexibility of where patients go post-surgery. Allowing them to be moved to units with empty beds, for example, could also lessen premature discharges.
Though, this may increase costs in the short run, discharging patients who then quickly return to the hospital offers no long-term savings, and decreases the quality of care, Golden adds.
FULL TEXT STUDIES AVAILABLE
Electronic versions of the two research studies are available to media on request. Contact Greg Muraski: gmuraski@rhsmith.umd.edu
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3 Tips to cope with that Summertime Sadness
Summer is winding down now, and we are all ready to be back at school. For those of us who are just as weird as Lana del Rey and nowhere near as pretty, summertime sadness is some real shit. Everyone seems to fall into a summer category: working a kickass internship at some awesome company; partying like old times with your high school biddies; “studying” abroad or just being a generally wealthy person who gets to “summer” in Athens for funsies; or finally, being forced to remember why you hated your hometown in the first place.
I, unfortunately, fall into the last category. Subheading: bored housewife training.
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10 Events in World History That Totally Should Have Been Pregamed
There was once a time when history was regarded with reverence and esteem. Then the History Channel aired “Ice Road Truckers,” and since then, it has been hard for anyone to take history seriously. That being said, we still view history as an important part of our heritage that must be studied and understood. And by “studied and understood,” we of course mean “examined to establish which historical events would be funniest if all parties involved were shitfaced.” Here at Sherman Ave, history and drinking go together like, well, Mohawk rum and CVS-brand soda. Thus, we proudly present to you the 10 events in world history that totally should have been pregamed.
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10. The Travels of Marco Polo
As anybody who ever made the excruciating journey from the Keg to the mystical and foreign land of Burger King can attest, drunk adventures just tend to be more interesting than sober travels. Just imagine if Marco Polo had downed two bottles of wine before setting out from Venice! The young guido would probably embark on a series of raucous adventures throughout his travels, recording everything from his first encounters with Asian fusion cuisine in the land of Joy Yee to an ill-fated attempt to skinny dip in the Arabian Sea in an incomprehensibly ungrammatical text message sent to his roommate at three in the morning. The next day, Marco Polo would be way too hungover to feel dismayed by the revelation that, after being carried like three miles by his friends to the Yuan court, Polo used the sacred oil from Jerusalem entrusted to him by Gregory X to introduce the Mongolian Empire to waffle fries before promptly vomiting on Kublai Khan’s lap.
9. The Storming of the Bastille
On July 14, 1789, a bunch of disgruntled poor French people massed upon the Bastille, a large prison known for holding political prisoners. If you think about it, there are only three explanations for masses of people converging on a public place — they’re angry, they’re drunk, or they’re in the Jai Ho music video. Regrettably, seeing as the French were mostly angry in this scenario; they really should have been drunk. Simply compare the nature of angry public gatherings and drunken public gatherings. Angry public gatherings include Occupy Wall Street, Tiananmen Square, and Nazi book burnings. Drunken public gatherings include Snoop Dogg concerts, St. Patrick’s Day, and the celebration of Osama bin Laden’s death. You decide which you find preferable. Besides, A Tale of Two Cities would just be so much more interesting if Madame Lafarge was vomiting uncontrollably in every scene.
8. The Defenestration of Prague
Like anybody needs much provocation to drink in order to escape the infernal bleakness of Eastern Europe. But I usually do need to be at least a couple of shots of absinthe deep before I defend my religious freedom by shoving Catholics out of a third floor window into a pit of manure. Not to mention, a good pregame would have added a whole other layer to the term “getting shit-faced.”
Foam is beer!
7. The Crusades
Which Crusades? ALL OF THEM. ALL OF THE CRUSADES SHOULD HAVE BEEN PREGAMED. Okay, it’s like a road trip, but you can be as sloshy-slosh as you want, because you don’t have to worry about getting a DUI (unless the Holy Roman Empire stringently enforced horse-riding sobriety). Besides, there is no better instigator of belligerent shenanigans than Pope Urban II’s famous declaration, “God wills it!” That’s just asking to be misinterpreted for fratty purposes. Fifteen shots in an hour? God wills it! Eight consecutive kegstands? God wills it! Seriously, if someone walked up to me tomorrow and said “Hey, God wants us to get incredibly blitzed and then go ride a horse from Rome to Jerusalem,” I would instantly buy the necessary supplies. Then I’d probably proceed to buy a bible, to double-check the whole divine mandate thing.
6. Marx Writes the Communist Manifesto
Alcoholism becomes much easier when it’s supported by a good old-fashioned dialectical materialist ideology. A tipsy Marx after an unlucky game of Drunkopoly would undoubtedly replace his theories of Das Kapital with Das Boot, the class struggle with the timeless struggle for consciousness, and the stateless society the ideal of a pants-less society. His manuscript — hastily scrawled on the back of a cocktail napkin — would ignite rebels everywhere with its message, resulting in a series of idealistic revolutions calling for the redistribution of Miller High Life among the proletariat but rapidly degenerating into a dystopian shitshow of Adele lyrics in the gulag of Fran’s Cafe.
5. Hannibal Leading His Army Over the Alps
When I’m plastered, there are only two things I want: Guacamole and Elephants. I have some doubts about the guacamole rations in the Carthaginian army, but there were definitely some fucking elephants. They’re just so large! In that state of mind, it’s difficult to perceive objects larger than the distance between Burger King and 7/11. An elephant would just be mind-blowing. Furthermore, there are tons of fun activities to do in the Alps: skiing, snowboarding, sledding, making snow angels, having snowball fights with fellow Carthaginian soldiers, walking behind Hannibal and quietly muttering lines from “Silence of the Lambs,” etc. If someone just told me to march over an entire mountain range, I’d be pretty miffed, but if someone had me do a power hour and then said “Let’s go hiking!” I’d take the bait like a middle-aged housewife at Herman Cain’s mansion.
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4. The Trial of Joan of Arc
Tensions might have ran high in the Rouen courtroom as the Maid of Orléans was tried for heresy, but that’s nothing a little Smirnoff chased by a slap can’t solve! If only the Bishop Cauchon had pregamed, the interrogation would have devolved from religious inquiry to a saucy game of “Never Have I Ever,” with questions mostly pertaining to Joan’s fantasies about the Dauphin and her penchant for cross-dressing. Joan of Arc will then famously proceed to declare to the courtroom, “I do not think I am in mortal sin, and if I am, it is for God and the priest in confession to know that I used the pages of Ezekial 23: 19-20 to roll the biggest joint Charles VII ever saw!” The trial would inevitably end with the pronouncement that the patron saint of France was “one righteous motherfucker” before burning her at the stake and cooking escargot over her smoldering ashes.
3. The Arrival of Cortez in Mexico
I’ll be the first to admit: When I’ve have too much to drink, I’m very friendly. Best friends are inundated with hugs, acquaintances are equally inundated with hugs, and the quiet Korean girl from my Econ discussion probably sustains a fairly serious spinal injury from the amount and magnitude of the hugs with which she is inundated. But even in all of my drunken affection, I very rarely greet a stranger and jump to the conclusion that they are the god Quetzalcoatl. There was that one time, but she had a very oddly proportioned face, and I couldn’t come up with any other explanation for it. Ultimately, Montezuma and his Aztec cronies should have heavily pregamed the arrival of Cortez, if for no other reason than to justify their absurd actions (just think if only Cortez had been entranced by the Aztec’s gold tequila rather than the golden buildings of Tenochtitlan). I’d have to be incredibly trashed to give a stranger the keys to the capital city of my civilization, even though I was once trashed enough to lock the keys in the car at 2:30 in the morning after drunkenly transporting a couch through several blocks of downtown Evanston.
2. The Construction of Stonehenge
Seeing as its pretty easy to build Stonehenge in the opening of Civilization IV, I can only assume that the Druids were pretty far gone when they built one the most complex monuments of the Stone Age. I mean, you’d kind of have to be three sheets to the wind to agree to lug 25-ton rocks from a Welsh quarry to some testament for the enterprising spirit of man. Assuming the Druids were drunk on mead, there are few explanations remaining for the memorial. My guess is that they either built a fast-food restaurant catering to students’ late-night culinary needs, or else a bar with a lax ID policy and stripper poles on the dance floor.
Drink every time a Russian model looks like this by the time she hits her mid-thirties?
You may not have ever thought to pregame an entire nation, but it seems like the only appropriate thing to do. I’d really like to isolate a single event in Russian history that needs to be pregamed more than the others, but that is simply a Sisyphean task. Conclusion: Nothing in or relating to Russia should ever involve sobriety. Therefore, instead of painstakingly listing every event in Russian history, I present to you: “History of Russia: The Drinking Game!”
• Drink every time Russia is invaded in the winter against the invader’s better judgment
• Drink every time a prominent politician is sent to a gulag
• Drink every time Brezhnev’s eyebrows appear in an intricate nightmare of yours
• Drink every time Putin shares an uncomfortably intimate moment with a wild animal
• Drink every time Tolstoy and/or Dostoevsky makes you lose faith in everything, LITERALLY EVERYTHING
• Drink every time Tchaikovsky tries to suppress his latent homosexuality
• Drink every time a Russian leader tries to expand executive power
o Drink twice if it’s Putin
• Waterfall from 1917-1991
–Ross Packingham and Evander Jones
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Jonathan flags off Gas Industrial Park project in Delta State
Nigeria may be set for a major gas revolution with the flag off of the Gas Industrial Park in Delta State. This indication was given by the President Jonathan yesterday while performing the ground-breaking of the project which he believes would generate much needed revenue for the country when it starts functioning.
Speaking at the ceremony, President Goodluck Jonathan said that the park would be designated a free trade zone, and is expected to generate large number of jobs for all Nigerians. President Jonathan expressed optimism that the project, which is believed will be Africa’s biggest gas industrial hub, would be executed to international standard and attract many gas related industries from across the world.
The park is expected to consist of industries, which would produce fertilizers, petrochemicals, methanol and other related products.
The ground-breaking event comes after several attempts to kick-off the project were frustrated as a result of the tussle between the Ijaw and Itshekiri over the ownership of the land on which the facility is located. Present at the ceremony were traditional rulers, the Minister of Petroleum Resources, Diezani Allison-Madueke; Minister of Trade and Investment, Olusegun Aganga; Delta State Governor, Emmanuel Uduaghan, top government functionaries and member of the community.
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Nazgûl
A person who is severely prescriptive in matters of English usage is often called a “grammar Nazi.” I must say I dislike this term. Real-life fascists and racists do not amuse me, and I am resistant to trivializing them. We wouldn’t think it reasonable to call a person a “grammar rapist,” after all, would we?
Various replacements have been suggested, among which I like “grammar numpty” – a numpty being a stupid person (it’s a Britishism). But that’s not quite optimal either; ‘stupid’ is arguably different from ‘obnoxiously purblind’. I find myself more partial to “grammar Nazgûl” (you can leave off the circumflex on the u if you want).
If you’re a Tolkien (Lord of the Rings) fan, I don’t need to tell you what a Nazgûl is, so off you go. You can spend the next few minutes writing a piece explaining something like how Gollum would not fall into lava with the ring; lava, being molten rock, is still so dense that a person falling on it would fall onto it, not into it, and would immediately combust on the surface (and the ring would of course melt). Facts, after all.
For the rest of you: ring? Yes, ring. Sauron, the great sorceror, forged rings of power, which gave their wearers great powers but gave him greater powers over them, for he had the one ring that had power over all of them, a ring that bore this inscription:
Ash nazg durbatulûk, ash nazg gimbatul,
Ash nazg thrakatulûk agh burzum-ishi krimpatul.
Which means
One ring to rule them all, one ring to find them,
One ring to bring them all and in the darkness bind them.
It’s a tidy little exercise in morphology – frankly, I’m surprised it’s not more often used in introductory linguistics classes. You can see readily enough that ash nazg must mean ‘one ring’, that a verb root plus –atul means the verb is done to ‘them’ and a verb root plus –atulûk means it is done to ‘them all’ (meaning –ûk must mean ‘all’, more or less). Other details that are known, though not inevitable from the text, are that burzum means ‘darkness’ and ishi is a postposition, and agh means ‘and’, and in –atul the –at is a verbal ending (meaning something like ‘to’) and –ul means ‘them’. Also, ash means ‘one’ and nazg means ‘ring’, not vice-versa (nothing in the sample itself makes that necessarily so).
So is nazgûl ‘ring them’? No, because of the difference between ul and ûl – the circumflex means it’s a long vowel (literally: hold it longer, just like you hold the /k/ in bookkeeper longer than the one in bookie). That makes it a different sound. Also, nazg isn’t a verb. Nazgûl is from nazg plus gûl, which means ‘wraith’. What’s a wraith? Kind of like a ghoul. Hmm.
Well, it is a constructed language. ‘Bind’ uses the root krimp, like English crimp, for instance. Whether Nazi influenced Tolkien’s invention of nazg here I don’t know (the Nazis did like Wagner’s Ring Cycle), but he was writing this in the 1940s.
What is a Nazgûl, then? A ring-wraith, yes, but what are those? Men who took up rings of power forged by Sauron, came under Sauron’s control, and, after Sauron lost the One Ring, were tasked with seeking it out mercilessly. If anyone was carrying it, and especially if anyone was wearing it, they could sense it, and they would swoop down with the aim of destroying the wearer and restoring the ring to its rightful condition. They descended as if from nowhere, uttering unbearable sounds.
I’m not saying that the parallel is exact. But consider: A person learns a set of tidy rules about English that give a sense of knowledge and control. They believe that in enforcing them they are serving the betterment of English and their own expression, but the rules become ends in themselves, and their enforcement an exercise in condemnation and destruction. They dedicate themselves to seeking out transgressions. A hapless person uses a bit of grammar that falls within their set of magical rules – or, rather, strays against it – and they swoop in as if from nowhere, making sounds terrible to the hearer.
Does that seem a bit of an extreme caricature? Not all that extreme. Look, I was one in my younger days, so I have some idea.
That does mean that, unlike a Nazgûl, one may always stop being one. Nonetheless grammar Nazgûl is at least as viable as any other similar term. And it has a good ring to it.
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numpty, nudnik
For once and for all, let’s stop using the term grammar Nazi.
The Nazis were not just people who got all up in your face about small things. Do I even need to tell you about them? Are you really OK with using Nazi as a synonym for meanie or taskmaster or martinet or pedant?
Sure, we need a term for people who can’t seem to resist being dicks about other people’s grammar. But I don’t think we need to call them grammar genocidal megalomaniacs. There’s a better term, much better, that was drawn to my attention by one of the language gang on Twitter, @mededitor, who tweeted a flow chart made by David Bradley: “A simple flowchart to avoid becoming a grammar numpty.”
Ah, yes, grammar numpty. As @mededitor explained, “‘Numpty’ is a UK pejorative, meaning chowderhead.” It’s actually a fairly new word; it seems to have started showing up in the last 30 years. It’s likely derived from numps, a much older word (around since the time of Shakespeare) also referring to a stupid, silly, foolish, or ineffectual person, and possibly formed from the name Humphrey; numpty is quite possibly modelled on Humpty-Dumpty (which may also come from Humphrey – way to Bogart that name), gaining effect from echoes of numbskull and dumb and the effect of the dull “uh” vowel and the soft nasal consonant. And, for the grammar pickers, an echo of “harrumph.” It can be a noun or an adjective.
I should say that David Bradley (who, by the way, is British) is not the first person to use grammar numpty. I found a tweet from last November, for instance, directed at the Twitter account of a company that sells grammar-checking software (a company that also published an appallingly stupid article supposedly “correcting” “mistakes” in a popular novel series – mainly presenting style choices as rules, and making some truly cack-handed recommendations – so I won’t be naming them); they picked on a headline with what was probably an intentional error for the sake of humour, and @onekind (who is Australian) tweeted at them, “IT’S A JOKE YOU GRAMMAR NUMPTIES”.
Now, admittedly, people who I may want to call grammar numpties (because they’re needlessly prickish about other people’s usage) might well feel inclined to call their targets grammar numpties, because it is somewhat subjective just who is a numpty. Therefore, I do have an alternate available for those who would like one: grammar nudnik.
I like the word nudnik because it’s more specific. It’s not like numpty, which just means that you think the person is obtuse. Nudnik refers to a pest. A person who is boring, a person who buttonholes you and tells you inane details at length, a person who picks at you incessantly. A person who is like slimy celery leaves clinging to your finger. It’s less goofy-sounding than numpty; it has that sharp prick of ik at the end, suitable for dickish behaviour. The u is as in noodle, not as in dump, so it’s more focused and tense (like a lurking version of needy), but at the same time it has the lowest resonances of any vowel (if you want to know more about those resonances, read “The world speaks in harmony”).
Where does nudnik come from? Yiddish. (And I do think I’d rather have a word from Yiddish than one – Nazi – naming the people who murdered millions of Yiddish speakers.) It comes from the verb nudyen ‘bore’ and traces ultimately to Proto-Slavic. Although it has (for us) an echo of rude, it doesn’t automatically connote rudeness, though it allows it. Mainly it just means the sort of person who soon has you thinking, “Will. You. Shut. Up.”
So you have a choice of two. When some twit starts picking at others on small points of grammar that he or she may or may not even be right about, you can call the twit a grammar numpty or a grammar nudnik. And you don’t need to use that other word at all.
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Whether you want a grandiose indoor reception or an outdoor soiree with a nature backdrop that could never be recreated in a ballroom, you’ll find it at this resort, named after the brightest star in the Auriga constellation. What could be more impressive than exchanging vows on the front lawn beneath the century-old tree that is symbolic of your lifelong commitment, or a solemnisation ceremony over water with the picturesque South China Sea in the distance? Then continue the revelry in the Grand Ballroom. The setting for numerous high-profile unions, what stands out about the space is that it is the only circular, pillarless ballroom in Singapore, promising celebrations of greater intimacy, even if you have 400 guests. Anchoring the ballroom is a magnificent commissioned glass sculpture by American artist Nikolas Weinsten, whose undulating form appears to come alive in a celebratory dance of sorts when illuminated by a glass-domed skylight. Not far from the ballroom is the comfortably appointed Bliss Suite with full-length three-way mirrors and a walk-in wardrobe where you and your bridal party can prepare for your grand entrance, find respite or have a quick massage. If you like the idea of nature scenes all around without having to worry about weather changes, there is the Sentosa Room. Floor-to-ceiling glass windows looking out to the sea, cascading pools and lush greenery immediately soothe and bring the outside in.
When you decide to wed at Capella Singapore, you will be assigned a Romance Specialist, who will attend to everything from designing a menu to suit your taste to choosing the right venue for your event, having the patisserie design your wedding cake and planning spa sessions for your bridal party. If you’re expecting out-of-town guests, they will also be able to help arrange accommodation within the urban resort. “No detail is too small for the expert team. Just as every love story is unique, every celebration is personalised at Capella Singapore,” says Priscilla Chua, senior director of catering and conference services.
You will also get personalised service from the rest of the team behind your wedding, from award-winning executive chef David Senia, who will create an epicurean spread that mirrors your personalities and preferences, to the sommelier, who will single out fine wines to pair with each dish, and the in-house florist who will create splendid arrangements to create the right mood and wow your guests.
With details this personal and settings so unique, you can be sure your union at Capella Singapore will create experiences your guests will not forget long after your big day, and memories you’ll hold close to your heart forever.
The Circular Ballroom represented going full circle in our relationship
— Florence Lee and Damian Xiao
"We had our wedding dinner for 400 guests at Capella Singapore in October 2016. The dark and sensual theme we wanted was conveyed through the use of flowers, lighting and even black table cloths. Long tables dressed with flowers all the way to the stage and music added to the mood. The content look on our parents’ faces when they saw the beautiful set-up was priceless. Capella Singapore's lush greenery and tranquillity was a big draw for us, but what sealed the deal was the Grand Ballroom—it is the only circular ballroom in Singapore and represented going full circle in our relationship. Guests enjoyed taking pictures at the live 3D photo booth as well as the high quality of the food and service. When planning a wedding, it is vital to have a good relationship with your vendors and Capella Singapore was a joy to work with!"
- Florence Lee and Damian Xiao
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Jakkie writes… We skydived on Glen’s 50th birthday, indoors!! Yes indoors, because that’s what you do when you’re 50. As each year passes, the need to be daring and dangerous becomes less and less. I jumped out of a plane 15 years ago, we bungie jumped 10 years ago, I flew a helicopter 5…
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Jakkie writes… What an absolutely INSANE experience we’ve just had! We swam with wild humpback whales, each the size of a school bus! Every year, between May and October, the whales on the east coast of Australia migrate north to warmer waters to give birth to their young, then they swim back down the coast…
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Yesterday we hired a SUP (Stand Up Paddle Board for those who are non native!) Not only did we Stand Up on a Paddle Board, but we had a fury companion join us. Max the dog!! Chris De Aboitiz runs our local 1770 SUP hire company and currently holds the world record for getting the…
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Even though we now live in a small seaside town in a remote part of Queensland, it’s certainly never boring! When we first arrived 6 months ago, we believed that all the community had to offer was fishing, surfing, eating fish, more surfing, sleeping, more fishing, more sleeping and pootling around in a tinny, or…
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1 Comment on Photos: U.S. health workers begin receiving COVID-19 vaccine
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Monday was a momentous day in the fight against the coronavirus pandemic in the U.S. As the nation surpassed the grim milestone of 300,000 people dead due to COVID-19, the first Americans began receiving Pfizer and BioNTech’s vaccine against the virus, which received emergency approval by the Food and Drug Administration on Friday.
As anticipated, high-risk health care workers are the first in line for inoculations; Sandra Lindsay, an intensive care nurse at Long Island Jewish Medical Center in Queens, N.Y., is believed to be the first American to receive the vaccine outside of a clinical trial. After front-line health workers, nursing home residents—who have accounted for a disproportionate number of COVID-19 deaths—are expected to be next in terms of priority. The vaccine likely won’t be available to the vast majority of Americans until next spring at the earliest, according to government officials.
Still, the relief comes not a moment too soon. Coronavirus cases and deaths continue to escalate across the country, forcing many states to reinstitute lockdown measures that have already devastated huge swaths of the American economy. Health officials fear that the situation will only get worse over the course of the winter, and continue to warn Americans to wear face masks, avoid indoor and group gatherings, and practice social distancing.
But the arrival of the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine, and the pending approval of Moderna’s own COVID-19 shot, offers hope to a nation whose very way of life has been upended by a once-in-a-century pandemic. With hundreds of sites across the U.S. set to receive the vaccine this week, the beginning of mass inoculations indicates that the tide may be turning against the virus—and that an end to all the death and economic devastation, and a return to normalcy, may finally be on the horizon.
Below, some images from the first day of the historical vaccine rollout in the U.S.:
Nurse Sandra Lindsay bumps elbows with hospital publicist Joseph Kemp after she is inoculated with the COVID-19 vaccine at Long Island Jewish Medical Center in Queens, New York.
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Richard Guarino, BMC Supply Chain Operations Associate Director, delivers Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine to the pharmacy at Boston Medical Center in Boston.
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Pharmacy technicians received a delivery of Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine at UW Health in Madison, Wisconsin.
John Maniaci—UW Health/Reuters
Kentucky Governor Andy Beshear watches as Byron Bishop (C), a UPS driver, loads a container of COVID-19 vaccinations on a cart at University of Louisville Hospital in Louisville, Kentucky.
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A frontline healthcare worker prepares to receive the Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine at the University Of Louisville Hospital in Louisville.
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Pharmacy staff members unpack vials of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine at the University of Louisville Hospital in Louisville, Kentucky.
Syringes for the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine at the University of Louisville Hospital in Louisville.
A freezer where vials of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine are stored at the University Of Louisville Hospital in Louisville.
Yves Duroseau, MD, chair of emergency medicine at Lenox Hill Hospital volunteers to be the second person to receive the Covid-19 vaccination at Northwell Health Long Island Jewish Medical Center during a press conference in Queens, New York.
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Examples of Developing Market Orientation
By Vanessa Cross
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Market orientation is a company's alignment of strategies with business intelligence derived from assessing customer needs and competitor data. Market orientation involves generating, disseminating and responding to marketing data about current and future customer needs. Organizations implementing a market orientation strategy require the commitment of top management and interdepartmental cooperation.
In 2005, when Paul S. Otellini took over the helm of Intel Corp., he announced that he was changing the organization to focus on customers' needs, replacing its historical product-oriented approach to business that centered on product engineering. This involved changing workers thinking from the one-size-fits-all approach to developing computer processors to one that focused on customizing its product to the end user's demands. For example, developing products that solve or limit customer problems related to matters such as computer system crashes, viruses and spyware.
Personalizing Online Shopping
Amazon.com is an example of a company with a high level of market orientation. This is seen in its efforts to personalize the shopping experience of prospective customers through its product recommendation system that relies on Web-based business intelligence gathered from customer browsing patterns and historical purchases. Amazon.com, like many other online trading companies, are effectively automating the market orientation process.
To promote a market-orientation among its staff, the Harley-Davidson company has developed a business culture that it describes as "Harleyness." Prospective employees are screened to determine if they have the cultural fit. The company encourages employees to own and use the same types of motorcycles used by the customer. Executives attend Harley-Davidson rallies to stay in touch with Harley-Davidson customers and enthusiasts.
Customer-Employee Contact
Company employees with market-oriented business approaches spend time with customers to learn more ways to meet customer needs. For example, the "Adopt a Customer" program developed by DuPont illustrates one way to develop more meaningful employee-customer interaction. In the program, a blue-collar DuPont staff member visits a customer monthly and becomes the factory floor customer representative, providing the customer perspective to other team members.
"Academy of Marketing Science Review"; Market Orientation: Toward an Integrated Framework; Richard A. Heiens
Marketing Science Institute; Market Orientation: The Construct, Research Propositions, and Managerial Implications"; Ajay K. Kohli, et al.; 1990
Northwestern Kellogg School of Management; Walking the Walk: Creating a Market Orientation; Aaron R. Brough; April 2009
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Does an Increased Debt Affect the ROE and ROA?
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Funding a company through debt, rather than selling company stock to attract capital, avoids diluting the stockholders' percentage ownership of the company. However, if there is a large capital position supplied by stockholder investment, the company has a better credit profile. If shareholders assume risk by funding the company with their capital, the company is likely to be more conservatively operated. If the firm finances itself through debt, the creditors shoulder the risk. However, if the debt results in increased earnings, the return on shareholder investment is exponential.
To calculate return on assets, first find the profit margin by dividing net income by revenues. Then, calculate asset turnover by dividing total revenues by total assets. Finally, multiply profit margin by asset turnover to find ROA. These numbers can be found on the balance sheet and the income statement.
Debt and ROA
Increased debt has the potential to lower revenues as more money is spent servicing that debt. If it is spent to increase production and production leads to significantly increased revenues, increased debt may increase ROA. That depends on whether the debt burden is so costly it cuts into net income. If revenues rise as a result of debt financing of production, but net income falls due to increased expense, ROA declines.
Return on equity is calculated by dividing annual earnings by average shareholder equity over the year. Annual earnings are listed in a company's annual report. Shareholder equity is listed in the balance sheet. In establishing a true picture of shareholder equity, check the company's quarterly statements to see if shareholder equity has fluctuated during the year.
Debt and ROE
Increased debt increases the leverage factor in a company. During normal or boom times, leverage results in exponential profit returns. During recessions, leverage can result in exponential losses, as well. A large debt burden carries risk because of the reaction of leverage to the prevailing economic conditions. Increased debt favors ROE during boom times but hurts ROE during recessions.
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Where Have All the Posters Gone?
Posted by Kris Randazzo on Feb 26th 2020
I understand that physical media isn’t exactly what it used to be. Folks aren’t going to stores to buy the latest and greatest games nearly as much anymore because why leave the house when you can just download, right?
But it’s not like physical media has up and gone away. Best Buy, GameStop, Target, these places still carry plenty of brand new games, and those games come in cases. But those cases are mostly empty now. You get your game disc or cartridge, and that’s it. Heck, sometimes you don't even get that. Just a download code and some shrink wrap is all that’s on offer with some modern games. And while that bugs me, I get it. I really do.
The time and expense that goes into a proper instruction manual is a lost and underappreciated art. In-game tutorials do plenty to teach folks how to play games anyway, so while it’s always sad to open up a brand new game case and not have a shiny new book filled with tips, artwork, and more to flip through, I kind of get it.
But the other thing that always came with my games when I was a kid was some sort of poster. Kids still have bedroom walls, right? I mean, mine do. What are kids putting up on those walls? Mine were always littered with the super cool posters that came with my new games, or the posters that came in Nintendo Power, or the posters that came in the pamphlets I’d grab at Toys R Us. Video game posters were relentlessly cool ways to show off just how many awesome new games were coming out. You could hang these things up on your wall and fantasize about what game you’d be able to cross off your list next. They’re great for building brand loyalty, and they never go out of style. So why did they stop making these masterpieces?
Let’s start with this one. It’s one of the most iconic posters I’ve ever seen. There are a couple of versions of this one out there with some different games, but this is the one I got with my first NES. We got the set that came with Super Mario Bros./Duck Hunt/World Class Track Meet, 2 controllers, a Zapper, and the Power Pad. I was already a pretty huge Nintendo fan by this point having spent countless hours playing at my friends houses. I still loved my Atari 2600, but it really couldn’t compare to the crazy stuff I had seen on NES. So when I got this giant poster in my console box, I was just in awe at how marvelous every single game looked. I wanted to have them all.
I mean, just look at that lineup! There isn’t a single proper stinker on this poster. Sure, 10 Yard Fight isn’t exactly a game I’m clamoring to play these days, and Dance Aerobics is hardly a classic, but even those games aren’t straight up bad. And the whole “Now you’re playing with power” bit blasting through this metal spaceship wall? So intensely cool! What I really love though is the screenshot for Super Mario Bros. It really looks like Mario is wearing a blue shirt, so I spent an unreasonable amount of time adjusting the color on my TV as a kid, trying to make mine look that way. Ahh, fun.
Of course if we back it up a bit, we have this little bundle of joy, and another one of my favorites. ROB has always been an undeniably cool design, even if he is kind of a crap accessory. I never saw this poster until several years after I owned my NES. But in that time I had become somewhat obsessed with Nintendo (HA, “somewhat”...) and was particularly fascinated by their black box games. I love it when a series of games matches when you line them up. So seeing this poster was beyond exciting. I can only imagine how blown my mind would have been if I came across this one earlier in my life.
I’ve also always been a big fan of Nintendo’s classic worlds, and look at the first 4 games on this poster. Super Mario Bros., Metroid, The Legend of Zelda, and Kid Icarus. That’s pretty much it for me right there. Those are my four absolute favorite Worlds of Nintendo, and here’s a poster with them all right there in a row. But look a little closer and this poster is a freaking checklist! There are little boxes for you to check off when you get all the games. What kid wouldn’t want a checklist poster that came for free with their Nintendo Switch games?
So what about what was going on outside of Nintendo? Turns out Sega had some pretty cool stuff going on too. Not nearly as cool as Nintendo’s, but still pretty sweet. And while the design of this poster isn’t even in the same universe of cool as Nintendo’s stuff, these screenshots were certainly enough to make me think twice about being a Nintendo-exclusive kid. In still shots, the Master System kills NES. Just look at Fantasy Zone II for crying out loud! It’s so colorful! But then the bottom of the poster is just… blank white? What gives? Could they really not think of anything to put down there? Not that it matters, because as cool as this is, it’s got nothing on what’s on the back of the poster.
Just look at that! Space Harrier, Wonder Boy, Outrun, Fantasy Zone, some missiles (Missile Defense maybe?) and a football dude. This is the stuff right here. “Take Hold of the Sega Adventure” isn’t as awe inspiring as “Now you’re playing with power,” but this poster did its job. This makes the Master System look like a really good time.
On the handheld front, Game Boy had some pretty rad posters. This one’s probably my favorite though because it highlights game box art instead of green and yellow Game Boy screenshots. Not only that, but it’s some of my absolute favorite box art of all time. Just look at the pure, unadulterated awesomeness that’s going on in the bottom right corner. Seriously, these are some of THE best boxes Nintendo ever made. Super Mario Land, Kid Icarus: Of Myths and Monsters, Alleyway, Metroid II: Return of Samus. Oh, and speaking of Metroid II, how about the back of this one?
Seriously. This was a free poster! This will always be one of my very favorite images Nintendo has ever produced, and they just gave this thing away with the purchase of pretty much any Game Boy game at the time. It’s so cool!
Then we have the Super NES, and man oh man look at this thing.
I get that it’s only 6 games, but as a kid who was absolutely crazy about Zelda, those three screenshots at the bottom lit my brain on fire. This is the smaller one, but the giant one that came with my launch SNES called the game Zelda 3, and I think it had the same screenshots. Regardless, I love how these are different from the final game. What’s that weird red bottle in his inventory? Why is the magic meter shaped differently? Why are there 4 statues outside the Eastern Palace instead of just 2? What’s up with Link’s hair? And of course, the perfect topper, “Now you’re playing with super power” Yes, Nintendo. Yes I am.
But as cool as that Zelda stuff is, nothing tops this.
Is there a more perfect image in the history of video games? I don’t think there is. It’s still stunning to this day. After obsessing over the first two Zelda games, and living for the Zelda cartoon to air on the Super Mario Bros. Super Show every Friday, seeing that Zelda was returning to the top down style of the original game with the power of the SNES behind it was enough to keep me awake at night. But this image, this gorgeous, mysterious image, filled my head with the sweetest of dreams. Was that the magical sword from the first two games, or was this something new? Would I get to actually walk around this place in the game, or was this just a promotional image? I had so many questions, and they were all so much fun. Man, what a great poster that was again, completely free with your game purchase.
Sticking with the cool back of the poster images, these two also stuck with me over the years. That Super Mario Bros. 3 image is another one of Nintendo’s best of all time, and even with most of it cut off on this one, it’s still a pretty cool pic. And that StarFox image! Those freaking puppets they used for the original Star Fox promo art were incredible. I wish they’d do something like that again.
Meanwhile, on the front of those two posters we have a matching set! And you know how much I love things that match! I really liked this particular time in Nintendo’s history. They had the NES, SNES, and Game Boy all active at the same time, and all three of them were thriving. The Mike Tyson-less version of Punch Out!!, the new yellow box version of Metroid, paired with the gray cart versions of Zelda and Zelda 2 made a really killer lineup of re-releases for new audiences, and neat new packages to collect for lunatics like me. And the games at the bottom are no slouches either. Final Fantasy, StarTropics, Super Spike V’Ball, all killer games. Then on the Super NES side, they have the focus on wacky peripherals like the Mario Paint mouse and the Super Scope. That first look at Battle Clash was crazy cool, and hey, it’s still my favorite Super Scope game. But the best part of this is that look at Special Tee Shot, the game that eventually became Kirby’s Dream Course.
Last but not least, we come to Nintendo’s “Play It Loud” era. This was a weird time in retrospect because it painted Nintendo in a kind of “extreme” light, no doubt in response to Sega’s incredibly successful campaign pointing out how cool they were next to Nintendo’s kid-friendly persona. Extreme 90s fonts aside, look at this freaking lineup! And look at how impressive these images are, even by today’s standards. Donkey Kong Country was setting the world on fire, and giving the Super NES a whole new lease on life, and they coupled it with these screenshots. Look at How awesome Bear Hugger looks in Super Punch Out. Look at the colors in Tin Star. They even show off some futuristic polygons with Stunt Race FX (amazing game, btw). And of course, you will always win points with me when you put Super Metroid and Super Mario World in the spotlight. This poster is why I bought Illusion of Gaia and Uniracers, and considering that those games absolutely rule, I’d say this poster did its job well.
Why aren’t these still a thing? Yes, you can go out and actually buy some video game posters, but nothing like these with a whole mess of different games on them. Yes, Nintendo Force comes with killer Nintendo posters in every issue, but for as awesome as those are, they aren’t these things. Can you imagine how awesome it would be to pick up a copy of Animal Crossing when it comes out and have it include a mini poster covered in screenshots of Nintendo games you can also buy on Switch?
I know I’d love it, and I’m pretty sure I’m not alone. What about you? What are your favorite old video game promo posters?
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In the second half of the nineteenth century, Paris attracted an international gathering of women artists, drawn to the French capital by its academies and museums, studios and salons. Featuring thirty-six artists from eleven different countries, this beautifully illustrated book explores the strength of these women’s creative achievements, through paintings by acclaimed Impressionists such as Mary Cassatt and Berthe Morisot, and extraordinary lesser-known artists such as Marie Bashkirtseff, Anna Bilinska-Bohdanowicz, Paula Modersohn-Becker, and Hanna Pauli. It examines their work against the sociopolitical background of the period, when women were mostly barred from formal artistic education but cleverly navigated the city’s network of ateliers, salons, and galleries. Essays consider the powerfully influential work of women Impressionists, representations of the female artist in portraiture, the unique experiences of Nordic women artists, and the significant presence of women artists throughout the history of the Paris Salon. By addressing the long-undervalued contributions of women to the art of the later nineteenth century, Women Artists in Paris pays tribute to pioneers who not only created remarkable paintings but also generated momentum toward a more egalitarian art world.
This fully illustrated catalogue is published by the American Federation of Arts and Yale University Press. Along with an art-historical overview by curator Laurence Madeline, the catalogue includes essays by Jane R. Becker, collections management associate, Metropolitan Museum of Art; Richard Kendall, former curator at large, Clark Art Institute; Bridget Alsdorf, associate professor, History of Art, Princeton University; and Vibeke Hansen, curator, Nasjonalmuseet, Oslo.
288 pages, 9 1/2 x 11
150 color illus.
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Technical reasons to prefer coding business logic to support Unicode (when not required)
I have a legacy application in which the UI and business logic are already reasonably well-separated. There is a proposal to separate them even further, turning the core application into a "service" (without UI) and writing a kind of "UI Server" as part of it to which various UIs (potentially in various languages, and for various different devices and operators) can connect to get/set the data to drive the application via those UIs.
On the surface, this seems to make a nice separation between the business logic, which is currently completely ignorant of the possibility of Unicode, and the UI, which is going to need to get very familiar with Unicode to support multiple languages in the UI(s).
Now this application essentially monitors a production process, and has very little (if any) traffic directly from UI to database via the business layer. It strikes me that the "natural language" of this process might as well be Chemistry or Mathematics, and so internally I should stick to the language that best describes it, so long as I can translate from that language into anything any UI requires (which I believe should be possible). This leads me to prefer (the simplicity and familiarity and least work path of) retaining old-fashioned 8-bit chars over moving to Unicode.
Are there any technical reasons to reject keeping the business logic part of an application ignorant of Unicode like this? And even if the "natural language" of the system were "English-without-too-many-strings-or-dates" rather than Chemistry, would that make a difference?
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why not keep the business logic part ignorant of any language. – Pieter B Jul 22 '14 at 6:52
You can actually have both. Unicode supports an encoding where all characters are represented as a (variable length) sequence of 8-bit units: UTF-8.
Assuming that you refer to ASCII with your 'old-fashioned 8-bit chars', then you can almost trivially support UTF-8, because UTF-8 is a proper superset of ASCII: All characters in the original 7-bit ASCII set are present in UTF-8 with the same code value. The characters in the various 'extended ASCII' sets (as well as the rest of the characters in Unicode) are encoded as multi-byte values. This encoding is done in such a way that for each individual byte you can tell if it represents 1) a single-byte character, 2) the start of a multi-byte character, or 3) another byte in a multi-byte character.
The only area that you must be careful in when going from ASCII (or other fixed-length encodings) to UTF-8 (and Unicode in general) is text/string processing. As UTF-8 (and Unicode in general) doesn't use fixed-length encodings, any algorithms that assume a fixed-length encoding can easily give incorrect results.
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Are there any technical reasons to reject keeping the business logic part of an application ignorant of Unicode like this?
While you're reasonably certain that your system doesn't need Unicode (now), I don't see what you gain by precluding it. Unless you're using an environment with horrible Unicode support, I imagine it'll be more work to go that route.
And even if you really don't ever need it, most other people viewing this answer probably will.
There's likely a performance hit to transition between encodings at the UI/BL boundary.
There may be serialization challenges to transition between encodings depending on your boundary transport.
And even if the "natural language" of the system were "English-without-too-many-strings-or-dates" rather than Chemistry, would that make a difference?
Sure. In something like a physical science where the papers and discussions all take place in English (do they?) you can be reasonably certain that nobody is going to come in and demand localization in the software's lifetime. In "English with few strings" software, success will likely lead to non-English companies wanting to use the application - leading to localization demands.
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I have edited to clarify that the purpose of the UI needing "to get very familiar with Unicode" is so that it can support multiple languages. So you may like to edit your answer to provide more detail on points 2 & 3, and de-emphasize your localization concerns :-) – omatai Jul 22 '14 at 2:48
Telastyn's answer already has some good points, to which I want to add a few:
You're speaking of internationalization, at least for the UI. That means user-names etc.:
Have a user named André Svónögrödäß (yes, him) and store his profile on the server: BOINK! translations and transscriptions everywhere., or tell him that his name is "wrong", while the other 99.9% of software in the world accept his name.
Also: Can you 110% guarantee that no business-data around the globe will ever be dependant on Unicode?
I'd wager the cost of implementing it now with a slight risk of not really needing it vs. the cost of implementing when the users start complaining.
MarkMark
It does not always mean user names. Maybe it only means "roles" like "user" and "technician". And maybe if all you're ever doing is monitoring the manufacture of bottles, you can describe all their colours, styles and sizes with product numbers. So long as your UI can translate such data into any language, why should you force the business logic to speak Unicode? Nice user name example, by the way :-) – omatai Jul 22 '14 at 21:56
@omatai True what you're saying, but then you'd exchange implementing unicode-support in the business area for implementing a "translation"-layer between business and UI. I'd still say, why not make it native unicode. – Mark Jul 23 '14 at 4:45
I'm not sure I like this answer, and even though it's my own, I'm not going to prefer it. But I can't rule out in my own mind that it is a good thing to do in some situations, so I'll offer it.
If you've seen the movie "Gravity", you'll have seen Sandra Bullock's character trying to control a spacecraft whose controls are labelled in Russian. But those controls could equally be labelled with numbers. Now it would be entirely possible to write the kind of user manual used in the film in any language at all, referring only to the numbers of the controls. Indeed, those control labels could all be small displays which display a number until a language is identified, at which point they could display language-appropriate labels.
So here's the whole point of the example: no matter how you change the labels, the spacecraft is still going to fly the same. (Also, it helps that it's a non "English-centric" example to ground this in).
My question (and this answer) stem from recognising that there are certain applications for situations like this (such as production process control and monitoring) where the essential application (or the spaceship in this example) doesn't conform strongly to the normal "database/business logic/UI" model of doing things. Instead, maybe a "state machine/business and-or process logic/UI/database" model of things makes more sense.
That is to say, we all aim for the "holy grail" of separation between UI and business logic... but then we hamper ourselves in that effort by storing elements in the database that are not essential to the business logic in the slightest. But where else would we store them if there is only one database, and it is only accessed via the business logic?
So maybe there is a case to be made (in certain applications that suit it) for keeping the business logic independent of the database that supports the UI, and the UI independent of the database (or state machine) that supports the business logic.
This would allow the business logic to be written in a more natural language (which may be FORTRAN, PLC ladder diagrams, LISP, "Chemistry", etc, and which may be a terrible language to write a UI in) while writing a UI for multiple languages and/or devices in something which is suited to that purpose.
As I say, I'm not sure I like this solution, but I can see situations where it is well worth consideration.
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We speak to Cherry Chimes‘ Peter Bell ahead of the Swans’ New Year’s Eve clash against Bournemouth at the Liberty…
Hows your season been so far?
If you look at the league table people would say AFC Bournemouth fans should be overjoyed, but it has been a bit up and down really and you never feel that happy about your team until they are safe. There has been progress. The improvement is the team’s home form which has been string after a difficult start with Man Utd visiting first game. But there have been disappointments like the defeats to Sunderland and Middlesbrough. The highlight was the comeback against Liverpool especially as Bournemouth could have been three or four down by half time and were lucky just to have to comeback from two behind.
Eddie Howe was linked with England over the summer, were you concerned he may move onto a higher profile job?
Not really. Eddie is often linked with top jobs but he is a young manager with plenty of time on his side. The Bournemouth project has become a real challenge to see how far he can take the club. He enjoys improving the players he has identified to join the club and I still see him as building the club up and pushing to see if the club can win a cup or finish in the top 10. I think he can improve as a manger at AFC Bournemouth – after all he is in the best league and to move to the England job would not be helpful in his career at the moment. Once he has managed a top four side I think he would be more suitable for the FA. If Arsenal, who he has been linked with, come knocking it will be interesting to see if he would leave. But I think he gets on extremely well with Maxim Demin and Neill Blake and he has built up that understanding over a number of years which would make it difficult for him to turn his back on what he has built on the south coast.
Were you happy with the transfer business you did last summer and where do you need to strengthen in January?
Eddie Howe says he won’t be doing much business in this window and I’m okay with that. There are a number of players though that the fans want to see play more who were signed in the summer like Lys Mousset, Emerson Hyndman and Lewis Cook. It has been a bit hard to understand that only Jordan Ibe and loan-signings Jack Wilshere and Nathan Aké have been good enough to get regular starting places.
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There is one name that I think about before all others at Swansea and that’s Gylfi Sigurdsson who is absolutely deadly with free-kicks and he kind of lifts your team. I imagine he has not had the best of seasons for you but we know he is talented and a player. Jefferson Montero can be a bit more hit and miss and I think you can say that of a few players in the Swansea line up. Wayne Routledge, for example, can be great one week and then not perform the next.
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It’s an away game and AFC Bournemouth have been bang average away from home. Swansea also know they have to win their home games now. While I think both teams will go for the win I can see it being a 1-1 draw.
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Rudy Royston: "Flatbed Buggy"
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Few musicians take their geographical influences into the recording studio, and possibly least of all in the jazz realm. To further their careers, young jazz musicians gravitate toward New York City, and to a lesser degree, Los Angeles or Chicago. Whether they’re pursuing advanced education at places like the Manhattan School of Music or chasing gigs with more established players, they usually spend serious time in the big city before gaining the wherewithal to produce a recording. Whatever regionalism they carry with them has generally been erased by the time their music reaches the masses.
There was a time when you could identify a “Texas tenor” like Dewey Redman or a New Orleans drummer like Ed Blackwell by their sound alone. Today, even someone from a small outpost in Sweden or Canada might sound like someone else from Singapore or Cameroon.
On the fourth recording under his own name, busy late-40s drummer Rudy Royston sets out to accomplish several things -- among them casting his mind back to his childhood in Texas, where he lived before moving to Denver and then, in 2006, to New York. But although he was born in Fort Worth, it’s rural Bastrop, Texas, that he’s imagining, and his memories of it -- riding with his brothers in the conveyance expressed in the album’s title or spinning in circles with eyes closed -- are just as suited to a child’s life in the 1870s as to the 1970s. They’re simple pleasures and sensations, and they mesh with the drummer’s other goals on this record: to express feelings of movement, of time and space, and to do that in a highly textured instrumental setting.
For voices, Royston chose dark reeds (John Ellis on bass clarinet and saxophone), accordion (Gary Versace), cello (the fabulous Hank Roberts), and acoustic bass (Joe Martin). This chamber-music-like ensemble is a fine match for Royston’s drums, which are often resonant and rich. To call Royston a colorist is too limiting -- he has an extraordinarily broad technical palette -- but despite having performed with mainstream artists like Javon Jackson, he prefers to play with forward momentum rather than staying in a rhythmic pocket. If this music is full of the dust of rural Texas, Royston is a drummer who can play with a touch that is as light and ephemeral as that dust.
On “girl . . . WOMAN,” one of several compositions with titles that express movement or spatial development, the music unfolds languidly, hollow tones contrasting with the clacking of clarinet keys or Royston’s subtle cymbals. A devotee of veteran drummer Jack DeJohnette, Royston is a master of creating a tapestry of sound using just his cymbals. After almost nine minutes, a persistent rhythm signals a change in direction, and the piece concludes with an up-tempo melody that sounds like a triumphant dance.
The corresponding “boy . . . MAN” begins with a simple bass part and a cello melody full of potential. What it portends, surprisingly, is a stabbing rhythm and six-note descending figure anchored in the blues that dominates the final minute. Is the boy headed into rockier waters than his female counterpoint?
“Bobblehead” comes at the time/space theme a different way -- throwing up a riot of rhythmic and melodic motifs, as if the horse-drawn buggy has been traded in for a rattletrap jitney, and it’s careening downhill, out of control. The manic interplay of cello, saxophone, accordion, and taut drums makes it sound like it came out of the Raymond Scott songbook. It’s here that the music sounds most like it was composed by a drummer; by no means a bad thing. These are the kind of colliding beats, time feints, and rhythmic shifts that fill every drummer’s head. Royston lets the beast loose, and his band responds with aplomb.
By contrast, “Soul Train” moves like a beautiful waltz, buoyed by a highly attractive melodic device. The opening track on the album, it serves to effectively introduce the solo voices, while Royston stays busy in the background. Two-thirds of the way through the nine-minute piece, the pace changes to a stuttering clatter and Roberts plays an exceptional solo that is one of the recording’s highlights. As an early collaborator with Bill Frisell, Roberts played a large role in defining the guitarist’s influential music of the 1980s, music that pulled from American rural roots, early jazz, and film music. Royston was a later Frisell sideman, and he and Roberts fit together like the relationship was predestined.
Produced by Royston and engineered by veteran David Kowalski, Flatbed Buggy has as much space and texture in its soundstage as Royston wrote into the music. As noted, the sound is organic enough to capture the noise of instruments being played when it makes sense, yet it has the depth to let the quintet breathe.
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Is PlayStation Vita still alive?
Has Sony stopped selling the PlayStation Vita? Will there be any more games for the new handheld? Nobody seems to know, and everyone is confused.
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There's something strange going on with the PlayStation Vita. This week Tweakers – a prominent Dutch website on tech and games – reported webshops in the Benelux have stopped selling Sony's handheld. The stores have either taken the Vita out of their catalogue or display an 'Out of stock' message on the product pages. They're saying they don't expect any new deliveries to come in.
Sony Benelux reportedly refused to comment on the issues, saying the PlayStation branch of the company doesn't have anything to announce at the moment.
Today however, Entertainment Business – a publication specialized in entertainment retail – reports that Sony denies having stopped shipping the PlayStation Vita. A spokesperson says the handheld is still being sold at several retailers.
The article on Tweakers mentions the PlayStation Vita is still in stock in other European countries.
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Star Wars: A Musical Journey
This article is about the DVD program Star Wars: A Musical Journey from John Williams' musical score for Star Wars: Episode III Revenge of the Sith. You may be looking for the event Star Wars: A Musical Journey.
Star Wars: A Musical Journey is a DVD collection of music video clips from the Star Wars films, set to selected themes from John Williams's scores. Each clip features an introduction by actor Ian McDiarmid. The program can be watched with or without this introduction. It also contains a preview trailer for the Revenge of the Sith video game.
A Musical Journey was originally included as a bonus disc with the 2005 soundtrack album for Star Wars: Episode III Revenge of the Sith.[1] It was later included in the January 2016 release of Star Wars: The Ultimate Soundtrack Edition.[2]
2 DVD credits
Chapters[edit | edit source]
Ian McDiarmid hosting the session.
Star Wars: A Musical Journey contains the following chapters, each a video clip set to a specific John Williams composed theme:
A Long Time Ago -
"20th Century Fox Fanfare" / "Star Wars Main Title" (from all of the films) - Showing several clips from the first 5 Star Wars Films
Dark Forces Conspire -
"Duel of the Fates" (from Star Wars: Episode I The Phantom Menace) - The Battle of Naboo and Geonosis
A Hero Rises -
"Anakin's Theme" (from The Phantom Menace) - Anakin's journey in Episode I
A Fateful Love -
"Across the Stars" (from Star Wars: Episode II Attack of the Clones) - Anakin and Padme falling in love
A Hero Falls -
"Battle of the Heroes" (from Star Wars: Episode III Revenge of the Sith) - The end of the Clones Wars and the fall of Anakin Skywalker
An Empire Is Forged -
"The Imperial March" (from Star Wars: Episode V The Empire Strikes Back) - All scenes of the Empire
A Planet That Is Farthest From -
"The Dune Sea Of Tatooine" / "Jawa Sandcrawler" (from Star Wars: Episode IV A New Hope) - All Tatooine Scenes
An Unlikely Alliance -
"Binary Sunset" / "Cantina Band" (from A New Hope) - Luke's journey in Episode IV
A Defender Emerges -
"Princess Leia's Theme" (from A New Hope) - Princess Leia Scenes
A Daring Rescue -
"Ben's Death" / "Tie Fighter Attack" (from A New Hope)
A Jedi is Trained
- Rescue Missions
A Jedi Is Trained -
"Yoda's Theme" (from The Empire Strikes Back) - Luke's Training on Dagobah
A Narrow Escape -
"The Asteroid Field" (from The Empire Strikes Back) - Hot Pursuits and Escapes
A Bond Unbroken -
"Luke and Leia" (from Star Wars: Episode VI Return of the Jedi) - Luke and Leia being Brother and Sister
A Sanctuary Moon -
"In The Forest (Concert Suite)" (from Return of the Jedi) - The Battle of Endor and Naboo
A Life Redeemed -
"Light Of The Force" (from Return of the Jedi) - The Fall of Darth Vader and Redemption of Anakin Skywalker
A New Day Dawns -
"The Throne Room" / "Finale" (from A New Hope) - The end of the Empire and the return of the Jedi
DVD credits[edit | edit source]
Executive Producer: Howard Roffman
Director: Tippy Bushkin
Editor: Jeremy Stuart
Motion Graphics: Kyle Ruddick
Episode III Soundtrack Includes Bonus DVD on StarWars.com (content now obsolete; backup link)
Hear Episode III Soundtrack Previews at Sony Classical on StarWars.com (content now obsolete; backup link)
Sony Classical to Release Ultimate Editions of Original Star Wars Soundtracks on StarWars.com (backup link)
↑ Episode III Soundtrack Includes Bonus DVD on StarWars.com (content now obsolete; backup link)
↑ Sony Classical to Release Ultimate Editions of Original Star Wars Soundtracks on StarWars.com (backup link)
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Voters Approve Fund Transfers
CHESTER – Residents who packed the Chester Meeting House at the Jan. 23 town meeting unanimously approved seven authorizations to transfer monies from one account to another and to expend monies saved up for in Capital Reserve accounts.
Most of the transfers were “budgetary housekeeping” and were projects approved by town residents in the fiscal year 2006-07 budget referendum, First Selectman Tom Marsh said.
Perhaps one affecting most residents is the modernization of the Chester Public Library which was advanced through the authorization of $12,000 for the purchase and implementation of the VERSO Automated/Remote Access Library Management System.
According to Chester Public Library Director Linda Fox, the system will allow the library to transition from the old card catalog to an online computer accessible both inside and outside the library.
“I think we can add more shelving in the children’s area without the card catalog there,” Fox said, adding that “some people will be sad to see it go and some will be glad.”
Visitors will be able to view items and their status in the collection on VERSO, reserving items they want to check out, as well as having the ability to view and renew items they have already checked out, Fox said.
Two computers, one for patrons and one for staff, will be added to the library exclusively for access to the online card catalog.
Sharon Cromwell, Chair of the Chester Public Library Board of Directors, said that “any Chester citizen can access certain library resources 24/7.”
Fox said volunteers have already started the process of barcoding books to allow the library to scan when items are borrowed or returned and that newer books are being added to the VERSO system rather than the card catalog.
While the VERSO system is not yet available online, Fox said once the system is up and running it “will make a real difference for everyone here.”
Fox said the annual subscription costs to be $3,750.
“It’s a good solution for a small library,” Fox said adding that in the long run it’s hard to see how much it will cost since the system will free up staff members to spend more time providing services to library patrons.
Chester Public Library is one of the last libraries in the area to become automated, Fox said.
Other libraries that already have VERSO include East Hampton and the Saxton Library in Columbia.
The most expensive item discussed was $465,000 2006 Spartin Rescue Pumper Truck.
Funds for the truck have been saved in the Capital Reserve Truck Replacement account.
While the Chester Hose Company, which provides fire protection, rescue, and haz-mat emergency service for the Town of Chester, has looked to purchase a pumper and ladder truck in the past, Marsh said such estimates were upwards of $750,000 to $800,000.
“Many said that was too expensive so we asked the fire department to reevaluate their needs for a less expensive solution,” Marsh said.
According to James Gryzbowski, the 2006 Spartin Rescue Pumper Truck will replace the department’s 1986
International rescue and the 1974 Maxim pumper.
“It combines the functions of two trucks into one,” Marsh said, adding that it will reduce the amount of personnel needed to respond to a fire at a time when it is tough to find people willing and able to volunteer on the fire department.
Gryzbowski said consolidating operations into one vehicle will also save the department in repair and replacement in the future.
No residents spoke against the truck while one resident said it is important for the fire department to get the equipment they need.
The second most expensive item on the agenda was a proposal to designate $30,000 from the Capital Reserve Undesignated Account into the Highway Equipment Account.
The funds will be used for the purchase of a mason dump truck for the Public Works Department, Marsh said.
The fourth most expensive item, $28,000 for repairs of equipment and ground cover at North Quarter Park, comes at a time when Parks and Recreation Commission Director Elizabeth Netsch thought that all equipment at the park would be completely wore out.
Part of the equipment installed in 1986 has proven to have lasted a long time and is expected to do so, Netsch said.
A worksheet passed out at the meeting showed that funds will be used to create a toddler playscape with slide pads, replace swings and swing pads, turn logs on the existing Big Toy, remove only some old equipment, put down 50 yards of surface material, and prune trees around the playground.
Leftover funds in the Capital Reserve Kitchen Equipment account were reallocated for two purposes.
The first is for $6,000 for the Cedar Lake Nuisance Plan, part of an ongoing effort to scrape evasive plants in Cedar Lake, Marsh said.
The second is for $5,812 for building repair of the Public Works Department building.
$5,000 leftover from the Capital Reserve Septic System account was reallocated to the Dam Repair Account for a
project to repair dams throughout Chester, Marsh said.
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Do the Time Warp again at ‘The Rocky Horror Show’ at Burien Actors Theatre starting Feb. 21
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Burien Actors Theatre’s (“BAT”) production of Richard O’Brien’s The Rocky Horror Show, an outrageous musical comedy, is a party that encourages audience participation, as well as a send-up of sexual awakening and sci-fi/horror genres.
Performances will be held Friday and Saturday nights, and Sunday afternoons beginning Friday, Feb. 21 through Sunday, March 22.
BAT’s production features specialty drinks themed to the show and plenty of free on-site parking, plus BAT’s famous opening night party.
In a musical send-up of sexual awakening, sweethearts Brad and Janet, stranded during a storm, discover the eerie mansion of a Transylvanian transvestite scientist and his household of unforgettable characters. Come do The Time Warp again in this sexy parody of sci-fi/horror genres. Join us for throwback cult classic honoring our 40th season! Costumes are encouraged.
Richard O’Brien’s The Rocky Horror Show – music, lyrics and book by Richard O’Brien – debuted on stage June 19, 1973, in London where it ran for 2,960 performances before closing in early September of 1980. Since its debut, the show has been translated into a variety of languages and produced in cities all over the world, including two runs on Broadway and BAT’s 2008 production. In 1975, the show was also made into the popular cult movie The Rocky Horror Picture Show.
Contains a little adult language (one “D”, one “F”, and three “G” words), plus sexuality.
Audience participation kits are available for purchase at the show. No outside participation items allowed, including liquor.
Performances are Fridays and Saturdays at 8 p.m., and Sunday matinees at 2 p.m. at Burien Actors Theatre, located at 14501 4th Ave SW in Burien (map below).
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Ticket prices range from $7 to $25. Student tickets are $10. Enjoy opening weekend deals: Tickets on opening night (Friday, Feb. 21) include free admission to the opening night party. Only on Saturday, Feb. 22, which is BAT’s Lucky 13 Saturday, all tickets are just $13. Only on Sunday, Feb. 23, which is BAT’s Seven Buck Sunday, admission is just $7.
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For tickets, special deals or other information, go to www.burienactorstheatre.org or call 206-242-5180.
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THE CAST, DIRECTORS AND DESIGNERS
Stage Director Marc “Mok” Moser, Music Director Aimee Hong and Choreographer Gayle Staker helm the talented cast of Maureen Coulton (Phantom), Claire Ingalls (Phantom), Shane Patrick Hoffman (Dr. Frank ‘N’ Furter), Max Lopuszynski (Eddie/Dr. Scott), Travis Martinez (Rocky), Greg Michaels (The Narrator), Kim Orcutt (Usherette/Magenta), Kenn Pridgen (Janet), Olivia Robinson (Phantom), Tiana Ross (Phantom), Megan Smith (Columbia), Thomas Thompson (Riff Raff) and Tony “Ton” Williams (Brad). Heather Bernadette is the show’s stage manager.
The creative team for the show is: Albie Clementi, set; Rob Falk, lighting; Cyndi Baumgardner, props and set dressing; Eric Dickman, sound; and Marian Mays, costumes.
THE MUSIC AND MUSICIANS
Among the songs in this revival version of the production are the popular Sweet Transvestite and the highly participative The Time Warp. To make this soundtrack really throb, the show’s band includes Music Director Aimee Hong as band leader on keyboards, Brian Keiper on lead guitar, Julie Felts on bass guitar, Cody Clark (Feb. 21-March 1) and William Bryant (March 6-22) sharing the saxophone position, and Tai Taitano on drums.
ABOUT BURIEN ACTORS THEATRE
Exciting live theater has been a tradition in Burien since 1955. Incorporated in 1980, Burien Actors Theatre is a leading producer of quality live theater serving residents of the Seattle and south Puget Sound areas.
BAT gives audiences an intriguing and invigorating theatre experience with unusual and fantastical productions they can’t stream online or see anywhere else. The company’s mission is to treat audiences to productions of the highest artistic integrity that excite, engage and involve both the local and expanding theatrical communities in the Puget Sound region.
BAT is a nonprofit 501(c)(3) entity and operates on revenue from ticket sales, donations, grants, sponsorships and volunteers.
More info at www.burienactorstheatre.org.
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VIDEO POP: “Little Blimp” The Joy Formidable & Tour Dates
tags: atlantic records, new video, sxsw, the joy formidable, tour dates, video pop, wolfs law
Following their acclaimed shows at SXSW last week, the band are hitting the road in the US starting today, with a show tonight at The Conservatory in Santa Ana, CA. The band will be playing in Los Angeles at the Henry Fonda this week on Mar 21, followed by a show at San Francisco’s Fillmore the following night. They will be heading up the West Coast and then crossing the US throughout April, making their way to the East Coast for a number of dates including April 18 at Webster Hall in New York. For a full list of tour dates, please see below.
The Joy Formidable are touring in support of their latest album, Wolf’s Law, which was released in January via Canvasback Music / Atlantic Records. Wolf’s Lawis the second album from The Joy Formidable and the follow-up to their breakthrough debut The Big Roar which saw the band praised by the likes of The New York Times, SPIN, and NME as one of the most exciting new UK bands to emerge in 2011. Wolf’s Law was mixed by the legendary Andy Wallace (Jeff Buckley, Sonic Youth, Nirvana).
The album has already had heaps of praise foisted upon it. Rolling Stone hailed the songs as “wickedly bracing and Himalaya-huge.” Magnet proclaimed that “[Wolf’s Law] is a sonic step forward, with more emphasis on orchestration (both Bryan and Dafydd have classical backgrounds) and dynamics.” NPR noted that “the power and intensity of The Joy Formidable never ceases to amaze.” Alternative Press praised the album, saying “Thanks to such marked songwriting growth, Wolf’s Law cements the Joy Formidable as a ferocious rock act and as a band with plenty to say.” The Guardian hailed the album for its diversity in their 4 star review noting of the song “Silent Treatment” that “…it’s the velvet glove that softens the blows of the iron fists on either side.”
The Joy Formidable Tour Dates
3/18 – Santa Ana, CA @ The Conservatory
3/19 – San Diego, CA @ Belly Up Tavern
3/21 – Los Angeles, CA @ Henry Fonda
3/22 – San Francisco, CA @ The Fillmore
3/23 – Sacramento, CA @ Ace of Spades
3/25 – Portland, OR @ Wonder Ballroom
3/26 – Vancouver, BC @ The Venue
3/27 – Seattle, WA @ Neptune
3/29 – Salt Lake City, UT @ Urban Lounge
3/30 – Denver, CO @ Gothic Theater
4/1 – Sauget, IL @ Pops
4/2 – Chicago, IL @ Vic Theater
4/3 – Minneapolis, MN @ First Avenue
4/6 – Columbus, OH @ CD102.5 Day
4/7 – Indianapolis, IN @ The Vogue
4/8 – Lansing, MI @ The Loft
4/9 – Milwaukee, WI @ Turner Hall Ballroom
4/12 – Toronto, ON @ Phoenix Concert Theater
4/13 – Montreal, QC @ Corona Theater
4/14 – Clifton Park, NY @ Upstate Concert Hall
4/17 – Brooklyn, NY @ Music Hall of Williamsburg
4/18 – New York, NY @ Webster Hall
4/19 – Boston, MA @ House of Blues
4/20 – Philadelphia, PA @ Union Transfer
4/21 – Washington, DC @ 9:30 Club
4/23 Baltimore, MD @ Ottobar
4/24 Pittsburgh, PA @ Stage AE
4/26 Tulsa, OK @ The Vanguard Hall
4/27 Norman, OK @ Norman Music Festival
4/29 Dallas, TX @ Tree’s
4/30 Austin, TX @ Emo’s East
5/01 Houston, TX @ Fitzgerald’s
5/03 Memphis, TN @ Beale Street Music Fest
5/04 Atlanta, GA @ Shaky Knees Festival
5/05 Tampa, FL @ State Theater
5/06 Orlando, FL @ The Social
5/07 Ft. Lauderdale, FL @ Culture Room
5/09 Charlotte, NC @ Visulite Theatre
5/10 Wilmington, NC @ Brooklyn Art Center
5/11 Richmond, VA @ The National
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#MeToo Goes After Fox News With a Vengeance: Tucker Carlson, Howard Kurtz, and Sean Hannity of sexual harassment.
Posted by Admin Dee on July 21, 2020 at 7:23am
A former Fox News associate producer and a show guest are suing the network over allegations of rape and sexual harassment.
Jennifer Eckhart, a former associate producer on Fox Business, and Cathy Areu, a network guest, filed a federal lawsuit accusing recently-fired news anchor Ed Henry of rape and Tucker Carlson, Howard Kurtz, and Sean Hannity of sexual harassment.
The lurid details aren’t important. What matters, as always, is credibility. And in the case of both these women, their credibility is suspect.
Does this sound like a rape victim to you?
Washington Examiner:
“I stand for all victims who have been mistreated, harassed, assaulted, and even worse, at the hands of those in power, and the institutions that continue to support them,” Eckhart said in a statement. “My decision to speak out was not an easy one, but I refuse to let fear of retaliation, victim shaming and further attacks intimidate me into remaining silent. I am hopeful that my decision to file this action will result in positive change for women at Fox, and for all victims in the workplace, and I am honored that other women have come forward since my decision to do so.”
Rape victims don’t generally stand atop the battlements waving the bloody shirt. She seems very proud of herself for standing up for “all victims.” And how courageous she is to refuse “to let fear of retaliation, victim shaming and further attacks intimidate me into remaining silent.” Eckart knows that what little opposition she’s going to experience will be drowned out in a tidal wave of support from the left. Her moribund career just got a new lease on life and Areu will once again be in demand as a guest.
We await word on the value of the book deals.
Is it possible that Ed Henry is a violent rapist? The guy always did appear to be a little sketchy. But we’ll never get at the truth listening to Eckart’s partisan proclamations of solidarity with #MeToo.
https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/rick-moran/2020/07/21/metoo-goes-after-fox-news-with-a-vengeance-n667168
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Valerie Eggers July 24, 2020 at 8:00am
Can't believe most of these reports. Sexual harrassment can be almost anything. Rape is different and there should be some evidence of such an act. You'll NEVER convince me that Tucker Carlson or Hannity has ever raped anyone. And as far as Ereu is concerned, I think she's a nut case.
Loenzo Gonzales July 23, 2020 at 3:25pm
Time to attack the liberal media and their message
Victoria July 21, 2020 at 9:25pm
Oh......all these men were just swept up in sexual rapture by this godess. I've never known one woman to have such an effect on so many men! Or maybe this woman looks at life through a sex lense. So tell me, who has the problem here?
van nolan price July 21, 2020 at 5:57pm
I bet they were rejected. No fury like a woman scorned.
Mitchell Loebel July 21, 2020 at 4:41pm
Some more poor me. So tiring.
Paul Simmon > Mitchell Loebel July 21, 2020 at 7:36pm
Imagine how the media would be all over Trump if he complained about the unfairness he faces all the time!
Paul Simmon July 21, 2020 at 12:15pm
Biden is a despicable pig. He has no respect for women. Trump is the total contrast to that, which is yet another reason why Trump will win with a landslide in November.
Valerie Eggers July 21, 2020 at 10:20am
I do not believe all women about anything, not even this. Women can be just as dishonest and coniving as men and sometimes more so. And, fo the record, I am a women who bought into to all the hoopla about my gender. I think they may have shot themselves in the foot in some cases.
van nolan price > Valerie Eggers July 24, 2020 at 8:19am
And we have plenty of examples to refer to.
Michael July 21, 2020 at 10:19am
Wait, didn't that leftist idiot azzclown atty Gen of Minnesota say that rape was no longer a crime and quit calling 911 if some naked loser is standing over you in your bedroom? Has anyone else noticed how the leftist commies are dismantling the Rule of Law in the United States? That george soros is flooding the campaign coffers of those that hate the rule of law and want to circumvent the U.S. Constitution until they are in power to send it through hillary's 21st century shredder?
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What’s a “tequila cage”?
Scarlet February 22, 2009 Tequila Tours
The "Cage" at the top of the stairs inside The Ore House. It was locked up during our visit, but we spied 13 different brands of tequila. We were not impressed. This picture was taken through the bars, revealing the tiny tequila selection.
Grover and I went to Santa Fe last week and we thought it would be the perfect opportunity to see what New Mexico has on Old Mexico in terms of tequila.
I was dreaming of great New Mexican cuisine, accented with fully stocked tequila bars, but the reality was somewhat different. If the food was good, there was no decent tequila in sight, and if the tequila was good, the food was just mediocre.
Some friends had recommended two places downtown, near the plaza – the Blue Corn Café and the Ore House On The Plaza. We were told that the food at Blue Corn was better, but that Ore House had a “tequila cage” that we must see. I had no clue what a tequila cage was, but it sounded enticing, as though the agave was so fierce it needed to be locked away from lesser tequila drinkers.
We stopped at Blue Corn first, saddled up to the bar and examined the selection. While the choices were not bad, they did not excite us. Listed as their “finest” were Corazon Reposado, Don Eduardo Añejo and Patrón Añejo. I’m not crazy about the Corazon line, and there’s something about all tequilas that start with “Don” (with the very notable exception of Don Julio) that signals that they should be avoided. So, we ordered margaritas with Herradura Reposado and were pleased with the resulting drinks. The food was also commendable, and Graham, the bartender, was friendly and informative. Next up for dinner was Ore House on the main plaza.
The Ore House was decorated in classic Mexican style, including tiled tables, a cantina-like bar and inviting balcony. At first glance we were excited by the rows of tequila and the atmosphere. We grabbed a table on the balcony and began inspecting their tequila list, looking for brands we had never heard of or hadn’t yet tried. There were many, but most of them were blancos and reposados, and many of our old favorites were suspiciously absent.
Can you spot the blanco here? (Hint: It's in the middle.) We asked for a resposado, but we got a blanco instead. The glass on the right is the reposado we asked for, which was brought out after we questioned it.
However, they did offer Herradura Seleccion Suprema for $50 a shot, El Tesoro Paradiso for $25 and Cuervo Reserva de la Familia for $20.
We chose two that we hadn’t tried – Chamucos Reposado and Reformador Reposado, both priced at around $12 a shot. As soon as the Reformador arrived we had our suspicions. It was completely clear, and the consistency of water. The nose was very faint, with a slight floral smell. Grover took the first sip and I saw confusion spread across his face. “It tastes like water!” he said. “Actually, rose water.”
I took the next sip, and to my surprise, he was right. It barely tasted like anything at all, it had no legs, and there was just a slight floral aftertaste. Perplexed, we decided to go for the Chamucos. This one was much closer to the tequila we liked, with a smooth front and an agave burst mid-tongue. It had a faint, sweet aroma – all and all a decent repo.
When the waitress returned we investigated the mysterious Reformador. “Is this really the reposado?” Grover asked. “It’s completely clear and it tastes like water.”
The bar inside The Ore House, in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Cool hats!
Sure enough, after checking with the bartender, our waitress told us that she actually served us the Reformador Blanco. She brought a shot of the reposado and we were curious to see the difference. The Reformador repo couldn’t be any more different than its unaged cousin. It was bright and herbal, with a flavor explosion at the back of the throat. It’s not particularly smooth tequila; there seems to be too much going on.
The food at the Ore House was also disappointing. Although the menu sounded good, everything was overcooked and bland. We left still hungry and thirsty and wondering about the “tequila cage.” It turns out the Ore House has a small tequila shop that was locked up the evening we were there, behind a cage-like encasing. The search for a fine Santa Fe tequila experience continued.
-Scarlet
Those Reformadors could have been different NOMS as well as different ages. The NOM 1109 El Reformador is the one to drink.
Thanks for the tip! We’ll be on the lookout for that one.
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The Lookout - Broadstone Barns | Derbyshire
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The Lookout at Broadstone Barns is a stunningly beautiful open-plan two-storey, two bedroom luxury accommodation which is presented to a high standard &well equipped with a high-spec open plan kitchen, dining & living area which features bi-folding doors open out on an uninterrupted view. The barn offers everything you could possibly need for a relaxing break including an outdoor hot tub, dressing gowns, slippers, GHD Hair Dryer along with crisp white bed linen and towels.
Surrounded by open fields with uninterrupted views of the countryside, the luxurious exclusive retreat enjoys an elevated position in glorious countryside and offers everything you could possibly need for a relaxing break. The barn has been lovingly constructed into a high class self catering accommodation, attractively furnished and designed so that your holiday is the ultimate get away from it all, this barn is truly a home from home. The barn enjoys panoramic views - an outdoor hot tub, providing the perfect setting to unwind or rejuvenate.
Each barn is tastefully decorated with paintings from our local Artist Kevin Shepherd who is based at the Ferrers Centre, Staunton Harold, these paintings can be purchased if desired direct from Broadstone Barns.
The surrounding area has so much to offer, walking / cycling routes are plentiful as well as famous attractions such as Calke Abbey which is part of the National Trust.
The barn is in a private gated community and there is private parking next to the barn.
The Lookout has the option of twin zip and link Hypnos beds. PLEASE NOTE THESE MUST BE REQUESTED AT THE TIME OF BOOKING. Free WIFI is available. A code will be provided upon your arrival. A complimentary welcome pack is provided for each barn to welcome you to your retreat. If you require a little more than we provide, let us know and we will ensure this is in the barn on your arrival.
Take a look at our website for more information - https://www.broadstonebarns.com/what-we-offer
We are proud to announce The Lookout has been awarded a "Visit England 5 STAR Award".
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Until the 1980's, most of the South Derbyshire village of Ticknall in The National Forest was owned by the Harpur Crewe estate. It still has the character of an estate village and enjoys an unspoilt countryside setting. A lodge and lime avenue lead the way to Calke Abbey (National Trust), former home of the Harpur Crewes. The lionshead cast iron pumps and Corsican pines scattered through the village are other features provided by the family, who also were responsible for the alms houses built in 1772. Brickmaking and limeburning were big business in Ticknall in the 18th and 19th centuries and the brickyards and limeyards were connected to the Ashby Canal by an early tramway of c1802, whose course can still be traced. The tramway crossed the A514 via the well-known landmark known as "Ticknall Arch", and was carried under Calke Park in a cut-and-cover tunnel.
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Broadstone Barns are 3 brand new holiday let’s for 2018. Based on a former agricultural barn that was demolished and completely re-built from the ground up. They are luxury barns situated in between Ticknall and Melbourne offering breathtaking views with a network of local walks with amenities close by. All barns are fitted out to highest standards to offer uncompromising accommodation with private hot tubs. Visit our website (Website hidden by Airbnb) for further information.
Broadstone Barns are 3 brand new holiday let’s for 2018. Based on a former agricultural barn that was demolished and completely re-built from the ground up. They are luxury barns s…
If you have any questions or require anything during your stay, please don't hesitate to email us at enquiries@broadstonebarns.com or call Julie-Ann on 07711112195.
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Attack on Public Workers’ Pensions
Both the Illinois Assembly and the Senate have voted for cuts to retired workers’ benefits. The bills differ in the way they cut pensions and retiree health, but whatever version passes would significantly worsen retirees’ income.
The politicians say that the pension funds for teachers, city and state workers are many tens of billions of dollars short of what’s needed to pay future pensions. Yes, the pension funds are underfunded – because the state legislature didn’t pay 28 billion dollars it was obligated to pay between 1996 and 2011. In effect, it borrowed from the fund to spend the money for other purposes.
While refusing to meet its pension obligations, the state gave big bucks to business. Each year there are 1.5 billion dollars in so-called corporate tax expenditures, that is, tax breaks for business. For example, the Commodities Mercantile Exchange, which runs trading and speculation in Chicago, had an 85 million dollar reduction in its taxes despite making a 951 million dollar profit. And the state allowed Caterpillar, with 900 million dollars in profits, to pay no corporate income tax.
There is no reason why any public workers’ pension or retiree health plan should be cut. Let the state get back from big business all the money it has taken from the pension funds.
But workers can’t pin their hopes on the Democrats to do that. After all, both houses of the Illinois legislature are controlled by Democrats, elected by the efforts of unions and many workers. They were the ones who engineered this attack.
Editorial: City for Sale – Capitalism’s Latest Scam
Former GM Plant Gets State Help
Social Security’s Real Crisis: High Taxes and Low Benefits
Illinois: Attack on Public Workers’ Pensions
The Government Is Spying on You!
Government Silences Reporters
China: Fire in a Poultry Processing Plant Kills – and So Does Capitalism
Turkey: A Mass Movement Develops in Response to the Regime’s Provocations
The Assassination of a Young Left-Wing Militant by Right-Wing Thugs
France: A Growing Right-Wing Threat
Washington Highway Robbery
D.C.’s Golden Cameras
Memorial Day and Gas Prices
USC: Take the Money and Run
Baltimore: Dangerous Chemicals in Train Derailment
Remembering Detroit Freedom March
Detroit: Cop on Trial Not the Only One Who’s Guilty
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Fable of the Mouse and the Rooks
On a small, rocky island, a gang of rooks found by the water a little half-drowned creature. It was small, and furry, and gray, with a thin, naked tail.
“What is it?” one rook asked another.
The bird nudged it. “It’s little, weak, mousy – it’s a mouse!”
“Are you a mouse?” The bird pecked it. “A mouse, a little mousy mouse?” He pecked it again, harder, drawing blood. It half-woke as it curled up in pain.
“A mouse, a mousy mouse!” chattered the rest of the birds as one of their number lifted it off the ground to let it drop. It landed hard, rose quick and ran. But there was nowhere for it to hide among the smooth rocks of the shore.
“Mousy mouse!” was the call as the birds lifted and carried to drop and peck. It staggered beaten, on broken toes, half-blind and bleeding. But the birds had carried it far from the shore: and with a dash it found shelter in a crevice of the rough rock of the island’s summit.
The rooks, entertained enough, forgot the little creature. Meanwhile, among the crevices, the little creature grew – not longer – fatter with the weight of her children. She did not long survive their delivery, and hers was the first stuff her little ones grew on. How they grew – they grew long and sleek – they grew black and hungry – they grew fast and silent.
They grew until they were rats. They ate all the birds’ eggs, and the day hunters never caught them; they ate all the bird’s eggs, and the island was theirs.
Moral: Cruelty breeds enemies.
For fables
Nondefinition #16
Magnolia. A fragrant, flowering tree. A lying tree, frequently found conspiring with moonlight. In combination with sultry summers may bring on political Reaction, with acute fervor.
For nondefinitions
“Why on earth would I want to put more money in a fund now?” he asked the cold caller.
“Qwant isn’t just any fund. We’ve been working with MontéBank to solve the credit crisis.”
“How are you going to do that?”
“We’ve had a team of top minds from the Endower Institute working on the problem for months. They’ve developed a completely new securitization model – the LBS. It’s a drop-in replacement for the MBS. Nobody else know how to do this yet – this is opportunity knocking.”
“An MBS, that’s a…”
“Mortgage-backed security. The LBS is completely different – it’s a whole new way of thinking about the problem. None of the downsides of the MBS.”
“No risk of homeowners defaulting, you mean?”
“None at all – returns are guaranteed with volume. This has nothing to do with homeowners. It’s a sure thing.”
“So there’s no debt involved?”
“Oh, well, yeah, sure it’s a securitized debt – but there’s no risk of default.”
“How does that work?”
“Well, I don’t want to get into the mathematics, but you can trust me on this one. We’re all smart people here.”
“But just how does it work?”
“Well, sure, I could give you a lecture, but this thing is hot – it’s moving – and I’ve got a lot of calls to make, so are you in or out?”
“What’s you name?”
“Well, Ben, I just have a few questions. LBS – that’s a something-backed security, right?”
“So what’s the L stand for?”
“You want me to put it in a nutshell for you?”
“It’s like a microloan.”
“So it’s for developing nations?”
“No, no. This is all domestic.”
“So what are the microloans for?”
“OK.” Cough. “These micro-loans are made to eligible parties throughout the country in order to purchase diverse kinds of government debt instruments.”
“You mean Treasuries?”
“No – Treasuries are no way to get rich.”
“What kind of bond then?”
“No. Bonds are old hat. We’re breaking new ground here.”
“Can you just explain it to me?”
“OK.” Cough. “We deploy advanced computer modeling on complex statistical data sets to ensure a high overall rate of return.”
“Statistical? What kind of government debt is statistical?”
“Well, there’s always ratios of risk and return to be calculated for any investment.”
“So… this is some kind of investment with a high – what’s it called – beta?”
“Yes. A great beta. Almost completely uncorrelated with the stock market.”
“But it follows interest rates.”
“It’s uncorrelated with those too. This is a total market-beater.”
“It’s not interest-bearing?”
“This is independent of the Fed.”
“What the hell is it?”
“It’s the future, and you’ve got the chance to get in on the ground floor. Now I think I’ve explained this to you pretty thoroughly. I’m going to need your decision or I’ll have to move on.”
“Government debt… no interest… statistical… microloans – you can’t be—”
“Don’t be small-minded, sir. The numbers are good. There’s always a payout, and we always get our cut.”
“I don’t care about the math. I’m not putting money into that.”
“Look, don’t be afraid of a name. Sure, I can say ‘lottery-backed security,’ but what matters—”
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Laugh at the Devil
To laugh at others can do them good. We all have a well of strange notions which it is the use of laughter to filter. For beings as imaginative and perverse as we, laughter is a prerequisite of communication: sometimes the shock of being laughed at, always the fear of being laughed at, keep our private languages and worldviews mutually synchronized. To be laughed at now and then is a discipline of sanity.
But a tool is also a weapon; thus it is a saying that to choose always to laugh at a tyrant or would-be tyrant is to defeat him by inches. And in a common saying laugh replaces resist as the cause of the devil’s flight in scripture. Is this true? Can good men and women simply laugh down the devil?
Sometime between The Great Dictator and “Der Führer’s Face,” the Allied propagandists made Hitler the most laughed-at man in history. That was good for the Allies; laughing at him brought them together and gave them courage. But it did not hurt Hitler; he had been laughed at his whole career. Making him laughable was an easy task – a sweaty, lank-haired, squirming little tantrum of a man with a mustache pinned on the middle of his face like a punch line. But the Allies were not the first to laugh at him; and before, being laughed at had given him strength – had bought him time.
We in the US laughed at Hitler and the Reich, not Germans; but while we laughed at Tojo we also (see any poster) laughed at the Japanese. In the pursuit of victory even Dr. Seuss knew sin. That also helped bring us together, once our population of that kind was out of the way. But that kind of help is not worth having.
The history of humor has brilliant moments when wit has shown up the folly and vanity of tyranny. But, measured honestly, the preponderance of that history records the worst of human nature. Laughter can be a means for change; but it has more often been the immune system of complacency. Here humor helped keep slaves in chains, keep immigrants disposable. And though tyrants are easy to laugh at, they are even easier to laugh with. No one laughs harder, or with harder laughter, than the ignorant and the cruel when their ignorance is reassured by the humiliation of the thoughtful – mocked as effete, despised as misled (seduced by vanity away from pure and pliable simplicity), cursed as seducers of helpless youth – and when their cruelty is indulged and whetted by the public abuse and punishment of anyone who dares insult them by defying their expectation or deserving their notice.
To pick up a weapon is to be reborn as one of the armed, and in this rebirth we are often as senseless and heedless as children. If you pick up a weapon to do good with it, remember that instinct is not to be trusted, for more evil has been done by arms than good – though were it not for that little good, that greater evil would be greater still. You who would laugh at the devil, remember that the devil also laughs, and that one who is always armed with laughter begins laughing as a human being, but ends laughing as a devil.
Think tanks. The distinctive institutions that make modern life modern; the jewels in the watch case – all-important, but self-contained. Most of your rhetorical questions, the ones you let slide with a sigh, staring out the window – “How did we get here?” or “What were we thinking?” or “Whose bright idea was that?” – they do, in fact, have an answer: think tanks. Thinks tanks are to secret societies as airplanes are to railroads – smaller, with less tonnage; faster and entirely out of reach.
Too much respect for suffering discourages compassion. It is weak to say, “I can’t imagine”; it is perverse to say, “You can’t imagine.” If I cannot imagine your suffering, then I have no reason to care, no basis for compassion; and if you cannot imagine my suffering, then my suffering is worse, because I am alone in it.
Suffering is not holiness; to have suffered is not enlightenment. To have suffered is to be trapped in the moment of suffering, for there is no escape from memory, and ever after all joy has something in common with the joy of the victim in the contes cruels – the prisoner let loose only until the moment he begins to believe he may be free, then thrown back into his cell. Wisdom sounds cheap except when bought with suffering; but all wisdom is old wisdom, and if you listen you will hear that the wisdom taught by suffering sounds no different than the wisdom written in books. Wisdom for suffering is a real exchange, but no bargain. By trying to probe wounds for wisdom, we only keep them open. The only wisdom of the wound is the warning of the wound: see what can happen? Don’t let this happen to you. Don’t let this happen again. Suffering does not teach; suffering does not ennoble; suffering only makes us less. What we are made of does not grow back.
Compassion is not everything. Without imagination there can be no compassion; but without compassion there can still be virtue. Selfishness can be made the basis of virtue, while society is properly arranged to treat us as we treat others. Society, however, is not always properly arranged. The most startling realization of adulthood – the one that really ends childhood, no matter how early it comes – is the realization of how much freedom we have to do evil – how much we can get away with.
The descent is familiar. It is so easy to be cruel, and people just take it. It is so easy to break the rules, and people don’t complain. It is so easy to twist the rules into weapons for your side, and people don’t cry out. How disgusting the weak are – how unworthy of life – so pathetic that they won’t stand up for themselves: you have the right to use them as you please. How little trust it takes before you can abuse it and keep it. How little seeming to respect the rules before you can break them. And if no one will stop you – then they deserve it.
Conscience is just habit. The pangs of conscience are easier to ignore than a nicotine craving. It is compassion which is the basis of our moral restraint. (Do we have moral restraint? Those who would say we have none lack the imagination to see how much worse things could be.) And the basis for compassion is imagination.
By imagination as the basis of compassion, I do not mean “I will be good to this person, because I may be in that situation someday”; I mean, “I will be good to this person, because I might have been this person.” Few of us are able, unassisted by some personification, to see how little our lives have been guided by own choices. If religion did no other good, this service alone might be enough to justify it - that it helps you remember that you are where you are, not because you chose it, not because you earned it, but because something free and unaccountable – God or Nature – placed you there, and might have placed you somewhere else.
Compassion requires imagination. But how can you imagine something much worse than anything that has happened to you? Our minor sufferings – annoyances, irritations, frustrations – are unique and self-contained; they come, (sometimes) they go, and we are not remade by them. But our terrible sufferings – our losses, our regrets, our defeats – they are all, in a way, alike; within one life, each one recalls and involves all the others.
It is not mockery for you to use the worst thing that has happened to you as the basis for understanding something much worse that has happened to someone else. There are only so many slots in the human mind. A person who has only narrowly overcome the temptation of suicide over some idle-youth tragedy has not found their limit on some absolute scale of mettle, to be broken by their first real tragedy. That person has shown the strength not to be broken by the worst – though what the worst really is, they have yet to learn.
Compassion is easy to mock. There is even something satisfying in seeing it rebuked. An exchange like this could appear in a comedy:
“My girlfriend left me, I don’t know how I can go on.”
“Don’t whine at me. My wife died in a car crash.”
Imagine the reaction shot.
But this is inhumane. There is always some third whose sufferings could shut them both up. We fragile and unassured creatures only worsen our state when we try to compare and rank the various ways in which our worlds fall apart. What is broken is broken; what is in pieces is in pieces; and if one person’s world has only broken in half, and another’s has been ground to powder, still they are both naked to the same wind.
Socks. This is one way the world could end. Not too long from now, when video cameras and wireless transmitters have become so cheap as to be effectively disposable, so tiny as to be unnoticeable, some clever young fellow will get the idea to discover where his socks vanish to, and clip tiny camera-transmitters to each one. Once a few have disappeared he will sit down at his computer, pick up his slice of pizza, click the video feed open, and see—
The Blues Country
I followed the old dirt road on down
Into the blues country, where the trees
Grow thick, and the rivers are many and thin.
On the map in my pocket they spread out like fingers,
Grasping and squeezing the overcast country.
Each river was crossed by many bridges,
And none of the bridges were lonely. For each
An old man is in charge, whose job
Is giving directions: the maps from the highway
Are drawn with the rivers, never the roads.
The old man at the first bridge sat,
Watching me walking up to him.
He said to me: “Walk on, young man,
Don’t sit or rest, just keep on walking,
Don’t look behind you, that shadow ain’t yours,
I know this country, I was born in the town,
Trust me and walk on, don’t linger or rest.”
The sun was so faint that I took off my hat
And threw it down to float on the river,
Hoping that I might meet it again.
I came to the second bridge and heard:
“Now sit a spell, it’ll do you good,
I see you’re tired, your legs must ache.
Sit down and talk, don’t walk in vain.
Stay here and take it easy a while.
I was born in this country, don’t bother to hurry,
There’s plenty of time, just stay and talk.”
But I saw my hat was floating by,
And I said that I had to follow it on.
He only nodded, and sighed when I passed.
Before I saw him up ahead
I heard the old man was shouting,
But his voice was too hoarse to understand.
Once I was close enough he said:
“I told you already to turn on back.
You can see there’s no more road from here,
Don’t walk in these woods, there’s no way on,
I was born near here, I love this place,
I tell you now, take it from me,
There’s no way out but the way you came.”
But before I could turn, my hat went past
And I had to go on after it.
He said: “Go on, I’ll cry for you.”
At the fourth bridge my old hat was waiting.
It was stuck in the rushes. I squeezed it dry,
Then beat off the dirt, then covered my face
While I sat and slept, till someone came
Walked up through the woods, all covered in scratches.
I said: “Now where do you think you’re going?
You have to find another way.
You’ve come the wrong way and I know,
Trust me, I know, I was born in this country.
I know all the ways, don’t cross my bridge,
Just double back, you still have time.
I warn you: find another way.”
But he said: “It’s late, I have to go.”
He crossed my bridge and I cursed his back,
Saying: “You stupid tourist, I said
I was born in this country, I know it well,
You ought to heed me, don’t go that way.”
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Wildcats must clean it up: Sumlin targets signs of trouble in the wake of 2nd-half stumbles
By C.J. Holmes Sep 10, 2019 2
Coach Kevin Sumlin had “myriad” defensive concerns following Arizona’s 65-41 victory over Northern Arizona Saturday night. He went into greater depth on those issues at his news conference Monday afternoon, saying that some were simply results of collective inexperience.
“(There’s) a little bit of everything from Saturday night,” Sumlin said. “And I think you have a tale of two halves, too. Like I said the other night, it’s 51-13 at halftime, and then we got other guys out there. We had communication problems with some guys that were playing in different positions. New guys were out there, and we had guys jumping out of gaps up front.
“I think there was a lack of focus. (They knew) what the expectations were for guys to come into the game and play this game, and those expectations were not met.”
Arizona’s big halftime lead allowed Sumlin to rest multiple defensive starters who were still...
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Environment, Health
Wednesday, September 25th, 2013 By Molokai Dispatch Staff
What’s New is Not Good: Biosecurity Challenges in Hawaii
By Glenn I. Teves, UH Molokai Extension Agent
Biosecurity is a set of preventive measures designed to reduce the risk of introduction into Hawaii of infectious diseases, quarantined pests, invasive alien species, and living modified organisms. Each year, approximately 10 to 15 new major insect pests are accidentally introduced onto Oahu. On top of this, many other seemingly unimportant pests are also accidentally introduced, though we may not fully understand their impacts at that time.
Oahu’s major ports of entry — including harbors, airports, and military installations — are the main entry points for these pests, but they can also be sent through mail systems. It’s believed that the arrival of over 1000 40-foot containers each day carrying most of Hawaii’s food, supplies and materials are a main source of invasive pests because there’s insufficient personnel to adequately inspect these containers. Once in Hawaii, there’s no strategy or regulatory trigger to prevent the introduction of invasive species onto neighbor islands, as there’s no interisland quarantine inspection system at ports of entry. TSA focuses on weapons, and is not concerned about invasive plants and insects.
There are instances in which some islands have been spared the introduction of a major pest years after the pest has been well established in Hawaii. A good example is our island, where Papaya Ringspot Virus is not found. On Molokai, too, Banana Bunchy Top Virus has been eradicated and hasn’t established itself, although there are hot spots on the island that need to be closely monitored. Through the efforts of the UH College of Tropical Agriculture and Human Resources (CTAHR), the Molokai-Maui Invasive Species Committee (MoMISC), and especially a concerned and vigilant community, efforts to keep some of these major pests off Molokai have been successful, but we cannot let our guard down.
Hawaii Island has its own set of serious pests that haven’t reached Molokai. Three pests of major concern include the coffee bean borer, the coqui frog and the small fire ant. Suspected entry points into Hawaii are believed to be nurseries importing new plant materials from areas where these pests are found, and also farm workers and imported coffee. The coqui frog has been intercepted on Molokai four times already, including one that hitchhiked on a car chassis to Halawa, which is one of their favorite modes of travel. The small fire ant has been moving around Hawaii Island in compost, plants, and soil, but along with the coffee been borer, has not reached Molokai.
There are horror stories of lost opportunities in eradicating a new pest in Hawaii due to poor coordination, decision making, implementation, and also the lack of funds. Without a strong quarantine policy and an adequately-funded implementation strategy, we will continue to face major threats to our crops, our native ecosystem and our physical landscape. In the meantime, the community will need to be self-regulating by practicing common sense and not bringing in plants and animals from other islands, especially Oahu and Hawaii. Seeds are the preferred method of plant movement to prevent the introduction of farm-related pests to new farm areas. We cannot depend on anyone but ourselves. Only we can protect our island, and everyone needs to do their part.
Caption: Fireweed, Senecio madagascariensis, is a poisonous pasture weed introduced to Molokai on cattle and hay. Photo by Glenn Teves
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Home >> Daily Dose >> Calabria Invites Industry Feedback on New FHFA Plan
Calabria Invites Industry Feedback on New FHFA Plan
in Daily Dose, Government, News September 22, 2020 662 Views
Amid this year's challenges related to the COVID-19 pandemic and the related economic fallout, one of the more significant industry stories of 2020 has been the FHFA's ongoing push to bring Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac out from under the conservatorship they were placed in during the previous financial crisis. Now FHFA Director Mark Calabria has called on the industry itself for feedback relating to the plan for the future of the GSEs.
The FHFA has published its strategic plan for fiscal years 2021-2024, which lays out the Agency's framework of goals for the next few years. Unsurprisingly, one primary focus is FHFA's move toward "responsibly" ending Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac's conservatorships.
You can read the full Strategic Plan for fiscal years 2021-2024 in full by clicking here.
In his introduction to the plan, Calabria said that "The goals and milestones laid out in the plan ensure that that FHFA's supervision is strong, well executed and fulfills all statutory requirements, including ending the conservatorships."
In addition to the GSEs' obligation to prepare for autonomy, the FHFA must plan for its own "post-conservatorship role as a world-class regulator," Calabria said.
The agency, he said, already has acted on some of the aspirations detailed in the newly published plan. For example it recently created the Office of Equal Opportunity and Fairness.
He also applauded the Agency's capable handling of the COVID-19 crisis.
"I am proud of what FHFA has done, working with the regulated entities, to respond to the pandemic," he said. "Starting even before the national emergency declaration, FHFA had begun taking actions to support borrowers and renters and ensure the proper functioning of the mortgage market."
The plan establishes three strategic goals for the agency, as well as several related objectives within each goal:
Strategic Goal 1: Ensure safe and sound regulated entities through world-class supervision
Objective 1.1: Ensure the safety and soundness of the regulated entities through risk-focused supervision
Objective 1.2: Develop and maintain a world-class supervision program
Objective 1.3: Responsibly end the conservatorships of the Enterprises
Foster competitive, liquid, efficient, and resilient (CLEAR) national housing finance markets
Objective 2.1: Institute reforms at the regulated entities that serve to foster CLEAR national housing finance markets
Objective 2.2: Ensure that the regulated entities fulfill their statutory missions to support affordable housing, community development, and diversity and inclusion requirements.
Objective 2.3: Position FHFA as a leader in providing the public with information and analysis on the state of the housing finance markets and related matters
Position the Agency as a model of operational excellence by strengthening the workforce and infrastructure
Objective 3.1: Cultivate a high-performing, diverse, accountable, and engaged workforce.
Objective 3.2: Ensure sound governance and good stewardship of Agency resources
Objective 3.3: Deliver information technology resources and systems that support the Agency's mission and safeguard the Agency's resources.
Change, of course, is rarely without obstacle. The FHFA plan also outlines potential challenges that may impair progress toward these goals, including the safety and soundness of the regulated entities, the legislative and regulatory environment, and FHFA's workforce and infrastructure.
Regardless of what the months ahead hold, these changes at the FHFA stand to greatly impact the housing market in the years to come. Industry stakeholders can submit feedback on the plan to FHFA.gov through Monday, October 5.
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Climate change policy: stick to the evidence
News National Climate change policy: stick to the evidence
10:31pm, Feb 5, 2015 Updated: 2:59pm, Oct 1
Mark Skulley Columnist @MarkSkulley
One of the problems with discussion of climate change is the terminology.
The terms “believer” and “sceptic” are wrong because of their religious overtones.
It’s better to argue that belief in climate change is the majority science – by a very large margin – and that view is based on evidence, not belief.
• Australia warming ‘faster than world’
• Earth on track for hottest year on record
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I write this because I was dismayed by a story floated this week, which suggested that Malcolm Turnbull would be prepared to accept the Coalition’s current “Direct Action” policy, in order to win party room support to become Liberal leader and Prime Minister.
One of Australia’s best political journalists, Lenore Taylor, who is also probably the best mainstream commentator on climate change policy, has a very interesting story in the Guardian Australia exploring this issue and how it will affect Turnbull’s chances.
My gripe is more basic.
What’s the point of becoming PM if you jettison something you believe in?
Will Malcolm Turnbull accept the Coalition’s ‘Direct Action’ policy, to win party room support and become PM? Photo: AAP
Failing to act on climate change was a body blow to Kevin Rudd’s leadership.
The majority of the Australian public still support greater action, even though it is unpopular within parts of the Coalition and certain industries.
At a broader level, the track record of the Abbott government on science – their funding cuts to the CSIRO, plus the initial failure to have a Science Minister – were woefully shortsighted.
Whoever leads the Liberal party, and the Labor party for that matter, should recognise the importance of science to Australia’s national life.
And that includes making evidence-based policy decisions using the majority science.
It may be that our politicians are focused mostly on the bottom line, but they should at least recognise that support for science is crucial to our economy and standard of living.
Scientific talent: out of proportion to population
Many people complain that it’s a pity Australia doesn’t venerate its scientists the way we do sportspeople.
But many Australians recognise that we produced scientific talent out of proportion to our population.
This week, an award-winning young evolutionary biologist has turned down the most prestigious research fellowship for young scientists in the country, in frustration at funding cuts.
Dr Danielle Edwards was going to apply for a job with the CSIRO but that position was canned by their job cuts.
She is now working in the US and wants to return to Australia but also wants a job.
The CSIRO chairman, businessman and philanthropist, Simon McKeon, said late last year the organisation has had to “cut into the bone” over the last few years.
The CSIRO has been ‘cut into the bone’ due to Federal funding being pulled during the last two years. Photo: AAP
“What we often said publicly is that we would try and contain the cuts as much as possible to those resources that help our scientists,” Mr McKeon said.
“But undeniably over this last year or so, we’ve also had to farewell scientists who are globally relevant – people who we would prefer not to have said goodbye to.”
Anne Hyland wrote an important feature in the Financial Review where four of Australia’s Nobel prize winners in science explained why Australians need to understand the vital importance of science to the country’s future prosperity.
The story quoted the Nobel laureates – Elizabeth Blackburn, Brian Schmidt, Peter Doherty and Barry Marshall – at length and made for fascinating reading.
A summary is available here.
So, while the decision to knight the Duke of Edinburgh crystallised doubts about Tony Abbott’s priorities and political judgment, let’s not forget what will underpin Australia’s national advancement and standard of in the 21st century.
And that’s science and technology.
To all sides of politics, let’s show some brains and support science and make policy decisions based on evidence.
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Home Latest News English national parks ask people not to rush back to beauty spots
English national parks ask people not to rush back to beauty spots
National park authorities in England are telling people not to “rush back”, amid fears rural communities living inside the beauty spots could be overrun by visitors.
People should “stay local” and think twice before driving to parks, despite lockdown restrictions easing in England, said Kevin Bishop, the national parks officer and chief executive of Dartmoor national park. “We want people to be responsible and respectful. It’s a living, working landscape. How would you feel if you suddenly had lots of visitors suddenly descend on your home?”
From Wednesday, people in England can drive to outdoor spaces, irrespective of distance, as part of the government’s relaxation of lockdown measures. Bishop is concerned that local services in national parks – home to 327,000 people – could be overwhelmed by a sudden influx of visitors.
Quick guide Will there be a second wave of coronavirus?
Epidemics of infectious diseases behave in different ways but the 1918 influenza pandemic that killed more than 50 million people is regarded as a key example of a pandemic that occurred in multiple waves, with the latter more severe than the first. It has been replicated – albeit more mildly – in subsequent flu pandemics.
How and why multiple-wave outbreaks occur, and how subsequent waves of infection can be prevented, has become a staple of epidemiological modelling studies and pandemic preparation, which have looked at everything from social behaviour and health policy to vaccination and the buildup of community immunity, also known as herd immunity.
Is there evidence of coronavirus coming back elsewhere?
This is being watched very carefully. Without a vaccine, and with no widespread immunity to the new disease, one alarm is being sounded by the experience of Singapore, which has seen a sudden resurgence in infections despite being lauded for its early handling of the outbreak.
Although Singapore instituted a strong contact tracing system for its general population, the disease re-emerged in cramped dormitory accommodation used by thousands of foreign workers with inadequate hygiene facilities and shared canteens.
Singapore’s experience, although very specific, has demonstrated the ability of the disease to come back strongly in places where people are in close proximity and its ability to exploit any weakness in public health regimes set up to counter it.
What are experts worried about?
Conventional wisdom among scientists suggests second waves of resistant infections occur after the capacity for treatment and isolation becomes exhausted. In this case the concern is that the social and political consensus supporting lockdowns is being overtaken by public frustration and the urgent need to reopen economies.
The threat declines when susceptibility of the population to the disease falls below a certain threshold or when widespread vaccination becomes available.
In general terms the ratio of susceptible and immune individuals in a population at the end of one wave determines the potential magnitude of a subsequent wave. The worry right now is that with a vaccine still months away, and the real rate of infection only being guessed at, populations worldwide remain highly vulnerable to both resurgence and subsequent waves.
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This could lead to a repeat of what happened in Snowdonia at the end of March when authorities said it had been the busiest visitor weekend in living memory. Bishop said: “We’re desperate to do everything we can to avoid a repeat of the images we saw of Snowdonia. That’s what we’re working to do at the moment through the steps we’re taking and messages we’re giving to people.”
Park authorities wanted a phased reopening of the countryside but the government’s announcement means England’s national parks are “playing catch-up” and will work as quickly as possible to open car parks and toilets before reopening other facilities.
Local communities are concerned visitors will spread the virus, with farmers worried about contamination from people opening and shutting gates. Bishop is encouraging people to stay out of settlements for the moment: “We wanted to be able to welcome people back to our towns and villages to get the footfall to aid our businesses but we don’t feel now is the time to do that. Those shops that are open have limited supply and are supplying our local community, and that needs to be the top priority.”
It follows warnings from police in the Lake District that people should “take a long hard look at your own conscience” before travelling to the national park.
The chief executive of Welcome to Yorkshire, James Mason, said: “In March we asked people to stay away from our many beauty spots (coastline and countryside) to prevent the spread of Covid-19. We welcome the road map to recovery but with caution. Please respect that these communities are not yet able to cope with tourism.”
Welsh national park authorities welcomed Welsh government guidance for people to stay at home and told people not to visit national parks. Popular rural spots such as Snowdon and the Pembrokeshire coastal path will remain closed and people from England have been told not to cross the border to go walking on Welsh hillsides and coastlines.
Emyr Williams, the chief executive of Snowdonia national park, said: “These measures in Wales mean that people cannot drive to exercise in Wales – no matter where they live – and there will continue to be no parking or access to the most popular sites in the Welsh national parks.”
Lockdown restrictions have also been extended in Scotland and people should still not be driving to take exercise. A spokesperson from Loch Lomond and the Trossachs national park said: “The vast majority of people have done what’s been asked of them: they’ve stuck to the ‘stay at home’ guidance and have stayed local for exercise. We certainly hope that will continue to be the case.”
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Guénon and the Solidification of the World
by Jean-Philippe Marceau | Dec 29, 2020 | Articles, Reviews, Theory | 11 comments
If you’ve been following symbolism for a while, you’ve probably heard of René Guénon. While problematic in several respects, Guénon was extremely insightful and he also had the merit of being extremely straightforward. He did not hold back. Perhaps his most remarkable and striking thesis, found notably in the chapter The Solidification of the World of his book The Reign of Quantity and the Sign of the Times, is that much, if not all of modern science is only possible because the world itself has solidified. The difficulty modern people have in perceiving non-material patterns is mirrored by a corresponding materialization of the world itself:
[T]he human order and the cosmic order are not in reality separated, as they are nowadays all too readily imagined to be; they are on the contrary closely bound together, in such a way that each continuously reacts on the other, so that there is always correspondence between their respective states. 1
Now the actual occurrence of ‘solidification’ is precisely the true reason why modern science ‘succeeds’, certainly not in its theories which remain as false as before, and in any case change all the time, but in its practical applications. In other periods, when ‘solidification’ was not yet so marked, not only could man never have dreamed of industry as we know it today, but any such industry would actually have been completely impossible in its entirety, as would the ‘ordinary life’ in which industry plays so great a part. 2
Thus, the fixation of modern man on material reality solidifies the world, and conversely, the solidification of the world reinforces man’s fixation on material reality. In this article, I will try to explain why Guénon claimed this. I will also explain that personally, I’m not sure that I want to go as far as he does here. I believe that his position is coherent, but it undermines so much of our modern experience that I find it quite alienating. Moreover, this kind of argument takes us so high that things quickly become undecidable and even dangerous.
Signs of Solidification
Guénon starts the book by taking several chapters to argue that our perception of the world has solidified, and that so have our societies. He first does so in metaphysical language, and then turns to practical examples.
Following Guénon, let us therefore start with the metaphysical language he lays out in the first few chapters of the book 3. We can put it in the symbolic framework that readers of this blog will be familiar with. Modern people have lost the ability to perceive higher-level patterns. Whereas all traditional societies would frame their lives within a rich interaction of heavens/yang/forms/patterns and earth/ying/matter/potential, we moderns tend to be quite skeptical of patterns, especially anything above the physical level. We take physicists seriously, but we tend to be quite dismissive of the “soft sciences” like psychology and sociology, which investigate dubious human and social-level patterns. And don’t even bring up philosophical concepts such as beauty and goodness into the mix; very few people take these things seriously nowadays.
Further, ancient people would generally understand space and time using categories of meaning rather than the empty quantitative containers the way we do now. Space is the realm where heaven and earth meet in stable ways, whereas time is the realm where heaven and earth meet in changing ways. Another way to put it is that space and time are different kinds of manifestations of heaven on earth. Space is the realm of stable manifestations of heaven, and time is the realm of changing manifestations of heaven. Heaven/meaning thus comes before space and time themselves. In fact, heaven makes space and time as it meets the earth. Modern people see things the wrong way around, and this leads to silly problems according to Guénon:
[T]o ask ‘whether the world is infinite or whether it is limited within space’ is a question that has absolutely no meaning. Space cannot possibly extend beyond the world in order to contain it, because an empty space would then be in question, and emptiness cannot contain anything: on the contrary, it is space that is in the world, that is to say, in manifestation[.] 4
One important twist in Guénon’s metaphysical scheme at this point is the Hindu idea that time has been speeding up throughout this process of manifestation 5. As heaven manifests itself lower and lower on the ontological hierarchy, coming closer and closer to the earth, its manifestations become more and more short-lived. They keep changing, getting more and more quantitative and less and less qualitative. In this restless change, time keeps accelerating.
This is something that we can all feel, and it is reflected in the restlessness of our daily life. We have fewer and fewer sabbaths to stop and qualify time. Life is melting into a uniform quantitative whirlpool where it is becoming more and more difficult to make out higher-level qualitative patterns.
And this blindness to patterns, to the quality in the world, reflects itself in our own actions on the world. At this point, Guénon thus goes on to lay out a variety of examples to make his point forcefully.
In Chapter 8: Ancient Crafts and Modern Industry, he explains that we have reduced work to something merely quantitative. Ancient craftsmen saw themselves as involved in something of cosmic significance. Someone who made a table for example, wasn’t trying to merely satisfy an industrial purpose of assembling four legs to a tabletop by pressing levers on a machine. The traditional table maker was rather participating in the communion of the family that would eat at this table. This communion of the family would itself fit in the communion of village, which would ultimately fit in the communion of the whole world. The table maker wanted to make it beautiful with that cosmic purpose in mind. Art and craft were one.
In Chapter 9: The Twofold Significance of Anonymity, Guénon explains that as we lost the sense of our own participation in cosmic patterns, we have been trying to compensate by affirming our own individuality. Ancient artists and craftsmen (those two things were the same) were generally anonymous, because they were happy to disappear in higher-level patterns. That was a good kind of anonymity. In contrast, Guénon somewhat harshly writes that the work of modern industrial people is generally anonymous in the mediocre way of uniformity. Industrial workers can be replaced by anyone. They are anonymous because their work is totally uniform. And on the other end of the spectrum, modern artists (who are not craftsmen, as the two disciplines have split apart) scream their own individuality to compensate. If they can’t lose themselves in cosmic patterns, they’ll make sure to stress their own individual existence. We scream our human individuality because it’s the highest pattern we believe in.
In Chapter 10: The Illusion of Statistics, Guénon goes after modern science. By limiting itself to the study of repeatable and quantifiable phenomena, science blinds itself to quality and the deep nature of things. Why would something repeatable and quantifiable be more real than something unrepeatable and not quantifiable? Why do we think that if something is more “solid” it is therefore more real? Aren’t our minds more real than our bodies? Guénon argues that this is part of our modern quantitative bias and that it ultimately self-defeats. Even in our sciences that seem most solid, such as physics, we still have to bring in quality.
Indeed, when the physicist tells us that an electron follows such or such laws, he is not really explaining the deep nature of what is going on. He tells us about the behaviour of the electron, but nothing about its deep nature. We know that if we put this mass or this charge into this equation, we can predict what will happen to the electron, but we have no idea why. For that, we would need to study the nature, the quality of the electron, and science is willingly blind to this. And the problem of course compounds when you go to higher-level sciences, where qualitative influences matter more and more. Guénon is quite harsh against modern psychology for example, which is incomparably weak in comparison to the traditional psychologies you would find in traditional societies, as they took quality seriously.
In Chapter 11: Unity and Simplicity, Guénon explains that we have an inverted view of unity and simplicity. He finds this both in science and in our societies. Indeed, in the sciences, we try to reduce everything down to uniform particles rather than under a transcendent source from which everything manifests. This can be a fruitful methodology at times, but Guénon argues that it has radically blinded us to quality. Rather than seeking simplicity above, we seek uniformity below and miss out on higher-level patterns. Further, Guénon explains that this is true in our social organizations in general. Whereas people in traditional societies were qualitatively unified under higher-level patterns, like notes of a symphony, modern people are quantitatively unified in an upside-down way by the fact that they are uniform, like mere grains of sand. The differences between traditional people actually helped them cohere into meaningful higher-level patterns. The different roles in a family make a family for example, and the same goes for the different people in a parish. In contrast, modern people want to be completely equal to one another and only bound together in this fact that they are all equal. In other words, we are unified in that we’ve tried to squash down the hierarchy, not in that we participate together in higher-level hierarchies.
In Chapter 12: The Hatred of Secrecy, he makes much of the same point, only in the spiritual domain. He explains that we systematically attempt to dumb down religion so that everyone can equally participate. Whereas traditional societies would recognize some people such as monks or brahmins as higher up on the spiritual hierarchy and as having special insights, modern people want equal participation. But of course, in doing so, no one is left with a deeper understanding of what goes on and the religion progressively declines. Without a hierarchy of quality, we get a vague pool of quantity.
In Chapter 13: The Postulates of Rationalism, Guénon goes after rationalism and humanism. He argues that those ideas, so natural to modern man and yet so new, fundamentally fail because they blind themselves to any patterns that occur above human rationality. Not only does this preclude any mystical supra-intellectual insights, but it also sets up modern man for a downward spiral. Unable to look upwards like traditional man, modern man will inevitably keep looking lower and lower.
In Chapter 14: Mechanism and Materialism, he elaborates on this last point by explaining how Descartes’ rationalism and mechanism progressively gave rise to materialism. By seeking to understand worldly mechanisms, the human mind progressively came to be interested more and more solely by the outward behaviours of things. We keep looking lower and lower to find the mechanisms there. Far from only studying “animal-machines”, we came to look for the mechanisms occurring at the lower levels of reality, resulting in materialism. This causes some obvious difficulties that would have been ridiculous to ancient people, such as the mind-body problem.
In Chapter 15: The Illusion of ‘Ordinary Life’, Guénon follows this up by arguing that this materialism which started out as an intellectual error has made its way down to everyday life, creating what he calls the illusion of ‘ordinary life.’ In stark contrast to traditional societies where people always saw themselves as involved in higher-level patterns, modern people barely ever consider anything above the human level. We think that the ordinary world is one of material causality, and we dismiss anything else as “extraordinary”. This is of course the exact opposite of the traditional outlook, where the focus was on social and higher-level patterns.
Finally, in Chapter 16: The Degeneration of Coinage, Guénon uses the surprising example of coinage. This can be especially surprising to modern readers who, myself included, tend to simply assume that money is and always has been a merely quantitative affair, straightforwardly administered by the government for financial exchanges. Guénon argues to the contrary. For one thing, you can find more symbols on coins the further back you go in time. He specifically brings up Celtic coinage whose symbolism can only make sense within a druidic context. Coinage, symbolic of potential/earth/ying/matter, was something of cosmic significance. Guénon also notes that accordingly, coinage was often under the control of spiritual rather than earthly authorities, and that when earthly authorities would attempt to mess with it, they would be seen as overstepping their domain of authority. The point is that in traditional societies, even coinage was steeped in quality.
The Solidification of the World
After having laid out all these ways in which our perception and our societies have solidified, Guénon goes on to make a bold claim: the same is true of the medium itself 6. The world has become more and more quantitative and less and less qualitative. He holds that while modern science and industry really do succeed in their endeavours, they only do because the world has solidified and is now largely ruled by simple patterns at the level of material causality. Neither modern science nor modern industry would have been possible in previous ages, when the world was more qualitative and higher-level patterns were more dominant.
Let me bring in an analogy that Guénon himself didn’t use to illustrate this. Think of the brain. If a physicist was to try to study particle physics by studying the particles of a brain, he would get nowhere. There are too many top-down interactions going on. You can’t predict what goes on in a brain by only looking at the level of its particles. Even modern naturalists have to bring up “emergent” conscious properties 7. To study particle physics in a brain, you would have to wait for the brain to die, to become regular, disentangled from higher-level conscious patterns and mainly governed by simple material causality. Well, Guénon thinks that this what has been happening at the cosmic scale. The world is getting closer and closer to quantitative materiality and further and further away from qualitative meaning. He sees this as part of a normal cosmic process of manifestation of heaven down to earth. As patterns emanate down closer and closer to the earth, they become simpler and simpler, making materialism more and more true.
Anticipating an objection, Guénon explains in a subsequent chapter called The Limits of History and Geography, that fossils and such other geological (or cosmological) evidence for the age and rigidity of the universe as merely part of the solidification:
It may perhaps be argued that, if things were so, the vestiges of bygone periods which are all the time being discovered ought to provide evidence of the fact, whereas, leaving ‘geological’ epochs out of consideration and keeping to matters that affect human history, archaeologists and even ‘prehistorians’ never find anything of the kind, however far their researches may be carried into the past. The answer is really very simple: first of all, these vestiges, in the state in which they are found today and inasmuch as they are consequently part of the existing environment, have inevitably participated, like everything else, in the ‘solidification’ of the world; if they had not done so their existence would no longer be compatible with the prevailing conditions and they would have completely disappeared, and this no doubt is what has happened to many things which have not left the smallest trace. Next, the archaeologists examine these vestiges with modern eyes, which only perceive the coarsest modality of manifestation, so that even if, in spite of all, something more subtle has remained attached to the vestiges, the archaeologists are certainly quite incapable of becoming aware of it; in short, they treat these things as the mechanical physicists treat the things they have to deal with, because their mentality is the same and their faculties are equally limited. It is said that when a treasure is sought for by a person for whom, for one reason or another, it is not destined, the gold and precious stones are changed for him into coal and common pebbles; modern lovers of excavations might well turn this particular ‘legend’ to their profit! 8
Thus, Guénon’s claim that the world has been solidifying and that time has been speeding up should not be taken to hold only at the level of our perception or at the level of our society. As higher-level patterns become more and more dim and the world becomes more and more dominated by fast-paced material causality, worldly time speeds up as a whole. Man and the world are interlocked in a downward spiral towards materiality.
In chapters 20 and 21, From Sphere to Cube and Cain and Abel, Guénon skillfully frames this solidification using the biblical narrative. As a sedentary agriculturalist, Cain represents stability and space. As a nomadic herdsman, Abel represents change and time. The murder of Abel by Cain is a symbol of the larger pattern of space killing time. This is of course true of the historical relationship between sedentary and nomadic peoples. Modern nations have established themselves as firmly regulated spaces impermeable to nomadic peoples. The sedentary has killed the nomad.
More importantly, Cain and his descendants would go on to found cities and to create technology that would accelerate this killing of time by space. You can see here a direct line to the changes we discussed in the previous section. Mechanism, rationalism, materialism, science, industry, uniformity, etc.; all of those modern phenomena are part of the expansion of space and solidity to the detriment of time and change. It’s part of Cain’s drive towards quantitative stability and uniformity and away from Abel’s qualitative change and hierarchy.
But space cannot really drive time out completely; Cain cannot simply erase Abel. Pushed to the edges, time accelerates. Abel haunts Cain. Indeed, low-level patterns are more short-lived than higher-level ones. And because we live in a world of low-level patterns, our world accelerates. We can all feel it. Because we don’t live in a great cosmic narrative qualified by great ups and downs, by feasts and fasts, we live in a mere rush of humanistic and material patterns. Our attention becomes shorter and shorted, fixated on low-level material technology and away from spiritual cosmic narratives.
But at some point, a mysterious flip occurs. At some point, patterns cannot get any simpler and time cannot get any shorter. Like millions of unstable air molecules cancel out into a stable gas, an infinity of infinitely short time cycles cancels out into something stable. At this point, time thus vanishes and paradoxically becomes stable again, i.e., it becomes space. This is the mysterious end of this age and the beginning of the new one. In biblical symbolism, this is the Heavenly Jerusalem coming down on the current age to start the one to come. Importantly, the Heavenly Jerusalem is square, a symbol of stability and space, and surrounds the tree of the Garden of Eden, which was itself round and a symbol of mutability and time 9. Mysteriously, this is Abel’s final revenge over Cain.
But Is it True?
Now that Guénon’s thesis is hopefully clear and intelligible, let me conclude by turning to the question of its truth. On the one hand, after having gone through all the previous chapters of the book, Guénon’s thesis makes intuitive sense and has the advantage of being deeply respectful of our ancestors. Ancient people weren’t just deluded and living under useful illusions by seeing spiritual significance to the whole of their lives or by disdaining the material knowledge that modern people long for. Guénon’s narrative also has some existential attractiveness, in that it radically re-enchants the world. Modern materialism and nihilism, largely brought about by scientism, are really put in their place as modern illusions intermeshed with the solidification of the world. Guénon shatters the meaning crisis.
But on the other hand, there is also something seriously alienating and scary to Guénon’s worldview. So much of our ‘ordinary life’, embedded in a technological world, becomes unreliable and insubstantial. Our empirical contact with the world, be it through our senses or through science, becomes unstable and fraught with illusions. Furthermore, dialogue with modern people becomes very difficult. Indeed, it’s difficult to talk to a modern naturalist and take him seriously when you think that his entire worldview is merely part of the solidification of the world. Thus, Guénon alienates us from our modern world and from modern people.
Rather, for Guénon, our only means of attaining real knowledge of the world is intellectual and religious. It is only by deep intellectual reflection and by getting involved in religious practices that we can hope to rise above the default material and solidified modern thinking. Through these religious practices, we would become able perceive the overarching higher-level patterns discussed in this article. At times, we could even witness miracles where these higher level patterns transfigure our material world and validate Guénon’s ideas. Arguably, this is the kind of magical and deeply meaningful world that monastics genuinely inhabit. Thus, by embedding ourselves into that world, we would come to correctly see ourselves as embedded in the decadent phase of a great cosmic process of materialization. We would see ourselves as pilgrims in a dying age. It’s in this deep spiritual worldview that we would mend our alienation and keep our sanity.
But even if that were true, most of us live outside of monasteries and aren’t readily able to really live in those overarching spiritual patterns. If we follow Guénon in rejecting the truth of our modern empirical contact with the world, we will need time to cultivate a viable spiritual alternative. The interlude will be highly dangerous, especially since basically everything around us is technological and part of the solidified world according to Guénon. In other words, while Guénon’s strategy readily alienates us from our daily experience, it does not provide a ready replacement. He does point to a path forward, namely involvement in an established tradition, but this takes a while and gives us plenty of room to go insane in the meantime.
In fact, Guénon himself became increasingly paranoid and deranged throughout his life. For example, he came to see himself as the victim of repeated magical anti-traditionalist attacks and accordingly chose to avoid contacts with Westerners 10. You can even find a lot of anecdotal evidence of people becoming insane after diving too deep into his work. One way to see it is that Guénon indeed tries to fly too high. He relentlessly demolishes our modern, ordinary epistemology, but he doesn’t manage to replace it with something viable before going crazy. He spends his time analyzing perennial religious patterns in different traditions, studying the signs of our times, but he can’t really connect it down to his own life. He disconnects his head from his own body. And even his very devout involvement in Sufism, a mystical branch of Islam, did not suffice to keep him grounded.
All that is to say that I find it very difficult to make up my mind about the truth or falsity of Guénon’s claims. They are intelligible and even plausible, but by alienating us from our usual ways of knowing the world, they also throw too much of my intellect into question, and I would need this very intellect to make up my mind! I am neither smart enough nor holy enough to think too deeply about this. And that is why, as interesting and tempting as Guénon’s thesis is, I will merely keep it in mind as an interesting ceiling I should not fly too close to.
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Marceau, Jean-Philippe. Rediscovering Forms. The Symbolic World Blog, April 2020[↩]
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Max Leyf on December 29, 2020 at 8:49 pm
The author has done commendable work in outlining Guénon’s view on the evolution of matter. He concludes the article by remarking on his reservations in respect to wholesale acceptance of Guénon’s thesis. For example:
“If we follow Guénon in rejecting the truth of our modern empirical contact with the world, we will need time to cultivate a viable spiritual alternative. The interlude will be highly dangerous, especially since basically everything around us is technological and part of the solidified world according to Guénon. In other words, while Guénon’s strategy readily alienates us from our daily experience, it does not provide a ready replacement. He does point to a path forward, namely involvement in an established tradition, but this takes a while and gives us plenty of room to go insane in the meantime.”
Allow me to advocate for the work of two somewhat marginal—and to my mind, unfairly marginalized—figures in the history of ideas: Rudolf Steiner and Owen Barfield. Specifically, I have in mind Steiner’s theory of the evolution of consciousness in which an anterior unity gradually involves into the poles of objectivity and subjectivity. “Matter” is something of a placeholder term to refer to the former pole without reference to its origin and ineluctable correlation to the latter poles. In other words, certain elements of perception (i.e. bulk, figure, mass) are abstracted and then hypostasized into a “substance” or “stuff.” “Self” is a similar abstraction in respect to the subjective pole insofar as it invites us to conceptualize our experience of interiority as an island that is cut off and basically irrelevant to the so called “objective world.” Steiner attempts to show how the primary state of consciousness in our present moment of evolution gives rise to illusions like scientism and existentialism and that there was a time before our own in which the state of consciousness will be different and it will also be different in the time to come. Thinkers like Steiner, Barfield, and JP, and Jean Philippe-Marceau are heralds of what is to come.
One brief note on Barfield: he is perhaps best known as a friend and fellow Inkling with C. S. Lewis. For many, Barfield offers a more congenial introduction to the question of the evolution of consciousness than Steiner but I emphatically recommend both of them. I also invite anyone who wishes to pursue this issue further to reach out to me and I look forward to any dialogue and eventual insights that may follow from this.
Thanks to M. Philippe-Marceau for writing this article.
Jean-Philippe Marceau on December 29, 2020 at 9:17 pm
Thanks for the thoughtful comment Max
Karen Wong on January 8, 2021 at 7:47 pm
Hi, Max, as I was about to recommend Barfield as an alternative to Guenon’s theory when I noticed your excellent reply. On my YouTube channel, The Meaning Code, I’ve had many fascinating conversations about Barfield’s ideas and would love to talk with you about it. Drop me an email if you would like to participate in a conversation, either with me alone, or with me and Michael, a fellow JP, and JBP enthusiast, who has a deep and abiding interest in the work of Barfield. He also did a conversation with Michael Vincent diFuccia who wrote an excellent book on Barfield’s ideas..
Max Leyf on January 9, 2021 at 1:02 am
Hi Karen, thank you for the kind words. I would be delighted to talk over some of these ideas with you. Forgive me but I did not write you an email because I don’t have your email address. I subscribed to you YouTube channel so perhaps we can connect in that way.
Krisztian on December 31, 2020 at 9:37 am
I do feel like today’s world pulls us both ways. Meaning, that the head is pulled up by constant abstraction, while the body is pulled down by materialist perspective.
In my understanding one cannot manifest one extreme without, manifesting the other extreme (pulling the cross apart results in both dimensions being false in it of themselves).
The question for me and probably for many is – how is the head and the body integrated again?
PS: I have been thinking about reading his book for a good while, so your take on it came just on time! Thank you!
Krisztian from Hungary
Jean-Philippe Marceau on December 31, 2020 at 10:49 am
As with most problems, the solution is liturgy 🙂
mm on January 10, 2021 at 12:06 am
Hi Jean Philipe,
I always truely loved your videos and articles, but I am not sure about this one. The reason being, having had read Guénon’s book myself your claims in the conclusions shocked me that I found it unexpected.
👉 Presenting the summary of Rene Guénon’s arguments through out your article, you rather showed agreement than refutation. Which was the same in my case too. Nonetheless, it seems that you displayed a bit of frustration that Guénon debunked modernity irrefutable while he hadn’t provided alternatives.
👉 I have a totally different view on this, Guénon is not to design any new paradigm because his very advice is for us is to go back to existing traditions. And traditions are already there, they don’t need a new making. He accomplished the task of waking up the modern man from delusions, and convinced us about the essentiality of tradition.
👉 It is already known that 3/4 of the world population is in faith tradition, hence starting to live by their tradition is an alternative right away. Yet obviously deep commitment and complete immersion in to the traditions may require some time. A modern man living in Europe or America can tap into faith traditions without going to monastery. There is no need to go crazy as you seem to be repeatedly worried about to remind us. People are not just fragile to choose a different way of life. If we talk about, intellect, nothing compromised society mental health as does materialism. Modern society like the UK report 25% of population to be mentally ill already, hence Guénon’s call to tradition is rather brings healing and calmness rather your fear of mental disturbance.
👉 Most shocking part is when you extended to call Guénon as paranoid, deranged, and not grounded. Wouldn’t it be just a defamation claim which lacks academic honesty? That you never refuted any of the authors ideas, but you proceeded with a character assassination approach? It would be brave of you to challenge his ideas and show us a different viewpoint. But it is intellectually poor to defame Authors when you feel unable to resist but be convinced. You can’t blame an Author for making his case so obviously undeniable, which you seem to be complaining that his exposition of the truth is potent enough to drive people crazy. Yet, truth empowers and gives people freedom while falsehood suffocates and drives one insane. Guénon then empowers people with the tool of truth.
👉 As to your defamation against Guénon to be paranoid due to his expression of being attacked by magic is ironic. Isn’t it a very well known fact that the materialistic establishment is immensely hostile to tradition inclined academics? JORDAN PETERSON is the most popular example today who is suffering in front of the world from the hands of scientific Fanatics.
👉 Then What would it be like 100 years ago for Guénon to be a starter of traditionalism concept? It is likely that he would be targeted and frowned up on. Yet, you unbelievably mocked him as if such an attack is something unheard of. It is undeniably common knowledge that paganism and witchcraft is as rampant then as it is today. Are you going to label JORDAN PETERSON AND ROGER SCRUTTON paranoid too? as they are going through the similar challenge from the mainstream.
👉 In conclusion, I really fail to see the aim of the article, because it does not transfer any substance than either defamation of Guénon or discouragement of people from reading his work. The purpose for presenting loads of summary towards the beginning seems to be only a convincing tool about your reading the book rather than honest assessment. Unfortunately, despite the dishonest message of your article, Guénon’s works will unequivocally remain to e classic books in the subject matter.
👉 Guénon’s works are enthusiastically and boldly acknowledged by the greatest symbolist JONATHAN PAGEAU whose suggestion in the reading list introduced me to Guénon’s works. I admire Jonathan for his honesty and bravity that even if he is a Christian, he didn’t hesitate to acknowledge wisdom and truth even in a Muslim (Sufi Guénon) which you failed to do. I hope, one day you revise your defamation claims when more people will see through the fault of your work, but most importantly when you start to care about truth and intellectual honesty than anything else.
Lisa on January 4, 2021 at 1:51 am
Thanks for this JP. I’ve been feeling some of that alienation, without being influenced by Guénon specifically but by just being more in tune with what I can now call the “solidification” of the world, due to my growing understanding of symbolism. I want to be an Orthodox Christian but don’t have a church near me and in the meantime I do feel like I’m going a bit crazy. I especially feel this regarding almost any film, advertisement or song I hear, as if I’m under constant spiritual attack as entertainment imagery, including social media, is such a big part of modern life as you mentioned in your article, and even while I try to avoid it, so much of social life requires it. The temptation is to isolate myself, but then it makes me even more sensitive to the world and lack of communion with others makes one more vulnerable to one’s own reasonings. Indeed I think there is a large gap between learning these things and actually finding a solution. One thing I think we must do, which Guénon seemingly did not, is to turn to Christ. And in that same breath try our best not to abandon our brothers and sisters in communion, but to seek Christ in others specifically. Not just in a parish, but in our daily life. To reject paranoia and be open to the world, even if it is dying or “solidifying”. This, I think, might be the missing piece that even if it does not alleviate suffering might help in some other way. Thanks for your work. If I read Guénon in the future I’ll know what to expect now.
Jean-Philippe Marceau on January 4, 2021 at 7:05 am
Well put Lisa. I’m happy this could help, and thanks for the comment.
Prayers,
Metamind on January 4, 2021 at 8:16 pm
Chapter 12: The Hatred of Secrecy
I can’t help but think that this parallels modern ‘equity’ notions that seek to flatten hierarchy.
I think this also parallels the modern hatred of Mathematics, where there is a de-facto secrecy due to abstraction-complexity and competence.
Yes I think Guénon would agree that this is all part of the pattern of solidification.
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Introducing Aubrie Sellers
By Claire-Louise
Listed as one of the ten new country artists you need to know about by Rolling Stone, and one of CMT’s 16 artists to watch in 2016 to name just a few, Aubrie Sellers is one of music city’s newest faces.
Having been born tosinger/songwriter parents parents Lee Ann Womack and Jason Sellers (who were married between 1991 and 1997) it’s pretty clear to see who she inherited her talent from, paving the way for her to perfect her craft.
With guidance from her parents of course. Her sound is difficult to define. There’s hints of her mothers vocal tones in there mixed with Kacey Musgraves, Ashley Monroe and Brandy Clark, and when asked about her sound Aubrie described itas “garage country”. Hadn’t heard of it?No me neither.
Currently at the age of 24 Aubrie has recently released her debut LP entitled ‘New City Blues’ – on why she choose that particular title she states “for meitencompasses a perpetual feeling of loneliness, and of not fitting in…” The album consists of 14 tracks, 12 of which were co-writes (the other two self penned) and is like any other you’d expect from a country artist – simple,rawand honest.
The thing that strikes me most is that she acts like she’s had years of experience under her belt, listening to the album it quickly becomes apparent that she’s willing to take risks, choosing to mix country, rock, bluegrass and Americana all on album.
‘ Light Of Day’ kicks off the album, and with an intro that’s infused with bass guitar and rocky vibes, add in Sellers edgy vocals and you have a very impressive start to the record. The tongue in cheek ‘ Sit Here And Cry’ follows the same rocky vibe, although perhaps a little more bluesy than the opener.
‘ Paper Doll’ talks about all those girls who dress up and put on fake smiles in order to stand out, this edgy and fearless song contains one of my favourite lyrics from the album “Not always proud of who I am but at least I know where the hell I stand”she sings, admitting to the listener that she chooses to be real even though sometimes she messes up. A song similar to this is‘ Magazines’ in which, she talks about the people who believe everything in a magazine to be true.
To be honest it sounds easily like something Kacey Musgraves would write and I absolutely love the bluntness of it. ‘ Liar Liar’ is simply a highlight of the entire album. The way she can sing a track with such angry lyrics with a soft, heavenly vocal is outstanding, yet her narration and vocal delivery is convincing. Scattered amongst the rocky vibes and blunt statements come some dreamy moments also. ‘Dreaming In The Day’ and ‘Humming Song’ are perfect examples of this. The latter I can picture falling asleep toon a rainy night.
‘ Loveless Rolling Stone’ was chosen as the lead single from the project, and although it’s an upbeat song it hides a dark undertone lyrically. it’s about appreciating a guy but leaving them nevertheless which is a pretty interesting twist on a love song. However ‘ Like The Rain’ is my clear favourite from the record. It’s simply stunning and It tells the tale of a guy who doesn’t want to settle down. There is ahaunting vocal delivery here that makes me want to listen over and over again. It’s here where I started asking myself if there’s anything this lady can’t do.
Closing the album is‘ Living Is Killing Me’ which after a few plays I decided pretty much sums the album. Which is a story of someone going through changes in their life, and trying to establish what they want from it at the same time. Overall I couldn’t recommend this album enough. It’s got something for everyone and I cannot wait to hear what’s next.This young lady has the world at her feet, and Nashville is listening. There’s only one question on my lips, when will we get to witness this incredible talent live in the UK again? Fingers crossed it’ll be sooner rather than later.
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GULLY BOY : Simmering Symphony of Rousing Rage and Dazzling Desires
On February 15, 2019 April 22, 2019 By Jayashree ChakravartiIn A. Reviews, Hindi Movie Reviews
“Kalakaar main, kal ko aakaar doon…
Yehi hai mera dharm.. Meri doosri koi jaat na…”
Nothing else can possibly better describe Zoya Akhtar and her relentless passion for narrating the most heartfelt and moving tales of life. And that she does that through wholesome entertainment without compromising one bit on art, is what elevates the experience of her films. She sucks you in to the worlds she creates however alien they are to you, and makes you a part of them – whether they are the elitist cruise lines or the dingiest ghettos of Dharavi. With Gully Boy, she only raises the bar of her craft even higher to possibly create her most complete and near perfect film. It has an unadulterated beating heart at its core, daring to dream and rousing with rage, that wants to break away from all societal norms and harsh realities of life which often limits one’s desires (murad) to attain their potential.
Gully Boy achieves its completeness because it is not just about chasing the dreams and desires of its central character Murad. It is a story of many dreamers and none of them are ready to accept what life hands them down. They are all rebels in their own ways, some reluctant, some confident, some privileged and some lost. The rebellion finds its language in raging poetry for some of them, in uncontrollable fits of anger for others, and in challenging the status quo of the city in the darkness of nights for some more. These rebels choose not to keep walking on that Ek hi raasta, sir jhukaaye huye, band aankhein kiye and have it in them to dare, to challenge and to break free. They are not ready for an obsessive father or the rest of the world to decide what their worth is, they are not ready to be caged in mundane nine to six jobs and hence go on to grab that one opportunity that life gives them with both hands, they are not ready to be tamed down by the patriarchal conservative clutches of religion, class, gender or age. And they are ready to soil it out to get there and emerge winners, whatever it takes!
Co-writers Zoya Akhtar and Reema Kagti set out to tell the original story of Gully ‘Murad’ Boy and MC ‘Shrikant’ Sher, while drawing some basic inspirations from rappers Divine and Neazy (who shaped up the brewing hip-hop scene of Mumbai) and rightfully pay that tribute upfront even before the story starts. But they are also interested in telling many other stories of hope and dreams that exist along side. So we meet the firebrand Safeena (amongst the most interesting characters written in the film), who is no lesser a hero than the Gully Boys. She rages her own war with her conservative and patriarchal roots and is clear about her ambitions in life – to become a surgeon and marry Murad, only in that order. Her anger is the outlet of her oppression. Murad is the only one with whom she can breathe freely, breaking away from the shackles of a hijaab, their moments of tenderness finding wings in empty compartments of static trains or over bridges of hope built over neighborhood sludge that surrounds them. She knows that they have the understanding and she has the ability to be the spine of their relationship while Murad chases his dreams. So an exchanged iPad never becomes a big ego issue, but Safeena is trapped in circumstances where wearing lipstick and makeup seems like a distant dream. Credit to the storytellers then that when she finally finds the closure of her little desires on her way to be part of Murad’s journey, part of us feels liberated along with her. Safeena’s and Murad’s is one of the best written love stories we have seen on screen in the recent times, with their passion, understanding and possessiveness for each other oozing fire and ice at the same time. And yes, we did not miss the subtle reference to Dil Dhadakne Do and ‘kya baat karni hain tumko‘ in one of their very earnest confrontational scenes of ‘break-off‘. Alia Bhatt approaches the bad-ass Safeena head-on like a true gundi, it is one of the most refreshingly different roles of her career, and she delivers it with such abandon and aplomb! Sheer talent, this woman!
But Safeena is not the only woman in Murad’s life. There is Sky, who literally and figuratively gives Murad the courage to fly unbound. Sky is aspirational and hence is intentionally underwritten to maintain the aura around her, and Kalki Koechlin plays her with a natural effervescence that only Kalki can. At some level, Sky is the impersonation of Zoya herself and her world. So naturally Brown and Beautiful is her mantra for rebuttal, she does not hold back on her simmering passion, and yet she knows where to let Murad go back to his love. Her love for art gives her the power to appreciate talent beyond class. She is as magnanimous as her living spaces, and her world is as disparate from Murad as possible. It is also befitting then that she wants to ‘program’ and ‘choreograph’ her way into the alien world of meri gully me on one hand, while in a striking contrast, Murad is seen gauging the expanse of her washroom through the measure of his footsteps. It’s the power of Zoya Akhtar’s perceptive storytelling that masterfully weaves in such subtle details and symbolism seamlessly into her narrative.
The other tender and affectionate presence in Murad’s life is his mother Razia. She is a tortured soul who has forever lived in fear of facing the wrath of a brutal husband Aftab, who has thrown her out of her own bedroom when he decides to remarry and get a new wife in an already cramped dungeon. Razia protests when she can, submits to the situation when she cannot any further, and walks out when she has to. She wants stability for her son in a mundane secured job, and also finds her happiness in his twinkling eyes seeking fame. Her’s is a journey of breaking free in her own restricted way, to her a new home with a window and space to breathe is a huge win, and Amruta Subhash plays Razia with the perfect raw intensity. Supplementing her brilliantly is the ever reliable Vijay Raaz as the nauseating Aftab, who is naturally insecured of his own son and wants him to wear a shirt because there is a younger bride in the house now, but is too egoistic to hear the same from his wife. His boxed up life has impacted his thinking and awareness. Again in another way, the father and the husband in Aftab is very similar to a certain Kamal Mehra sailing on a certain cruise ship while their worlds may appear as dissimilar. They are both self obsessed with themselves, they both want their sons to fit in, and they both least understand their partners. Thankfully, the redemption arc of Aftab feels a tad more organic than Mehra here, though honestly that is possibly the only closure that though not out-of-place, feels somewhat formulaic to fall conveniently into that place.
On the other hand of the spectrum is Murad’s family of friends, in a world that understands Murad more than anyone else. There is Moeen, played by the absolutely terrific Vijay Varma (I think he is my most favorite actor for the beyond amazing supporting ensemble of the film), whose moral spine isn’t as upright as that of Murad, but he stands by Murad through thick and thin. Moeen is a reflection of what Murad could have easily become in his circumstances. There is Nakul Sahadev playing Salman, who thinks Safeena is tod phod, but his friendly loyalty guides him when life offers him some irresistible opportunities. These are friends who can steal for the other, break down to each other without inhibition in their weakest moments, and will do everything to protect the other even if they are down and out or behind bars. And then there is Siddhant Chaturvedi in a sensational debut playing MC Sher, who becomes Murad’s mentor, partner and one amazing friend. Tera gaana tu nahi gaa sakta to main kya gaun? – he says, instigating the hidden performer in an intense poet for the very first time. He channels the tentativeness of Murad into focus, determination and attitude. He is the pro in that world of hip-hop and hence its but natural that he will dominate the screen space between him and Murad – kudos to Siddhant’s hold over his craft, his confidence and his silky smooth understanding with Ranveer about who underplays which scene and by how much. And kudos to Zoya again for ensuring that this track does not fall into the traps of cliched buddy rivalry when the professional prospects of one of them suffers a situational setback in the story.
And amidst all of them, there is Ranveer Singh who is b-e-y-o-n-d a-m-a-z-i-n-g as Murad! This is the most definitive performance of Ranveer’s career to date and he becomes Murad and Murad becomes him in every frame, every glance and every breath. Murad is the most ordinary of people, who has lived all his life remaining under the shades of a chaotic family, more assertive friends and a far more aggressive long term girl friend. His presence is so inconsequential to him and to the world that he is not even in focus when he is first introduced to us. He is stumped by MC Sher when he is first introduced to the later’s confidence in a college event, and the awe shows in his eyes. In fact, Ranveer speaks a thousand words through Murad’s eyes with a simmering unspoken intensity. We have never ever seen this Ranveer on screen before, his Murad is diametrically opposite to the ultra-flamboyant Ranveer that we know off-screen, and it possibly takes a master craftsman like Zoya to reign in all his exuberance and channelize it to internalized emotions of volcanic might. Emotions that are trapped inside a poet, a rebel, a broken soul, who wants to break free to say ‘Uth ja apni raakh se.. Tu udd ja ab talaash mein…’ and has the shabdo ka jwala to melt the shackles that have trapped him inside a car, while the shiny world of his dreams engulfs him from all sides. His helplessness to reach out to and comfort a broken soul sitting in a car backseat also finds its expressions in his self aware poetry – Main yeh bahte aansu pochhoon.. Utni meri aukaat nahi hai… he thinks. But he certainly knows what his aukat is, and gives it back to his father when challenged about it. He also knows very clearly that the love and warmth that he gets for his songs and his dreams finding their feet is far more precious than any security that a confined job will give him. And through Murad, Zoya throws the challenge back to millions of dreamers to find ways to get to their own 4 lakh views or anything equivalent that will give them the sense of their personal uncompromising happiness! Heart-wrenching inspirational stuff this!
Kudos to the entire technical team of Zoya Akhtar as well to make Gully Boy such an exceptional experience. The music is the beating heart of the film and is so intense and pure in its intent and form that it even sucks in someone completely uninitiated to rap deeply inside its world. Not one song seems out of place, and when the entire theatre raps on to Apna time aayega in exuberant chorus and cheering, you know that the soundtrack has captured the fancy of the nation. This soundtrack is apparently a collaboration of 54 artists coming together and they all deserve a huge round of applause. Supporting them are the equally sharp dialogues by Vijay Maurya that spice up the entire film with a lot of passion and chutzpah that all the characters evoke. Maurya, Kagti and Akhtar are a team that tell an extremely engaging story together, so much so that there isn’t any jerk in the narrative at any place, and not one thing feels additional. Job well done by them and editor Nitin Baid for such a seamlessly immersive experience through and through even at 156 minutes of the film’s run-time. And then there is Jay Oza‘s spectacular cinematography along with the intricate yet subtle production design that pays a deeply authentic and yet intensely charming ode to the cramped spaces, dingy gullys and bubbling ghettos of Mumbai, a portrait of a city through which Zoya definitely pays her own tribute to Mira Nair’s Salaam Bombay, the film that deeply inspired her very early on!
It only takes a magician like Zoya Akhtar to actually tap into such powerhouses of talented performers and technicians and ensure that they are all completely in sync together for her symphony to reach a crescendo called Gully Boy. This is a symphony of rousing rage and dazzling desires, of simmering passion and unbound creativity, of vulnerable souls and chaotic minds, and of a common relentless focus to dream, to fly and to live.
With Gully Boy, she has now told her most heartfelt and relatable story ever – a story that is yours, mine and of everyone around, an experience that leaves you teary eyed and speechless at the same time. Its a winner all the way! Zoya Akhtar – Take a bow!
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Wisdom// March 20, 2017
It’s Not Where You’re From, It’s What You Do With Who You Are That Matters Most
My ancestral DNA confirmed what I already knew: “family” is the most important thing.
Amy Blaschka, Social Media Ghostwriter (Yep, that's a thing.) at AmyBlaschka.com
My ancestral DNA represented in the form of a colorful chart
“Italian permeates the system.”
That’s what my Dad used to say when we’d ask about our family’s background. Of course, this would produce eye-rolling from my Mom (the only non-Italian in the house) and giggles from my sisters and me.
But it turns out he was right.
Well, kinda. Stay with me here.
I grew up believing that Italian was synonymous with family. My Dad would often recite his father’s favorite saying: “Family is the most important thing.” No matter what, he said, we should always value and cultivate our relationships. Life is about people, not things. Always be there for family and have each other’s backs.
Even my Mother understood this. Growing up in her Irish/German household, my Mom and her family had an abundance of love and caring that far outweighed their few material possessions.
That sense of belonging and connection is just as evident today as it was back then. So much so, in fact, that I was curious about how Italian I really was, and decided to have my ancestral DNA analyzed.
For the uninitiated, companies like Ancestry.com offer a peek into your heritage, providing estimates of the regions and countries from which you and your ancestors hail.
It’s amazing what a small sample of saliva can reveal.
For instance, I was not surprised to learn that my largest percentage (23%) was from the Italy/Greece region. After all, my Dad is Sicilian.
But what was enlightening was that there were many areas nearly equal: Western Europe and Eastern Europe both came in at 19% and Ireland at 16%. The Iberian Peninsula had a strong showing, and even some wildcard entries made an appearance — Finland/Northwest Russia, Scandinavia, European Jewish, Caucasus (think: where Europe meets Asia), Middle Eastern, and North African.
So, what does this tell me?
Yes, I’m mostly Italian. But my lineage is from Sicily, which has had many influences, from the Romans and Greeks to the Normans and North Africans. Coupled with the regions above, it turns out I’m a very diverse blend of many traditions and cultures.
I have “family” everywhere.
But I’ve also come to realize that the idea of family extends far beyond your blood relatives. There are those people with whom we have no genetic similarities — friends, colleagues, and clients — yet they deserve the same opportunity for warmth and connection typically reserved for relatives.
By remembering to put our relationships front and center, we can all be a little bit Italian, at least by my Dad’s definition.
And that’s a good thing.
Because in the end, my biggest takeaway is this: It’s not where you’re from, it’s what you do with who you are that matters most.
And (sorry, Dad) that is what permeates my system.
© Amy Blaschka, 2017
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I’ve made a career offering “stories as a service.” From my degree in film to my three decades spent branding products, places, and people, to founding my strategic writing practice, I’ve always understood the power of weaving a compelling tale. These days, I’m a social media ghostwriter (yep, that’s a thing), helping leaders craft their stories to communicate and connect better by magnifying their reach and impact. (Think personal branding and thought leadership.) I also write engaging, original, and authentic Career Stories for my clients to position them for success and change how others perceive, pay, partner with, and promote them. As a longtime Leadership Contributor for Forbes, I cover personal transformation and its impact on career growth. I also regularly create and share original content through my popular Illuminate Me newsletter and active social media channels.
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Alabama Gets First Conference Win
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Alabama basketball secured its first SEC win of the season against Mississippi State tonight 90-69. In the SEC home opener the Crimson Tide bounced back well after losing in double overtime against Florida this past Saturday. The victory brings Alabama’s conference record to 1-1. Alabama has now won six of its last eight contests.
Alabama was led offensively by John Petty Jr., scoring 18 points off 6-`10 shooting and 4-7 from beyond the arc. Kira Lewis Jr. pitched in with 17 points, Galin Smith and James Bolden both contributed 11. The Crimson Tide as a whole made 10 three-point shots in the game. It was the Tide’s fifth consecutive game scoring 90 or more points in a game, a first for the Alabama program.
Alabama maintained a lead throughout the game, taking an eight point lead into the locker room at halftime. Each instance of Mississippi State closing the gap in the second half saw a response from Alabama to stretch the lead back out in its favor. The Bulldogs saw two of its starters foul out in the ball game forward Reggie Perry exited the game with 6:56 left to play and guard Nick Weatherspoon left with 53 seconds left in the game. Alabama was able to take advantage of the Bulldogs while Perry spent time on the bench with foul trouble.
Alabama’s next game will be Saturday, January 11 in Rupp Arena against Kentucky at 11 a.m. central time. The Wildcats have won both its conference games to open up SEC play, defeating Missouri and Georgia. The game will be televised on ESPN. Keep it locked in with Tide 100.9fm, tide1009.com/listen-live and the TIDE APP for all your updates on the Alabama Crimson Tide.
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With 'Cabbage Prices' on Offer Amid Coronavirus Outbreak, Flights Across China Currently Cost as Little as $13
This Feb. 14, 2020 photo shows an airport worker wearing a face mask while standing next to an empty baggage claim area at Daxing international airport in Beijing, as travel has ground to a halt in the wake of the the COVID-19 coronavirus outbreak.
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March 3, 2020 8:26 AM EST
(Bloomberg) — Chinese airlines are offering tickets at what are known colloquially as cabbage prices as they start restoring seat capacity following drastic capacity cuts enforced by the COVID-19 coronavirus.
A one-way direct trip from Shanghai to Chengdu on Juneyao Airlines Co. this Saturday costs just 90 yuan ($13) plus 50 yuan in taxes. That’s a three-and-a-half hour journey, about the same as a flight from New York to New Orleans.
Chinese carriers are adding nearly 3 million seats back into scheduled services this week, primarily for domestic routes, according to OAG Aviation Worldwide. “The dramatic capacity recovery has led to very low fares being made available,” analyst John Grant wrote in a weekly update on the market.
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China Southern Airlines Co. is adding 684,000 seats and China Eastern Airlines Corp. is increasing capacity by 566,000 seats, Grant said. China’s overall capacity is still only around half the 16.9 million seats available as of Jan. 20, when there were only hundreds of reported infections worldwide, but the recovery this week restores its rank as the second-biggest market in the world after it shrank to smaller than Portugal’s.
While the picture turns more positive for China, the neighboring markets of South Korea and Hong Kong are still sharply reducing capacity, both by more than 20% this week, according to OAG. Since Jan. 20, Hong Kong’s capacity has slumped 71%, with Cathay Pacific Airways Ltd. shrinking from more than 400,000 seats to 119,860, OAG said.Online news portal Sina.com said Chinese airlines posted losses of more than 10 billion yuan in February as revenue fell 37 billion yuan, citing industry estimates. Its report late Monday also flagged the availability of tickets at “cabbage prices” as grounded flights get restored.
The International Air Transport Association on Feb. 20 said the virus could result in a 13% drop in passenger demand for airlines in the Asia-Pacific region this year, translating into a revenue loss of $27.8 billion. The bulk of that would be borne by carriers registered in China, with $12.8 billion lost, it said.
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US irks China with proposed sale of military parts to Taiwan
Beijing: China expressed "strong dissatisfaction" over US plans to sell a batch of military parts to the self-governing island of Taiwan, adding to tensions between the global superpowers.
The $330 million contract would see the US ship standard spare parts for several aircraft including the F-16 fighter and the C-130 cargo plane, the State Department said in a statement on Monday.
China lashed out at the deal, saying it "severely violates" international laws and norms governing foreign relations, and expressed "strong dissatisfaction and firm opposition" to the sales.
Beijing sees Taiwan as part of its territory awaiting unification, and is deeply suspicious of the island's relations with the US.
Chinese foreign ministry spokesman Geng Shuang told a regular press briefing that Beijing has lodged "solemn representations" -- an official protest -- with the United States.
"We urge the US side to... immediately withdraw this armed sales plan and stop military contact with Taiwan lest it should cause severe damage to US-China relations, cross-straits stability and peace, and our cooperation in other important areas," he said.
Congress has 30 days to raise objections to the sale, though this is unlikely given the State Department has determined Taiwan continues to be "an important force for political stability, military balance, and economic progress in the region."
Washington remains Taipei's most powerful unofficial ally and its main arms supplier despite switching diplomatic recognition to Beijing in 1979.
China has stepped up diplomatic and military pressure on Taiwan since the Beijing-sceptic President Tsai Ing-wen took office two years ago, including staging a series of military exercises near the island.
Taiwan on Tuesday welcomed the US announcement, saying it would help the island strengthen its defence capabilities.
"As Taiwan faces gradually heightened threats, the US arm sales would... also boost Taiwan's confidence in strengthening self-defence to help maintain peace and stability in the Taiwan Strait," the foreign ministry said in a statement.
Taiwan's presidential office said the island's government would continue to increase its defence investment and "maintain close communication and cooperation" with the US on security issues.
Beijing has been incensed by recent warming ties between Washington and Taipei, including the approval by the US State Department of a preliminary licence to sell submarine technology to the island.
The US recently sanctioned a Chinese military procurement organisation, drawing a sharp protest from Beijing and a decision to postpone planned military talks.
Beijing and Washington are also at odds over China's wooing of Taiwan's diplomatic allies.
The new arms sale was announced on the same day that President Donald Trump's administration enacted new tariffs against China covering another $200 billion of Chinese imports.
The move brings the amount of Chinese goods hit by duties to more than $250 billion, roughly half of China's US exports.
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PPP CEC session takes important decisions over resignations and long March
*Karachi - The Central Executive Committee (CEC) session of the Pakistan People’s Party has decided that its party members will only resign from the assemblies on a condition that PML-N supremo Nawaz Sharif comes back and become part of the Pakistan Democratic Movement's campaign against the government, local media reported on Tuesday.*
The decision has been taken in PPP's CEC meeting which was chaired by party Co-chairman Bilawal Bhutto in Karachi.
The CEC session decided that discussions can be held over submitting resignations and long march only if Nawaz Sharif comes back from London and be part of their anti-government movement.
The party's executive committee decided that it will take part in all elections, including the Senate and general polls and will not take dictation from anyone.
The PPP leaders observed that in case of submitting resignations, the government could erase the 18th Amendment of the Constitution and annul other democratic laws.
The CEC meeting also took into consideration the fact that resignations from assemblies could not hinder the upcoming Senate elections. The PPP also decided to launch a contact campaign with the peasants, lawyers, traders and doctors organizations.
The PPP leaders also showed resentment over Pakistan Democratic (PDM) chief Maulana Fazlur Rehman's absence in Larkana on the occasion to commemorate the 13th death anniversary of former prime minister Benazir Bhutto.
Speaking on the occasion, Bilawal said: “We could have oust the government during the budget session of the parliament when scores of the PTI members and allies turned against Imran Khan."
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How are the results on the Ratings Pages calculated?
You will see on the Ratings Pages we’re showing a lot of data and information. Below is an explanation of the results you see on the page and how they are calculated.
For each thing in YouGov Ratings we show nationally representative popularity percentage scores. The positive popularity score shown at the top of the page (on the left) is calculated by taking the proportion of people who view something positively and showing it as a percentage of all of the people who have given any opinion about that thing, including “have heard of”. The same calculation is used for the neutral, negative & have heard of percentage scores. Our sample mirrors the demographics of the US and the data is weighted to be nationally representative. Nice and simple!
Below the headline popularity scores you will find more information about the people who view a particular thing positively (aka the fans). For this deeper dive into the fans of a particular thing, we show two different types of results.
1. Wherever you see data (or numbers) on the page, we’re simply showing absolute percentages. For example, for Gender we show the percentage of men and the percentage of women who view that thing positively. For Age, we show the same thing by generation i.e. the percentage of Millennials, Baby Boomers and Generation X who view that thing positively. In this case, Age is defined in generational terms per year of birth:
Baby Boomers: 1946-1964
Generation X: 1965-1981
Millenials: 1982-1999
This data in the form of absolute percentages provides a clear breakdown of the people that view a thing positively.
2. We also show other information on the page which, instead of percentages, is in the form of showing what fans of something are more likely to think, like or do. These are correlations. In these instances, instead of looking at fans of something in the form of absolute percentages, we compare the opinions of the fan group with the opinions of the population as a whole to find out what most differentiates them. To do this comparison, we use a statistical method called a Z Score, which helps to highlight what is particularly true of fans compared with another group of people. Crucially, the top Z Score doesn’t necessarily show the majority opinion of the group, but what is most different about the opinions of that group compared to the general population. For example, if we take a group of 1,000 people that like a certain mobile application and see that 20% of them are fans of David Bowie and we take another group of 1,000 people (e.g. a nationally representative group) and find that only 15% of them are fans of David Bowie, in this case, even though just 20% of people that like the mobile application are fans of David Bowie (which isn’t a majority) we are able to see that compared with the rest of the population, the people who like that mobile application are more likely to be fans of David Bowie. The Z score is therefore a very interesting statistical tool used to better understand audiences because it brings to the surface information that particularly differentiates a group that might otherwise be missed, or be difficult to see just looking at absolute percentages or majority proportions.
Over what period of time is YouGov Ratings data collected?
We collect data for YouGov Ratings each and every day, and it’s updated every Monday. The data we collect accumulates and what you see on the website is an average of all the data we have collected since we began YouGov Ratings in November 2017.
When did data collection for YouGov Ratings begin?
For the majority of things in YouGov Ratings we started collecting data on 11/15/2017. However, we are always looking to add more entities to our data collection systems which means there is a chance that some entities were added after this date.
How is the data weighted?
As with any nationally representative survey, we use weighting to fine-tune the demographic balance of the YouGov Ratings sample. We calculate weight values using rim weighting (raking), which ensures that the marginal proportions in the sample match those of the target population across a set of key demographic variables.
In the US, the key demographic variables we target and weight to are:
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The Hummingbird Project
The Hummingbird Project is the 171st most popular 2018 movie and the 163rd most famous.
What America thinks of The Hummingbird Project
3%Negative opinion
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AJ McLean Reveals He First Used Cocaine During Backstreet Boys Music Video
Celebrity By TooFab Staff | 10/17/2020 11:48 AM PT
"When I showed up on set and I got in the makeup chair, I told everybody."
AJ McLean got candid about his years-long battle with drug addiction and recalled how he tried to hide it from his Backstreet Boys bandmates.
In a recent interview with People, the "Dancing with the Stars" contestant opened up about the first time he tried cocaine, which happened to be the same night the pop group was filming a music video.
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"I never really had a desire for the drugs, but being an addict, to me, that word encompasses everything," the 42-year-old entertainer began. "I was introduced to cocaine literally the night that we shot the video for 'The Call.' It was the first time I ever tried it because it was a late-night shoot. I was with a 'friend' at the time -- who's clearly not a friend anymore -- and offered it to me. I said, 'No.' Then I caved and I did it."
"When I showed up on set and I got in the makeup chair, I told everybody," he continued. "I was like, 'I'm freaking out. I'm on this. I'm on that.' They were like, 'You need to stop. Don't tell the world that you're on drugs right now.'"
"Somehow someway, I kept it a secret from everyone for the next at least 18 months before the boys caught on, before my family caught on, before my real friends caught on. I found a way to really keep it under the rug."
In July 2001, the other members of Backstreet Boys -- Nick Carter, Brian Littrell, Howie Dorough and Kevin Richardson -- managed to convince AJ to seek treatment.
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"The most crucial part of that conversation was the final thing Kevin said to me -- If I continued using, he said, 'I will never trust you again. You're dead to me.'"
For the next 20 years, however, AJ would continue using drugs and alcohol between bouts of sobriety.
"I would go to bed when the sun was rising and I would wake up when the sun was down," he said of his time abusing substances. "Like they say, the definition of insanity, repeating the same mistakes over and over expecting different results."
"I thought drugs and alcohol would make those feelings of insecurity go away," he added. "But it doesn't work that way."
Calling it his "moment of surrender," AJ said he began to turn his life around after one fateful trip last December, when he partied in Las Vegas.
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"I knew where I was going to go get my drugs. I knew where I was going to go get drunk. I knew all of it and I figured, 'Okay, it's one night. As long as I don't go past a certain time and I don't smell like it, I can go have a nice last hurrah and then come back home. My wife won't know; everything's going to be great.'"
But it didn't work out that way. AJ missed a few return flights and eventually got home reeking of booze.
"What really hit me was the moment my youngest daughter, Lyric, said to me that night, 'You don't smell like my daddy.' And when she said that to me, that was it. Enough said. I felt disgusting."
Now AJ said he balances his precious family time with a 12-step program and checking in with a sponsor six times a day.
"The silver lining of the pandemic for me is that I can really work on myself, get to a meeting every day and build a foundation of recovery before going back on tour next year," he explained. "As hard as it is to say, I have zero regrets and am beyond lucky to still be here. I can genuinely say I love myself today."
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Latest Club News
9 Iron Bar & Grill Events
9 Iron Bar & Grill
Phat Scooters
Maintenance during Shutdown
On March 24th, Tulare County required us to close regardless of all the protocols we instituted to keep everyone safe. The debate on whether or not golf courses should be essential is open to conversation. We are biased at the golf course, but our answer is YES!
That Monday started like most of the days in March. A little busier than our average and perfect golf weather. Everything we would hope for on a golf course, and a brilliant week in the future.
One phone call changed the whole outlook of the remaining days of March and the future of the golf course. Tulare County insisted that we shut down immediately, and threatened penalties and fines. The claim that we were non-compliant is up for debate like so many things during this pandemic, but we complied by shutting down all future business.
March 25th brought several decisions that required quick thinking. We employ almost 50 employees between our Shop, Cart Barn, Maintenance, and 9 Iron staff. As a family-owned business, we attempted to find a way to keep all employees working. Unfortunately, there was not a way to do this without endangering the whole company. We had to put the oxygen mask on the business before we could reach out to the employees.
The only reasonable direction was to lay off all hourly employees and allow them to apply for their benefits immediately. The management staff communicated with employees and kept them updated on changes, but as most of you know, we could not open until April 27th. That was more than a month after our closure.
I am proud to announce, without exception, our employees have gladly returned to work as we notified them. We brought all hands on deck for the reopening. Bringing in almost double our staff as we expected a rush. We opened nearly a week ahead of the Governor’s proclamation that golf is essential. All the same faces, and maybe a couple of new ones, will continue to greet you with a smile at the Pro Shop and 9 Iron Bar & Grill.
While they were away, three members of management attempted to maintain 160 acres that would usually take ten people. For Brett Miller, the GM and Alex Barberena, the Superintendent, it was business as usual. Brett is the former Superintendent and quickly got back into the old routines of mowing, irrigation repair, and spraying chemicals.
Alex became saddled with training the new guy. Robert Nava is the Pro Shop Manager and Custom Club expert at the course but has minimal experience in grounds maintenance. After several days of mowing and learning other aspects of maintenance, Robert helped Alex, and Brett developed a plan to get as much work done as possible with the skeleton crew. A select number of volunteers also assisted during the month-long shutdown.
During the closure, we took advantage of the open course and took care of two large projects. Golfers know that aeration is a necessary evil that temporarily scars the greens, for the future benefit of healthier grass.
Not only did we aerate, but we also brought a company in to “drill and fill,” an extreme form of aeration. The crew uses a very large machine to drill holes in the green and then fill with clean sand. Both processes help the roots on the bentgrass “breathe” and grow healthier.
May 8, 2020 /by Robert Nava
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Weinstein is the villain, but where are the heroes? No one emerges with credit.
This list of alleged abuse against Weinstein keeps on growing (picture credit wikimedia commons)
Hollywood's need to all speak with one voice at the same time has allowed this sickly, shameful story to be made!
Is there any woman left in the glittering but sordid world of films and politics in America or the UK who has not had some hateful encounter with Harvey Weinstein? Late last week a fourth claim of rape this time from Rose McGowan has been added to the list. The Charmed actress also states that the boss of Amazon's studio section Roy Price was repeatedly told about the abuse and ignored her complaints. This week it's British women coming out with tales of horror encounters. Actress Lysette Anthony claims she was raped in her own home when she was only nineteen. Presently UK police are investigating five cases of different women but the number seems to be increasing daily.
The total number of women claiming they were sexually harassed or assaulted now easily tops thirty and includes huge names like Angelina Jolie, Gwyneth Paltrow and Kate Beckinsale. It is important to state that Weinstein refutes any claims to non-consensual sex with anyone.
A sordid and ghastly tale
The whole tale is sordid and ghastly and although if true Weinstein emerges as a hateful sexual predator, it is hard to identify anyone who comes away from it with any credibility. It is claimed that the man's employment contract with his own production company allowed him to treat someone improperly as long as he paid for the damages; paying £188,000 in the first instance with the money increasing on a sliding scale! More than one board member and lawyer knew of settlements Weinstein had made to women previously.
What kind of people, what kind of companies agree to deals like that?
Two of the usual suspects get in on the act. Hillary Clinton, of course, has to be included in this vile story. She was a big friend of Harvey a man who contributed to the Democrat cause. How long before she makes hay by shifting the story to her own most loathed nemesis Donald Trump?
Not long at all. In an interview with the BBC, she implies the behaviour of the two men as sexual assaulters are similar, even though Trump has never been accused of rape and passing over the fact that her own husband was accused of sex offences. What about the large sums of cash donated by Weinstein and blown by Clinton in her efforts to beat Trump?
Will she return them? No, I don't think so either. Tawdry? Not to be outdone in raising his profile at the expense of others is James Corden. He was speaking at an Aids gala in Los Angeles and made several jokes that trivialised the issue, drawing groans from the crowd astounded at his lack of taste. They should not be, he has form.
Other people who could have done more to protect the vulnerable
Colin Firth has admitted a co-star of his Sophie Dix told him of Weinstein pinning her down and performing a sex act against her will in 1990. He says he was ashamed that although she appeared profoundly upset he did nothing but express sympathy. How many other important influential men were told and did nothing and have still not had the moral courage Firth has shown in owning up?
Some of the actresses involved need to answer questions as well. Kate Beckinsale says she had a horrible encounter with him at just seventeen, around 1990. Yet Kate went on to make major films with him past that date including The Aviator in 2005. Gwyneth Paltrow accused him of trying to bed her in 1996 yet made more than half a dozen future films involving Weinstein, including Sliding Doors in 1998. There are many other examples. Myleene Klass claims she was offered a sex contract in 2010! 2010 was seven years ago and her silence to this point has been deafening!
It's brave if you tell the truth at the right time whatever others are saying
Hollywood plus the UK version and the political satellites that orbit around the glitz, seem to have to speak the same thing at the same time.
If you don't join in you're out. Since Trump was elected everyone bravely has been saying they detest him and they use every stage (even though we pay to go just to see them act) to show how brave they are in following the crowd. Now it's Weinstein's turn. Everyone is appalled, the stars speaking out are as brave as lions, yet only a few months ago he was revered as a God. Judi Dench apparently had a fake tattoo of him on her nether regions, everyone loved him.
Yes, it is difficult to speak out against an important figure. Yes, it may damage your career and cost you money. It is the same in many situations, taking a stand is difficult. It was the same with Jimmy Saville, many knew, very few had the courage to speak at the time. With regard to Weinstein, the male actors who were told and chose to say nothing, politicians and comedians who are using this scandal for their own ends and female actresses who are now in strong wealthy situations but have allowed a predator to continue to prey on their young colleagues are not heroes.
They all chose to protect their wealth and position at the expense of others more vulnerable than themselves and waited until they knew everyone else was now shouting the man down before putting the boot in. Understandable but not shining behaviour. As I said earlier, it is difficult to identify anyone who appears with much credit from this tawdry, foul mess.
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Kempinski Hotel Bristol
Kurfürstendamm 27, 10719 Berlin, Germany Berlin Berlin State Germany - 10719
**Property Location**.With a stay at Hotel Bristol Berlin, you'll be centrally located in Berlin, steps from Kurfürstendamm and 12 minutes by foot from Berlin Zoological Garden. This 5-star hotel is 0.2 mi (0.4 km) from Theatre of the West and 0.4 mi (0.6 km) from Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church. Distances are displayed to the nearest 0.1 mile and kilometer. .Kurfürstendamm - 0.1 km / 0.1 mi Theatre of the West - 0.4 km / 0.2 mi C/O Berlin - 0.6 km / 0.4 mi Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church - 0.6 km / 0.4 mi Europa Center - 0.8 km / 0.5 mi Berlin Zoological Garden - 1 km / 0.6 mi Berlin Aquarium - 1.1 km / 0.7 mi Department Store of the West - 1.1 km / 0.7 mi Technical University - 1.5 km / 0.9 mi Deutsche Oper Berlin - 2.2 km / 1.4 mi Victory Column - 2.5 km / 1.5 mi Bellevue Palace - 3 km / 1.9 mi Schloss Charlottenburg - 3.5 km / 2.2 mi Berlinale Palast \- 3.6 km / 2.3 mi Berliner Philharmonie - 3.7 km / 2.3 mi .The nearest major airport is Berlin (BER-Brandenburg) - 29.8 km / 18.5 mi. **Rooms**.Stay in one of 301 guestrooms featuring flat-screen televisions. Complimentary wireless Internet access keeps you connected, and cable programming is available for your entertainment. Private bathrooms have hair dryers and bathrobes. Conveniences include phones, as well as safes and desks.**Dining**.Grab a bite at Restaurant Reinhard's, one of the hotel's 2 restaurants, or stay in and take advantage of the room service (during limited hours). Snacks are also available at the coffee shop/café. Unwind at the end of the day with a drink at the bar/lounge or the poolside bar. Buffet breakfasts are available daily from 6:30 AM to 11 AM for a fee.**Business, Other Amenities**.Featured amenities include a 24-hour business center, limo/town car service, and express check-out. Planning an event in Berlin? This hotel has facilities measuring 11141 square feet (1035 square meters), including conference space. A roundtrip airport shuttle is provided for a surcharge (available 24 hours).
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Super 8 Wichita South
4848 S Laura St, Wichita, KS 67216, USA Wichita Kansas United States - 67216
**Property Location**.With a stay at Super 8 by Wyndham Wichita South in Wichita, you'll be within a 15-minute drive of INTRUST Bank Arena and Kansas Star Casino. This hotel is 9.4 mi (15.1 km) from Wichita State University and 3.9 mi (6.2 km) from Herman Hill Park. Distances are displayed to the nearest 0.1 mile and kilometer. .Herman Hill Park - 6.2 km / 3.9 mi Kansas Firefighters Museum - 8.2 km / 5.1 mi Ascension Via Christi St. Joseph - 9.3 km / 5.8 mi Ascension Via Christi NewLife Center - 9.3 km / 5.8 mi Kansas Aviation Museum - 9.3 km / 5.8 mi Wichita Public Library - 10.1 km / 6.3 mi Orpheum Theater - 10.2 km / 6.3 mi Rock Regional Hospital - 10.3 km / 6.4 mi Century II Convention Center - 10.4 km / 6.4 mi Friends University - 10.5 km / 6.5 mi Lawrence-Dumont Stadium - 10.8 km / 6.7 mi Murdock Theater - 11 km / 6.8 mi Mid-America All-Indian Center Museum - 11.1 km / 6.9 mi INTRUST Bank Arena - 11.4 km / 7.1 mi McConnell Air Force Base - 11.5 km / 7.1 mi .The preferred airport for Super 8 by Wyndham Wichita South is Wichita Dwight D. Eisenhower National Airport (ICT) - 18.8 km / 11.7 mi. **Rooms**.Make yourself at home in one of the 52 air- conditioned rooms featuring refrigerators and flat-screen televisions. Complimentary wireless Internet access keeps you connected, and cable programming is available for your entertainment. Bathrooms have complimentary toiletries and hair dryers. Conveniences include desks and microwaves, and housekeeping is provided daily.**Dining**.A complimentary continental breakfast is served daily from 6:00 AM to 10:00 AM.**Business, Other Amenities**.Featured amenities include a business center, a 24-hour front desk, and an elevator. Free self parking is available onsite.
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Misen rises 500 metres over the seto Inland sea on the scenic, spiritual island of Miyajima, just minutes away from Hiroshima City by ferry...
Kurokawa Onsen
Arguably one of Kyushu’s most prized gems, Kurokawa Onsen is a favourite with Japanese people due, not only to the variety of hot spring baths offered, but also to a secluded location high up in the lush Aso mountain range, in the majestic shadow of its active central volcano...
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winding cobbled streets lined with dark wooden houses, the sound of distant gongs in the mountains and - for a limited time only - cherry blossoms...
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The central region of Japan’s main island, Chubu is the mountainous hinterland that predominantly serves as a passage between the economic centers of Kanto and Kansai...
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Atlantic City February 2020 | Atlantic City Experience opens at Boardwalk Hall
Posted by: Darryl D. McEwen , February 5, 2020
TravelZork Atlantic City – News, Promotions and Events
Atlantic City February 2020
Welcome to our monthly news, promotions and events for Atlantic City February 2020. The Atlantic City Experience has opened in the newly renovated Boardwalk Hall lobby. Take a trip back to Old Atlantic City with 218 historical items, interactive timelines, memorabilia and more. The exhibit is open to the public weekdays from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Earn entries through Sunday, Feb. 16, for Golden’s Nugget’s $50,000 President’s Day Weekend Giveaway. The Grand Finale will take place from 5 to 10 p.m. Feb. 16 in the Main Atrium. Ten winners will be randomly selected every 30 minutes to win $500 in free play. Earn one entry for every 25 base tier credits by playing with a 24K Select card at any slot machine or table game through Feb. 16. Earn 5X entries every Sunday and Thursday and 10X entries Friday and Saturday, Feb. 14 and 15. Winners must be present and claim their prizes by 10:30 p.m. at the 24K Select Club or prize is forfeited.
The glass is full, the price is half
Enjoy half-off wine by the glass at Ocean Casino Resort’s participating restaurants through Friday, Feb. 7. Click here for details.
Do good and be well
Enjoy a Ladies Wellness Night and contribute to a good cause. From 7 to 9 p.m. Friday, Feb. 7, at Golden Nugget’s Spa & Salon, a $10 admission will be donated to St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital. Guests will enjoy complimentary hors d’ouevres, mini massages, mini facials, $5 drink specials, and exclusive raffles and gift giveaways. Book a spa treatment that night and receive a 25 percent discount.
Plus, through Tuesday, March 31, everyone can enjoy $99 Winter Spa Specials. To book a reservation, call 800-777-1177 or 609-340-5001.
Sip, sip, hooray!
At Art ● Wine ● Dine 2020 on Wednesday, Feb. 12, sample food from Atlantic City Restaurant Week participants, along with spirits, wine and craft beer. Enjoy live music while you talk to local artists and purchase their work. There also will be a silent auction and free parking at Boardwalk Hall. This unique event will give you an experience to remember while helping local students by way of scholarships. For more information and to purchase tickets, click here.
While it’s not an official holiday, two Atlantic casinos are helping friends celebrate Galentine’s Day, Thursday, Feb. 13. At Ocean Casino Resort ladies can enjoy a day of pampering at Exhale Spa + Bathhouse with February specials, dig into Happy Hour specials at American Cut, Distrito or Villain & Saint, shop at The Row, and play virtual games at Topgolf Swing Suite. At Resorts Casino Hotel ladies – or anyone with a Star card – can kick things off by stopping at the Promotions Booth for a complimentary box of chocolates and a chance to win $500 in slot cash, beginning at 9 a.m. Later Bar One will feature exclusive drink specials from 2 to 7 p.m.
More wining
Guests 21 and older can sample more than 100 of the world’s most popular wines at Tropicana Atlantic City’s Wines From Around the World Festival from 2 to 6 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 22, in the Grand Exhibition Center on the fourth floor of the South Tower. Select wines from producers such as Ruffino, Rodney Strong, Kim Crawford, Coppola and Mezzacorona will be available, and attendees can purchase their favorites by the bottle or case. Guests also can enjoy artisan crafters, food available for purchase, and live entertainment by Cheezy and the Crackers. Admission includes a souvenir wine glass. Tickets, $35 in advance and $40 at the door, are available at the Tropicana Box Office and via Ticketmaster. Designated-driver tickets, $10, will be available at the door. For more information visit Tropicana.
‘Ahoy, Matey!’
The Atlantic City Boat Show takes place Wednesday, Feb. 26, to Sunday, March 1, at the Atlantic City Convention Center.
Golden Nugget’s The Wave features free weekend entertainment. Every Friday it’s Flashback Friday. On Feb. 7 it’s Wanted DOA – Bon Jovi; Feb 14 it’s Who’s Next – The Ultimate Who Tribute Band; on Feb. 21 it’s Bebe Le Strange – Heart Tribute; and on Feb. 28 it’s Kiss The Sky – Jimi Hendrix Tribute Band . On Saturdays, the Wave features cover bands. On Feb. 8 it’s The Rockets; on Feb. 15 it’s Don’t Call Me Francis; on Feb. 22 it’s No Pressure; and on Feb. 29 it’s Kevin Miller’s Smashed. For more information, click here.
Tiers of joy
Golden Nugget has extended its One Tier Upgrade program until further notice. Both new and existing 24K Select cardholders are eligible by presenting their players card from MGM National Harbor or any Atlantic City casino at the 24K Select Club. For details click here.
Looking ahead – Atlantic City February 2020
March 1: The Rat Pack, Tropicana
March 6: Classic Albums Live Performs: Jimi Hendrix – Are You Experienced, Hard Rock
March 6: Rascal Flatts, Ocean Casino Resort
March 7: Grand Funk Railroad, Tropicana
March 8 to 13: Atlantic City Restaurant Week
March 10 to 14: 2020 Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference Basketball Championships, Boardwalk Hall
March 14: Jay Mohr, Hard Rock
March 14: Adam Sandler, Hard Rock
March 14: Blood, Sweat & Tears, Harrah’s
March 15: The Rat Pack, Tropicana
March 20: Air Supply, Borgata
March 20: Styx, Tropicana
March 21: Michael Bublé, Boardwalk Hall
March 21: Mandy Moore, Borgata
March 21: Best of the Eagles, Tropicana
March 27 to April 5: Jim Steinman’s Bat Out of Hell: The Musical, Hard Rock
March 27 and 28: Vic DiBitetto, Borgata
March 28: Charlie Wilson, Borgata
March 28: Sister Sledge, Tropicana
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Entertainment and Events – Atlantic City February
Atlantic City Boat Show (Feb. 26 to March 1). To purchase tickets, click here.
Entertainment and Events
Art ● Wine ● Dine 2020 (Feb. 12), Valentine’s Day Concert – Mint Condition, (Feb. 15), Celine Dion (Feb. 22), Kane Brown (Feb. 29). For tickets visit Ticketmaster.
Borgata Hotel Casino & Spa
Borgata Comedy Club (check for dates in Atlantic City February), Piff The Magic Dragon (Feb. 7), Il Volo (Feb. 8), Patton Oswalt (Feb. 8), moe. (Feb. 15 and 16), Jill Scott (Feb. 15), Theresa Caputo (Feb. 22), Tiffany Haddish (Feb. 28). For tickets visit The Borgata or call 866-900-4TIX (4849).
Borgata is giving away Bonus Slot Dollars to five winners (one from each M life Rewards card tier) every 15 minutes from noon to 7 p.m. on Sunday, Feb. 9. Insert your M life Rewards card into any slot machine from 10 a.m. to 6:30 p.m. for a chance to win.
Every 15 minutes from noon to 7 p.m. on Saturday and Sunday, Feb. 16 and 17, Borgata will award 1,500 Bonus Slot Dollars. Players need to insert their M life Rewards card into any slot machine or open any table games rating from 10 a.m. to 6:30 p.m. either or both days for a chance to win.
Enter Borgata’s free slot tournaments by playing slots Tuesday and Wednesday, Feb. 25 and 26, and earning $5 in Express Comps. Then, visit the slot area adjacent to Angeline between 2 and 8 p.m. Feb. 25 or 26, to enter the tournament(s). Grand prize is $5,000; the remaining 499 places will win cash or Bonus Slot Dollars.
Earn 15X Slot Dollars from 5 to 10 p.m. on Friday, Feb. 28.
Every 10 minutes from noon to 7 p.m. on Saturday, Feb. 29, Borgata will award 2,929 Bonus Slot Dollars. Players need to insert their Mlife Rewards card into any slot machine or open any table games rating from 10 a.m. to 6:30 p.m. for a chance to win.
Details on all Atlantic City February promotions are available at the Mlife Rewards Center.
Caesars Atlantic City
Gregory Porter & Ledisi (Feb. 15). For tickets, visit Ticketmaster.
Golden Nugget Casino, Hotel & Marina
$10,000 Bingo Bonanza Mondays, Feb. 10, 17 and 24, at 2 and 7 p.m. in The Grand. Free entry for all Elite and Chairman cardholders. All others must earn at least 20 tier credits that day for the player and one guest.
$50,000 President’s Day Weekend Giveaway Grand Finale, 5 to 10 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 16, in the Main Atrium.
For details on all promotions, visit the 24K Select Club or Golden Nugget.
Free self-parking continues.
Ladies Wellness Night (Feb. 7), Classic Favorites Starring “Gallen Lo” with Jessie Liu (Feb. 16). For tickets visit the front desk or Ticketmaster.
Hard Rock Hotel & Casino Atlantic City
Hard Rock continues its Wild Card tier match program until further notice. Details here.
Sugar Ray (Feb. 7), Demetri Martin (Feb. 8), Fitz and the Tantrums Present “All The Feels Winter Tour 2020” (Feb. 15), George Dalaras (Feb. 16), Eros Ramazzotti (Feb. 22), Bob Saget (Feb. 22). For tickets, visit Ticketmaster.
Harrah’s Resort
Paul Reiser (Feb. 8). For tickets, visit Ticketmaster or call 800-736-1420.
Win a share of $250,000 in cash and prizes in the $250,000 BMW Sweepstakes. Earn entries through Saturday, Feb. 29 – 5X entries on Tuesdays. Every Friday and Saturday from 6 to 10 p.m. five winners will be drawn every hour to receive up to $1,000, plus qualify for the grand prize drawing at 11 p.m. Feb. 29. Two winners will get their choice of a 2020 BMW X3 or 330XL.
All Ocean Premier cardholders, except Blue cardholders, get free self-parking daily. Blue cardholders must earn at least one dollar in comps.
Visit the Ocean Rewards Club for details.
38 Special (Feb. 14), Lee Brice (Feb. 15), Valentine’s Soul Jam with the Stylistics, Enchantment, Bloodstone, The Intruders, and Peaches and Herb (Feb. 16). For tickets visit The Ocean AC or Ticketmaster, or call 800-745-3000.
Resorts Casino Hotel
$35,000 Jackpot Sweepstakes – Earn one entry for every taxable hand-paid jackpot through Friday, Jan. 31. The finale takes place from 6 to 10 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 22, where one winner of $1,000 slot cash will be selected every 10 minutes. Grand prize is $10,000 cash.
Earn entries through 3:55 p.m. Sunday, March 29, to win a 2020 BMW 3 Series – 25X entries every Sunday and Thursday in February. The drawing will be held at 4 p.m. March 29.
Premiere cardholders who earn two tier points during a gaming day park free in the self-park garage at Resorts. Check any promotional kiosk to confirm the points and present a valid Star card at the exit.
Visit the Promotions Booth for details.
Michael McGeehan (Feb. 9, 11, 16, 18, 23, 26, 27), Engelbert Humperdinck (Feb. 15), Sweet Caroline – A Tribute To Neil Diamond (Feb. 19), Thanos Petrelis Live! (Feb. 29). For tickets visit Ticketmaster, the Resorts Box Office, or call 800-745-3000.
Tropicana Atlantic City
The Rat Pack (Feb. 9, 16 and 23), Dance Across America: Studio ’94 Tour (Feb. 8), Cheap Trick (Feb. 15), Wines From Around the World Festival (Feb. 22). For tickets, visit Ticketmaster, call 800-745-3000 or check with the Tropicana Box Office.
Another entertainment option at Tropicana is Atlantic City’s only IMAX® Theatre. Moviegoers receive a discounted parking rate of $5 to park in the enclosed Tropicana self-park garage, but first must obtain a parking voucher from the IMAX Box Office at the time of ticket purchase. Plus, every Tuesday college students can enjoy $10 movie tickets and 50 percent off all concession purchases, excluding merchandise. Must present valid college I.D. to redeem offer.
1917: The IMAX Experience runs through Thursday, Feb. 6, Birds of Prey: The IMAX Experience runs from Feb. 6 to Thursday, Feb. 27, Born To Be Wild 3D runs through Thursday, Feb. 13, Into America’s Wild 3D runs from Friday, Feb. 14, through Thursday, Oct. 1, The Invisible Man: The IMAX Experience runs from Feb. 27 to Thursday, March. 5.
For show times and tickets in Atlantic City January 2020, visit Tropicana Entertainment IMAX Theatre. Tickets can be purchased at the IMAX Box Office, through Ticketmaster or by calling 800-745-3000.
Recreational gambler Darryl D. McEwen is publisher of the Seven Stars Insider – both the website (SevenStarsInsider.com) and the monthly newsletter. For a free subscription to the newsletter, email him at SevenStarsInsider@gmail.com and tell him how you heard about it. You also can download the newsletter from the website where he frequently updates news about Caesars Entertainment Corp., Eldorado Resorts Inc. and Caesars Rewards under “Latest News” on the Home page. In addition, be sure to follow @7StarsInsider on Twitter. Darryl also writes a bi-weekly column, Mr. AC Casino, for the Atlantic City Weekly. The companion website is MrACCasino.com and the matching Twitter account is @MrACCasino. A former professional journalist, based in Wilmington, Del., Darryl is president of his own consulting firm that manages several small national and international trade associations, and provides public relations and fundraising services for a number of charitable organizations.
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Darryl D. McEwen
Recreational gambler Darryl D. McEwen is publisher of the Seven Stars Insider – both the website (SevenStarsInsider.com) and the monthly newsletter. In addition, be sure to follow @7StarsInsider on Twitter. Darryl also writes a bi-weekly column, Mr. AC Casino, for the Atlantic City Weekly. The companion website is MrACCasino.com and the matching Twitter account is @MrACCasino.
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Home Science & Nature New York to Ban Plastic Bags; Second Statewide Ban After California
New York to Ban Plastic Bags; Second Statewide Ban After California
The Associated Press claims that the environmental advocates estimate that New Yorkers use up to 23 billion plastic bags annually.
New York State lawmakers decided to impose a statewide ban on most types of single-use plastic bags from retail sales in order to curb the displeasing source of litter.
Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo gave the idea and this would be the second statewide ban, after California, which banned bags in 2016.
Hawaii also has started the banned project effectively, and New York’s ban is intended to begin next March. The single-use plastic bags will be forbidden as they are non-biodegradable and have disastrous effects on wildlife and the environment.
The state’s budget bills, food takeout bags used by restaurants, bags used to wrap deli or meat counter products and bags for bulk items, as well as garment bags, newspaper bags, and bags sold in bulk are expected ban.
This also allows counties to opt into a 5-cent fee on paper bags. This would go to the Environmental Protection Fund and a separate fund in order to purchase reusable bags for consumers.
According to Mr. Cuomo, these bags have blighted the environment and clogged our waterways. So, the Albany project will protect our natural resources for future generations.
According to Sen. Todd Kaminsky, after some time, we will be all looking back and wonder why this isn’t something that was commonplace before now. He also claimed that he is glad that New York will be the first step to start this project.
There are also many other states which have taken steps to outlaw other plastic products recently. In order to take a hard-line against most plastic in the restaurant industry, Hawaiian lawmakers have proposed a pair of bills. Maryland has also brought a proposal to make the region the first in the nation to completely ban polystyrene food containers.
Source: brightvibes.com
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Holiday Inn Arlington At Ballston
4610 Fairfax Dr, Arlington, VA 22203, USA Arlington Virginia United States - 22203
**Property Location**.With a stay at Holiday Inn Arlington at Ballston in Arlington (Bluemont), you'll be a 1-minute drive from MedStar Capitals Iceplex and 7 minutes from Lincoln Memorial. This hotel is 5 mi (8 km) from Arlington National Cemetery and 5.5 mi (8.8 km) from Pentagon. Distances are displayed to the nearest 0.1 mile and kilometer. .MedStar Capitals Iceplex - 0.9 km / 0.6 mi Marymount University - 3.4 km / 2.1 mi Eden Center - 4 km / 2.5 mi Tomb of the Unknown Soldier - 6.3 km / 3.9 mi Georgetown Waterfront Park - 6.5 km / 4.1 mi Fashion Center at Pentagon City - 6.6 km / 4.1 mi Pentagon Row - 6.9 km / 4.3 mi Birchmere - 7.4 km / 4.6 mi Iwo Jima Memorial - 7.5 km / 4.7 mi Watergate Complex - 7.8 km / 4.8 mi Vietnam Veterans Memorial - 7.8 km / 4.9 mi George Washington University Hospital - 7.9 km / 4.9 mi Kennedy Center - 7.9 km / 4.9 mi Arlington National Cemetery - 8 km / 5 mi Lincoln Memorial - 8.2 km / 5.1 mi .The nearest airports are: Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport (DCA) - 12.5 km / 7.8 mi Washington Dulles Intl. Airport (IAD) - 34.1 km / 21.2 mi College Park, MD (CGS) - 51.6 km / 32.1 mi Gaithersburg, MD (GAI-Montgomery County Airpark) - 39.9 km / 24.8 mi Manassas, VA (MNZ-Manassas Regional) - 49.5 km / 30.8 mi .The preferred airport for Holiday Inn Arlington at Ballston is Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport (DCA). **Rooms**.Make yourself at home in one of the 221 guestrooms featuring refrigerators and LCD televisions. Complimentary wireless Internet access keeps you connected, and cable programming is available for your entertainment. Private bathrooms with shower/tub combinations feature complimentary toiletries and hair dryers. Conveniences include safes and desks, as well as phones with free local calls.**Dining**.Grab a bite to eat at Silver Leaf Restaurant, a restaurant which features a bar/lounge, or stay in and take advantage of the room service (during limited hours). Buffet breakfasts are served on weekdays from 6:30 AM to 10 AM and on weekends from 7 AM to 11 AM for a fee.**Business, Other Amenities**.Featured amenities include a 24-hour business center, express check-in, and express check-out. Planning an event in Arlington? This hotel has facilities measuring 5000 square feet (450 square meters), including a conference center. Self parking (subject to charges) is available onsite.
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Hilton Garden Inn Seattle Bellevue Downtown
10777 NE 10th St, Bellevue, Washington, 98004, USA Bellevue Washington United States - 98004
**Property Location**.A stay at Hilton Garden Inn Seattle Bellevue Downtown places you in the heart of Bellevue, within a 15-minute walk of Bellevue Square and Meydenbauer Center. This hotel is 9.3 mi (14.9 km) from University of Washington and 9.4 mi (15.1 km) from Seattle Paramount Theatre. Distances are displayed to the nearest 0.1 mile and kilometer. .Lincoln Square - 0.6 km / 0.3 mi Meydenbauer Center - 0.8 km / 0.5 mi Overlake Medical Center - 0.9 km / 0.5 mi Bellevue Square - 1 km / 0.6 mi Downtown Park - 1.5 km / 0.9 mi Lake Washington - 2 km / 1.2 mi Northwest University - 5.3 km / 3.3 mi T-Mobile USA Headquarters - 6.6 km / 4.1 mi Microsoft Campus - 6.6 km / 4.1 mi Factoria Mall - 6.7 km / 4.1 mi Bellevue College - 8.8 km / 5.5 mi Husky Stadium - 11 km / 6.8 mi University of Washington Medical Center - 11 km / 6.8 mi Redmond Town Center - 11.4 km / 7.1 mi Seattle Japanese Garden - 12 km / 7.5 mi .The nearest airports are: Seattle - Tacoma Intl. Airport (SEA) - 27.9 km / 17.3 mi Seattle, WA (LKE-Lake Union Seaplane Base) - 16 km / 9.9 mi Seattle, WA (BFI-Boeing Field) - 23.6 km / 14.7 mi Renton, WA (RNT- Renton Municipal) - 16.8 km / 10.4 mi Kenmore, WA (KEH-Kenmore Air Harbor) - 23.6 km / 14.7 mi .The preferred airport for Hilton Garden Inn Seattle Bellevue Downtown is Seattle - Tacoma Intl. Airport (SEA). **Rooms**.Make yourself at home in one of the 254 guestrooms featuring refrigerators and flat-screen televisions. Complimentary wired and wireless Internet access keeps you connected, and cable programming provides entertainment. Private bathrooms with showers feature complimentary toiletries and hair dryers. Conveniences include phones, as well as laptop- compatible safes and desks.**Dining**.Satisfy your appetite for lunch or dinner at the hotel's bar/lounge, or stay in and take advantage of the room service (during limited hours). To-go breakfasts are served on weekends from 7:00 AM to 11:00 AM for a fee.**Business, Other Amenities**.Featured amenities include complimentary wired Internet access, a business center, and express check-in. Planning an event in Bellevue? This hotel has facilities measuring 3400 square feet (316 square meters), including conference space. Self parking (subject to charges) is available onsite.
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FAST KUTZ - BURNIN' - British heavy metal NWOBHM 12" VINYL LP ALBUM
Rare Fast Kutz Burnin' , Burnin' is the only record ever released by the Heavy Metal band: "Fast Kutz". This web-page has hi-res photos of the album covers, record label and a detailed description.
Fast Kutz is a British Heavy Metal (NWOBHM) from Cleveland, England and originally active from 1984 until 1987.
The album: "Fast Kutz Burnin'" was produced by: Darryl Johnston
Darryl Johnston was founder of the "Ebony Records" company and has been producing several dozen heavy metal (NWOBHM ) albums between 1982 and 1987. Bands he has worked with are Chateaux, Grim Reaper, Savage, Blade Runner, Samurai, Fast Kutz and many others.
Garry Sharpe - Album artwork
Garry Sharpe-Young was a British Rock Journalist and Graphic Designer. He has written over 20 books related to rock and heavy metal music. He designed at least two dozen of album covers for bands like: Grim Reaper. Fast Kutz, Savage and many others.
Ebony Records EBON 44
12" Vinyl Stereo Full-Length Long-Play Gramophone Record
1987 Made in Great Britain
Band Members and Musicians on: Fast Kutz Burnin'
Kenny Nicholson - Guitars
Keith Davison - Lead Vocals
Paul Fowler - Drums
Neville Percival - Bass
Track Listing of: "Fast Kutz Burnin'"
The Songs/tracks on "Fast Kutz Burnin'" are
Burnin' 05:26
Midnight Love 05:26
Looking for Love 04:48
Dead or Alive 04:31.99
Driving Me Crazy 04:22
Play With Fire 04:22
Girls Gone Bad 03:42
Right to be Free 04:41
Fast Kutz Burnin' High Resolution & Quality Photos
Front Cover Photo Of Fast Kutz Burnin'
Close up of Side One Fast Kutz Burnin' record's label
Record Label Details: EBONY, EBON 44, Ebony Records 1987, Made in Great Britain
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Oncology for the first opinion equine practitioner
The study of cancer in horses is less advanced than in other companion animal species, but neoplasia is a common finding in equids
Oncology Equine
by Susan Donaldson
02 November 2020, at 8:05am
The study of cancer in the horse and other equids is substantially less advanced than in other companion animal species, making equine oncology a relatively poorly understood clinical specialty. Despite this, neoplasia in the equid is common with many surveys finding neoplasia involving the skin to be most prevalent. One such survey by Knowles et al. (2016) looked at 964 samples sent to the University of Bristol for histological examination over an 18-year period and found 24 percent of these samples to be equine sarcoid, followed by 19 percent squamous cell carcinoma and 6 percent melanoma, while lymphoma represented only 14 percent of diagnoses. Similarly, a North American survey of neoplasia in 125 donkeys (Davis et al., 2016) found equine sarcoid to represent 72 percent of all tumours observed. Non-cutaneous neoplasia appears to be much less common in horses than in other species.
Sarcoids
Sarcoids are fibroblastic tumours of the skin and are divided into six types: occult (Figure 1), verrucose (Figure 2), nodular (Figure 3), fibroblastic, mixed (Figure 4) and malevolent. The classification between these types is generally made based on appearance and their clinical behaviour. Malevolent sarcoids are thankfully quite uncommon but are aggressive and will become rapidly invasive. Predilection sites for any form of sarcoid tend to be where there are relatively superficial blood vessels (Figure 5).
FIGURE (1) Occult sarcoids are flat hairless lesions, occasionally with a “flaky skin” appearance which may be mistaken for ringworm infection. They can be small in size or extend over a large area of skin
FIGURE (2) Verrucous sarcoids are seen as thickened, raised and “corrugated” areas
FIGURE (3) Nodular sarcoids are generally discrete, firm lumps under the skin
FIGURE (4) Mixed have a combination of the characteristics associated with other types, for example where there are nodules visible within a verrucose area and with an occult margin
FIGURE (5A) Predilection sites for sarcoids tend to be where there are relatively superficial blood vessels such as the head, …
FIGURE (5B) … ventrum,…
FIGURE (5C) … axillae/lateral chest and inner thighs/groin regions
Diagnosis is generally made presumptively based on clinical appearance, with the index of suspicion being significantly greater if multiple lesions with the appearance of sarcoid are present on the horse. However, in certain circumstances biopsy and careful histopathological examination is indicated. Such situations would include lesions which appear in less common anatomical sites or whose appearance varies from that which would be expected. In these cases, owners should be warned prior to this being undertaken that, should histopathology confirm sarcoid to be present, it is likely that treatment of the site will be required. The reason for this is two-fold; one, even an excisional biopsy of a small lesion is unlikely to have achieved sufficient tissue margins to be curative; and two, sarcoids which are inactive can become substantially exacerbated by any kind of trauma, including the surgical trauma of biopsy, meaning aggressive regrowth at the site is a possibility. Other differentials would include but are not limited to melanoma, granulation tissue, mast cell tumour, papilloma, fibrosarcoma, cutaneous lymphoma and squamous cell carcinoma.
There is no one gold standard treatment for all sarcoids, and treatment options are usually decided based on the type of sarcoid present and its anatomical location. From the ambulatory vet’s perspective, we are even more limited with what we can do but it is of course important to keep in mind the range of modalities which may also be available via referral as new protocols are often being considered. In general terms, topical chemotherapy in the form of AW5 cream is probably most commonly used in ambulatory practice and generally has good success following treatment. The concentration of the cream and the frequency of application will depend on the type and site of the lesion. Equine Medical Solutions, led by Prof Knottenbelt, is extremely helpful in providing guidance and protocols for sarcoid treatment and indeed AW5 can be sourced only from there. It is of course an off-licence treatment and the owner should be clearly counselled with regard to the potential complications. A degree of pain and swelling is clearly to be expected but in a small number of cases more extreme reactions can be seen. For lesions which cannot be treated with AW5, such as some on the face, other topical treatments such as imiquimod and 5-fluorouracil may be appropriate. The use of topical bleomycin which is used to treat certain human skin cancers is also now being used in some lesions, for example those close to the eye.
Immunotherapy is possible for nodular type periocular sarcoids. Such treatment most commonly involves intralesional injection of Bacillus Calmette–Guerin (BCG) at defined intervals with the intention of stimulating local cell-mediated immune responses and inducing cytotoxic T cell and natural killer cell activity against tumour cells. Success rates of over 80 percent have been reported but it should be noted that there is a risk of anaphylaxis, and animals should be pre-treated with dexamethasone and flunixin meglumine intravenously and monitored carefully with adrenaline available for around 30 minutes post-treatment.
Probably the most common sites for squamous cell carcinoma (SCC) as seen in first opinion practice would be penile SCC (Figure 6A) and ocular SCC, usually that involving the third eyelid (Figure 6B). Although SCC can be seen in animals as young as one year old, most will be seen in adults.
FIGURE (6A) Penile squamous cell carcinomas are one of the most commonly seen in first opinion practice, ...
FIGURE (6B) … as well as ocular SCC
In penile SCC, small early lesions may be suitable for debulking under local anaesthesia and standing sedation in conjunction with cryotherapy and topical 5-fluorouracil treatment at five- to seven-day intervals. More advanced lesions will likely require referral for distal amputation or in some cases, more radical surgery. Enlarged inguinal lymph nodes may be palpable but may not always represent metastases as sometimes local infection associated with penile SCC will cause lymphadenopathy. Inguinal lymph nodes can be difficult to palpate due to fat deposition in this area also. In any case, distant metastases are rarely described.
FIGURE (7) This aged gelding presented with advanced stage SCC, having arisen from the third eyelid and progressed to extend over part of the cornea
In horses suspected of having SCC of the third eyelid, the third eyelid can be easily removed under standing sedation and local anaesthesia, with the removed tissue then being submitted for histopathology. Occasionally, cases will present at a much more advanced stage of disease such as the aged gelding in Figure 7, where SCC which appeared to have arisen from the third eyelid had then progressed to extend over part of the cornea. In this case enucleation was undertaken and the horse survived for a number of years without any related complications. Some corneal SCC may be treated by surgical debulking or keratectomy, with or without follow-up topical chemotherapy. Strontium plesiotherapy has also been used in the UK. Referral to an ophthalmologist would give more information on prognosis for individual cases where the cornea or other structures of the eye are affected.
Lymphoma is the most common type of neoplasia of the haematopoietic system in the horse. It can be classified into: multicentric, alimentary (Figures 8 and 9), mediastinal, cutaneous and solitary tumours of extranodal sites. It most commonly affects horses between 4 and 10 years old with clinical signs seen varying dependent on the body system involved. That said, weight loss, lethargy, depression, ventral oedema, lymphadenopathy and recurrent pyrexia are commonly reported.
FIGURE (8) Abdominal ultrasound image of thickened small intestine in a seven-year-old TB gelding presented for colic and lethargy
FIGURE (9) Post-mortem image of thickened small intestine, confirmed histopathologically to be lymphoma
Clinical approach would begin with thorough physical examination including rectal examination as well as the submission of blood for haematological and biochemical analysis. Furthermore, ultrasound of the thorax and abdomen is useful to attempt to identify organ involvement, additionally with a view to biopsy any masses although this will of course depend on the ease of access of such masses. Lymphoma rarely exfoliates into the thoracic or abdominal cavity but centesis of these cavities is often performed with the resulting samples undergoing cytological examination and yielding a diagnosis in a small number of cases.
Sadly, since horses are generally diagnosed with lymphoma at a late stage of the disease, there is no information regarding treatment responses. Solitary masses can be excised but prognosis will depend on other staging of the tumour. Chemotherapy protocols have been reported for horses but not in sufficient numbers to make any wide statements about their success.
Chemotherapy protocols have been reported for horses but not in sufficient numbers to make any wide statements about their success
Davis, C. R., Valentine, B. A., Gordon, E., McDonough, S. P., Schaffer, P. A., Allen, A. L. and Pesavento, P. 2016 Neoplasia in 125 donkeys (Equus asinus): literature review and a survey of five veterinary schools in the United States and Canada. Journal of Veterinary Diagnostic Investigation, 28, 662-670
Hollis, A. 2019 Strontium plesiotherapy for the treatment of sarcoids in the horse. Equine Veterinary Education, 32, 7-11
Knowles, E., Tremaine, W., Pearson, G. and Mair, T. 2016 A database survey of equine tumours in the United Kingdom. Equine Veterinary Journal, 48, 280-284
Roberts, C., Findley, J. A. and Burford, J. H. 2018 Owner satisfaction and outcomes following diode laser excision of sarcoids. Equine Veterinary Journal, 50, 14-15
Susan Donaldson
Susan Donaldson, BVMS, CertAVP(EM), CertAVP(ESM), MRCVS, graduated from University of Glasgow in 2006. She has worked exclusively in equine practice ever since, in both ambulatory and hospital-based practice, and joined Avondale Veterinary Group in Strathaven in January 2020 as clinical director. Susan is a member of the IVC Evidensia Equine Advisory Board and her clinical interests lie in equine medicine, particularly gastrointestinal and respiratory disease.
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Celtic get Madden and Beaton double bill
Date: 12th March 2019 at 12:30pm
Bobby Madden and John Beaton will be in charge of Celtic’s match at Dundee on Sunday.
Madden, who refereed the recent 1-0 win away to Kilmarnock will again be in charge with his Lanarkshire colleague Beaton on fourth official duty.
During the win at Kilmarnock Kirk Broadfoot and Scott Brown were both ordered off.
Celtic will enjoy an eight day window before they head to Dens Park giving Neil Lennon time to work with the players on the training ground with the caretaker manager hoping to have Callum McGregor available to feature at some stage in the match after missing four games due to a calf injury.
Celtic won 5-0 earlier in the season at Dens Park but will face a much changed side now that Jim McIntyre has put his stamp on the side.
Dundee are involved in a three way fight with Hamilton and St Mirren at the bottom of the table and go into the match on the back of a 1-0 home defeat from Hearts.
He has been getting linked to Celtic for almost 10 yearshttps://t.co/CSpchSRqVV
— Joe McHugh (@videocelts) March 12, 2019
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Kieran MacDuff
Kieran MacDuff is the main antagonist of the Star Trek: The Next Generation episode "Conundrum".
He was portrayed by Erich Anderson.
Kieran MacDuff was the name used by an agent of the Satarrans, a race at war with the Lysians. Both races were evenly matched in terms of technology, but inferior to the Federation. MacDuff thus enacted a plan to trick the Federation into ending the war for them. He approached the Enterprise in a small ship and used a weapon to give the entire crew amnesia, leaving them with the knowledge to operate the ship but no personal information. He then altered the ship's records to make them believe the Federation was at war with the Lysians.
Disguised as a human Starfleet commander, MacDuff boarded the ship, playing the part of another amnesia-stricken officer. When the crew retrieved the altered files, they stated that MacDuff was the ship's first officer, which the crew accepted without question. They were also informed that the Enterprise was on a mission to destroy the Lysian central command and were to maintain communicator silence while other elements of Starfleet waited to act.
The Enterprise entered Lysian space and were quickly intercepted by a Lysian ship, which attempted to communicate. MacDuff convinced Picard to ignore the hails, suggesting the Lysians might erase their minds again if they did. When the Lysian ship fired on them, the Enterprise destroyed it. Picard told MacDuff he was feeling uneasy about the idea of killing people he didn't know for reasons he didn't understand. MacDuff approached Worf, suggesting they were the two warriors put on board the ship as security and should be ready to act if the others faltered.
The Enterprise approached Lysian central command but Picard continued to be confused by the Lysians' inferior technology and refused to give the order to fire on defenceless people, instead trying to open communications. MacDuff attempted to take command but Worf refused to support him. When MacDuff then attempted to fire the ship's weapons by force, both Riker and Worf hit him with sustained phaser blasts, revealing his alien nature and probably killing him.
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Israel's identity politics is failing voters
Author: Ben-Dror Yemini | / Source: Ynetnews
Let us set aside the political issue for one moment, which is believed to be the bone of contention between “left” and “right”. On almost every issue on the agenda, most Israelis think, one thing and vote, the opposite.
A the numbers show, most of the Jews in Israel, 53%, support an amendment of the Nation-State law adding an equality clause, and 75% support adding the equality clause to the all basic laws.
Election campaign posters in Tel Aviv (Photo: Associated Press)
Most Israelis, 74%, support the imposition of a core curriculum on ultra-Orthodox education. 72% support public transportation on the Sabbath, in one form or another. 72% are in favor of civil marriage and 55% do not want to marry through the rabbinate.
81% of the Jews in Israel support equality for all streams in Judaism and 60% of the Israelis support an easier conversion process.
62% support egalitarian prayer at the Western Wall. Let us not underestimate this. It is one of the most divisive issues between Israel and American Jewry.
Interestingly these questions do not reflect a dispute between secular and religious, or between the general public and the ultra-Orthodox.
Some 50% of those who define themselves as religious support civil marriage while half of those defined as Orthodox support a core curriculum in all Orthodox learning institutions.
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Subaru Closes Rally Season with Double Podium Finish at Olympus Rally
Shelton, Wash. – Subaru Motorsports USA took a third consecutive American Rally Association (ARA) double podium finish at a cold, rain-soaked Olympus Rally, ending the ARA season with two wins and seven total podiums in only four events. Brandon Semenuk’s runner-up finish at Olympus secured an impressive second place overall in the ARA Driver’s Championship in his first full season of American rally competition, while teammate and five-time U.S. champion Travis Pastrana took third in both the rally and the championship.
Olympus Rally, one of the most historic and difficult rounds on the U.S. calendar, provided a challenging end to a 2020 rally season heavily revised and shortened due to the COVID-19 crisis. Saturday’s eight stages were inundated with rain, rendering the stage roads muddy and slick and reducing visibility for all competitors. Semenuk and co-driver John Hall won a pair of the Saturday stages to put themselves in second place despite a half-spin on SS2. Pastrana and co-driver Rhianon Gelsomino lost time due to a severely fogged windshield after their WRX STI took on water on SS5, dropping them to third behind their teammates and overnight leader Barry McKenna.
The weather would again play a major role on Sunday, as snow at high elevations hampered accessibility to two of the planned stages for the remainder of the event. Rally organizers elected to revise the day’s calendar to only include three passes of the signature Nahwatzel stage. Fully committed and seeking a come-from-behind victory, Semenuk blasted his way to a pair of stage wins but was ultimately unable to close the full gap to McKenna.
Semenuk’s second-place finish capped a remarkable season for the Subaru newcomer: four events, four podiums including an overall win at Show-Me Rally, and second place in the ARA Driver’s Championship. Pastrana, driving more conservatively on Sunday at Olympus to protect his podium place, also concluded his season on a strong note. After a devastating engine fire at Southern Ohio that virtually ended his championship hopes, he recovered with a dominant Ojibwe Forests Rally win and three total podium finishes in the season’s three final rounds.
“It’s hard to put into words what an experience this season has been,” said Semenuk after the rally. “I really feel like John and I have come such a long way since Southern Ohio where we were still learning the car and getting up to speed. Things really started to click these last few events! I know there are improvements I need to make, since I lost some time on a couple of the Saturday stages and could have had a chance to win the rally, but it’s been a huge thrill to race with Travis and this team all year. All I can think about is getting back in the car again soon!”
“Not the results we wanted this season, but I’m so happy to have had the opportunity to get back to rallying full-time this year!” said Pastrana. “It’s been a huge challenge for everyone to help us get back on the stages with the pandemic, and I appreciate everything the team and the organizers have done. Huge congratulations to Brandon for the success he’s had this year, I think he’s developed faster than anyone could have imagined, and I know this team has a lot to look forward to in 2021.”
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#Stopviolenceagainstchildren: Pakistani celebrities demand justice for toddler girl in alleged kidnapping, rape and murder case
A little girl in northern Pakistan died after spending four days in deep well, having allegedly been abducted and raped. Pakistani celebrities are joining protest by the family, demanding justice in the high-profile case.
The horrific tragedy happened last week in Pakistan’s northern Mansehra District. A young girl name Jannat Bibi went missing when playing outside her family home in a village. Four days later she was found in an 80 feet (24 meter) deep dry well, still alive but in critical condition. The toddler died shortly afterwards, triggering a wave of outrage among locals, who went on a protest last Friday to demand justice.
There are conflicting versions of what exactly happened. The gravest one is that Jannat had been abducted, raped and left to die inside the well. Adding insult to injury is that the dying child was denied proper medical treatment, according to her family. This horrifying tale is what prompted some national celebrities in Pakistan to raise their voices for Jannat and other alleged minor victims of brutality.
Popular actress and model Armeena Khan posted a photo of the little girl on her Instagram page, saying Pakistanis need justice for this little kid NOW.”
Celebrity actor Naveed Raza posted a gut-wrenching account of Jannat’s demise, as well as of a different recent sexual assault against a seven-year-old girl in Pakistan. He lashed out at the Pakistani authorities for not doing enough to stop sexual predators.
As of Sunday, the local police said they have detained a number of people in connection with the alleged murder, but didn’t mention pressing any charges against one of them. There have been some difficulties with conducting a post mortem at a local hospital, but they have been resolved.
A police spokesman said the medical report they received “didn’t mention any assault and torture”
Some sceptics say that, while the case seems quite murky and foul play is highly suspected, people should not rush to conclusions before all relevant facts are established.
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Pompeo takes aim at ‘obscene’ Chinese propaganda meant to exploit civil strife in U.S
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Saturday denounced Chinese Communist Party propaganda aimed at fueling U.S. civil unrest and seeking to further divide Americans. “The Chinese Communist Party’s callous exploitation of the tragic death of George Floyd to justify its authoritarian denial of basic human dignity exposes its true colors yet again,” Mr. Pompeo said in a statement. “As with dictatorships throughout history, no lie is too obscene, so long as it serves the party’s lust for power. This laughable propaganda should not fool anyone.” Chinese diplomats and state-run media outlets in recent weeks have disseminated a steady stream of reports criticizing the U.S. government and Trump administration. Officials said the Chinese propaganda attacks are aimed at fueling racial and political tensions. The official Xinhua news agency and Global Times, the state-run hardline Communist Party newspaper, sent out numerous stories criticizing the Trump administration for its policies toward minorities. The propaganda is coming from the Chinese government that itself is under fire for imprisoning more than 1 million Uighurs in western China, along with other human rights abuses. Mr. Pompeo said in recent days Beijing “showcased its continuing contempt for the truth and scorn for law.” “The CCP’s propaganda efforts – seeking to conflate the United States’ actions in the wake of the death of George Floyd with the CCP’s continued denial of basic human rights and freedom – should be seen for the fraud that they are,” he said. “During the best of times, the PRC ruthlessly imposes communism,” he said. “Amid the most difficult challenges, the United States secures freedom.” Mr. Pompeo noted the stark contrast between the United States and communist-ruled China. “In China, when a church burns, the attack was almost certainly directed by the CCP,” he said, using the acronym for Chinese Communist Party. “In America, when a church burns, the arsonists are punished by the government, and it is the government that brings fire trucks, water, aid, and comfort to the faithful.” Under Chinese President Xi Jinping, the officially-atheist government has cracked down on unofficial house churches that are frequently bulldozed to prevent gatherings of worshipers. Mr. Pompeo also said that peaceful protesters in China’s Tiananmen Square or in Hong Kong get clubbed by armed militiamen for simply speaking out, and reporters who cover the dissent are sentenced to long prison terms. In the United States, American law enforcement authorities bring rogue officer to justice. Peaceful protests are welcomed while looting and violence are shut down. “Our free press covers events wall to wall, for all the world to see,” he said. Also, doctors and journalists in China who warned of the dangers of the new coronavirus outbreak were silenced and imprisoned. The Beijing government also lied about death totals and the extent of the disease outbreak, Mr. Pompeo said. “In the United States, we value life and build transparent systems to treat, cure, and underwrite – more than any other nation – pandemic solutions for the globe,” he added. Chinese authorities imprison people who diverge from CCP ideology or place them in re-education camps, the secretary said. The secretary of state’s comment provide the first U.S. government acknowledgement that China is among the foreign actors seeking to further inflame racial tensions in the United States. Attorney General Bill Barr said earlier this week that he had evidence that among the protesters around the country there are “”foreign actors playing all sides to exacerbate the violence.” FBI Director Christopher Wray also said foreign elements had “set out to sow discord and upheaval.” A U.S. official said videos posted online recently showed what appeared to be Chinese embassy and consulates personnel taking a direct role in riots in Washington and California.
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BEARCATS UPSET YELLOW JACKETS AT HOME
Jan 16, 2019 | Feature, Sports | 0
by Hunter Dawkins
With steaming intensity surrounding the Long Beach gymnasium Tuesday night, the Long Beach basketball program put the pedal to the metal against St. Martin High School. A crowd-packed stunning upset by the boys 60-57 over the 6A powerhouse and the hard fought girls loss 45-32 gave the fans their money’s worth.
Opening the girls game, the Lady Bearcats (6-11, 0-2) displayed an early defensive strike by recording a 20-18 halftime lead highlighted by four 3-point baskets from Senior Forward Amiya Moore and Sophomore Guard Breeauna Troup. The age and lack of experience got the best in the second half, as Long Beach was outscored 27-12 in the second half, which led to a 45-32 final score.
Troup led the Lady Bearcats scoring with 12 points and Junior Forward Americus Knight chipped in 11 points.
The boys matchup brought all the marbles to the table, as the Bearcats (15-4, 2-0) were seeking revenge from an early season loss from St. Martin (15-3). Former Bearcats Coach Charlie Pavlus brought his 6A dominant team, St. Martin, into the building hoping for a smooth game. Long Beach punched the Yellow Jackets in the mouth with a first period lead 22-12 after three 3-point baskets from Bearcats Senior Forward Calvin Johnson.
“We had a little more motivation and started off well,” said Long Beach Basketball Coach Brandon Cobb. “St. Martin is a very well-coached team and they fight 32 minutes non-stop.”
Despite a high number of fouls called on the Bearcats during the second period, Long Beach came out with a 34-26 halftime lead.
Beginning the second half, the Bearcats went cold and even using their press defensive scheme, the Yellow Jackets went on a 17-9 run with the score being tied after the third period 43-43.
A 17-point run by Long Beach along with two 3-point baskets from Johnson and sophomore guard Anthony Robinson secured the victory for the Bearcats 60-57.
“It’s a very big win for us,” said Cobb. “St. Martin is a 6A school that came in with a great record and it will be similar to a team we see in the playoffs.”
This victory marks the first time Long Beach has won 15 games in more than a decade, when Pavlus coached the Bearcats.
The Bearcats were led by Freshman Guard Malik Handy with 20 points and 2 steals. Johnson had 17 points, including five 3-point baskets and 8 rebounds. Robinson was the last double-digit scorer with 12 points, 5 rebounds, and 6 assists.
The Long Beach Bearcats will host district and cross-town rival West Harrison Friday night at 6pm.
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SFC Soldiers Have Added Value to UPDF – Muhoozi
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CDF Gen. Muhozi salutes SFC soldiers on adding value to UPDF
The Chief of the Uganda Defence Forces (CDF), General David Muhoozi, has saluted the elite Special Forces’ Command (SFC) soldiers for adding value to the national force, the UPDF, and for its diverse specialty in conventional skills.
“SFC is a value addition to the UPDF. To this effect, I want to thank the Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces, Gen. Yoweri Museveni, for bringing up the idea of creating this Force. By using SFC, we can destroy the enemy because it is a Force with diverse conventional skills,” Gen. Muhoozi said.
He added that such skills enable the Force to confront security challenges like terrorism, hostage situations as well as pacing with modern technological experiences and innovations.
The CDF made the remarks yesterday (Friday 12th October 2018) at the pass out ceremony of intake 03/17-18, Special Forces Qualification Course (SFQC), tier 1 course, in Butiaba, Buliisa District in Bunyoro Sub-Region.
The graduands who comprised 124 trainees, successfully completed a one-year Special Forces’ Qualification Course (SFQC). They pursued a series of training modules that included survival field craft skills, techniques of evasion, resistance to exploitation and resolution skills in all types of environments and a foundational understanding of the battle space.
Gen. Muhoozi noted that the course, though basic, required trainees to have courage, endurance both physical and mental ability, teamwork and practice, which, he said, were the most important elements in such training. He thanked the trainers for selecting Butiaba an area thatoffered assimilated high training grounds, water bodies, thickets and jungle forests that went a long way in enriching the skills of students.
The CDF pledged full support of the Ministry of Defence saying they are happy with the skills exhibited and were satisfied. He asked the leadership of SFC to always take the lead through training programmes, mentorship, observing discipline and ideological orientation.
The Commander of the Special Forces Command (SFC), Brig. Gen. Don Nabaasa, commended the Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces, Gen. Yoweri Museveni, for his efforts and initiatives in supporting all military training programmes. He asked the UPDF leadership to promote locally trained instructors emerging from training and experiences gained from other countries’ exposure like the United States of America, Egypt to cut the cost of training.
The Commandant of Fort Samora Machel Special Forces’ Training School (FSMST), Major Richard Sejembe, said the course was so demanding but achievable. He added that 124 trainees out of 196 successfully completed the one-year course that commenced in October 2017. He urged the trainees to live a healthy life and protect themselves from self-exposed ailments such as the HIV/AIDS scourge.
5 students were awarded gifts for their outstanding performance in different fields i.e. leadership, discipline and classwork.
Buliisa County area MP, Hon. Birabwa Mukitale, together with Buliisa District Woman MP, Hon. Norah Bigirwa, raised pertinent community’s concerns among them legalized fishing practices on Lake Albert to eliminate unauthorized fishing methods that has depleted the lake of mature fish, revamping the water transport system on the lake with the neighbouring districts, construction of feeder roads connecting Buliisa to Ntoroko and to Bundibugyo districts in the Rwenzori Sub-Region. The legislators further said that this would expose travellers to tourism sites hence increased revenue collection for national development.
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Digital Infrastructure Orchestration Pilot
by Gary Mintchell | Oct 7, 2020 | Manufacturing IT, Process Control, Standards
The thought visited that some time has elapsed since I have heard anything from the Open Process Automation people (OPAF). Then this news of the successful conclusion of a digital infrastructure orchestration pilot project within the scope of the project. A nice step forward on the journey.
CPLANE.ai and ExxonMobil have published the results and findings of their digital infrastructure orchestration pilot. As IT/OT Convergence and Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) adoption accelerates, new system management challenges must be addressed. This pilot demonstrated how orchestration can simplify the management of these new, multi-vendor systems while improving security and reliability. The whitepaper describing the methods and results of the pilot can be downloaded HERE.
Key findings from the pilot include:
1. Multi-vendor, open process automation can be integrated into a wholistic system using system orchestration technology.
2. Open standards, such as the Open Process Automation Standard, make inter-operability
orders of magnitude easier to manage and more reliable to implement.
3. An integrated hybrid-architecture of IT/OT digital assets can be managed in one cohesive
framework with limited or no IT expertise.
4. System orchestration is critical for accelerating innovation and adoption of converged IT/OT systems, particularly in an open, multi-vendor and interoperable control system.
Don Bartusiak, Chief Engineer for Process Control at ExxonMobil Research and Engineering said, “CPLANE.ai exceeded our expectations on what is possible in demonstrating the management of a converged IT/OT industrial control system. System orchestration is growing in visibility and importance within the Open Process Automation Forum (OPAF) and many of the findings of this pilot will help us shape the evolution of our standards.”
Digital infrastructure orchestration automates the provisioning, monitoring, failure-recovery, and evolution of OPA systems while maintaining continuous operations and network-based cybersecurity. Steve Bitar, an automation leader at ExxonMobil Research and Engineering, said “this was an ambitious project from the beginning. And the results have really given us a vision for how complex open industrial control systems can be managed and automated.”
CPLANE.ai is now conducting demonstrations of its Digital Infrastructure Test Bed with partners and members of OPAF. Going forward, CPLANE.ai will be applying the learnings from this pilot project to other OPAF related test beds and pilots globally.
CPLANE.ai automates the orchestration of distributed edge computing across a diverse landscape of hardware and software components. CPLANE.ai removes the complexity of provisioning, managing, securing, and evolving distributed systems. CPLANE.ai’s intelligent software platform automates the coordination and configuration of policies and procedures across multiple layers of distributed cloud infrastructure.
OMAC Remote Access Working Group
by Gary Mintchell | Sep 3, 2020 | Automation, Standards, Technology
The first end-user driven industry-standards working group I ran into as a new editor at Control Engineering magazine several (22) years ago was the Open Modular Architecture Controller (OMAC) group spearheaded primarily by the major automotive players plus Boeing and then some CPG firms such as P&G and Unilever. The first attempt was a less expensive and more easily updatable machine controller. If it sounds much like today’s Open Process Automation Forum, it should.
Later packaging companies and their suppliers became dominant within OMAC as the organization changed its name a couple of times and eventually found a home with PMMI. I really haven’t heard much about the organization for a few years. Then Mark Fondl, with whom I had many discussions about standards in automation—primarily Ethernet—got involved and started pinging me.
Here is news about a new working group striving for a best-practices handbook for remote monitoring services.
The rationale:
The Covid-19 crisis has pushed manufacturers to actively develop plans for “lights out” factories and supply chains. A recent survey conducted by PMMI shows that 92% of respondents working at CPGs cannot use their existing remote access capabilities due to cybersecurity concerns. The study further noted that 36% of respondents listed that there is no practical guide to help start as their top barrier to adding new remote access service.
The desired result:
OMAC (The Organization for Machine Automation and Control) believes a collaborative review is needed to create a comprehensive best-practices handbook for remote monitoring services that will help manufacturing companies allow secure remote access to machines and automation systems on the plant floor.
This Workgroup focuses on timing, safety, and security procedures when allowing inbound connections that link to specific machines and automation systems. This work is essential because inbound connections are more complex and hold more risk than the more common outbound connections.
More than 20 companies are now involved:
End-Users: Cargill, Nestle, P&G, Sonoco
OEMs: Nordson, Mettler Toledo, Milacron, ProMach, Bobst
SIs & Vendors: Siemens, EtherCAT Technology Group, Beckhoff, SICK, Martin CSI, Trola Industries, Omnicon
9 Sep Introduction, Agenda Review
23 Sep Current State and Stakeholders of Remote Access
7 Oct Collaboration with IT
21 Oct Classification of Activities
4 Nov Validation of Assets being Connected
18 Nov Methodologies to engage beyond one-to-one
2 Dec Security and Safety, Documentation and Change Management
16 Dec Review of Draft Report
13 Jan Final Report Approval
You can help, but you must be a member. Find out more here.
Object Management Group Forms Digital Twin Consortium
by Gary Mintchell | Jul 23, 2020 | Open Source, Standards
Thanks to Terrence O’Hanlon of ReliabilityWeb for cluing me in to this latest open source project regarding Digital Twins on LinkedIn. Somehow the OMG and I missed connections on the press release. Yet another case of cooperation among suppliers and users to promote the common good. Digital Twins form the bedrock of Industry 4.0 and whatever other modern industrial advance.
News in brief: Users to create standard terminology and reference architectures and share use cases across industries
Non-profit trade association Object Management Group (OMG) with founders Ansys, Dell Technologies, Lendlease, and Microsoft, announced the formation of Digital Twin Consortium. Digital twin technology enables companies to head off problems before they occur, prevent downtime, improve the customer experience, develop new opportunities, drive innovation and performance and plan for the future using simulations. Members of Digital Twin Consortium will collaborate across multiple industries to learn from each other and develop and apply best practices. This new open membership organization will drive consistency in vocabulary, architecture, security and interoperability to help advance the use of digital twin technology in many industries from aerospace to natural resources.
Digital twins, virtual models of a process, product or service that allow for data analysis and system monitoring via simulations, can be challenging to implement due to a lack of open-source software, interoperability issues, market confusion and high costs. In order to ensure the success of Digital Twin Consortium, several leading companies involved in digital twin technology have joined the consortium prior to inception. This category of early innovators, called Groundbreakers, includes: Air Force Research Lab (US), Bentley Systems, Executive Development, Gafcon, Geminus.AI, Idun Real Estate Solutions AB, imec, IOTA Foundation, IoTIFY, Luno UAB, New South Wales Government, Ricardo, Willow Technology, and WSC Technology.
Membership is open to any business, organization or entity with an interest in digital twins.
“Most definitions of digital twin are complicated, but it’s not a complicated idea. Digital twins are used for jet engines, a Mars rover, a semiconductor chip, a building and more. What makes a digital twin difficult is a lack of understanding and standardization,” said Dr. Richard Soley, Digital Twin Consortium Executive Director. “Similar to what we’ve done for digital transformation with the Industrial Internet Consortium and for software quality with the Consortium for Information and Software Quality, we plan to build an ecosystem of users, drive best practices for digital twin usage and define requirements for new digital twin standards.”
Digital Twin Consortium will:
Accelerate the market for digital twin technology by setting roadmaps and industry guidelines through an ecosystem of digital twin experts.
Improve interoperability of digital twin technologies by developing best practices for security, privacy and trustworthiness and influencing the requirements for digital twin standards.
Reduce the risk of capital projects and demonstrate the value of digital twin technologies through peer use cases and the development of open source code.
An ecosystem of companies, including those from the property management, construction, aerospace and defense, manufacturing and natural resources sectors will share lessons learned from their various industries and will work together on solve the challenges inherent in deploying digital twins. As requirements for new standards are defined, Digital Twin Consortium will share those requirements with standards development organizations such as parent company OMG.
Founding members, Ansys, Dell Technologies, Lendlease and Microsoft will each hold permanent seats on an elected Steering Committee, providing the strategic roadmap and creating member working groups.
Sam George, Corporate Vice President, Azure IoT, Microsoft Corp. said, “Microsoft is joining forces with other industry leaders to accelerate the use of digital twins across vertical markets. We are committed to building an open community to promote best practices and interoperability, with a goal to help establish proven, ready-to-use design patterns and standard models for specific businesses and domain-spanning core concepts.”
“The application of the Digital Twin technology to Lendlease’s portfolio of work is well underway and we are already realising the benefits of this innovation to our overall business,” said Richard Ferris, CTO, Digital Twin R&D, Lendlease. “The time for disruption is now, and requires the entire ecosystem to collaborate together, move away from the legacy which has hindered innovation from this industry, and embrace Digital twin technology for the future economic and sustainable prosperity of the built world. Digital Twin Consortium is key to the global acceleration of this collaboration and the societal rewards we know to be possible with this technology and approach.”
“Dell Technologies is proud to be one of the founding members of Digital Twin Consortium. As the rate of digital transformation continues to accelerate, industry-standard methods for Digital Twins are enabling large scale, highly efficient product development and life cycle management while also unlocking opportunities for new value creation. We are delighted to be part of this initiative as we work together with our industry peers to optimize the technologies that will shape the coming data decade for our customers and the broader ecosystem,” said Vish Nandlall, Vice President, Technology Strategy and Ecosystems, Dell Technologies.
“The Consortium is cultivating a highly diverse partner ecosystem to speed implementation of digital twins, which will substantially empower companies to slash expenses, speed product development and generate dynamic new business models,” said Prith Banerjee, chief technology officer, Ansys. “Ansys is honored to join the Consortium’s esteemed steering committee and looks forward to collaborating closely with fellow members to further the Consortium’s success and help define the future of digital twins.”
Digital Twin Consortium members are committed to using digital twins throughout their operations and supply chains and capturing best practices and standards requirements for themselves and their clients. Membership fees are based on annual revenue.
Digital Twin Consortium is The Authority in Digital Twin. It coalesces industry, government and academia to drive consistency in vocabulary, architecture, security and interoperability of digital twin technology. It advances the use of digital twin technology from aerospace to natural resources. Digital Twin Consortium is a program of Object Management Group.
3D Printing Effort Becomes Linux Foundation Open Standards Project
Open Source and Open Standards continue to expand influence in developing new technologies and applications. I love to see companies banding together to bring out useful new ideas. This one is interesting.
The 3MF Consortium, the organization dedicated to advancing a universal specification for 3D printing, has announced it is becoming a Linux Foundation member and that HP’s Luis Baldez is its new Executive Director (ED). Baldez supersedes Microsoft’s Adrian Lannin, who has served as ED since the 3MF Consortium was founded in 2015. Among the original creators of the 3MF Consortium, Lannin will remain a strategic advisor to the group.
“The 3MF Consortium has done the important work to create an open standard for 3D printing. The time is now to drive the evolution of 3MF from development to implementation,” said Baldez. “We would not be where we are today without Adrian Lannin’s leadership and contributions, and we’re looking forward to his insights as our ongoing advisor.”
Baldez was recently elected Executive Director by the 3MF Consortium membership to expand upon the technical progress and success of the 3MF standard by building new functionalities for the standard through collaboration with Linux Foundation and JDF. Baldez is a 3D printing veteran with experience across new research, market & business development. It is this combination of expertise that makes him well-suited for the ED role at 3MF Consortium, where the focus is maturing from standards development to implementation and adoption. Baldez has also held R&D engineering leadership positions at other multinationals and startups.
The 3MF Consortium has grown rapidly since its formation in 2015, garnering new member investments and adoption across the industry’s leaders in 3D printing. It is supported by 3D Systems, Autodesk, GE, HP, Materialise, Microsoft, nTopology and Siemens among nearly 20 other companies and has been implemented in nearly 40 products across 22 companies. The 3MF specification is robust and includes six extensions that range from core and production to slice, material and property (including color), beam lattice and security. The Secure Content specification was recently released and establishes an underlying mechanism for payload encryption of sensitive 3D printed data based on modern web standards.
CII and MIMOSA Join Forces to move Interoperability Forward for Capital Projects
by Gary Mintchell | Jul 1, 2020 | News, Organizations, Standards
CII and MIMOSA sign Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to use the Open Industrial Interoperability Ecosystem (OIIE) as the interoperability framework for CII best practices.
I’m a believer based upon long experience that standards and interoperability drive industries (and society) forward. Just look, for example, at standard gauge railroad tracks or standard shipping containers or Internet protocols. I should also note that I worked on the development of the OIIE several years ago, but they got to the point where I could not contribute for a while. As I wrote recently, things are coming together in this effort for interoperable data flow from engineering design through construction to operations & maintenance throughout the lifecycle of a large capital project.
Here is the latest, and very important, news.
CII (The Construction Institute) and MIMOSA announce their collaboration to adopt and progress the standards for an open, vendor neutral digital ecosystem supporting data and systems interoperability in capital projects, operations and maintenance enabling digital transformation of the full asset lifecycle. The MOU establishes the basis for a CII/MIMOSA Joint Working Group to develop best practices for standards based interoperability in capital projects leveraging the organizations combined strengths.
It will develop formal OIIE Use Cases for capital projects based on Industry Functional Requirements developed by CII, starting with those associated with Advanced Work Packaging (AWP). These OIIE Use Cases will be validated in the OIIE Oil and Gas Interoperability (OGI) Pilot before they are published and licensed for use on a world-wide royalty free basis. Once the jointly developed OIIE Use Cases are validated in the pilot, CII and MIMOSA intend to submit them to ISO TC 184/WG 6 for inclusion in future parts of ISO 18101.
The OIIE is an outgrowth of collaboration between multiple industry-level Standards Developing Organizations, where MIMOSA plays a key leadership role and has led the workstreams for digitalization and interoperability in support of asset life-cycle management. The OIIE OGI Pilot includes standard use cases for asset intensive industries, currently featuring an example oil and gas industry process unit.
Active collaboration has begun, by sharing the existing OIIE Use Case Architecture and asset lifecycle management OIIE Use Cases previously developed by MIMOSA and validated in the OIIE OGI Pilot. CII has shared the AWP data requirements that are under development by CII.
Next steps will begin to include CII AWP best practices in applicable, OIIE Use Cases for capital projects, including jointly enhancing existing use cases and the joint development of new ones. CII and MIMOSA encourage interested organizations to join and participate in each association to fully support this important industry-led effort.
Organizations that participate have the potential to benefit in many ways including:
System of Systems interoperability results in less reliance on expensive, fragile, custom integration between systems, reducing IT costs while increasing agility and sustainability.
Education and training to a common set of industry practices and standards, provides a more flexible and efficient digital economy work force, benefitting industry and workers alike with reduced loss of knowledge and expertise.
Investment in future proofed, vendor neutral, interoperable data, enables industry to create, capture, manage and reuse digital information, as a strategic asset throughout the entire physical asset lifecycle, deriving significantly more business value from capital projects.
Owners identified the opportunity to cut CAPEX spend by 15-20% through better information sharing with improved schedules and productivity due to far less time wasted looking for information, and much more time on tools.
CII, based at The University of Texas at Austin, is a consortium of more than 140 leading owner, engineering- contractor, and supplier firms from both the public and private arenas. These organizations have joined together to enhance the business effectiveness and sustainability of the capital facility life cycle through CII research, related initiatives, and industry alliances.
MIMOSA is a 501 (c) 6 not-for-profit industry trade association dedicated to developing and encouraging the adoption of open, supplier-neutral IT and IM standards enabling physical asset lifecycle management spanning manufacturing, fleet and facilities environments. MIMOSA standards and collaboratively developed specifications enable Digital Twins to be defined and maintained on a supplier-neutral basis, while also using Digital Twins to provide Context for Big Data (IIOT and other sensor-related data) and Analytics.
National Instruments Rebrands, Acquires Data Analytics Company
by Gary Mintchell | Jun 17, 2020 | News, Organizations, Standards
I debated for most of the day about using my energy to work on this blog post about NI (formerly known as National Instruments). It has long been one of my favorite companies. Its user conference, NI Week, overflowed with energy and bright engineers with big ideas. The founders were brilliant, yet humble, men. And I met some of the nicest people in the industry there.
Their marketing and PR people identified me with automation and control, for obvious reasons. Beginning in about 2010 or 2011, they seemed to become more distant until by the 2011 and 2012 NI Weeks, they didn’t talk to me about a single interview. I met with marketing people through 2014, and then all was quiet.
But I’m a keen observer. I noticed that industrial automation and even IoT were being rapidly de-emphasized in favor of the test market. That’s where the company started and remains the core competency. I also noticed that by 2012 the keynotes were no longer about “gee whiz” technology but rather about big engineering ideas—none of which were in industrial control and automation.
And they began emphasizing “NI” rather than the entire name more than 10 years ago.
Therefore, the big splash about rebranding and new directions were not entirely a surprise to me. Well, the green color scheme was. And I have a pet peeve about senior executives explaining what the logo means. I believe that a logo should be self-evident. But as for a new direction, everything they talked about were things I’ve seen them doing for years—solving big engineering problems, community contributions, diversity, sustainability. It’s almost like internally they realized what they had become. But I knew it. No longer the company of the small sale where the average order was $1,000, but now the company of solving big engineering problems.
Which is all good.
Even so, I am interested in data—data acquisition, analytics, and data used for problem solving.
Therefore, the acquisition. This should be a great move. I’m a possibility thinker, so I see these moves and see all the possibilities for good that can happen with a strong merger.
The news in short:
The acquisition strengthens data analytics software capability to provide enterprise-level value.
NI has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire OptimalPlus Ltd., a global leader in data analytics software for the semiconductor, automotive, and electronics industries. The acquisition will expand NI’s enterprise software capabilities to provide customers with business-critical insights through advanced product analytics across their product development flow and supply chain.
NI and OptimalPlus serve highly complementary positions in the semiconductor, automotive, and electronics industries. NI test systems are used in semiconductor manufacturing with OptimalPlus serving as a leading supplier of semiconductor manufacturing data analytics. Similarly, the NI automotive and electronics production test offerings are complementary to OptimalPlus’ growing automotive and electronics analytics business. Combining the strength of NI’s software-centric approach with OptimalPlus’ enterprise-level analytics software is expected to dramatically increase the value of test and manufacturing data, enabling product insights that will improve quality, efficiency and time to market for both NI and OptimalPlus customers.
“The addition of OptimalPlus’ data analytics capabilities will enable us to accelerate our growth strategy by increasing enterprise-level value for shared customers in the semiconductor and automotive industries.” said Eric Starkloff, NI President and CEO. “During this age of digital transformation, we remain committed to delivering innovative software and systems that leverage a robust data platform to address our customers’ business challenges. I welcome the employees of OptimalPlus and look forward to collectively accelerating our long-term growth ambitions.”
“OptimalPlus is excited to join the NI team. We are confident NI is the ideal partner to accelerate our innovation and increase sales opportunities through advanced product analytics,” said Dan Glotter, OptimalPlus Founder and CEO. “It is evident we share the unique commitment to high-quality software tools and need for world-class customer experience. The acquisition by a technology leader like NI is testament to the leading-edge innovation delivered by our R&D, Product and Data Science teams in Israel and to the great dedication and commitment of our employees across the world. Together with NI, we will provide enterprise-level analytics to enable customers to achieve their digital transformation objectives while expanding our customer reach.”
The acquisition is subject to customary closing conditions, including regulatory approval. The transaction is valued at $365 million and expected to close in early Q3 2020. OptimalPlus had 2019 revenue of $51 million and employs approximately 240 employees. Due to the highly complementary nature of the companies, there will be minimal cost synergies from this transaction. NI plans to fund the transaction through a combination of cash on hand and debt.
About OptimalPlus
OptimalPlus develops analytic solutions based on its big data platform technology which combines machine-learning with a global data infrastructure to provide real-time product analytics and to extract insights from data across the entire supply chain. Serving tier-1 suppliers and OEMs, in the market of semiconductor, automotive and electronic industries. The company provides technology to enhance key manufacturing metrics such as yield and efficiency, improve product quality and reliability and provide full supply chain visibility. OptimalPlus headquarters and R&D are in Israel with offices in Asia, Europe, and the United States.
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Jan 17, 2018 8:23am PT
Wattpad Banks $51 Million From Tencent, Other Investors to Fund Entertainment Projects
Courtesy of Wattpad
Wattpad, which hosts a platform with more than 400 million user-generated stories, has raised $51 million from investors including Chinese internet giant Tencent Holdings.
Other investors in the round include BDC, Globe Telecom’s Kickstart Ventures, Peterson Group, and existing investor Raine Group.
The Toronto-based company said the new funding will go toward expanding entertainment projects — adapting Wattpad stories for TV, film, digital media, and publishing — as well as continued investment in machine learning, interactive storytelling and other initiatives. Wattpad also plans to staff up across all departments.
Wattpad has TV, film and digital-video partnerships with NBCUniversal’s Universal Cable Productions, eOne, CW Seed and others. The company works with publishing houses such as HarperCollins, Hachette Audio and Hachette Romans, and says hundreds of Wattpad stories have been published as traditional books.
To date, Wattpad has raised $117.8 million. Previous investors include OMERS Ventures, August Capital, Union Square Ventures, Golden Venture Partners, Khosla Ventures, AME Cloud Ventures, Northleaf Venture Catalyst Fund, and Version One Ventures.
Founded in 2006, Wattpad now has more than 65 million users globally, growing more than 40% in 2017. Last year, it launched Tap by Wattpad, which delivers short, conversational-style narratives and now has over 300,000 stories available.
“We empower diverse storytellers all over the world, helping them build a community of passionate readers; at the same time, we also connect Hollywood with stories that have massive built-in audiences,” Wattpad co-founder and CEO Allen Lau said in a statement. “This new funding from Tencent and our other investors shows that confidence in our vision is growing alongside our revenue, our success and our community.”
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PULLING A FAST ONE THE LONG-AWAITED MATCH RACE BETWEEN MICHAEL JOHNSON AND DONOVAN BAILEY TURNED INTO A TRAVESTY, FURTHER WOUNDING AN AILING SPORT
Tim Layden
Briefly, the sport had life. This was at 12 minutes before six
on Sunday afternoon in the pale, artificial light of the Toronto
SkyDome, when Donovan Bailey and Michael Johnson were called to
their marks for a 150-meter match race to determine (some said)
the World's Fastest Human and (most agreed) the prognosis for
track and field in North America. At the starter's call Bailey
formed his mouth into a circle and desperately sucked air into
his lungs, while Johnson stood momentarily frozen to Bailey's
right, a palpable chill between them. The building went silent,
and anyone with a pulse could feel it in his throat.
This was long after the sport's most intriguing event in many
years had been entrusted to a comically overmatched small-time
outfit that came close to being forced to cancel the race, only
to be rescued by a swashbuckling Toronto millionaire whose nom
de deal is Fast Eddie. This was after Bailey, the 100-meter
Olympic champion and world-record holder from Canada, had for
several weeks undercut the only reason to run the race at all,
protesting repeatedly that it wouldn't determine the World's
Fastest Human, because he had won that title in Atlanta. This
was scarcely 24 hours after Bailey had threatened to pull out of
the race in a dispute over the track design and then had issued
a pathetic press release, stating that he was running "under
duress" caused by the organizers' ineptitude.
And this was before Bailey popped from his blocks and shockingly
jumped Johnson 10 strides into the race, overhauling the
previously untouchable Olympic 200- and 400-meter champion from
the U.S. before they left the turn at 75 meters, shortly after
which Johnson briefly eyeballed Bailey, grabbed his own left
thigh and pulled up, violating--unwittingly or otherwise--the
last principle of an event whose credibility hung by a thread:
Both men must finish the damn race.
This all came at the tail end of a lost weekend for track and
field. On the Saturday morning before the Toronto race, the
International Amateur Athletic Federation, the governing body
for the sport, suspended Mary Slaney--the most famous and
successful U.S. women's middle-distance runner in history--and
hurdler Sandra Farmer-Patrick, both of whom had been found to
have suspicious testosterone levels at last year's U.S. Olympic
trials. Hours later, a two-mile quasi match race between two of
the world's foremost distance runners, Algeria's Noureddine
Morceli and Ethiopia's Haile Gebrselassie, in Hengelo, the
Netherlands, with $1 million promised to the winner if he broke
the eight-minute barrier, was spoiled when Morceli ran
listlessly, then dropped out with a lap to run. Gebrselassie
went on to break the world record with a time of 8:01.08. "Our
sport has lost ground in Europe, too," promoter Jos Hermens said
before the two-mile. "We need new things." Instead, 22,000 fans
got a stopwatch cakewalk that only a track nut could appreciate.
On Saturday night Frankie Fredericks of Namibia, a four-time
Olympic silver medalist at 100 and 200 meters who was peeved at
his exclusion from the Toronto race, failed to show for a
150-meter race in Cardiff, Wales, at which he had promised to
lay down a swift 150 that neither Bailey nor Johnson would
match. A conference call during which Fredericks, who was at
home in Monte Carlo, was to have explained his absence failed to
materialize as well, supposedly due to telephone problems.
In all, a weekend that was to herald a new era for track and
field was instead a train wreck. Bailey is surely thrilled; his
title is secure, as is his reputation for growing very large in
the biggest races, and if all the bills are paid he will be $1.5
million richer. Canadian fans are giddy at the mastery of a
drug-free Jamaican immigrant (unlike Ben Johnson) over American
sprinters. But the list of those enriched by the events of
Saturday and Sunday is short indeed, and does not include track
and field.
The idea of Bailey and Johnson running against each other at the
hybrid distance was born last August in Atlanta, on the night
after Johnson's epochal 19.32-second performance in the 200
meters. The midwife was none other than NBC's Bob Costas, who
ignorantly split Johnson's time in half, came up with 9.66, and
since Bailey's world record in the 100 was 9.84, declared
Johnson the World's Fastest Human. (If you think of Johnson's
time in the 200 as the product of two equal 100s--which, of
course, you can't--you must consider that one of them includes a
flying start; off a flying start in the Olympic 4x100 relay,
Bailey ran an 8.95.) "It was a person who knew nothing about
track talking about it with a lot of people listening," Bailey
said. But it struck a nerve. The question--didn't Johnson
deserve the title of World's Fastest?--was asked at subsequent
European meets. Bailey and Johnson got into a shouting match
before a meet in Berlin.
Three promoters made offers to stage a 150-meter race; just two
of the offers were significant. One came from Nova
International, a Newcastle, England-based company operated by
former distance runner Brendan Foster, and the other came from
Magellan Entertainment Group, a company for which Bailey had
made a post-Olympic appearance. The bid went to Magellan, which
guaranteed a $500,000 appearance fee to each athlete, with an
additional $1 million to the winner. Magellan also proposed an
"undercard" of other events. The boxing metaphor was ominous for
anyone familiar with the nefarious business of that sport.
Once announced, the race was hailed as a vehicle to save a dying
sport. One year after crowds filled the Atlanta Olympic Stadium
for morning heats, four indoor and two major outdoor U.S. meets
were canceled for lack of interest. "We need something to get us
to the year 2000, to the next Olympic Games," said U.S. sprinter
Jon Drummond. "Jesse Owens raced against a horse once. I'd race
against a horse for a million dollars, if that's what it takes
to keep it alive."
Bailey and Johnson ripped each other venomously from late winter
until the day before the race. If the sniping was contrived, it
was also believable. From Bailey: "Michael's ego needs a title;
mine doesn't." From Johnson: "The original idea was to run last
summer, while we were both hot. Donovan wouldn't do that,
because he was getting his ass kicked all over Europe by Dennis
Mitchell. Fine, he should have said, 'I'm the World's Fastest
Human next June.'"
While anticipation built, Magellan drowned. It is a small
company that specializes in motivational seminars for
corporations, but it had never attempted anything as ambitious
as this race. Magellan's executive director Salim Khoja once
served jail time for fraud, and president Giselle Briden
declared personal bankruptcy in 1992, facts that were reported
by the Canadian newsmagazine Venture last December, leaving
Khoja and Briden in a hopelessly weak negotiating position with
race sponsors and TV networks. (CBS bought the U.S. rights for a
bargain-basement $50,000.) By early May, Magellan was behind in
paying many of the race's organizing costs, and creditors were
clamoring at the company's door. Khoja and Briden asked Toronto
dealmaker Edwin Cogan, who had been working behind the scenes
since December, to bail them out.
"They got in over their heads, and then they surrendered," said
Cogan a day before the race. A 62-year-old with fierce blue eyes
that must be hell across a negotiating table, Cogan claims to
have brokered $25 billion in deals in his lifetime. For this
race, he estimates that he fronted roughly $1 million, ensuring
that the race would go on and that Bailey and Johnson would be
paid their aggregate $2 million. Cogan associate Dennis Jewitt
was put in charge of restructuring the event's finances. "I
might make $100,000 out of this, I might lose $100,000," Cogan
said. "It's insignificant money."
The final three days stretched credulity. On Friday evening
Bailey entered the SkyDome to examine the track for the first
time and was shocked at the tight radius of the turn. He
simmered overnight and returned to work out on Saturday, at the
same time as Johnson. Bailey and his agent, former Irish miler
Ray Flynn, asked Jewitt and Cogan to move the finish line 11.8
meters down the track. They refused. "We'd lose 5,000 seats and
two cameras," Jewitt said. "Impossible."
Johnson said, "If they move it, I won't run. Donovan is just
looking for any excuse to get out of this race."
Bailey returned to his hotel, hung out with friends and family
from the Toronto suburb of Oakville, and hacked on his laptop
until the small hours of Sunday morning. Flynn talked him out of
holding a press conference before the race but couldn't persuade
him not to issue a press release. At 10 a.m. on Sunday, Flynn's
21-year-old nephew, Ryan Clement, who is also the starting
quarterback for the University of Miami, was awakened in his
Toronto hotel by a call from his aunt Jane. "Donovan doesn't
have anybody to write press releases, so they asked me to do
it," Clement said. (While this is lousy publicity for track,
it's terrific for Miami.) He wrote in longhand, and Bailey
tinkered with it before his coach, Dan Pfaff, typed it up. The
17-line statement damned race promoters for their "egregious
miscarriage of the competitive spirit of this competition."
Flynn claimed he had been told that the curve would be
equivalent to that found in lanes 7 and 8 of an ordinary track,
while Johnson and his manager, Brad Hunt, said they were told it
would approximate the tighter lanes 3 and 4. Roland Muller,
architect for Mondo America, which built and installed the
track, said, "I was told to make lanes 3 and 4." The press
release, however cathartic for Bailey, smelled like a
prepackaged bailout.
As it turned out, Bailey didn't need an excuse. He was
brilliant, scorching Johnson on the curve, where it had been
assumed that Johnson would be far superior. "If I was two steps
behind coming off the turn, he was in trouble," Bailey said. He
then stuck the knife deeper, accusing Johnson of feigning injury
to salvage pride. "It's obvious that the gap was going to get
bigger and my butt was going to get smaller and smaller as I
pulled away from him," Bailey said. "He knew he was going to get
hammered after the first 30 meters, so he knew he had to pull up."
Runners tank to preserve ego and earning power, though Johnson
never has. Still, there was a buzz before this race that with so
much for each man to lose, surely somebody would pull up rather
than be beaten. "I lost the race with an injury," Johnson said.
Although Bailey softened his stance some on Monday with a
statement offering his hope that "the injury he sustained is not
season-threatening," it appeared that when Johnson reached for
his thigh, he was already toast. Now he must live with knowing
that in the most publicized race of his generation, he never
reached the finish line. The reason doesn't matter.
After crouching on the track, Johnson limped to the bleachers,
while Bailey celebrated wildly. The momentary thrill of the
start was long dead, and in its place was this image: Two great
sprinters, one with an excuse he didn't need, the other with an
excuse nobody wanted to hear, and everyone around them scarred
by the experience.
COLOR PHOTO: BILL FRAKES Bailey was all alone at the finish because, he says, Johnson pulled up when he knew he was beaten. [Donovan Bailey looking back at Michael Johnson in race]
COLOR PHOTO: AL TIELEMANS As the runners came out of the turn at 75 meters and headed home, the lead belonged to Bailey. [Michael Johnson and Donovan Bailey in race]
COLOR PHOTO: BILL FRAKES It was a solitary stroll home for Johnson, who maintained, "I lost the race with an injury." [Michael Johnson walking on track]
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TechStars buys NameLayer to save its startups from awful domain names
Ricardo Bilton September 24, 2013 10:01 AM
TechStars is investing in its future startups in an interesting way: by buying a whole bunch of web domains.
The startup accelerator says that it’s bought NameLayer, a repository of “high-quality,” tech-focused domain names that it hopes to put to good use in the coming years.
So why domain names and why now? NameLayer founder Julian Shapiro puts it simply: There are a lot of startups out there with really bad names.
“There’s a huge difference between a half-assed Web 2.0 company name and one that actually sounds right,” Shapiro said.
In other words, by buying NameLayer, TechStars hopes to make sure that its future companies come out with names closer to Zendesk than, say, Xobonko or BettrBoom (both of which are fictitious, thank goodness).
This is huge for the TechStars startups, who are given only a few weeks to develop not only a product, but also their branding, logo, and marketing. And not acquiring the right domain name can bring that entire process to a halt.
Above: The NameLayer approach is simple, but effective.
While Shapiro acknowledges that the “high quality” distinction is a bit arbitrary, it turns out there’s a whole process behind what NameLayer offers.
NameLayer’s domains, some of which sold as high as $9,000, were collected via an interesting sort of technical and linguistic analysis, which Shaprio used to find the real gems. Two word domains, for example, are particularly good (Socialbond.com, AdDeck.com), as are those that have few syllables and are hard to misspell.
“The idea is that you can come up with really good combinations that produce meaning via abstraction or alteration and also have a concrete use,” Shapiro said.
While some basic math would suggest that TechStars’s acquisition of NameLayer cost it over $800,000 (235 domains priced at an average of $3,500), Shapiro said that the sale price was a bit lower than that. “The acquisition price wasn’t a huge number but it was the right number given the fact that we would have had to wait a long time to turn over the inventory,” Shapiro said. (Translation: The domains were sold wholesale.)
Considering that Shapiro could have also sold the domains to a company like GoDaddy, I can’t help but feel he made the right choice going with TechStars.
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Venture Capital Jamaica
Oversight Committee (OSC)
Ecosystem Stakeholders
Investor Panel
Angel Investors Networks
Business Service Intermediaries (BSIs)
International Development Partners
PSOJ
The NBMC
J'can teams secure spots in international Business Model Competition
For the second time since the inception of the National Business Model Competition (NBMC), a total of five local university teams, including this year’s national competition winner Ja Bio Plastics, will travel to Utah, United States, to defend Jamaica’s global championship and compete in the International Business Model Competition (IBMC) to be held between May 9 and 10.
The University of the West Indies’ Ja Bio Plastics team will showcase their winning presentation offering a natural alternative to non-biodegradable plastics by using plant matter to prepare a degradable, compostable, water soluble and edible solution to the international judges at the Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah. They will compete along with PreeLabs (University of the West Indies), C2ML and Xermosol (University of Technology), and Marji Tech (Northern Caribbean University).
The additional teams advance via the highly competitive ‘At-Large Round’ where only 12 spaces are offered internationally. Jamaica has again secured four of the coveted spots, a feat that had never before been accomplished. They, respectively, will also present their ingenious business models for an electronic drone-flown security camera; a product that aids in feminine health by naturally treating yeast infections; a bacteria- and germ-eliminating device for public spaces; and an environmentally friendly product that provides manufacturers with material to replace plastic.
Tremendous Achievement
The National Business Model Competition, now in its sixth year, is an initiative of the Development Bank of Jamaica (DBJ) through its Jamaica Venture Capital Programme and the Private Sector Organization of Jamaica.
Audrey Richards, Project Coordinator of the Jamaica Venture Capital Programme, said, “This is a tremendous achievement for the Jamaican programme. It endorses the work our universities are doing in building future business leaders. It is also an endorsement of the quality of the judges at our competition and it signals that we are on the right path to the development of a robust entrepreneurial ecosystem.”
In previous years, Jamaica has done remarkably and progressively well at the IBMC. Though competing against 5,000 participants from 42 universities worldwide, the teams from Jamaica have always placed in the top ten, as follows: 2014 – Herboo Enterprise placed 8th; 2015 – JarGro Enterprise reached the semi-finals; 2016 – Guardanna Inc. placed 6th and received honorary mention; 2017 – Natsima Nutraceuticals placed 4th; and in 2018 – Beasc Tech was declared the Global Champion, with Eco Structures placing second and a third team placed in the top ten.
The 2019 NBMC received financial support and technical assistance from sponsors – Inter-American Development Bank’s Multilateral Investment Fund, PanJam Investment, NCB Foundation, GK Capital Management, Musson Foundation, Restaurants Associates (Burger King), Sagicor Group, Scotiabank, and PetroCaribe Development Fund.
© 2020 Jamaica Venture Capital Programme
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King Bach was born as Andrew B. Bachelor! He is a well-known Canadian-American nationality who is an actor, comedian and internet personality who have gained enormous popularity and fame.
He was born in a family that has given him diverse culture and rich ethnicity to share. Asian Jamaican parents who raised him while they worked as accountants brought him up.
He has learned from them the true meaning of hard work. He went on attending Coral Springs Charter School and Florida State University to gain his academic qualifications.
He doesn’t have many shirtless pictures and is quite the opposite in real personality regardless of what he seems like in Vine.
King Bach has used his skills and Vine to gain the love and appreciation of many followers. In fact, he is the one with the highest number of followers in there, and that’s a huge gain!
Not only that much, but he also maintains a very popular YouTube channel from where the videos have been used by many online publications. He has got the immense opportunity because of his popularity in Vine.
He has had roles in House of Lies, Wild ‘n Out, Adult Swim, Black Jesus, The Mindy Project, etc. He is well known for the excellent works that he demonstrates not only by his single hard work but also with collaboration with other famous internet personalities.
King Bach’s net worth have risen to a total of $2 million dollars. That is because of his dedication and continuous effort to do something new and funny! His comedy should indeed rise to a new level in the years to come that would help him to further gain enough sponsors and fans.
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King Bach is a twenty-seven-year-old gentleman with a height of five feet and nine inches. He has a very charming personality and dashing looks.
He is not gay that means he must have already attracted a large number of ladies to himself.
Oh yes, he has dated one of the Vine stars called Liane Valenzuela. Though we don’t know how long they had been dating, we surely know that he and his girlfriend must have had a good understanding because both of them were from the same professional background.
King Bach has a busy life where most of the time demands him putting efforts to making some new videos for the people!
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A video posted by KingBach (@kingbach) on Dec 2, 2016 at 7:36pm PST
He has more than 11.2 million followers on Instagram and has about three thousand posts. All his posts are absorbing, and fans have hit ‘like’ button for many! More about him can be read in his wiki!
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'Paramedics have been deep in the frontlines': Some first responders forced to fight for COVID-19 vaccine
Michelle Maluske CTV Windsor News Reporter
@MMaluskeCTV Contact
Published Wednesday, January 13, 2021 6:07PM EST Last Updated Wednesday, January 13, 2021 7:15PM EST
WINDSOR, ONT. -- When Ontario rolled out the list for who could get the vaccine in Stage 1, Essex-Windsor EMS Chief Bruce Krauter says he was disappointed paramedics were not included.
Krauter advocated for his 258 frontline paramedics to be moved up the vaccine rollout list.
“Paramedics have been deep in the frontlines, in the trenches of COVID-19 since March of 2020,” he says.
And Krauter says they have been in high risk exposure situations throughout, including testing residents in long-term care in the first wave and conducting drive-thru swab clinics this past summer.
“It’s just not a matter of paramedics going into homes and possibly picking up COVID-19 patients and bringing them to hospital, but we were at the exposure risk of very high,” he says.
Krauter asked to have it changed, and the province initially agreed to move them to the end of Stage 1.
However, just before Christmas, Krauter says they found out paramedics were approved to proceed with vaccines as soon as it could be organized.
Krauter credits the support of officials at the Windsor-Essex Health Unit and Windsor Regional Hospital for clearing the way for paramedics.
Vaccinations started for paramedics last week.
“We've had very good uptake. I think we're around 80 per cent registration and its actually growing every day,” he says. “I'm suspecting that we could be close to 90 almost 100 per cent of paramedics getting vaccinated.”
Meantime, Windsor firefighters also had to battle to move up the list.
Chief of Windsor Fire and Rescue Services Steven LaForet tells CTV News, “I think there was some misunderstanding, or not some great knowledge as to what that definition (of health care workers) fully encompassed.”
LaForet says his 258 frontline firefighters respond to medical calls and they will now be able to get a vaccine.
“It’s not for members of our other divisions, of training division for example, administrative division or apparatus division,” he adds.
Meantime, Windsor police were not successful in their efforts to move up the list.
“It should be rolled out to all, frontline first responders,” says Shawn McCurdy, president of the Windsor Police Association.
He represents 485 officers who he says have numerous contacts every day with the general public, on a wide range of calls for help.
“We don't want to jump the queue in front of individuals who are vulnerable and what not, we just think that all frontline personnel, including police, fire and EMS should be inoculated at the same time,” McCurdy says.
The good news is all first responders are included in the list for the Stage 2 vaccine rollout in Ontario, slated to begin in March.
In the meantime, McCurdy says his members have offered to the hospital and the health unit, to take any last-minute cancellations of vaccination appointments in Windsor.
A COVID-19 vaccine is prepared to be administered at a hospital in Toronto on Monday, Dec. 14, 2020. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Frank Gunn
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'Don't forget about us': Ontario gastroenterologists who work outside hospitals frustrated by vaccine schedules
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Man City Enter New Contract Talks With Pep Guardiola - But Keep Replacement Lined Up
By Jamie Spencer
Oct 23, 2020, 12:45 PM GMT+1
Man City have opened contract talks with Pep Guardiola | Marc Atkins/Getty Images
Exclusive - Manchester City are in talks with manager Pep Guardiola over a new contract to extend his stay at the Etihad Stadium beyond the end of this season when his current deal expires.
City are hopeful that the 49-year-old, who has guided them to two Premier League titles and four other domestic cups in four seasons in charge, will commit his future to the club.
Guardiola has led Man City to two Premier League titles | GLYN KIRK/Getty Images
However, a source has informed 90min that City officials are also preparing themselves in case Guardiola wants to walk away and have started identifying potential candidates to succeed him. That list includes Leicester manager Brendan Rodgers.
It has been a difficult year for Guardiola on a personal level, having lost his mother to coronavirus in April. In September, he stated his desire to remain at City, but also insisted he has to feel he deserves it and hinted he will wait to see how the 2020/21 campaign pans out before deciding.
“I would love to stay longer here,” he said then. “It is a place I love to be but I have to deserve. This club achieved standards in the last decade but we have to maintain that and I have to deserve it. I am going to see if I deserve it this season in terms of how the club goes forward and improves.”
Guardiola is in his fifth season in Manchester, which already makes it the longest spell in his managerial career to date, compared to four years at Barcelona and then three at Bayern Munich.
Guardiola has already been at Man City longer than any other club | DENIS LOVROVIC/Getty Images
90min understands that it is City’s priority to keep Guardiola at the Etihad Stadium. Club sources believe there is a real chance he will sign fresh terms to stay, especially following the arrival of close friend Juan Manuel Lillo as assistant coach to replace Mikel Arteta, now of course at Arsenal.
But City executives Ferran Soriano and Txiki Begiristain are refusing to approach the situation with any complacency and have also started weighing up possible replacements should the incumbent Guardiola ultimately opt against signing a new contract.
Rodgers is one of those names up for consideration, having impressed on his return to the Premier League from Scotland. The 47-year-old former Liverpool boss won back-to-back domestic trebles north of the border with Celtic and has now guided Leicester back to European football.
Leicester's Brendan Rodgers is being considered as a replacement | Michael Regan/Getty Images
Rodgers signed a long-term contract at Leicester until 2025 less than a year ago. But should there be a call from City next summer, the opportunity may be too hard to turn down.
For more from Jamie Spencer, follow him on Twitter and Facebook!
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TF Iron Soldiers join Macedonian Ranger’s birthday celebration
Combined Joint Task Force 101
Story by Sgt. Brent Powell
08.30.2010 PATIKA PROVINCE, Afghanistan - Macedonian Rangers at Forward Operating Base Sharana recently celebrated their 18th birthday, and U.S. Soldiers from Task Force Iron Rakkasan were there to join them for the event.
The two forces have worked together for several months now and will be going their separate ways soon. They took the opportunity to not only celebrate the birthday, but to also show their mutual respect and appreciation.
Lt. Col. David Fivecoat, Battalion Commander of the 187 Infantry out of Delaware, Ohio presents Capt. Borche Turturov, commander of the Macedonia Army rangers from Skopje, Macedonia with an award of appreciation during a celebration of the Macedonia Army's 18th birthday on COP Shar Hawza on Aug. 18, Paktika province, Afghanistan. This event was coordinated by Task Force Iron Rakkasans on FOB Sharana. Photo by Spc. Lorenzo Ware
During the event, Soldiers from both forces exchanged
stories and reflected on the events of the last six-months that helped cement a bond of friendship between them, said U.S. Army 1st Lt. R.J. Peek, 3-187 spokesman, from Clarksville, Tenn.
That friendship will continue even after the two forces separate. The Iron Rakkasans of 3rd Battalion, 187th Infantry Regiment will soon be relocating to East Ghazni, and the Macedonian Rangers will move to Paktiya, said Peek.
Everyone who attended the celebration seemed to enjoy themselves and the chance to fellowship with their comrades in arms.
At the conclusion of the event, leaders recognized some of the hard working soldiers among their ranks.
Five Macedonian Rangers were promoted, and one Vermont National Guard Soldier from Company D, 3rd Bn., 172nd Inf. Reg., received a Combat Action Badge.
In addition, four Afghan Uniformed Police from the Sar Hawza district received certificates of appreciation for their part in securing Palau Village.
Among those attending was U.S. Army Lt. Col. David Fivecoat, a native of Delaware, Ohio, and the battalion commander of 3rd Battalion, 187th Infantry Regiment. He presented a special plaque to the Macedonian commander that boasted a battle-ax engraved with the historic Rakkasan Torii.
“It was an honor for the Iron Rakkasans to have fought shoulder-to-shoulder with men of your calibre,” he said. “This battle-ax is to show our appreciation for the Macedonian Rangers. During these last months together, they showed a true dedication and devotion that greatly contributed to the overall success of the mission.”
Returning the gesture, the Macedonian Rangers also presented a plaque to Fivecoat and his Soldiers.
“When you see this plaque, remember that we are your brothers,” said Macedonian Capt. Borche Turturov, Macedonian Ranger commander, from Skopje, Macedonia. “Our soldiers and our unit will continue to support you in your efforts.”
Overall, the day was more than just a birthday celebration. It was an opportunity for those present to recognize past achievements and honor a partnership and friendship formed by combat. It was a day for friends to gather before parting paths, and to solidify the friendships they have made along the way, said Peek.
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Medical, life sciences and laboratory
Release and label papers
Food packaging, baking and cooking solutions
Beverage filter media and packaging solutions
Other specialty papers
Construction, surface and furniture materials
Interleave papers
Insulation paper and specialty pulp
Tape backings
Abrasive backings
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Interim report January-March 2008: Solid net sales growth during the first quarter
Press releases in local languages
Ahlstrom releases
Ahlstrom Corporation STOCK EXCHANGE RELEASE 25.4.2008
Key highlights in January-March:
Sales grew by 11.9%, amounting to EUR 466.2 million (EUR 416.5 million) as a result of recent growth investments. Excluding the currency impact, net sales grew by 17.1%.
Operating profit excluding non-recurring items decreased to EUR 18.4 million (EUR 19.6 million). This was due to a further delay in the ramp-up of the La Gère release base paper investment burdening operating profit by EUR 3.6 million, as well as the continued rise of raw material prices.
Cash flow from operating activities grew significantly to EUR 40.7 million (EUR -12.0 million) primarily as a result of increased cash flow from working capital.
Outlook:
As a result of implemented growth investments and restructuring actions, Ahlstrom is well positioned to grow and clearly improve its operating financial performance in 2008.
Key figures, EUR million
Q1/2008
* excluding non-recurring items
Profit before taxes
Return on capital employed (ROCE),%
Earnings per share, EUR
*excluding non-recurring items
Cash earnings per share, EUR
Gearing ratio, %
Risto Anttonen, CEO, comments on Ahlstrom's first quarter:
- Volumes and overall demand for most of Ahlstrom's products continued to be good during the first quarter, with net sales growth on track. Net sales grew especially strongly in the Fiber Composites segment and in South America as a result of recent growth investments. During the quarter, we made another new investment for future growth by acquiring a vegetable parchment company in the USA, and one of the highlights of the quarter was also the start-up of our new glass nonwovens plant in Tver, Russia.
- Operating environment continued to be challenging during the first quarter of 2008, with main raw materials and energy prices rising further. At the same time, the predictability of the market became increasingly short-term oriented.
- Regarding profitability, we were able to improve operating profit excluding non-recurring items from the fourth quarter of 2007 as a result of the restructuring actions taken, but were still below the level of the first quarter of 2007. This was primarily caused by the further delay in the ramp-up of the release base paper investment in our La Gère plant in France.
- As stated earlier, Ahlstrom is well positioned to clearly improve its financial performance in 2008, as the full effect of the restructuring actions start to show more clearly during the second half of this year. All in all, we expect 2008 to be more stable than 2007 for several reasons. We will focus on leveraging on the growth and restructuring actions taken last year. Also, the Release & Label Papers business area is already improving its performance month by month, and finally, we do not expect the raw material prices to escalate at the same pace as in 2007.
The demand for most of Ahlstrom's products continued to be good in the main markets. Towards the end of the review period, however, the predictability of the market became increasingly short-term oriented.
In the Fiber Composites segment, the overall demand for the products of the Nonwovens business area continued to be on a good level, with a slight slowdown of demand in wiping fabrics towards the end of the quarter. The growth of wallcover materials continued strong. In the Filtration business area, the transportation filtration market was solid in Europe, South America and Asia. In the USA, the growth of transportation filtration products was flat, and the air filtration market continued to suffer due to the weak construction market. Demand in the Glass Nonwovens business area continued at a good level in all geographical regions and all products, especially the windmill market in the USA.
In the Specialty Papers segment, the demand in the Technical Papers business area grew from previous year. The demand was particularly strong in vegetable parchment and industrial papers. For the products of the Release & Label Papers business area, demand was two-folded: South American market grew strongly, but on the other hand, the current overcapacity of release base paper resulted in lower demand for Ahlstrom's products.
Raw material costs remained high during the review period. The average USD market price for BHKP pulp (Bleached Hardwood Kraft pulp, e.g. eucalyptus pulp), was on average approximately 18.2% higher than in the first quarter of 2007 and 5.4% higher than in the last quarter of 2007. The market price for NBSK pulp (Northern Bleached Softwood Kraft pulp) was on average approximately 17.0% higher than in the first quarter of 2007 and 4.1% higher than in the last quarter of 2007. Also the USD prices for rayon and polyester, Ahlstrom's most important synthetic raw materials increased significantly. The price of rayon rose by 28% and the price for polyester by 8% from the first quarter of 2007.
Energy prices increased in the quarter due to rising oil prices. Ahlstrom's main energy sources are natural gas and electricity.
FINANCIAL PERFORMANCE IN JANUARY-MARCH 2008
Ahlstrom's business is reported in two segments: the Fiber Composites segment and the Specialty Papers segment. The Fiber Composites segment comprises the Nonwovens, Filtration and Glass Nonwovens business areas, and the Specialty Papers segment comprises the Release & Label Papers and the Technical Papers business areas.
Ahlstrom provides information on the breakdown of net sales per segment, per business area and per geographical area. The breakdown of operating profit is reported per segment.
The Group's net sales grew by 11.9% amounting to EUR 466.2 million (EUR 416.5 million) compared with the same period last year. Recent acquisitions increased the net sales by 17.6% in the first quarter. On the other hand, the impact of the closed units decreased the net sales by 7.0%. Exchange rate fluctuations, mainly the weakening of the USD, decreased the net sales approximately by 5.2% from the first quarter of 2007. Excluding the currency effect, the net sales grew by 17.1%. Comparable net sales adjusted for the currency effect, acquisitions and closures grew by 6.5% from the same period last year.
The most important factors contributing to the organic growth were the overall good demand of the Glass Nonwovens business area as well as the additional sales from the new wiping fabrics production line in Green Bay, USA.
Sales volumes developed favourably, growing organically by 4.8% from the first quarter of 2007, reflecting the overall good demand in most of Ahlstrom's product lines.
Net sales by segment and geographical area
Of the Group net sales, the Fiber Composites segment accounted for 54% and the Specialty Papers segment 46%.
The net sales of the Fiber Composites segment grew to EUR 252.0 million (EUR 206.4 million), up 22.1% from the previous year. Excluding the currency effect, net sales grew by 30.7%. Sales volumes grew by 33.5% during the review period. In the Nonwovens business area, net sales growth was mainly attributable to the acquisitions and organic investments completed in 2007. Net sales of the Filtration business area decreased slightly due to the weakening of the USD against the euro. In the Glass Nonwovens business area, net sales grew as a result of recent investments in the USA.
The Specialty Papers segment reported net sales of EUR 217.0 million for the first quarter (EUR 211.4 million), up 2.7% from the first quarter of 2007. In terms of sales volumes, the growth amounted to 3.0%. The Technical Papers business area increased its net sales by 7.5%, whereas the Release & Label Papers business area posted lower net sales due to decreased demand caused by the current overcapacity of release base papers.
In terms of geographical areas, net sales grew strongly, especially in South America as a result of the Ahlstrom-VCP joint venture. In the Asia-Pacific region, net sales decreased due to reduced exports from Ahlstrom's European plants to Asia. However, volumes from Ahlstrom's Asian mills increased by 15%.
Net sales by segment
and business area
Change, %
Fiber Composites
Glass Nonwovens
Specialty Papers
Release & Label Papers
Net sales by geographical area
Financial result
The Group's operating profit amounted to EUR 19.3 million (EUR 23.3 million) for the first quarter of 2008. Excluding non-recurring items of EUR 0.8 million related to sale of assets, the operating profit was EUR 18.4 million (EUR 19.6 million).
The operating profit was mainly burdened by the weak performance of the Release & Label Papers business area, which was due to the further delay in the ramp-up of the release base paper investment in La Gère plant in France, as well as the current excess capacity in the release base paper market. The La Gère loss amounted to EUR 3.6 million during the first quarter. In addition, Group operating profit was burdened by escalating raw material and energy costs, which Ahlstrom was not fully able to offset by its on-going price increases in all business areas.
Ahlstrom's share of the profits of the associated companies was EUR 0.5 million (losses of EUR 0.1 million).
Profit before taxes decreased to EUR 11.2 million (EUR 20.3 million) and excluding non-recurring items, to EUR 10.4 million (EUR 16.5 million) due to the higher financing costs related with recent growth investments.
Income tax expenses amounted to EUR 3.4 million (EUR 6.9 million). Profit for the period decreased to EUR 7.8 million (EUR 13.4 million) and earnings per share (EPS) to EUR 0.15 (EUR 0.29).
Return on capital employed (ROCE) amounted to 6.4% (10.0%), and excluding non-recurring items, to 6.2% (8.4%). Return on equity (ROE) was 4.2% (7.1%). Net asset turnover was 1.5 (1.8).
Financial result by segment
For the first quarter of 2008, the Fiber Composites segment increased its operating profit to EUR 15.0 million (EUR 13.4 million) excluding non-recurring items. The improvement in operating profit was partly slowed down by pricing pressures in the Nonwovens business area.
The Specialty Papers segment's operating profit decreased to EUR 5.2 million (EUR 8.6 million) excluding non-recurring items. The main reasons for the decrease were the above stated delay of the La Gère ramp-up and the overcapacity of the release base papers, which reflected as lower profitability for Ahlstrom's release base paper products.
Fiber Composites segment
Operating profit*
Operating profit*, %
Return on net assets* (RONA), %
Specialty Papers segment
FINANCING IN JANUARY-MARCH 2008
Net cash flow from operating activities increased to EUR 40.7 million (EUR -12.0 million), primarily as a result of increased cash flow from working capital.
Interest-bearing net liabilities decreased by EUR 13.2 million to EUR 477.9 million (December 31, 2007: EUR 491.1 million). Gearing ratio was 64.4% (December 31, 2007: 65.3%) and the equity ratio 43.8% (December 31, 2007: 44.0%).
During the quarter, Ahlstrom finalized negotiations of two bilateral medium-term and one long-term loan agreement for a total amount of EUR 100 million.
CAPITAL EXPENDITURE IN JANUARY-MARCH 2008
Ahlstrom's strategy is to grow both organically and by acquisitions. Ahlstrom's growth investments are targeted to expand business to fast growing markets and serve customers globally. The investments are expected to generate net sales amounting to 1.5 times the investment value in three to five years and reach a return of capital employed of at least 13%.
In January-March 2008, Ahlstrom's capital expenditure amounted to EUR 31.9 million (EUR 29.1 million), including acquisitions of EUR 11.0 million (no acquisitions in January-March 2007).
In 2008, the organic investments are expected to be below EUR 100 million including the following, previously announced major investments: food nonwovens line to Chirnside, the UK, wiping fabrics line in Paulinia, Brazil, and partly the new medical nonwovens plant to be built in Gujarat, India.
Acquisitions and new investment decisions
On February 1, 2008 Ahlstrom announced that it had signed an agreement to acquire Friend Group Inc., which consists of West Carrollton Parchment Company and West Carrollton Converting Company. The deal was closed on February 13, 2008, and the acquisition price was EUR 9.8 million.
Friend Group employs 162 people and has two sites in West Carrollton serving mainly the food packaging market in the USA. West Carrollton Group is a producer of vegetable parchment and has parchmentizing and converting operations located in West Carrollton, Ohio, the USA. This acquisition enables Ahlstrom to build a global platform for its vegetable parchment business, develop new applications for the product as well as improve its customer service worldwide.
Organic growth investment decisions
Ahlstrom made no new organic investment decisions during the first quarter of 2008. Update on the status of previously announced major organic investments is provided below.
Investment start-ups
The new glassfiber tissue production plant established in 2007 in Tver, Russia, started production in March 2008, and will be ramping up production during 2008. The plant will primarily serve Russian building and composites materials industries, and will strengthen Ahlstrom's position as a leading developer and manufacturer of specialty glassfiber tissues.
The building of Ahlstrom's new food nonwovens production line in Chirnside, the UK, has proceeded on schedule, and production is estimated to start during the fourth quarter of 2008. The new line utilizing spunmelt technology will primarily serve the growing infusion products market with next generation spunmelt products used e.g. in teabags.
In Paulinia, Brazil, Ahlstrom is building a nonwoven wiping fabrics production line to start production during the second quarter of 2009. The investment consists of a building and machinery. The new production line will utilize spunlace technology and its main customers operate within the household and industrial wipes sectors in Latin America.
The establishment of the new medical nonwovens plant in Gujarat, India is proceeding well, with operations estimated to start in the first quarter of 2010. The new plant will manufacture a full range of spunmelt fabrics with a main focus on the medical fabrics market and the site also enables future expansions of Ahlstrom businesses in India. The facility will be located in the Mundra Special Economic Zone (SEZ).
CHANGES IN MANAGEMENT
Change of CEO
Ahlstrom Corporation's President and CEO Jukka Moisio announced on February 28, 2008 that after serving the company for 17 years, he will resign from Ahlstrom's service in order to take on new challenges outside the company. Ahlstrom agreed with Jukka Moisio that he would be free to start at his new position as from April 1, 2008.
Ahlstrom's Board of Directors appointed B.Sc. (Econ.) Risto Anttonen (born 1949), Senior Vice President, Commercial Operations, to act as interim CEO as from February 28, 2008. Risto Anttonen joined Ahlstrom in 1991 and has held several senior executive positions in the company.
The Board of Directors has initiated the search for a new CEO.
Changes in Corporate Executive Team
As a result of the change of CEO, the responsibilities of its Corporate Executive Team (CET) were reorganized as follows, effective as from March 19, 2008.
Diego Borello took over the responsibility for Corporate Purchasing in addition to his other duties as Senior Vice President, Innovation and Technology.
The responsibility for Ahlstrom's sales network in Asia-Pacific was assigned to Senior Vice President Laura Raitio, who thus has the responsibility of Ahlstrom's sales network in its entirety. Laura Raitio also took over the responsibility of Human Resources, and continues as Senior Vice President, Marketing.
Gustav Adlercreutz, Senior Vice President, Administration, General Counsel, took over Business Development on top of his other duties.
Tommi Björnman, Senior Vice President of the Glass Nonwovens Business Area, took the responsibility of Ahlstrom's Performance Excellence process in addition to his other tasks.
The other responsibilities of the CET members remain unchanged.
At the end of March 2008, Ahlstrom had 6,552 employees (5,653). The average number of employees during January-March was 6,541 (5,665).
PRINCIPAL RISKS AND UNCERTAINTIES
The principal uncertainties that could affect Ahlstrom's net sales and financial performance in the short-term are related to:
- General economic conditions and changes in the demand for end-user products
- Increases in raw material prices (e.g. pulp, chemicals and synthetic fibers)
- Increases in energy prices
- Fluctuations in foreign currency rates
These factors are described in more detail in Ahlstrom's Annual report 2007, on pages 20-23.
SHARES AND SHARE CAPITAL
During January-March 2008, a total of 2.7 million Ahlstrom shares were traded for a total of EUR 46.7 million. The lowest trading price during the review period was EUR 15.96 and the highest EUR 18.78. The closing price on March 31, 2008 was EUR 18.40 and market capitalization was EUR 858.7 million.
Equity per share of Ahlstrom Group was EUR 15.17 at the end of the review period (December 31, 2007: EUR 15.35).
At the end of the review period, there were no outstanding options entitling to subscription of Ahlstrom shares. The share capital at the end of the review period amounted to EUR 70,005,912.00. The total number of shares on March 31, 2008 was 46,670,608.
SHARE-BASED INCENTIVE PLAN
Ahlstrom's Board of Directors has on February 1, 2008 approved a share-based long-term incentive plan for the Corporate Executive Team (CET) as part of the remuneration and commitment program for the CET.
The plan will last for five years, comprising three earning periods of three calendar years (2008, 2009 and 2010). The plan offers a possibility to receive Ahlstrom shares and cash (equaling the amount of taxes of the total reward) as a reward, if the earnings per share (EPS) targets set by the Board for each earning period are achieved.
If the targets of the plan are attained in full for all three earning periods, the reward to be paid on the basis of the plan will in its entirety correspond to a gross value of 500,000 shares as a maximum.
The Board recommends that the President & CEO owns shares in the Company, corresponding in value to his annual net salary and that the other CET members own shares in the Company, corresponding in value to half of their annual net salary.
At the same time a cash-based long-term incentive plan for 2008-2010 was approved for other key employees of the Ahlstrom Group.
EVENTS AFTER THE REVIEW PERIOD
Ahlstrom Corporation's Annual General Meeting of Shareholders (AGM) was held on April 2, 2008. The key decisions of the AGM are summarized below.
The AGM resolved to distribute a dividend of EUR 1.00 per share for the fiscal year that ended on December 31, 2007 in accordance with the proposal of the Board of Directors. The AGM approved the financial statements and consolidated financial statements and discharged the members of the Board of Directors and the CEO from liability for the financial period January 1-December 31, 2007.
PricewaterhouseCoopers Oy (PwC) was elected as Ahlstrom's auditor as recommended by the Audit Committee. PricewaterhouseCoopers Oy (PwC) has designated Authorized Public Accountant Eero Suomela as auditor in charge.
The AGM confirmed the number of Board members unchanged at seven. Thomas Ahlström, Sebastian Bondestam, Jan Inborr, Bertel Paulig, Peter Seligson and Willem F. Zetteler were re-elected as members of the Board of Directors and Martin Nüchtern was elected as a new member as proposed by the Compensation and Nomination Committee of the Board. The term of the Board of Directors will expire at the close of the next Annual General Meeting.
The AGM authorized the Board of Directors to repurchase Ahlstrom shares as proposed by the Board of Directors, taking into account the limitations set forth in the Companies' Act. The maximum number of shares to be repurchased is 4,500,000, corresponding to less than 10% of all issued Company shares. The authorization is valid for 18 months from the close of the Annual General Meeting but will, however, expire at the close of the next Annual General Meeting, at the latest. The shares may be repurchased only through public trading at the prevailing market price by using unrestricted shareholders' equity.
The AGM authorized the Board of Directors to resolve to distribute a maximum of 4,500,000 own shares held by the Company as proposed by the Board of Directors. The Board of Directors is authorized to decide to whom and in which order the shares will be distributed. The Board of Directors may decide on the distribution of its own shares otherwise than in proportion to the existing pre-emptive right of shareholders to purchase the Company's own shares. The shares may be used as consideration in acquisitions and in other arrangements as well as to implement the Company's share-based incentive plans in the manner and to the extent decided by the Board of Directors. The Board of Directors has also the right to decide on the distribution of the shares in public trading for the purpose of financing possible acquisitions. The authorization is valid for 18 months from the close of the Annual General Meeting but will, however, expire at the close of the next Annual General Meeting, at the latest.
After the AGM, the organization meeting of the Board of Directors elected Peter Seligson as Chairman and Bertel Paulig as Vice Chairman of the Board. The Board of Directors also appointed the members of the permanent committees. The members of the Audit Committee are Bertel Paulig (Chairman), Thomas Ahlström and Willem F. Zetteler. The members of the Compensation and Nomination Committee are Peter Seligson (Chairman), Jan Inborr and Sebastian Bondestam.
Demand in Ahlstrom's main markets is expected to continue at a good level in 2008. However, the uncertainty related with the market development in the USA reduces short-term visibility. Initial signs of eventual softness of demand have emerged, for example in nonwoven wiping fabrics.
The recent acquisitions and the ongoing investment projects in Brazil, Russia and China are expected to increase Ahlstrom's net sales by 10% during the first half of 2008. If the USD remains at the current weak level, the full-year net sales growth is anticipated to be slightly below 10%.
Prices for Ahlstrom's main raw materials, especially pulp, are expected to increase or stay at the current high level during 2008. High oil prices are expected to keep energy and synthetic fiber costs high. On the other hand, the slowdown of the Chinese textile industry is anticipated to reduce the price of rayon. For chemicals, the price development is anticipated to be mixed.
In order to improve profitability, Ahlstrom has implemented price increases, which are currently taking effect in all business areas. As a result of the restructuring actions decided on during the fourth quarter of 2007, Ahlstrom will have a more competitive cost structure in 2008. The restructuring is targeted to gradually improve operating profit annually by EUR 25 million, with full effect seen from the second half of 2008 onwards.
As a result of the implemented growth actions and recent restructuring measures, Ahlstrom is well positioned to grow and clearly improve its operating financial performance in 2008.
This interim report has been prepared in accordance with the International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS). The report is unaudited.
Comparable figures refer to the same period last year unless otherwise stated.
Helsinki, April 25, 2008
Ahlstrom Corporation
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ON APRIL 25, 2008:
Risto Anttonen, CEO, tel. +358 (0)10 888 4166, at 14.00-15.00 Finnish time
Jari Mäntylä, CFO, tel. +358 (0)10 888 4768
News conference at 10.00 Finnish time
A news conference for media and analysts will be held on Friday, April 25, 2008 at 10.00 Finnish time at the Helsinki Bourse Club, address Fabianinkatu 14 A. The conference will be held in Finnish. Welcome.
Conference call at 13.00 Finnish time
A conference call for analysts and investors will be held in English at 13.00 Finnish time. To participate in the teleconference, please dial +44 (0) 20 7162 0025 a few minutes before the call. Use the password: Ahlstrom. A replay number is available until May 2, 2008. The number for the replay is + 44 (0) 20 7031 4064, access code: 792682.
The presentation material will be available at www.ahlstrom.com > Investors > IR presentations on April 25, 2008 after the interim report has been published.
This report contains certain forward-looking statements that reflect the present views of the company's management. Due to the nature of these statements, they contain uncertainties and risks and are subject to changes in the general economic situation and in the company's business.
OMX Nordic Exchange Helsinki
www.ahlstrom.com
Ahlstrom in brief
Ahlstrom is a global leader in the development, manufacture and marketing of high performance fiber-based materials. Nonwovens and specialty papers, made by Ahlstrom, are used in a large variety of everyday products, such as filters, wipes, flooring, labels, and tapes. Based upon its unique fiber expertise and innovative approach, the company has a strong market position in several business areas in which it operates. Ahlstrom's 6,500 employees serve customers via sales offices and production facilities in more than 20 countries on six continents. In 2007, Ahlstrom's net sales amounted to EUR 1.8 billion. Ahlstrom's share is listed on the OMX Nordic Exchange Helsinki. The company website is www.ahlstrom.com.
This report has been prepared in accordance with the International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) and the accounting policies set out in IAS 34 (Interim Financial reporting) as adopted by EU and in the Group's Financial Statements for 2007.
Application of amended or new IFRS-standards as of January 1, 2008
The Group has adopted the following new interpretation as of January 1, 2008:
- IFRIC 11: IFRS 2 - Group and Treasury Share Transactions
The above mentioned interpretation does not have an effect on the consolidated financial statements.
Financial Statements are unaudited.
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Acquisitions in 2008
In February, Ahlstrom acquired the Friend Group Inc., which consist of West Carrollton Parchment Company and West Carrollton Converting Company. The Friend Group has two sites in West Carrollton serving mainly the food packaging market in the USA. West Carrollton is a producer of vegetable parchment and has parchmentizing and converting operations located in West Carrollton, Ohio, the USA.
Ahlstrom West Carrollton has been incorporated in Ahlstrom's accounts as part of Specialty Papers segment since February 1, 2008. Management estimates that if the acquisition had occurred on January 1, 2008, Ahlstrom Group's net sales and the net profit would not have changed materially.
The acquisition price includes professional fees amounting to EUR 0.1 million. The goodwill that arose from the acquisition of the shares of the Friend Group Inc. reflects the synergy benefits resulting from the expanded product offering to the Technical Papers' vegetable parchment business and provides synergies to our existing business as well as growth opportunities. The business combination and purchase price allocations were accounted for as preliminary.
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Ahlstrom interim report Q1 2008
Preliminary result of Spa Holdings 3 Oy’s voluntary recommended public cash tender offer for all the shares in Ahlstrom-Munksjö Oyj
Spa Holdings 3 Oy has received all relevant regulatory approvals for its cash tender offer for all the shares in Ahlstrom-Munksjö Oyj
Spa Holdings 3 Oy supplements the tender offer document relating to the public cash tender offer for all the shares in Ahlstrom-Munksjö Oyj
Ahlstrom-Munksjö’s financial information in 2021 and change in the company’s reporting language
Spa Holdings 3 Oy adjusts the offer price to EUR 17.84 per share in the voluntary recommended public cash tender offer for all the shares in Ahlstrom-Munksjö Oyj
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When a freak hurricane swamps Los Angeles, nature's deadliest killer rules sea, land, and air as thousands of sharks terrorize the waterlogged populace.
Aubrey Peeples as Talya
Cassie Scerbo as Alex Colshis
John Heard as John Pierce
Tara Reid as Effing White
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Reviewed by OnlyNick 2 / 10 / 10
Laugh Out Loud Funny
Ever since this movie was released it's had some sort of weird cult following. This movie is so bad, it's fun. I expect that's the reasoning behind the large following, so I suppose I can understand. I've now made a special listing in my IMDb account for Awesomely Bad Movies. In the last two months I've see three movies that qualify for that directory (so far, this is not the worst one). Oddly, though, in addition to being atrocious they are kind of enjoyable in an abnormal sort of way. I mean seriously, in Sharknado a hammerhead shark flies through the sky and actually lands on a guy's head! How awesome is that? Plus, the dad from Home Alone is in it! Sure, he plays a sleazy alcoholic but, come on, he's the DAD FROM HOME ALONE!!! (RIP Mr. Heard) The writing? Well, how's this for award winning dialogue: "He must have wanted a snack," says a shark bitten Australian dude. "Shark's don't like vegemite!" responds witty a lifeguard. Or, the biggest understatement of the movie, exclaimed by Sharnado's lead, Fin (pun intended I'm certain of it), "We gotta get outta here. Quick." Well no shit. When I was browsing Netflix, I noticed there are at least four more Sharnado movies just waiting to be consumed. I haven't seen those yet, but I intend on it. It's winter as I write this, so I'll need some cheering up as the weeks go by. TWO things you'll LIKE about "Sharknado": 1) You'll see things you've never seen before in any other movie, that's for damn sure. 2) You'll no longer wonder what it looks like to kill sharks with a chainsaw. TWO things you'll DISLIKE: 1) If you're a struggling artist, you'll be pissed off that a move like this got funding and ultimately licensed for release. If you're an actor, you'll be jealous of those who were hired on, saying to yourself, "That guy sucks, I could have done better!" And you'll be right. 2) The CGI (and there's a lot of it) is probably some of the worst you've seen. That seems to be pretty standard with these B-horror movies.
Reviewed by Paul Evans 7 / 10 / 10
It's a terrible joy.
I can't understand why the film has such a low rating, sure it's.a shocker, but for originality and sheer audacity it's a six minimum. It's almost like a zombie film was intended but at the very last minute someone burst into the office and said let's use sharks and have tornados. It's not meant to be taken seriously, I don't think the producers looked for awards, instead they delivered ninety minutes of enjoyable nonsense. Some of the effects are ok, some are pretty poor, they do however beat the stock footage shots. Plenty of continuity errors, rain one moment, dry the next etc, but I won't knock it any more, that would be too easy. It's ridiculous, outrageous, but funny and imaginative, that line 'we're gonna need a bigger chopper' felt like a thumbs up to the greatest shark movie of all time. A guilty pleasure.
Reviewed by bluecouchpotato 7 / 10 / 10
Mindless fun
Wait, I really rated this a 7? Yes, I did. Is it a great movie? Absolutely not. But it is definitely fun and funny and sometimes that's enough.
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View source for The ABC Proposal for British Foreign Policy
← The ABC Proposal for British Foreign Policy
<h2><b>November, 1901<br>British Foreign Policy by A.B.C., etc.</b></h2> Source: <i>National Review</i>, November, 1901. For an explanation of the background and genesis of the A.B.C. Memorandum, '''[[The Genesis of the "A.B.C." Memorandum of 1901|click here.]]''' <hr> The events which have occurred in South Africa during the last few years cannot fail to produce consequences deeper and more far-reaching than the most penetrating observer of contemporary politics could have contemplated at the moment a too famous Raid provoked a no less famous telegram. The effect of these events upon British methods of conducting the national business, and upon our political system, are purely domestic questions which need not be discussed here. Suffice it to say that one of the obvious lessons of the crisis is the necessity of revising the relations of various Departments of Government to one another, with the object of obtaining greater efficiency and of abolishing the fatal influence of the Treasury, which, by its illegitimate interference with naval and military projects, leads to wasteful, because untimely, outlay. It is patent to every thinking Englishman that the financial affairs of our Empire must be worked on more methodical lines; but if we spend our money more wisely than under the present anti-efficient and anti-economical <i>régime</i>, it is by no means certain that the taxpayer will be called upon to spend more, either upon our Army or even our Navy; he will undoubtedly be ready and willing and able to spend whatever the national necessity may demand. Great Britain does not require an immense army of the approved Continental type, but she does require a splendidly equipped and highly trained force, ready for transportation at short notice to any part of her over-sea Empire which may be menaced. The British Navy should be increased so as to enable us to meet an three Powers at sea in superior numbers. The naval policy and avowed hostility of Germany, to which even the British official world can no longer remain blind, will force us to keep on a war-footing in the North Sea a fleet as powerful and efficient as the Mediterranean or Channel Squadrons. Here, again, the money required will be forthcoming; but while some of us believe that our present annual expenditure of sixty millions sterling on national defence would, in provident and efficient hands, supply us not only with the Army, but also with the Navy we need -- others are certain of it.<br><br> The lesson which foreign countries may learn from our war in South Africa is one that in their own interest each of them would do well to take to heart. We desire to avoid swagger, which is sald to be a British characteristic, and is probably in varying forms a characteristic of every great nation which believes in itself and its future; but to all interested in understanding the real strength of this nation the Boer War should serve as a useful warning. The prolonged and exasperating struggle has once more exhibited in an impressive manner the political stability of British institutions and the steadfast character of the British race. Reflecting men can see that the living generation of Englishmen have in no way degenerated from their forbears of a hundred years ago. In the earlier period there were two men who appreciated the inherent strength of this country: one was William Pitt, while the other was Napoleon Bonaparte. Pitt knew the meaning of Trafalgar. The conversation which he had in his last days with the young general who was rapidly rising to fame and who was destined to become the great Duke of Wellington, shows that his prescient inteilect grasped the fact that, in spite of Austerlitz, if England were only true to herself, Nelson's victory must inevitably drive Napoleon to a policy which would so exasperate other nations that they would ultimately turn upon him -- Spain giving the signal. His vision was fulfilled; England remained true to herself, and the steadfastness of her people extorted a remarkable tribute from Napoleon to his victorious enemies before the close of his life at St. Helena: "Had I been in 1815 the choice of the English as I was of the French, I might have lost the battle of Waterloo without losing a vote in the Legislature or a soldier from my ranks." During the last two years it has been abundantly demonstrated that the Englishmen of to-day have the same grit as their grandfathers, and the quiet, self-possessed manner in which they have faced the ignorant execration,and the political animosity of the civilised world is calculated to cause unfriendly communities to pause. They have with quiet resolution supported the Ministry -- whose half-hearted measures have not always made support easy -- simply because it was carrying on a war, and thousands and tens of thousands of men in England} who have all their lives been bitter opponents of the political party now in power, have acted with the single object of strengthening the hands of the Government. There have been hours of difficulty, and even of danger, when more than one foreign Power desired, and tentatively sought, to form a coalition against this country. It was the temper of the people of the British Empire backed by the Navy that stunned into sobriety the zealous malignity of those who were willing to wound, but afraid to strike. The details of these sinister intrigues are not only familiar to the Britlsh Foreign Office, but their existence is known to the intelligent public; and we must adrnit at the outset that such shortsighted and fatuous cabals have not rendered easier the task of those who believe that the interests of England lie in the direction of improved relations with certain foreign Powers with whom at present British relations are only "friendly" in the strictly diplomatic sense.<br><br> The efforts of certain European Powers -- because neither Japan nor the United States has at any time been remotely implicated in these intrigues, which, in passing, we may say have never received the slightest encouragement from either the Austrian Sovereign or the Italian Government -- have forced the conviction upon the British people that their national policy demands more serious attention than it has yet received. Englishmen are fully aware that the real origin of the war in South Africa was the want of a clear and definite policy in that part of the world; and our main difficulties in other places are due to the same cause. The indefiniteness of our Colonial policy in past years was due to the deplorable fact that during a great part of the reign of Queen Victoria a powerful school existed among us which desired to divorce the Colonies from the Mother Country. In the year I863 Mr. Goldwin Smith, then Regius Professor of History in the University of Oxford -- to which <i>mirabile dictu,</i> he had been appointed on the advice of Lord Derby, the brilliant leader of the Conservative party -- published a work called <i>The Empire.</i> This year (I863), as Monsieur Ollivier, <i>au coeur léger,</i> aptly observes, happens to mark the prominent appearance of Bismarck on the stage of history. Such was the moment chosen by the Oxford Professor to produce a book -- which was received at the time with no little approval -- not only advocating the disruption of the British Empire, but actually advising the surrender of important military positions. It is yet profitable to read the obsolete language of the learned Professor, if only to note how cruelly events hastened to stultify his prophecies and to derive entertainment from the self-opinionated insistence with which he announced the decline of conquering tendencies among nations. Within ten years of his startling discovery there followed in quick succession the annexation by Prussia of the Elbe duchies, Bismarck's assault upon Austria, and the tearing of Alsace and Lorraine from France: a series of events which not only transformed the peace-loving Continent of which the Professor dreamed into something very like a military cantonment, but created a united Germany which, having exhausted her military ambition, is now seeking new worlds to conquer on the ocean.<br><br> The gradual decay in England of the shallow and pusillanimous doctrines preached by the Manchester School, and by Professors who profess, without understanding, English history, has not been the work of English politicians. It is largely due to Colonial influence. The truer and more manly creed of national responsibility and imperial duty upheld by statesmen of sense and action like the late Sir John Macdonald, Queen Victoria's Prime Minister in Canada, made steady way throughout the Empire. Its acceptance was followed by the growth of self-consciousness amongst those free nations which, for want of a better name, we still call self-governing colonies. Our leading thinkers and public men, with the conspicuous and honourable exceptions of Lord Rosebery, Mr. W. E. Forster, and Sir John Seeley, did little or nothing to bring these communities into closer touch with one another or with the Mother Country until the day Mr. Chamberlain accepted the office of Colonial Minister. Incredible as it now seems, some of our most eminent statesmen positively desired to sever the ties between the Colonies and the Mother Country. In I873, <i>e.g.</i>, Mr. Gladstone told one of the writers of this article that he considered it would be a grand thing for England if she could get rid of the colonies, and he quoted Sir George Cornewall Lewis, who passed for a sagacious man, as being of the same opinion. Justice compels us to recognise that the Liberals were not peculiar in their blindness and perversity on colonial affairs. There remains on record the amazing sentence which Mr. Disraeli wrote to Lord Malmesbury during this benighted period: "These wretched Colonies will all be independent in a few years, and are a millstone round our necks." Even Mr. Goschen was once a Little Englander, while Professor Parkin affirms that Lord Thring (Parliamentary counsel to successive Cabinets) at one time actually prepared a Separation Bill. But in spite of all political discouragement the Colonies clung closer to the Mother Country, and the idea of severing a sacred tie became more and more distasteful to their piety. With the spread of education and the growth of wider knowledge of English literature and English history, our kinsmen beyond the seas took increasing pride in the association of their new land with tbe old country and in their own identity with the stock of the barons of Runnymede, the yeomen of Cressy and Agincourt, the sailors of Trafalgar, and the enlightened and patrlobc stateslen to whom the Anglo-Saxon world owes the writ of Habeas Corpus and the Bill of Rights. Their imagination was no less fired and their deepest feelings of reverence were stirred when they saw the noble example of unswerving public duty which was given to the world by the Sovereign to whom they owed allegiance; and when during the royal progress through London on June 22, I897, the representatives of these splendid young nations sere seen in attendance on their revered ruler, the British Empire and, so to speak, found itself. From that moment the little Englander, who had been an anxiety, ceased to be a serious factor in English public affairs. We could therefore afford to be amused at the announcement of the <i>Berliner Post</i> (which is not professedly a comic paper), at the opening of the present war (October I3, I899), that in the British colonies ' a pronounced movement in favour of separation from the Mother Country is noticeable " !<br><br> The conduct of these daughter nations during our South African struggle has driven home and clenched the object-lesson of Queen Victoria's Jubilee, and the people of England most thoroughly realise that the attention of their statesmen can no longer be exclusively devoted to the domestic affairs of two little islands, but that henceforward in all questions of policy we must give a close and sympathetic consideration, not only to the interests, but also to the feelings of the people of Greater Britain.<br><br> Closely connected with the subject of inter-imperial relations is the policy which the British Empire should pursue as regards other nations and empires. We shall have to re-consider our postion with regard to them one by one; for it must be owned that some of our Ministers seem to be living under the spell of a diplomacy which the wisest of them has declared to be "antiquated." We wish to see this wisdom translated into action. We believe it to be the desire of the nation that these old-time prejudices and superstitions should be abandoned. The condition of the world has greatly changed during the past century. At the time when the " pilot who weathered the storm " was laid in his grave at the foot of his father's statue in Westminster Abbey, France was ahead of all European countries as regards population, for she numbered twenty-five million souls. When England entered upon her Titanic struggle with Napoleon, the whole European population of the British Empire did not exceed fifteen millions, while the population of the United States was not much larger than that of Australia at the present moment. To-day we are living in an entirely new world, the development and progress of which is the topic of almost every leading article, so we need not descant upon it here. Perhaps the main fact which should impress itself upon Englishmen in considering the actual international outlook is not merely the extraordinary growth of Germany -- who has achieved greatness by trampling on her neighbours -- but the fact that this formidable community is becoming increasingly dependent on a foreign food supply, as well as on foreign supplies of raw and partially manufactured articles. This necessarily involves the development of Germany as a Sea Power, and it is a matter for every European State to ponder over. She is already stronger at sea than either France or Russia. It therefore affects them as well as England, though up to a certain point they may welcome it, because it is the cause of German hostility to England. No one has brought this hostility so graphically before the British nation as the present Chancellor of the German Empire, Count von Bulow. He loses few opportunities in his highly flavoured discourses in the Reichstag of displaying his contempt for Great Britain, though both before and after more than one of these public demonstrations, private assurances have been conveyed to the British Government that the speaker need not be taken seriously as he was merely "conciliating" German Anglophobes -- usually of the Agrarian class to which he belongs. One of these utterances, however, stands by itself, and as it is quite incapable of being explained away, Count von Bulow has not attempted any explanation. In reply to an interpellation, he informed the Reichstag that the telegram sent by Kaiser Wilhelm to President Kruger in I896 was not, as had been represented in this country, the offspring of an unpremeditated impulse of resentment against the Jameson Raid, but it was a deliberate effort to ascertain how far Germany could reckon on the support of France and Russia in forming an anti-British combination. The Chancellor owned that the effort had failed, presumably because our supposed enemies were unwilling to play into the hands of Germany; he explained that, in consequence, Germah foreign policy had necessarily to take another tack, since " isolation " had been demonstrated. We doubt whether history records in the relations between great Powers a more impudent avowal of a more unfriendly act. It is galling to Englishmen to reflect that Germany was rewarded for failing to raise Europe against us by an Anglo-German.agreement securing to her the reversion to spacious territories to which she has no sort of claim, though they may have been in the Kaiser's capacious mind when he despatched his telegram.<br><br> The official advocates of the Naval Bills which have been introduced into the "Reichstag" during the last three years have made no concealment as to the objective of the modern German navy, and that portion of the German press which takes its cue from the Government has told us in language impossible to misunderstand that Germany aspires to deprive us of our position on the ocean. "Unsere Zukunft liegt auf dem Wasser"; such is the swelling phrase of the Kaiser; but, like all his rhetoric, there is serious purpose behind it. At the present time it is estimated that a substantial proportion of the food of the entire population of Germany is sea-borne. She is becoming transformed from an agricultural into an industrial community, and if the process continues for another quarter of a century, while remaining secured against actual starvation by her land frontiers, she will become no less dependent on the ocean highways for her prosperity than we are. Great Britain is therefore confronted with the development of a new sea power founded on the same economic basis as herself, and impelled by a desire to be supreme. But <i>l'ocean ne comporte qu'un seul maître</i>. We have secured in the past the sovereignty of the seas, and our sceptre cannot be wrested from us without a desperate and bloody struggle. Germany will not be so insane as to attempt this task single-handed, at any rate for many years to come; and it is for other Powers to consider in the interval whether it is for their advantage to support her in a joint attack on England, in which, as is evident from recent revelations, President Faure clearly foresaw that the brunt of battle would fall upon others, while the lion's share of any plunder would fall to Germany. It is by no means improbable that such a coalition might be worsted. We have before now successfully faced the world in arms on the ocean; but on the unlikely hypothesis of our fleet being crushed, it may be as well for other nations to make up their minds what they might expect to gain if the German eagle replaced the Union Jacls as the symbol of sea power.<br><br> We approach the delicate question of our relations with Russia with considerable diffidence, as the ommscient German press has declared at any time during the last twenty years that thc interests of England and Russia are as irreconcilable as their hatred is hereditary. It can hardly be denied that the "honest broker" in Berlin has exploited this assumed antagonism with much skill and no little profit to himself, but it has yet to be pointed out what bnefit has accrued to either of the traditional antagonists. There are grounds for asserting that this question has lately been asked in responsible quarters in Russia, and that to-day the Russian Government is less ready " to pull the chestnuts out of the fire," to use a favourite Teutonic metaphor, for Count von Bulow than she used to be for his illustrious predecessor, Prince Bismarck. On the other hand, the failure of the Russian Emperor to act on the amiable exhortations of the leading German journals by taking advantage of our preoccupations in South Africa has made an unmistakable impression on the public opinion of this country. The <i>National Zeitung</i>, one of Prince Bismarck's favoured organs, kindly informed us on October 1, I899: "If England gets into military difficulties in South Africa, if the war is protracted, or if it takes an unfavourable turn, Russia would not remain idle. The opportunity for Russian aggrandisement in Asia would be too tempting." Of all countries in the world the Power which would have most reason to rue the substitution of Germany for Great Britain as the mistress of the seas would be Russia. When Kaiser Wilhelm came on his fruitful visit to England in the autumn of I899, which produced the "graceful concession " on our part of Samoa, prominent Englishmen, who were inquisitive as to the significance of the great naval movement then under way in Germany, received the comforting assurance that German naval armaments were exclusively directed against Russia, being intended for co-operation with England in the Far East and for the maintenance of German interests in the Near East. In a sense, the latter suggestion expresses a substantially accurate fact. If once the sea power of England were overthrown, Germany would be free to execute her hostile policy towards Russia, who is not less in her way than we are. There is an idea growing steadily amongst Germans that Germany should expand into an empire branching from the Bosphorus to the Persian Gulf; thus would territories be secured enjoying an excellent climate, to which the surplus stream of German population, which now flows to the United States and to the British Empire, might be diverted, without being lost to the German flag. This is by no means a new idea; it is the revival of an old idea, and it means of course the supremacy of Germany in the Near East and the supersession of the Slav by the Teuton. Such is the objective of those ambitious dreamers known as the Pan-Germanic League, a body most tenderly regarded by the German Government, and it embodies a policy as antagonistic to Russia as the German naval programme is hostile to England.<br><br> Whatever the effect of recent developments may have been upon Russia, the attitude of the German nation and the suspicious policy of the German Government has led a continually increasing' number of Englishmen to inquire whether it wotlld not be worth while for England and Russia to discuss their differences with the object of arriving at a working understanding, and, if possible, a comprehensive settlement? Very distinguished Russians have frequently expressed an earnest desire that their country should seek an <i>entente</i> with England. The late Emperor Alexander openly avowed his desire for such a settlement. The present Emperor is credited with the same disposition as his father, and has more than once, though in an unostentatious manner, manifested his beneficent intentions towards this country. Had Sir Robert Morier lived, it is almost certain that an understanding would have been arrived at, but after his death the Emperor Alexander III. became convinced that it was hopeless to try and do business with this country, owing to the influence of a certain school of English politicians whose unreasoning antagonism to Russia almost amounts to a monomania. We hasten to say, however, that the fault does not lie exclusively with England. A main difficulty which confronts us whenever the subject is broached is that the central Government of St. Petersburg appears to be unable or unwilling to control the action of its more distant agents. We have had several conspicuous examples recently in China, <i>e.g</i>., where Russian officers have treated the property of, or pledged to, British subjects in a most high-handed and intolerable manner, in defiance of repeated assurances given to our Ambastsador at St. Petersburg. In fact, these cases were so bad that we do not care to dwell upon them. Again, a letter which appeared in the <i>Times</i> of September 14, signed " K.," narrated an episode in Persia illustrating the difficulty of overcoming the obsession of certain Russian officials, who appear to think that their whole duty consists in playing into the hands of the Germans by making decent diplomatic relations between England and Russia impossible. It appears that while Sir Henry Drummond Wolff was British Minister at Teheran, he endeavoured to come to an arrangement with Russia on certain Persian questions. He drew up a memorandum, which he showed confidentially to his Russian colleague, indicating how the vast material interests of Persia might be developed to the advantage of all three Powers if they worked together. The only use which the Russian Minister made of this memorandum was to ruin the British Minister's influence in Persia by giving a false account of the whole transaction to the Shah, with the object of convincing his Majesty that Great Britain desired the partition of Persia. At the same time, we in England must remember, when we complain of such conduct on the part of Russian agents, that, bad as it is, it is not more perfidious than actions which our Government lappears willing to tolerate when Germany is the culprit. We doubt whether in the whole range of diplomatic intercourse it would be possible to point to the behaviour of one great Power to another more audaciously cynical in its disloyalty than the conduct of Germany to England over what Count von Bulow has been pleased to christen the "Yangtse Agreement " -- except perhaps the treason of Prussia to her allies on the occasion of the Peace of Basel.<br><br> The chief potitical obstacle to an Anglo-Russian understanding is, no doubt, due to the desire of Russia to come down to the Persian Gulf. If we are able to recognise and tolerate her ambition in that quarter our antagonism would come to an end, at least for a generation. This admittedly is a subject of great difficulty, and one not to be settled off-hand; but that is no reason, as the <i>Times</i> has lately pointed out, why statesmen should not be prepared to face it. It is clearly our interest, as it is our intention, to preserve intact the <i>status quo</i> in the Gulf unless we can come to an arrangement with Russia by which we get a <i>quid pro quo.</i>> That status has been lately threatened by the Sultan of Turkey at Koweit, the port at the head of the Gulf which the Germans are believed to have marked as their future naval base, and which is to be the southern terminus of the great trunk line which will cross Constantinople. The Sultan of Turkey lately made use of certain local disturbances between Mubarak, the Sheikh of Koweit and the Emir of Najd in order to assert his sovereignty over the independent sheikhs of the coast, and he counted on vindicating his pretensions over the ruler of Koweit, after that personage had been defeated by his enemies. Accordingly, the Sultan sent a corvette-full of troops to Koweit. Mubarak immediately applied for British protection, and when the Turks appeared they found one of our gunboats in the port, and the British officer informed the Turkish commander of the expedition that his troops would not be allowed to land. There the matter stands for the present, but the whole incident is illustrative of the handiwork of Germany, who was undoubtedly egging on the Sultan. The attempt was mainly directed against the British policy of upholding the present situation in the Persian Gulf, but, if successful, it might have a very considerable bearing on the future interests of Russia. ls it not idle to argue that Germany has "claims" to a port on the Persian Gulf, while we are to regard the appearance of Russia in that part of the world as a <i>casus belli?</i> Some acknowledged authoritics have held that the manifest aruxiety of Russia to penetrate into Southern Persia and to secure a seaport is a subject to be carefully considered by England. In this connection a thoughtful paper by Sir Richard Temple, in the July number of the <i>Royal United Services Journal</i>, deserves the attention of the statesmen of both countries; and it may also be remarked that the policy of endeavouring to close our controversy with Russia by an accord on the Persian Gulf was advocated at the close of his career by no less a person than Sir Henry Rawlinson. But it cannot be too often repeated that the condition precedent of such an agreement is the active goodwill of the powers that be in St. Petersburg. It is for them to reflect as to whether the co-operation of England might not be of enormous use in promoting Russian trade in the Far East. At present Russia has already a road from the Caspian to the Persian capital, which is a source of great profit to her; but she can only transport goods to and from the Persian Gulf on the backs of camels or of mules; and the cost of carriage between the Caspian and the sea-coast, even at the most favourable time of the year, is not less than twenty pounds a ton.<br><br> In another part of the world it is for the Russians to consider whether the goodwill of England might not be worth cultivating. The question of Manchuria naturally rankles in the mind of the Japanese, who can clearly see that if a Japanese <i>pied à terre</i> constituted a menace to the integrity of the Chinese Empire, which was the pretext on which she was ordered out of Port Arthur, then the establishment of Russia in Manchuria may become a very formidable menace to Japan. That conviction is coming home with increasing force the closer Japan views the situation; that Russia is aware of it is shown by her studied conciliation to the first-class naval and military Power lying off her most exposed flank. She feels constrained to go out of her way to the Japanese Government, to which she ostentatiously communicates the movements of her troops in Manchuria; but these courtesies do not conciliate; the burning indignation which the Russian appropriation of Manchuria raises in the breast of Japan may be concealed for a while, but she is merely biding her time and awaiting an opportunity for displaying her real sentiments. The lreystone to British policy in the Far East is a friendly understanding and co-operation with Japan but, that being recognised, there is nothing to prevent this country from supporting a settlement of the Manchurian and Corean questions on lines which would be regarded as fairly satisfactory both in St. Petersburg and in Tokio. If the Corean question were regularised, Japan would have considerably less reason than at present to apprehend Russian schemes, and Russia; on her. part, might devote herself to developing her far eastern dominions without risk of interruption from Japan.<br><br> Russian statesmen have to make up their minds whether, in the present condition of Russian industries, Russian agriculture, and Russian finance, a friendly understanding with England, which would relieve her anxieties in. the Far East, and which might result in her being able to continue her. Trans-Caucasian and Siberian railways to the .shores of the Persian Gulf, and which, last but not least, might enable her to arry out her historic mission in the Balkans, is.not worth a high price.<br><br> Whether our readers agree with the view propounded in this paper or not we do not think that those who adopt a purely negative attitude by denying the existence of any basis for an <i>entente</i> between the Russian and British Empires are entitled to be heard. If others have a positive policy opposed to that which we are setting forth, by all means let them produce it, and induce or compel the British Government to adopt it and execute it. But in the interval we venture to sketch in outline some suggestions for a comprehensive settlement between the two Powers with the object of demonstrating to the sceptics that at any rate the raw.material for an Anglo-Russian agreement abounds -- whatever may be the case as regards the goodwill and statesmanship requisite to evolve the finished article. We would invite the reader to note that these suggestions are calculated to compromise neither the relations between Russia and France nor those between Great Britain and Japan.<br><br> <b> PROPOSED ANGLO-RUSSIAN UNDERSTANDING</b>.<BR> The understanding would naturally fall under three different heads: <b>I. THE NEAR EAST.</b><br> With regard to the Near East the basis would be that whilst Russia abstained from any attempt to interfere with the <i>status quo</i> in Egypt, we should frankly recognise that the fulfilment of what Russia regards as her historic mission in the Balkan peninsula conflicts with no vital British interests, and that in AsiaticTurkey we should abstain from favouring the development of German schemes.of expansion.<br><br> <b>II. PERSIA AND CENTRAL ASIA. </b> <br> With regard to Persia and Central Asia, we might offer Russia our cooperation in the development of railway communication between the Caspian and. the Persian Gulf; and in securing for her a commercial outlet on the Gulf in return for an undertaking on the part of Russia to respect the political <i>status quo</i> along the shores of the Gulf.<br><br> <b>III.. THE FAR EAST.</b><br> With regard to the Far East the question is necessarily more complicated, as Japan would have to be taken into the counsels of the two Empires and a basis of agreement arrived at which would satisfy her as well as Russia and Great Britain.<br><br> As far as Japan is concerned, such a basis might be found in the recognition by Russia and England of the Japanese claim to an exclusive sphere of influence in Corea.<br><br> Japan would presumably, in return for this concession, have no objection to a formal agreement under which Great Britain would recognise Russia's claim to regulate her political and commercial position in Manchuria and Mongolia by direct negotiation with China, and Russia would in like manner recognise Great Britain's claim to regulate in the same wav her political and commercial position in the Yangtsze Valley, each Power binding itself to give no support in those regions to the enterprise of any other Power. With regard to all other questions in China, Great Britain, Russia, and Japan would agree to take no steps without mutual consultation.<br><br> The fact of Russia being a party to such an agreement would give France a guarantee that her interests would be taken into due consideration, while our participation would afford a natural safeguard to the commercial interests of the United States.<br><br> The effect of such an agreement, accompanied by the customary demonstrations in such cases, public declarations by the Sovereigns and their official representatives, and an exchange of visits by their respective fleets, would at once remove the danger of a sudden explosion, which must continue to hang over the whole world so long as the Far East remains the powder-magazine of international rivalries and conflicting interests which it is at present.<br><br> The natural consequence of this understanding would be that in the event of war between Germany and Russia, Great Britain would remain neutral, and in the event of war between Great Britain arld Germany, Russia would remain neutral. Russia would no longer give cause for suspicion that she was instigating France to make war against us, as Count Muravieff did during the Fashoda crisis, and Great Britain would cease to be suspected in St. Petersburg of encouraging Japanese hostility to Russia. Japan, on her side, would be relieved of the menace of a possible rival against her of the Triple Alliance of I895.<br><br> We need not enlarge upon other points in the European relations of Great Britain. Lord Salisbury's Government deserves credit for having strengthened the bonds between this nation; her oldest ally, Portugal, a country we should stand by on all occasions. On the other hand, have not his Majesty's Ministers shown some remissness in their dealings with Italy? At any rate, there is high authority for saying that this is the feeling at the Quirinal. Any obstacle to Anglo-ltalian friendship, whatever it may be, should be speedily removed. Italy is a country specially dear to the English people; it is the land that Byron loved and to which Palmerston was devoted. Nothing in this latter's brilliant career does him more credit than his persistent, wise, and courageous efforts to liberate Italy from thraldom. Apart from all sentiment, Italy is one of the natural allies of England, and we have not so many that we can afford to trifle with her. Italian statesmen have one and all proclaimed their desire to maintain the <i>status quo</i> in the Mediterranean, and any attempt to impair the supremacy of England in that sea must be looked askance at in Italy, for if we were overthrown, France -- the friend of the Vatican -- would take our place. And just as Russia has nothing to gain but everything to lose from the substitution of German for British supremacy, so Italy would have bitter cause to rue the disappearance of the White Ensign from the Mediterranean. On her side, Italy has a right to expect the material as well as the moral support of England under certain circumstances easier to conceive than to discuss. For instance, should the nightmare which haunts European statesmanship materialise and the Austrian Empire be plunged into the melting-pot, England should exert herself to secure for Italy that portion of the <i>disjecta membra</i> which is Italian in sympathy and feeling. Under no circumstances should we tolerate that the German flag should float over the Italian city of Trieste.<br><br> If we are to revert, as some of us desire, to the policy of Canning and Palmerston, and energetically support the cause of civil and religious liberty and popular rights in Europe, the time may not be remote when we should lift up our voices on behalf of the Czechs of Bohemia. In so doing we shall be promoting the real interests of the Austrian Empire; The question has been so persistently misrepresented that Englishmen are only beginning to realise that the Slavs of Austria are not the disintegrating force within that country. But it is the German element enrolled under the banner of the Pan-Germanic League which threatens the existence of an empire which a great Czech writer has told us would have to be created if it did not exist.<br><br> To sum up, then, the general conclusions of this paper: we should do everything in our power to promote the interests of Italy and the expansion of Italian power, while we need not conceal our sympathies for the Bohemian Slavs and the ideas they represent, and we should adhere firmly to our old policy of alliance with Portugal. We are the only great European Power which covets no European territory, and it ought not to be beyond the resources of our statesmanship to profit by this unique feature in our position. In the Far East the keystone of our policy will be the maintenance of our <i>entente</i> with Japan. It is our earnest desire to meet, if possible, the wlshes of Russia, particularly on the Persian Gulf; but this policy is only practicable if Russia realises that our co-operation is at least as valuable to her as hers is to us. We may, perhaps, be allowed to interject in passing that the different methods and systems of government and political institutions in the two empires need not interfere with their cordial relations, as some Russians seem inclined to apprehend. His Excellency Constantin Pobiedonostseff, Procurator of the Holy Synod, has recently published an article in the <i>North American Review </i> expressing his unmitigated contempt for the parliamentary machinery of France, Austria, Germany, and Italy. We cannot but suspect that he is equally hostile to the spread of English theories of government, and fears they might conceivably creep into Russia in the wake of an Anglo-Russian <i>entente.</i> His Excellency should be reassured on that point. Englishmen are beginning to realise that their institutions, however suitable to tilis country, are quite unsuitable even to nations whose historical development is much more similar to that of England than is the history of Russia. The Empire of the Tsars, on its side, possesses interesting and characteristic institutions which it would be disastrous to impair, but which could not be transferred to other soils.<br><br> In seeking to close our prolonged contest with Russia, we are desirous of doing something which would be for the advantage of civilisation, and, should it be effected, it would not be less welcome becausc it brought us back into friendly relations with France -- a country whose history is closely interwoven with our own, and with which we share so many political sentiments. The French are perhaps the only nation which will make sacrifices and run risks for the sake of those who enjoy their friendship. They are capable of sentimental attachment as well as sentimental hatred. <br><br> To those forcign statesmen who say, or are supposed to say, that " It is impossible to do business with England, seeing that one Government is apt to reverse the foreign policy of its predecessor," we would reply that of late years there have been various influences at work to steady public opinion in this country on questions of foreign politics, and that the break on a change of Government is practically imperceptible. The credit of this continuity is principally due to Lord Rosebery and his adherents in Parliament and the Press. No one familiar with the <i>personnel</i> of our politics can seriously suggest that if Lord Salisbury and Lord Lansdowne were to pursue the policy set forth in this paper their successors would fail to keep the engagements they might inherit.<br><br> But earnestly as we advocate a particular policy there should be no misunderstanding as to our motives. We are not touting for alliances. We are prepared to entertain friendly overtures, and to enter alliances on suitable terms and for practical purposes; and for the realisation of ideals beneficial to the worid at large we think Great Britain should be prepared to make considerable though reasonable sacrifices. But the people of this country will no longer tolerate a policy of "graceful concessions," and will not permit any Ministry or any personage however exalted to adopt towards any Power the attitude which has been too long followed as regards Germany. If Russia wishes to come to us, we shall meet her cordially and at least half way. If, on the other hand, Russia and France, one or both of them, elect to combine with Germany in an attempt to wrest from us the sceptre of the seas and to replace our sovereignty by that of Germany, England will know how to meet them. The Navy Bill in Germany was carried through with the avowed object of creating a navy which "would be able to keep the North Sea clear." We have no intention of clearing out of the North Sea or out of any other sea. We seek no quarrel with any Power but if Germany thinks it her interest to force one upon us, we shall not shrink from the ordeal, even should she appear in the lists with France and Russia as her allies. Germans would however, do well to realise that if England is driven to it, England will strike home. Close to the foundations of the German Empire, which has hardly emerged from its artificial stage, there exists a powder magazine such as is to be found in no other country viz, Social Democracy. In the case of a conflict with Great Britain, misery would be caused to large classes of the German population, produced by the total collapse of subsidised industries; far-reaching commercial depression, financial collapse, and a defective food-supply might easily make that magazine explode. A.B.C. etc. <hr> <center> Return to '''[[Pre - 1914 Documents]]''' </center>
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If the Uber driver accepts a ride request, is on the way to pick up the passenger, or has the passenger in the vehicle, Uber's policy provides coverage for up to $1 million.
If your damages are more than the policy limit, Uber or the driver may be liable for any additional losses, even beyond the insurance coverage limits.
Damages for Broken Bones in a Personal Injury Lawsuit
Damages from a car accident depend on the seriousness of the injuries, time to heal, and other factors. When filing an accident claim with Uber or filing a personal injury lawsuit, the injury victim can seek damages, which include the economic and non-economic losses caused by the accident.
The primary damages in a broken bone accident may include medical bills and loss of income. A simple broken bone injury may only cost a few thousand dollars. However, multi-bone fractures or more serious broken bones (like fractured femur or broken back) can require multiple surgeries, rehabilitation, hospitalization, and may leave permanent damage.
Loss of income can also range from a couple of days off work to permanent disability. Serious broken bone injuries can make it impossible for someone to return to their job,
Questions After an Uber Accident in Colorado
The attorneys at accidentdenver.com have successfully represented victims of Uber accidents and their families in Denver, Boulder, Aurora, and throughout Colorado. Do not rely on Uber or the insurance company to look out for your rights. Our experienced attorneys will fight to get the maximum compensation available for your injuries. Contact us today for a free consultation.
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Centennial Timeline
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COVID-19: In Memoriam
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History of ACP
This historical information offers a brief review of some of the individuals, events, publications, and cultural developments that have shaped the American College of Physicians.
ACP’s Founding and Prominent Figures
ACP Headquarters and the College’s Ceremonial Objects
ACP’s Journals and the Development of MKSAP
Annual Meeting History
Highlights from the ACP Centennial in 2015
Interactive ACP Historical Timeline
An interactive timeline that explores ACP's history through a series of images and milestones.
Dr. Heinrich Stern – Our Founder
"If internal medicine was to advance and assume its rightful position in medicine, there had to be an American College of Physicians.”
Prominent ACP Masters
Learn about three important figures in ACP's history who were all Masters of the College: Helen Taussig, MACP, Hugh R. Butt, MACP, and Walter Lester Henry, MACP.
Edward R. Loveland
One of the College’s most important and distinguished leaders was not a physician.
The American Congress on Internal Medicine
ACP was not the first Internal Medicine organization that Dr. Heinrich Stern helped to found.
The American College of Physicians during the Great Depression
Despite financial hurdles for members and difficulties with investments, the American College of Physicians grew its membership and increased its total assets during the Great Depression.
ACP's Headquarters
Philadelphia has been the international headquarters of the American College of Physicians since 1926.
The College Mace and Caduceus
The College Mace and Caduceus have been a beloved part of Convocation of over 50 years.
History of ACP’s Journals and the Development of MKSAP
The Major Journals of ACP
The dissemination of medical knowledge has been an essential goal of the American College of Physicians since its founding in 1915. Throughout the years, this value has been actualized most directly by the publication of the Annals of Internal Medicine.
The Development of MKSAP
The Medical Knowledge Self-Assessment Program (MKSAP) enables physicians to measure their knowledge in the broad specialty of internal medicine.
ACP’s First Annual Session
The 2019 Annual Meeting is ACP's 100th, though pinning down details of the early meetings is not an exact science.
Origins of Doctor’s Dilemma
Doctor’s Dilemma has become one of the most anticipated events at ACP’s annual Internal Medicine Meeting.
A List of ACP Annual Session/Internal Medicine Meeting Locations
A list of all ACP annual meeting locations and years with attendance numbers where available.
ACP Centennial Feature (ACP Internist)
Challenges for Internal Medicine as the American College of Physicians Celebrates Its 100th Anniversary (Annals of Internal Medicine)
The Art of Medicine: Osler Redux: the American College of Physicians at 100 (The Lancet)
I.M. Family Centennial Profile Series (ACP IMpact Newsletter)
Centennial History Book - Serving Our Patients and Profession: A Centennial History of the American College of Physicians (1915-2015)
Read lists of past ACP Presidents, ASIM Presidents, Chairs of the Board of Regents and more.
About the Leaders
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Longest roads in the world
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Directions, origin and objectives of the longest roads in the world. Dream road trips and holiday routes
Pan-American Highway 16,000 25750 highway The Pan American highway leads from Alaska via USA, Mexico and Peru to Tierra del Fuego. Construction was decided upon in 1936. By far the longest of all the longest roads in the world.
Silk Road 3977 6400 trade route The Silk Road has existed long before Christianity but it’s heyday was between 5th-9th century AD (during the Tang Dynasty). The Silk Road led from China to India, Kashmir and Iran as far as the Mediterranean islands.
Ruta 40 3246 5224 highway, dream road trips Ruta 40 is a dream road trip which runs along the Andes in Argentina from north to south and it’s in ADDucation’s top 3 of the longest roads in the world.
Via Regia 2796 4500 military road The ancient Romans built the Via Regia as a transport route for war and trade goods across Europe from Wroclaw (with offshoots to Krakow and Riga) via Leipzig, Frankfurt to Paris (with branches leading to Spain).
Route 66 2448 3940 dream road trips Established in 1926, The Mother Road leads from Chicago to Santa Monica near Los Angeles, USA.
U.S. Route 1 2369 3813 highway, dream road trips US Route 1 was established in 1926. Route 1 starts in Key West, Florida as the Overseas Highway, a popular road trip, and runs to Florida City then up the USA east coast all the way to the Canadian border at Fort Kent, Maine.
Incense Road 2113 3400 trade route Incense road is one of the oldest trade routes of the world. The incense road leads from South Arabia (Dhofar in Oman) to the Mediterranean Sea (Gaza).
Stuart Highway 1761 2834 highway Stuart highway is one of the most important north-south connections in Australia. Leads from Darwin to Port Augusta.
Transromanica 746+ 1200+ Culture route Transromanica is a European cultural route which passes through seven countries including cultural sites in Saxony, Austria, Slovenia and Italy to the Mediterranean.
Romanesque Road 743 1195 Holiday road Part of the Transromanica. The circuit in the form of a figure eight passes through 65 places in Saxony-Anhalt. On the route are over 80 Romanesque castles, palaces, monasteries and monuments.
Highway No. 1 656 1055 dream road trips Highway Number 1 is a panoramic road built in 1934 which extends along the Pacific Ocean US coast and connects Garberville (320 km north of San Francisco) with Santa Cruz in the south. It also crosses the Golden Gate Bridge.
Via Publica 621 1000 post road Via Publica is a medieval trade route led originally from Brussels to Prague via Germany along the B8 (from Emmerich on the Rhine to Passau).
Amber Road 559 900 trade route Runs from the North and Baltic Sea over the Alps to the Mediterranean (northern Adriatic Sea). The origins date back to the 2nd century BC when the Celts traded with amber.
Way of St. James (Camino Francés) 497 800 pilgrimage Probably the most famous pilgrimage route, led initially across Europe to Santiago de Compostela on the north – west coast of Spain. The Camino Francés begins in France (Saint-Jean-de-Pied-de-Port).
Garden Route 186 300 dream road trips The Garden Route runs along the south coast of South Africa from Hermanus (near Cape Town) to Port Elizabeth, sandwiched between mountains, forests, and the Indian Ocean, passing Mossel Bay, Knysna and Plettenberg Bay. You’ll enjoy fabulous coastlines, eco-tourism opportunities and world class wine and fine dining.
Fairy Tale Road 373 600 Holiday route The Fairy Tale Road has connected the towns of Hanau (Brothers Grimm Town), Kassel and Bremen (home of the tale Town Musicians of Bremen) since 1975.
Old Salt Road 155 250 trade route The Old Salt Road leads from Prague to Halle an der Saale. In the Middle Ages there were several salt roads, including the so-called “High Salt Road” along which dealers brought their products from Merseburg to Frankfurt on the Main in Germany.
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ADDucation’s longest roads in the world list compiled by Robert Junker, last updated 06 Oct 2020.
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Edexcel is the UK’s largest awarding body for academic and vocational qualifications.
Edexcel qualifications are delivered in over 85 countries worldwide.
Edexcel awards more than 1.1 million vocational qualifications and 9 million exam scripts each year.
The BTEC portfolio is exclusive to Edexcel , including approximately 5000 standard qualifications.
More than 100 professional bodies and institutions give exemptions or membership to holders of Edexcel BTEC level 4/5 HND/HNC qualifications
More than 70% of degree programs in the UK allow students with an EDEXCEL BTEC Level 4/5 HND to progress directly onto their final year.
More than 200 universities worldwide recognize Edexcel BTEC
Edexcel’s standard qualifications are aligned to the Qualifications and Credit Framework (QCF) in the UK.
Edexcel is a Pearson company and thus part of the largest educational group in the world which also includes Penguin and the Financial Times groups of companies.
What are BTECs?
Originally BTEC was an organisation – the Business and Technology Education Council (BTEC) – set up in 1973 to nationally validate and accredit high quality, consistent vocational qualifications. In 1996 following a merger of BTEC and London Examinations, a new company, Edexcel, was born. Today, BTEC is a brand for vocational qualifications owned and offered only by Edexcel-Pearson.
BTEC Higher Nationals are QCF level 4&5 qualifications and are widely recognised by universities and professional bodies. Edexcel has more than 150 Higher National qualifications available, suitable for students aged 16 and above. A Higher National student will develop management and higher level technical & interpersonal skills required by employers. After a period of usually two years, students can progress to the final year of degree programmes.
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